PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Around 6 years of experience in the Software Testing Industry with diversified experience in Web, Web services and Batch Performance testing.
• Involved in performing extensive End - to-End load testing activities.
• Worked in Retail and Insurance domain predominantly.
• Experience in various tools like HP Load Runner, HP Performance Center, JMeter, Soap UI, Silk Performer, HP ALM, HP Site Scope, HP Diagnostics, and Perfmon.
• Worked closely with developers and system architects to study the Non-Functional requirements and prepared Performance Test Plan/Strategy.
• Experienced in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC & STLC) and Requirement Gathering & Analysis, Planning, Design, Development, and Testing.
• Experienced in understanding the application performance requirements, developing performance test strategies, preparing workload based on the requirement, performance testing using the identified protocols and usage of performance monitoring tools.
• Good collaboration skills for identifying Performance bottlenecks and provide recommendations and solutions.
• Experience on all HP Quality Center modules like Requirements, Test Plan, Test Lab and Defect Triaging.
• Have good Leadership skills. Have lead a team of 4 members, assigned tasks to them, Coordinated between client and team, maintained track of the work performed and prepared and presented status to the clients.
• Developed plan/curriculum and conducted on HP Load Runner & JMeter.
• Have thorough knowledge in performing Baseline , Load , Stress testing .
• Working experience of Onsite-Offshore modeling.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills a total team player. Self-starter with drive, initiative and a positive attitude.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware / Platforms: Windows 98/XP/2000/Vista.

Programming Languages: Java, .Net, C, C++

MS: Access, SQL Server 2000/ 2005

Testing Tools: HP Load Runner, HP Performance center, Site scope, HP ALM, JMeter, Silk Performer, Soap UI, HP Site scope, HP Diagnostics, Perfmon

Protocols used: Web HTTP, HTTPS, Web services, Flex, Silverlight

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Providing technical solutions and suitable performance testing approach to various account teams.
• Involved in Confidential for accounts in identifying the feasibility of the application using load runner.
• Provided technical support/resolution to various internal accounts on Load Runner, JMeter.
• Involved in preparing proposals for various clients.
• Involved in preparing the performance testing estimation.

Tool: HP Load Runner, Performance Center, JMeter, Silk Performer, SoapUI

Confidential

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering and analyze the performance testing requirements to arrive at the Non Functional Requirements for performance testing.
• Prepare and Publish Workload Composition and Test strategy.
• Conduct Confidential for the application to check the application compatibility with JMeter testing tool.
• Provide valid/appropriate effort estimation and planned the deliverables.
• Generating Performance test scripts and handling Correlation, Errors Check Points, Transactions and parameterization using JMeter.
• Develop and execute Web services using SOAP Webservice Request sampler.
• Executed Smoke test to validate the scripts, environment and data.
• Performed Load test and monitoring in JMeter.
• Analyzed Server side Results with performance test results to identify performance bottlenecks and preparing the preliminary report consisting of the response time, test details, client side metrics.

Tool: JMeter, SOAPUI

Confidential

Load & Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis, Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Data creation, Setup the application, Conduct performance evaluations and Analyze results.
• Estimate Capacity numbers for production, Fine-tuning the various Load & Performance projects and established standards/guidelines for effective Load & Performance testing.
• Creating and validating Silk Performer Scripts.
• Shouldering overall responsibilities to understand Client Processes and to work efficiently to meet targets and deliver solutions in accordance with Confidential quality control standards and business practices and procedures.

Tool: Silk Performer

Confidential

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gathering Non-functional requirements and pre-requisite from Business analyst, and Clients to arrive at the scope for Performance Testing.
• Identify Critical Business End to End Business scenarios and prepare business flow documents.
• Understanding the Business process to optimize the test data requirements.
• Identify the workload and prepare the test execution pattern.
• Developing performance test scripts using HP Loadrunner Vugen and scenarios using HP Loadrunner controller.
• Developing scripts using Web Http Protocol.
• Review and provide technical support test scripts related issues/risks
• Coordinate with the teams like functional testing, Build & infrastructure and Solution architects for validating E2E business flows.
• Perform the Test Execution, monitoring and analysis using HP Loadrunner.
• Perform Baseline test, Load test, Stress Test using Performance center.
• Perform end-to-end performance testing.
• Defect tracking in HP QC.
• Identify performance degradation issues like Memory Leaks.
• Track every aspect of the application for quality checks throughout the project lifecycle.
• Analyze and suggest recommendations for performance improvement.
• Constant collaboration with Clients throughout the test life cycle.

Tool: Performance Center 9.5

Confidential

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Prepared detailed Test Plan document identifying and finalizing the number of test scripts to be developed and the number of test runs to be executed.
• Developed simulation scripts using Load Runner 8.1.
• Executed Smoke test to validate the scripts, environment and data.
• Executed test runs to find the scalability and response time of the identified transactions. The system will be stressed to identify the maximum user load sustainable by the application.
• Played onsite coordinator role for two months.
• Monitor Server health metrics like Processor (CPU), Memory, Network Utilization, thread counts during the load test.
• Analyze the test results using Loadrunner Analysis.
• Prepare and publish Performance test report based on the Analysis with recommendations and observations. Coordinated offshore team members for task related issues or the test scripts being developed.
• Coordinated with Performance Engineer during test executions.
• Status calls with clients and offshore team and allocation of daily work to offshore team.

Tool: Load Runner 8.1

Confidential, Seattle, Washington

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Prepared detailed Test Plan document identifying and finalizing the number of test scripts to be developed and the number of test runs to be executed.
• Developed simulation scripts using Load Runner 8.1.
• Executed Smoke test to validate the scripts, environment and data.
• Executed test runs to find the scalability and response time of the identified transactions. The system will be stressed to identify the maximum user load sustainable by the application.
• Analyzed the test results and prepared the summary report comprising of application and data base processor utilization and memory utilization statistics and the key findings and recommendations of Performance Engineer.
• Coordinated offshore team members for task related issues or the test scripts being developed.
• Coordinated with Performance Engineer during test executions.
• Status calls with clients and offshore team and allocation of daily work to offshore team.

Tool: Load Runner 8.1