OBJECTIVE:

Performance Engineer with 6+ years of IT experience with major focus in Performance Testing and Engineering. Holds strong knowledge on Performance Testing life cycle. Expert in Design Analysis and identifying performance risks, analyzing production statistics, system architecture, workload modeling, non - functional requirement, Performance monitoring & Tuning and Report Crafting. A true Team Leader; to work with and as a part of dynamic team; to handle highly strategic challenges; & seeing challenging position to build and lead productive teams and exceed organizations objectives.

SUMMARY:

• Extensive knowledge on Performance Testing process, effort estimation, Creating Test strategy & Plan, Scheduling and Execution. Playing a vital role in moving the performance testing process to the left of SDLC and ensure early detection of performance defects
• Strong hands on experience in Performance monitoring \ tuning Apache Tomcat and IBM WebSphere servers
• Strong hands on experience in Performance Test scripting and Execution using HP LoadRunner & JMeter
• Possess excellent knowledge on APM tools like HP Diagnostics, Hyperic and a Certified SPLUNK User. Expert in designing performance workload models, creating performance budgets and analyzing server performance metrics
• Successfully managed several concurrent projects and priorities, performing design analysis, Identifying Critical risks, meeting deadlines and ensuring zero performance defects
• Embrace effective communication, presentation, analytical and problem-solving skills. Holds good leadership qualification combined with outstanding team building skills. Background in delegating a team effectively and motivating to achieve on time delivery
• A result-oriented professional with excellent communication, leadership, team management, client relationship management, analytical and co-ordination skills. Comfort in interacting with customers and across hierarchical levels in the organization for smooth execution & completion

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• HP VuGen, Analysis & Performance Center (LoadRunner)
• Apache JMeter, SOAP UI
• HP Diagnostics,
• SPLUNK
• HTTP Watch
• Performance Monitoring & Tuning
• Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere
• Performance & Continuous Integration
• Agile & Scrum Methodology
• HP Service Manager
• IBM Service Virtualization
• Jenkins
• Salesforce
• TestLink and TRAC
• SQL, SOQL
• Strategic & Tactical Planning
• Problem Solving
• Resource Management
• Team building & Leadership
• Training Development
• Technical Training

EXPERIENCE:

PeRFORMANCE ENGINEER

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Responsibilities:

• Interact with project to identify performance requirements, business volume metrics and define performance test strategy
• Document Performance Risks and mitigation plan
• Develop robust benchmark workloads using current production traffic patterns and anticipated future growth
• Create/review Test plan and Strategy document for overall release
• Setting up tools, test infrastructure and environment Performance testing
• Develop HP LoadRunner/JMeter Test Scripts based on performance test scenarios identified
• Execute iterative performance test using HP Performance Center, JMeter or SOAP UI
• Monitor app server performance using APM tools like HP Diagnostics, SPLUNK, HYPERIC, Grafana
• Identify Performance bottlenecks, root cause analysis, tuning recommendations on web and server-side applications
• Analyze Heap Utilization/Garbage Collection statistics, CPU, Memory, thread pool utilization for WebSphere and Tomcat servers
• Setup automated monitoring alerts in Production environment using tools HP Diagnostics and SPLUNK
• Recommend appropriate profile size for production servers based on the performance test results and business volume metrics
• Data Extraction and charting infrastructure application performance metrics, logs and reports
• Experienced in measuring application UI performance using tools like HTTP Watch and Fiddler
• Experienced in performing Closed Loop Validation for Production Environment
• Experienced in testing IBM MQ Series, Stored Procedures and JDBC calls
• Actively collaborate with external vendors to endure their systems meets the performance objectives and organizational objectives
• Identified and tested nonfunctional test requirements like Availability, Reliability, Accessibility, Security/Privacy & Supportability
• Experienced in performance testing Salesforce and its workbench tool
• Implemented Performance Continuous delivery using Jenkins build process with JMeter integration
• Reduced Performance Testing Cycle from 40 hours to 12 hours using pipeline deployment and testing
• Implemented automated Early performance testing in the development environment for early detection performance degradation
• Pioneered Proof of Concept on new tools that could leverage existing functional test scripts to conduct early performance testing

PERFORMANCE ENGINEER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Create Performance testing estimation for Results Based Work Order
• Create Test plan, strategy document and finalize test scenarios with overall integration approach
• Setting up tools, test infrastructure and environment Performance testing
• Develop Test scripts using HP LoadRunner and JMeter
• Expert in protocols like HTTP/HTML, Web services, TruClient & Java
• Execute load, stress, step and endurance test using HP Performance, JMeter
• Data extraction and charting of Performance metrics like Transaction per second, CPU & memory utilization, Thread pool utilization
• Monitor and analyze performance of application servers using HP Diagnostics and SPLUNK
• Deep dive analysis on performance bottleneck, recommend tuning and regression testing
• Tracking and following up issues using TRAC, HP Service Manager
• Preparing Test Summary report, final profile recommendation for Production servers
• Coordinate Performance testing & Engineering activities with on-shore development/Implementation teams

PERFORMANCE Test Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in migration of Performance test scripts & execution from Silk Performer to LoadRunner
• Responsible for completing performance test for multiple “Statements of Work” under CCDS
• Setup test IDs, Load generators, Scripts in HP Performance Center for 32,000 user loads in Production Environment
• Executing daily health checks in production environment and reporting it to Directors and Stake holders on daily basis
• Coordinating and driving the daily production validation from offshore which involves various other supporting teams at onsite
• Identify production performance issues, deep dive analysis on root cause, emergency deployment of production fix
• Tracking and driving performance defect to completion using in HP Service Manager and TRAC
• Identify possible design glitches that could cause significant performance impacts by closely collaborating with Application and Technical Architects
• Document Business Volume Metrics based on discussions with Business Analyst and Application architects. Use HP Diagnostics & Splunk tool to capture production volumes for existing systems
• Develop GUI Test Scripts using HP LoadRunner and setup data for execution
• Execute Load, Stress, Step and Endurance Test,
• Monitor and analyze latency, Thread pool connection using VMware, CPU, Memory Utilization, Heap Analysis using SPLUNK, HP Diagnostics and HYPERIC
• Generate Test Summary report, recommendations for Production servers and Closed Loop Validation on Production Environment