SUMMARY:

• Professionally qualified with around 7 years of experience in Quality control/assurance working as Performance Engineer for different end clients.
• Major skill set as Performance testing and using of various performance tools like HP Load runner 12.55, HP ALM Performance center v12, Jmeter, Silk Performer and Neoload.
• Expertise in working with HP LoadRunner - Web (HTTP/HTML), Ajax Click and script, Web services, Java Vuser, Citrix and Ajax Tru-client Protocols.
• ISTQB certified software test engineer and completed HP ATS LoadRunner 11.x certification
• Involved in preparing test plans, estimations, scripting, designing, executing scenarios, analyzing results, identifying bottlenecks in different testing phases of project.
• Experience in Identifying test scenarios and generating performance scripts using VuGen (HP Load runner) or other load testing tools and also enhancing scripts with custom C / JavaScript / Java code
• E xperience in Work load modeling, Load Testing, Stress Testing, and Endurance Testing.
• Worked on developing test scripts to handle SOAP, REST and JSON requests.
• Experience in sending message requests on to Message Queues (MQ’s) by connecting through IBM WebSphere and JMS Java jar files.
• Observing the performance metrics like CPU utilization, Heap memory details, response time, queue depth(MQs) and utilize monitoring tools like Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Kibana and Splunk to troubleshoot bottlenecks.
• Experience with Defect tracking tools like Mantis, Trac, HP QC, JIRA and Remedy.
• Worked in Waterfall, Agile - Scrum and KANBAN methodologies.
• Worked for multiple clients handling the Performance test and Engineering aspects of projects.
• Strong Interpersonal skills with ability to work with multiple teams and lead a team.
• Experience in Handling offshore teams and coordinating teams.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

Performance Testing Tool: HP Load runner 11.0, Load runner v12.55, Silk Performer, Jmeter, Neoload

Protocols used: WEB (HTTP/HTML), Web services, Citrix, Java Vuser, Ajax Click and Script, and Ajax Tru Client

Automation Testing Tool: QTP basics, Basics of Selenium, SOAP UI

Monitoring Tool: App Dynamics, Dynatrace, Splunk, Kibana and Hyperic

Administration Tool: HP Performance Center 11.0, HP Performance Center 12.0

Test management tools: Trac, Remedy, HP QC, Jira and Confluence

Languages: C, Java, JavaScript

DB tools: MySQL, SQL Developer, Virtual Table Server

Others: MS Office

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Arrange meetings with Business, Technology and QA teams to understand the application requirements.
• Responsible for preparing Performance testing plan based on business and technical requirements discussed with business owners and development team.
• Create work load model based on the data collected from production or expected user base for a new application.
• Utilize HP Loadrunner v12.55 and other tools to develop scripts for decided test cases.
• Responsible for executing benchmark test, stress tests, fail over and volume tests against multiple applications using HP Performance center 12.0 and 12.55and NeoLoad.
• Prepare Java Vuser scripts which submit messages to MQ’s and prepare reports based on DB times and other observations.
• Utilize Eclipse IDE to develop java programs to retrieve data from application DBs and update our team Database. Execute data prepping java programs provided by Dev team.
• Utilize VTS server to sync the data between multiple scripts.
• Prepare and execute SQL queries to retrieve information from application DB to observe the MQ messages response time results and present to development / business people.
• Work with AWR reports of App Database to identify most used queries and procedures to add to workload model.
• Monitor and analyze server performance status, hits per second, throughput and database server resources with App Dynamics, Dynatrace, Kibana and HP OPVM.
• Prepare reports based on the observations made during the tests and schedule meetings with Business and Technology teams to discuss on any tuning required for application.
• Work with multiple teams in troubleshooting performance issues.
• Coordinate with the team and work to complete the multiple applications testing.

Confidential, Dover, NH

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for preparing Performance testing plan based on business and technical requirements.
• Creating work load model based on the data collected from production or expected user base for a new application
• Conducting Load Testing, Stress Testing, and Endurance Testing by using HP Tools.
• Develop and modify VuGen scripts with different parameters and make sure the scripts can handle dynamic values.
• Creating scripts for SOAP, JSON and REST services.
• Create Templates in Analysis session, and analyzed web page diagnostics to see if the server or the network was the bottleneck.
• Conducting meetings with developers, application team, and business team to analyze the defects and evaluate the test executions.
• Create and update reports in confluence.
• Work in Agile-Scrum, KANBAN and provide updates to the team.
• Coordinate with the team and work to complete the multiple applications testing.

Confidential

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Create and enhance the scripts for multiple users by using correlation and parameterizations Using HP VuGen Web, Ajax and web services Protocol.
• Created scripts using Ajax Truclient for a share point application.
• Design and executing the scenarios in Performance Center.
• Executed different performance test types like Load testing, Stress testing and Endurance testing.
• Observing the performance metrics like CPU, memory utilization of servers, Throughput, queue length, Hits per sec.
• Observing Server logs and the component based response times using Splunk .
• Observing Server metrics like the CPU, Processor and the Heap Memory details using Hyperic .
• Collaborated with Development and other teams in defect identification and find the root cause analysis using Splunk Logs.

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Test Planning, Test designing and Test analysis.
• Designing Test cases based on the business requirement document.
• Identifying data requirements for the test cases for Data creation.
• Performed Smoke, Functionality, Regression and Ad-hoc testing
• Preparation of defect reports and test deliverables
• Analyzing and reviewing the defects logged by the team
• Executing manual test cases and raising incidents in Trac for the bugs identifies.
• Testing web services along with Dev team as part of early testing.
• Collaborated with development and business teams for testing implementation.
• Work with dev team in Triage calls and help in resolving the defects.