OBJECTIVE:

To work in a challenging environment in the role of Performance Test Engineer/Architect that would facilitate the maximum utilization and application of my broad technical as well as managerial skills in the entire software test activities.

SUMMARY:

• 18.8 years in large scale Enterprise class IT including 9 years in Performance Testing, 6 Years in Performance Engineering, 2+ Years in Manual Testing, 1.5 Years in Web Development.
• To maximize the medium/Large scale 2, 3 Tier application performance using Load test methodology by identifying and eliminating the performance bottlenecks. To provide performance, capacity analysis and deployment risk using key performance indicators attributors i.e capacity, performance, scalability, availability, reliability etc,
• Insurance, Finance, Banking, Telecom, Retails, Utility, Healthcare etc
• Full Life Cycle Performance Testing from Requirements to Release which includes NFR Gathering, Effort Estimation, Test Strategy, Test Plan, Transaction Traversal Creation, Script Creation, Execution, Monitoring, Performance Bottleneck Analysis and Fine Tuning Recommendation
• Performance Engineering environment setup, capacity planning, Hardware Sizing, Web /App Server Side Setting Configuration, APM tool management, Monitoring firewalls, Load balancers, AWR Report Analysis, SQL, Java and Code Profile, GC and Heap Dump Analysis etc
• Risk Assessment, NFR Gathering, Workload Extraction from log files, Bottleneck Analysis, Memory Management, Release Decision, Production Monitoring and Support, Project Management, Test Lab Maintenance
• More than 10+ years in experience in leadership’s skills and handling from small team to medium team. Have excellent communication, verbal and interpersonal skills

TECHNOLOGY KNOWN:

Programming languages: Java, JSP, ASP, SQL, JavaScript, Perl, UNIX/Linux shell, HTML, CSS

Testing Environment: Load & Performance Testing, Automation Testing and Manual Testing

Database systems: Oracle 10G, Oracle 11i, SQL Server 2000, 2008, 2014, DB2000Platforms MS - DOS, Windows (95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, 2008, 2012, XP, Vista, 7, 10), UNIX, Linux.

Other software: IBM WebSphere, WebLogic, IIS, Apache HTTPD, Tomcat, Compuware Track Record, VSS 4 .0 (Visual Source Safe), Rational Clear Case 2.0 and IBM WSAD 5.0, MQ Series, SOAP UI, Mothra, Splung

Automation Tools: Load Runner 12.57, Performance Center 12.61, SilkPerformer 2010, Rational Performance Tester 8.2, MS VSTS 2010, SOASTA, QTP 9.0, Appdynamic, Wily Introscope, HP Dynatrace 7.0, Citrix NetScalar, NMON, ITCAM, IBM PMAT, JProfile, ITCAM, EMMA-Profile, Jrockit, SQL-Profile, Sitescope 11.40, Selenium etc

Test Management Tools: HP Quality Center, QA Director, Testlink

Defect Tracking Tools: Rational Clear Quest, Bugzilla

SKILLS SUMMARY:

Requirement Definition: Non-functional requirements gathering and analysis such as SLA, performance, capacityAvailability, Scalability and reliability

Risk Analysis: Production monitoring of current release i.e. users, usage and system impact assessment (CPURAM, Network, Disk etc). Architecture evaluating using business process, Application workflows, New Release Impact analysis (Business, User, system, usage), Additional Capacity Requirements Projections (Servers, MemoryThreads, connections), Project Risks, Product

Workload Modeling: Production traffic metrics using Web Trend etc. URL traffic analysis, think time and Concurrency from log files, statistical workload models

Platform: Experience in SaaS, TaaS and IaaS. Conducted performance testing in Amazon Cloud etc.

Deployment Testing: Build deployment, Configuration deployment, smoke testing, Profiling of critical use cases and Baseline

Custom Test Tools Development: Regression Test bed, Multi-threaded Performance Test bed, Mocks, stubsMonitoring & Metrics collection

Test Automation: Performance Testing, Automation Test Types: Application (Integration, Component/SystemPerformance), Infrastructure Test, Failover Test

Protocols Used: Web (HTTP/HTML), Web (Click and Script), Ajax Protocol, Web Services, Winsocket, Oracle NCA, ODBC, SAP-Web, SAP GUI

Test Methodology: Risk base testing, Database testing, endurance, scalability, stress, Fault tolerance and Problem Isolation tests

Database Testing: Testing Database accuracy, Developed and updated tables with help of various query languagesIdentified bugs in database and created reports

Aspect Orientation Testing: Concurrency Testing, Benchmark testing, Threshold Testing, Failover Testing, ESM Testing, Component Failure Testing, Static & Dynamic testing

Monitoring Tools: Wily Introscope, ITCAM, JProbe, Sitescope, NetScalar etc

Opens Source Solutions: OpenSTA, SQL profiler, Emma, JProfiler

JVM Performance Tuning: GC and heap analysis, Thread dump, Heap dump, Memory Leak, Core Dump

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Performance Test Engineer/Architect

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Nonfunctional requirements, Service Level SLA’s, Operation Level SLA’s and converted into performance testing goals for CIMAX, Ciquote and Print Central projects.
• Developed Performance Test effort estimation, test Strategy and Test Plan documents for CIMAX, Ciquote and Print Central Projects.
• Did Configured the .Net, Citrix and SQL server related key performance metrics on Sitescope Server for CIMAX, Ciquote and Print Central Applications
• Develop and update the performance test scripts for CIMAX, Ciquote and Print Central Applications.
• Modify and update the performance test scripts suite on weekly basis (Agile Sprint Delivery - Weekly Execution) for CIMAX, Ciquote and Print Central application and execute the Single user, Load Test on weekly basis for offshore/onsite developed scripts.
• Manage, Assist the offshore PT resources on script development/update and weekly execution (CIMAX Application) and review the offshore PT results, identify the performance issues and raise the PT defects on demand.
• Analyze offshore/onshore executed performance test result with previous week runs and identify the performance issues, variations and develop the executive performance test summary report, Graphical Representation chart and Performance bottleneck analysis summary and email/present the reports to respective stakeholders.
• Analyze Sitescope performance metrics (Citrix, .Net and SQL Server) Metrics and compare with previous week metrics, identify the performance issues and Report the issues with development architecture and RCIS Management team.
• Develop Defect story board for identified PT issues and add defect story into PT Agile Development Scenario.
• Involve in performance engineering’s activities based on demand such as Heap dump analysis, different type of log analysis, SQL Profiling, .NET application Tuning, Production Performance Test Metrics Log analysis and Tuning Recommendations.
• Handle up to 2-3 members Performance Test offshore resources.
• CIMAX Citrix Application has some compatibility issue with Loadrurner 12.53 version and did deep root cause analysis along with Loadrunner support engineering team by applying a configuration batch and successfully fixed Loadrunner compatibility issue to record the CITRIX application.
• Identified the performance bottlenecks of underpowered Citrix Servers (Physical Server) and provided a Valid Data point/Proof of Concept for RCIS infrastructure team and recommended to migrate the Citrix Servers to High End Cloud Environment
• Identified SQL, Net Server Performance bottleneck and raised defect and helped development team to triage the performance issues by conducting the performance engineering activities in Dev, ST and Production Environment and fixed the performance issues and helped to improve the applications performance in Production.
• Developed Windows Form based Program in C# to convert the Loadrunner Analysis Raw data into RCIS application log viewer format (Excel) and injected the Modified Excel data into RCIS application metrics log viewer. The SSRS Report will pull the performance data from log viewer database and convert into dynamic SSRS Trend Analysis Report Format. The Dynamic SSRS Trend analysis report will display Min, Avg, Max, 90Th Percentile and Expected SLA graphs and each load test metrics data can be viewed and analyzed through SSRS Report.

Performance Test Engineer/ Lead Architect/Manager

Confidential, Portland, ME

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Nonfunctional requirements, Service Level SLA’s, Operation Level SLA’s and converted into performance testing goals for various projects.
• Developed Performance Proposal (RFP), Test Effort estimation, tests Strategy, Test Plan creation and assisted in cost estimation for new projects.
• Developed Performance Test scenarios, Test Script, optimization, Execution, scheduling, resource monitoring and analysis for short and long term load and performance testing projects
• Developed Performance Test Scripts using the following “Siebel, Web (HTTP/HTML), Web (Click and Script), Ajax Protocol, Web Services, Winsocket, Oracle NCA, ODBC, SAP-Web, SAP GUI, Citrix” Protocol in Loadrunner for different type of projects.
• Developed Good amount of Performance Test scripts in Silk performer, Microsoft VSTS and SOASTA tools
• Extensively involved in performance engineering’s activities such as Heap dump analysis, Thread dump analysis, different type of log analysis, AWR report analysis, JVM Tuning, Web and Application Server Thread tuning, Statistics gathering, Java heap analysis, Java & Code Profile, WMB Queue, ESB Monitoring etc
• Recommended various types of Performance engineering solution such as JVM Tuning, SQL Tuning, Memory Modeling and Web, Application server’s upgradation (Horizontal/Vertical).
• Actively involved in hiring test professionals for Internal / External testing team.
• Handled Managerial task up to 11 members in performance Testing and Manual testing
• Performed extensive management tasks such as coordinating with performance testing/engineering teams and triage the outstanding performance issues for different projects/applications/teams and reporting/presenting the different type of SLA’s to senior management team to align and achieve the delivery goals.
• Developed Performance Testing Script best practice standard and guidelines as part of Best Practices and delivered the same to different clients.
• Performed POC creation/Evaluation and assessing the industry new load and performance Testing, Engineering tools advantages and disadvantages for commercial usage.
• Demonstrating the client side demo for different clients with respect to Performance Testing tools
• Developed Risk matrix, Requirement definitions and workload definitions based on performance critical candidate’s selection
• Involved in setting up the new performance testing/engineering environment with client infrastructure team for new projects/applications.
• Design and execute performance Scripts (L1, L2 and L3) for measuring application scalability, and optimizing application throughput.
• Developed different type of workload model and Conducted Load, stress and Endurance Test etc
• Developed the performance testing scripting using SOASTA and execute the test for 200 Vusers
• Executed Batch Testing using Unix Shell Scripts.
• Execute detailed benchmarks to cover performance and scalability under load.
• Installed and configured NMON, ITCAM monitoring tool etc.
• Monitoring and supervising the regression, future trains on periodically and approving the train status.
• Highly involved defect reporting, defect management and defect metrics analysis etc
• Interacting with client/onsite management team and on frequently
• Provide necessary knowledge transfer to Support and Systems Organizations.
• Hardware Architecture - Server and Load Balancer placements and architecture
• Provided performance, capacity assessment and deployment risk using key performance indicator attributes i.e. capacity, performance, scalability and reliability etc
• Analyzed AWR Report statistics, identified wrong statistics in database and locked correct statistics in database in performance test environment
• Designed Script Model/Prototype for future release using modular approach
• Using Queuing theory models to provide early on performance and capacity validation when applicable
• Garbage collection analysis, Java heap analysis, Thread dump, heap dump analysis, DAL Cache Analysis, JVM tuning and risk analysis
• Did the code coverage use Emma - Code profiling tool
• Monitored and Analyzed key performance metrics in AIX systems using NMON utility
• Identified performance bottlenecks, pin down memory leaks and resolve threading issues using JProfiler
• Identified SQL use Ratio using SQL profile tool
• Monitored and Diagnostics the application memory leak using ITCAM utility
• New release impact analysis (Business, system, user, usage). Additional capacity requirement projections (Server, Memory Threads)
• Monitoring, analyzing the performance Metrics and identify the source of performance deficiencies in Web Server, Application Server
• Did POC using SOASTA and later conducted performance testing for Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital project for 200 vusers

Senior Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the functional & Nonfunctional requirements from application
• Identifying Loadrunner Test Scenario and prepared Workflow.
• Working as the Test Lead for team of 7 members.
• Preparing Loadrunner Test Scripts & executed using Vugen.
• Identified Performance bottleneck (Web, App Server Related) and share with client
• Prepared Load Performance Test Summary Report.
• Resolving the technical and functional issue from team member
• Shared the preliminary, interim and final summary report to client
• Signed off the performance project
• Prepared High Level FDT(Functional Decision Tree) and Low Level TDT (Test Decision Tree)
• Prepared a Test Cases for Positive and System down test cases
• Executed test cases Using Mercury Quality Centre for both French and English versions of the application.
• Highly involved defect reporting, defect management and defect metrics analysis etc
• Tested the IND system by making various test call for different tariff plans from different locations and tested out the call duration, call rates for different tariff plans and making test summary report for those tariff plans.
• Conducted multi cycle test after fixing the issue

System Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understanding business and functional requirements from business specification
• Prepared a Test Cases for Positive and System down test cases and executed
• Executed functional, regression, smoke, ad-hoc, Browser compatibility testing
• Highly involved defect reporting, defect management etc
• Conducted multi cycle test after fixing the issue
• Developed Tractability Matrix for assigned modules
• Ensuring the max test coverage by analyzing the traceability matrix
• Prepared Testing checklist etc

Software Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understanding business and functional requirements from business specification
• Plan the testing activities, understanding the different releases of the application product.
• Prepared and executed Test scripts for various modules
• Ensuring the max test coverage by analyzing the traceability matrix
• Defect tracking using Test Director.
• Resolve any issues from the functional team
• Prepared Automation Test Script for assigned modules Using Winrunner
• Executed Test script and identified functional issues and reported the same management

Web Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understanding business and functional requirements from business specification
• Created Positive and System down test cases
• Executed functional, regression testing
• Tracking the bug and preparing the bug report
• Understanding business and functional requirements from business specification
• Executed functional, regression testing
• Tracking the bug and preparing the bug report