Summary

• 11 years experience successfully setting up, streamlining and managing enterprise wide value-add programs.
• Effective management of over 35 global employees, with experience in building new teams in growth environments.
• 14 years' experience in field of Performance Engineering, Architecture, Testing, Bottleneck Analysis, Tuning, Capacity Management and Assurance including performance test methodology and tools
• Certified as PMP, CSQA, Six Sigma Yellow Belt
• Strong Financial background Confidential
• Strong Health Care background Allscripts
• 11 years of performance and automation testing experience HP Performance Center/ HP LoadRunner, HP SiteScope, HP BAC Business availability Center , Win Runner, QTP and Test Director, Ranorex, SOAPUI/LOADUI and VSTS Load Test
• 6 years of Application Performance Management/Monitoring tool experience including server side code profiling in AppDynamics, OPNET AppInternals and AppResponse, dynaTrace purePath and Ajax Edition, Microsoft Avicode, , Wily Introscope, JProfiler, HP Diagnostics
• Experience in setting and managing up Center of Excellence, Performance Engineering/Testing Teams
• Experienced in managing teams/projects on-shore and off-shore and in a matrix model and hierarchical model and completing them on-time, within budget and with quality
• Experienced in defining, establishing, managing, implementing and coordinating the complete Performance Testing/Engineering and Tuning processes and teams. Can successfully lead the Performance Testing and Tuning Process from start to completion including tools setup
• Experienced in building and maintaining Performance Test environments, for varying technologies.
• Expertise in performance improvement recommendations and in recommending performance tool sets.
• Experienced in preparing test estimates/budgets and project schedules
• Experienced in defining and implementing Performance Testing/Engineering Standards, Templates, Tuning Standards and Best Practices at various client sites
• Experienced in managing performance testing and engineering teams and supervising the work of Performance Testers/Engineers in creating and executing the performance test life cycle
• Experienced in installing, managing and administrating Performance Center, Load Runner environments performance labs , test platforms, test applications and other test tools
• Experienced in designing, developing, executing and managing of Project Plans, Test Plans, Test Objectives, Test Strategies, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios and Test Cases
• Experienced in leading/testing Financial, Health Care, Transportation, Services, Trading FIX/FAST protocol
• Experience in leading/testing Cloud based solutions, Mobile Native apps/solutions, JD Edwards, ERP applications GL , PeopleSoft applications GL, AP and FA , Oracle Financial applications, Sarbanes-Oxley applications, Cognos, Essbase, Hyperion Products
• Experienced in Performance Testing using Java RMI, C template FIX , CITRIX, Web, ODBC, Oracle 2 Tier, Oracle NCA, and Winsock Protocols
• Experienced in testing and tuning Application servers .Net, IBM WebSphere, JBoss/Hibernate, J2EE, JVM's, WebLogic, Delphi, IIS And Database servers Oracle, SQL Server and Sybase
• Experienced in Quality Assurance of clustered multi-tier/n-tier systems, virtualized servers, SOA based systems, Client/server systems and Web Applications/Sites including testing large enterprise software applications and across the networks using Shunra WAN emulation.
• Strong Quality background, with experience in Testing Lifecycle, Automation Lifecycle, including certifications in Testing - CSQA.
• Experienced with defect tracking tools including Clear Quest, Test Director, CTS, TFS
• Experienced with Database validation using Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2 and Access and working knowledge of RDBMS concepts and knowledge of SQL, TSQL, and PL/SQL.
• Working knowledge of Object-oriented languages Java, C , C and TSL, C, ASP, JSP, HTML, XML, JavaScript, Shell and Visual Basic and Unix
• Working knowledge of quality principles, test engineering methodologies, verification and validation techniques, defect tracking/management, quantitative methods, risk management and measurement programs
• Detail oriented, self- motivated, analytical, problem solving and excellent verbal, written, business and internal communications, presentation interpersonal, time management and organization skills
• Experienced in working with a diverse workforce including other Project Team members, Business teams/partners, Customers, QA teams, Capacity Planning teams
• Experienced in conducting Status meetings with technical reviews and in sending out Project status reports to stakeholders
• Experienced in escalating issues/risks and in bringing projects from yellow/red status to green through proper requirement re-planning, realistic rescheduling, additional efforts

Confidential

Senior Manager for Performance Testing/Engineering/Monitoring Program

Current Role: Build, streamline and manage the Performance Testing program for over 60 applications.

Managerial Responsibilities:

• Established Performance Team from ground up, to certify Performance of transformed applications in a factory model.
• Train, Mentor and Lead 8 onsite Performance Managers/Leads and oversight of 25 offshore team members
• Responsible for driving factory like technical transformation of the applications focused on industrializing, standardizing and automating build, deployment , release and testing processes.
• Management of the Performance program for 60 projects, deliverables including - planning, scope, budget, resources, tools, roadmap etc.
• Overall responsibility of Performance for all Transformed products - including budgeting, strategy, estimation, planning, execution oversight, metrics reporting and risk management
• Test Vendor management for execution of Performance Tests.
• Drive End-to-End Load Simulation Environment setup and management for Performance Testing.
• Oversight of Performance Center Tool License procurement and implementation.
• Drive the standard testing methodology, process and KPI's for meeting factory initiatives.
• Drive standard and automatic reporting via SharePoint for all projects across all deliverable's.
• Review, Recommend and Approve Performance Engineering Strategy, Test Plan and Design for multiple portfolio projects
• Provide and lead strategic thought leadership around testing practices
• Recruit Manage and Train and Performance Engineers and Performance Testers in the teams.

Confidential

Enterprise Performance Architect

Manage performance engineering and architecture of multiple projects under the portfolio which included One Platform, Meaningful Use Datawarehouse , Electronic Health Records Confidential , Patient Management Systems PM's , Payerpath Claims Processing Systems , Meaningful use systems. Define, budget, plan, create road maps, improve, audit, dashboards and reports to C level on Performance of applications. Allscripts is mainly a Microsoft shop .NET that is devoted to enhancing healthcare through technology, including offering cloud and mobile solutions.

Current Role: Hands-on technical Sr.Manager of Performance Engineering team/Performance CoE, Application Performance Management/Monitoring Lead

Managerial Responsibilities:

• Built the central Performance Engineering/Center of Excellence Team from ground up.
• Manage a team of 6 Performance Test Leads/Engineers onsite and 15 Engineers offsite.
• Management of the Performance Engineering practice for multiple products, deliverables including - planning, scope, budget, resources, tools, roadmap etc.
• Overall responsibility of Performance Engineering/Testing and Engineering Tasks for engaged projects - including strategy, estimation, planning, execution oversight, metrics reporting and risk management
• Recruit Manage and Train and Performance Engineers and Performance Testers in the teams.
• Responsible for the Performance team members and the deliverables
• Oversee Test engineers and other test team members to ensure performance test scripts and test cases are developed according to the identified test scenarios and test objectives that are in line with the Service Level Agreements SLA's specified in the Non-Functional requirements documents.
• Oversee and manage Performance test execution Peak Load tests, Performance tests, Response Time tests, Single User baselines, Baseline tests, Failover tests, Spike tests, Endurance/Longevity/Stability tests, Capacity Tests
• Responsible for selecting/maintaining and integrating the appropriate set of tools, processes and procedures to ensure overall testing efficiency and effectiveness in the operations.
• Manage and build scaled Performance test environments for multiple products.
• Built teams that initiated, implemented, analyzed, tuned for Performance
• Review, build and maintain a best in class practices and team
• Identify, recommend, and implement Performance test framework, strategies and toolsets to optimize performance test execution, expand test coverage, and reduce risk
• Establishes and maintains strong working relationships with Development, Project Management, Client Support, Business Analysts and Users to foster a team environment.
• Manage a continuous process improvement program within the team and at the project level reviewing trends, data, etc.
• Partner with Project Management Organization in the development of project plans, status communications, and the management of development software solutions.
• Provide regular status reporting consistent with established program governance requirements and present updates to senior management and at All-hands meetings
• Maintain Vendor relationships for Performance Test services
• Manage including procurement the build process for Performance Testing lab
• APM tool implementation such as dynaTrace and OPNET for major products which shortened the Performance issue resolution process tremendously from months to weeks .
• Educate customers and product teams for better understanding of performance testing tools, techniques and best practices.
• Single point of contact for all deliverables from the Performance Engineering and Performance Testing team
• Report to Vice President VP of Development Services

Technical Responsibilities:

• Develop, implement and enhance Performance strategy and process/frameworks for multiple .Net products.
• Develop test plans, workload models, scenarios, scripts, test data.
• Interaction with projects/ Business Analysts to document Non Functional requirements SLA's , and lead test engagements from PE/PT perspective.
• Develop standards and templates for Performance Engineering Strategy, Plan, and Scenarios. Ensure sign-off from all parties
• Ensure adherence of the Performance standards and ensure that each application is reviewed through the Architecture teams
• Review, Recommend and Approve Performance Engineering Strategy, Test Plan and Design for multiple portfolio projects.
• Conduct, and Analyze results of Load tests, and Produce Tuning Recommendations accordingly
• Design, implement, execute, and analyze software performance tests and benchmarks
• Define, Produce and maintain Key Performance Indicators KPIs around the testing performed
• Analyze and tune Performance issues found throughout the lifecycle
• Coordinate/drive resolution across a matrix organization, and work with 3rd party service vendors based on their test recommendations, expertise, and experience.
• Identify, diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks, through performance testing techniques and tools including investigating or remediating
• Identify potential limitations in software architectures: devise / communicate improvements working with Product architects
• Select and implement Application Performance Management tools for monitoring and diagnostics dynaTrace purePath, OPNET AppResponse and AppInternals, Avicode
• Work with Client Support for analyzing external problems develop a resolution plan
• Monitor quality/performance risks and escalate, as required.
• Build reports for trending analysis.
• Performed the analysis and published the Performance Test Results that included System Metrics, Response Time Metrics and any Tuning performed.
• Oversaw the database/store procedure tuning which brought down the response times, CPU utilization and improved overall system performance
• Analyze, understand, and communicate technical data, specifications, designs, etc.
• Lead by example by being hands on when needed to test, de-bug and trouble shoot.
• Train the offshore teams to work on Performance problems and to identify code level performance concerns and communicate with the team
• Follow up through the entire process to ensure the defect workflow is followed and the performance recommendations are implemented
• Do lunch and learn sessions to educate developers with performance best practices
• Making recommendations, assessing industry best practices and striving for constant improvements to ensure most effective performance testing and engineering approach.

Skill Environment:

Performance Center 9.5, LoadRunner 11.0, .NET, ADO.NET, SQL Server Windows Server 2008, 2003, IE8, Silverlight, Winforms, Citrix XenApp, RDP/Terminal Server, Terradata, DataWarehouse, ETL Extraction, Transformation and Loading , DataMarts, Delphi, Com/DCom, WebLoad, SoapUI/Load UI, dynaTrace, OPNET, Avicode, Web services, VMware, Hyper-V server virtualization .

Confidential

Performance Test Architect

Confidential is a cash management application developed Confidential to automate the cash management process.

Role: Performance Test Architect

Responsibilities include:

• Responsible for defining and implementing Performance Engineering strategy for Phoenix
• Initiated the Performance Engineering process with development and defined the process thru delivery
• Implemented profiling tools including JProfiler, dynaTrace, Wily to identify Performance hotspots for developers to fix during the development life cycle
• Drive the testing process with TCS and ensure they were successful in implementing it
• Published and presented the finding to the stakeholders
• Train, mentor and drive Performance Analysts for the project to implement Performance Engineering process
• Diagnose issues within the system and suggest Performance recommendations to Development and Architects
• Work with Business Analysts to ensure the Performance Requirements are defined and Testing is planned as part of application's SDLC
• Work with Development to incorporate proper unit performance testing in to the SDLC
• Train the offshore teams for Performance Test process
• Follow up through the entire process to ensure the defect workflow is followed and the performance recommendations are implemented

Skill Environment:

Performance Center 9.5, .NET, Java, SQL Server, Windows Server 2003, IE6, TIBCO, ComputeGrid, Abinito, Object Grid, nCache 3.8, iPlanet Web Server, and Sun Solaris, SiteMinder.

Confidential

Sr. Performance Test Lead

Project: Confidential billing system is undergoing an upgrade from legacy technologies to the .Net technologies. Confidential Performance Test team is responsible for defining a strategy, testing and recommending Performance enhancements to the Confidential Core team.

Role: Lead the entire Confidential Performance Testing effort and manage all the aspects of the Performance Project that was required for the Confidential Testing effort ensuring the Application met Performance goals

Responsibilities include:

• Train, mentor and manage 6 Performance Engineers
• Involved in bringing stakeholders together to design and agree on a Performance Strategy for testing Confidential application
• Translate software specifications and user requirements into performance test scenarios
• Involved in improving the Performance Test Process by implementing standard practices and processes
• Develop the Project Plans for the project that included task lists and timeline for Performance Testing the different releases
• Use Fiddler to understand each call's foot print for suggesting performance improvements early at UI level
• Ensure detailed Performance Test Plans including Load Models were developed to test the different releases
• Ensure the Performance requirements are properly captured by performing Test Plan reviews with the stakeholders
• Coordinate the deployment of the application and needed software for hardware setup in Performance Environment
• Manage script development in VUGen, Service Test and QTP for .Net and SOA based systems
• Manage execution of Performance tests that included Load, Fail Over, Peak, Endurance Stability and Capacity Scalability tests using PC 9.5
• Have status meetings with the resources involved to ensure smooth execution of the project and send out status reports to the stakeholders
• Work with HP to resolve HP Performance Center installation issues and administered Performance Center for all of Comcast's Performance projects. Worked with HP for licensing requests and issues
• Implement HP Business Availability Center solutions for the applications under test and use Real Time monitoring for Production comparison and proper Performance Analysis and planning
• Install and implement SiteScope for monitoring the application servers under test
• Suggested multiple enhancement areas for the application under test for improving performance. Contributed to meeting the performance goals of the application by reducing the response times from half a minute to less than 4 seconds.
• Present the Performance Test results with any recommendations or enhancements
• Manage the submittal of the performance defects through the proper Defect Life Cycle for proper escalation
• Oversee and escalate any issues or risks that may rise during the Performance Test Life Cycle
• Involved in testing SOA/Web services layer using HP Service test for sister applications

Skill Environment:

Performance Center 9.5, LR9.5, QTP 9.2, Quality Center 9.0, HTTP/HTML Protocol, HP BAC 6.5, SiteScope 10.0 Windows 2003, WebSphere - WebServices SOA ,Tandems, MS Project 2007, Office 2007, Fiddler, HP Service Test

Confidential

Performance Test Lead/Performance Center Admin

Projects: Confidential Projects Confidential . CONFIDENTIAL Investments Performance Testing group was created for performance testing all CONFIDENTIAL Investments Projects and provide performance improvement recommendation to the various application teams.

Role: Performance Test and Tuning Lead/PC Admin

Responsibilities include:

• Train, coach and manage 3 Performance Team members
• Involved in the study of QA processes in the organization to define and create Performance Testing Standards, Methodologies or Processes
• Developed a relationship with various teams that are in need of Performance Testing
• Interacted with various teams to gather Performance Test requirements for their applications and acquire resources for proper planning and executions of the Performance Test process
• Developed the Project Plans for the project that included task lists and timeline for Performance Testing the different applications.
• Coordinated the deployment of the application and needed software for hardware setup in Performance Environment
• Oversee and finalize the development of Performance Test Plans, Load Model's as part of the Test Preparation
• Ensure the Performance requirements are properly captured by performing Test Plan reviews with the stakeholders
• Manage the development of scripts in multiple protocols including Java Fix/Fast protocol , C template, CITRIX, HTTP/HTMP and scenarios for the Test execution phase
• Manage and execute the Performance Tests planned
• Have status meetings with the resources involved to ensure smooth execution of the project and send out status reports
• Manage the analysis and preparation of the Performance Test Report
• Manage the submittal of the performance defects through the proper Defect Life Cycle for proper escalation
• Manage the tuning of propriety application servers on Linux and Solaris platforms and the involved Oracle database servers including MIT servers
• Present the Performance Test results with any recommendations or enhancements and escalate any issues or risks that may rise during the Performance Test Life Cycle
• Ensure performance tested systems meet all application capacity and scalability goals
• Have regular meetings with the Performance Team onshore and offshore and ensure the Team goals are met through best practices, knowledge sharing
• Have final Closure meetings to gather lessons learned and best practices
• Maintained and administered Performance Center

Skill Environment:

Performance Center 9.0, LR9.1, QTP 9.5, Quality Center 9.0, Java RMI, C template, FIX protocol, CITRIX and HTTP/HTML Protocol, QTP 9.2, WebSphere - WebServices SOA , SAP, Java, Solaris - Sun OS 5.1, Linux, .Net 3.0, Oracle 10g 11g, MS Project 2007

Confidential Performance Testing and Tuning Lead

Project: Confidential

Confidential system are used to track and maintain the transport services of this shipping company. The systems functionality includes from and not limited to maintaining inventory of vessels, maintaining voyages, services to maintaining invoices, and processing data for customs compliance. Confidential are reporting systems that are used for Confidential. Actuate was used for real time reporting Confidential was used for data warehousing and business analysis reporting. Performance Team's duty was to ensure each system was capable of handling the production load.

Role: Performance Test and Tuning Lead for Confidential suite Confidential , JConfidential

Responsibilities include:

• Train, mentor and manage 4 Performance Team members 3 on shore and 1 off shore
• Directly reported to QA manager
• Develop Project charter and Project Schedules with the proper input of the stakeholders
• Initiated and maintained contact with Business for accurate Performance modeling
• Managed the development of a detailed Performance Strategy Plan to test the different modules of IOCM suite which included US, Canada and Asia Pac/Europe APEU
• Setup requirement reviews for identifying potential performance risks/issues and escalated to the proper teams for action
• Coordinated the deployment of the application and needed software for hardware setup in Performance Environment
• Oversaw the development of scripts and scenarios using Load Runner and VSTS
• Oversaw and executed the Scalability tests to find the breaking point of the application
• Oversaw and executed the Stability tests to find the stability of the application over a period of time
• Worked with the architecture and development team to come up the tuning advice
• Worked towards reducing the overall performance of batch jobs by 75
• Worked towards reducing the user response times drastically for high response functions, some by 19 minutes
• Oversaw the database tuning and store procedure tuning which brought down the response times, CPU utilization and improved overall system performance
• Involved in managing the testing and tuning clustered .Net, clustered JBoss applications servers and Sybase and clustered SQL server database servers
• Found critical flConfidential in the implementation of the design and suggested implementation changes that lead to redevelopment of code.
• Ensured the Defects found followed the proper Defect Life Cycle in Test Director, as part of standard QA procedure
• Proactively escalated issues to the QA Lead and alerted the project team on potential impact to the systems and testing schedule
• Involved in code evaluations and conducting code reviews for Performance Defect resolution
• Involved in reviewing the Test Results with the Business to ensure user approval of the tuning and state of the application
• Analyzed Load Runner/SiteScope monitors/graphs for Transaction response times, Resource utilization etc

Project: Confidential

One of the ERP applications that Confidential uses is Confidential. The project involved performance testing the Confidential of the applications for scalability and stability.

Responsibilities include:

• Developed a relationship with the customer to initiate the Performance Test Life Cycle
• Setup meetings and oversee the Performance Test requirements gathering for proper planning and execution of the Performance Tests
• Developed the Project schedule
• Oversaw the development of Performance Test Plans, Load Model's as part of the Test Preparation
• Oversaw the development of scripts and scenarios needed for execution
• Oversaw the installation of needed testing software in the customer's
• Oversaw the execution of Load/Performance/Stress Tests using Load Runner from various locations over the globe
• Oversaw the analysis of Test Results and development of the Test report
• Presented the Test Report to the Business and System Testing Team

Project: Confidential.

Performance Test team was responsible for the building its own IOCM US Performance Test environment to relieve dependency of the team on other environments and minimize risks caused by utilizing other environments.

Responsibilities include:

• Obtain approval for the new environment from the management
• Obtain the approval for the resources needed to build the environment
• Obtain estimates and develop a project schedule for building the environment
• Get final approval of the strategy and project schedule from the management
• Manage resources onsite and off site to successfully execute the project plan that built the US Performance environment
• Manage smoke testing of the environment to ensure environment is setup correctly

Skill Environment:

Load Runner 8.1, JD Edwards, VSTS Load Test 2005, JBOSS, .Net 2.0, Sybase, SQL Server, Unix, Solaris, Windows 2003 Server, IIS, DB Artisan, Quality Center, Windows XP, MS Project, and Quality Center 9.0, IBM Websphere Application server, Apache with Websphere plug in as Web server, Database on IBM AS/400 iSeries and Windows 2003

Confidential Performance Test Lead

Project: Confidential

Confidential is a scanning application that is used by UPS sites to track and update information of packages that are routed through the site.

Role: Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities include:

• Manage 3 Performance Team members
• Establish processes to improve Performance QA Team, which included developing strategies for documentation, automation and result analysis
• Developed procedures and standards for the Performance QA Team
• Developed Non-functional Performance and Installation Test Plans that included requirement analysis, test case creation, automation strategy and results analysis strategy
• Oversaw creation of Performance Test Cases and Test Scripts for successful test execution
• Oversaw the Hardware setup needed for Test environment
• Oversaw the installations for the test environment, which included installation of OS, Application and Tools
• Oversaw the development of Automation scripts for the Test Cases that are automatable
• Oversaw the Performance Test Execution
• Responsible for analysis of results and identifying bottlenecks for tests performed
• Oversaw and aided in Performance tuning for better performance
• Oversaw the defect submittal process to ensure appropriate resolution takes place
• Performed the analysis and published the Performance Test Results that included System Metrics, Response Time Metrics and any Tuning performed
• Performed and aided other teams in monitoring and troubleshooting different versions of our application, which included Integration Testing

Project: Confidential

Responsibilities include:

• Coordinated and managed the User Acceptance Testing for GSS application
• Developed a plan for managing the User Acceptance Testing for GSS applications
• Coordinated the setup of systems for the acceptance testing
• Coordinated the installation of the application on the new hardware
• Coordinated the timings of the UAT with the user schedules
• Interacted with the Users to make sure that they are able to access and use the system as intended
• Escalated the defects found during the process through the appropriate escalation path

Skill Environment:

Load Runner 8.0, .Net, Oracle, Rational Test Manager, Rational ReqPro, PVCS, Rational Robot, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server

Confidential

Senior Performance Engineer-Lead

Project: Confidential

Confidential performance Confidential, a yearly regulatory exercise, to restore all mission critical applications and ensure they meet production standards. The Performance Test team is responsible for the Performance Test Track, which ensures mimicking 48 hours of production load on the restored systems. The exercise runs for 7 days of which the last 2 days consist of running production load, which is managed by the Performance Test Track.

Role: Performed as Performance Test Lead for Confidential Performance Test Track. Oversaw and coordinated the load testing piece of the project

Responsibilities include:

• Train, mentor and manage 3 Performance Team members
• Developed and designed Performance Test Strategy and Plan for BCE 2005.

• Managed Test Plan development for all the applications involved in the exercise.
• Helped Project Teams come up with a Performance Test Strategy for their Disaster Recovery Plans
• Interacted with IBM consultants to create Test Execution Strategy and creating a Test Schedule
• Develop standards to stabilize the Performance Test processes
• Managed the Performance Test Team and supervised the work of Performance Testers in creating and executing performance test scripts.
• Coordinated with Technical Architecture, Infrastructure, Network, Security, Capacity Planning and Desktop teams to ensure accurate set-up of performance environment
• Managed the execution of the load during the exercise at the recovery site of Capital One.
• Defined process for identifying issues during the different project phases and reporting status to management.
• Acted as point of contact for collecting all Performance Test Results
• Published the final Performance Test Results that included System Metrics, Response Time Metrics and Load Metrics

Skill Environment:

Load Runner 8.0, Web HTTP/HTML , Oracle 2 Tier, WebServices SOA CITRIX, Clear Quest, MS Project, TOAD, Putty, Windows XP

Confidential

Senior Performance Engineer-Lead/Offshore team coordinator

Project: Confidential.

Confidential included implementing Oracle 11i firm wide. The project involved cross-functional performance team assembled to evaluate v performance prior to deploying Confidential. Our performance team was responsible for working with technologists and analysts to establish a testable performance requirement for on-line and report usage, building and maintaining Confidential scripts to validate this requirement and executing the on-line benchmarks in coordination with the batch tests.

Role: Performed as the Co-Performance Test Lead for the on-line portion of the project and acted as the Outsource coordination lead for the entire on-line portion of the project for regression tests.

Responsibilities include:

• Acted as the Co-Performance Test lead for the online portion of the project.
• Interacted with the customer to gather Performance Test requirements.

• Used TestDirector for requirement analysis
• Developed Performance Test Plans, Load Model's as part of the Test Preparation
• Developed Vuser scripts using VUGen with Oracle NCA, Oracle 2 Tier, HTTP/HTML protocols.
• Performed Load/Performance/Stress Tests using Load Runner, by creating and executing different sets of scenarios to accomplish different objectives based on the Load Models
• Ran Tests from various locations over the globe to sample responses times over the WAN included installing LoadRunner to these computers using Shunra WAN emulation.
• Used TeamQuest to monitor the server resources under Test
• Analyzed Load Runner monitors/graphs for Transaction response times, Throughput, Users, Errors etc
• Predicted the response times over WAN using OPNet and LoadRunner WAN emulation techniques.
• Involved in analysis of Test Results with the Business and System Testing Team
• Tracked Project progress and Defects using CMextra a ClearQuest tool.
• Migrated the project to the off-shore Performance Test team and trained the team for executing regression tests
• Managed the off-shore team during the regression tests
• Also involved in Quest software evaluation, PVCS evaluation
• Prepare Statement of Work's - SOW's estimates and project schedules/plans for the Performance Test Life Cycle for each application with the appropriate onshore and offshore resources
• Review and obtain approval of the SOW's from the stakeholders

Skill Environment:

Load Runner 7.8, VSTS Load Test, Oracle 11i forms, Hyperion Reports, Spreadsheet services, ESSbase tools, TestDirector, Quest, TeamQuest, PVCS, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, Tomcat server, Oracle, ClearQuest, MS Project, and Windows XP

Project: Confidential

Role: Performed Load/Stress Test Lead for all Corporate Technology Web Projects including projects that tested applications for Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Responsibilities include:

• Acted as the Performance Test lead for all web projects
• Involved in the study, definition, execution and measurement of QA processes across the application
• Interacted with the customer to gather Performance Test requirements.
• Developed cost estimates for the engagement and preparing Statement of Work's
• Developed Performance Test Plans, Load Model's as part of the Test Preparation
• Analyze and gather Test data for Test execution
• Developed Vuser scripts using VUGen with Http/Html protocols.
• Performed Load/Performance/Stress Tests using Load Runner, by creating and executing different sets of scenarios to accomplish different objectives based on the Load Models
• Used TeamQuest to monitor the server resources under Test
• Predicted the response times over WAN using OPNet and LoadRunner WAN emulation techniques.
• Involved in analysis of Test Results with the Business and System Testing Team
• Track Performance Defects and Functional Defects using ClearQuest
• Analyzed Load Runner monitors/graphs for Transaction response times, Throughput, Users, Errors etc
• Tracked Project progress and Defects using CMextra a ClearQuest tool
• Managed the hardware costs for the projects and billed to the teams

Skill Environment:

Load Runner 7.8, TeamQuest, OPNet, Test Director, J2EE, Sarbanes-Oxley Applications, Java, JSP/ASP, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, Tomcat server, Apache server, Oracle, Clear Quest, MS Project, and Windows 2000

Confidential

Senior Performance Engineer/Test Lead

Project: Confidential

Confidential is the credit decisioning system, which processes around 100,000 applications a day. Analyst Work Station CONFIDENTIAL is the graphical user interface for Capstone system. CONFIDENTIAL displays the applications that are not completely processed by Capstone. About 1200 analysts use the CONFIDENTIAL daily.

Role: Performed Load/Stress Test Scenarios for 13 releases of Capstone/CONFIDENTIAL. Performed as the Performance Test Lead for 7 releases of Capstone/CONFIDENTIAL

Responsibilities include:

• Acted as the Performance Test lead for all releases of Capstone.
• Involved in the study, definition, execution and measurement of QA processes across the application.
• Defined performance test automation standards for different combinations of technology components used in application.
• Interacted with the customer to gather Performance Test requirements.
• Developed Performance Test Plans, Load Model's as part of the Test Preparation
• Analyzed and gathered Test data for Test execution
• Developed Vuser scripts using VUGen with WinSock, ODBC and Oracle protocols.
• Performed Load/Performance/Stress Tests using Load Runner, by creating and executing different sets of scenarios to accomplish different objectives based on the Load Models
• Involved in analysis of Test Results with the Business and System Testing Team
• Tracked Performance Defects and Functional Defects using ClearQuest.
• Analyzed Load Runner monitors/graphs for Transaction response times, Throughput, Users, and Errors etc.
• Monitored the performance of the application using BMC Patrol agent and analyzed the results using PerformaPredict Models.

Skill Environment:

Load Runner 7.5, Load Runner 7.8, Win Runner 7.5, PowerBuilder, Comm Server, Oracle, Clear Quest, MS Project, TOAD, Putty, Windows 2000, NT and XP

Project: CONFIDENTIAL

CONFIDENTIAL stands for Confidential Disaster Recovery Confidential. As part of the exercise, Confidential has to recover all mission critical systems 231 systems in total and verify they can handle two days of production load.

Role: Performed as the Performance Test Lead/Engineer for 3 applications which included Confidential

Responsibilities include:

• Performance Test the three applications for daily production volume during the disaster simulation.
• Coordinated with the customer to gather Performance Test requirements.
• Developed Performance Test Documents, Load Model's as part of the Test Preparation
• Developed Vuser scripts using VUGen for PeopleSoft application using web/people-soft protocol and for the other two applications using Oracle 2 Tier protocol.
• Coordinated the communications to setup, plan and execute the actual testing exercise.
• Involved in analysis of Test Results with the Project Team
• Analyzed Load Runner monitors/graphs for Transaction response times, Throughput, Users, Errors etc

Skill Environment:

Load Runner 7.8, PeopleSoft, PowerBuilder, Comm Server, Oracle, Clear Quest, MS Project, TOAD, Putty, Windows XP

Project: Confidential

Confidential standing for Additional Data Sourcing is a project that would replace the existing UNIX - MQ communications server with a MQ Web Server.

Role: Performed as the Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities include:

• Interacted with the customer to gather Performance Test requirements.
• Supervised the customer in executing the Load/Stress/Tuning tests.
• Supervised in developing Performance Test Plan, Load Model as part of the Test Preparation
• Supervised in developing Vuser scripts using VUGen with Java protocol.
• Assisted in performing Load/Performance/Stress/Fail Over/Capacity/Tuning tests using Load Runner
• Involved in analysis of Test Results with the Business and System Testing Team
• Analyzed Load Runner monitors/graphs for Web Logic Server resources, Transaction response times, Throughput, Users, Errors etc

Skill Environment:

Load Runner 7.8, Web Logic Server, J2EE, Http, SQL Server, MS Project, Windows XP

Project: Confidential

Confidential tool is used for Performance Management in Confidential. It is used by all 18000 associates of Confidential to provide feedback on peers.

Role: Performed as the Performance Test Engineer for Confidential tool

Responsibilities include:

• Interacted with the customer to gather Performance Test requirements.
• Developed Performance Test Plan, Load Model as part of the Test Preparation
• Analyzed and gathered Test data for Test execution
• Developed Vuser scripts using VUGen with Web protocols.
• Performed Load/Performance/Stress/Fail Over/Capacity/Tuning tests using Load Runner, by creating and executing different sets of scenarios to accomplish different objectives based on the Load Models
• Involved in analysis of Test Results with the Business and System Testing Team
• Tracked Performance Defects and Functional Defects using ClearQuest.
• Analyzed Load Runner monitors/graphs for Transaction response times, Throughput, Users, Errors etc

Skill Environment:

Load Runner 7.5, Http, Oracle, Clear Quest, MS Project, Windows 2000, NT

Confidential

Senior QA/ Automation /Performance Tester

Project: Confidential

Confidential Systems is an Confidential transaction process system. The Confidential allows customers to view and monitor Confidential terminals real time and allows customers to view and print different types of settlement reports in different formats.

Confidential is an Access based Visual Basic application that tracks the customers including contact, support information.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirements of both the systems.
• Involved creating test cases, scripts and test plans
• Responsible for writing the complete Test Plan for different components of the System and involved in writing the Master Test Plan.
• Developed Test Scenarios with Test Data to support Test Objectives.
• Designed Test Cases and Test Scripts for Functional testing and for Automation using Win Runner.
• Responsible for automated testing of Smoke test and Regression Test using WinRunner 7.0
• Involved in developing a test suite, using Quick Test Professional, for evaluation.
• Used LoadRunner 7.2 for Volume, Performance and Stress testing with Web Protocol HTTP/HTML
• Responsible for comprehensive Functional, System testing of assigned features of the system.
• Responsible for validating the security privileges in the system.
• Responsible executing test procedures and documenting results
• Analyzing and reporting the test problems/failures and defects to the Development Team.
• Instrumental in reporting and Tracking defects/bugs to using PVCS Tracker

Skill Environment:

WinRunner 7.2, Test Director, LoadRunner 7.2, Quick Test Professional, ASP, VB script, Java script, HTML, Microsoft SQL Server 8.X, Microsoft IIS, Crystal Reports, Windows XP and 2000, Visual Basic, MS Access and Requisite Pro

Confidential

Senior QA/ Automation /Performance Tester

Project: Confidential a web client and Confidential, an online workflow tool

Confidential is a Confidential enterprise-wide thin repository of counter party and client data. The application stores the entire client and counter party data of Confidential and is accessed by the down stream systems. Confidential is a workflow tool that handled all the requests to obtain a Confidential.

Responsibilities:

• Instrumental in Test documentation Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Data, Test Scripts
• Involved in comprehensive Functional testing of system.
• Analyzed the Business Requirements of the Product/system. Worked with the development team to review project plans, requirements specification, design documents, and computer software.
• Involved in designing the Test Plan and Test Cases and managed them using Test Director
• Developed Test Scenarios with Test Data to support Test Requirements.
• Involved in Functionality Testing of the CoPeR application and the IPRO system
• Involved in designing Test Scripts using WinRunner's TSL.
• Involved in executing the WinRunner Test scripts and Reporting Test Results in Test Director.
• Performed Data Driven Testing using WinRunner.
• Performed Database Testing using Database checkpoints in WinRunner
• Developed Vuser scripts using VUGen
• Performed Load/Performance/Stress using Load Runner with Web HTTP/HTML protocol.
• Involved in setting up automated regression suites
• Reported the defects to the team using CMExtra, an in house bug-tracking tool.
• Involved in analyzing the problems using Transaction Breakdown, Network Monitoring and Resource Monitoring.
• Involved in debugging SQL procedures and Shell scripts.
• Involved in installing and testing Patches and Hot Fixes in Test environment.

Skill Environment:

Load Runner 7.2, WinRunner 7.2, Test Director, J2EE, JDK, JSP, Sybase, Java Script, Java Servlets, Web Logic 6.0 Application Server, Korn Shell, Rational Rose, Visual Source Safe, TSQL, SQL Advantage, Remedy, Windows NT and UNIX