PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• APM Certified Performance engineer with around 11 years of experience working in Retail and Telecom domain with industry giants Confidential.
• Supported multiple projects from migrations to day - to-day change controls while providing expert analysis and recommendations.
• Well-versed in all performance areas, client and business interaction and end-to-end project testing including application infrastructure reviews, capacity modeling, data engineering, performance test planning, test strategy, results analysis and giving recommendations for performance improvements to application architects and developers.
• Proficient in API (REST and SOAP), performance testing Enterprise Java/.Net based web applications, Retail applications, SAP ERP, Oracle, Citrix and Cloud based systems and CI/CD pipeline.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Capacity Modeling & Capacity Planning
• Enterprise web architecture
• System architecture understanding and review
• Performance test planning and strategizing
• Non-Functional requirements gathering
• Programming and Scripting
• Application, Database and Network layer monitoring
• Scripting, Execution and in-depth Analysis
• Performance bottlenecks, Root-cause and Recommendations
• Client Relationship Management
• Team management and leadership

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP LoadRunner, Apache JMeter, BlazeMeter, HP Performance Center/ALM, Quality Center/ ALM, HP Diagnostic, Fiddler, HttpWatch, SoapUI, Neotys NeoLoad, IBM RPT, Salesforce, VisualVM, Putty, JIRA, Google Lighthouse

Profiling / APM Tools: DynaTrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, nmon, Perfmon, Splunk, AppMon, JVM, AWS CloudWatch, Wily Introscope/ CA LISA, HP Diagnostic, SAP, Sitescope

Languages: JAVA, C, C++, UNIX Shell, XML, WSDL, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SOAP/REST Services, JSON, Angular JS, React JS

Databases: Oracle 10g, MongoDB, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, Rapid SQL and COBOL SQL, SAP

Mobile/Web: iPhone Tester, XCode, Device Anywhere, See Test Automation, WebOS, Page Speed Insights, Web Page Test, Android SDK.

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, DOS, Fedora, Red Hat, Solaris

Servers: WebSphere, DynaTrace Server, JBoss, Apache, VMware, Http server, WebLogic, J2EE, IIS & AWS Cloud

Others: Selenium, Quality Test Protocol (QTP), Microsoft Office, Postman, HP Sitescope, SQL Developer, IBM MQ, Perf Analyzer, Firebug, PowerShell, Google Analytics, JProfiler, OWASP, HP Web Inspect, Eclipse SharePoint, JProbe, JSON Viewer, GIT, Jenkins & Taurus, Informatica (ETL)

Protocols: Web-HTTP, SAP GUI, SAP-Web, Java Vuser, Webservices, Oracle NCA, Ajax Truclient, ODBC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

Senior performance engineer

Tools: Used: HP LoadRunner, JMeter, Wily Introscope, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, VisualVM, HP Diagnostics, HP Web Inspect, Google Analytics/Lighthouse, Splunk, Fiddler, OWASP, Github, JIRA, Postman, HTTP Watch, SAP, LISA, Informatica, AWS, Selenium

• Business requirement gathering for upcoming projects, preparing test plan and test strategy
• Scripts creation/review and finalize for projects and upcoming releases
• Involved in performing release tests for ongoing and future releases including monthly change-controls and critical projects like SAP Migration, Iconic Launch for Samsung and Apple, BI/BW & HANA Database migration, Cloud (AWS) migrations for Microservices.
• Data acquisition from Vision, ATG and POS database using SQL developer (PLSQL queries)
• Data performance engineering and data acquisition using Informatica including Weekly, Monthly and Annual reports
• Retail application (POS) performance testing and engineering using APM tools
• Scenario Preparation and execution, results gathering, results analysis, defect tracking
• Managing Onshore and Offshore teams for Task Handover and Script/Scenario review
• Executed Load, Volume, Stress, Spike, Endurance, Scalability, Fail-over (Chaos Monkey) tests for identifying CPU, Memory, DB and GC related issues & monitored Backend calls and hogging threads
• Intermittent and Final Test report preparation and publish
• Worked closely with Development, Environment and Infra team for identifying bottlenecks and performance tuning.
• Application/Infrastructure monitoring using APM tools - Introscope, Dynatrace New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk, JVisualVM, HP Diagnostics
• Developed test scripts for Web based applications using Web (HTTP/HTML), Webservices protocols.
• Develop a Capacity modeling to find out the deviation in servers in align to Production box to conduct a performance and capacity testing.
• Develop a performance plan for a scale down test bed and to make a relevant extrapolation to bring in cost effective performance testing solution.
• Virtualized third-party service calls (DVS and Vision) using LISA for load testing
• Performed iOS Mobile App profiling using Xcode and experience in browser profiling
• Presented the report to higher management for approval and sign-off
• Involved in scrum meetings, onshore-offshore handshake calls and supervised onshore team
• Received client appreciation for my work in Security Testing (Prevoty implementation), WebLogic and AWS migration and Build Sanity Project (JMeter-Jenkins integration)
• My role was appreciated for successful testing of projects - Mobile POS system (MPOS), HANA Database migration and Microservices implementation (Cloud AWS)

Confidential, TX

Performance Test lead

Tools: Used: Loadrunner, JMeter, Dynatrace, Splunk, JIRA, Github

• Involved in client interaction and understanding business requirements
• Test plan and test strategy preparation
• Involved in preparing scenarios and executing them using Load Runner and created framework in ALM for maintaining central repository
• Involved in creating & executing scenarios for all sorts of Performance tests like load, stress, endurance, spike and volume tests, and creating performance analysis reports for the tests conducted
• Worked closely with Development, Environment and Infra team for identifying bottlenecks and performance tuning
• Prepare, review and certify scripts and scenarios

Confidential, TX

Performance Test Analyst/ Engineer

Tools: Used: HP LoadRunner, NeoLoad, JMeter, IBM RPT, HPPC, HP Diagnostics, Dynatrace, Perfmon, Linux Diagnostics, SoapUI, HTTP Watch, Fiddler, SAP, CA LISA, Salesforce, Sitescope, Citrix, JProfiler, JConsole, HP Quality Center, JIRA, QTP

• Conducted performance testing for critical projects like SAP implementation, Database migration, Weblogic server migration, HANA DB migration, BI/BW reports.
• Involved in test plan/test strategy preparation which includes project objectives, change request details, testing timeline/schedule, resource plan, types of tests planned and tools required, risks, end-to-end scenario details and defect management
• Involved in preparing Workload models for the test scenarios which includes list of Business workflows, no. of virtual users, pacing, think-time, throughput/hits per hour
• Involved in preparing scenarios and executing them using LoadRunner and created framework in ALM for maintaining central repository
• Scripts created for SAP GUI, SAP-Web, Web HTTP/HTML, Webservices and Mobile APIs/applications using Loadrunner, NeoLoad and Rational Performance Tester tools
• Involved in defects tracking, lessons learned document and intermittent reports after every test
• Prepare, review and certify scripts after every build
• Analyze results, provide observations and tuning recommendations Confidential the end of every test
• Fetching AWR report, creating dashboard, setting alerts using CA Wily Introscope
• Created analysis graphs as per requirement and Analysis report generation
• Publish final test report to business people/client for sign-off
• Worked in onsite-offshore co-ordination manner performing tasks handover, defect/issues follow-up and daily status updates
• Ensure successful delivery of Release
• Conduct e-training for juniors and newcomers and prepare documents for easy learning

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Technical associate

Tools: Used: HP LoadRunner, JMeter, Putty, Linux Analytics, Wily Introscope, HTTP Watch, Fiddler, HP QC

• Involved in testing flows (shake-outs), recoding Scripts and running Performance Tests
• Fine working on SQL servers for data acquisition. Also involved in SQL query coding required for the project applications
• Involved in recording and editing of the scripts suitable using LoadRunner for Load Tests
• Involved in creating & executing scenarios for all sorts of Performance tests like load, stress, endurance, spike and volume tests, and creating performance analysis reports for the tests conducted
• Involved in preparing SQL queries and Unix shell scripts (VI scripting) for data acquisition
• Involved in successful delivery of many Releases