SUMMARY

• Around 8+ years of experience in the IT Industry & experience in Performance testing of Web and Client/Server applications on UNIX/Windows environment to secure a position of Software Test Engineer.
• 8+ years of experience in developing Performance Test Plans and Performance test Scenarios using requirements and design documents while specifying Test Approach, Strategy, Scope, Architecture, Environment, Roles and Responsibilities.
• Experienced in working across entire business team to collect non - functional requirements, formulate scalable test strategies and enforce performance testing.
• Experienced in working with multiple businesses and projects to drive performance engineering best practices and enhance performance quality of the products.
• Work with the IT & Operations team to design, build and troubleshoot performance test environments.
• Experienced in creating script with VUGEN of Load Runner.
• Experienced in Back end, Performance, Load, Stress, and Endurance Testing.
• Analyze test results and summarize overall performance. Designs, develops and implement test data management strategy for performance testing.
• Experienced in using automation tools such as, HP LoadRunner, HP Performance center, and ALM.
• Experienced in working with Infrastructure Impact Analysis team to identify configuration issues and bottlenecks using LoadRunner.
• Experienced in tuning application to improve response times, and overall performance using LoadRunner.
• Experienced in developing Load test scenarios using LoadRunner to load the server with virtual user requests and tests the performance under load/stress conditions.
• Experienced in Site Scope, to monitor the whole infrastructure.
• Experienced in Load testing Scenario creation and execution, Measured Throughput, Hits per second, Response time, and Transaction time using HP LoadRunner and Performance center.
• Experienced in identifying Memory Leak issue, Java Heap, Garbage collection issues.
• Experienced in using Performance Center to execute step, load and stress tests to measure and report response times, server resource utilization to the Infrastructure team.
• Experienced in using ALM/Quality Center for Requirement Management, Test Planning, Test Case development, Test Case execution and Defect Tracking.
• Participates in technical architecture and design discussions to determine performance testing approach and assures the quality of and adherence to system/software product standards processes and procedures
• Experienced on Installation, configure and support of Windows & Linux O/S & Application software.
• Self-starter with the ability to supervise and allocate tasks and responsibilities, define and establish procedures and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Good understanding of Technical Trends, Architectures and highly motivated to know more about current events, new software and products within the market.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: UNIX, LINUX, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 , MS-DOS

Testing tools: LoadRunner, HP ALM, HP Performance Center

Monitoring Tools: SiteScope, Dynatrace, AppDynamics

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML

Database: Oracle 9i/10g/11i, MS SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 , MS Access

Web Server: MS IIS, Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for segments of the planning, design, and execution of tests.
• Assist in the design, analysis and implementation of testing solutions.
• Present conclusions and recommendations and keep team members informed of project status
• Performance tests against Applications with a multi-tier architecture.
• Preform the analysis of the data gathered from performance tests with an eye towards application performance, availability and capacity
• Responsible for monitoring web server and application servers through Dynatrace.
• Responsible for creating and executing scripts in SOAP UI for webservices.
• Responsible for finding memory leaks, timeout issues, deadlocks, thread issues through Dynatrace.
• Documentation and communication of results- Status reporting
• Request Deployment of build for performance Test as per the manager and create a Comparison or Trend report in Excel.
• Experience in agile projects for performance testing.
• Responsible for working on UNIX environments.
• Executing Load test, Web Performance Test, modify scripts, adding Load Test Plugins, Web Test plugins, and Web request Plugins
• Changed the runtime settings such as pacing, Think-time, Log settings, and timeout settings in Visual Studio Web Performance Test to simulate the real scenario.

Environment: Load Runner 12.02, Webservices, HP ALM 12.00, MS SQL Server, VB Script, J2EE, JAVA, XML, HTML, MS-office, Windows, Unix, Oracle, Dynatrace.

Confidential, San Antonio, Texas

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Create Performance Test Scenarios from Use cases and Requirements.
• Create Test Scripts by using VUGEN & SoapUI.
• Create & execute Test cases and interacted with various departments to formulate and report tests results.
• Extensive Parameterization of the VUGEN scripts to ensure the real time load conditions.
• Configured and ran scenarios in Controller using scripts created in VUGEN.
• Worked on controller to create scenario as needed and run the load test
• Perform Sanity tests on the daily built. Integrated build with other releases/builds.
• Create Traceability matrix and for viewing the effects cause by a requirement change and measuring the task completion progress across different functionalities using ALM.
• Use ALM to plan tests, manage test assets, create and run manual and external scripts to check GUI and functional features.
• Use ALM to track bugs and report bugs to the developers.
• Work with Users and Business Analysts to define and design Load test scenarios and Test data.
• Create Test Script for Performance testing using LoadRunner.
• Create scenarios using Ramp Up and Ramp Down in LoadRunner.
• Use LoadRunner to check the source of Performance delay, Network or client delays, CPU performance, and Input and output delays.
• Parameterize scripts to handle user input data and correlate scripts to process server return data via LoadRunner.
• Develop Base line scripts for Performance testing of the application using LoadRunner.
• Involve in troubleshooting Errors by enhancing the Vuser scripts to handle errors with LoadRunner.
• HP Diagnostics & Hp SiteScope to integrate with LR to monitor more details of the application in different layers to find out root cause of any bottlenecks
• Responsible for working on AppDynamics for monitoring the servers.
• Update Daily and Weekly Status reports to the Team Lead, Test Groups and Test Managers to co-ordinate test cycles.
• Involve in maintaining Share point portal server with MS Office, Web applications and MS Access, attending reviews and ensuring all documentation.
• Participate in daily status calls to communicate with the team members and discuss about known issues, defects and schedule.

Environment: Load Runner 11/11.5, HP ALM 11.5, MS SQL Server, VB Script, J2EE, JAVA, XML, HTML, MS-office, Windows, Unix, Oracle, Hp Diagnostics, AppDynamics. JProfiler,Toad.

Confidential, Des Moines, Iowa

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Creating Performance Test Plan and Test Cases based on Requirements.
• Involved in developing test strategy, test plans, test scripts, test summary and exit reports.
• Involved in performing load and stress test on the application and server by configuring LoadRunner to simulate hundreds of virtual users and provided key metrics to the management.
• Creating Performance test script with VUGEN and SoapUI.
• Configured and used SiteScope Performance Monitor to monitor and analyze the performance of the server by generating various reports from CPU utilization, Memory Usage to load average etc.
• As an Automation Engineer carried out testing, to check whether the application is functioning as per the design documentation and functional requirements.
• Involved in conducting stress tests and volume tests against the application using LoadRunner. Performed Data Driven and Security Testing.
• Worked closely with the Release Management team for all the upcoming releases.
• Worked actively in Agile methodology and contributed in regular sprints.
• Used HP Quality Center for issue management and tracking for all the related projects.
• Developed and documented requirements traceability matrix, defect reporting and tracking and analyzed the entire system based on the design specifications using Quality Center.
• Used SQL queries extensively for Back end testing.
• Performed Load Testing by creating Virtual Users, using VUGEN using LoadRunner.
• Used LoadRunner to do performance testing to measure different metrics.
• Recorded and enhanced Vuser Scripts by inserting Transaction points, Rendezvous points into Vuser Script in LoadRunner.
• Analyzed the results using Online Monitors and graphs to identify bottlenecks in the server resources using LoadRunner, Hp Diagnostics & SiteScope.
• Involved in regular discussions with developers regarding defects.

Environment: Quality Center, LoadRunner, Windows, MS SQL Server, Oracle, J2EE, HTML, SQL, Java Script, UNIX, Hp Diagnostics, Hp SiteScope.

Confidential, Agoura Hills CA

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Installed various LoadRunner components like Load Generator, Agent, Controller and Analysis components.
• Review & analyze the Business Requirements and Functional Specifications.
• Prepared Test cases based on Use case scenarios.
• Involved in Functional testing and executing test cases manually.
• Creating performance test script with VUGEN.
• Involved in different phases of testing such as System Integration, Negative testing, End-to-End, Back end, Performance, Load and Stress testing.
• Used LoadRunner Analysis to create graphs and reports and evaluated the performance.
• Reported performance issues to the development team and worked with them to re-test the issues and tested applications both in QA and Production environment.
• Updated the Test scenarios according to new business rules and specifications.
• Maintained the function library scripts to cover all the new functionality for each release.

Environment: Quality Center, LoadRunner, UNIX, Windows, VBScript, J2EE, HTML, SQL, Java Script, Toad, MS SQL Server, Hp Diagnostics, Hp Site scope.