SUMMARY:

• Enthusiastic and detail - oriented Lead Performance Engineer specializing in Test Automation and supporting software products & applications. Self-motivated individual works well with customers, co-workers and all levels of management
• Over 14 years of multifaceted experience in S/W Industry in the area of Performance Testingand Engineering, Verification and Validation and ISO-9001 Quality Management System, Coding and Analysis
• Worked in various roles as Tech Lead and Performance Test Lead, Sr. Quality Analyst, Sr. Lead Consultant and Managing team (Offshore and Onshore model)
• Varied experience in various roles of Performance Testing and Engineering of around 8+ years, Verification and Validation testing of around 4+ years, Programmer and Quality Management System
• Experience in E2E testing/co-ordination in multiplatform environments and enterprise level applications
• A Certified Internal Quality Auditor. Performed internal quality auditions. Involved in Quality Processes of ISO 9001:2000 QMS.
• Expertise in NFR scope identification and creating Workload Model, Environment setup and setting up performance goals
• Performance testing experience includes Benchmark, Load, Regression, Stress, Capacity, Scalability, Soak, Failover, Breakpoint Testing and Availability
• Very Good exposure in Telecom, e-commerce, Manufacturing, Retail, Health and Banking domains
• Testing Experience of various technologies and applications like J2EE, .Net, Mainframes, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Siebel CRM, SAP CRM, SAP ECC, MS Outlook, etc.,.
• Worked extensively on HP LoadRunner 9.2/9.5/11.04/11.5 using different protocols like Web Http/Html,Web Click and Script, Web Services, Ajax, Citrix, Ajax True client, SAP (GUI, Web, and Click & Script), Siebel, SMTP, MAPI, LDAP, Database and other web technologies
• Good working knowledge of JMeter, SOA, MQ and cloud based testing
• Specialization in performance testing and engineering of PeopleSoft, Siebel, and SAP implementations
• Expertise in Heap Dump, Thread Dump and GC analysis
• Experience with performance monitoring tools like CA Wily Introscope, JProbe, JConsole, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Perfmon, PAL, ATG Dynamo, Dynatrace,etc,.
• Experience in monitoring and analyzing performance metrics of Load Balancing servers, Web Servers and Application Servers such as Confidential IIS, Web logic and Database Servers Such as SQL and Oracle Servers, Windows, UNIX/Linux & Solaris Servers during Performance Testing
• Expertise in using Unix/Linux & Solaris Utility tools in collecting various stats like iostats, netstats, CPU, Memory, process, processor, paging file, system, faults, disk,etc,.
• Benchmark the application performance SLAs and highlight opportunities for performance improvement and process
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Software Test Lifecycle (STLC) and performance test lifecycle (PTLC)
• Experience in resilience testing for web applications
• The above experience includes experience in managing a team and responsible for coordination with various stakeholders, involved in client communication and direct reporting to client and responsible for project deliverables
• Expertise in Project Management Activities including preparing the proposals, efforts & resource estimations testing projects
• Communicating and working with different teams like Application Developers, Product Specialists, Systems Engineers, DBA’s, Network Engineers, System Administrators and Capacity Management team in understand Performance Objectives, Volumetric, setting up Performance Goals and Define SLAs.
• Expertise in preparing Quality Procedures & Processes for Certification, Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Data, Analytical Reports and Test Approach
• Expertise includes different phases of testing like Integration, System, Regression, Database, GUI, Localization, Documentation Testing, and Performance Testing besides Functional Testing
• Expertise in performance testing and performance analysis for different web applications and identifying bottleneck issues and providing recommendations for Code Optimization and Platform Tuning
• Good experience in Assertive Communication with the clients, management, and different internal and external teams
• Expertise in functional testing and test results analysis for different web, standalone, and database applications and identifying issues, raising defects, preparing bug reports and closing defects after they are fixed and preparing Traceability Matrix. Generating reports using MS Office, LR Analysis, and Dynatrace Reports
• Experience in different testing methodologies like Iterative model, Waterfall model, Agile methodology, V&V model, etc.
• Conversant with all phases of Project Life Cycle including Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Implementation of Quality Software
• Quick Learner and adapt to the new tools and technologies and evaluate their test applicability.
• Ability to work collaboratively with team members to achieve common goals, while maintaining responsibilities and commitments
• Ability to communicate clearlyand work independently to understand the application, Creating Test Plan&Strategy, IdentifyingKey Business Processes in the application, Preparing the Call Flows and do performance testing of the application
• Assisting and mentoring the team in the execution of test strategy/plan, recording, test execution and reporting outcomes.
• Provides authoritative advice to team members in preparation of scripts, test data, test scenarios, test results analysis and test reports
• Distribution of test effort, supervising the progress and evaluating team members and responsible for weekly & daily status update reports.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Unix/Linux, Solaris and Windows.

Languages & ERPs: Java, JSP, VB, C, C++, PL/SQL, Html, Dhtml. Mainframes, PeopleSoft, TIBCO BE/BW/AS, SAP BW/BI/Hanna/CRM/ERP/ADT/RTOM/ECC/OER, Oracle Suit, GoldenGate, Ericsson, OMNI/OMS, Vesta Payment Gateway, FirstData, JPayment, APIGEE, Samson, and Sentry, BMC RemedyCare9.

Servers: Java Web Server, Web Logic, JBoss, Apache & Tomcat, and IIS Server, ZXTM, SiteMinder, Load balancers, Cloud Servers/AWS.

Testing Tools: HP LoadRunner, HP Performance Center & Quality Center, JMeter, MS LoadGen, Soasta, Keynote, SoapUI&LoadUI.

Monitoring Tools: CA Wily Introscope, Dynatrace,AppDynamics,SiteCatalyst, UCPS, Oracle Enterprise Manager, PAL, Perfmon, Keynote, Tealeaf, HP Site Scope, AWR Reports, Splunk, ExtraHop, Wire Shark, Server Utility tools, JProfiler, JConsole, JProbe, Unix, Solaris, TDA, HDA. GC Viewer.

Databases & Tools: MS SQL, Oracle, MS Access, Toad.

Domains: Telecom, Banking, Retail, Health Care, e-Commerce

Other Tools: Visual Source Safe, Star Team.

WORK HISTORY:

Confidential, GA

Systems Architect Performance Engineer

Environment: Tibco BE/BW/AS, Oracle Suite, Oracle Chub, SAP BW/BI/Hanna/CRM/ERP/ADT/RTOM/ECC/OER, Hadoop, Ericsson, OMNI/OMS, Vesta Payment Gateway, Oracle GoldenGate, Paymentech, FirstData, JPayment, APIGEE, Samson, and Sentry. BMC RemedyCare9.1

Tools: include: HP ALM, AppDynamics, CA Wily Introscope, HP Sitescope, ExtraHop, HP Performance Center 12.2, HP Quality Center, JMeter, Splunk, Wire Shark, SoapUI, Amazon Web Services, JProfiler, and JConsole.

Confidential, WA

Lead Consultant Performance Test Engineer

Environment: HP Load Runner 11.5 & 12.02, HP QC, Java, JSP, WebLogic, Unix/Linux & SunSolaris, Oracle, Private Cloud Services, AWS cloud, OSGI, Endeca, ATG Services, Akamai, Team Site, CSI, GCP, Dynatrace, ATG Dynamo, JProbe, JConsole, Keynote, &Soasta.

Confidential

Sr. Consultant - Performance Engineer

Environment: EMC- Documentum, Performance Center 9.52, Load Runner 9.52, HP Quality Center, MS Exchange 2010, Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Server, Windows 7.

Confidential

Sr. Consultant - Performance Engineer

Environment: MS LoadGen 2010, Performance Center 9.52, Load Runner 9.52, HP Quality Center, Perfmon and PAL tools, MS Exchange 2010, Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Server, Active directory, Enterprise Vault, Good for Enterprise.

Confidential, NJ

Sr. Consultant Performance Test Engineer

Environment: Windows, Linux, Apache, MS SQL, DayCQ, JBoss, HP Load Runner and Performance Center 11.0, HP QC, JMeter, LAMP, Akamai and Amazon Web Services

Confidential, TX

Lead Performance Test Engineer

Environment: HP Load Runner and Performance Center 11.0, HP QC, Java, Web Logic, Oracle, CSI, OMX, Akamai, ATG Services, CA Wily Introscope, Unix/Linux & Solaris.

Confidential

Tech Lead - Performance Test Engineer

Environment: PeopleSoft, HP Load Runner, UNIX, Weblogic, Oracle DB, JIRA, CA Wily Introscope

Confidential

Tech Lead - Performance Test Engineer

Environment: Windows 2003, CSF, MS SQL Server, Product Studio, Source Depot, Exchange Standard and Enterprise Edition, LCS Server, Visual Studio 2005, IIS Server, & .Net Framework

Confidential

Tech Lead - Performance Test Engineer

Environment: J2EE, Siebel, HP Load Runner 9.52, HP Quality Center, JMeter, SUN Solaris, Linux OS, Apache WebServers, ZXTM Loadbalancers, Site minder, Oracle DB, JIRA, CA Wily Introscope, UCPS, Site catalyst.

Confidential

Sr. Technical Associate

Environment: J2EE, Siebel, HP Load Runner 9.52, HP Quality Center, SUN Solaris, Apache, Linux OS, WebServers, ZXTM Loadbalancers, Site minder, Oracle 10g, JIRA, CA Wily Introscope, UCPS, Site catalyst.

Confidential

Technical Associate

Environment: Web Logic Portal, J2EE, Siebel, Oracle Meta Frame product (OSM, Objectel, ASAP), CA Wily Introscope, Solaris OS, Oracle DB 10g, Performance Center 9.52, Load Runner 9.52. HP QC.

Confidential

Technical Associate

Environment: J2EE, CRM, Web Logic Portal, Solaris, Oracle, Load runner 9.5, Performance Center 9.5, Quality Center, JIRA & QTP.

Responsibilities:

• Liaising with each project stake holders, Architect team, Dev and Design team, QA team and understanding business requirements/scope, business flows, technical details, platform and architecture of the application, objectives and setting up expectations and defining SLAs and test bed setup
• Analyze Non-Functional and Functional business requirements and assess feasibility of the test specifications for performance testing and functional testing by going through SAD, BRD, SRS, HLD, LLD documents and involved in scope meetings and understanding scope docs of all applications and creating test plan and test strategy for new requirements and changes in existing functionalities.
• Creating Workload model based on scaled down volumes of production in terms of use/transactions/page views and infrastructure
• Liaising with Production Engineering team to understand performance improvement areas.
• Setting up process for performance metrics collection and defining SLAs
• Detect bottlenecks to be tuned, root cause analysis of issues identified.
• To validate the application performance if within defined SLAs and highlight opportunities for performance improvement where required.
• Monitoring and analyzing platform performance metrics and Server side logs (Response times, CPU & Mem Utilization of servers, App Server and Web Server logs, Load Balancer logs, Corestats, VMstats, I/O Stats, Throughput, Queue length, Thread count, tasks/transactions/sec, Hits per sec, JVM Heap Memory, Garbage Collections, Disk I/O, processes, processor, paging file, system, Page faults, swap mem, connection pools, Network, Netstat, live connections, sessions, etc.), other server resources and infrastructure related issues introduced in these projectsduring testing.
• Assist the development team in determining the performance characteristics for various configuration options.
• Involved in preparing Detailed Test plan, User/Business stories, Test cases, Test data, test reports, test track report, risks & issue register and Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Involved in preparing new Load Runner scripts, MS LoadGen Scripts, JMeter Scripts, enhancing existing scripts,
• Enhancing the scripts by employing Manual/Automatic correlation, Parameterization Techniques, transactions and runtime settings for call flows and LR specific functions using LoadRunnerVuGen.
• Perform Sanity/Shakeout/Smoke test of all scenarios/user flows of all the applications before starting up with scripting to ensure the application under test and test environment is stable and all the scoped in flows are working as expected and all backend systems/downstream systems are connected and working fine with appropriate test data setup
• Preparing test schedule and ensure to follow the time lines and deliveries in time.
• Designing Load Runner scenarios in LR Controller/Performance Center, MS LoadGen Scenarios, JMeter Scenarios based on the Load Test proposed and workload model.
• Setting up monitoring metrics on all the servers like Web Servers, Weblogic/App Servers, Unix/Linux, Database, Load balancers, etc., using utility tools, cron jobs, JConsole and Dynatrace monitoring tool.
• Executing different types of Performance Tests with defined/derived user loads/transactional volumes captured from live/production over a period of time and business expected volumes over a period of time based on workload model. Types of performance tests include Benchmark, Standalone testing, Single user, Platform regression testing with normal and peak load, Endurance testing and Stress besides Paper Based Assessment.
• Analyzing the Application logs and Backend calls captured during testing by accessing Solaris/Unix/Linux/Windows Systems.
• Using profiling tools like JProbe, JConsole, etc., to analyze the memory and code/method level performance metrics
• Co-ordinate with the onshore and offshore teams and delegate tasks, transition on applications, requirements, application demos, scripting standards, etc., and ensure all the tasks assigned are completed.
• Reporting defects/issue to concerned teams through defect management tools like Quality Center, Test Director, JIRA, Bug Zilla, Ralley etc.
• Establish milestones, team objectives and delegate assignments/tasks.
• Validating test environment and ensure all the components and dependent systems are installed/connected and working fine with appropriate test data setup and ensure to create sufficient test data.
• Set standards and technique in scripting, data preparation and test reports and also preparing checklists for scripting, scenario design, creating user stories, monitoring, test report preparations, etc.
• Ensure all backend and downstream systems are connected, environment availability and all functionalities are working fine.
• Setting up and attending daily stand-up calls to update the progress on Performance and Functional testing activities to various stakeholders and highlight the issues if any in terms of application stability, test data availability, third party downstream systems connectivity, middleware applications and environment issues and availability.
• Acts as bridge with other teams to resolve any bottle necks in team members’ activities.
• Good experience in preparing daily status report about the status/progress of the work completed, issues, scheduling work a head, etc,.
• Good experience in preparing client specific daily and weekly progress reports of each work item and deliverables covering accomplishments, activities planned ahead, issues/risks identified, etc.,.
• Performing automated tests for regression suit by scripting the functional flows and updating the scripts where required using WinRunner and QTP
• Creating the Traceability Matrix to track the test case status and map defects
• Performing functional tests by executing functional test cases, system integration, regression and raising bugs for identified defects, analyzing the test results and bugs and preparing bug report, and bug tracking
• Following up with developers for fixing open defects and ensure to close once fixed after retesting.
• Analyzing test results and providing root cause analysis and identifying bottleneck issues, and recommendations if any.
• Monitoring user experience and application performance metrics on database, middleware layers, load balancers, downstream systems, and application and content management servers.
• Preparation of each Test Summary Reports and Final Test Completion Report.
• Provides authoritative advice to team members in preparation of scripts, test data, test reports, test track report, risks & issue register and test plan.
• Advise and ensure close monitoring of various layers like Load Balancer, Authentication server, Web, App, DB layers, and other downstream systems during performance testing
• Arrange Sign Off calls with all stakeholders for discussing performance test results analysis besides publishing MoM and follows up to resolve the open issues and providing sign-off.
• Determine if the application is ready for deployment to production and highlight risk areas if any.
• Gauge application performance when subjected to projected user and transaction load
• Ensure system is delivered within planned cost, timelines and resource budgets and project deliverables are signed off.
• As a programmer, involved in designing, coding and developing web applications and standalone applications using VB, Java, Oracle, IIS, Tomcat, and Apache web server,involved in code review and prepared check lists.
• Designed Flash objects, images for web sites and designing web pages using the cascading style sheets, Java Scripts, and Dhtml.
• Contribute to reviews and audits of project and program management to ensure conformance to standards.
• Evaluate project performance and recommends changes where necessary.