Senior Performance Tester Resume

SUMMARY

Has 20+ years of experience, including 15 years of performance testing. Previous experience includes team and solo development projects in UNIX and real - time environments.
Integrated disparate systems using a number of languages (C, PL/SQL, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Pascal, and Assembly), applications programs, and commercial libraries. Has practical experience as an Oracle database administrator and familiarity with object-oriented development using C++.
Worked closely with business users to develop and deploy workflow and other custom software to improve business productivity.
Has extensive experience performing system tuning of websites using a HP’s LoadRunner.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: PHP, Perl, C/C++, PL/SQL

Web Technologies: HTML5, JavaScript

Web Services: SOAP, WSDL, XML, RESTful, JSON

Editor/IDE: Notepad++, Vim, Sublime

CI / CD Tools: Jenkins, Hudson, ANT

Testing Tools: HP ALM, HP LoadRunner, SAHI Pro, NeoLoad

Application Servers: Apache Tomcat

Databases: SQL, Oracle, MySQL

Windows Services: DNS

Applications: MS Excel, MS Project

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, Linux (Red Hat)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

Worked with business and developers to model user flows for scripting.
Developed web-based reporting for post test results.
Opened the initial communication with 3rd party vendor to facilitate the testing of the application internal to First Citizens
Emulated check scanning hardware device to emulate batch checking deposits in LoadRunner scripts to create performance test of banking application.
Worked with the Confluence content collaboration and the Jira work management tools to facilitate group communication, status and result reporting.
Created SPLUNK dashboard to monitor main frame usage.
Used Dynatrace request tagging in Load Runner to find issues in application requests.

Confidential

Senior Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

Confidential

Lead Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

Developed scripts to model specific user actions.
Initiated use of HP VTS for dynamic parameter creation
Used the AppDynamics tool to investigate issues.
Initiated use of custom business transactions in AppDynamics for easier investigation of service calls.
Customized SQL to extract backend data for transaction investigation.
Designed scenarios for various test purposes: smoke, load, stress, soak

Confidential

Lead Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

Lead Proof of Concept effort to embed performance testing in Agile environment
Developed scripts to model specific user actions.
Taught and supported other developers in LoadRunner script development
Used Dynatrace tool to investigate issues.
Used Splunk tool to query web log contents
Used Sahi Pro to record scripts for Dynatrace UEM
Developed Web Services scripts to reset data for tests
Developed SQL to reset data for tests
Built Jenkins job to automate LoadRunner testing of services for on demand use by developers