I worked in Test, Development and Level 3 Service teams on WebSphere MQ – “middleware” software used by enterprises for the reliable, secure and scalable transfer of data across disparate networks.<\/p>\n
I worked on enterprise level real-time software across the full software development life cycle.<\/p>\n
I was actively involved in user-centred design sessions with a variety of customers during the development of WMQ v6. This was an iterative process of collecting feedback, reviewing and amending WMQ design, and presenting amended implementations, within a short timescale.<\/p>\n
I was also a developer of the WMQ Explorer – a Java-based graphical user interface tool for the administration, management and problem determination of large-scale corporate networks.<\/p>\n
I worked as a test engineer on WMQ. This included:<\/p>\n
Developing tests for new features – Designing, documenting, automating and scripting tests for new features in WebSphere MQ from a holistic, system-wide perspective. In particular, considering different hardware and software environments, different workloads and stress levels, and exception and startup\/restart handling.<\/p>\n
Maintaining regression tests – Maintaining, reviewing and extending the regression test suite for WebSphere MQ.<\/p>\n
Developing test infrastructure – Developing the in-house test automation tools, including maintaining and extending the Perl-based Stress Test framework and developing a new interpreter for scripting MQ tasks written in C.<\/p>\n
Document Reviewing – Reviewing new documents and revisions made to WebSphere MQ manuals.<\/p>\n
I worked as a service engineer, providing advice, support, and code fixes for corporate customers using WebSphere MQ.<\/p>\n
This was a Senior Service Engineer role, which meant that I was responsible for driving the resolution of customer technical problems, providing support for IBM customers in a 24\/7 Service team, including call-out for urgent and critical situations.<\/p>\n
This spanned technical problem investigation to the development and provision of software fixes.<\/p>\n
I developed a number of successful applications to support WMQ<\/a> as personal projects, which IBM initially released as freeware before later formally adopting them.<\/p>\n I started and coordinated the department blog, and wrote dozens of popular technical posts used by our customers to help administer and diagnose their systems.<\/p>\n I’ve mentioned WMQ<\/a> several times on my blog. The official site for the product<\/a> is on ibm.com.<\/p>\n I was invited to join a new team being established in my office, for the development of a different software product which I had no experience in (WebSphere Process Server) on a platform I had no experience in (z\/OS mainframes). After nearly four years focusing on one product, the challenge sounded like fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WebSphere MQ Developer IBM Aug 2003 – Jun 2007 I worked in Test, Development and Level 3 Service teams on WebSphere MQ – “middleware” software used by enterprises for the reliable, secure and scalable transfer of data across disparate networks. … Continue reading Department blog<\/h4>\n
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