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Umair Farooqui

Over a 16-month period, contributed to the govuk-one-login/performance-testing repository by designing and evolving a scalable performance testing framework focused on authentication and identity verification flows. Leveraging TypeScript, JavaScript, and k6, developed and maintained a suite of load, spike, and stress test profiles to simulate real-world traffic across mobile and backend systems. Enhanced test data generation, integrated JWT authentication, and implemented AWS Signature V4 for secure API interactions. Regularly refactored scripts for maintainability, improved test automation, and expanded coverage to support capacity planning and regression detection. Prioritized reliability, observability, and CI/CD readiness to accelerate feedback and reduce production risk.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

75%Features

Repository Contributions

177Total
Bugs
15
Commits
177
Features
45
Lines of code
4,430,201
Activity Months16

Work History

March 2026

1 Commits • 1 Features

Mar 1, 2026

March 2026 monthly summary for govuk-one-login/performance-testing: Delivered a new stress test load profile to evaluate system performance under peak activity, with scenarios for passport and driving license document types. This work extends testing coverage, improves robustness under high load, and informs capacity planning. The change is captured by a single commit that adds the stress test load profile.

February 2026

14 Commits • 2 Features

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026: Expanded performance testing capabilities and identity flow data for GOV.UK One Login, plus a critical bug fix. Delivered realistic load patterns, richer test data, and improved observability to accelerate feedback loops in CI/CD.

January 2026

24 Commits • 8 Features

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026 delivered a scalable performance-testing framework for govuk-one-login/performance-testing, enabling faster, more reliable load testing and better coverage of peak scenarios. Key accomplishments include introducing a K6 orchestrator for EVCS-SIS combined tests, reorganizing test folders, updating profiles and throughput across authentication and spike tests, implementing StatusList integration for end-to-end status checks, and performing code quality improvements (lint fix and code-review adjustments). These changes provide clearer performance baselines, reduce test maintenance, and improve confidence in deployment readiness across environments and modules.

December 2025

8 Commits • 2 Features

Dec 1, 2025

December 2025 — Performance Testing (govuk-one-login/performance-testing). Delivered expansive load/peak testing capabilities for authentication and wallet workflows, plus test-data improvements to boost reliability. Implemented I7/I8 peak and spike profiles across WalletCombinedBE, IPVCore, Auth&Orch, EVCS, and SPOT to simulate sign-up/sign-in and wallet-related scenarios (I7/I8, spikes, and iterations). This enables more realistic performance assessments, earlier regression detection, and better capacity planning for business-critical authentication flows.

November 2025

9 Commits • 1 Features

Nov 1, 2025

Monthly performance summary for 2025-11 focusing on delivering expanded performance testing profiles and validating system behavior under peak loads across multiple subsystems in govuk-one-login/performance-testing. This period prioritized scalable test coverage, automation-friendly profiles, and measurable business value through improved capacity validation and risk reduction.

October 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Oct 1, 2025

October 2025 performance-focused delivery Highlights: A new peak load testing profile for the authentication system was added to the performance-testing suite, expanding coverage for peak user scenarios and enabling better capacity planning and reliability assessments.

August 2025

9 Commits • 1 Features

Aug 1, 2025

August 2025 monthly summary for govuk-one-login/performance-testing focusing on delivering standardized spike-load testing and aligning test messages across suites to enable reliable peak-traffic validation and faster release readiness. Key work centered on implementing Perf006Iteration6SpikeTest spike profiles across SPOT, CIMIT, SIS, and authentication suites, with Spike function integration to ensure consistent load modeling. A concurrent bug fix updated authentication Terms of Use validation text to match current messaging, reducing test fragility. This work supports business value by enabling early bottleneck detection under peak conditions, improving performance confidence for critical login and authentication flows, and reducing risk prior to production releases. Overall, the month delivered measurable improvements in test coverage, cross-repo collaboration, and test automation maturity, tied to performance and reliability KPIs.

July 2025

33 Commits • 10 Features

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025 performance-testing for govuk-one-login/performance-testing delivered substantial improvements in test coverage, API consistency, and reliability. Focused on security, scale, and data readiness to accelerate performance validations and reduce risk in production auth flows.

June 2025

25 Commits • 7 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025 performance-testing monthly summary for govuk-one-login/performance-testing. Focused on delivering scalable load testing capabilities, stabilizing test harness, and improving authentication performance to drive business value through reliable capacity planning and faster incident response.

May 2025

20 Commits • 2 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025 monthly summary for govuk-one-login/performance-testing: Delivered scalable test scaffolding and comprehensive load profiles to validate performance under high traffic; TypeScript scaffolding for CIMIT payloads, k6 load testing scenarios with environment/config, and JWT-based authentication for test requests; Iteration 4 Perf profiles consolidated and expanded across flows; groundwork laid for CI-ready performance benches and capacity planning.

April 2025

3 Commits • 1 Features

Apr 1, 2025

Concise monthly summary for 2025-04 focusing on performance-testing work in govuk-one-login/performance-testing. Highlights include new mobile performance testing profiles for Iteration 3, cleanup of test data paths to reduce edge cases, and strengthened performance validation with measurable business impact.

March 2025

9 Commits • 2 Features

Mar 1, 2025

March 2025 performance-tooling monthly summary for govuk-one-login/performance-testing. Delivered a unified TXMA performance testing framework with a single test scenario (mamIphonePassport), aligned TXMA event endpoints, and stabilized smoke tests across frontend and backend. Strengthened security and reliability in mobile/backend tests with AWS Signature Version 4 signing for setupVendorResponse, endpoint corrections, and log cleanup. Result: reduced test flakiness, clearer observability, and faster feedback for release readiness.

February 2025

6 Commits • 4 Features

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025 — Performance-testing improvements for govuk-one-login/performance-testing: expanded mobile and end-to-end testing coverage, refined load profiles, and improved maintainability. This month delivered a low-volume mobile performance profile, iteration-based load tuning for NinoCheck, an end-to-end mobile journey test, and code cleanup in the Nino check script. These efforts enhance realism of load testing, enable earlier bottleneck detection in mobile authentication flows, and reduce maintenance overhead.

January 2025

2 Commits • 1 Features

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025 performance-testing focused on improving throughput planning and environment accuracy. Delivered a new load profile to simulate 95 TPS for mamIphonePassport, enabling higher-throughput capacity testing of the mobile frontend. Fixed test drift by updating issuer URLs in IdentityCheckCredentials to reflect the latest dev environment for Fraud, Passport, and KBV endpoints. These changes enhance test coverage, reliability, and actionable performance insights, with clear commit-level traceability.

December 2024

2 Commits • 1 Features

Dec 1, 2024

December 2024: Delivered Enhanced Performance Testing Coverage for govuk-one-login/performance-testing and improved measurement reliability. Implemented new load profiles for March-25 L2 targets (load, soak, spikeNFR, spikeSudden) with adjusted sign-up/sign-in counts; refactored rpStubSubmit tests to capture OIDC response times and updated group identifiers/indexing to align with the new structure. This enables granular performance benchmarks and supports capacity planning for upcoming release targets.

November 2024

11 Commits • 1 Features

Nov 1, 2024

Concise monthly summary for govuk-one-login/performance-testing (2024-11): Strengthened the performance testing framework to comprehensively cover RP routing, Sign In/Up flows, redirects, and load profiles, driving more accurate end-to-end performance insights for RP scenarios.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness92.4%
Maintainability89.4%
Architecture84.8%
Performance87.2%
AI Usage21.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

BashCSVJSONJavaScriptPythonTypeScriptYAML

Technical Skills

API IntegrationAPI TestingAPI developmentAPI integrationAPI testingAWS Signature V4AuthenticationAuthentication TestingAutomationBackend ConfigurationBackend DevelopmentBackend TestingCI/CDCloudFormationCode Cleanup

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

govuk-one-login/performance-testing

Nov 2024 Mar 2026
16 Months active

Languages Used

JavaScriptTypeScriptYAMLBashJSONPythonCSV

Technical Skills

API TestingCode OptimizationConfiguration ManagementDevOpsDocumentationEnd-to-End Testing