SUMMARY:

• 9 years of extensive experience in the field of Information Technology with Strong Expertise in Manual, Functional & Performance Testing on various platforms.
• Experienced in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle which includes Design, Development, Analysis and Release process.
• Proven skills to establish attainable Goals, Expectations and Timeliness.
• Developed Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases from Business, Technical and Functional requirements for large organizations.
• Experienced in Scoping and Designing Test Scenarios from the core Business Requirements.
• Experienced in Leading a Team with both On - site and Off-shore models.
• Extensive experience in Web-based application testing using System Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, UAT, GUI & Latency Testing.
• Experienced in Administration Process, Installation Process & Setting up test bed for testing activities.
• Extensively worked on Web (HTTP/HTML), Web Services, Oracle NCA, Oracle 11i & Citrix protocols.
• Experience working with Monitoring Tools like Sitescope, Dynatrace, Wily Introscope, HP Diagnostics, IT-CAM & EMAN.
• Experience working on Mobile testing.
• Strong working knowledge on IP Spoofing concepts for Load Balancing.
• Strong Knowledge on tools like NeoLoad & ITKO LISA.
• Experience working on IBM Tivoli Job Scheduling Console.
• Deep knowledge in the Analysis of Bug Severity, Bug tracking system and Bug Reporting.
• Proficient in the use of QTP, Test director/Quality Center (QC) for Test Planning, Test Designing, Test Analysis, Test Execution, Defect Tracking and Test Evaluation.
• Experience working with HP Support Central for Licensing and Product related issues.
• Excellent Analytical and Programming abilities in using technology to create elegant, Flexible and maintainable solutions for complex development problems.
• Strong Communication and Interpersonal skills to maintain effective work relationships with all levels of personnel. Clear understanding of Business Policies and Ability to work as part of a team.

TECHNICAL BACKGROUND:

Testing Tools: Loadrunner 8.1/9.0/9.1/9.52/11.02/12 , ALM Performance Center, Quality Center, QTP, Winrunner, Silk Performer, NeoLoad, Shunra

Languages: C, C++, JAVA, ASP.Net, C#.Net, VC++, VB Script, Perl, SQL and PL/SQL.

Internet Tools: HTML, XML,DHTML

Database Application Tools: SQL Loader, SQL Navigator, TOAD

RDBMS: Oracle 8i/ 9i/10g/11i, MS SQL Server 2000/2005,Sybase and DB2

Operating System: MS Windows NT XP/2000, Unix/Linux, Sun Solaris

Servers: WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat, Apache & IIS

Monitoring Tools: HP Diagnostics, Dynatrace, Sitescope, Wily Introscope, Vmstat, Nmon, Perfmon, HttpWatch, EMAN, JS Console

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

Sr. Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and Analyze Code, Build, Middleware components in Performance Environment.
• Interact with TechOps, Developers and other Teams for Code, Build, Data Requirements and Deployments.
• Ability to analyze Business and System Requirements and understand the application architecture.
• Involve in requirements gathering from Project Teams and identifying the volumes of the application.
• Work on Scoping the projects that are eligible for Performance testing by understanding the type of changes the application is going through or the impact of application on other production systems.
• Work on identifying the important transactional flows and volumes of the application by discussing with the Business/Application teams.
• Review/Develop Performance Assessment Docs, Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Reports.
• Work on Tool Check.
• Execute Baseline, Load, Duration, Stress & Step tests using Loadrunner.
• Work on various Performance Monitoring tools to monitor the KPI’s and analyze the Bottlenecks.
• Review and Analysis of Web, Middleware & Database system usages.
• Maintain Loadrunner and middleware infrastructure with timely installation of patches and upgrades as necessary.
• Closely work with HP Software support & different Vendors for Tool Demo’s, Patches, Evaluation licenses etc.
• Interact with Different Project Teams for System Requirements and in resolving Infrastructure issues.
• Assist Teams with Performance Engineering related issues.

Environment: HP Loadrunner 12.0, Dynatrace, WebSphere, Oracle, DB2, Java, .Net, Windows, Linux & UNIX.

Confidential, NJ

Sr. Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Business and System Requirements.
• Worked on identifying the important transactional flows and volumes of the application by discussing with the Business/Application teams.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Reports.
• Conducted Load and Performance testing using Loadrunner by simulating heavy user load with transaction points to test the application response times.
• Extensively worked on various Performance Monitoring tools to analyze the System Bottlenecks.
• Extensively worked on Vugen, Performance Center, Analysis & Monitoring tools.
• Interacted with Developers and other Teams for Data Requirements and in resolving Performance issues.
• Involved in requirements gathering from Project Teams and identifying the volumes of the application
• Involved in setting up Performance Center Projects, User Provisioning and Assigning Resources to projects.
• Maintaining ALM PC 11.0 infrastructure with timely installation of patches and upgrades as necessary.
• Worked on end user support, troubleshooting issues related to the tools and components and provide guidance on add-ins that supplement the existing performance testing suite of tools, including ‘Shunra for HP’ and other software.
• Involved in Maintaining Training Information and Guides to ensure efficient use of the tools as well as developing and maintaining Best Practices to ensure adherence to processes that support BMS’ established System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and the Project Management Framework (PMF).
• Experience working on Cross Project Customization in PC.
• Review and Analysis of System Usage.
• Maintaining the project data in the Performance Center.
• Review Performance Assessment Documents, Test Plans and Test Results.
• Experienced working with Remedy Tools.
• Closely worked with HP Software support for the Patches, Evaluation licenses etc.
• Interacted with Different Project Teams for System Requirements and in resolving Infrastructure issues.
• Assist Teams with Performance Testing related issues.

Environment: HP ALM 11.0, Sitescope, Quality Center 10.0, WebLogic, WebSphere, Oracle, Java, .Net, Windows, Linux & UNIX.

Confidential, NJ

Sr. Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement gathering on various Oracle Financial Modules.
• Identifying Business Critical Transactional Flows and Volumes of the application by discussing with the respective Module/Business Leads.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Reports.
• Involved in Scripting using various protocols like Oracle 11i, Oracle NCA and HTTP/HTML.
• Executed Tests with various Work Load Models to simulate real time scenarios.
• Worked on IBM Tivoli Job Scheduling Console to Trigger and Monitor the Batch Jobs.
• Worked on Result Analysis after each Test and Documented the Performance Test Reports.
• Worked on Sitescope to Monitor/Analyze the System Bottlenecks.
• Closely worked with Development and Infrastructure Teams in Resolving Performance Issues.
• Logged and Tracked defects in Quality Center.
• Actively participated in the Team meetings to discuss about the Deliverables.
• Coordinated testing activities with the Off-Shore Team.

Environment: Loadrunner 11.0, HP ALM, Sitescope, Quality Center, IBM Tivoli, WebLogic, JAVA,Oracle R12, UNIX.

Confidential, CA

Lead Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Business and System Requirements.
• Worked on identifying the important transactional flows and volumes of the application by discussing with the Business team.
• Involved in Requirement gathering.
• Worked on the Tool Check.
• Developed Performance Test Scripts, Parameterized, Correlated and Customized them according to the business process.
• Executed the baseline performance tests for each release to verify the performance changes for significant business transactions.
• Conducted Load and Performance testing using Loadrunner by simulating heavy user load with transaction points to test the application response times.
• Extensively worked on various Performance Monitoring tools to analyze the System Bottlenecks.
• Worked on Analysis to capture the Response Times, Throughput, Passed/Failed Transactions, Errors after each Load Test and Documented the Performance Test Reports.
• Extensively worked on Vugen, Performance Center, Analysis & Monitoring tools.
• Tested Performance of the Web Applications using Loadrunner.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Reports.
• Interacted with Developers and other Teams for Data Requirements and in resolving Performance issues.
• Actively participated in the team meetings to discuss about the deliverables.
• Coordinate/Mentor testing activities with off-shore teams.

Environment: Loadrunner 9.52/11.0, HP ALM, ITCAM, Wily Introscope, EMAN, Dynatrace, WebLogic, WebSphere, Oracle, Java, .Net, Windows, Linux & UNIX.

Confidential, NJ

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Business and System Requirements.
• Involved in setting up the test bed for the following test runs.
• Installed the required patches to fix the compatibility issues between the Loadrunner and the Citrix client.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, & Performance Test Scripts.
• Tested Performance of Web, Web Services, Citrix Applications and Generated Automation Test scripts using Loadrunner.
• Conducted performance, load and stress testing using Loadrunner by creating rendezvous points to simulate heavy user load, and transaction points to test application response time.
• Extensively used Performance Monitors to analyze the System Bottlenecks.
• Analyzed load balancer settings to perform IP Spoofing.
• Parameterized the scripts and enhanced them according to the business process.
• Extensively worked on Virtual User Generator and Performance Center.
• Performed Negative testing to find how the functions and variables perform when it encounters invalid and unexpected values.
• Performed Failover testing.
• Worked on Analysis tool to capture the Response Times, Throughput, Passed/Failed Transactions, Errors after each Load Test and Documented the Performance Test Reports.
• Analyzed Server Logs and SQL Logs after each Load Test.
• Interacted with Developers and other Teams for Data requirements and Resolving performance issues.

Environment: HP Loadrunner 9.1/9.52, HP Sitescope, Citrix 10.2, Xenapp 4.5, CA Plex, MS SQL Server 2005, SQL DM, Crystal Reports & Windows 2003.

Confidential, NC

Performance Tester.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Business and System Requirements.
• Developed Performance Test Scripts.
• Tested Performance of Web, Web Services Applications and Generated Automation Test scripts using Loadrunner.
• Conducted Performance, Load and Stress testing using Loadrunner by creating rendezvous points to simulate heavy user load, and transaction points to test application response time.
• Ramped up Virtual users in a load test to achieve a maximal transaction volume within the expected time limit.
• Extensively used Performance Monitors to analyze the System Bottlenecks like Memory Leaks.
• Worked on Performance tuning of java applications.
• Analyzed load balancer settings to perform IP Spoofing.
• Parameterized the scripts and enhanced them according to the test case.
• Extensively worked on Vugen and Performance Center.
• Extensively performed tests on Single Sign-On applications.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Procedures, Traceability Matrix, and Test Result Reports for Manual and Automated testing.
• Performed Negative testing to find how the functions and variables perform when it encounters invalid and unexpected values.
• Worked on Analysis tool to capture the Response Times, Throughput, Passed/Failed Transactions, Errors after each Load Test and Documented the Performance Test Reports.
• Analyzed Server Logs using Perfmon and SQL Logs after each Load Test.
• Interacted with Developers and other Teams for Data requirements and Resolving performance issues.

Environment: Loadrunner 9.0/9.1, HP Performance Center, PerfMon, Oracle, Java (JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, XML) VB Script, .Net, WebSphere, Tomcat & Unix.

Confidential, MI

QA Performance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in designing and Testing of the projects.
• Writing detailed Test Plans and Test cases based on requirements and the business documents.
• Creating, maintaining, and modifying Test Scripts for Web Based environment.
• Creating Test Logs and Test Summary reports using Test Director and send them to developers.
• Involved in backend testing using Sql queries.
• Tested Performance of the Web applications.
• Extensively used SQL for interaction with database.
• Reported and Interacted with the developers of the Bug Activity by module wise.
• Generated Loadrunner graphs to analyze the results.
• Extensively used Virtual User Generator to create Load test scripts.
• Prepared weekly Status Reports showing the issues to be resolved in MS excel.
• Conducted focused audits (on specific process areas/practices) in as necessary
• Involved in writing SQL queries to check data integrity.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing in the final phase of software development process to check the functionality of the software.
• Participated in the Team meetings to discuss the issues arising out of testing.

Environment: Loadrunner 8.0, QTP, Test Director 7.0, Windows XP, Java, UNIX, Perl, Oracle9i/10g, SQL, WebLogic & Tomcat.

Confidential

QA Analyst/Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Performed Manual and Automated Testing.
• Created and Executed Test Cases.
• Developed the test cases for Functional, Integration and Database Testing.
• Analyzed the System Requirements and Use Case specifications.
• Worked on writing the detailed Test Cases and Test Plans based on the requirements.
• Creating and Modifying the Test Scripts for Web Based applications.
• Involved in Backend testing using Sql queries.
• Received extensive training on Loadrunner.
• Worked on Virtual User Generator to create Load test scripts.
• Worked on the data files needed for the Load Testing.
• Executed Loadrunner Test Scenarios and Monitor the tests.
• Analyzed Loadrunner results to measure Response times, Throughput, Transactions per second, Hits per Second and Web Page Breakdown Graphs.
• Worked on Analysis files to generate system graphs and Test Reports.
• Reported and Interacted with Developers to work on the issues.
• Retested the test scenarios after the issues are fixed and reported back.
• Track and Manage defects in Quality Center.
• Prepared weekly status reports and participated in Team meetings to discuss on out standing issues.

Environment: QTP, Test Director, Loadrunner 8.0, HTML, ASP.Net, JAVA, Oracle 9i/10g, Windows NT & UNIX.