SUMMARY:

• 7+ Years of extensive experience in Performance Engineering / Testing of web - based, client server and web services applications.
• Actively participated in all stages of software development and Testing Lifecycle.
• Experienced using LoadRunner and Jmeter for developing scripts and executing various performance tests including Baseline requirements and developing comprehensive Performance Test Plans / Strategies, Load, Stress, Endurance, Stress and Failover Tests.
• Good experience in using DynaTrace, IntroScope and other APM tools for identifying performance issues.
• Used Performance Center to manage LoadRunner scripts and scenarios.
• Customized LoadRunner scripts in C language using string manipulation functions and C libraries.
• Gathered business requirements after studying the application and collecting the information from developers and the business users.
• Experienced in analyzing performance bottlenecks such as long running sql queries, and memory leaks.
• Expert in writing, executing test cases, usage of various databases, tools for bug tracking and generating reports.
• Performed IP Spoofing to simulate each Vuser with a different IP address.
• Proficient in Real time monitoring of Graphs/Monitors from various Servers.
• Analyzed Test Results using various Online Monitoring Graphs.
• Strong Team player, and contributed towards the teams goals. Worked productively and effectively in a team as well as individually.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, DOS, Solaris, Windows, and Linux.

Languages: C, C++,JAVA/J2EE, VB Scripts, PERL, Python, XML, UNIX - Shell Scripting.

Databases: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MS-ACCESS and MySQL.

GUI: VB, JSP, Java Applets, ASP, HTML.

Web Related: HTML, XML, VBScript, Java Script, Applets, JAVA, JDBC.

Performance Testing / Engineering Tools: LoadRunner, Performance Center, Jmeter, SiteScope, CA IntroScope, HP Diagnostic, DynaTrace, App Dynamics, Tivoli.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, VA

Performance Engineer

Environment: LoadRunner, Performance Center, HP Diagnostics, Jmeter, Dyantrace, Oracle, JAVA, SQL Server, SQL Profiler, XML, IIS, Windows and UNIX.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Load Testing of various modules and software application using LoadRunner.
• Involved in preparation of estimation, capacity matrix, testing plan and details, capacity plan and performance strategy docs and conducted assessments and data modeling using excel.
• Conducted performance, load, and stress testing using LoadRunner and JMeter.
• Involved in the planning, monitoring and controlling the testing activities and tasks.
• Created and executed various scenarios in LoadRunner controller for performing baseline, benchmark, Load, Stress tests and endurance tests.
• Executed all test types using JMeter including high volume tests with thousands of threads.
• Used performance counters to assist in root cause analysis of performance defects.
• Used SiteScope & HP Diagnostics to monitor the load test and to identify the bottlenecks.
• Parameterized Users, stored dynamic content in LoadRunner functions, used client side secure certificates.

Confidential, MN

Performance Engineer

Environment: LoadRunner, Performance Center, SiteScope, Jmeter, Quality Center, Unix, Windows, JAVA, Oracle, XML, SQL Server, DBA, UNIX, LINUX.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering and analyzing requirements for performance testing.
• Involved in Correlation and Parameterization for the script to ensure that the script runs successfully during replay and, monitored the activities through LoadRunner Controller.
• Automated the major functionalities of the application and the bugs reported using JMeter.
• Performed stress testing using various features of LoadRunner, recorded and debugged scripts using multiple actions using VuGen module in LoadRunner.
• Used Jmeter to test with high concurrency / threads.
• Researched on the usability of JMeter for the Products Performance Testing.
• Created rendezvous point for performance test scenarios to find deadlocks.
• Defined requirements for large-scale LoadRunner performance tests of the web, client-server and database server Applications.
• Develop test scenarios to properly load/stress the system in the UAT environment and monitor/debug performance and stability problems.
• Determined performance requirements and goals based on requirements and architecture.

Confidential, TX

Performance Test Engineer

Environment: LoadRunner, Performance Center, SiteScope, DynaTrace, Excel, Oracle, IIS, MS SQL Server, JAVA, J2EE Diagnostic Tool, Windows, HP-UX, HP Service Test.

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the development team to understand the source-to-destination data mapping, as well as the data transformation process, between multiple systems.
• Changed the runtime settings such as pacing, Think-time, Log settings, browser emulation and timeout settings in LoadRunner VUGEN and controller to simulate the real scenario.
• Exposed and worked on composite application monitoring using HP Diagnostics.
• Experienced in server side monitoring and test result analysis using DynaTrace, SiteScope and CA IntroScope for application server to identify performance bottlenecks.
• Used Dynatrace and App dynamics to profile the environments,
• Used LoadRunner for checking the performance of Various Reports and Queries under load.
• Executed load tests for new Applications for benchmarking for future releases.
• Prepared Load Test Reports by analyzing the results from LoadRunner analysis.
• Responsible for documenting requirements and design specifications including current state assessment/gap analysis for Software products.

Confidential, MA

Performance Tester

Environment: LoadRunner, Quality Center, SiteScope, Java, J2EE, Oracle, Web logic, Performance Center, IIS, SQL, Site Scope, MS Office, MS Access, MS Vision, MS Project and Citrix.

Responsibilities:

• Creation of project plan, test plans, estimations, development and tracking projects at every phase.
• Developed and deployed test Load scripts to do end to end performance testing using Load Runner.
• Involved in specifying the functional as well as security requirements for performance testing.
• Provided multiple sets of data during test execution and used the data randomly, sequentially and uniquely.
• Created test scripts using VuGen (data parameterization, correlation etc.).
• Worked closely with Software Developers to isolate, track, debugging and troubleshoot defects.
• Ensure that quality issues are appropriately identified, analyzed, documented, tracked and resolved in Quality Center.
• Monitored the metrics such as response times and server resources using LoadRunner Analysis and SiteScope.
• Deployed and configured the Wily Introscope Workstation in order to monitor the transactions.

Confidential, IL

Performance Tester

Environment: LoadRunner, Quality Center, Java, Oracle, Performance Center, Site Scope, Wily Introscope, MS Office, MS Access, MS Vision, MS Project, Windows.

Responsibilities:

• Participated in requirement analysis and prepared performance test documents.
• Uploaded Scripts, Created Timeslots, and Created Scenarios and ran Load Tests in controller.
• Analyzed different graphs like transaction response time, hits per second, throughput, windows resources and database server resources etc.
• Performed baseline test with 1 user and 5 iterations and benchmark test under a load of 100 users using LoadRunner controller.
• Conducted presentations of Performance Test results.
• Generated VUser scripts and Executed Performance Tests using LoadRunner.
• Simulated heavy user load, and transaction points to test application response time.
• Conducted memory leak testing for all the applications using LoadRunner and Wily IntroScope.
• Attended weekly meetings and involved in Documentation of whole Testing Procedure.