PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• I am a certified Load Runner Product specialist with close to 15 years of experience in the Software Industry specializing in Performance Testing.
• I have worked on various applications, domains in various capacities with expertise in developing Test plans, defining test cases, designing workloads, developing and maintaining test scripts, creating analysis reports.
• Commendable skills in carrying out Performance Testing using different tools
• Experienced in Manual, Regression testing.
• Strong knowledge of STLC - Requirement Gathering & Analysis, Planning, Design, Development and Implementation.
• Experience in understanding Business Requirements, Functional Specifications and Design documents and converting them into Use cases, Test Scenarios
• Experienced in leading and managing offshore/onsite teams and multiple projects.
• Extensive experience using various performance testing looks like Load Runner, Silk performer
• Design, implement and maintain Performance Test Strategies, Performance Test Plans and Performance Test Scripts to automate performance on Unix/Windows box.
• Identify Root cause of bottlenecks, provides assistance in resolving issues and retesting the application performance.
• Collect and publish data, reports for performance testing projects.
• Experience with various components of application architecture including Web Tier, Application Tier and Database tier in order to facilitate performance troubleshooting
• Have experience on multiple load runner protocols like Web, Web-Services and Citrix.
• Have worked on monitoring tools like Site scope, Wily, perfmon and the default OS tools like vmstat,iostat etc.
• Have experience working on Memory and CPU Profiling
• Worked on various domains like CRM, Finance and Insurance etc.

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE:

Testing Tools: Performance Center, BAC(formally Topaz), Silk Performer, QTP, Win runner, Test Director, Quality Center

Profiling Tools: JRA Profiler, Profiler, Jprobe,Wily

Operating Systems: Windows 9x/2K/NT/XP, UNIX

DBMS & RDBMS: Oracle 11g, MS SQL

Query Languages/Tool: SQL, SQL Developer

Office Tools: MS Office, Google Sheets / Drives

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MI

Performance Lead

Environment: Web Protocol, Web-Services, SAP using Performance Test Center 12.20

Responsibilities:

• Develop & design a process for Performance testing as a part of the Testing Services.
• This includes creation & presentation of performance testing to educate the Clients on performance testing and the advantages of performance testing.
• Working on requirement gathering for Projects and Applications that need to be tested.
• Creation of Test Strategy and Test plan.
• Maintain a status tracker for various ongoing projects, tracking and reporting to respective stake holders
• Script creation, validation depending on the requirement. Currently the applications that have been tested use HTTP, Web- Services and SAP protocols.
• Testing feasibility (poc) using JMeter and evaluation of App dynamics for monitoring.
• Creating plan for test data and working with development team / data team for test data preparation.
• Coordinating and aligning the monitoring teams.
• Execute the tests and work in tandem with the support teams in case of issues.
• Compiling the reports and working on defect creation/resolution ( Quality Center)
• Creating Closure reports and presenting to Business and Key Decision makers for production go live.

Confidential, DE

Performance Lead

Environment: Web Protocol, Web-Services, Performance Center, Wily

Responsibilities:

• Discussion with Development and Business teams in understanding the requirements and scope of testing
• Analyzing the requirements and creating test plan and test strategy.
• Understanding and creating plans for test data management
• Working with the team in reviewing the load runner scripts & executions
• Maintaining the test plan & updating the management decks
• Analyzing the results from Load Runner and Wily.
• Understanding and analyzing the AWR reports and working with the Data modeling team on optimizing the queries.
• Finding issues and working with the development / infrastructure team in finding the root cause.
• Creating the action plans for resolving the issues.
• Creating of the test closure reports and facilitating internal reviews
• Presenting the Closure report to the client for the final sign offs
• Creating and updating the checklist and the lessons learnt document & process improvement.

Confidential, Fort Washington

Performance Tester

Environment: Web Protocol, Performance Center

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the performance requirements of various applications. Checking the workflow and making sure they are functionally available.
• Scripting of the workflows and validating for stability.
• Creating test data for the testing
• Compiling the performance testing results and presenting to the clients/business and various other teams.

Confidential, Wilmington, Delaware

Performance Test Lead

Environment: Citrix, Load Runner.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze requirements for Performance Testing requirements for various projects for different Lines of business and be a part of planning the time lines and procedures for Synthetic and Real User testing.
• On-site/Offshore co-ordination.
• Finalizing the work flows and preparation of Test plans and approach for Performance testing.
• Reviewing the the scripts / code for the identified work flows using Citrix protocol.
• Conducting Real user testing during the pilot phase of testing using various tools like Vcenter ESXTop and perfmon.
• Compiling the performance testing results and presenting to the clients/business and various other teams.
• Coordinating with Server engineering team and the server operations team for test monitoring.
• Coordinating with various team for finding the resolution on the defects filed

Confidential, West Chester, PA

Performance Test Lead

Environment: Performance Center, Windows, IIS Servers, MSSQL Database, Web logic Servers, Sitescope, Fiddler Trace, QTP.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze requirements for Performance Testing and be a part of planning the timelines and procedures for the same.
• Writing the scripts / code for the identified workflows using http and webservices protocol.
• Parameterization and correlations are done to make the script usable for multiple users. Test data would be prepared for various Tests during the executions
• Executions of various Performance Tests on the AUT. These include Shakeouts, Load Tests and Endurance Tests
• Analyzing the results, finding out performance bottlenecks and logging defects.
• Coordinating with various team for finding the resolution on the defects filed
• Report preparations and documents for close outs for each of the builds.
• Technology using for this project area for Performance Testing: Performance Center, Vugen for scripting, SiteScope for monitoring, QTP (Need basis), MSSQL, IIS Servers, .Net framework.

Confidential

Principal Member of Technical Staff

Environment: LoadRunner, UNIX, Windows, Weblogic, Oracle 11g Database, Oracle ADF

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system documentation like Requirements document, User Interface Specifications to develop and Execute Test scripts
• Designing the Test Environment and the Scenarios for the Load Testing.
• Co-coordinating with different Business Analysts and Developers to define the KPI for the workflows.
• Managing the various requirements and guiding the team on technical aspects of the tests.
• Coordinating with various different teams to get resolution of issues and implementation of the same for various runs.
• Doing baseline runs and figuring out the number of users that can be sustained by the servers.
• Deployment of Weblogic Application Servers on Linux. Creation of environments required for carrying out the performance/reliability tests.
• Creation of Test data for Performance Tests.
• Creation of scripts using Load Runner for the various flows identified.
• Creation of workloads and running tests. Collecting various kinds of statistics like JDBC Pool, vmstats etc to find out issues.
• Taking thread dumps and using profilers for CPU and Memory profiling. To find out the expensive methods and raise issues against them.
• Find out slow queries on the database and take AWR Reports etc. to find out the issues. Raise bugs to get the same resolved.
• Have been a part of client performance testing where in focus was on getting the ADF Client UI Timings. Taking client profiles using firebug to find slow times. These were single user tests.
• Negative scenarios for client test scenarios.
• Involved in setting up the Test Environment & creation of Test Data
• Set up cluster environment for application server and database servers and involved with Large Scale Scalability testing and setting up Load Balancer.
• Fail over testing for testing negative load test scenarios.
• Was involved in individually running each workflow for single user, throughput tests and scalability tests. These were then tuned for optimal performance
• Running all the workflows together to create realistic loads.
• Running the scenarios for 24 hours to check for memory leaks.(Reliability testing)
• Analysis of Software and Hardware components using Load Runner Analysis Graphs.
• Analyzed the Performance Bottlenecks and Memory Leaks.
• Involved in writing Knowledge Transfer documents
• Managed the process of identifying issues during test process and discussed/escalated the issues with the management, as appropriate

Confidential

Team Lead

Environment: SilkPerformer, Java

Responsibilities:

• Designing the Test Architecture and the Scenarios for the Automation
• Planning the Test Harness Creation.
• Standardizing the procedures that needed to be used for creation of the harness.
• Coordinating with the developers to understand the Java APIs.
• Creating test plans for the Harness Creation
• Understanding the CTM Architecture and designing the input data/ parameters for the Test harness.
• Manually writing BDL scripts to call the Java Functions.
• Optimizing the scripts by creating common functions that could be accessed by all the scripts.
• Modified scripts and passed Dynamic values using Parameterization and Correlation.
• Interacting with developers to understand the Java Wrapper classes.
• Creating Test Data for the execution.
• Executing the scripts and checking the outputs for the same.

Confidential

Team Lead

Environment: Load Runner 8.1, .Net, MSSQL, QTP

Responsibilities:

• Creating test plan for the scenarios. Interacting with the clients to understand the business flows.
• Planning for Test Data creation.
• Creating the Load Testing scenarios.
• Scripting the Business flows.
• Creating & Parameterize/co-relate scripts using Load Runner for Performance Scenarios (Protocol Used: Http Web)
• Creating Load Runner scenarios and executing the runs.
• Doing various runs to find out the maximum number of users that the system could handle.
• Finding issues and sharing reports with the development teams.
• Monitoring the Run. Analyzing Results and Identifying potential bottlenecks.
• Some of the Test cases were considered for Client Performance and hence QTP was used to automate these testcases.
• Running single user test cases to find out client times.

Confidential

Team Lead

Environment: Load Runner 8.1, Oracle 11i, Oracle 10g. (Oracle Application).

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating a team of size 5
• Interaction with the client and requirement gathering
• Creating Test Plans and Test Strategies for load testing scenarios.
• Creating process for the teams to follow. Creating checklists and protocols to be followed for the teams to follow while scripting.
• Communicating the Status to the clients and tracking the progress of the team.
• Understanding the Requirements and Creating click stream of the various business flows.
• Getting the flows enabled on the Test Environment and creating plans for test data creation.
• Task Allocation and Making Status Reports
• Creating & Parameterize/co-relate scripts using Load Runner for Performance Scenarios (Protocol Used: Oracle NCA/Http Web).
• Testing the scripts with multiple iterations and multiple users.
• Creating a Testbed for running the Load Tests.
• Running the tests on the Load Runner controller and executing runs.
• Monitoring the Runs.
• Monitoring the Unix Servers using vmstats and Load Runner resource monitors.
• Analyzing Results and Identifying potential bottlenecks.
• Sending Reports to the client.

Confidential

Senior Performance Engineer

Environment: Load Runner 8.1, Weblogic, WebSphere, WebServices, .Net, MSSQL, QTP.

Responsibilities:

• Creating scripts using Load Runner for Performance Scenarios
• Scripting the scenarios using Load Runner with WebService protocol.
• Creating a test environment for conducting Load Testing.
• Running performance tests for Siebel Applications on .Net, WLS and WAS using Load Runner.
• Analyzing the results and sending performance reports.
• Tuning the appserver settings and database settings.
• Taking thread dumps and finding if there are deadlocks during the run.
• Profiling the Applications to check the CPU Bottlenecks (Tools: Jprobe, Quantify, Whidbey)
• Collecting hprof profiles to find Memory issues.
• Collecting SQL Trace for the MSSQL databases to find out slow SQL’S. The slow SQL’S were tested for single user and multiple users for finding the slow SQL’S.
• Participating in Tuning the AppServers to meet satisfying performance levels
• Also participated in Nexus Web Client POC project .A complete 3 month project on testing the nexus web client.
• Used QTP to automate the procedure of recording the LR Scripts since the process would be the same across all the builds.
• Created managed server and servers to create realistic environment and carried out negative test scenarios.

Confidential

Specialist

Environment: Topaz (Now known as BAC) from HP, Various live production GESM

Applications: Mainframes, Oracle Applications, and SAP Application.

Responsibilities:

• Creating test plans, handling client calls and allocating tasks.
• Set processes for new request management, Change Management, Standard operating procedures, Issue handling & Escalations.
• Defining change Management procedures/ Issues and escalations
• Understanding of the Requirements and work flow for Applications
• Scripting of the work flow using the Vugen/Exception handling
• Applications included: Mainframes/SAP/OracleNCA/Websites.
• Installation and Maintenance of Topaz Agents
• Testing the “ custom dashboard” made for the clients to monitor the real time data
• Setting Thresholds and maintaining the scripts
• Application performance monitoring
• Troubleshooting Performance issues and
• Creating Availability/Performance Analysis Reports
• Configuring Monitors for various Servers and applications using Sitescope.

Confidential

Team Member

Environment: Forte / UDS, C++, Actuate, Manual Testing.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding of the Confidential concepts
• Understanding the product.
• Performing ad-hoc testing giving the full functionality coverage
• Routine regression testing
• Smoke testing when a new environment is deployed
• Updating the test decks from requirements, execution.
• The bugs are reported with a Bug reporting tool (Track Record).