Freelance Performance consultant, Project Test Lead Slough, Berks, UK
More than 7.6 years of diversified experience in Performance testing, Functional testing, Software Quality Assurance, Training and Documentation

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| Hourly Rate / Cost: | £50.00 per hour (ex. VAT) |
| Daily Rate / Cost: | £400.00 per day (ex. VAT) |
| Available From: | Now |
| Seller ID: | 283586 |

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CV (Curriculum Vitae) / Résumé
▪ Expertise in Performance Testing, Load testing of various Applications using LoadRunner 7.8/8.0.
▪ Expert level skills in planning, co-ordination, execution and reporting of performance testing activities
▪ Extensively used HP (Mercury Interactive) tools like Load runner, Performance center, Quality Center in projects under Windows and Unix environments.
▪ Expert in Performance, Load, Stress, Volume, Capacity and Scalability Testing of ERP, Database, Client/Server and Web Based applications.
▪ Experience in Functionality testing - Unit, System testing, Integrated, GUI, UAT and Regression testing. – Using QC
▪ Flexible and Versatile to adapt to any new environment.
Employment History
(Aug 2007 & ongoing)
Performance consultant, Project Test Lead
SloughProject Names : O2 Shop, Oxygen- Litmus, Prepay re-use, Mobile Search, NMI and web access.
Roles & Responsibilities:
▪ Working closely with key stakeholders such as product manager, O2 designing teams & project managers to understand the business requirements
▪ Create test plans, test cases based on high-level design and functional/ non-functional requirements to ensure full testing coverage and mitigate risks.
▪ Identifying test scope definition and performing a POC along with evaluation of test tools
▪ Developing Performance testing strategy/ High level approach
▪ Leading the testing projects through the full lifecycle, managing and planning testing work, monitoring progress, highlighting areas of risk and mentoring test teams through to project delivery
▪ Ensuring that realistic estimates of costs, timescales & resource requirements are agreed.
▪ Track and report progress re timescale, coverage, and risk, to the project / programme lead and line management.
▪ Analyze test results to identifying Root causes/ application bottlenecks and Performance Issues
▪ Creating test completion reports
▪ Evaluate & make recommendations/decisions on Programme Test issues and advising on mitigation options available.
▪ Managing offshore testing
▪ Comply at all times with TSO and O2 UK policies and procedures, including health & safety, conduct, security, attendance, equality of opportunity, & time recording (Clarity).
Tools : Borland Silk Performer, Mercury Quality center 9.0, WAP emulator and Manual testing
(Jun 2005 to Aug 2007)
Non-functional consultant, Performance consultant and Performance test lead
IPSWICHProject Names : PACS, SwordFish, B2B gateways, SCF (Rockingham/Kirkistown)
Roles & Responsibilities:
▪ Analyse impacted systems and come with detailed Impact assessment/ analysis, skill set required and mapping for best possible resource
▪ Analyse missing areas of Non-functional work, customer's business requirements and translate those requirements and strategies into appropriate technical solutions
▪ Analyse test tool requirements and procure the tool licenses with in the required tool HP/ Mercury Load-runner
▪ Responsible for Resource planning/ identification/ allocation to the project and for project plans and risk management / mitigation and issue escalation/resolutions.
▪ Review all the deliverables from the team and to maintain high standards in deliverable
▪ Define the which standards and strictly adhere to the company policies and practices for quality and security for the information
▪ Responsible for conduction of daily stand-up calls and weekly project status calls with higher management and customer
▪ Responsible for configuration management of the project, security and information related
▪ Provide internal sign-off for all the respective deliverables
▪ Responsible for coming up with list of non-functional testing required for various impacted systems
▪ Acted as POC for non-functional testing and responsible for all the non-functional activities
▪ Responsible collecting requirements and preparing Requirement design document with client interactions/Lead designers.
▪ Responsible for deriving High-Level Performance test design/Strategy and designing test scenarios on the requirements
▪ Analyze test data requirements and develop test data creation approach
▪ Performance test script development/ enhancement along with scenario creation and execution
▪ Analysis of test results and an creation of Performance analysis/Summary/Exit report
Tools : Compuware QA load 5.2/5.5, LoadRunner 7.8/8.0, Mercury quality center, Grinder tool, J-meter and Performance center
(Oct 2004 to May 2005)
Performance consultant
Merrill Lynch, USAProject Names : FGI
Roles & Responsibilities:
▪ Define Scope and produce Performance Scope/ SOW (Scope of work)
▪ Requirements capture and preparation of RDD, Business Requirement analysis as per High Level design of Capabilities and deployment design of reference/Production
▪ Preparation of High-Level Performance test design / Test strategy, design of scenarios and requirement mapping to designed scenarios
▪ Preparation/design of test scenarios, User profiles and load patterns
▪ Capacity Planning based on the modeling reports / Testing reports for performance bottle necks
▪ Producing Weekly reports and summary reports of project progress
▪ Analyze test data requirements and develop test data creation approach
▪ Interactions with various teams, customer and other stack holders in the project
▪ Issue resolution, and point of escalation for the team members
▪ Review Load runner scripts and test scenarios
▪ Managing the resources and assignment of work according to delivery requirements of the team
▪ Provide technical expertise, guidance to team members
Tools : Load Runner 7.5, Test Director 7.0
(Apr 2001 to Oct 2004)
Performance test engineer, Developer and Software Tester
Citigroup USAProject Names : Citi Lease, IOMS, Corporate Data Warehousing, and Enterprise-Wide Reporting System
Roles & Responsibilities:
▪ Initial System Study and Requirements gathering and Create SOW and POC of the application
▪ Create Executive Strategy Plan and ensure that specific elements of the product are thoroughly tested per the Test Plan documentation and Test case Scenarios.
▪ Evaluate mission critical business process to script, identify various user profiles and usage of system.
▪ Understand the Test Plan..
▪ Develop, Modify, Enhance and Review LoadRunner scripts.
▪ Creation, Maintenance of test data for all the scripts.
▪ Creation of LoadRunner Test scenarios.
▪ Performance Test Execution of LoadRunner scripts.
▪ Performance Test Analysis.
▪ Performance test results.
▪ Publish final results.
As Developer/ Manual tester
▪ Manual testing and automated testing using Win-runner
▪ Writing of Necessary Classes in the C
Tools : Test Director 7, LoadRunner , WinRunner, Manual Testing
Professional Qualifications
▪ ISEB ISTQB foundation level certification in software testing.
▪ HP Load runner 9.0 AIS Application Integration specialist (Mercury LR CPS) certification
▪ HP Quality center 9.2 certification
▪ Diploma in Computer Science with a First Class Division.
▪ B-Tech in Electronics & Computer Science Engineering from JNTU First Class Division.
Specific Expertise
▪ Extensive knowledge and experience in SDLC. Including Requirement gathering, Business Analysis, System Design and Testing Applications
▪ Knowledge of all stages of testing namely Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing and User Acceptance testing.
▪ Experience in GUI Testing, Functional Testing & Regression Testing
Operating Systems Windows 95, 98, 2000, and XP, NT Professional & Server 2000, apple MAC Citrix & UNIX
Testing tools Load Runner 7.8/8.0, Performance Center, Compuware QA-Load 5.2/5.5, Apache J-Meter, Test Director 7.0, Mercury Quality center 9.0, Grinder 2.8.3 and Grinder 3.0.1 and Silk performer
Languages C, C++, VB, VC++, Java
Database(s) Oracle 8.0, Oracle 11i, Microsoft SQL Server 7.0.
Packages MS Project plan, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint etc.), Visio
Application servers Web Logic Server, Web-sphere, IIS
Web Technologies JavaScript, Html
▪ Experience with programming in C, C++, Visual Basic and Java.
▪ Excellent skills using SQL and Oracle.
▪ Excellent team player and have ability to work independently
▪ Ability to master new technologies quickly.
▪ Excellent communication and coordination skills
Assignment History
(This Seller has recently been shortlisted or contracted for the following people4 assignment)
- IT software testers trained in Borland Silk products.

