SUMMARY:

• Versatile Performance Test Engineer with over 12 years of performance testing & engineering experience. Extensive experience in load, capacity and scalability analysis of Servers/ Applications/Databases and its infrastucture.Coupled with exceptional communication skills, I excel at providing expert solutions to complex problems, interfacing with the customer, taking initiatives to automating processes and implementing best practices in a project. Expert troubleshooter for short - and long-term system issues and malfunctions.
• 12+ years of extensive and diversified experience in IT specialized in Performance testing and analysis of Client/Server, Distributed and Web based Applications.
• Proficient in analyzing Business Requirements, Design documents (LDD/HDD), Non Functional Requirements (NFR) to formulate Test Plans, Test Strategies, Test design and Test Scenarios.
• Excellent skills in creating standardized set of performance test requirement/report templates
• Expertise in Planning, scheduling and setting up environment for performance testing.
• Solid experience in installation, configuration and customization of Wily Introscope/ Dynatrace/Sitescope/Loadrunner/JMETER/OPNET/MS VSTS/Performance Center
• Expertise in developing harness application in .NET for performance testing.
• Extensive experience in creating Vuser scripts with HTTP-HTML/.NET/ JAVA/RDP/ ODBC /CITRIX/Trueclient & Webservices protocols using HP VUGEN.
• Experience in script development and load testing for web/web services using JMETER
• Well versed in script enhancement using custom functions (C/.NET/Java/JavaScript), correlation & parameterization.
• Extensively involved in Baseline, Peak, Scalability, Stress, Endurance, fail over testing and performance analysis of servers, applications & Databases.
• Expertise in creating Jenkins CI build jobs to automate load testing and performance analysis using plugins and PowerShell scripting
• Expertise in Detailed performance analysis of J2EE/.NET applications, Oracle/SQL DB and its infrastructure using Wily Introscope, OPNET, Dynatrace, Mercury BAC, Sitescope, Precise, Spotlight/Foglight, Stats pack/AWR, BMC patrol.
• Highly experienced in analyzing, interpreting and summarizing performance statistics from Load testing/Monitoring tools and preparing automated detailed analysis report with recommendations to improve performance
• Proficient in J2EE/.NET application profiling using Jprobe/ANTS profilers and find out memory leak/CPU intensive code & problematic classes/methods
• Experience in Bug Reporting, Tracking and Documentation using Test Director/Quality Center/JAMA/TFS.
• Strong working Knowledge in Oracle Database Administration and PLSQL development.
• Expertise in writing VB/WMI//Unix Shell/Perl scripts to automate performance statistics collection.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• HP Performance Center
• HP Loadrunner
• MSVS Loadtest
• QALoad
• RPT
• Silk performer
• JMeter
• CA Wily Introscope
• OPNET
• Dynatrace
• BMC Patrol
• Orion
• Biztalk 360
• HP perf manager
• Mercury BAC
• HP SiteScope
• Keynote
• IBM Perf Navigator
• SPLUNK
• HP Quality Center
• Test Director
• JAMA
• C/C++
• .NET(C#)
• JAVA
• VB
• PL/SQL
• Shell/PERL/WMI
• Apache Tomcat
• Oracle WebLogic
• IBM WebSphere/MQ
• Microsoft IIS
• JBoss
• IBM iSeries
• AIX/HP-UX/Linux/UNIX
• Solaris
• Windows
• Oracle
• MS SQL Server
• DB2
• MS Access
• Sybase

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Lead Performance Test Engineer

Confidential, Vernon Hills, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Create a standardized set of performance testing requirements/report templates
• Install/configure Performance center/Sitescope/Dynatrace and its components
• Analyze Business Requirements, Design documents to formulate Test Plans, Test Strategies and Test Scenarios
• Work with the project team to identify deliverables, success criteria and SLA
• Developed VuGen scripts (HTTP/HTML, .Net, Web service, Truclient, Citrix) and enhanced for performance test automation
• Script development and load testing for web/web services using JMETER
• Create Jenkins CI build jobs to automate load testing and performance analysis using plugins and PowerShell scripting
• Work with members of the development, infrastructure and database teams to determine essential performance counters to capture and set up hardware and software monitoring across all tiers using Dynatrace/Sitescope
• Create custom sensors/dashboards, install/configure plugins, configure web server/UEM monitor in Dynatrace
• Execution of Baseline, Load, Stress, endurance and Capacity planning testing with Loadrunner/Performance center.
• Analysis of performance results from PC and dynatrace to find out root cause for performance degradation and work with developers to improve performance
• Report automation to get the data from Loadrunner results into excel
• Bug Reporting, Tracking and Documentation using Quality Center

Environment: /Tools: .NET, MSSQL, ALM Performance Center 12/12.53, IBM AS/400, Sitescope, DevExpress, MS visual Studio, Dynatrace, SOAPUI, Web services, REST.

Lead Performance Test Engineer

Confidential, Libertyville, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Installed/configured Loadrunner,MSVS loadtest controller/agents, OPNET and its components
• Analyzed Business Requirements, Design documents to formulate Test Plans, Test Strategies and Test Scenarios
• Worked with the project team to identify deliverables, success criteria and service level agreements
• Developed test harness application including data preparation automation tool to test WCF services using MSVS load test.
• Developed VuGen scripts (HTTP/HTML, .Net, Web service) for web services and web application and enhanced for performance testing
• Created performance monitor profiles for all tiers(Web service, DB, BizTalk, IIS/CLR) using OPNET/Sitescope/Perfmon/Foglight.
• Execution of Baseline, Peak, Scalability, Stress, Endurance, Fail over testing with MSVS load test/load runner
• Developed automated report with Pivot table/Chart which collect data from test results

Performance Test Engineer

Confidential, Vernon Hills, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Installed/configured Performance center/Loadrunner/Sitescope/Dynatrace and its components
• Analyzed Business Requirements, Design documents to formulate Test Plans, Test Strategies and Test Scenarios
• Worked with the project team to identify deliverables, success criteria and SLA
• Developed test harness application to test SPS(.net) windows application
• Developed VuGen scripts (HTTP/HTML, .Net, Web service, AJAX,Citrix, RDP) and enhanced for performance test automation
• Worked with members of the development, infrastructure and database teams to determine essential performance counters to capture and set up hardware and software monitoring across all tiers using Dynatrace/Sitescope
• Integrated Loadrunner with Dynatrace and capture detailed statistics from Dynatrace during load testing
• Execution of Baseline, Load, Stress, endurance and Capacity planning testing with Loadrunner/Performance center.
• Using the Analysis tool, developed a reporting template to disseminate results in a format that bridged the gap between technical and business team members. The results were used to identify tuning opportunities residing in the application code, infrastructure and database.
• Involved in Profiling .Net application using ANTS profiler to find out memory leak, CPU intensive method/code & problematic classes/methods
• Bug Reporting, Tracking and Documentation using Quality Center

Environment: /Tools: .NET, MSSQL, Loadrunner 11.5/12, ALM Performance Center 12/12.2, IBM AS/400, Sitescope, DevExpress, MS visual Studio, Dynatrace, SOAPUI, Web services, WCF/WPF.

Lead Performance Analyst

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Developed an understanding of both the current and new system architectures and environment sizes
• Analyzed Nonfunctional requirements, design documents and prepared Test plan & Test strategy documents.
• Configured required performance metrics in Sitescope as well as load runner native monitor
• Developed VuGen scripts (HTTP/HTML, java, Web service, Citrix), correlated all dynamic values, parameterized required input data and enhanced the script with transactions, Validation and custom functions.
• Configured performance test Scenarios and executed Load, Performance, Stress, failover & long duration testing.
• Gathered performance test results from Loadrunner and performance statistics from Wily Introscope, Sitescope for analysis.
• Analyzed performance test statistics from application, system & database and performed root cause analysis for transactions with performance issue
• Prepared Performance analysis report with root cause analysis and recommendations to improve performance and work with developers to remediate performance issues.
• Installed Wily Epagent to monitor system resources and configure in Windows & UNIX environments (IA, Legacy, PNET3, PNETG and PNET4).
• Installed and configured .Net and Java agents to monitor .NET and J2EE applications and app servers.
• Installed and configured MOM and collector EM’s on all different environments
• Installed and configured Wily SPM to monitor web services in .NET and J2EE
• Configured field packs for excel integration, baseline comparison, GCWatch, GCmonitor, custom email and HP load runner integration.
• Administration of Wily Introscope components and Wily users
• Installed and configured power packs to monitor web servers (IIS/Apache), WebLogic server.
• Involved in PBD file creation for custom classes/methods and PBD file deployment in all required servers
• Install and configure WebSphere MQ agent and Java connector to monitor MQ calls (Queue manager, Queues, Channels) and find out issues with MQ server/interface.
• Created management modules required to consolidate group of metrics for performance analysis.
• Created dashboards which show server health, JVM health and J2EE/.NET application components performance which helps in root cause analysis.
• Created custom plug-ins using VB/WMI script to monitor IIS server, log files, SQL server stats.
• Developed custom plug-in using shell/Perl scripts to monitor JVM, log files, batch jobs, Bobj services, Network interface throughput, Server & DB listener connectivity.
• Analyzed heap dumps to find out class/method responsible for memory leak and trace transaction having high response time to find component causing high response time.
• Proficient with Jprobe to analyze root cause for memory leak and high response time.
• Developed keynote scripts for business critical transactions, setup alerts based on SLA and scheduled the transactions through keynote agents.
• Trained prod support, infra and development team on diagnosis/root cause analysis of performance issues using Wily

Environment: /Tools: .NET,J2EE,Websphere/MQ,Weblogic,Oracle, MS SQL, Datapower, Wily Introscope, Keynote, SOAPUI, Sitescope, HP Loadrunner,, Windows/Solaris/IBM AIX, Quality Center.

Lead Performance Analyst

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Nonfunctional requirements & design documents and prepared Test plan
• Developed Vuser Scripts(HTTP/HTML,Webservices) using VuGen for all identified business processes.
• Correlated all dynamic values, parameterized required input data and enhanced the script with transactions, validation and custom functions.
• Built test scenarios which based on workload modeling to determine how scripts are executed
• Executed Load, Performance, Stress, failover & long duration testing in Performance center.
• Installed and configured sitescope for performance monitoring.
• Installed and configured Wily Introscope EM, agents and power packs.
• Involved in PBD file creation for custom classes/methods and PBD file deployment in all required servers
• Created Management modules and dashboards for root cause analysis and performance analysis report
• Gathered performance test results from Loadrunner and performance statistics from OS monitoring tools, Wily Introscope, BMC Patrol, Sitescope and Precise for analysis.
• Analyzed performance test statistics from application, system & database and perform root cause analysis for transactions with performance issue
• Prepared runtime and detailed analysis report with root cause analysis and recommendations to improve performance and work with developers to remediate performance issues.
• Created Vuser scripts for BPM to emulate synthetic transactions and measure availability & performance of business critical transactions
• Captured network traffic and analyzed network issues using wireshark.
• Involved in finding root cause for memory leak and high response time using Jprobe.
• Converted Perl and Shell scripts into Oracle stored procedures for canary analysis
• Created shell scripts to automate the Tuxedo services and Q utilization statistics collection process.
• Installed Oracle 10g Server software & created database for Analytics application.
• Created required table spaces, users, roles, tables, indexes, views, triggers and administration of Oracle database.
• Created stored procedures to automate the data import, data manipulation & performance analysis for Analytics.
• Created macro for Analytics to consolidate data from Introscope into required destination table format

Environment: /Tools: J2EE, Websphere, Jboss, Oracle, Tuxedo, LoadRunner, Sitescope, QC, Wily Introscope, Mercury BAC, BMC Patrol, Precise, Wireshark, Eclipse (BIRT), Windows/HPUX/IBM AIX.

Performance Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Nonfunctional requirements & design documents and prepares Test plan
• Design performance scenarios and develop QALoad/Loadrunner scripts(HTTP/HTML,Webservices) for identified scenarios.
• Correlation and parameterization for multi user emulation.
• Enhance scripts with validation and custom functions.
• Install and configure Wily Introscope EM, agents and deployment of PBD files
• Create Management modules and dashboards for root cause analysis and performance analysis report
• Schedule performance test scenarios according to workload profile and execute Load, Performance, Stress & volume tests.
• Gather performance test results from QALoad and performance statistics from Wily Introscope for analysis.
• Analyze performance test statistics from application, system & database and perform root cause analysis for transactions with performance issue
• Prepare performance analysis report and work with developers to remediate performance issues.
• Bug Reporting, Tracking and Documentation using Test Director

Environment: /Tools: HP Loadrunner, Sitescope,J2EE, Wily Introscope, Web logic, MS SQL server 2005, Microsoft .Net, UNIX, QALoad, RDP&VOD Bashers, Test Director