Performance Engineering Lead Resume

SUMMARY

A seasoned QA professional with 7 years of recent experience in performance testing and tuning and 6 years in test tools development. Functional background in finance, media and entertainment, and telecom domains. Familiar with various development and testing life cycles (Waterfall, Agile, Kanban).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Performance and Automation: JMeter, Loadrunner, Cloudtest, Selenium, Postman, SoapUI

Application Performance Monitoring & Observability: AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic, Solarwinds, Splunk, Elasticsearch, Grafana, mPulse, Rigor, Linux and Windows performance monitoring tools, vmstat, sar, iostat, mpstat, free, top, ps, proc and sys, Perfmon

Client Side and Network: Chrome Developer Tools & Lighthouse, Firefox Developer Tools, MicroFocus Network Virtualization, yslow, Fiddler, Wireshark

Databases: MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database 12c

Languages and Scripting: Java, C, C++, SQL, Git, PowerShell, Linux Shell Scripting (bash)

Cloud and Continuous Testing: AWS, Jenkins and IBM uDeploy

Test Management: JIRA, ALM, Quality Center, ServiceNow

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Performance Engineering Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Lead and oversaw operations by enhancing existing policies and procedures for the team of 7 offshore performance testers.
Carried out day - to-day activities across non-functional requirements gathering, workload modeling, test design, test plan creation, scripting, test execution, resource monitoring, results analysis, reporting, tuning and results walkthroughs.
Proven track record with Webservices, microservices, Web/HTTP, TruClient, Citrix, RDP, SAP protocols on Client-Server, Batch Processing and iOS & Android Confidential Applications.
Ensured reliability, availability and performance of enterprise applications using Static tests, Peak/Load/Volume tests, Soak/Endurance tests, Step/Scalability/Capacity/Breakpoint tests for both small- and large-scale enterprise-hosted and cloud-hosted apps.
Analyzed and optimized enterprise Java applications using heap analysis, GC analysis, JVM tuning, VisualVM, VisualGC and JConsole, resulting in 10% to 30% reduction in latency and garbage collection time.
Created automated build jobs as part of Continuous Testing solution in Jenkins, integrating both JMeter and Loadrunner test cases resulting in an estimated 25% effort savings.
Setup on-premise and cloud-based test solutions - AWS, Linux and Docker based load generators for JMeter and Loadrunner, and instrumented Dynatrace and JIRA.
Successfully tested live and static video streaming for HDS and HLS formats.
Managed and monitored Real User Monitoring solution (Akamai mPulse, AppDynamics) and leveraged Synthetic Monitoring solution (Rigor).
Tested Confidential apps using Akamai Touchtest and Deviceconnect (Gigafox).

Performance Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

End - to-end load testing and analysis completed for Web apps, ETL/Batch processing, Databases using JMeter and Loadrunner.
Involved in all phases of testing - requirements elicitation, efforts estimation, script creation, test planning, test executions, infrastructure metrics, results analysis & reporting, tools management, monitoring instrumentation.
Automated load testing of Managed File Transfer Systems by building a PowerShell-based test suite resulting in ~70% effort savings.
Created a batch resource graphing tool for HP OpenView Performance Manager.
Co-created a framework for generating millions of rows of test data for MS SQL database.
Designed and implemented log parsers, resource metrics calculators, test data management and batch jobs execution utilities.

Performance Tester

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

Gathered non - functional requirements and analyzed user stories to generate robust performance test scenarios, solid workload models and detailed test plans.
Tested various applications across various LOBs for performance optimization and capacity planning.
Designed robust and extensible automated Web HTTP/HTML, Java VUser, SOA, RDP, Citrix ICA test scripts using Loadrunner.
Implemented and administered various network testing and network virtualization tools - Infosys INITS, Infosys WindTunnel, and Shunra suite of tools.

Technology Analyst

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Responsibilities:

Carried out infrastructure development and monitoring for production architecture in AWS Cloud across EC2, S3, AMIs, CloudWatch.
Managed onshore infrastructure support activities for the production infrastructure migration for MetroPCS from legacy on - premise systems to AWS hybrid cloud.
Revamped and strengthened security - Handled AWS security groups, firewalls, SSL certificates and carried out awareness creation campaigns.

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