A Framework for Managing large performance QA teams in a dynamic Business and
Technology environment

Abstract: With the ever increasing adoption of the web, Businesses are constantly being challenged to ensure that their online applications are able to provide a good quality experience to their customers. This creates a demand on various internal teams like Application architects, developers, Capacity Management and not least, the Performance testing groups to work together in achieving the application performance requirements. Another constant change is Technology which is a great enabler, but forces Performance teams to constantly keep up with the knowledge, features and problems of new technologies leading to quite a few challenges.
This article defines a framework for effective Performance QA teams in a dynamic Business and Technological environment, identifying and categorizing the key components which add value to the Business.
It covers the typical challenges encountered and lists learnings and best practices from experiences in working for a leading International Financial services organization.
It can be applied to the Performance QA groups of any large organization supporting web applications.

Profile: Rajesh has been working with Infosys Technologies Ltd. for the past 10 years. He joined Infosys after completing his PGDM course. He has worked on Software development, maintenance and platform migration projects using Microsoft Technologies like .Net framework, Com +, Visual Basic and ASP during the next 6 years.

Since the past 4 years, He has been working on testing projects covering Functional testing, Test Automation and Performance testing for different clients in Infosys. For the last 2 years, He has been working on and managing large Performance testing projects for a large US based Financial services organization. He is a part of the Independent Validation Solutions group at Infosys