Howard Pearson

Current

Performance Tester at Gala Coral Group

Past

Lead Load and Performance tester at Detica
Performance Tester at Legal & General
Load and Performance Tester at QBE Insurance (Europe)

Test Consultant at SQS
Infrastructure Developer/Performance Tester at Allen & Overy
Senior Infrastructure Analyst at Hill's Pet Nutrition

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Howard Pearson’s Summary

I am an experienced load and performance tester with a background in infrastructure design and administration. I have been a load and performance tester for the last five years in various industries including: Law, Insurance, business intelligence, construction and real estate, government, telecoms, and transport.

Over the years I have been involved in all areas of the performance testing life-cycle, having been responsible for:

-Requirements definition and analysis
-Test planning and design
-Test harness design and implementation
-Test script design and creation
-Scenario design
-Test execution
-Results analysis and reporting

Primarily working with LoadRunner I have experience of the following protocols:

-Web
-Citrix
-RTE
-COM
-SAP

I am also experienced with Mercury Deep Diagnostics for .NET, OpenSTA, Quality Centre/Test Director. Additionally I have experience of working with various Windows server technologies (Windows NT, 2000, 2003, Microsoft SQL, Exchange etc) as well as other enterprise systems (Citrix, SAP, Notes etc).

In addition I hold the following qualifications:

-Mercury Certified Product Consultant in LoadRunner 7.6
-ISEB Foundation in Software Testing
-Various Microsoft certifications in NT4
-Certified Lotus Professional (Notes 4.6)
-City & Guilds – C Programming

Howard Pearson’s Experience

Performance Tester

Gala Coral Group

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Gambling & Casinos industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Lead Load and Performance tester

Detica

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; DCA; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2008 — October 2008 (3 months)
Performance Tester

Legal & General

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; LGEN; Financial Services industry)

March 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 5 months)

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.
Load and Performance Tester

QBE Insurance (Europe)

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Insurance industry)

November 2006 — February 2007 (4 months)

Performance tester testing .NET based web applications.
Test Consultant

SQS

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2004 — November 2006 (2 years 5 months)

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 planning
Tools implementation
Script definition and creation
Test execution
Results analysis
Reporting results

Using LoadRunner to test web, RTE and Citrix applications, specialising in Citrix testing and OpenSTA for web testing.
Infrastructure Developer/Performance Tester

Allen & Overy

(Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; A&O; Law Practice industry)

December 2000 — July 2004 (3 years 8 months)

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.
Senior Infrastructure Analyst

Hill's Pet Nutrition

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CL; Consumer Goods industry)

December 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 1 month)

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.