SUMMARY:

• To get maximum exposure so as to challenge my skills and develop my potentials and talents to exploit it in ensuring steady organizational as well as personal growth.
• Around 11 Years in Software Testing out of which 8 Years in Performance Testing.
• Vast Experience of working with Product Development Organization as Performance Engineer.
• Creating Performance Test and Strategy document for all major releases.
• Understanding performance requirement and Identify performance test scenarios finalizing SLA with Product Managers.
• Creating/updating performance test setup/ application deployment based release tech stack and H/w Sizing.
• Writing and automating performance test cases using Jmeter and Load Runner.
• Expertise in web based applications and backend applications.
• Executing load, stress and endurance test on production grade hardware/VMs
• Analysing results to identify application bottleneck.
• Application/Web Server Monitoring, JVM Tuning and database configurations.
• Experience in technologies: Java, J2EE.
• Production Capacity Planning experience.
• Ability to learn quickly new concepts and software if necessary.
• Performance Tuning of the Application server.
• Experience in Agile Software development methodology.
• Experience in working with Windows and Linux / UNIX based environment.
• Ability to adapt quickly to an existing and complex environment.
• Self - motivated, independent, detail oriented, responsible team-player and exhibit exceptional relationship management skills.
• Possess strong inter personal and communication skills with the ability to work in team and independent environments with equal ease.
• Also possess hands on exposure to Automation and manual testing.
• Have experience in testing viz GUI, Functional, Regression Testing, integration testing.
• A diligent performer, who thrives on challenging projects and is capable of delivering under high pressure situations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Scripting Language: Shell Scripting, Beanshell script, Vugen Scripting

Application Servers: Weblogic 9.2, IBM WebSphere 7.0.0.1,Jboss 4.2, Tomcat 6, Mule App Server

Operating Systems: Windows XP,Windows Server 2003/2008, Linux CentOS 6.0

Databases: SQL Server 2000 SP3, SQL Server 2005, MySql 5.5.17, Orcale

Performance Testing Tools: Jmeter 2.11.1, Load Runner 9.5, WinRunner 8.2

Test Management Tools: Test Link 1.8.1

Defect Management Tool: Bugzilla 2.18.1, Jira 4.0.1

Java Application Monitoring: Jstad, Visual VM 1.3.2, AppDynamics Lite, IBM Tivoli

Java Profiling Tools: YourKit 12.0.5

System Monitoring Tools: Perfmon, Nmon, sar

SQL Profiling Tools: MS SQL Profiler

Other Tools: Toad, SQL Yog for MySQL, SOAP UI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Lead Performance Test Engineer

Confidential, CA

Responsibilities:

• Worked on several product lines - BAAS, Sale Suite, BA SIS, Profile Manager, Reporting products.
• Gathering performance requirement from the product managers.
• Creating performance test plans for the major releases.
• Identify the performance testing scenarios and get it reviewed by development teams and product managers.
• Creating baselines of newly developed products.
• Understood and improved the current performance testing framework.
• Creating Jmeter script with which could make real time request to application server.
• Used regular expressions extensively and parameterization in the script.
• Development of Tools to prepare test data
• Running the script in Performance environment to create Performance Benchmarks
• Create shell scripts to automate daily tasks which saves lot of time.
• Analysing the results and log files.
• Identify bottleneck in the applications.
• Reporting issues found during performance testing cycles.
• Profiling of JVM to identify issues with the application.
• Tunning Application server and web server.
• Running 72 Hrs endurance tests to see application behaviour. This has also revealed several issues.
• Creating Performance Report and share across the organization

Lead Performance Test Engineer

Confidential, VA

Responsibilities:

• Similar responsibilities as mentioned above as.

Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the client requirement and created Jmeter Script based on various use cases.
• Used regular expressions extensively and Javascript in the script
• Running the script in Performance environment to create Performance Benchmarks
• Analysing the results and log file.
• Reporting issues obtained during performance testing of application
• Monitoring various JVM parameters using Tivoli as JVM monitoring tool.
• Websphere application server JVM tunning.
• Identifying Application server parameters that needs to tunned while running the script
• Tunning the Application server parameters and rerun the script to see the impact on performance of the application.
• Running long duration test to see longevity of the application under consistent load.

Senior QA Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performance Testing of Confidential Products - ESP and Spend Analysis.
• Script writing using Jmeter
• Used parameterization, correlation extensively in the script.
• Detailed analysis of the results including throughput, response time, CPU utilization, memory usage, etc.
• Identify bottleneck in the application.
• The benchmarking of the application.

Software Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understanding requirements, identify scenarios and create test cases
• Executing test cases, functional testing, regression testing
• Preparing Bug Reports