Transformation to QA Performance Engineers
Crafting right foundation for future Performance Experts
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Who in software industry is not bothered about System Performance? This course is designed to impart the basic conceptual knowledge on Performance testing for anyone who is part of SDLC phases, who cares about system performance. Performance Testing is not just about using a commercial tool to carry out multi-user tests. This course will teach you the concepts & systematic steps involved in planning software performance testing, highlighting the essentials in a tool agnostic way.
This unique course will serve as the best first course for QA professionals, who are interested to jump start their career in Performance testing. This course will also serve as a guide for Performance testers to unlearn the wrong myths & beliefs they carry & to learn what it requires to plan for successful Performance test validation & certification for a software system This course will help in building performance testing knowledge with a holistic mindset to have successful career as a Performance Engineer.
Through this course, warm up your mind with the right foundation to get geared up before learning tools & advanced concepts. All great things are built on strong foundation. Dont be in a hurry to move forward without laying right foundation.
The course includes interactive lesson videos (as in the course curriculum), self-assessment questions with answers (#50), practical case study exercises (#2) with detailed strategic solutions & downloadable templates (Performance Test Plan & Performance Test Report) with a course completion certificate upon completing the final assessment quiz.
We can bet atleast 80% of Performance Testers who are tool experts (LoadRunner, JMeter , etc), are not good in Test Strategy development, when to run what tests & its significance, how to improve test accuracy, how to interpret performance test results rightly, how to analyze test result analysis, how to plan for bottleneck isolation strategies, etc. This course will help you to take the first step rightly in Performance Testing space.
Your Instructor
Ramya R Moorthy brings over 15+ years of industry wide experience in Performance Engineering & Testing space. She has extensive experience doing consulting for Performance Testing & Engineering engagements for several clients including Honeywell, Shell, ING, Logitech, Comcast, PGE, MetLife, JPMC, KPMG, KeyBank, etc across business domains solving technical problems for assuring their system for its performance, scalability, availability & capacity. She has led several senior leadership roles in her experience working for product & service based companies. She has great passion for learning & experimentation. She provides technical consulting services in NFR testing space. Her key area of interest includes application capacity sizing, performance modeling & predictive performance analytics. She is also a certified ethical hacker. She has great zeal towards teaching & mentoring the young professionals to build elite professionals for future.
She is a conference speaker & well known writer. She has published several papers, authored many articles & e-books in several journals & LinkedIn. Some of the recent conferences where she has won accolades for her papers include QAI-STC , CMG India, NFTCON India & CMG US on topics related to capacity planning, statistical modeling, use of machine learning techniques for anomaly detection, performance forecasting, etc. She is a best paper award winner in CMG India 2016 whitepaper contest & Mullen award holder (rewarded for technical excellence and an engaging presentation style) for her paper presented at CMG US 2017 on Anomaly detection using machine learning/statistical techniques.
She is a computer science engineering (BE) graduate with her Masters in Software Systems (MS) from BITS PILANI University, India. She currently serves in CMG India Board of Directors.
For any course related technical queries, you can reach out to her : [email protected]
Course Co-Author
Ruslan Desyatnikov brings over 20 years of Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Process Improvement, Software Testing and Performance Engineering experience helping many Fortune 500 companies including HSBC, Citi, Morgan Stanley and others . Ruslan graduated from Baruch College – City University of New York with a BBA in Computer Information Systems, and holds MBA in Technology Management from Phoenix University of Arizona. He holds a number of Quality Assurance/Testing and Project Management certifications and is an active board member of multiple QA Organizations in the United States and Europe. Ruslan's articles are published in many popular magazines such as CIOReview, Outsourcing Gazette, Tea-Time with Testers, Stickyminds, LinkedIn, Outsource Gazette and multiple QA blogs.
Ruslan was among 3 finalists of Champion of The Year Award by The European Software Testing Awards in 2015, award given to the individual who has championed the cause of software testing above all others. Ruslan also was among finalists for Test Manager of The Year award by The European Software Testing Awards in 2016. In 2016, Ruslan also received an award “50 Most Creative CEOs to Watch” by InsightSuccess magazine.
Course Curriculum
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StartLesson 1 : Why do we need Performance Testing ? (1:55)
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PreviewLesson 2 : What is Performance Testing & popular test types? (3:33)
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StartLesson 3 : When is Performance Testing conducted ? (2:49)
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PreviewLesson 4 : Is Manual Performance Testing possible ? (1:15)
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StartLesson 5 : Performance Testing Metrics (2:00)
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StartLesson 6 : Differences in Defect Management (3:37)
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StartLesson 7 : Performance Tester's Skillset (1:48)
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StartLesson 8 : Performance Testing Benefits (0:58)
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StartSelf Assessment Quiz
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StartLesson 1 : What are Non-Functional Requirements ? (2:43)
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StartLesson 2 : Types of Non-Functional Requirements (1:23)
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StartLesson 3 : Conceptual versus Quantitative Performance NFRs (1:20)
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StartLesson 4 : What are Service Level Agreements (SLA) ? (1:16)
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StartLesson 5 : How to select right use cases for performance testing ? (3:44)
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StartLesson 6 : How to build Workload Model? (2:59)
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StartLesson 7 : How to do End User traffic analysis ? (4:07)
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StartSelf Assessment Quiz
Frequently Asked Questions
This unique course is one of a kind to teach you the Performance Testing Essentials in a tool agnostic way. The concepts you learn in this course can be applied to any performance testing tool of your choice. This course aims to create a holistic mindset required to have a successful career in Performance Engineering space. This course will act as a prerequisite to enroll in any of our advanced Performance Engineering courses.
As a Performance Tester, you should be excited to learn & experiment right strategies & techniques to certify the application for its performance rather than getting excited to master a industry popular tool. Knowledge in tools is important to carryout performance testing, we dont deny that but they are just enablers. Remember you will become more precious than those tools, if you acquire right performance testing skills..
Enroll now & definitely you will be glad you did.