Performance Engineer Resume

SUMMARY

Performance Engineer with 8 years of experience in Performance Testing, and Performance Engineering of Enterprise applications in various UNIX and Windows environments.
Experience in various profiling, monitoring and load testing tools with strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
HP LoadRunner certified with expertise in performance methodologies, benchmarking and profiling.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Performance Testing tools: Loadrunner certified, Jmeter, SOASTA CloudTest, Neoload, HP ALM Performance center

Web/App server: Apache Tomcat, Jboss, Websphere and Weblogic

Profiling/Debugging tools: Appdynamics, Dynatrace, JProbe

Monitoring and Analysis tools: Eclipse MAT, IBM Heap analyser, Thread Analyser

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

Expertise in writing/defining performance test strategy/plan
Good Hands - on knowledge on performance test tool Cloud Test/SOASTA
Good knowledge on performance engineering and testing concepts and process.
Knowledge in APM tools - AppDynamics, Dynatrace and Site-scope
Excellent knowledge on Java code Profiling, Bottle neck analysis, JVM Analysis (Thread, Heap and GC) and Tuning.
Researching customer’s usage patterns and identifying key system performance requirements.
Work experience in a full software development Lifecycle and exposed to change & defect management.
Strong understanding of the Software Test Lifecycle across various development methodologies.
Capable of analyzing performance reports to help with root cause analysis (RCA)
Benchmarking system performance and working with other vendors to evaluate alternative hardware and software architectures.
Expertise in Performance Test Management and Estimations

Confidential

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

Confidential

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

Performed Proactive learning of the application and its entire setup. (servers - DB and App)
Performed an in-depth analysis to investigate the problem in the below layers: -
Web access logs, GClogs, Heap dumps and thread dumps
Resource utilization graphs
Lead the performance testing and engineering team in multiple implementations.
Played a prime role in Non-Functional Requirement gathering and analysis for the current system under migration and enhancements in discussion with Business and Technical team.
As a member of performance engineering, involved in java profiling, and performance monitoring of application.
Involved in identifying the root cause for the stability issues in the application and in providing the recommendations in resolving the issue.
Involved in fixing the memory leak issues in the java application and in tuning the JVM settings to improve performance.
Involved in monitoring and troubleshooting concurrency, deadlock, OutOfMemoryError, request timeout issues and tune the application accordingly.
Involved in NFR Validation through POCs & providing recommendations to achieve desired performance requirements.
Prepared Workload modeling and performance test case design review to execute the performance tests effectively. Involved in identifying and fixing performance issues at design & development phase.