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Education
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Ehsan Karami

Richmond Hill,ON
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Ehsan Karami

Summary

Software Engineer focused on strengthening quality and performance of different products. Accustomed to working within Agile and Scrum methodologies while monitoring performance, reviewing processes and recommending updates. Team-minded and hardworking with strong communication, critical thinking and multitasking abilities. Complex problem-solver with analytical and driven mindset. Dedicated to achieving demanding development objectives according to tight schedules while producing impeccable code.

Overview

11
years of professional experience

Work History

Paymentus
Richmond Hill, ON

Technical Support Engineer
06.2021 - Current

Job overview

  • Resolved system and customer issues by troubleshooting and providing effective solutions.
  • Managed customer relationships by delivering prompt responses to questions.
  • Tested product components to identify root causes of issues.
  • Updated team on progress and addressed concerns to meet established project deadlines.
  • Performed root cause analysis by reviewing logs, code and data, and implemented corrective actions.
  • Tested troubleshooting methods, devised innovative solutions and documented resolutions for inclusion in knowledge base for support team use.
  • Broke down and evaluated user problems, using test scripts, personal expertise and probing questions.
  • Followed up with clients to verify optimal customer satisfaction following support engagement and problem resolution.
  • Worked with software development team on reported errors and bugs on newly released software and assisted in deployment of release fixes.
  • Explained technical information in clear terms to non-technical individuals to promote better understanding.
  • Responded to support requests from end users and patiently walked individuals through basic troubleshooting tasks.
  • Maintained response times in compliance with internal policies to support business continuity.
  • Served as primary point of contact for support relating to owned solutions and products.
  • Advised senior personnel on potential process improvements to increase support quality and expedite ticket fulfillment.
  • Documented reported faults and bugs for referral to development staff's use in iterative updates.

TD Bank
Toronto, ON

Performance Test Engineer
04.2018 - 03.2021

Job overview

  • Developed and deployed load test scripts with Loadrunner and Jmeter.
  • Used monitoring tools like Dynatrace and Splunk tools on frequent basis.
  • Gathered and defined business and functional requirements for each program.
  • Gathered data on integration issues and vulnerabilities and reported all findings, including improvement recommendations.
  • Identified and tracked defects with JIRA and ALM and supported developers in resolving problems by completing additional tests.
  • Collaborated with other teams to define test data and environment requirements .
  • Supported and maintained virtualized services, components and environments by using Service Virtualization tools (CA DevTest) to enable functional and non-functional testing.
  • Find ways to improve processes and delivery.
  • Supported automation and test data management strategies.
  • Continuously enhanced knowledge and expertise.
  • Coached colleagues and act as reference for requirements management life cycle.
  • Promote and develop awareness of testing methodologies and standards

Accomplishments:

  • Initiated and lead Service Virtualization initiative for application to reduce data complications, which in turn have saved projects costs, on each release.
  • Broaden Scope of my tasks, to compensate for unavailable resources to take initiatives through finish line, by taking over repackaging and deploying application, as well as confirming data in database.
  • Achieved Consultant of the month award Oct 2019

CANADIAN UNDERGRADUATE PHYSICS CONFERENCE 2017
Ottawa, ON

Volunteer Web Developer
02.2017 - 06.2017

Job overview

  • Responsible for adjusting and maintaining back-end and front-end of CUPC.ca. Managed to adapt and keep up, while joined in late.
  • Adjusted code that was already setup whether PHP, JavaScript, CSS or HTML to meet desired results.
  • Mentored other team members whether on web design, development or marketing team on how to adjust their HTML and CSS to get desired result with wordpress.
  • Educated myself on wordpress and some addons and templates in order to find solutions.
  • Reported progress to team, and discussed problems and solutions regarding different aspects of conference with team online and during weekly meetings.

GOLDEN ANCHOR
Richmond Hill, ON

Freelance Web Designer
05.2013 - 08.2013

Job overview

  • Collaborated with client to provide them with rapid, robust and client-acclaimed front- and back-end web development.
  • Upgraded skills to HTML5 and CSS3, and educated myself on responsive web design, and gained valuable knowledge.
  • Challenged by learning new skills, while meeting deadlines, but both were done and gained another happy client

AVIVA CANADA
Toronto, ON

IT Developer Intern
05.2012 - 08.2012

Job overview

  • Part of semi-technical team, and hired to improve design on their SharePoint team site, and enhanced users’ experience, as well as prototyping mobile application.
  • Responsible to make design decisions, conducted survey of other team members to study needs and effects of changes.
  • While trying make changes to team-site, learned about SharePoint design and development, as well as iOS development and story boarding.
  • Objected by user-groups and access levels of team-site, had to go in more depth to learn structures, and fix own mistakes.

Education

Carleton University
Ottawa, ON

Bachelor of Science from Computer Science
06.2017

Skills

  • Java, C, C, Python, Visual Basic, SQL, Assembly, Pascal, ASP, VB Script, Java Script, PHP, XML, HTML5, CSS3, Jade, Shell Scripts
  • Use Case, Class, Sequence, and ER Diagrams
  • Windows, Unix, Linux, Dos
  • Load Runner, Jmeter, CA DevTest, Service Virtualization,Performance Testing, Test Automation, Jenkins
  • Microsoft Front Page, Adobe Dreamweaver, Text Editor such as Notepad, Text Wrangler, VI, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw, Adobe Flash
  • Apache, IIS, PWS, NodeJS
  • Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, DB2, SQLite, MS Access using ODBC, JDBC, or DSN-less connections, SQL Developer
  • Splunk, Kibana, Grafana

Timeline

Technical Support Engineer

Paymentus
06.2021 - Current

Performance Test Engineer

TD Bank
04.2018 - 03.2021

Volunteer Web Developer

CANADIAN UNDERGRADUATE PHYSICS CONFERENCE 2017
02.2017 - 06.2017

Freelance Web Designer

GOLDEN ANCHOR
05.2013 - 08.2013

IT Developer Intern

AVIVA CANADA
05.2012 - 08.2012

Carleton University

Bachelor of Science from Computer Science
Ehsan Karami