PROFILE SUMMARY:

• Technically Sound & Business Savvy Management Professional with 15+ years of IT experience and over 13 years experience in Performance Testing & Performance Engineering; donning multiple hats as hands - on Performance Tester, Performance Test Lead, Performance consultant, Application Performance Management
• Excellently handled major projects such as Confidential - Customer portfolio, Lloyds Bank (UK) - Internet banking, Fincancial Conduct Authourity (UK) - Intact, Confidential Investments (UK) - CRIMS & BMC software (USA) - CCM product
• Experienced across all phases of Performance Testing - Non Functional requirements gathering, Test Design, Test Script Development, Test Execution, Performance & Capacity monitoring, Capacity validation
• Highly communicative Stake holder management, reporting, metrics tracking at program and platform levels whilst interacting with Business, IT Manager, Service Delivery team, Application Architects & Development SMEs
• Managed & Owned Test Program Estimation, Quality Assurance project planning, budgeting, resourcing, Support Control, Risk Management, Environment Management, Defect Management, Test Program end-end delivery & Due Diligence
• Expert with conducting Load, Stress, volume, Endurance, security, DR Test scenarios for internet, intranet, Cloud SAAS (Salesforce CRM), thick client, SAP CRM, Siebel & Oracle, BI applications
• Exposure in managing testing tools such as Performance Centre, Load Runner, Silk Performer, RPT, JMeter and possesses sound knowledge on capacity planning, profiling, monitoring and analysis tools
• Team Leader with excellent People Management, Presentation, Problem Solving and Analytical skills
• Hands on experience in conducting, coordinating & driving Sprint planning meeting, daily standup meetings & Sprint review meetings with project stakeholders throughout the scrum
• Hands on experience in preparation of Sprint backlogs & Backlog refine document, Sprint Task plan for the Agile projects
• Experienced in deploying and administering Continuous Integration tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo
• Experienced in developing regression & automation suites using UFT and Selenium web driver
• Experience operating with composite projects in Ready API tool using Groovy scripting.
• Ability to create customized Ready API tool Project XMLs using different Resources/Methods and Groovy Scripting for Rest services.
• Good understanding of developing web service tests using SOAP, REST Services, JSON Payloads, Web API endpoints.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Providing consultation services for the testing approach, processes, tools & infrastructure for various technologies and to different customers
• Conducting trials & tests, identifying any changes and making final modifications in components for production
• Managing issues pertaining to customer complaints by regular follow-ups
• Organizing / participating Project Review Meetings for evaluating project progress & de-bottlenecking
• Developing and implementing testing procedures and setting up testing facilities for various tests
• Understanding client needs, requirements & expectations and devising solutions accordingly
• Implementing short/long-term plans for of process objectives
• Reporting testing status updates to the senior management and be able to articulate issues and defects to business stakeholders impacted using business terminology rather than technical
• Formulating non-functional test strategy, methodologies and process to build roadmap for implementing best practices

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Performance Testing Tools: Performance Centre 12.55, Rational Performance Tester, Microsoft VSTS, NeoLoad and JMeter

Protocols: Web (HTTP/HTML), Java VUser, Web Services, .NET, Cirtix, Oracle NCA, ODBC & RDP, JMS, Sibel Web, SAP GUI, Ajax Click and Script, Ajax Trueclient, Mobile HTTP/HTML

Functional Automation Tools: UFT 12.5, Silk Test, Silk Mobile, Selenium Webdriver, SOAP UI, Ready API and Groovy

Operating Systems: Windows 2003/2008/2012/7/8 , Red Hat Linux 9, Solaris 10, AIX 6.1, HPUNIX 11.31 and Mac 10.8

Programming languages: C, C++, Java, VB, Shell Scripting and Python

Database: Oracle 12c, SQL Server 2016, Influx DB

Management: Microsoft Project, HP ALM, JIRA

Profilers & Monitoring Tools: AppDynamics, Grafna, Dynatrace, Jprofiler, Jprobe, HP Diagnostics, SiteScope, Team Quest, Tivoli, Oracle - AWR, SQL Profiler, Wily Introscope & NMON

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Performance Consultant

Confidential, Collierville,TN

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 5 people to successfully deliver monthly releases in Agile model
• Provide tactical & strategic test approaches for service level and component level performance testing
• Validate Non Functional Requirements under Performance, Capacity and Availability aspects
• Manage test plan for Non-Functional Tests: Load, Stress, Endurance, Failover, Recovery, Error Logging, Security tests
• Create scripts in Performance Centre/LoadRunner
• Performed analysis of thread dumps and heap dumps to identify high CPU issues and memory leaks
• Prepared detailed test reports with tuning recommendations for technical team and management reports in Business lanaguage
• Design, implement and maintain the automation test scripts & automation framework using JMeter and Ready API (Web services automation)
• Participate in test script review and provide valuable feedback to make improvement
• Communication of Quality-related processes including testing status of projects/defects to Test Manager
• Accurately documents, and prioritize defects and guarantee that defects are addressed within the development lifecycle of major releases and service packs.
• Development of appropriate test data, where required.
• Develop and maintain IT Project implementation and migration documentation inclusive of Project SOW, Project Charter, Project contract agreement, Functional Specification and SDLC development documentation.

Sr. Performance Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirements gathering, Test plan creation, Analysis and Reporting.
• Responsible to Monitor the Production, find the Performance Issues and replicate in Performance Testing environment for Fix.
• Performance Testing Web Applications, AJAX, Oracle EBS, Mobile Native&Mobile Web Applications using HP LoadRunner 11.52/12.02 and JMeter.
• Webservices testing using JMeter and LoadRunner
• Used Dynatrace, App Dynamics to monitor Production and Performance testing Environments.
• Responsible for Monitoring the Performance of the Applications,findings the Bottleneck andTuning.
• Responsible for determining the room for performance improvement for any Application or a Service while testing, Implementation and retesting.
• Analyze heap behavior, throughputs and pauses in Garbage collections as well as tracking down memory leaks.
• Capacity planning / sizing recommendations i.e. increasejvm heap memory, jvm database connections, additional number of jvms, additional hosts etc based on current production metrics/ capacity baselines
• Suggesting the project teams on configuration and tuning parameters on JVM, Server.XMl, Timeouts, Logs and other areas of improvements.
• Reviewing the deployments folders and tuning to improve the performance.
• Responsible for doing Load, Stress, Volume, Spike, Scalability, Failover and other testing’s to determine the performance of the application.

Sr. Performance Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements gathering, understand the application architecture and devise the test strategy.
• Created detailed test plan with the effort and schedule estimates.
• Analyze and recommend optimal tool for performance testing in terms of application functional support and cost
• Created Test scripts using LoadRunner and simulate realistic workloads to measure application performance.
• Conducted a series of load, stress, soak and security tests to identify the bottlenecks
• Prepared test reports with recommendations for performance and security improvements.
• Created utilites that help in monitoring servers and preparing reports
• Involved in Interface & web services testing
• Create automation scripts using QTP and SOAP UI
• Responsible for ensuring the environment and Test data availability throughout the testing phase
• Responsible for ensuring entry & exit criteria before and after a testing phase

Performance Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understand the non-functional requirements of the system
• Engage with Project, Business and Test team to understand the requirements
• Resource and Work allocation management
• Design test plan and test strategy
• Stakeholder Management
• Involved in Interface testing
• Design and implement LoadRunner scripts for testing critical business scenarios
• Manage & Execute Load, Stress, Soak & Volume test, User Acceptance Testing, Pen testing, Availability, Disaster Recovery, Deployment & Rollback testing
• Coordinating with various teams for monitoring the performance of the system
• Prepare and publish performance test execution report
• Identifying performance bottleneck and tuning recommendations

Test Lead

Confidential

Resposibiliites:

• Acquired knowledge of the functional and non functional requirements
• Deftly prepared Test Plan for functional and performance, test scenarios and test design documents
• Identified the critical:
• Business transactions for the Application
• Bottlenecks in the Application Server and Database Server
• Administered test scripts execution and generated the test results & analysis of the results monitor the system and server resources during the test executions using utilities and tools
• Supervised a team of 5 members from Offshore