SUMMARY:

• Over 14 years of diversified experience as Performance Test Manager, Test lead and Onsite/Off shore Coordinator, HP Certified Product Specialist in QTP and Quality Cente r. Experience in Performance and Automation testing.
• Involved in Web application testing, client - server, experience in creation and execution of performance testing processes, test strategies and plans, and defect tracking documentation
• Experience in HP Load Runner 12, Quality Center 9.0, ALM 11, QTP 8.5, Business Availability Centre 8,AppDynamics 4.2,Shunra NV 8.6,Splunk 6.3,Perfecto Mobile 7.5 , Real Time Concert 6.0 and Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) Experience in Financial ( Banking), Retail and Insurance domains.
• Analyze business scope, requirements, user stories and /or use cases
• Create the workload based on the volume
• Test script creation, Test Execution, Result Analysis
• Review of the Performance Test Strategy, WLA, Execution, Analysis, Recommendation, providing Go-No Go decision to the senior management
• Status reporting, Risks and Issues Management. End-to-End Performance Testing for all Releases
• Early feedback to the development team.
• NFT offerings included specialized tests on Mobility, failover testing and mixed load test.
• Successfully driven new initiatives such as Beyond Performance, New tools implementation (Shunra & App Pulse).
• Managed team size of 27 members at onsite and offshore
• Working with Offshore / Onsite teams for quarterly releases which includes Co-ordination with different stakeholders, Maturity process adhered, deliverables followed
• Worked closely with developers, support group to ensure test environment, application and data readiness.
• Experience in an AGILE, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile, Waterfall, Test Driven Development environment. Extensive working knowledge in Offshore - Onsite model.
• Execute performance / load / stress and other non-functional tests.
• Experience in monitoring servers using tools AppDynamics and Analyze the CPU Utilization, Memory usage, Garbage Collection to verify the performance of the applications and provide recommendations to the Engineering Managers.
• Performance testing post-test tasks: Gather various reports and statistics from LoadRunner reports, AppDynamics report, Splunk, PCF packaging and reporting results to project development teams for the further optimization.
• Prioritize and triage application issues relating to performance
• Building high performance teams and deliver customer needs in timely and quality products

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jacksonville & NY

Performance Test Manager

Tools: HP LoadRunner, ALM, AppDynamics, Perfecto Mobile, Splunk, ALM, RTC, PCF

Responsibilities:

• Discussion with the products owners/architects to gather the NFR, finalize and get the signoff.
• Prepared the workload model based on the requirements, Test Plan, Strategy and presentation regarding the Performance Test approach to the senior management.
• LoadRunner Scripts creation, Test execution, Analysis.
• AppDynamics (APM) used for the issues to identify at the code level, monitor the health of the application and the nodes.
• Identified the slow method call for the micro services and provided the recommendation for optimization
• Used SPLUNK and PCF to retrieve data and identify the root cause issue.
• Identify the performance defects and follow-up with the respective teams for the resolutions.
• Conducted device timings using Perfecto on (Iphone5S, 6,6S) with different network conditions (3G, 4G, Wi-FI).
• Understood the Design charter and came up with the mapping of Microservices and 3rd party services and used CA-Lisa for service virtualization.
• Provide early feedback to the development teams buy conducting the micro service component level test in the lower environments and identifying the issues.
• Identified the issues using AppD for the Micro service Brokerage functionality such as JVM Heap utilization) and also old Gen heap reached almost 100% for memory leak analysis.
• Identified the Environmental issues PSG crashing issues due to default timeout of 30 sec, with new code deployment causing corruption in Gemfire cache.
• Walkthrough of the test results to the leadership team regarding the performance test observations, issues and providing the recommendations to go-Ahead in FUT mode.
• Followed Quality process and standard operating procedures.
• Documented the lessons learned

Confidential

Performance Test Manager

Tools: HP LoadRunner, Shunra NV, Quality Center

Methodology: Waterfall model

Responsibilities:

• Understanding application architecture and overall technology landscape
• Working with Offshore teams to align, track and Implement the 2015 goals set
• Successfully driven new initiatives such as Beyond Performance, New tools implementation (Shunra & App Pulse).
• Implemented new tools Shunra Mobile and App Pulse mobile for addressing key customer issues i.e. performance on different networks and user experience testing respectively.
• NFT offerings included specialized tests on Mobility, failover testing and mixed load test.
• Reviewed BRD, create a report identifying the candidates for Performance Testing, walkthrough with the business team and identifying the NFR requirements
• Involved in conducting stress tests, Endurance tests and volume tests against the application using LoadRunner.
• Review of the Performance Test Strategy, WLA, Execution, Analysis, Recommendation, providing Go-No Go decision to the senior management
• Status reporting, Risks and Issues Management. End-to-End Performance Testing for all Releases
• Assisted Development team with Performance analysis reports through MCA, ESB, CICS and VB Host log extracts. No production issues were reported for 7 projects executed in year2014 for SBG program. For BR5 MMS All Non Functional Requirements were defined for25 work packages. The project had to move out of the Go-live Date from due to the performance defects/issues been reported.
• Team management of 27 members including offshore and onsite.
• Participate in Weekly Meetings with the management team and provide the status of progress/issues

Confidential

Performance Test Consultant

Tools: NeoLoad, Quality Center

Methodology: Waterfall model

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements, FSS, TSS studied the application and collected the information from stakeholders to proceed with the PT activities.
• Define performance Test Strategy, WLA, for the release, Result Analysis and Reporting
• Status Reporting, Interaction with senior management regarding risks identified and mitigations
• By gathering the volume stats from the client, and based on the volume designed the workload modeling to achieve the volume.
• Worked closely with Production operation Managers, Technical Managers, Project Managers in planning, scheduling, developing, and executing performance tests
• Managing and coordinate with offshore and onsite team member of five
• Spike testing conducted for the Black Friday and identified issues regarding scalability of the load tests.

Confidential

Performance Test Consultant

Tools: LoadRunner, Quality Center

Methodology: Waterfall model

Responsibilities:

• The overall goal of this project is to measure the performance of NRA Design application and report the concurrency of the users the application is able to handle
• Gather the requirements from the .business owners and identify the tests for Performance testing
• Defining the performance goals and objectives based on the client requirements and inputs
• Developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Summary Reports and Test Execution Metrics.
• Execution of the Tests from QC and defect reporting to development team for further analysis
• Worked in Web/HTTP, Web Service Protocol in LoadRunner and Used Virtual User Generator (VuGen) to generate LoadRunner Scripts to ensure that quality issues are appropriately identified, analyzed, documented, tracked and resolved.
• Involved in conducting volume & Endurance tests against the application using LoadRunner.

Confidential

Performance Test Lead

Tools: LR Vugen, Business Availability Center

Responsibilities:

• Isolate problems & identify root cause in composite applications running in heterogeneous environments.
• Identifying and drill down in context into application components in order to resolve the problems that have the greatest business impact.
• Responsible for the Preparation of Test Plan, Strategy, and Data and got it reviewed and approved from the client.
• Weekly project Status meeting with respective stakeholders.
• Ensure Team Delivers Quality Test scripts design as per requirements for defined user journey
• Proactively monitor the availability and performance of the key business services.
• Interact with the offshore team and help them to sort out any kinds of issues faced.
• Prepare summary of test results
• Had meetings and discussion with the End users to identify the business scenarios for End User Monitoring.

Confidential

Automation Test Lead

Tools: Quick Test Professional, Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Automation test cases using Quick Test Professional 8.2
• Understanding requirement specifications and design document
• Execution of Automated test cases using Quality Center(Test Management tool)
• Reporting the defects and tracking the same.
• Preparing Weekly Status Report and reporting to the management
• Used Descriptive programming in QTP
• Prepared test scenarios, test cases and performed the test executions.
• Test results analysis and Defect Management
• Automated and customized the scripts for the entire application using QTP.
• Defect logging and tracking using Quality Centre
• Established technical feasibility(POC) using QTP with the application and providing analysis

Confidential

Test Consultant

Tools: Quick Test Professional, Test Director

Responsibilities:

• Performed Regression and Functionality testing using QTP.
• Experience in using Descriptive programming in QTP
• Coordinated with the Business and Development teams to develop / writing Test strategies, Test Plans, Test cases and test the Business functionality.
• Prepared test scenarios, test cases and performed the test executions.
• Developed and executed Test Plans in Test Director based on the Business Requirements.
• Test results analysis and Defect Management
• Automated and customized the scripts for the entire application using QTP.
• Defect logging and tracking using Test Director
• Regression Testing
• Designing and implementing Automation test strategy
• Involved in of LR and QTP and mentoring the team member

Confidential

Sr. Applications Engineer

Tools: Quick Test Professional, Test Director

Responsibilities:

• Worked on object identification, Object repository, Step Generator, Data table, checkpoints, and Recovery scenarios using QTP 6.5.
• Understanding and Analysis of the application under test in terms of object identification.
• Experience in using Descriptive programming in QTP.
• Prepared test scenarios, test cases and performed the test executions.
• Test results analysis and Defect Management.
• Automated and customized the scripts for the entire application using QTP.
• Defect logging and tracking using Test Director.
• Established technical feasibility (POC) using QTP with the application and providing analysis.
• Prepared the Automation Test Strategy and approved from the project team.
• Regression Testing.

Confidential

Tools: LoadRunner, Test Director

Responsibilities:

• Developed performance workload distribution by interviewing with the stakeholders.
• Experience in requirements gathering, test planning, scripting & execution.
• Ability to enhance LoadRunner test scripts.
• Interaction with Dev and support teams for the defects resolution.
• Preparing Weekly Status Report and reporting to the management.
• Involved in the daily and weekly status meeting to discuss the upcoming releases and changes in the requirements and other major issues.
• Responsible for daily and weekly status updates showing the progress of the testing effort and open issues to be resolved.
• Performance scripts creation, test execution, reporting of the results.