SUMMARY:

• Confidential has over nine years of experience with performance testing using LoadRunner and Performance Center.
• He is fluent with several different protocols including web (HTTP/HTML), Web Services, Citrix.
• Confidential has experience leading and managing an offshore team, onshore team and being a mentor to junior testers on the team.
• In his most recent project with BCBSA, he was creating test strategy with test approach, test plan, test scenarios, test case and test specs by thorough understanding of Epics/User Stories/ Use Cases /Requirements, timelines and budget.
• Confidential is a very strong communicator and just wrapped up his project so he available immediately to interview

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: AIX, Solaris, Linux, HP - UX, Windows

Application Servers: WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss, Liferay

Web Servers: Apache, IIS.

Tools: HP LoadRunner, HP Performance Center, SiteScope, Wily IntroScope, TeamQuest, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Solarwinds, Splunk, Cognos, HP ALM, JIRA, Toad.

Languages: C, C++, Java, J2EE, VB, JSP, Servlets, HTML, XML

Databases: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MS-Access.

ETL Tools: Ab Initio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Manager Performance Engineering and Quality Assurance Testing

Responsibilities:

• Managed and mentored 1 7 member s of testing team.
• Estimated efforts for each task during sprint planning meeting and define Test data requirements .
• Client communication, Onsite - Offshore coordination, Resource loading and third level of escalation.
• Used Risk-Based test approach to prioritize test cases and complete testing within timelines.
• Present Weekly testing status to the Leadership.
• Performed deeper level of analysis when there is a major performance issue using Dynatrace.
• Monitor and Identify Infrastructure Health Issues with Dynatrace.
• Create Customize Host Heath Dashboard using Dynatrace.
• Lead the Resiliency test.
• Lead Performance recovery test.
• Lead new hardware upgrade performance test.
• Set up a new architectural environment for new hardware and performance recovery test.
• Delivered Performance Test results using acceptable KPIs & Metrics.
• Used Jenkins for CI/CD testing.

Lead Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements for performance testing needs.
• Collected data from production support about application usage and load rates and identify load critical transactions.
• Finalized the scope of performance testing based on architecture, infrastructure and application design.
• Developed and executed test load scripts to do end-to-end performance testing using LoadRunner 12.0 and Performance Center.
• Wrote and executed VUGEN scripts for LoadRunner 12.0.
• Configured LoadRunner VUGEN scripts for web, Citrix and Web Services protocols.
• Set up and maintained an effective performance test environment.
• Performed performance monitoring with Dynatrace, AppDynamics and BMC Patrol.
• Analyzed major Performance issue like Memory Usage and Garbage Collection Impact; Thread Utilization.
• Monitor and Identify Infrastructure Health Issues with Dynatrace.
• Create Customize Host Heath Dashboard using Dynatrace
• From the Health Dashboard monitor server response like web server and Application Sever, CPU consumption.
• Create test plan and test scenarios for Performance recovery testing.
• Create load Plan and conduct Performance recovery testing.

Lead Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements for performance testing needs.
• Lead a team of offshore performance testers and assign them tasks.
• Mentored the offshore team as well as junior on site team members.
• Collected data from production support about application usage and load rates and identify load critical transactions.
• Developed and executed test load scripts to do end-to-end performance testing using LoadRunner 12.0 and Performance Center.
• Wrote and executed VUGEN scripts for LoadRunner 12.0.
• Configured LoadRunner VUGEN scripts for web, Citrix and Web Services protocols.
• Implemented a best practices standard for VUGEN scripting and performance testing process.
• Set up and maintained an effective performance test environment.
• Create test plan and test scenarios for Performance recovery testing.
• Create load Plan and conduct Performance recovery testing.
• Performed performance monitoring with Dynatrace.
• Analyzed major Performance issue like memory leak, heavy on CPU, Thread Count, Deadlocks, Garbage Collection
• Using Dynatrace set up a Health Dashboard for the projects.
• Analyze network bandwidth

Senior Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed applications and determined the strategy for performance testing.
• Wrote performance test plans.
• Utilized LoadRunner for performance testing.
• Configured test scripts using web and Web Services protocols.
• Performed project planning and coordination and implemented performance methodology.
• Maintained the lessons learned documentation to improve and streamline performance testing.
• Analyzed major Performance issue like memory leak, heavy on CPU, Thread Count, Deadlocks, Garbage Collection

Senior Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed performance test plans and load test strategies.
• Configured LoadRunner test scripts using web (http/html), Web Services and Citrix protocols.
• Performed in-depth analysis to isolate points of failure in the application.
• Assisted in production of testing and capacity certification reports.
• Created bench marking/baselines, load testing harness and load model and worked on Citrix server.
• Wrote scripts for Web Services by converting SOAPUI scripts to VUGEN scripts.

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created comprehensive performance test plans.
• Developed LoadRunner scripts and wrote programs to support load testing efforts.
• Performed load/stress test using LoadRunner.
• Established test scenarios to properly load / stress the system in a lab environment and monitored / debugged performance and stability problems.
• Set up automation scripts using LoadRunner for Web Services, SAP, and Oracle and Citrix applications.