SUMMARY

• Performance Tester wif expert Performance Engineering experience including Governance, Performance Requirements, Modeling and Simulation, and Performance Testing.
• Broad experience from previous projects TEMPhas developed technical and process knowledge to implement Performance Engineering in all phases of SDLC whether there is a Waterfall or Agile approach.
• Tool usage experience includes CA Optimizer, Capacity Manager, Capacity Command Center, HP Business Availability Center (BAC), HP Business Process Monitor (BPM), HP Performance Center, HP LoadRunner, HP Site Scope, Rational Performance Tester, and Opnet Application Transaction Expert. Hands on expertise in Data ware housing concepts and tools.
• Able to give strategies and solutions to build sustainable Application and Infrastructure performance that saves on Operations and Maintenance cost overrun due to performance issues.
• Understanding of Industry Best practices. Results oriented team player wif excellent customer relationship management skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Modeling and Simulation: CA Capacity Manger, CA Optimizer, Hyperformix, Capacity Command Center (CCC), Current Capacity Reporter (CCR)

Test Tools: HP LoadRunner, HP Performance Center, QTP, Quality Center

App/Web Servers: Oracle Application Server, WebSphere 5.x

Operating Systems: UNIX Solaris, Linux, Windows NT/Xp

Programming Language/Technologies: C, Java Script, Serena PVCS, Serena TeamTrak, SQL, J2EE, .NET, iPlanet, Shunra, iXChariot

RDBMS: Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g, DB2

ETL /BI TOOLS: INFORMATICA, DATASTAGE, ABINITIO,TOAD, AUTOSYS

Internet Technologies: HTML, XML

DB Tools: TOAD, SQL Developer

Hardware: Sun, HP, Confidential

Networking: TCP/IP

Modeling: OPNET, ATX, ARX

Monitoring Tools: Site Scope, Quest Fog Light, Oracle GRID Control, Oracle Enterprise Manager, HP Deep Diagnostics, CA Wily, OPNET ATX training

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Lanham, MD

Senior Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing Performance Requirements guidance, Performance Testing, Performance Monitoring, and Workload Modeling.
• Identified teh scaling factor between teh Performance Test environment and Production based on comparing server resource specifications.
• Wrote a Performance Test Plan that included teh performance requirements, load model, test approach, assumptions, constraints, risks, test schedule, performance test scenarios, and key performance metrics.
• Set up SiteScope monitors for collecting application performance metrics during test execution using Performance Center
• Oversaw and actively participated in teh development and execution of performance test scripts and teh creation of performance testing artifacts including test strategy and test plans, test cases, test execution reports, defect/issues reports, action item reports, and project plans
• Designed Load model on teh basis of teh current volume and projected percentage increase in volume based on production metrics.
• Provide guidelines to Test engineers to Configure Performance Center test scenarios and Vuser according to teh load model so as to take into TEMPeffect teh load distributed across various geographies
• Provide guidelines Configured and used Site Scope Performance Monitor to monitor and analyze teh performance of servers by generating various reports from CPU utilization, Memory Usage to load average, pages/sec etc.
• Analyze Web Server, App Server and Data Base Servers while performing load test
• Performed in - depth analysis to isolate points of failure in teh application
• . Performed integration testing between various modules and wif hardware interfaces.
• Performed GUI, Functional, Performance Testing and also used QTP and Loadrunner to automate teh testing process.
• Monitored Daily and Scheduled reports generated by UAT analysts and System as a Vuser.
• Analyzed Load and Generation reports of teh Scheduled against teh online reports.
• Created Vuser Scripts using VuGen and Used Controller to generate and executed Load Runner Scenarios.
• Inserted Transactions and Rendezvous points into Web Vuser.
• Simulated multiple Vusers scenarios. Defined Rendezvous points to create intense load on teh server and thereby measured teh server performance under load.
• Involved in Performance Testing to simulate a process, which allows more than 1000 user login at teh same time and observed teh behavior of teh system by using Loadrunner.
• Create scripts to enable teh Controller to measure teh performance of Web server under various load conditions.
• Extensive knowledge of load balancing theory both networking and software (application) sides, fault tolerance and fail over.
• Performed security audits, load balancing and fault tolerance solutions

Environment: HP Performance Center 12, SOAPUI Confidential RQM, ClearCase, ClearQuest, DB2, Oracle, Informatica Web Services Sharepoint, .NET, J2EE,JAVA EJB, Webserver, BEA WebLogic 8.1 App Server

Confidential, Woodlawn, MD

Performance Engineering/Performance Tester SME

Responsibilities:

• Tasked wif providing Performance Engineering services in support of Health Information Technology Services for Health and Human Services (HHS)/Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Responsible for supporting CMS programs including Enterprise Data Services Contract(EDSC). Teh Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA) program is teh program driver. Teh programs accept quality reporting submissions via data files of claims, qualified registries, and CMS qualified electronic health records. Teh data is evaluated in a measures engine system to determine incentive payments based on quality performance scoring or payment reductions to healthcare providers based on quality performance scoring not meeting MIPPA standards.
• Studied application design and architecture and gathered business requirements and information from business analysts, project managers, architects, subject matter experts and production support team.
• Strong experience testing in Mainframe.
• Comprehensive knowledge of software testing, User Acceptance Testing, and mainframe development
• Handle teh tasks of preparing test cases and defect tracking of mainframe systems
• Handled responsibilities of evaluating test results to determine teh defect in performance of mainframe systems
• Responsible for software QA and analysis, wif emphasis on performance testing and functional decomposition of web-based (SOA) and legacy systems architecture. me drove teh effort to create performance test specifications for all end-to-end components -- legacy mainframe, Java servlets, database queries -- of a cross-platform application upgrade.
• Studied teh existing architecture and teh proposed architecture finding teh difference in terms of software versions and configuration changes and teh scaling factor and documenting them
• Identified key business scenarios from application specialists or business analysts
• Interacted directly wif developers, Project managers and stake holders. Elaborate performance executions and reporting of test performance results in low/High level.
• Researched past application response time metrics, business transactions from production support team for developing realistic test scenarios and load models.
• Developed test plan, test cases and communicated aggressively to get approval/sign off on time from application owners and stake holders.
• Designed Load model on teh basis of teh current volume and projected percentage increase in volume based on production metrics.
• Developed test plan strategy and involved in test client and test environment build.
• Review enhanced LoadRunner scripts using Vugen when necessary to boost delayed projects from multiple location teams.
• Provide guidelines to Test engineers to Configure Performance Center test scenarios and Vuser according to teh load model so as to take into TEMPeffect teh load distributed across various geographies
• Provide guidelines Configured and used Site Scope Performance Monitor to monitor and analyze teh performance of servers by generating various reports from CPU utilization, Memory Usage to load average, pages/sec etc.
• Analyze Web Server, App Server and Data Base Servers while performing load test
• Performed in-depth analysis to isolate points of failure in teh application
• Actively took ownership of defects and coordinate wif different groups from initial finding of defects to final resolution.
• Used HP Diagnostics for Web Page Diagnostics and J2EE/.net Diagnostics to identify and pinpoint performance problem wif Web J2EE .Net applicators
• Provided input based on test analysis for teh tuning team for environment/application optimization and maintained all configuration and parameter changes and documented as recommendations for production team.
• Worked directly wif release coordinator and IT PM to allocate LOE for performance testing and provide estimate based on teh project card and impacted project cards.
• Coordinated daily status call for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Mentor new team member and assign task to each team member wif accountability and responsibility.

Environment: HP Performance Center 12, SOAPUI, Jmeter, Quality Center, Sharepoint, Java, Oracle, DB2, Informatica, Webserver, BEA WebLogic 8.1 App Server

Confidential, Gwynn Oak, MD

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Tasked to implement Performance Engineering Governance and processes to impact all existing and new development Lines of Business for a Target Enterprise Architecture.
• Wrote a Performance Engineering methodology document deliverable detailing 5 areas of Performance Engineering influence including Workload Profiling, Performance Modeling, Performance Testing, Design for Performance, and Performance Tuning.
• Developed Production Load Models for 2 Lines of Business on teh program. Teh Load Models were based on teh key Workload Areas wifin teh Production infrastructure and application.
• Identified all necessary inputs for a Performance Model including a Load Model, Infrastructure details, and Flow of application.
• Performance Modeling inputs collection contributed to Capacity Planning efforts to answer system performance questions related to environment sizing, network infrastructure impacts, and multiple workloads on servers.
• Managed 3 major projects and several minor releases wif 11 member team of, QA Analyst and Performance testers located Onsite-Offshore,
• Studied application design and architecture and gathered business requirements and information from business analysts, project managers, architects, subject matter experts and production support team.
• Studied teh existing architecture and teh proposed architecture finding teh difference in terms of software versions and configuration changes and teh scaling factor and documenting them
• Identified key business scenarios from application specialists or business analysts
• Researched past application response time metrics, business transactions from production support team for developing realistic test scenarios and load models.
• Developed test plan and communicated aggressively to get approval/sign of on time from application owners and stake holders.
• Designed Load model on teh basis of teh current volume and projected percentage increase in volume
• Build and enhanced LoadRunner scripts using Vugen when necessary to boost delayed projects.
• Provide guidelines to Test engineers to Configure Performance Center test scenarios and Vuser according to teh load model so as to take into affect teh load distributed across various geographies
• Provide guidelines, configured and used Site Scope Performance Monitor to monitor and analyze teh performance of servers by generating various reports from CPU utilization, Memory Usage to load average, pages/sec etc.
• Analyze Web Server, App Server and Data Base Servers while performing load test
• Performed in-depth analysis to isolate points of failure in teh application
• Actively took ownership of defects and coordinate wif different groups from initial finding of defects to final resolution.
• Used Mercury Diagnostics for Web Page Diagnostics and J2EE/.net Diagnostics to identify and pinpoint performance problem wif Web J2EE .Net applicators
• Interacted directly wif developers, Project managers in teh development, execution and reporting of test performance results
• Analyzed Load Runner on-line graphs and reports to identify where performance delays occurred, network or client delays, CPU performance, me/O delays, database locking, or other issues at server level.
• Provided input based on test analysis for teh tuning team for environment/application optimization and maintained all configuration and parameter changes and documented as recommendations for production team.
• Worked directly wif release coordinator and IT PM to allocate LOE for performance testing and provide estimate based on teh project card and impacted project cards.
• Coordinated daily status call for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Performance Certified applications before released to productions.
• Generated Test Scripts using QTP for automating Regression and Functionality tests.
• Review and Debugging of teh automation scripts developed by teh team members using Quick Test Professional 9.2

Environment: HP Performance Center, QTP, Jmeter, SOAPUI XML, SQLServer 2000, TOAD, MVS., Crystal Reports, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, Confidential DB2, MS Excel, Flat Files.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Senior Automation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating Test Plan and Test Cases by analyzing Business requirements from Business Analyst and stored in Quality Center.
• Responsible for automating these test cases into test scripts using WinRunner 8.2, QTP 8.0 and LoadRunner8.0.
• Responsible for calling WinRunner Scripts from QTP.
• Accessed data from teh different File systems and Databases to Parameterized data in QTP and Data driven in WinRunner for regression.
• Tested Application using Manual and as well as using automation Test scripts (QTP).
• Developed VB script for all teh modules which need to be automated
• Extensively used VB Script to develop and execute automation Test scripts using Quick Test Professional.
• Developed Keyword Driven, Test automation Framework in Quick Test Pro.
• Developed VB Script and Enhanced to obtain proper results. Handled dynamically changing Objects through VB Scripting. Split teh Script in to number of Actions and made them Reusable.
• Parameterized data for Data driven testing in order to implement Retesting using multiple sets of data.
• Responsible for Running Batch tests using Quality Center by launching WR and QTP.
• Responsible for creating LR scripts thru VuGen (Virtual user Generator) by Web (HTTP/HTML) protocol.
• Responsible for creating teh Workload Profile for teh Load Test.
• Responsible for creating Load Runner Scenarios in controller and Analyzing Results through LR Analysis in teh GM Tech Center Lab.
• Monitoring teh Web, Application server and Database Server and getting metrics for CPU Utilization.
• Responsible for running both Base line, Block Point and Black box Tests for both functional and performance getting teh timings for no load and under load and comparing teh Results for teh both Tests, Using teh Maximum 2100 Vuser level for teh Load Test.
• Analyzed failed Test Results and submitted defects based on Test Results thru Quality Center and maintained complete Defect status Life cycle.
• Responsible for teh creating final Reports and recommending teh Application Team in Application Tuning.
• Responsible for Creating and updating teh Activity Log.