Position: Lead Performance Analyst
Category: QA Automation
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

• Analyzed new market's customer volume, built and executed load tests based on marketing estimates, proving the product's readiness for launch and its ability to handle projected load.
• Proposed and implemented a strategy, resulted in 30% reduction in AWS costs, focused on optimizing expenses related to load generation machines and the pre-production environment.
• Conducted an external audit for a customer-centric performance testing team, new test strategy was recommended and subsequently deployed. As a result we observed about 20% increase in team productivity; transparency, and overall customer satisfaction levels were also increased.
• Effectively mentored and provided leadership to a team of two performance QA engineers.
• Planned and executed high load tests on the customer's production environment. Substantial financial penalties for the employer were averted.
My professional activities are all about coordinating, planning, and executing various load and performance tests to evaluate how the enterprise wide applications/systems behave under various levels of projected user load, address bottlenecks, and push the development team towards meeting and/or exceeding customers' SLA requirements. I ensure the performance issues are addressed on time, performance problems are solved, and environments are scaled appropriately as the user volumes increase.

• 18 years of production experience, 15 in performance testing (client/server side)
• Experienced in: defining non-functional requirements, creating strategy for performance testing, building load model, preparing environment, scripting and executing tests, review results and investigate bottlenecks.
• Have expertise in performance testing of web applications, mobile apps, API's and desktop applications
• Leading a team up to 3 engineers, workload planning, mentoring and coaching teammates

Showed proven ability to
• Establish load testing process from scratch, ensuring transparency and integrity
• Plan and execute performance related activities
• Work independently and as a part of a team
• Provide performance audit for external teams
• Mentor performance analysts