SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of Quality Assurance experience as a “Performance Tester” with strong expertise in Performance/Load & Stress Testing using HP LoadRunner, Performance Center, JMeter and Neo Load.
• Proficient in creating and enhancing scripts, executing scripts and analyzing Performance results using LoadRunner.
• Accountable for consulting and advising all teams assisting with the development and maintenance of reporting metrics to determine the effectiveness of Quality Assurance efforts across client’s applications.
• Experienced in designing multiple LoadRunner scripts (VuGen) with different protocols like Web (Http/Html), Ajax, Web services for load testing different applications.
• Excellent skills in performance, stress, load, system, user acceptance, regression and functionality testing.
• Good experience in writing non - functional test cases according to the customer Specifications.
• Proficient in Recording, Correlation, Parameterization, and debugging of LoadRunner scripts using LoadRunner.
• Developed and deployed test Load scripts to do end to end performance testing using Neo Load, LoadRunner and JMeter.
• Strong skills using, installing, and configuring all components of Load Runner including VUGen, Controller, Analysis, and Load Generators.
• Experienced in scheduling and running many variations as needed of load tests of the target application, varying parameters such as the number of users, the speed of ramp up/ramp down of users, and simulated user think-time and pacing.
• Coordinating and tracking all projects for seamless releases using Project Management System JIRA.
• Experience in analysis, design, implementation, execution, maintenance, support and documentation for system testing.
• Proficient in Creating and Enhancing scripts, Executing Tests and Analyzing Performance results using JMeter & Neo Load.
• Experienced in performance tuning database servers, application servers such as WebLogic and WebSphere and web servers such as Apache.
• Expertise experience in Non-Functional Specifications, Test Planning/Strategy, test Estimates, Use Cases, Business Requirements, Business Rules to prepare Test Schedules, identify risks, Identify Test Requirements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automation Tools: LoadRunner, Performance Center, JMeter, Neo Load, Soap and REST services

LoadRunner Protocols: Web (http/html), Web Services, Ajax Tru Client

Test Monitoring Tools: New Relic, Dynatrace, Splunk

Test Management: Quality Center, JIRA, Confluence, Wiki

Management Tools: MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio

Database: MS Access, SQL Server, Oracle

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL (Stored Procedures, Functions, Triggers, Cursors), C, C/C++, HTML 4.0, Shell Scripting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MO

Senior Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Gathering Non Functional Requirements, Business Processes and volume details necessary for Performance Testing.
• Created Test Plan/Strategy, which includes Testing Resources, Testing Strategy, Risks and testing of end-to-end scenarios.
• Created LoadRunner scripts using VUGen with different protocols like, true client, Web, Webs services that allowed for fast configuration changes during testing.
• Developed and deployed test Load scripts to do end to end performance testing using Neo Load, LoadRunner and JMeter.
• Developed Vuser Scripts by using Vugen and enhanced the scripts with Parameterization and Correlation
• Created Various Vuser Scripts based on the Transactions such as Transfer funds, My Accounts, Customer service, Alerts, using VuGen of Load Runner.
• Run full formal performance test including Load, Peak, and Fail over tests.
• Exposure of preparing & presenting Test Execution Reports, Defect Tracking & Weekly Status Reports to the project team.
• Experienced in Designing & Execution of Test criteria, Scenarios, & Scripts from business requirements.
• Enhance the script for correlation, prepare the test data as per the parameterization and debug the script.
• Scheduling the test, performed Smoke Test, Load test and Stress test.
• Monitoring the test using Wily Introscope, Splunk while test running.
• Coordinating Application team while running the test.
• Monitored the metrics such as response time both HQ and branch, throughput and memory.
• Create the performance test reports and review with application team.

Environment: LoadRunner, Performance Center, JMeter, Neo Load, Putty, Splunk, Web Http/Html, Web Services, Java, JavaScript, HTML.

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering business requirements and designing Test strategy document.
• Responsible for reviewing test designs with project and business teams and getting the approval from all before creating and running the test scripts.
• Developed Neo Load scripts(transactions) based on the requirements for both web and mobile applications
• Recording scripts in Neo Load. Correlating and parameterizing the scripts to support multiple users and furthermore validating user path
• Setting up test data in perf environment based on the production metrics.
• Executing the load tests in Neo Load based on the business requirements (Design and Run-time) and monitoring the results in real time
• Identify system/application bottlenecks and work to facilitate the tuning of the application/environment in order to optimize capacity and improve performance of the application in order to handle peak workloads generated via HP LoadRunner to simulate activity.
• Correlated and Parameterized test scripts to capture Dynamic data and input various test data as per business requirements.
• Using Performance Center, execute multi-user performance tests, used online monitors, real-time output messages and other features of the Loadrunner Controller/Performance center.
• Configured the LoadRunner controller for running the tests. Verifying that the LoadRunner scripts are working as expected on different Load generator machines.
• Monitoring Perf servers and Web services in Dynatrace.
• Monitoring the logs in Splunk while running the performance and load tests.
• Responsible for setting up monitors to monitor network activities and bottlenecks.
• Created detailed test status reports, performance capacity reports, web trend analysis reports, and graphical charts for upper management using Load Runner analysis component.

Environment: /Tools: Neoload, Performance Center, JMeter, Neo Load, Putty, Splunk, Web Http/Html, Web Services, Java, JavaScript, HTML.

Confidential, Kansas, MO

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing scenarios for performance testing, generating scripts and handling correlation as well as parameterization using LoadRunner.
• Developed Scripts in HTML/HTTP, Web Services and Citrix protocol in LoadRunner.
• Developed scripts in JMeter and executed tests with a larger number of threads.
• Created LoadRunner scenarios and scheduled the Virtual Users to generate realistic load on the server using LoadRunner(Load generator machine)
• Perform the monitoring performance of the application and database servers during the test run using tools like SiteScope and Wily Introscope.
• Analyzed results and provided Developers, System Analysts, Application Architects and Microsoft Personnel with information resulting in performance tuning the Application.

Environment: /Tools: LoadRunner, Performance Center, JMeter, Neo Load, Putty, Splunk, Web Http/Html, Web Services, Java, JavaScript, HTML.

Confidential

LoadRunner Tester

Responsibilities:

• Experience in gathering business requirements and creating load test design document.
• Developed LoadRunner Scripts in Web HTTP/HTML, Web Services.
• Reviewed testing designs before the testing phase and worked with the team in developing new testing strategies for functional and performance testing.
• E xecuted performance test and performance analysis with LoadRunner.
• Used Performance Center to execute Tests and Dynatrace for analyzing root-cause of performance bottlenecks.
• Responsible for monitoring the Test results, Transaction Response Time, measuring the CPU and Memory Utilization of Servers.

Environment: /Tools: LoadRunner, Performance Center, JMeter, Neo Load, Putty, Splunk, Web Http/Html, Web Services, Java, JavaScript, HTML.