Oumarou ('Omar') Koncobo Email Address

Information Technology Director Quality Assurance, Performance Engineering and DevOPs and Site Reliability Engineer of Guest Facing Systems

Ulta Beauty is a chain of beauty stores in the United States that retails cosmetics, fragrance, skin care products, hair care products and offers salon services.

• Experience in the process of Software Development, Quality Assurance and Operations of web-based applications, eCommerce/Retail, Equity/Index Trading Firms, Financial, Banking, Insurance and Health systems domains. • Well-defined operational leadership skills used to achieve high system up-time for crucial eCommerce sites accessed worldwide. Accountable staff manager driving performance excellence. Strategist effectively interacting with internal teams and 3rd party stakeholders to overcome issues and fulfill corporate objectives. • Rigorous Source Code, branching, builds and release management using subversion and Hudson • Created and managed a team and new process for Production support, defect fixes and patching • Deeply versed in comprehensive site monitoring and monitoring tools implementation such as Gomez, Managed Engine, Dynatrace, IPmon... • Working knowledge of current eCommerce platforms and technologies including Search Engines, A/B Testing Tools, Site Analytic, User Reviews, Application Servers, Automated testing tools, Web Service Management, Performance Accelerators and Cloud Computing. • Used Oracle Rac, Oracle Data Guard Storage, JBoss App servers and apache web server. • Proficient in functional, integration, performance, continuous deployment, workflow and user acceptance testing. • Authored test plans, cases, and scripts to facilitate manual & automated testing. • Managed defect and bug tracking using such resources as HP Quality Center, ALM11, and Rational ClearQuest. • Well-respected consultant to managers and development teams on strategies to optimize applications. • Excellent research and mentoring skills, ability and enthusiasm to learn new tools/technologies quickly. • Creative, result oriented, talented professional capable of forming and maintaining positive and productive team environments with integrative thinking skills.