SUMMARY

• Around 14 years of experience in Performance Engineering and providing solutions to complex performance issues and experience in End to End QA, emphasis on working with Client Server /Web based applications using Automation tools and manual testing.
• Strong experience in testing applications built for Finance, E - Business, Medical, Health care and Banking.
• Strong experience in Embedded testing of Medical devices, Client server, Web apps (RIAs) database driven applications in the environments having J2EE, .NET, Flex, SQL, Oracle, Web logic and Web methods.
• Involved in all phases of SDLC and STLC, with timely Delivery against aggressive deadlines, with QA methodologies such as ISO, CMM, HL7 Standards, FDA Process and Agile (Scrum).
• Expertise in writing Test Plans, Test strategy, Test Scenarios & Test cases based on Business requirements, Use cases to support quality deliverables.
• Diversified experience in White box, Black box, Smoke, Functional, Integration, Security, Performance, Load, Stress, Regression, Compatibility, Installation and Acceptance testing.
• Extensive experience in writing, modifying and executing automated test scripts using Quick Test Pro, Winrunner, Load Runner, Performance Center (SaaS), Rational Performance Tester, Silk performer and Jmeter. Extensively used VB Script in QTP for automating the business process testing (BPT).
• Expertise in use of Test Director, Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, Bugzilla for Defect Reporting. Experience in using Version Control tools such as PVCS, CVS and VSS.
• Proficient in Testing of Database applications developed with Oracle, MySQL, DB2, Sybase Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft access using DDL, DML, DCL commands.
• Knowledge in ETL Tools (Informatica, Business Objects) and Experience in Reporting Tools(Crystal Reports, SQL server Reports)
• Very good knowledge on Relational DB administration.
• Knowledge and Experience in TCP/IP, SMTP, network configuration,Active Directory, DNS, ADS, DHCP and Data communication techniques and Using different protocols for testing the product.
• Knowledge on SaaS applications.
• Experience testing medical device systems in FDA regulated environment and Web applications for Cross-browser/ Platform Compatibility and Multilingual applications.
• Experience in reviewing Functional specifications and identifying incomplete, inconsistent and contradictory requirements. Interacted with business analysts for the base line requirement specifications.
• Outstanding reputation for meeting demanding deadlines and delivering critical solutions on various levels of Quality Assurance for Client/Server and Web based applications on Windows, Java and UNIX/Linux environment.
• Strong diagnostic, analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving skills and ability to multitask.
• Good team player with excellent communication, analytical, interpersonal and writing skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 2000, XP, Vista, DOS, Unix, Linux, Solaris

Content Management Tools: Documentum Content Server 5.3, WebTop, Web Publisher, eRoom.

Testing Tools: Jmeter, QTP8.0/9.0/9.2, Load Runner 8.0/9.1/9.5/9.51/11.00/11.52 , Rational Robot, Win Runner 7.0, Web Link Validator, Mercury - Quality Center 9.0, PM Smart, Test Director 7.6, Silk performer, Performance Center 9.1/ 9.51/11/11.52 , Dyntatrace Appmon 5/5.5/6.5/7, UEM, HP Perf.Manager, Site scope, DTSaaS, New relic

Version Control tools: PVCS VM 7.5, Microsoft VSS 6.0, CVS

Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA, PVCS Tracker, Bugzilla (configuration), D-Tracker, DDTS, Mantis, eProject, PM Smart.

Web Technologies: Java, ASP, JSP, .NET, XML, Ajax, HTML, DHTML, J2EE, Adobe Flex3.0, Adobe Flash 9.0

Scripting Languages: Python, Perl, Shell scripting, TSL, VB Script

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java

Databases related: Oracle 9i/10g, SQL, MySQL, TOAD, Informix, DBVisualizer, DB2, Sybase

Office Software’s: MS-Outlook, MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Project, Adobe Acrobat Reader

Networking: TCP/IP, SMTP, LAN, FTP, Telnet, Putty

Others: Hercules, TMS, Wing IDE, Web Logic, Mirth1.4, Apache 3.x, perfmon 3.0, ANT, CruiseControl, Regedit, remote desktop, Jprobe, VNC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MN

Performance Test Lead/ Performance Architect

Responsibilities:

• Involved in nonfunctional Requirements gathering from business heads/Product owners/Analysts and converting requirements in to performance goals.
• Involved in identifying the hardware required to create performance environment closure to production.
• Responsible for Planning & executing Performance engineering effort on Pulse Check, EncoderPro, Insite & IMS-Patient, Caremanager applications.
• Created effort estimations required to do the performance testing.
• Involved in creating/reviewing of Test plan and test strategy documents.
• Responsible to set up the test environment on isolated test labs.
• Performed functional validations prior to putting the app under load to make sure functionality of the business process are as per requirements.
• Identified test cases to be automated and developed the scripts using Load runner.
• Performed Functional verification testing, single business transaction performance testing, baseline testing. Average workload testing, Peak workload testing and Endurance testing.
• Performed Load, Stress, Endurance & Failover testing using Performance Center.
• Load runner scripts developed with following protocols (HTTP/HTML, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), True client, web services protocol).
• Created load runner Vugen Scripts and used Correlation to parameterize dynamically changing parameters like Session IDs.
• Responsible for setting up Dynatrace appmon agents on Web, App & HP agent DB servers to monitor traffic real time during test. Monitored server utilizations like CPU, Memory, Heap, I/O transfer rates, disk utilization, Network utilization, number of requests, average queue size and disk & queue wait times., Etc.
• Analyzed test results with business teams to meet SLAs.
• Used Dyna trace Appmon, Dynatrace UEM, HPPM, monitors to identify the root-cause of the transaction that caused the slowness in the system.
• Analyzed CPU sampling, Thread dump, Core dumps and heap dumps for deep dive analysis to find out bottlenecks.
• Analyzed various graphs generated by Load runner Analyzer including Database Monitors, Network Monitor graphs, User Graphs, Error Graphs, Transaction graphs.
• Analyzed and reviewed the reports with stakeholders to identify the bottlenecks.
• Executing the scenarios, analyzing the Graphs and coordinating with the DBAs and Network Admin to ensure optimum performance.
• Coordinate with the application SME to analyze the application issues.
• Generated detailed analysis reports with all observations and bottlenecks.
• Actively communicate with developers to help them reproduce and resolve the issues.

Environment: Windows 2008 server, Java, Perl, Linux, Loadrunner V/11.00,11.52, 12.55 Performance Center V/11.00,11.52, 12.53 VUGen V/11.00,11.52, DynaTrace Appmon V5/5.5, 6.5,7.0, Dynatrace UEM (User Exp.Manager), SiteScope, Websphere, Putty, Oracle, SQLServer, MS Office Tools.

Confidential

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Planning & executing Performance engineering effort on Claims Router application
• Creates effort estimations required to do the performance testing.
• Involved in creating/reviewing of Test plan and test strategy documents.
• Responsible to set up the test environment on isolated test labs.
• Performed functional validations prior to putting the app under load to make sure functionality of the business process are as per requirements.
• Identified test cases to be automated and developed the scripts using Load runner.
• Performed Functional verification testing, single business transaction performance testing, baseline testing. Average workload testing, Peak workload testing and Endurance testing.
• Performed Load, Stress & Endurance testing using Load runner scripts developed using vugen.
• Load runner scripts developed with following protocols (HTTP/HTML, Remote Terminal Emulator (RTE), Windows Sockets).
• Created load runner Vugen Scripts and used Correlation to parameterize dynamically changing parameters like Session IDs.
• Responsible for setting up monitors on Controller box, Mule servers & main frame regions to monitor the CPU, Memory, I/O transfer rates, disk utilization, Network utilization, number of requests, average queue size and disk & queue wait times. Etc.
• Responsible for running MQ Monitors to identify the QDepth, En-queue & De-queue message rate.
• Analyzed test results with business teams to meet SLAs.
• Using CA- Wily monitors to identify the root-cause of the transaction that caused the slowness in the system.
• Analyzed various graphs generated by Load runner Analyzer including Database Monitors, Network Monitor graphs, User Graphs, Error Graphs, Transaction graphs and MuleServer Resource Graphs.
• Analyzed and reviewed the reports with stakeholders to identify the bottlenecks.
• Executing the scenarios, analyzing the Graphs and coordinating with the DBAs and Network Admin to ensure optimum performance.
• Coordinate with the application SME to analyze the application issues.
• Generated analysis reports/ Graphs for CPU utilization, I/O throughput, network utilization and F5 Load balancer stats.
• Actively communicate with developers to help them reproduce and resolve the issues.

Environment: Linux, Mainframe, Java, Loadrunner V8.1, VUGenV8.1 Perf java, CA- Wily, MQ Monitors, Putty, Oracle, Sybase, MS Office Tools.

Confidential

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating/reviewing of Test plan and test strategy documents.
• Involved in Setting up the test environment & Performance testing.
• Performed testing on the all 4 apps to make sure functionality of the business process are as per requirements.
• Identified test cases to be automated and developed the scripts using Load runner.
• Performed Functional verification testing, single business transaction performance testing, baseline testing. Average workload testing, Peak workload testing and Endurance testing.
• Generated VUsers to test the stress on the application.
• On all applications performed Load, Stress & Endurance testing using Load runner scripts developed using vugen.
• Load runner scripts developed with following protocols (HTTP/HTML, SOAP, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), CITRIX).
• Used Leela launcher to control the broker process for MQ application.
• Created load runner Vugen Scripts and used Correlation to parameterize dynamically changing parameters like Session IDs.
• Responsible for setting up monitors OPNET- PANORAMA & PerfJava to monitor the CPU, Memory, IO, Network utilization.
• Responsible for running MQ Monitors to identify the QDepth, En-queue & De-queue message rate.
• Analyzed test results with business teams to meet SLAs.
• Using PANORAMA Diagnostics to identify the root-cause of the transaction that caused the slowness in the system.
• Analyzed various graphs generated by Load runner Analyzer including Database Monitors, Network Monitor graphs, User Graphs, Error Graphs, Transaction graphs and Web Server Resource Graphs.
• Analyzed and reviewed the reports with stakeholders to identify the bottlenecks.
• Executing the scenarios, analyzing the Graphs and coordinating with the DBAs and Network Admin to ensure optimum performance.
• Automated regular tasks using Shell script like running DB Monitors (SP target & SP Slowmon) on Sybase.
• Used different system performance monitoringutilities on UNIX such as vmstat, iostat, prstat, mpstat to identifyI/O transfer rates, disk utilization, number of requests, average queue size and disk & queue wait times. etc.
• Coordinate with the application SME to analyze the application issues.
• Generated analysis reports/ Graphs for CPU utilization, I/O throughput, Memory utilization.
• Actively communicate with developers to help them reproduce and resolve the issues

Environment: Linux, SAN Storage, Java, Loadrunner V11.0, VUGenV11.0 Perf java, OPNET- PANORAMA, Leela Launcher, MQ Monitors, Putty, DB2, Sybase, MS Office Tools.

Confidential

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understand FDA regulatory processes, environment and undergo various trainings
• Involved in creating/reviewing of Test plan and test strategy documents.
• Involved in Operability (Go-No-Go), System & Integration, Regression & Performance testing.
• Performed manual testing on the all 7 apps to make sure functionality of the application is as per requirements.
• Executed test cases, recorded results and reported defects in HP Quality Center 11.0
• Created & executed automated scripts using QTP11.00 to test TEDI testing as part of regression testing.
• Identified test cases to be automated and developed the scripts using Load runner.
• Participate in peer reviews of performance Test Cases and Test scripts.
• Performed Functional verification testing, single business transaction performance testing, baseline scalability testing. Growth rate scalability testing, Endurance testing and Migration testing.
• Created load runner scripts using vugen & used controller to run multiuser tests.
• On all applications performed Load, performance testing using Load runner scripts.
• Load runner scripts developed with following protocols (HTTP/HTML, Informix, and Remote Terminal Emulation (RTE) for Green screen).
• Worked with the development team to sort the issues due to proxy and firewall settings to achieve the exact performance of the application.
• Created load runner Vugen Scripts and used Correlation to parameterize dynamically changing parameters like Session IDs. Used Rendezvous points, Load balancing and IP spoofing to load test specific transactions.
• Responsible for setting up monitors in controller, Site Scope and interscope to monitor the CPU and memory utilization. Responsible for setting up Site Scope monitors to drill down different layers of the application to identify the performance bottleneck
• Analyzed test results with business teams to meet SLAs.
• Using HP Diagnostics to identify the root-cause of the transaction that caused the slowness in the system.
• Conducted Regression and functional testing for different applications.
• Written commands in SQL to verify backend data and have also monitored CPU and memory usage on servers.
• Analyzed various graphs generated by Load runner Analyzer including Database Monitors, Network Monitor graphs, User Graphs, Error Graphs, Transaction graphs and Web Server Resource Graphs.
• Analyzed and reviewed the reports with developers and network engineers to solve the bottleneck.
• Executing the scenarios, analyzing the Graphs and coordinating with the DBAs and Network Admin to ensure optimum performance.
• Used different system performance monitoringutilities on UNIX such as vmstat, iostat, prstat, mpstat to identifyI/O transfer rates, disk utilization, number of requests, average queue size and disk & queue wait times. etc.
• Coordinate with the application SME to analyze the application issues.
• Generated analysis reports/ Graphs for CPU utilization, I/O throughput, Memory utilization.
• Actively communicate with developers to help them reproduce and resolve the issues

Environment: Solaris version 10.X, Windows NT, UNIX M5000 server, SAN Storage, Informix, Loadrunner 9.51, Performance Center9.51 (SaaS), VUGen 9.52 QTP 11.00, Quality Center 11.00, DBVisualizer 6.0.2, Oracle11g, MS Office Tools.