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Strategic QA Consultant, I support companies in structuring, governing, and maturing their QA processes, while bringing my operational expertise in performance, automation, and security.
My approach combines strategic vision, technical rigor, and cross-functional collaboration to transform software quality into a lever for sustainable reliability and performance.
With over 10 years of experience in software quality, I specialize in designing and executing test strategies covering functional, performance, and security testing to ensure reliable, scalable, and high-performing applications and systems.
🚀 My expertise covers:
🔹 Performance Testing & Optimization:
- Load and stress simulation with JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, BlazeMeter
- Performance analysis and diagnostics: Monitoring key metrics (Response time, latency, CPU/RAM consumption, disk I/O).
- Component optimization & tuning.
- Real-time monitoring with APMs Appdynamics, Datadog, Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus.
- System optimization through application component tuning.
- Test automation and integration into CI/CD pipelines
- Writing recommendations and reports on performance test results
- Presenting test results to stakeholders.
🔹 Functional Testing & Automation:
- Design and execution of functional, E2E, and non-regression tests.
- API (REST/SOAP) and SQL testing with Postman and SOAPUI
- Management of scenarios, datasets, and defects with JIRA, Xray, HP ALM.
- Development of automated tests with Robot Framework, Selenium, Playwright integrated into CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab CI).
🔹 Security & Compliance Testing:
- Vulnerability scans with Qualys, Nessus, Burp Suite to identify and fix critical flaws.
🔹 Collaboration and transformation of results
- Close collaboration with teams
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)
Experience
- Ministère de l'Economie et des FinancesQA Consultant | Performance Testing & StrategyApril 2025 - Today (1 year and 2 months)Paris, FranceAs part of a strategic project of national importance, I am involved in setting up and industrializing the performance testing strategy within the Directorate General of Public Finance (DGFiP).My role encompasses both the transverse management of application performance and the technical execution of test campaigns in a critical and multi-system environment.🔹 Performance Test Scoping and Design:• Definition of the performance strategy (test types, volume, KPIs, target thresholds).• Writing of test plans and load, endurance, and stress scenarios.• Design of datasets and environment preparation.🔹 Technical Implementation & Automation:• Execution and automation of test campaigns using NeoLoad.• Advanced configuration of scenarios, correlations, assertions, and pause management.🔹 Analysis and Optimization:• Application performance diagnostics through analysis of Tomcat logs, JVM monitoring, and Oracle database.• Identification and resolution of bottlenecks (SQL queries, GC, threads, sizing).• Development of analysis reports and optimization recommendations for technical teams.🔹 Collaboration and QA Governance:• Coordination with development, infrastructure, and business teams.• Contribution to QA maturity improvement and structuring of the performance testing approach.This mission allows me to combine strategic vision, technical expertise, and collaborative management to ensure the reliability and scalability of the DGFiP's information system.
- NokiaLead QA | Performance and Security Test EngineerOctober 2017 - February 2025 (7 years and 4 months)Île-de-France, FranceResponsible for supervising and validating performance and security test campaigns on application infrastructures after each release, evaluating their behavior under load, and identifying bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and defects to be corrected.✅ QA Strategy & Test Management
- Definition of test strategies.
- Scoping of test campaigns and prioritization of critical scenarios.
- Setup and management of test environments
- Writing test reports and presenting results to stakeholders.
- Close collaboration with DevOps, development teams, and POs
✅ Performance Testing & Optimization- Development and supervision of load injectors with Gatling
- Launching and monitoring load, stress, endurance, scalability, and robustness tests
- Advanced real-time performance monitoring with Grafana, Dynatrace
- Analysis of metrics: CPU/RAM, disk I/O, latency, transactions per second, bandwidth, response time
- System optimization through component tuning
- Writing recommendations and reports on performance test results
- Presenting test results to stakeholders.
✅ Security & Compliance Testing- Setup and execution of vulnerability scans with Qualys, Nessus, Burp Suite, Tenable
- Analysis of security reports and identification of critical vulnerabilities
✅ Test Industrialization & Automation- Integration of tests into CI/CD pipelines Jenkins, GitLab CI
- Automation of results analysis and generation of strategic reports
- Groupe SIIAutomation and Validation Test EngineerOctober 2015 - October 2017 (2 years)Lannion, FranceValidation and automation of functional and non-regression tests for the Orchestra SAV application, the TV decoder, and Orange's LiveBox.
- Writing qualification plans and test scenarios.
- Setting up the qualification and automation environment.
- Developing datasets and creating test scenarios.
- Automating test scenarios with Robot Framework and Selenium.
- Automating API and SQL tests via SOAPUI
- Executing scripts and monitoring test campaigns, including non-regression tests, API tests, database tests (SQL), and E2E tests.
- Reporting results in HP ALM to ensure test traceability.
- Identifying defects and writing reproduction steps.
- Tracking fixes.
- Integration into CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitLab.
- Writing test results reports and presenting them to stakeholders.
- Collaboration with development, design, and testing teams, as well as with the PO and Scrum Master.
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Education
- Apprenticeship Engineering Degree, Multimedia Computing and NetworksENSSAT (Mines-Télécom)2015Diplôme d'ingénieur par apprentissage, Informatique Multimédia et Réseaux
- University Diploma of Technology in Networks and TelecommunicationsIUT de la Réunion2012Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie Réseaux et Télécommunications
Certifications
- ISTQBGASQ2024