SUMMARY

• 14 + years of diversified experience in Software Quality Assurance
• 14+ years of performance testing/engineering experience HP Performance Center/ HP LoadRunner, HP ALM and VSTS Load Test 443 - 270-4227
• Experience in the field of Performance Engineering, Architecture, Testing, Bottleneck Analysis, Tuning, Capacity Management and Assurance including performance test methodology and tools
• 12+ Application Performance Management/Monitoring tool experience including AppDynamics, Wily Introscope, JProfiler, HP Diagnostics, HP SiteScope.
• Actively participated in all the stages of the Software Development Life Cycle and the Testing Life Cycle and was extensively involved in all the dimensions of Functionality, Usability and Performance testing.
• Have an excellent communication and professional skills with ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Analysis of Business and Non-Functional Requirements Specifications.
• Experience in setting and managing up Center of Excellence, Performance Engineering/Testing Teams
• Experienced in managing teams/projects on-shore and off-shore model completing them on-time, within budget and with quality
• Experienced in defining, establishing, managing, implementing and coordinating the complete Performance Testing/Engineering and Tuning processes, successfully lead the Performance Testing and Tuning Process from start to completion including tools setup
• Experienced in building and maintaining Performance Test environments, for varying technologies.
• Expertise in performance improvement recommendations and in recommending performance tool sets.
• Experienced in preparing test estimates/budgets and project schedules
• Experienced in defining and implementing Performance Testing/Engineering Standards, Templates, Tuning Standards and Best Practices at various client sites
• Experienced in managing performance testing and engineering teams and supervising the work of Performance Testers/Engineers.
• Experienced in installing, managing and administrating Performance Center, Load Runner environments performance labs, test platforms, test applications and other test tools.
• Experienced in designing, developing, executing and managing of Project Plans, Test Plans, Test Objectives, Test Strategies, Test Scripts, workload models, Test Scenarios and Test Cases
• Experienced in testing and tuning Application servers .Net, JVM's, WebLogic, And Database servers Oracle, SQL Server.
• Experienced with defect tracking tools including Clear Quest, Test Director, JIRA, Quality Center
• Experienced in working with a diverse workforce including other Project Team members, Business teams/partners, Customers, QA teams, Capacity Planning teams
• Experienced in conducting Status meetings with technical reviews and in sending out Project status reports to stakeholders
• Experienced in escalating issues/risks and in bringing projects from yellow/red status to green through proper requirement re-planning, realistic rescheduling, additional efforts
• Clear, cohesive and complete documentation of specifications, designs, business rules, inspection reports, configurations, code changes, test plans, test cases, bug reports, user manuals etc.
• Plan, monitor and analyze for Smoke tests, Baseline tests, Configuration tests, User Scalability tests, Sustainability tests, Break point tests and Spike tests.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Performance Tools: Load Runner 12.6, MS - VSTS, HP ALM Performance Center.

Diagnostic Tools: App-Dynamics4.4, Dyna trace 6.2, HP Diagnostics

Defect Tracking Tools: HP ALM, HP Quality Center, Clear Quest

Languages: C, C++, Visual Basic

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Solaris, MAC OS

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft Access 2000

Web Servers: IIS, Web Sphere, Web Logic, Tomcat

Tool: ’s: Wily - Intro-scope, HP Sitescope, Splunk, CA Lisa/ devTest Solutions

Monitoring Technologies: Nmon, Ganglia, Fiddler, BMC portal

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Charlotte NC

Senior Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Develop, implement and enhance Performance strategy and process/frameworks test plans, workload models, scenarios, scripts, test data.
• Interaction with projects/ Business Analysts to document Non Functional requirements SLA's, and lead test engagements from PE/PT perspective.
• Develop standards and templates for Performance Engineering Strategy, Plan, and Scenarios. Ensure sign-off from all stake holders.
• Conduct, and Analyze results of Load tests, and Produce Tuning Recommendations accordingly
• Design, implement, execute, and analyze software performance tests and benchmarks
• Define, Produce and maintain Key Performance Indicators KPIs around the testing performed
• Analyze the Performance issues found during test execution and provide recommendations to concerned team.
• Identify, diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks, through performance testing techniques and tools including investigating or remediating
• Identify potential limitations in software architectures: communicate improvements working with Product architects
• Monitor quality/performance risks and escalate, as required.
• Build reports for trending analysis.
• Performed the analysis and published the Performance Test Results that included System Metrics, Response Time Metrics and any Tuning recommended.
• Analyzed the database/store procedure and provided recommendations to DB team for tuning which brought down the response times, CPU utilization and improved overall system performance
• Analyze, understand, and communicate technical data, specifications, designs, etc.
• Train the offshore teams to work on Performance problems and to identify code level performance concerns and communicate with the team
• Follow up through the entire process to ensure the defect workflow is followed and the performance recommendations are implemented
• Analyze and understand Production support and Production concerns in the test environment.
• Identify and escalate issues and risks as appropriate.

Environment: Load runner VUGen 12.55, Performance Center, HP ALM, Unix, DB2, MQ scripting, Linux, Tomcat, HP Diagnostics Tool, AppDynamics, Splunk, Intrascope, HP Sitescope.

Confidential - Mooresville NC

Senior Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering the Non-Functional / Performance requirements from the development and Business team.
• Manage and mentor the offshore team
• Involved in bring0ing stakeholders together to design and agree on a Performance Strategy for testing Confidential application
• Translate software specifications and user requirements into performance test scenarios
• Involved in improving the Performance Test Process by implementing standard practices and processes
• Use Fiddler to understand each call's foot print for suggesting performance improvements early at UI level
• Created detailed Performance Test Plans including Load Models to test the different releases
• Ensure the Performance requirements are properly captured by performing Test Plan reviews with the stakeholders
• Manage script development in VUGen for Java based applications, MQ and web services.
• Manage execution of Performance tests that included Load, Fail Over, Peak, Endurance and Capacity Scalability tests using HP ALM.
• Attend status meetings with the project teams to ensure smooth execution of the project and send out status reports to the stakeholders
• Work with HP to resolve HP Performance Center installation issues and administered Performance Center Worked with HP for licensing requests and issues
• Used AppDynamics for monitoring the application servers under test
• Suggest multiple enhancement areas for the application under test for improving performance. Contributed to meeting the performance goals of the application
• Present the Performance Test results with any recommendations or enhancements
• Manage the submittal of the performance defects through the proper Defect Life Cycle for proper escalation
• Oversee and escalate any issues or risks that may rise during the Performance Test Life Cycle
• Involved in testing Web services - SOAP/JSON and micro services.

Environment: HP Load Runner12.02 (Web Services, Web HTTP/HTML), Wily, SPLUNK, HP ALM Quality Center 12.21

Confidential, Mooresville, NC

Senior Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering the Non-Functional / Performance requirements from the development and Business team.
• Manage and mentor the offshore team
• Involved in bring0ing stakeholders together to design and agree on a Performance Strategy for testing Confidential application
• Translate software specifications and user requirements into performance test scenarios
• Involved in improving the Performance Test Process by implementing standard practices and processes
• Use Fiddler to understand each call's foot print for suggesting performance improvements early at UI level
• Created detailed Performance Test Plans including Load Models to test the different releases
• Ensure the Performance requirements are properly captured by performing Test Plan reviews with the stakeholders
• Manage script development in VUGen for Java based applications, MQ and web services.
• Manage execution of Performance tests that included Load, Fail Over, Peak, Endurance and Capacity Scalability tests using HP ALM.
• Attend status meetings with the project teams to ensure smooth execution of the project and send out status reports to the stakeholders
• Work with HP to resolve HP Performance Center installation issues and administered Performance Center Worked with HP for licensing requests and issues
• Used AppDynamics for monitoring the application servers under test
• Suggest multiple enhancement areas for the application under test for improving performance. Contributed to meeting the performance goals of the application
• Present the Performance Test results with any recommendations or enhancements
• Manage the submittal of the performance defects through the proper Defect Life Cycle for proper escalation
• Oversee and escalate any issues or risks that may rise during the Performance Test Life Cycle
• Involved in testing Web services - SOAP/JSON and micro services.

Environment: HP Load Runner12.02(Web Services, Web HTTP/HTML), Wily, Splunk, Oracle 11G, HP ALM Quality Center 12.21

Confidential, Cary, NC

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering the Non-Functional / Performance requirements from the development teams and Management.
• Manage and mentor the team
• Analyze the Business and User requirements and create test plan, test specifications and test procedures for performance testing.
• Developed the Test Scenarios by translating the business models into scenarios
• Analyze the test data requirements and created test data that is based on the test data requirements
• Responsible for creating and maintaining test scripts
• Conduct Load/Stress and Endurance test for multiple iteration on each release.
• Identify test results meet the success criteria
• Monitor the execution using the monitoring tool called FogLight.
• Gather the monitoring data and analyze the test results to identify performance bottlenecks
• Co-ordinate with the respective teams to resolve the issues on time.
• Provide daily and weekly status report to the stakeholders

Environment: HP Load Runner11, FogLight, HP Site Scope, VSTS 2012

Confidential

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering the Non-Functional / Performance requirements from the development teams and Management.
• Manage and mentor the team
• Analyze the Business and User requirements and created test plan, test specifications and test procedures for performance testing.
• Developed the Test Scenarios by translating the business models into scenarios
• Analyze the test data requirements and created test data that is based on the test data requirements.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining test scripts
• Conduct Load/Stress and Endurance test for multiple iteration on each release.
• Identify test results meet the success criteria
• Monitor the execution using the monitoring tool called Intrascope Wily.
• Gathered the monitoring data and analyzed the test results to identify performance bottlenecks
• Provide daily and weekly status report to the stakeholders.
• Revising test scripts as needed to meet new and changing specifications
• Defined the test criteria and project schedules, and baselined the Test Plan with the help of project meetings and walkthroughs.
• Ran SQL queries for database testing for the verification of results retrieved.
• Documented the errors using Quality Center and tracked them to closure by communicating and co-coordinating with the development team.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and work with the respective teams to resolve the issues on time.

Environment: Loadrunner 11 using Web HTTP/HTML protocol. WebSphere, DB2, Connect Direct MQ, CA Wily and Quality Center