SUMMARY:

• Overall 8 + years of diverse experience in IT field with focus on Performance Testing, and Performance engineering of Web - based, Web-services and Client/Server applications using various proprietary, open source and commercial tools.
• Proficient in strategy-planning, test scripting, test execution, result analysis and reporting.
• Extensive knowledge of Software Testing Life Cycle from Requirement Analysis to Going Live.
• Strong expertise in Load Runner, HP Performance Center and its various protocols.
• Expertise in scripting Web (HTTP/HTML), Web Services, True Client, and SAP -GUI protocols .
• Experience in Jenkins, Jira and Selenuim
• Exposure in database validation using SQL or PL/SQL on Oracle and MS SQL Server databases .
• Experience in open source tool like Jmeter
• Used various monitoring tools like perfmon, Sitescope, Telnet, Hyperic HQ and XTS
• Involved in performance test planning, execution, supporting tuning and capacity planning.
• Good experience in Defect Tracking and Reporting using HP Quality Center
• Experience in testing in Azure Environment using ATE(Azure Test Environment)
• Good knowledge in using Tools like TOAD, Putty etc
• Exposure in using Application Performance Management tool, AppDynamics.
• Good knowledge in using log analysis tools like Log Parser etc
• Possess good communication skills, process oriented, self-motivated, proactive, task oriented and quickly adapt to new technologies/processes/ methodologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP LoadRunner 8.1/9.5/11.0 , HP Performance center, VSTS, Neoload, Jmeter, HP Quality Center,Jenkins, Jira, Selenium

Monitoring Tools: Perfmon, Sitescope, Telnet, Putty, Hyperic HQ, XTS

Programming Languages: C, C#,Java

Query Languages: SQL, PL/SQL

Data Bases: Oracle 8i/ 9i/10g, SQL Server 2000/2005

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/NT/95/98, UNIX, Solaris, Linux

Web Servers: IIS 5.0/6.0,Apache Tomcat

Performance Management:

Tools: AppDynamics

Development Tools: MS Visual Studio,Java

Other tools: TOAD, Web Pagetest

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Performance Test Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in project meetings with Business Analysts and Developers for understanding of system requirements and identify business critical scenarios.
• Gathered the requirements and strategize a Test Plan, design scenario, execute test and publish results.
• Developed test scripts and test cases for the applications.
• Developed test scripts using Jmeter 4.2 for the identified scenarios.
• Identified and designed different tests to be performed to understand and benchmark the application performance.
• Ran Step Test, Load Test, Stress Test and Benchmark Tests.
• Documentation and Execution of various types of tests to identify the bottle necks.
• Analyze the test results and provide appropriate solutions.

Tools: Used: Jmeter 4.2, LoadRunner 12.6

Confidential

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in project meetings with Business Analysts and Developers for understanding of system requirements and identify business critical scenarios.
• Gathered the requirements and strategize a Test Plan, design scenario, execute test and publish results.
• Created test scripts and test cases for the applications.
• Created test scripts using LoadRunner 11.5 for the identified scenarios.
• Involved in Writing, Executing and Updating Test Plans according to Functional requirements.
• Used LogParser to understand the daily business transactions pattern to identify the business critical scenarios.
• Created LogParser queries to understand the real time usage of the identified business critical scenarios and design the workload model as per the real users’ usage.
• Identified the list of counters to be used for different servers monitoring.
• Created scenarios using perfmon for the identified counters for server monitoring.
• Coordinated the team for managing performance and functional testing of 15 Confidential applications.
• Identified and designed different tests to be performed to understand and benchmark the application performance.
• Ran Step Test, Load Test, Endurance Test, Stress Test and Benchmark Tests.
• Documentation and Execution of various types of tests to identify the bottle necks.
• Analyze the test results and provide appropriate solutions.
• Involved in walkthroughs, Team meetings, and Status update meetings.
• Prepared Daily and weekly status reports to communicate to managers.

Tools: Used: Load Runner 11.5, Perfmon, LogParser, AppDynamics, Jenkins, Jira and Selenium

Confidential

Performance Test Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Liaise with technical, design and business representatives to gain complete and detailed understanding of project requirements.
• Involved in Writing, Executing and Updating Test Plans according to Functional requirements.
• Used LogParser to understand the daily business transactions pattern to identify the business critical scenarios.
• Created LogParser queries to understand the real time usage of the identified business critical scenarios and design the workload model as per the real users’ usage.
• Extensively used Jmeter 2.4 to develop test scripts for the identified scenarios.
• Created scenarios using Performance execution framework using the jmeter scripts for the identified workload model.
• Identified the list of counters to be used for different servers monitoring.
• Created scenarios using perfmon for the identified counters for server monitoring.
• Used Hyperic HQ for monitoring of servers.
• Coordinated the team for managing test scripts.
• Identified and designed different tests to be performed to understand and benchmark the application performance.
• Ran Step Test, Load Test, Endurance Test, Stress Test and Benchmark Tests.
• Identifying the problem areas in the DB queries and then tuning & finally measuring the improved performance.
• Documentation and Execution of various types of tests to identify the bottle necks.
• Analyze the test results and provide appropriate solutions.
• Involved in walkthroughs, Team meetings, and Status update meetings.
• Prepared Daily and weekly status reports to communicate to managers.

Tools: Used: JMeter 2.4, Performance Execution Framework, SQL Tuning Wizard, Perfmon, Hyperic HQ, LogParser

Confidential

Performance Test Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Partnering with technical, design and business representatives to gain complete and detailed understanding of project requirements.
• Preparing, Executing and reviewing Test Plans and Test cases.
• Involved in writing and validation of unit tests using C# according to Functional requirements.
• Created scenarios in VSTS as per the workload model.
• Documentation and Execution of various types of tests to identify the bottle necks.
• Created SQL queries to fetch the required data from DB for performance testing.
• Involved in writing C# codes for maintenance and enhancement of the test management tool developed by Confidential performance testing team.
• Performed Data Driven Testing to find web services performance using VSTS.
• Created Scripts, Timeslots, Scenarios and Ran Load Tests in VSTS.
• Used ATE(Azure Test Environment) for access and management of the cloud test environment.
• Used XTS for monitoring of the servers.
• Identified the list of counters to be used for different servers monitoring
• Created scenarios using perfmon for the identified counters for server monitoring.
• Execute tests for individual web services in different environments and compare the performances. Create the detailed reports for the same and share it with business team.
• Execute designed workload model scenarios against different environments and share the monthly reports.
• Analyzed the VSTS reports to calculate Response time and Transactions per second.
• Report the issues observed during the execution and provide appropriate suggestions for performance improvement.
• Attended daily scrum meetings with the users, developers and designers.
• Worked with development team for performance testing the product for major releases.
• Analyze the test results and provide appropriate solutions.
• Prepared reports to communicate the Application performance.
• Prepared Daily and weekly status reports to communicate to managers.

Tools: Used: Visual Studio 2010, ATE(Azure Test Environment), XTS, SQL Server 2005, Perfmon.

Confidential

Senior Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Liaise with technical, design and business representatives to gain complete and detailed understanding of project requirements.
• Involved in Writing, Executing and Updating Test Plans according to Functional requirements.
• Used LogParser to understand the daily business transactions pattern to identify the business critical scenarios.
• Created LogParser queries to understand the real time usage of the identified business critical scenarios and design the workload model as per the real users’ usage.
• Extensively used Jmeter 2.4 to develop test scripts for the identified scenarios.
• Created scenarios using Performance execution framework using the jmeter scripts for the identified workload model.
• Identified the list of counters to be used for different servers monitoring.
• Created scenarios using perfmon for the identified counters for server monitoring.
• Used Hyperic HQ for monitoring of servers.
• Coordinated the team for managing test scripts.
• Identified and designed different tests to be performed to understand and benchmark the application performance.
• Ran Step Test, Load Test, Endurance Test, Stress Test and Benchmark Tests.
• Identifying the problem areas in the DB queries and then tuning & finally measuring the improved performance.
• Documentation and Execution of various types of tests to identify the bottle necks.
• Analyze the test results and provide appropriate solutions.
• Involved in walkthroughs, Team meetings, and Status update meetings.
• Prepared Daily and weekly status reports to communicate to managers.

Tools: Used: JMeter 2.4, Performance Execution Framework, SQL Tuning Wizard, Perfmon, Hyperic HQ, LogParser

Confidential

Senior Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Partnering with technical, design and business representatives to gain complete and detailed understanding of project requirements.
• Attended walkthroughs to get SAP application requirements.
• Written Test Plans, Test Cases and maintained them in Test Director.
• Used Quality Center 9.2 for maintaining Test scripts, Bug Reporting, Tracking.
• Involved in Preparing Quality Assurance Metrics and Ensured all defects resolved in timely manner.
• Logged quality defects and assigned them to the development team and as a member of defect verification team verified the correctness of the defect fix given and followed up till the closure of the issue.
• Documented the defects with Detail Description and provided corresponding video & screen shots to show visually in Test Director.
• Maintained the defects in Test director and ensured the fixing work properly in respective Builds.
• Coordinated with Business Analyst, Developers and Documentation Team in Preparation of Project Detail Documentation.

Tools: Used: SAP, HP Quality Center 9.2, MS Excel.

Confidential

Senior Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in project meetings with Business Analysts and Developers for understanding of system requirements and identify business critical scenarios.
• Involved in Writing, Executing and Updating Test Plans according to Functional requirements.
• Created test scripts using LoadRunner 9.5 for the identified scenarios.
• Extensively written SQL Queries to fetch source data for performance testing from SQL Server 2005 database.
• Created test scenarios using HP Controller 9.5 using the created scripts as per the workload model.
• Configured Sitescope with HP Controller to monitor the targeted servers and added the required counter for monitoring.
• Identified the required tests to be executed to benchmark the application performance.
• Executed Ramp-up Test, Load Test and Benchmark Test on application.
• Analyze the test results and provide appropriate solutions.
• Prepared reports to communicate the Application performance.

Tools: Used: HP Load Runner 9.5, HP Controller, Site Scope.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding of Requirement specifications, technical design documents and related artifacts.
• Involved in Test Plan creation for different applications of HMH.
• Create and validate test scripts for business critical scenarios using HP Load Runner 9.5.
• Created scenarios using the scripts for the identified workload using HP Controller 9.5
• Worked with development team for performance testing the product for major releases
• Prepare test data for performance testing to emulate real time scenario.
• Create scenario of counters in perfmon for server monitoring.
• Execute Ramp-up Test, Load Test, Regression Test, Stress Test and Endurance Test.
• Prepared test summaries and daily status reports
• Documentation and Execution of various types of tests to identify the bottle necks.
• Analyze the test results and provide appropriate solutions.

Tools: Used: HP Load Runner 9.5, HP Controller 9.5, Perfmon.