SUMMARY:

• Seasoned, dynamic and result oriented professional with extensive experience in full life cycle Performance Engineering (workload modeling, requirement gathering, scripting, testing, analysis, reporting and production monitoring)
• 9+ years of experience in performance testing & engineering with 6 years of experience in leading and managing teams.
• Currently managing a onshore and offshore team for Charter performance testing
• Experience in variety of testing tools like HP LoadRunner 11.52, HP ALM Performance Centre 11.52, IBM RPT 8.2, Jmeter, jConsole, CA Wily Introscope, HP Openview, HP ALM Quality Center 11.0, Witbe, Stormtest.
• Have hands on knowledge in working for variety of customers and domains like, Cable and communication industry, Retail, BFSI, telecommunications and manufacturing
• Successfully cleared LoadRunner HPO - M18 and HPO-M19
• Successfully cleared ITIL v3.
• Expertise in analyzing results and pointing out performance bottlenecks at different tiers and provide tuning recommendations to improve performance and quality.
• Very good experience in capturing nonfunctional requirements, identifying performance testing requirements.
• Expertise in preparing Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Data, Bug report, determining schedule estimation and maintaining Defect tracking Tool.
• Expertise in using HP LoadRunner and IBM RPT using various protocols like Web(http/html), Web services, Ajax Truclient, Oracle NCA.
• Experience in performance monitoring using various tools like CA Wily Introscope, HP Openview, JConsole, UCPS, Perfmon, Omegamon and Weblogic console.
• Good experience in conducting performance testing for SOA services and Order Management Systems (OMS)
• Played offshore lead for performance testing of Daytona Confidential telecom project which included testing, analysis at application and database server level with the help of JMX results, thread dumps, garbage collections, heap dump, transaction traces and AWR report.
• Played key role at onsite in performance testing of core banking program that included various applications like Flexcube (Core banking and direct banking), IBM Message Broker (Online middleware), Informatica (batch middleware) and SAP Business Objects (Reporting).
• Good experience of Agile practices, ITIL and CMM level processes.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills with ability to interact with individuals/teams/client at all levels.
• Sound Knowledge in implementing QA process in testing and improvements in the existing projects and processes
• Good experience in working in logistics, telecom, retail and banking domain.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Performance Test Manager

Confidential, Denver, CO

Tools: Used: Witbe, Stormtest, AVN Meteo, Jmeter, Dynatrace, HttpWatch

Responsibilities:

• Creating detailed test strategy and plan
• Coordinating the work of test teams and monitoring their performance.
• Reviewing the test scripts prepared through Witbe and Meteo
• Designing the Load test scenarios and monitor the number of active set top sessions
• Managing the gathering of results.
• Compiling test metrics for management.
• Identify test approaches that optimise the delivery schedule for eg. Create various shell, python scripts and macros to reduce manual effort

Performance Test Manager

Confidential, Framingham, Massachusetts

Tools: Used: Oracle RPAS, HP LoadRunner 11.52, HP ALM Performance Center 11.52, HP ALM Quality Center 11.0, NMON

Responsibilities:

• Creating detailed test strategy and plan
• Coordinating the work of test teams and monitoring their performance.
• Performance testing the RPAS and RMS application through LoadRunner
• Reviewing LoadRunner test scripts
• Monitoring the application through NMON and providing recommendtions to develpment team

Test Lead

Confidential, Portland, Oregon

Tools: Used: HP LoadRunner 11.52, HP ALM Performance Center 11.52, CA Wily Introscope, HP ALM Quality Center 11.0, IBM Websphere

Responsibilities:

• Building the team and ramping up team members at offshore.
• Gathering the NFRs for various applications.
• Preparing detailed test strategy and test plan.
• Designing the Load test scenarios for load, stress and break point tests.
• Monitoring the application servers using HP Loadrunner monitors and CA Wily Introscope.
• Monitoring Transaction traces using Wily Introscope.
• Test Report preparation with detailed analysis.

Confidential

Performance Test Lead

Tools: Used: HP LoadRunner 11.5, HP ALM Performance Center 11.5, CA Wily Introscope, Jconsole, Unix, ClearQuest, AWR Reports and SVN

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of 8(offshore) for performance test execution.
• Gathering the NFRs for various applications.
• Designing the Load test scenarios for Break point testing, Peak/Optimal point testing.
• Monitoring the application servers using CA Wily Introscope, Jconsole, and UNIX.
• Monitoring various performance parameters like GC Cycles, JVM Heap Utilization, JMX Monitoring, and CPU & Memory Utilization.
• Analyzed thread dumps, and monitored the JDBC and EJB pool connections
• Analyzed AWR report to understand the database behavior during load
• Monitoring Transaction traces using Wily Introscope.
• Test Report preparation with detailed analysis of breaking point, optimal point and endurance testing.
• Understand and analyze the requirements for performance testing from the RFP
• Discuss with the business analyst to gather the technical inputs.
• Provide consultancy on tools required/hardware for tools to perform performance testing.
• Providing technical solution to clients according to their requirement.
• Singlehandedly responded to 5 RFPs across various domains and geographies.

Performance Test Lead

Confidential

Tools: Used: IBM Rational Performance Tester 8.2, HP Openview, Omegamon, ClearQuest

Responsibilities:

• Leading the team for Confidential Bank Core Banking Performance Testing
• Capture non-functional requirements for the system under test.
• Prepare hardware and software requirement document
• Prepare the test strategy and test plan design for performance testing.
• Work with client and the test team to set up the performance test environment.
• Performance testing the core banking applications - FCUBS, Direct Banking, Online Middleware, Batch Middleware, EOD, SAP BO reports and ATM/POS
• Review the test scripts prepared.
• Perform different load tests to understand the performance of the system under test.
• Monitor the application and database servers using HP Openview and find out bottlenecks (if any) in the system
• Prepare a report mentioning about the entire performance of the applications and highlight the bottlenecks and recommendations.

Performance Test Lead

Confidential

Tools: Used: Analysis using LoadRunner 9.5, Performance Center

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of 4 for Performance Testing of CotPlus applications
• Capture the functional and Non Functional requirements
• Prepare the test strategy and test plan document.
• Prepare the scenarios for load testing using Performance Center.
• Monitor the application and database servers and find out bottlenecks (if any) in the system.

Confidential

Performance Test Lead

Tools: Used: Analysis using LoadRunner 9.5 and 11.0, mBrace, PerfMon tools

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of 4 for Performance Modeling of Confidential applications
• Check the performance test environment configurations and data volumes and if required synchronize the configuration with production
• Scripting using AJAX truclient protocol in LoadRunner 11.0
• Monitor the application and database servers using perfmon and find out bottlenecks (if any) in the system.
• Preparing model using mBrace tool.