PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 12 years of diverse experience in the field of Performance and Automation Testing
• Expert in Performance Testing using LoadRunner and Performance Center
• Experience working in Windows and UNIX Environment
• Experience in monitoring servers using tools like SiteScope, TeamQuest and Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Analyze the CPU Utilization, Memory usage and Garbage Collection and DB connections to verify the performance of the applications.
• Develop the Test Recommendations for each test pass and Test Results.
• Analyze the network connections between the servers
• Load test execution and work with Product Management and Development determining the number of virtual users to be used during the performance test.
• Coordinate web application performance testing pre - tasks: Ensure performance test requirements are received. Develop product specific performance test plans.
• Supervise script recording, ensuring correctness and quality with an understanding of monitoring requirements based on test objectives, test execution tasks. Coordinate test window and lab utilization.
• Secure technical support for monitoring of infrastructure and to qualify observations.
• Work with other technical team members (Architects, DBA) to support the test execution to ensure correct environment configuration just prior to execution.
• Execute performance / load / stress/ Scalability and other non-functional tests. Monitor application logs to determine system behavior. Address all technical issues, facilitate the resolution and necessary follow up with PM, IS/IT, Development, and other cross-functional departments.
• Performance testing post-test tasks: Gather various reports and statistics from monitoring groups, packaging and reporting results to project teams. Assist in explanation of results and other post-test initiatives.
• Extensive experience in performance testing of the SharePoint application
• Extensive experience in Cloud Infrastructure which runs in multiple sites and data centers
• Competency in full life cycle of design, develop and implement Test Scenarios, test scripts as well as integration solutions, automated script framework and utility functions for performance testing using LoadRunner, JMeter, Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate, and other available tools.
• Perform root cause analysis to detect memory leaks and bottlenecks in servers and enterprise applications, and proposed resolution for performance tuning.
• Able to work independently without supervision.
• Generate performance graphs, session reports and other related documentation required for validation and analysis. Publish results and receive appropriate signoff. Prepare detail status reports, and monitoring of all defects and issues.
• Monitoring tasks: Responsible for defining, setting up and maintaining appropriate monitoring scripts to monitor Systems using the following tools and approaches.
• Secure technical support for monitoring of infrastructure and to qualify observations.
• Generate performance graphs, session reports and other related documentation required for validation and analysis. Publish results and receive appropriate signoff. Prepare detail status reports, and monitoring of all defects and issues.
• Worked in Agile/SCRUM environments
• Extensive experience in Agile project development methodology
• Monitoring tasks: Responsible for defining, setting up and maintaining appropriate monitoring scripts to monitor Systems using the following tools and approaches.
• Flexible & capable of successfully managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experienced in Unix Shell scripting
• Functional understanding of data warehouse design Star and Snowflake Schema, ETL and Business Intelligence Tools. Strong knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL to test database integrity.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Domain knowledge: Education, Banking, Accounting, Communication.

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, XHTML.

Languages: SQL, C, C++, Java, Shell.

RDBMS: MS Access, MS SQL Server, MySQL

Methodologies: RUP, CMMI

Operating Systems: Windows XP/2000/ Server2003/98/NT/95, UNIX, Linux, Solaris.

Networking: TCP/IP, FTP, UDP, HTTP, FTP, FTPS, SFTP

Automation Tools: LoadRunner, QTP, Performance Center

Defect Tracking Tools: Test Director, Lotus Notes, Clear Quest, Quality Center.

Monitoring Tools: CA IntroScope Wily Ver 9, HP SiteScope Ver 9, HP J2EE Diagnostics, Your Kit Java Profiler, JProbe, MainView and TrituneSiteScope, Wily, Tivoli Performance Monitoring Tool

Other software: Team Foundation Server 2010 Test Manager, Visual Studio 2010, ALM 2010, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Portland, OR

Sr. Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Using SiteScope Generated daily, weekly, and monthly summaries of single and multiple monitor readings with built-in management server based reports.
• Used HP SiteScope Operations Manager to deliver a combined agentless and agent-based monitoring
• This environment in in Cloud Infrastructure which runs in multiple sites and data centers
• Responsible for supporting Load Tests for the applications which are on 24/7 operations
• Gathers detailed performance data for IT infrastructure using agentless technology installed on your managed server or device
• Using installation and monitoring of IT infrastructure monitoring in less than one hour
• Involved in System Center Operations manager 2007 R2 And management packs
• Worked with Windows Engineering and Operations team to get required servers and VLAN built
• Using the CA IntroScope ver 9 monitor the Web transaction usage and performance summaries, Transaction tracing at the component level and identified the slow SQLs
• Used CA IntroScope monitor the Application throughput, Application topology mapping and Database operations summary
• Used BMC Patrol to monitors different performance parameters in the servers environment.
• Configured monitor specific parameters using BMC Patrol
• Customized Loadrunner scripts in C language like String manipulation for the Loadrunner Scripts
• Developed Web Service Vuser scripts for a Web Service Call using Soap UI.
• Extensively used XML Spy to test SOAP and web services based applications.
• Worked extensively with XML data and SOAP protocols in Non UI Web services (SOA) Testing.
• Checked Cognos reports for performance issue and suggested developer.
• Responsible for setting up monitors to monitor network activities and bottlenecks.
• Installed SiteScope, and configured monitors for analysis.
• Used SiteScope to get metrics from servers.
• Analyzed results for Bottlenecks and made recommendations for the bottlenecks.
• This project is one of the Confidential ’s Successful implementation of Usecase based Agile and SCRUM methodology involving geographically distributed teams.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Sr. Load Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business and Technical requirements by interacting with business users and Developed Test plan and Test strategy for Functional and Performance testing of each phase of the application.
• Participate in meetings to come up with new performance test scenarios
• Involved in creating test strategies, writing test plans, estimating test efforts, managing test efforts.
• Responsible in creating, execute, enhancing and maintain performance testing scripts (HTML-based, URL-based scripts) using HP LoadRunner & Gomez.
• Scripting, Validation and re-scripting of Performance test and Throughput capture scenarios
• Responsible to build application server for performance testing
• Using the CA IntroScope ver 9 monitor the Web transaction usage and performance summaries, Transaction tracing at the component level and identified the slow SQLs
• Gathers detailed performance data for IT infrastructure using agentless technology installed on your managed server or device
• Used CA IntroScope to configure Alerts and notifications
• Performance testing was done by conducting, load and scalability testing using LoadRunner to simulate the load generated by hundreds of users to achieve optimum performance.
• Created scripts Using Load Runner Virtual User generator. Parameterized Unique and dynamic content in the application scripts for real time emulation. Data was queried from Data base and input data for data driven tests were kept in excel files.
• Designed scenarios and used LoadRunner Controller to monitor all Vusers in a scenario from a single workstation.
• Analyzed results using Load Runner Analysis tool and analyzed Oracle data base connections, Sessions, Web Sphere log files. Issues relating to Indexes, Connection Pools and Garbage collections, Memory heap size etc and bottlenecks were identified and rectified by changing configurations, adding Indexes etc.
• 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.
• Recording, scripting, introducing dynamic navigation, parameterization and execution of the scripts were done.
• Inserted Transaction Points and Rendezvous Points to measure the performance of the application.
• Prepared the Analysis Report for different tests Performed using different scenarios.
• Worked independently to resolve the issues and share the reports.

Confidential, Portland, OR

Sr. Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Effectively worked on Performance Monitoring and Profiling Tools System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, HP SiteScope, CA IntroScope and BMC Patrol I have done following Monitoring for the above project.
• Using HP SiteScop Monitors more than 45 different target types for critical health and performance characteristics
• Using SiteScope Generated daily, weekly, and monthly summaries of single and multiple monitor readings with built-in management server based reports.
• Used HP SiteScope Operations Manager to deliver a combined agentless and agent-based monitoring
• Gathers detailed performance data for IT infrastructure using agentless technology installed on your managed server or device
• Using installation and monitoring of IT infrastructure monitoring in less than one hour
• Involved in System Center Operations manager 2007 R2 And management packs
• Worked with Windows Engineering and Operations team to get required servers and VLAN built
• Using the CA IntroScope ver 9 monitor the Web transaction usage and performance summaries, Transaction tracing at the component level and identified the slow SQLs
• Used CA IntroScope monitor the Application throughput, Application topology mapping and Database operations summary
• Used BMC Patrol to monitors different performance parameters in the servers environment.
• Configured monitor specific parameters using BMC Patrol
• Customized Loadrunner scripts in C language like String manipulation for the Loadrunner Scripts
• Developed Web Service Vuser scripts for a Web Service Call using Soap UI.
• Extensively used XML Spy to test SOAP and web services based applications.
• Worked extensively with XML data and SOAP protocols in Non UI Web services (SOA) Testing.
• Checked Cognos reports for performance issue and suggested developer.
• Responsible for setting up monitors to monitor network activities and bottlenecks.
• Installed SiteScope, and configured monitors for analysis.
• Used SiteScope to get metrics from servers.
• Analyzed results for Bottlenecks and made recommendations for the bottlenecks.
• This project is one of the Confidential ’s Successful implementation of Usecase based Agile and SCRUM methodology involving geographically distributed teams.

Confidential, Portland, OR

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business and Technical requirements by interacting with business users and Developed Test plan and Test strategy for Functional and Performance testing of each phase of the application.
• Participated in design, Use case reviews and quality inspection for each release.
• Formulate test scenarios based on business requirements.
• Create Requirements using Quality Center and generate Traceability Matrices to ensure that all the requirements are covered by the test cases
• Involved in defect tracking and customized reports on defects using Quality Center.
• Execution of test cases, verification the actual results against the expected and documenting in the test plan.
• Developed the Actions and Re-Usable Actions and Recovery Scenarios Using QTP.
• Validated the application against the expected results by inserting Database, Bitmap and GUI checkpoints.
• Performed testing of various shell scripts used to monitor availability and errors for application Server, Database and Web server.
• Using the CA IntroScope ver 9 monitor the Web transaction usage and performance summaries, Transaction tracing at the component level and identified the slow SQLs
• Used CA IntroScope to configure Alerts and notifications
• Performance testing was done by conducting, load testing using LoadRunner to simulate the load generated by hundreds of users to achieve optimum performance.
• Created scripts Using Load Runner Virtual User generator. Parameterized Unique and dynamic content in the application scripts for real time emulation. Data was queried from Data base and input data for data driven tests were kept in excel files.
• Designed scenarios and used LoadRunner Controller to monitor all Vusers in a scenario from a single workstation.
• Analyzed results using Load Runner Analysis tool and analyzed Oracle data base connections, Sessions, Web Sphere log files. Issues relating to Indexes, Connection Pools and Garbage collections, Memory heap size etc and bottlenecks were identified and rectified by changing configurations, adding Indexes etc.
• Use Site scope as a monitoring machine to monitor the behavior of the Data Base server, Load Runner controller and Load Runner Generator.
• Performed IP Spoofing using LoadRunner for the load balancing issues.
• Inserted Transaction Points and Rendezvous Points to measure the performance of the application.
• Prepared the Analysis Report for different tests Performed using different scenarios.

Confidential, Portland, OR

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted QA Manager in coordinating/leading the testing efforts.
• Gathered business requirement, studied the application and collected the information from Analysts.
• Created LoadRunner Scenarios and Scheduled the Virtual user to generate realistic load on the server using LoadRunner.
• Created and implemented Performance tests using Mercury Interactive LoadRunner.
• Involved in developing the Test Plan Strategy, build the test client and test environment.
• Enhancing the scripts using Generator and performed Parameterization and Correlation to meet the requirements.
• Written Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Test Scripts to follow the CMM Level 2 standards.
• As an Automation Engineer carried out testing, to check whether the application is functioning as per the design documentation and functional requirements.
• Involved in performing load and stress test on the application and server by configuring LoadRunner to simulate hundreds of virtual users and provided key metrics to the manage ment.
• Configured and used SiteScope Performance Monitor to monitor and analyze the performance of the server by generating various reports from CPU utilization, Memory Usage to load average etc.
• Conducted all tests in the Controller by creating 100, 200, 400 virtual users for load, stress and steady state test respectively.
• Performed Data Driven and Security Testing.
• Involved in conducting stress tests and volume tests against the application using LoadRunner.
• Helped resident DBAs identify and resolve bottlenecks.
• Written & executed UNIX Shell scripts to see the output.
• Used Test Director to invoke the scripts and initially performed the baseline testing and organized all the scripts systematically and generated reports.
• Extensively used Test Director for test planning, maintain test cases and test scripts for test execution as well as bug reporting.
• Involved in defect tracking, reporting and coordination with various groups from initial finding of defects to final resolution.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented performance test frameworks for improving test efficiency.
• Coordinated with legacy team to schedule batch jobs using BMC Control-M.
• Extensive advanced programming of LoadRunner VuGen scripts for dynamic navigation.
• Creating the Test Scenarios, executing and generating reports using LoadRunner 8.1.
• Performance Testing, Load testing, stress testing and soak testing of the application.
• Installed, customized and administered Performance Center, LoadRunner and QTP. Troubleshoot issues encountered, evaluate and perform upgrades of the tools in the Mercury suite.
• Leveraging my experience in functional testing using QTP and building automation solutions using Quality center.
• Involved in preparation of Automation plan and framework and lead the effort to enhance and extend automation framework to products tested manually.
• Configured Application Performance Analyzer for monitoring system resources and activity.
• Used SiteScope to monitor server metrics.
• Work closely with software developers and take an active role in ensuring that the software components meet the highest quality standards.
• Provide support to the development team in identifying real world use cases and appropriate workflows
• Involved in LR scripting and performance testing along with teams from IBM and SAIC creating a complete platform for performance testing.
• Worked as an independent consultant for performance testing and coordinated with multiple vendors.