Howard Pearson Email & Phone Number

Milton Keynes, Gb

London, United Kingdom

London

Woking

Leading a performance testing team responsible for performance and non-functional testing for a variety of systems including e-commerce & payment gateways with high transactional load.• Implementing a best practice testing approach and ensuring that it is adhered to• Defining test plans and strategies• Working with the business to define non-functional requirements• Developing complex Web scripts in Performance Centre 11• Building standard code libraries to simplify and standardise script development• Working with HP on delivery of Quality Centre and Performance Centre as a SaaS solution• Migration of QC projects to SaaS• Administration of QC 11 on SaaS• Designing and executing test scenarios • Results analysis and reporting• Working with gaming industry technology leaders – PlayTech(IMS and wallet functionality), GTS, OpenBet and VirtueFusion.• Testing Browser performance with Selenium WebDriver

Richmond

Performance testing a number of bespoke and third-party applications • Performance testing; • Salesforce.com • EPi Server• Internal CMS applications• Exhibition websites• .Net Web Services• Evaluating performance of cloud based content delivery• Defining performance test scripts, script creation, test execution and analysis (LoadRunner 9.51)• Code profiling with ANTS .Net Profiler• Capacity planning and evaluation

Providing consultancy services to John Lewis

London, United Kingdom

Consulting with the client on a number of performance testing products • Advising on a best practice performance testing approach• Defining test plans for a variety of projects• Assisting in the delivery of performance test scripts, scenario design and test execution (LoadRunner 9.5/SiteConfidence)• Performance testing Johnlewis.com

Responsible for Load and Performance testing Sports betting and online gaming sites using LoadRunner 9.0 - 9.5, Planning and implimenting load and performance tesing, including; developing scripts and code libraries, test execution and results analysis.

Responsible for creating and maintaining LoadRunner test scripts, executing tests, and results analysis for a .NET based ecommerce application. I also trained and mentored other staff members.

Performance tester testing .NET based web applications.

Load and Performance test consultant and capacity planning manager, working with various clients on a wide variety of projects using many different technologies. Responsible for:Test planningTools implementationScript definition and creationTest execution Results analysisReporting results Using LoadRunner to test web, RTE and Citrix applications, specialising in Citrix testing and OpenSTA for web testing.

Designed and implimented the server architecture for various IT projects both internal and external facing. Worked on definfing standard and secure server builds for Windows 2000 and Windows 2003. Also developed various monitoring and management scripts for NetIQ AppManager. As a performance tester I tested a variety of major projects using LoadRunner on web, dcom and Citrix protocols and developed an in-house end-user preformance monitoring tool for the production Citrix environment.

Responsible for managing the IT infrastructure of European and UK head offices, and supporting administrators on sites across Europe. Managing and maintaining a mixed Netware 4/5, NT 4 and Lotus Notes infrastructure, network and remote access infrastructure and telecoms systems.