Tri Pham
Beaverton
Summary
Performance Test Engineering leader with 20 years of experience in designing scalable testing platforms and developing cloud-native load testing frameworks. Skilled in JMeter, k6, Locust, Azure, AWS, ASP.NET, CI/CD automation, and observability. Delivered cost-effective performance solutions that enable continuous testing while mentoring engineering teams and driving initiatives to enhance system reliability and efficiency.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Performance Automation Engineer
Homecare Homebase
Dallas, TX
12.2021 - 07.2026
- Designed and developed a custom cloud-based load testing framework capable of running JMeter, K6, artillery, Locust and sqlcmd (tool agnostic) in the cloud. Fully integrated with source control, ADO pipeline, Azure Log Analytics, and Grafana. Capable of orchestrating both frontend Playwright/Selenium performance tests and backend load tests simultaneously.
- Created an API for the framework in ASP.NET and a frontend web app using Blazor and Azure services. Leveraged the cloud to execute any tests, of any size, in parallel, on demand, allowing for complex testing scenarios at a fraction of the cost compared to commercial testing services. Integrated AI into the framework for script development and interpreting test results.
- Spearheaded and implemented Continuous Performance Testing initiative where performance testing occurs automatically in ADO CI/CD pipeline using the load test API.
- Enhanced and standardized company-wide testing processes with JMeter through automated installation, setup, reusable modules, and load testing templates.
- Created and maintained load and performance testing documentation in wiki, guiding methodology, techniques, and technical how-tos.
- Provided training to engineers and consulted on complex testing scenarios for different teams.
Software Development in Test III
DAT Solutions
01.2013 - 01.2021
- Performed load and performance testing on customer-facing products and company infrastructure in a wide-ranging type of technology, from SPA apps, .NET middleware, microservice APIs, AWS components such as Kinesis, SQS to in-house hosted Oracle and network firewall.
- Developed load test scripts using JMeter, K6 in combination with custom java libraries, MongoDB, Redis and Elasticsearch.
- Created custom tools for load and performance testing, including OAuth token server, SMS and AWS Kinesis data simulation, and SSE handler within JMeter.
- Designed load test execution framework using AWS with build pipeline for flexible, on-demand test execution and reporting, enabling project teams to concentrate on product testing rather than tools and framework.
- Led community of practices on load and performance testing, training and supporting engineers in load testing methodologies.
- Sole QA Engineer of the company's core service team that is responsible for 60 plus services and a new microservice API project.
Lead QA Engineer/Technical Project Manager/Performance Engineer
Huron Consulting Group (Healthcare Division)
01.2007 - 01.2013
- Developed and managed the QA team starting from 1 that reached more than 20 at peak. Implemented the overall QA process including defining roles and responsibilities, interviewing and hiring, bug tracking process and actual bug tracking system. Developed test strategies, test plans, and risk analysis for each release. Supervised, mentored, and reviewed annual performance for senior QA Engineers.
- Led performance testing effort on company’s multi-tiered enterprise flagship product with heavy testing focus on data flow, workflow orchestration, rule engine, web services, data ETL, and analysis reports.
- Created and implemented test strategy to identify potential issues, recommend hardware specifications for clients, and ensure scalability, business performance expectations, and user experience.
- Supervised specialized internal engineering team managing source control, network and servers, continuous integration, performance testing, and test automation.
- Implemented test automation techniques include bare metal restore for hardware, installation, data loading and test execution that reduces test cycle from days to hours.
- Formalized performance testing process and established baseline and measurement techniques, ensuring consistency in performance results.
- Improved test data quality by implementing data quality metrics and tuning data quality based on actual client data profile.
- Significant highlights:
- Technology used included: BizTalk 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2, Silverlight, SQL SSRS Reporting, Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, PowerShell and T-SQL scripting.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Software Engineering Technology
Oregon Institute of Technology
Skills
- JMeter
- K6
- Locust
- Azure
- AWS
- SQL
- Elastic Search/Grafana/Splunk
- Postman
- ASPNET
- Blazor
- Java/C#
- MEAN JS stack
- Powershell
- Ruby
- Bash
- Docker
Certification
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
- AWS Developer Training Course
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (2005)
Timeline
Senior Performance Automation Engineer
Homecare Homebase
12.2021 - 07.2026
Software Development in Test III
DAT Solutions
01.2013 - 01.2021
Lead QA Engineer/Technical Project Manager/Performance Engineer
Huron Consulting Group (Healthcare Division)
01.2007 - 01.2013
Bachelor of Science - Software Engineering Technology
Oregon Institute of Technology