SUMMARY

• Sixteen years of experience in the field of Information Technology with emphasis on Performance Engineering and Software Quality Assurance.
• Strong skills in Manual, Automation and Performance Testing of applications built on Windows and UNIX environments
• Well versed with all phases of Testing Life cycles (SLDC), RUP (Rational Unified Process) and Agile process
• Expertise in building Test Strategy/Test Plans
• Expertise in designing Work Load Modal to implement different types of tests (Load, Stress, Endurance, Scalability) of Web Based and Mobile applications
• In depth knowledge in gathering Nonfunctional Test requirements - Volumes, Test Data, Infrastructure scale between Prod and Test Environments
• Extensive experience in building performance test scripts using tools like Load Runner, VSTS ( Confidential Visual Studio Test edition), HP ALM Performance Center
• In depth experience in performance testing protocols - HTTP/HTTPS, Ajax TruClient, Webservice, Flex
• Good Knowledge on using Diagnostic tools - AppDynamics, DynaTrace, Wily Introscope, Oracle OEM, HTTP Watch
• Analyzed performance issues using AppDynamics, DynaTrace PurePath Oracle OEM and CA Introscope
• Experienced in monitoring tools to capture Critical Performance metrics - BMC Patrol, Windows Perfmon, HP Sitescope to setup monitors for Windows, Unix, SQL, Weblogic and Websphere servers
• Experience in performance testing of Batch Jobs (Data Loads)
• API testing using SOAP UI tool
• Experience in performance testing of ETL Jobs using Informatica tool
• Setting up test data using VTS (Virtual Table Server) for performance testing
• Experience in performance testing of back end systems (DB2 Mainframes)
• Experience in Interfacing with development teams, Architects and Program Management team to suggest performance improvements and configuration changes to the applications
• Experience in Performance Modeling and Capacity Planning
• Expertise in performance monitoring, analysis & optimization of Application Server Parameters like Java Heap, Garbage Collection, Thread pool, hot spot analysis of slow methods & memory leaks
• Expertise in building final performance test reports and walkthrough to the teams
• Expertise in automation using QTP
• Experienced project lead who has successfully led large project teams of 15+ people across different locations
• Customer-focused and highly organized self-starter
• Experience and exposure in managing the risks and issues and delivering projects on time in multi-vendor environment
• Experience in working with teams across multiple countries (USA, India, Mexico, Canada)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Performance testing tools: LoadRunner 11/11.52/12.5 and VSTS

APM tools: AppDynamics, DynaTrace, CA Wily Introscope 9.5, Oracle OEM, Splunk, Kibana/Logstash

Monitoring Tools: BMC Patrol, HP Site Scope, Perfmon

Front End Performance Monitoring Tools: HTTP Watch, Firebug

Test/Defect management Tools: HP Quality Center and HP ALM

Databases: MS SQL, Oracle and TOAD

ETL Tools: Informatica

Operating Systems: All variant of Windows and UNIX

Programming Languages: C, C++

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work with Business and Technical teams to identify Non functional requirements
• Create Test Plans, Test Scripts and different types of Nonfunctional tests
• Create Work Load Modal, Setup Performance monitors and VTS for test data setup
• Identify performance issues and deep dive to find the root cause
• Execute performance testing for ETL jobs using Informatica tool
• Execute Batch jobs
• API testing using SOAP UI tool
• Create Performance Test Reports and walkthrough to the stakeholders

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Sr. Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Gathering Non Functional requirements by working with Application Architects and Business Analysts
• Creation of Test Plans and walkthrough of the same to the project teams.
• Test Script creation and execution using LoadRunner - VUGEN (HTTP/HTTPS, Ajax Truclient, Webservices).
• Define and Prepare Work Load Modal for test execution
• Create Scenarios for Load, Stress, Endurance using Load Runner - Controller
• Work with Test Environment to setup the test environment and load test setup
• Identify Performance Bottlenecks (High Response times, Memory leaks) from the tests using tools DynaTrace and Oracle OEM monitoring tools
• Monitor System utilization parameters (Application and Database servers)
• Work with Development teams and Architects to resolve the performance issues and rerun the tests to validate the fixes
• Execute Batch Load tests (Data Loads)
• Build final Performance test reports and present to the client Management teams
• Analyze application server logs using Kibana/Logstash
• Provide support for late hours and weekends in support of releases

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Sr. Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Partner with business liaisons and technical teams to understand and define Application Performance Goals, Non-Functional requirements & technical system requirement
• Manage the Testing Strategy, Schedule, Data Requirements, nonfunctional test requirements, quality metrics and risk/mitigation plans
• Experience with capacity planning testing
• Designs, creates, and maintains the performance test scripts using Confidential Visual Studio Test Edition and HP Load Runner
• Execute different types of Load tests (Load, Stress, Endurance, Scalability)
• Execute volume based load tests against back end systems (Mainframes DB2 and SQL Server) to measure the capacity (MIPS) and other details like service calls response time and system utilization details
• Identify Performance Issues (High response time, Memory Leaks) in the tests
• Work closely with all the required teams ( development, design, architecture team) to fix all the performance related issues/defects to improve overall site performance
• Defining SLA’s for the different performance metrics for the applications, tracking and measuring those SLA’s with the objective of delivering the end user experience that business expects to deliver. Publish this information on weekly basis & ensure the product meets SLA, Work with development & design team to resolve the issues with the pages crossing SLA
• Lead & Support in identifying performance bottlenecks by analyzing application server logs using Splunk
• Manages stakeholders, internal customers and other groups (design, development, release management etc.) and work in collaborative fashion
• Arrange performance analysis report (monthly health check) walkthrough with stake holders to discuss on performance recommendations to help on performance tuning & capacity planning

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interaction with Clients and Onsite coordinators for issues faced during the execution of project.
• Test Case Development and Functional testing.
• Running of Automated suites developed in QA run.
• Preparation of Test reports on a weekly basis.
• Preparation of Automated suites for verification of verifying test data conditioning
• Tracking the bugs opened by the team till the closure of the same.

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Complete test ownership on Print and Imaging component Internet Printing, Test Harness, Scanners and Cameras and various applications (In House and third party applications) supported by Windows operating systems
• Setting up the test bed with different operating systems.
• Preparation of test plans
• Preparation of test cases
• Debugging the regression failures in the Service Pack builds.
• Active participation in defect triage meetings
• Preparing Test reports and Weekly reports.
• Preparing SLA reports on a monthly basis.
• Functional testing of the Components
• Non-functional testing (Stress testing) on the operating system.
• Running the Automated suites developed in Visual Test to check for any regression breaks

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Porting of ActiveX controls from 32 Bit to 64 Bit Architecture
• Executing test cases provided by Confidential
• Fixing bugs where the test cases failed