PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Having 6.3 years of experience in software industry in the area of performance testing with strong process orientation, manual testing skills, and very good experience on Automation testing. Have sound knowledge of all the testing concepts and methodologies with excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Extensive experience in preparing Performance Test strategies and test plans for testing of various protocols and Testing of Web Based Applications.
• Expertise in NFR scope identification and creating Workload Model and setting up performance goals.
• Good experience in preparing test cases to verify application functionality against business requirements and functional specification and involved in preparation of Test Plan.
• Conversant with all phases of Project Life Cycle including Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Implementation of Quality Software using different methodologies like Waterfall model and Agile.
• Good experience in end - to-end system testing of complex business systems, which involve integration of multiple applications, ensuring that the non functional requirements are studied, understood and captured for different releases.
• Worked extensively on HP LoadRunner 9.5/11/11.5/12 using different protocols like Web Http/Html, Web Services, Ajax True client (IE/FF), Siebel Web and JMS.
• Experience with Wily, Dynatrace, Keynote and Tealeaf performance monitoring tools.
• Experience in monitoring and analyzing performance metrics of Load Balancing servers, Web Servers and Application Servers such as Web logic and Database Servers Such as SQL and Oracle Servers, Windows, UNIX/Linux & Solaris Servers during Performance Testing.
• Experience in SOASTA Touch testing, Configuration and installation instrumented apps, recording scripts and execution of test and reporting.
• Performance testing experience includes Benchmark, Load, Regression, Stress, Capacity, Endurance, Failover, and Breakpoint Testing.
• Experience in Heap Dump, Thread Dump Analysis and GC analysis.
• Expertise in using Unix/Linux & Solaris Utility tools in collecting various stats like iostat, vmstat, netstat, SAR, etc.,
• Distribution of test effort, supervising the progress and evaluating team members and responsible for weekly & daily status update reports presented to the stakeholders.
• 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
• Versatile Team player as well as independent contributor with good problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

MS: DOS, Windows 98 / NT /XP, UNIX, Linux

LANGUAGES: C,JAVA,SQL

Database: SQL SERVER 2005,Oracle 11g

Performance Testing Tools: Load Runner, HP ALM, SOASTA

Application servers: Weblogic, JBoss,Apache

Monitoring tools: HP sitescope, Dynatrace, Keynote, IBM Tealeaf

Defect Tracking & Test Management Tool: HP ALM 11.0, Bugzilla

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Lead Performance Test Engineer, Tennessee

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the full life cycle of performance testing.
• Involving in business discussions with clients/business heads, technical discussions with designers and developers to gather the performance requirements.
• Creating Workload model based on scaled down volumes of production in terms of transactions/page views and infrastructure.
• Ensuring the new business scenarios are mapped to test cases.
• Set standards and technique in scripting, data preparation and test reports and also preparing checklists.
• Creating complex Business process performance test scripts with Load runner tool using Web (HTTP/HTML),Webservices and Ajax true client (IE&FF) protocols.
• Enhancing the scripts by employing Manual/Automatic correlation, Parameterization Techniques, transactions and runtime settings for call flows and LR specific functions using Load Runner VuGen.
• Capturing the updated volumetric information from the business people for the performance business scenarios and mapping it to the scenarios in HPPC which induces the virtual users on application.
• Responsible to monitor the web, application, data base server’s performance during and after the performance test execution.
• Analyzing the app server performance through dynatrace tool and data base server performance through API analysis and Oracle-AWR reports.
• Preparation of Test Summary Reports and Final Test Completion Report.
• Offshore co-ordination and delivery/execution as per agreed SLA's.
• Creating weekly project status reports and delivers to customer
• Reporting the performance issues (if any) to the concerned stake holders and tracking the defects through HP Quality Centre.
• Preparing the performance test reports and giving a Go/No Go for the performance of the application in stake holder meetings before go-live.

Environment: HP Load Runner 11.5 &12.0, HP ALM 11.00, Java, JSP, Web Logic, Unix/Linux & Sun Solaris, Oracle, ATG Services, Akamai, CSI, CA Wily.

Confidential

Lead Performance Test Engineer, Washington

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the full life cycle of performance testing.
• Involving in business discussions with clients/business heads, technical discussions with designers and developers to gather the performance requirements.
• Creating Workload model based on scaled down volumes of production in terms of transactions/page views and infrastructure.
• Ensuring the new business scenarios are mapped to test cases.
• Set standards and technique in scripting, data preparation and test reports and also preparing checklists.
• Creating complex Business process performance test scripts with Load runner tool using Web (HTTP/HTML), and Ajax true client (IE&FF) protocols.
• Enhancing the scripts by employing Manual/Automatic correlation, Parameterization Techniques, transactions and runtime settings for call flows and LR specific functions using Load Runner VuGen.
• Capturing the updated volumetric information from the business people for the performance business scenarios and mapping it to the scenarios in HP-Controller which induces the virtual users on application.
• Responsible to monitor the web, application, data base server’s performance during and after the performance test execution.
• Analyzing the app server performance through dynatrace tool and data base server performance through API analysis and Oracle-AWR reports.
• Preparation of Test Summary Reports and Final Test Completion Report
• Reporting the performance issues (if any) to the concerned stake holders and tracking the defects through HP Quality Centre & JIRA.
• Preparing the performance test reports and giving a Go/No Go for the performance of the application in stake holder meetings before go-live.

Environment: HP Load Runner 11.5 &12.0, HP ALM 11.00, Java, JSP, Web Logic, Unix/Linux & Sun Solaris, Oracle, ATG Services, Akamai, CSI, Dynatrace, JConsole, Keynote.

Confidential

Lead Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the full life cycle of performance testing.
• Involving in business discussions with clients/business heads, technical discussions with designers and developers to gather the performance requirements.
• Creating Workload model based on scaled down volumes of production in terms of transactions/page views and infrastructure.
• Ensuring the new business scenarios are mapped to test cases.
• Set standards and technique in scripting, data preparation and test reports and also preparing checklists.
• Creating complex Business process performance test scripts with Load runner tool using Siebel Web, Web (HTTP/HTML), and Web Service protocols.
• Represented in preparation of Performance test environment for PT front.
• Responsible for test data bed creation for PT environment.
• Responsible for NMON implementation in all servers.
• Responsible for developing the Load Test Plan from the user and business requirements.
• Implemented DB flash point in PT environment to use the same set of test data in entire PT cycle.
• Test data preparation for the parameters used in the scripts.
• Analyzed graphs and collated reports to determine system performance.
• Participated in walkthrough and knowledge transfer sessions, meetings periodically.
• Preparing the performance test reports and involved in Go/No Go for the performance of the application in stake holder meetings before go-live

Environment: HP Load Runner 11, HP ALM 11.00, Seibel CRM, Oracle BRM, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle ASAP and Oracle OSM Java, JSP, Web Logic, Unix/Linux & Sun Solaris, Oracle 11g, NMON.

Confidential

Sr. Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Close interaction with application designers and business analysts to understand application functionality and navigational flow
• Involved in Preparation and Execution of Test cases.
• Creating complex Business process performance test scripts with Load runner tool using Web (HTTP/HTML), and Web Services and JMS protocols.
• Designed performance test suites by creating VU test scripts, workload scenarios, setting transactions, rendezvous points and inserting them into suites using Load Runner.
• Debug the test scripts and run the tests.
• Analyzed graphs and reports using Load Runner analysis tool to determine system performance using various monitors.
• Identified business specific test conditions from statistical data provided like Task Distribution Diagrams and User Transaction Profiles
• Used Load Runner monitors to measure the Transaction response time, network delay, and throughput.
• Defined and provided key metrics to management from the Load Runner Analysis tool.
• Identified performance bottlenecks, data errors and integration problems and revised application to enhance performance before application launch.

Environment: HP Load Runner 9.5, HP QC, Java, JSP, Web Logic, Unix/Linux & Sun Solaris, Oracle 10g, Sitescope, ZXTM.

Confidential

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Identified business specific test conditions based on the test requirements.
• Responsible for Load, Stress and Soak Testing.
• Responsible for developing the Load Test Plan from the user and business requirements.
• Designed performance test suites by creating test scripts, workload scenarios, using load runner.
• Creating complex Business process performance test scripts with Load runner tool using Web (HTTP/HTML), and Web service protocols.
• Test data preparation for the parameters used in the scripts.
• Executed the Test Scripts as part of the Performance Test Plan.
• Analyzed graphs and collated reports to determine system performance.
• Participated in walkthrough and knowledge transfer sessions, meetings periodically.

Environment: HP Load Runner 9.5, HP QC, Java, JSP, Web Logic, Unix/Linux & Sun Solaris, Oracle 10g, Sitescope, ZXTM

Confidential

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Identified business specific test conditions based on the test requirements.
• Responsible for Load Testing & Performance Testing.
• Responsible for developing the Load Test Plan from the user and business requirements.
• Designed performance test suites by creating VU test scripts, workload scenarios, setting transactions, rendezvous points and inserting them into suites using Load Runner.
• Creating complex Business process performance test scripts with Load runner too using Web (HTTP/HTML) protocol.
• Executed the Test Scripts as part of the Performance Test Plan using controller.
• Created Analysis Reports from Load Test Results using Load runner Analysis Tool.
• Analyzed graphs and collated reports to determine system performance
• Participated in walkthrough and knowledge transfer sessions, meetings periodically.

Environment: HP Load Runner 9.5, HP QC, Asp.Net (.NET Frame Work 3.5), Sun Solaris 5.10, Unix/Linux & Sun Solaris, MySQL