PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Performance test engineer with around 7 years of IT experience in system requirements, analysis, design, coding, testing of Client/Server, Web, Web Services, and GUI applications in financial, telecom, e - commerce sectors.
• Excellent skills and experience in performance testing using HP Load-Runner, Performance Center.
• Expertise in preparing test plans, designing test cases, and executing test cases.
• Expertise in developing scripts, creating test scenarios, analyzing test results, reporting Bugs/Defects, and documenting test results.
• Excellent skills in analyzing business requirements and use cases.
• Expertise in recording/coding Confidential scripts using different protocols.
• Analyzed various graphs generated by Load-Runner Analyzer including Database Monitors, Network Monitors graphs, User Graphs, Error Graphs, Transaction graphs, and Web Server Resource Graphs.
• Excellent knowledge and skills in test monitoring for transaction response times, web server metrics, Windows resource, Web App. Server metrics, and Data-base metrics.
• Experience in analyzing test results, merging graphs and preparing test reports.
• Expertise in correlations, Load designing and C.
• Experience and knowledge in monitoring technologies and best practices, including creating, configuring and maintaining Dynatrace, Site-Scope monitors alerts and reports.
• Good understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as well as the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Good experience in Load, Investigational, Endurance, Smoke, Functional, Regression, Integration, System, Performance, Stress and UAT testing methodologies.
• Good analytical, interpersonal, presentation and communication skills.

SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY:

Testing Tools: Load-Runner 12.02,11.x/9.x, Performance center 12,11.x, Quick Test Pro (QTP) 10.x/9.x, Quality center/ALM 10.x / 9.x

Monitoring Tools: Dynatrace, Site scope

Languages: C, XML, SQL,.Net, HTML, JavaScript, Shell scripting

Test Strategies: Defect Management, Web Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing

Defect Tracking Tools: ALM/ Quality Center

LR Protocols: Web(HTTP/HTML), Web Services, WSDL, True client, Citrix, SAP Web

Web/App. Servers &front end applications: IIS, Apache 2.x, FileNet, Tomcat 6.x, Web Logic 9.x/8.x, Web Sphere 7.x/6.x, HTTP Watch

RDBMS: Oracle 10g/9.x, SQL Server 2005

Tools: Share-point, Microsoft Office Suite 2007/2003/XP, SQL Query Analyzer

Operating Systems: Windows 7/XP/2003, Mac OSX

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Created Scripts in Web services , Web Http/Html protocols using Load Runner VuGen 12.02.
• Enhanced the scripts using correlation, error handling, and data pools to enable the script to run for multiple users.
• Using Load Runner, execute multi-user performance tests, used online monitors, real-time output messages and other features of the Load Runner Controller.
• Designed Performance Test Load Scenarios by HP Performance Center using different techniques such as Schedule by Scenario, Schedule by Group, Users and Percentage modes, Ramp Up, and Rendezvous point for the planned work load to have a production resemblance in the testing.
• Worked with Performance test concepts like Rendezvous point, pacing, runtime settings.
• Collected server side performance metrics for disk I/O, memory, and CPU physical server utilization statistics, as needed using SAR and NMON on Linux system.
• Developed the Performance Test Plan & Scope documents and Performance Test Cases , Created the scripts using Virtual User Generator ( Confidential ) to simulate the function of the services being tested.
• Executed Peak load, Investigational, Endurance testing by Performance Center to see if the Applications and the Web services can handle the workloads defined.
• Ran Endurance tests to find memory leaks.
• Monitored application and server utilization, response time, throughput, hits per sec by using HP’s OVPM , Dynatrace, Site scope .
• Analyzed the test results by the Load Runner analyzer to find the bottlenecks.
• Analyzed the DBA report to find any improper tables that’s causing issues in the response times and other factors that might cause a degradation in the performance.
• Created the Performance Test reports with the whole testing methodology used like Response times, no of transactions, server’s details, DBA reports, test durations, test observations and etc.

Environment: Load Runner 12.02, C Scripting, Performance Center 12, Web Http/Html, Web services, Confidential, WSDL, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, ALM/QC, and Windows.

Confidential, North Carolina, NC

Performance Tester/Eng.

Responsibilities:

• Gathered the requirements and created the test plan with test cases.
• Analyzed the Production Environment and reviewed the test plan.
• Developed and executed Scripts for Performance Testing using HP Load Runner.
• Enhanced the scripts by Parameterizations, Correlations and other functions in the scripts to emulate the real time load conditions using Confidential .
• Created Performance Test Scenarios by Load Runner Controller by different techniques such as Schedule by Scenario, Schedule by Group, Ramp Up, and Ramp Down for the planned work load.
• Worked with Performance test concepts like Rendezvous point, pacing, runtime settings.
• Executed baseline, load, stress and endurance testing by Performance Center on website’s workflows to identify and report performance bottlenecks.
• Managed resources and process of Performance testing (like Load, Stress, Volume, Endurance and Failover ) using Load Runner ( Controller, Virtual User Generator, and Analysis ) and Protocols used Web and Web Services.
• Extensively worked on UNIX to change the database connections , tracing logs , monitor resources of the machines, create users and execute batch jobs .
• Extensively used other features like parameterization, correlation and configured monitors for WebSphere, MQ Series and Database .
• Monitored application and server utilization, response time, throughput, hits per sec by using CA Wily Intro scope.
• Analyzed the test results by the Load Runner analyzer.
• Found the root cause for the bottlenecks by using the web page diagnostics a native monitor of Load Runner and even by the HP Diagnostics for more accuracy and availability of different metrics.

Environment: Load Runner, C Scripting, Performance Center, CA Wily Intro scope, Http/Html, Web page diagnostics, HP Diagnostics, Ajax True client and Windows.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and executed test cases and test scripts after reviewing required documents and technical specifications.
• Interacted with analysts , developers and performance testing team members in different defect raising situations.
• Responsible for developing and executing Performance and Capacity tests .
• Developed the Load Test scripts using the Load Runner Virtual User Generator ( Confidential ) and enhanced the scripts by including transactions, parameterize the constant values and correlating the dynamic values .
• Developed scenarios for automated testing using Load Runner Controller.
• Used Scheduler to schedule the scenarios for user's Ramp up/Ramp down in Load Runner Controller.
• Conducted stress test, load test and endurance test .
• Monitoring application and server utilization, response time, availability, performance and traffic flow by using HP Site Scope .
• Monitored different graphs like transaction response time and analyzed server performance.
• Created a test standards document and provided weekly reports based upon performance tasks.

Environment: Load Runner, Performance Center, Quality Center, Site scope, Java, Web sphere, Web logic, HTML, Oracle, SQL, Clear Quest, Unix.

Confidential, Somers, NY

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing test cases and scripts for Load/Stress and Performance testing of the application.
• Created and executed Test cases based on business requirements and test plans using Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center for Test Execution, Defect Tracking and Reporting .
• Responsible for Performance Tuning for Load, Stress, Endurance Test executions using both Load Runner .
• Developed automated load test scripts using Virtual User Generator and created Virtual Users to replicate the real time users in Load Runner .
• Modified Scripts and passed dynamic values using Parameterization and Correlation using Load Runner .
• Monitored different graphs like Transaction Response Time and Analyzed Server Performance Status, Hits per Second, Throughput using Load Runner .
• Analyzed No. of Hits per second, Average Throughput and Response Time of Individual Transactions for specified duration using Load Runner .
• Created automated scripts for AUT using VuGen in Load Runner http/html, web services protocol for regression scenarios .
• Defined criteria for performing usability testing, analyzed results of testing sessions, and presented results to development team.
• Performed interactive walkthroughs of test scripts with Developers, Business users and Business Analysts.

Environment: Load Runner, Quality Center, Http/Html, SQL Server 2008, MS Access, C Scripting, SAP, XML, SQL, Windows Server 2008, IE

Confidential

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Detail Design, Business, and Technical and General Design requirement documents.
• Created Test Cases and Test plans for the applications.
• Extensively used Virtual User generator and Controller with in Load Runner .
• Created Scripts by HTTP/HTML protocols in Confidential using Load Runner .
• Configured record and run time settings, options and web event record configurations.
• Created Scenarios using Load Runner Controller by using different techniques such as Schedule by Scenario, Schedule by Group, Ramp Up, and Ramp Down.
• Used Load Runner Controller to Perform Load Test, Capacity test and Stress Test .
• Performed System testing, Load testing, and Regression testing.
• Monitoring application and server utilization, response time, availability, performance and traffic flow by using HP Site Scope .
• Monitored different graphs like transaction response time and analyzed server performance status, hits per second and throughput.
• Ability to work with a sense of urgency in a deadline-oriented environment.

Environment : Load Runner, Site scope, Windows Vista/XP, SQL Server