CAREER OVERVIEW:

Performance test lead with 11+ Years of IT experience. Experience includes performance testing, performance monitoring & Performance engineering. A good team player with excellent communication skill and has an ability to work in a team, lead the team and in an individual environment

SUMMARY:

• Extensive experience in Performance testing methodologies and has worked in all phases including Requirements Analysis, Test Strategy & Planning, Test Design & Execution, Monitoring, Result Analysis & Reporting, Identifying Performance Bottlenecks
• Expertise in using state - of-the-art performance testing tools like Load runner, Performance Center ALM, Apache JMeter, NeoLoad & Site Scope
• Having good experience in developing the scripts, build scenarios, execute scenarios, monitoring the servers and analyzing the results
• Experience in finding out weakest links in application using JConsole, Visual VM & JProfiler
• Strong experience in analyzing the test results to identify potential bottlenecks
• Analyze heap dumps, thread dumps, connection pools and GC Logs to identify performance issues
• Auditing the load test environment which includes setting and tuning JVM parameters
• Provide and validate solutions for performance bottlenecks and suggest best practices and recommendations
• Expertise in giving Recommendations to the development team to resolve performance issues
• Responsible for preparing / maintaining project metrics, performance & status reports
• Independently execute the projects form Initial stage to till project closure
• Having good Knowledge of quality standards like ISO/CMM Levels
• Involved in QA Tools Administration, which includes Quality Center, Performance Center, Site Scope and QTP Systems administration
• Strengths include Self-confidence, Good Communication Skills, Dedication and Leadership Abilities, Teamwork and Motivation.
• Organized, attention to detail, multi-focused and ability to meet project milestones and deliverable dates
• Accurately produce regular project status reports to senior management to ensure on-time project release

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

HP Performance Testing Tools: Load Runner - 8.1/9.0/ 9.1/9.5/11.0 , 11.5,12, Performance Center - 9.1/9.5/11.0 /12 (ALM), BAC - 7.51, Site scope and Quality Center 9.5, 10.0, 11.0 (ALM)

Other Performance Testing Tools: IBM RPT, Apache JMeter, NeoLoad

Protocols: Web (HTTP/HTML), Web (Click & Script), Oracle NCA, SAP Web, Citrix ICA

Applications Types: Web, SAP, SAP Web, Citrix, Oracle Apps

Monitoring & Profiling Tools: Site Scope, Visual VM, JConsole, JProfiler, Windows Perfmon, Unix/Linux commands.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Tool: (s) Used: Performance Center ALM, Load Runner

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Work with business analysts and product architects to review requirements and identify areas of risks to the performance
• Understand architectural design patterns and their implementations
• Design realistic workload scenarios based on the production volumes
• Conduct the load tests and analyze the test results to identify potential bottlenecks
• Conduct deep dive performance analysis on all layers of application stack
• Provide necessary tuning recommendations for performance improvement

Confidential

Tool: (s) used: Neotys NeoLoad, JVisualVM

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate meetings with the development teams / technical architects to understand the application architecture
• Work with technical architects & Dev team to setup the performance test environment for testing
• Gather requirements and develop performance test plan
• Execute load tests and deliver the test results to the stakeholders
• Provide necessary tuning recommendations for performance improvement

Confidential

Tool: Radview Webload, JVisualVM, JProfiler

Performance Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gather Performance test requirements and develop Performance test Plan & Strategy
• Analyze non-functional requirements from the Business Technology teams and convert them into workload for performance testing
• In depth monitoring of services and system resources using JProfiler
• Develop and present a test report correlating poor performance to bottlenecks, and provide recommendations for improvements

Confidential

Tool: HP Load runner, Site Scope

Performance Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interact with respective stakeholders to understand the requirements
• Develop performance test plan document based on the gathered requirements
• Designed realistic workload scenarios based on the production volumes
• Execute load tests and deliver the test results to the stakeholders
• Responsible for performance monitoring, identification of performance issues / bottlenecks and providing infrastructure tuning tips
• Estimating and mitigating technical risks and provide quick resolutions to post go-live and production issues
• Analyze the test results and present the report with recommendations for performance improvement

Confidential

Tool: (s) Used: Apache JMeter, Visual VM, JProfiler

Responsibilities:

• Communicate with Technical architects/clients/Development teams to understand the architecture, SUT (System under Test) and gather Non-Functional requirements
• Determine performance test environment requirements
• Develop performance test plan & strategy document
• Develop performance test scripts using JMeter
• Designed realistic workload scenarios based on the production volumes
• Analyze Application Server Metrics & AWR Reports
• Isolating performance bottlenecks and helped in increasing performance of the application
• Analyze the performance test results to identify bottlenecks and provide appropriate feedback

Confidential

Tool: (s) Used: HP PerformanceCenter9.5 / 11.0 (ALM), Quality Center 11.0 (ALM), Site Scope.

Responsibilities:

• Installing, maintaining and administering Load Runner / Performance Center tools
• Develop performance test plan document
• Defining performance, load, regression and mobile application test objectives, strategies, and standards
• Develop and enhance the scripts using vugen
• Design and execute the load test scenarios
• Configure Site Scope to monitor the servers and analyze the performance of the application by generating various reports
• Analyze performance issues and provide necessary tuning recommendations for performance improvement
• Execute performance testing and performance monitoring projects
• Develop scripts to execute various tests using Load Runner, Performance Center and implement monitoring projects using HP Business Availability Center
• Analyze performance metrics gathered using Site Scope to identify bottlenecks
• Responsible for determining and managing the work of other QA representatives
• Provide training and mentor the junior members of the team for best practices