PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Around 13 years of Quality Assurance experience wif strong expertise in Performance/Load & Stress Testing using Performance Center/LoadRunner.
• Expertise in Test documentation, Performance testing and execution on Client/Server, Integrated Intranet, UNIX, Linux, Mainframes, and Internet applications
• Hands on experience in using automated tools like Load Runner, Test Director, Quality Centre, JMeter and Performance Center.
• Performance testing Experience in J2EE, PeopleSoft, Oracle applications by using HTTP/HTML, TruClient and multiple protocols.
• Monitoring system resources such as CPU, Memory, Threads and MDB usage.
• Hands on experience and exposure in all phases of project development lifecycle and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) right from Inception, Transformation to Execution which include Design, Development, and Implementation.
• Proficient in writing test plans, test cases, test scripts and test result reports.
• Significant experience Load testing various applications including .Net, JBoss, WebSphere, J2EE and SAP.
• Experienced in executing Baseline, Benchmark, Performance, Stress and memory leak tests.
• Performed Performance Testing, Functional Testing and Regression Testing using automated testing tools including LoadRunner, Performance Center, Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, WinRunner and Test Director.
• Experienced in supporting the team of on - site and offshore which provides Performance testing services for 24/7 for internal client applications.
• Well-versed in Software development which follows Water fall and agile methodologies.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Project Management
• Remote Leadership
• Problem Solving
• Scheduling
• Resource Planning/Analysis
• Process Improvement
• Team Development
• Online Learning
• Technical Competencies
• LoadRunner
• SoapUI
• ITIL Foundations Certified
• JIRA, Zoom
• Jenkins
• Control-M
• Performance Center
• App Dynamics
• SAFe Certified
• Microsoft TEAMS
• Microsoft Office 365
• MS SQL Server Management Studio 17
• Jmeter
• SiteScope
• AWS Practitioner Certified
• SharePoint 2010, 2016
• Confluence
• Precise i3

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Responsibilities:

• As a SME - Install, configure and maintain LoadRunner, Performance Center and all associated tools
• Knowledge of Performance Center tool as well as working noledge of administration of other tool sets capable of integrating wif Performance Center
• Troubleshoot and resolve LoadRunner issues
• Perform software performance testing, i.e. Load, Stress, Volume, and Endurance
• Maintain noledge of vendor and Quality assurance (Performance Engineer) technologies and Standards
• Facilitate information sharing, reporting, training and use of HP Performance Center
• Able to implement enterprise software testing solutions in large, complex, systems
• Experience designing and implementing the server architecture for Performance Center and other tools
• Knowledge of the software testing discipline and its integration wif software development life cycle
• Experienced in using App Dynamics, SiteScope, HP diagnostics to test and analyze software performance
• Experienced wif analyzing performance test results and tuning software for optimal performance
• As a Testing Lead - Conduct meeting wif the business or development team to identify the scope
• Thorough understanding of business and the infrastructure
• Project assignment to testers, Workload monitoring and balancing.
• Preparing the performance test strategy and Analyzing the tool capabilities
• Securing the performance test environment
• Communicating wif business/development team manager regularly
• Coordinating performance testers and monitoring their progress
• Reviewing the test scripts, workload model, intermediate test execution results and final test results
• Presenting the report to the development/business team
• Securing the approvals from the Requesters.
• Facilitate information sharing, reporting, training and use of HP LoadRunner
• Process Standardization documentation
• Training & Mentoring team members on Domain Knowledge.
• Daily, weekly, Monthly, Quarterly and yearly status reporting.
• As a Performance tester - Understanding the non-functional requirements from business
• Analyzing the critical business scenarios and the service level agreement objectives
• Create performance test plan
• Developing and Enhancing the test scripts by creating/implementing Parameterization, Checkpoints, Transactions, Reusable functions, Correlations, Actions/Blocks, Iterations, Pacing and Think Time
• Designing workload model
• Execute test scripts to help validate performance of applications/ productsbased on the requirements.
• Test Monitoring
• Analyzing the test results gatheird from performance tests wif an eye towards application performance, availability and capacity wif the goals of ensuring the optimal user experience and reducing hardware costs
• Preparing the test report wif necessary recommendation toward performance improvement, if any.

Environment: Load runner, Performance Center, Jmeter, SoapUI, App Dynamics, SiteScope, Precise i3, MS SQL Management studio, Control-M.

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Project Management

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Application is developed/tested/implemented through a series of “drops” and “product version” using Iterative Development Methodology.
• Reviewed and analyzed the requirements of the new system and identified discrepancies that ca hinder System, Regression, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Responsible for Performance Testing (Load, Stress and Volume) using Load Runner (Controller, Virtual User Generator, Analysis).
• Tested J2EE Application using Silk Performer and Load Runner.
• Installed and Setup Performance Center and Multi Load Runner Agents Site Scope Installation and Setup (classic) includes creating Groups and Monitors for UNIX, Web Logic and Oracle Database.
• Coordinated wif technical teams to set i Database Query, CPU Utilization, Memory and URL
• Extensively used Web (HTTP/HTML), Web Services, J2EE protocols.
• Coordinated wif Functional Teams to Identify the Business Processes to be Performance tested.
• Performed Load Testing wif 5000/1000/15000/22000 Vusers wif 300, 400,550,900 TPS.
• Extensively worked on DB2 to change the database connections, tracing logs, monitor resources of the machines.
• Used HP Diagnostics to obtain Performance data for problem solving, trend analysis, and capacity planning.
• Design and develop performance test scenarios and test data for company's applications, APIs and data processing engine.
• Executed performance test scenarios and analyzed results and reported findings to the project manager.
• Tuned the Application server JVM properties by exercising wif different JVM property settings to analyze the best performance of the application. Configured JVM parameters, particularly those related to memory usage and garbage collection.
• Setup Load Runner monitor resources to identify performance bottlenecks, analyze test results and report findings to the clients and provide recommendation for performance improvements as needed.
• Identified problematic areas and recommended solutions to the developers and upper management.
• Tuned systems for optimal performance and characterize systems on multiple platform and configuration combinations.
• Created standards, templates, libraries, etc; monitored and captured SQL error codes, detailed SQL error summary through BMC Apptune for DB2; scheduled Best/1 (BMC Patrol) capture for CPU metrics; monitored Wily/HP Diagnostics to ensure WAS statistics (GC, Heap, Memory, Response times, etc.) are collected for the tests. Submitted the necessary host data restore jobs (Mainframe/TSO/ISPF/JCL) to restore the data from a clean image copy between successive performance tests.

Environment: HP ALM Performance Center 11.5, Load runner 9.5.1, MS Access, DB2, Jmeter, HP Analyzer, IBM Lotus Notes, http Watch Windows NT, Windows 2003 and Windows XP; Optier, Splunk

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating high-level test plan.
• Gatheird all the requirements for scripting the web services.
• Had meetings wif different teams for performance test scope.
• Independently developed LoadRunner Vugen scripts according to test specifications/requirements to validate against Performance SLA.
• Executed multi-user Performance tests, used online monitors, real-time output messages and other features of the LoadRunner Controller, Vugen, Analyzer.
• Analyze, interpret, and summarize meaningful and relevant results in a complete Performance Test Analysis reports
• Monitored Average Transaction Response Time, Network Data, and Hits per Second, Throughput and Windows resources like CPU Usage available and committed bytes for memory.
• Involved in performance testing of server’s load,
• Multiple Virtual Users by using Load Runner Virtual User Generator component.
• Understanding the change thoroughly and if necessary, contact related business analyst, developer and other SME’s.
• Designed multiple LoadRunner scripts (Vugen) wif different protocols like Web, Citrix, and Web services for load testing different applications.
• Parameterization and correlation were done to all web service scripts.
• Analyzed results and provided Developers, System Analysts, Application Architects and Microsoft Personnel wif information resulting in performance tuning the Application.
• Runtime setting for each script were done individually to handle in standalone mode.
• Configure the LoadRunner controller for running the tests. Verifying that the LoadRunner scripts are working as expected on different Load generator machines

Environment: Windows 2003, Oracle 10i, Oracle SQL, Java, MFC, Web Services, Performance Center, WebSphere, Load Runner 9.1, 9.5.1, AS400, IEX Executor, Test Creator, Quality Center.

Confidential

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Created Test Plan, which includes Testing Resources, Testing Strategy and testing of end-to-end scenarios.
• Created automated scripts by including timers for recording response times, and test checks for confirming the retrieval of the correct page.
• Participated along wif the Business Support Group in design review and requirement analysis meetings.
• Involved in performance testing of server’s load and scalability by creating multiple Virtual Users by using Load Runner Virtual User Generator component.
• Designed multiple LoadRunner scripts (Vugen) wif different protocols like Web, Siebel, RTE, Citrix, Web services and Winsock for load testing different applications.
• Created, Executed and Monitored the feasibility of various manual and goal-oriented scenarios of an application wif Load Runner Controller.
• Identify system/application bottlenecks and work wif Bottom-line to facilitate the tuning of the application/environment to optimize capacity and improve performance of the application in order to handle peak workloads generated via Mercury Interactive LoadRunner tool to simulate activity.
• Created Vusers to emulate concurrent users, inserting Rendezvous points in the Vuser scripts and executed the Vuser Scripts in various scenarios which were both goal oriented and manual using Load Runner
• Configure the LoadRunner controller for running the tests. Verifying that the LoadRunner scripts are working as expected on different Load generator machines
• Added various monitoring parameters (CPU, Memory) to the LoadRunner controller for monitoring.
• Created detailed test status reports, performance capacity reports, web trend analysis reports, and graphical charts for upper management using Load Runner analysis component.

Environment: Windows 2003, Linux, Oracle 8.i & 9.i, SQL, MS SQL Server, people soft, .Net, BizTalk, XML, MS MQ .Net, LoadRunner 8, Quality Center, Performance Center, Citrix, Test Manager.