SUMMARY:

• With nearly 6 years of industry experience, have successfully led teams/ projects from initiation to delivery phase and performed roles including Performance Engineer/Lead, Technical Test Lead, Performance test consultant, Quality Engineering manager.
• Motivated, personable business professional with an excellent record of accurate, efficient project completion and ability to function effectively while managing a team of 4 - 8+ team members and multiple cross functional engagements.
• Comprehensive understanding of Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) as well as Performance Test Life Cycle.
• Proven track record to establish and drive performance engineering lifecycle, guidelines, best practices and adherence to these in feature delivery.
• Owned the overall project artifacts from preparing Business Proposals, Testing Strategy, Test Plan and estimates to conducting walkthroughs with senior/ex- level management.
• Strong advocate to identify any risks and come up with mitigation plans while working in a dynamic environment with many competing projects and priorities, thereby minimizing any schedule slippage
• Strong ability to understand and document critical data through effective data collection, data analysis and data interpretation.
• Responsible in developing and maintaining resource capacity plans to help determine resource constraints and work with management to alleviate bottlenecks in the projects.
• Involved in gathering business requirement, studying the application and collecting the information from developers and strategizing the programs.
• Expert in creating Production Usage Pattern Analysis from the Production Logs to generate Performance Load pattern and accurate capacity planning of the systems under test.
• Excellent proficiency with standard performance testing tools with deep knowledge of carrying out system performance investigations.
• Expertise and in depth knowledge in Java based systems and architecture with active involvement to isolate points of failure in the application with experience in identifying Memory Leak issue, Java Heap, Garbage collection issues, Load Balancing issues, configuration management & design issues.
• Experience with troubleshooting tools such as top, perfmon, wireshark, sar, fiddler
• Successfully implemented Service Virtualization and Continuous Integration Testing framework (Jenkins with HP Loadrunner, Apache Jmeter, Neotys Neoload and Splunk) for our customers.
• Functional understanding of data warehouse design Star and Snowflake schema, ETL and Business Intelligence tools.

MANAGEMENT SKILLS:

• Targeted towards improving the cost effectiveness and profitability of medium to large scale enterprises by effectively providing leadership for the alignment of business processes, user needs, and technology through industry best practices, innovative extensions, and enterprise specific methods.
• Strength in developing new business opportunities by defining performance-testing Proposals with Clients.
• Ability to manage multiple project tasks with changing priorities and tight deadlines and worked in multiple management levels on minimum supervision toward realizing targets.
• Time Management
• Quality Orientation
• Exceptional ability to build productive relationships with business users, test teams, development teams and clients across functional and technical disciplines and thus generating accurate and detailed business requirements.
• Interact with Development, production operations, infrastructure and other groups to present, isolate and resolve performance issues.
• Excellent communication, expediting and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Domain Knowledge: Banking, Telecom, Insurance

Operating System: Windows, UNIX, Linux

Testing Tool: HP Performance Center 11.52, HP Load Runner11x/9x/8x, Apache Jmeter, Neoload, SoapUI

Monitoring Tools: CA Wily Introscope, BMC Patrol, Splunk, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Jprofiler

Application Server/Middleware: Tomcat, WebSphere, MQ Series and WebLogic

Database: Oracle 11g/10g/9i, IBM DB2, SQL server

Network Virtualization Tool: Shunra s/w package

Programming/ Scripting Languages: C, C++, Java, Shell, SQL

Management Testing Tools: Test Director, Lotus notes, Quality Center, JIRA

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Performance Lead Engineer

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Assisted QA manager in coordinating/leading the testing efforts and provide an overall QA leadership for new and existing projects.
• Lead a team of up to 20-35 onsite/offshore resources to coordinate, manage and deliver Quality/performance testing & engineering solutions.
• Extended operational planning and production deployment support.
• Owned the engagements from end to end testing & engineering perspective starting with Planning and estimating the work orders to troubleshooting & fixing the bottlenecks with minimal assistance from Development partners
• Interfaced with all levels of domain and leadership, as well as clients at a senior level to demonstrate the testing practice and observations
• Create efficient performance test scripts using various tools including Neoload, Loadrunner, Jmeter and SOAPui to execute smoke/sanity tests, Load test, Stress test etc. and monitor server performance during load.
• Controlled & owned the testing environment single-handedly to implement Level1 Front end support on our Java based systems for tuning and troubleshooting responsibilities including Heap dump, thread dump & JVM analysis.
• Assist in explanation of results & other post-test initiatives and communicate/fix performance issues & risks in Confidential calls with project stakeholders and management team.

Quality Engineering Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Acting QA Manager leading the Quality engineering program for one of the Banking clients while delivering the Performance engineering services to their eCommerce business unit.
• Create and deliver load testing solutions, present performance proposals and generate business, project planning and execution, resource management, training & mentoring team.
• Gather non-functional requirements such as architectural design, user functionalities and perform tool feasibility, prepare Proof of Concept and Estimate effort for the project.
• Understand non-functional requirements and identify critical business flows for performance testing, defining workload models & user distribution, and create detailed performance test plan.
• Secure technical support for monitoring of infrastructure and to quality observations
• Assisted in setting up a service virtualization lab for all M/F and third party vendor requests to support the testing process.
• Create efficient performance test scripts, performance test setup, execute smoke/sanity tests, Load test, Stress test etc. and monitor server performance during load.
• Engrossed in performance testing post-test tasks - gather various reports and metrics from monitoring groups, packaging and reporting results to project teams. Assist in explanation of results & other post-test initiatives and communicate performance issues & risks in Confidential calls with project stakeholders and management team.