SUMMARY:

• Use my vast 10+ years’ experience in performance engineering to overcome any new challenges in rapidly changing applications and contribute to fine tune them. In Short, I want to help build zero performance issue systems.
• Gathering System Level Performance requirements, Developing Performance Test plans, Creating Scripts, Executing the scripts and Monitoring the application.
• Executed Baseline test, Average Load Test, Stress Test and Endurance Test with the help of performance testing tools.
• Monitored the application in real time to identifying the bottlenecks and doing the root cause analysis.
• Extensively used “C” to cater different scenarios while scripting in Confidential .
• Captured the dynamic values coming from the server and converted into string.
• Used a lot of string functions to manipulate the strings as needed.
• Extremely strong in Using the Confidential . Scripted various Java, .Net application and legacy applications.
• Captured many complex dynamic values using manual and automatic correlations.
• Used controller to create various scenarios and used IP spoofing as well to create realistic load.
• Used monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Wily Introscope, Riverbed (TTW,AIX), SiteScope to provide performance trends at - a-glance.
• Track SQL statements responsible for slow performance.
• Performed Code-level diagnostics and Cross-Application Tracing. Monitor critical business transactions independent of application

SKILLS:

• C
• C++
• SQL
• Unix Shell
• Java Script
• ASP
• JSP
• HTML
• DHTML
• JAVA/J2EE
• Loadrunner
• Neoload
• Performance Center
• Jmeter
• QTP
• Silk Performer
• Java Diagnostics
• Wily Introscope
• Sitescope
• Jprobe
• UFT
• AppDynamics
• Riverbed Tools(TTW,ARX,AIX)
• MS Office
• SAP
• Siebel
• SOA apps
• 3 - tier apps
• Quality Center
• Sybase
• Unify (RDBMS)
• MS Access
• Oracle
• Informix
• DB2
• Apache 2.x
• Tomcat 5.x
• Weblogic 8.x
• Websphere 5.x
• IIS 5.x/6.x
• JBoss
• Mobil Tru client,Web HTTP/HTML, Web services, ODBC, Oracle NCA, Click and Script, Ajax, SAPGUI-Web, Flex, Silverlight

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MI

Sr Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with a team of 10 members and responsible for gathering requirements for different applications.
• Worked with the development team to understand the application and to define the Test Objective.
• Responsible for creation and maintenance of Performance Test Scripts and libraries.
• Coordinating with offshore team on day to day basis to ensure smooth execution.
• Developed scripts using HP LoadRunner with different protocols(Web Http/Html, WebServices).
• Used C language (loops, Randomizations functions, String Tokenizing) in developing the scripts.
• Successful in converting Legacy scripts from HP LoadRunner to Neoload.
• Used JavaScript in developing Neoload scripts for customizing. Protocols used are Web(Http/Html),WebServices, ODBC.
• Worked extensively on Correlations on Parameterisation in both HP LoadRunner and Neoload.
• Worked on JMeter scripts for few applications with samplers like HTTP Request and SOAP Request.
• Configured master and slave machines for running tests through JMeter.
• Responsible for creating the Production load test scripts using HP LoadRunner and Neoload for Holiday Readiness Programme.
• Mostly worked on eCommerce web, backend webservices and mobile applications.
• Design scenarios in HP tools and Neoload to evaluate the performance of the application. Execute different kinds of performance tests like load test, stress, volume and endurance tests.
• Worked with Engineer Team in setting the LG's and virtual setup of third party system to test applications.
• Used HP Service Virtualization Environment to test Web Services API Driven Applications.
• Installed AppyDynamics agents in AppServers and Created dashboards in AppDynamics to monitor the server metrics
• Used AppDynamics to perform transactional analysis on slow performing transactions
• Used AppDynamics to perform Cross-Application Tracing
• Used IP Spoofing whenever necessary to create a realistic load.
• Used Riverbed Tools(TTW,AIX) to monitor the metrics like CPU, Memory, Exceps/sec in analyzing the application's performance.
• Issues Identified are logged as defects and worked with Engineering team and development teams in improving the performance of the application.
• Identifed Memory leak issue for an application with help of Engineering team and worked closely with Developement team in resolving the issue.
• Worked with Engineering Team to provide Performance Test Results to development Team with detailed information about the application's Performance
• Never missed the deadline when required to do Load Testing.

Environment: HP Loadrunner, HP Service Virtualization, Neoload, .Net, AppDynamics, SQL, Jmeter, Riverbed Tools(TTW,ARX, AIX), Apache Tomcat, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, TOAD.

Confidential, CA

Sr Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with a teammembers and responsible for gathering requirements for different applications.
• Worked with the development team to understand the application and to define the Test Objective.
• Responsible for creation and maintenance of Performance Test Scripts and libraries.
• Coordinating with offshore team on day to day basis to ensure smooth execution.
• Developed scripts using HP LoadRunner with different protocols(Web Http/Html, WebServices).
• Used C language (loops, Randomizations functions, String Tokenizing) in developing the scripts.
• Successful in converting Legacy scripts from HP LoadRunner to Neoload.
• Used JavaScript in developing Neoload scripts for customizing. Protocols used are Web(Http/Html),WebServices, ODBC.
• Worked extensively on Correlations on Parameterisation in both HP LoadRunner and Neoload.
• Worked on JMeter scripts for few applications with samplers like HTTP Request and SOAP Request.
• Configured master and slave machines for running tests through JMeter.
• Responsible for creating the Production load test scripts using HP LoadRunner and Neoload for Holiday Readiness Programme.
• Design scenarios in HP tools to evaluate the performance of the application. Execute different kinds of performance tests like load test, stress, volume and endurance tests.
• Worked with Engineer Team in setting the LG's and virtual setup of third party system to test applications.
• Used HP Service Virtualization Environment to test Web Services API Driven Applications.
• Installed AppyDynamics agents in AppServers and Created dashboards in AppDynamics to monitor the server metrics
• Used AppDynamics to perform transactional analysis on slow performing transactions
• Used AppDynamics to perform Cross-Application Tracing
• Used IP Spoofing whenever necessary to create a realistic load.
• Used Riverbed Tools(TTW,AIX) to monitor the metrics like CPU, Memory, Exceps/sec in analyzing the application's performance.
• Issues Identified are logged as defects and worked with Engineering team and development teams in improving the performance of the application.
• Identifed Memory leak issue for an application with help of Engineering team and worked closely with Developement team in resolving the issue.
• Worked with Engineering Team to provide Performance Test Results to development Team with detailed information about the application's Performance
• Never missed the deadline when required to do Load Testing.

Environment: HP Loadrunner, HP Service Virtualization, Neoload, .Net, AppDynamics, SQL, Jmeter, Riverbed Tools(TTW,ARX, AIX), Apache Tomcat, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, TOAD.

Confidential, OH

Sr Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented performance test frameworks for improving test efficiency.
• Monitor resources to identify performance bottlenecks.
• Developed Vuser scripts using Ajax true Client (Click and Script), Web Services, Microsoft .Net, ODBC, Oracle NCA, PeopleSoft Enterprise protocols.
• Identified functionality and performance issues, including: deadlock conditions, database connectivity problems, and system crashes under load.
• Provided tuning recommendations and future memory requirements to Primary DBA team to make the changes in Database like table reorg, add enough spaces to database.
• Involved in SQL Query tuning and provided tuning recommendations to ERP jobs, time/CPU consuming queries
• Perform root cause analysis on failures. Resolve performance tuning related issues and queries.
• Load and stress tested an intranet online procurement application.
• Load and stress tested a clustered Business Object's Web Intelligence deployment.
• Determined the scalability of the clustered configuration and benchmarked the cluster's performance under load.
• Identified configuration bottlenecks in the MS IIS and NT server and provided recommendations to overcome them.
• Developed a very flexible LoadRunner script that allowed for fast configuration changes during testing.
• Verified load balancer setting using IP spoofing feature of Performance Center to discover issues with load balancer due to IP sticky.
• Developed test scripts for data driven tests and regression tests using QTP.
• Performed Ad-Hoc testing, end-to-end testing, System testing, Regression testing, and Function testing.
• Implemented HP ALM Performance Center as a Enterprise Level
• Configured 22 load generators and 10 controllers in HP ALM Performance Center.
• Primarily used HPSitescope and Splunk for Monitoring the Applications.
• Migrate various testing team into New HP ALM Performance Center environment.
• Writing SQL queries for back end verification and validation using several sql statements and joins
• Worked extensively on Java Framework applications.
• Imported jar files to create Java Scripts for doing the Performance testing.
• Used Java Script for replicating a realistic scenarios using Confidential .
• Extensively used Performance Monitoring tools, SiteScope and HP RUM, to analyze the System resources bottlenecks like Memory Leaks, CPU & Network Bottlenecks as well as problematic application & DB components.
• Used Load Runner Correlation, Content Check, Parameterization features. Tested application for maximum load.
• Worked with mq series and did performance testing on them.
• Analyzed the system resource graphs, network monitor graphs and error graphs to identify transaction performance, network problems and scenario results respectively.
• Created and executed goal oriented scenario under Virtual Users and assessed the site using LoadRunner. Configured windows resource monitor to measure performance such as File Data operations/sec, Processor time and Memory page faults/sec.
• Coordinated with Middleware, legacy teams to monitor data while Performance Testing the Inbound and Outbound scenarios.
• Monitored the Apache Tomcat and looked for potential bottlenecks.
• Discussed the analysis with the client and presented the risks before the release went to production.
• Worked with developers, Business Analysts and Release managers to discussed ways to fix the defects.
• Always met the deadline when required to do Load testing.

Environment: Loadrunner/HP ALM Performance Center, Wily Introscope,Ajax, Jmeter Splunk, Quality Center, Java, QTP, JAVA, Apache Tomcat, Oracle, MQ series (IBM and MS), C, RUP Methodologies, SQL, UNIX.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Project Initiation/Kick off and worked with different teams to find out the needs of Testing and filled out the Questionnaire for Test Plan.
• Worked closely with applications team in defining the test objective, Test Scenario Design, and Test data needs.
• Developed scripts with single protocol and multi protocols.
• Coordinated with the applications team and involved in creating test data.
• Developed a script for POC with TruClient Protocol.
• Used Firebug tool to write custom code in the script.
• Used Correlation to handle Dynamic Values, and Parameterized actions and created files using various options in LR Confidential .
• Involved in configuring the monitors (Introscope and OpTier) to monitor the applications during testing.
• Responsible for creating different types of Test scenario’s (100% Load, 200% Load, Duration, Duration Degradation, and Spike).
• Developed SOASTA test scripts and performed some performance test executions as POC using JavaScript.
• Identified bottlenecks and worked with applications teams in improving the performance of the application.
• Used dynatrace to Track SQL statements responsible for slow performance.
• Used Dynatrace to Monitor critical business transactions independent of application
• Responsible for documenting the test summary report.
• Used Parasoft SOA Test tool to test webservices.
• Developed Vuser scripts using Performance Center Web (HTTP/HTML), .Net, and Web Services (SOAP/SOA), Citrix, Oracle NCA, protocols based on the user workflows
• Enhanced Vuser scripts by adding correlations, parameters, condition controls, and checking/validation functions
• Analyzed Transaction Profile diagrams to identify the business process that needs load testing
• Analyzed the server resources such as Available Bytes and Process Bytes for Memory Leaks using Sitescope, DynaTrace.
• Parameterized test scripts to send realistic data to the server and avoid data caching
• Used extensive correlation to improvise the existing LoadRunner scripts.
• Monitored system performance using Sitescope.
• Worked closely with Production Managers, Technical Managers and Business Managers in planning, scheduling, developing, and executing performance tests

Environment: HP Loadrunner, Parasoft SOA Test tool, Performance Center, Dynatrace, Jmeter, SOASTA, QC, Agile Methodology, Introscope, Sitescope, Apache Tomcat,JAVA,Oracle.

Confidential

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Determined performance requirements and goals based on requirements and architecture.
• Monitor resources to identify performance bottlenecks.
• Identified functionality and performance issues, including: deadlock conditions, database connectivity problems, and system crashes under load.
• Load and stress tested an intranet online procurement application.
• Load and stress tested a clustered Business Object's Web Intelligence deployment.
• Determined the scalability of the clustered configuration and benchmarked the cluster's performance under load.
• Identified configuration bottlenecks in the MS IIS and NT server and provided recommendations to overcome them.
• Developed a very flexible LoadRunner script that allowed for fast configuration changes during testing.
• Verified load balancer setting using IP spoofing feature of Performance Center to discover issues with load balancer due to IP sticky.
• Developed test scripts for data driven tests and regression tests using QTP.
• Performed Ad-Hoc testing, end-to-end testing, System testing, Regression testing, and Function testing.
• Implemented HP ALM Performance Center as a Enterprise Level
• Configured 22 load generators and 10 controllers in HP ALM Performance Center.
• Migrate various testing team into New HP ALM Performance Center environment.
• Writing SQL queries for back end verification and validation using several sql statements and joins
• Worked extensively on Java Framework applications.
• Imported jar files to create Java Scripts for doing the Performance testing.
• Used Java Script for replicating a realistic scenarios using Confidential .
• Extensively used Performance Monitoring tools, SiteScope and HP RUM, to analyze the System resources bottlenecks like Memory Leaks, CPU & Network Bottlenecks as well as problematic application & DB components.
• Used Load Runner Correlation, Content Check, Parameterization features. Tested application for maximum load.
• Worked with mq series and did performance testing on them.
• Analyzed the system resource graphs, network monitor graphs and error graphs to identify transaction performance, network problems and scenario results respectively.
• Created and executed goal oriented scenario under Virtual Users and assessed the site using LoadRunner. Configured windows resource monitor to measure performance such as File Data operations/sec, Processor time and Memory page faults/sec.
• Coordinated with Middleware, legacy teams to monitor data while Performance Testing the Inbound and Outbound scenarios.
• Monitored the Apache Tomcat and looked for potential bottlenecks.
• Discussed the analysis with the client and presented the risks before the release went to production.
• Worked with developers, Business Analysts and Release managers to discussed ways to fix the defects.
• Always met the deadline when required to do Load testing.

Environment: Loadrunner/HP ALM Performance Center, Wily Introscope, Jmeter Quality Center, QTP, JAVA, Apache Tomcat, Oracle, MQ series (IBM and MS), C, RUP Methodologies, SQL, UNIX.

Confidential, NC

Performance tester

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test plan and Test specifications based on Functional Requirement Specifications and System Design Specifications for ecommerce application.
• Developed load test scripts using LoadRunner Confidential to make them flexible and useful for Regression testing.
• Parameterized actions and created files using random, sequential and unique options in LoadRunner Confidential .
• Developed VUser Scripts using protocols like Web (http/html), Web Services, .Net, Citrix and Oracle NCA.
• Used Correlation to handle the Dynamic return values and scheduled the test under work load compositions.
• Enhanced Vuser scripts with transactions, rendezvous points, functions, parameterization and correlation.
• Create scenario using LoadRunner to do Load and Stress test the Web based ecommerce Application.
• Tested REST APIs using Jmeter.
• Created Jmeter test plan with custom java code for updating jmeter variables.
• Executed LoadRunner scenarios using LoadRunner Controller - performance Center and analyzed the results through LoadRunner Analysis to find the bottlenecks in networks and server resources including deadlock conditions, database connectivity problems and system crashes under load.
• Configured Load Runner monitors to monitor performance of individual Hosts behavior on load.
• Analyzed the results and Created Analysis Report through LoadRunner Analysis, prepared and submitted Exit Report with Recommendations.
• Extensively worked LoadRunner in analyzing Content Distribution Services application performance for varying Loads and Stress conditions.
• Measured the response time at different points in the application using Site Scope monitoring tool.
• Responsible for testing Oracle DB.
• Analyzed the system resource graphs, network monitor graphs and error graphs to identify transaction performance, network problems and scenario results respectively.
• Build and execute SQL queries to verify the data updates to various tables and ensure data quality and integrity.
• Tested C#.Net, ASP.Net and VB.Net applications.

Environment: Performance Center, LoadRunner, Sitescope, Quality Center, Jmeter, .NET, IIS, MS Sql, C, C++, Agile Methodologies, UNIX

Confidential, NY

Software Engineer/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing application and components behavior with heavier loads and optimizing server configurations.
• Interacted with the Business community and the end users to gather requirements and developing (User Requirement Specification) URS documents.
• Generated Performance Test plan in order to Execute Performance Testing Using Load runner.
• Analyzed and compared the scripts with different testing tools like Seague (Silk) and RSW and created workloads/ Scenarios and conducted tests for Vusers
• Worked close with clients Interface with developers, project managers, and management in the development.
• Developed Vuser scripts using LoadRunner Web (HTTP/HTML), SAP WEB protocol based on the user workflows
• Tested web services applications using SOAP Client as well as by using WSDL Files.
• Responsible for Web Services testing and testing AJAX http request.
• Enhanced Vuser scripts by introducing the timer blocks, by parameterizing user id’s to run the script for multiple users
• Created Various Vuser Scripts basing on the Critical Transactions Used by the Real Time users using Confidential of Load Runner.
• Performed lot of enhancements in the Vuser Scripts like Parameterization, Correlation, and Rendezvous Points and so on using Confidential of Load Runner.
• Executed different Scenarios Using Controller of Load Runner like Bench Marking, Increasing Load, Stress and Soak tests.
• Developed and deployed test Load scripts to do end to end performance testing using Load Runner.
• Implemented and maintained an effective performance test environment.
• Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks during the development lifecycle.
• Accurately produce regular project status reports to senior management to ensure on-time project launch.
• Work closely with software developers and take an active role in ensuring that the software components meet the highest quality standards
• Used to identify the queries which were taking too long and optimize those queries to improve performance
• Monitored system performance using Gomez and Sitescope.
• Memory leaks at each Component level were identified and analyzed.
• Worked closely with Production Managers, Technical Managers and Business Managers in planning, scheduling, developing, and executing performance tests.
• Interacted with developers during testing for identifying memory leaks, fixing bugs and for optimizing server settings at web, app and database levels.

Environment: Load Runner, Java Diagnostics, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Java, Apache, Tomcat, Oracle, Web Logic, MQ series (IBM and MS), Quality Center, QTP.