SUMMARY

• Sr. Performance Engineer wif 8+ years of experience in Application Performance Testing, Performance Monitoring and Root Cause Analysis of Mobile and Full web applications
• Hands on experience and proficient in tools like Loadrunner, JMeter, Performance Center, CA Introscope, Dynatrace, App Dynamics, Splunk, MF ALM, JIRA, TDP and several In - house tools
• Expertise wif capturing Non-Functional Requirements and User Load Volumetric
• Experience wif teh preparation of Test Plans, Project Plans and Traceability Matrix
• Experienced wif setting up of environments wif Stubs using Lisa Wily/Parasoft
• Experienced wif using Splunk for custom Dashboards and Reports for trend analysis
• Designed Test scenarios and executed numerous Performance tests for Load testing, Stress, Endurance, Capacity, Scalability and Soak testing
• Experience of testing Web/HTTP, Web services, REST APIs and Database testing
• Hands on experience wif Root cause Analysis and recommendations for Frontend and Server metrics (API Tuning, Web Page Assets, Heap, Threads, Connections)
• Experienced wif using HTTPWatch, Fiddler and Dev Tools for detailed waterfall analysis
• Experienced wif Heap analysis, Thread dump analysis, Log analysis
• Experience of working in Test, Pre-prod and Production environments for Testing, Monitoring and performance validation
• Hands on experience wif Defect Management (Creation, Follow up, Re-test and Closure)
• Strong experience in Agile Scrum methodologies
• Proficient in communication and coordination wif Developers, Architects, Product owners, Business clients and QA teams

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Plano, TX

Technology: App Dynamics, Splunk, Micro Focus Loadrunner, ALM, JIRA, WebSphere

Sr. Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Coordination wif Product owners and Business stakeholders for Non-functional requirements for both Online Full web and Mobile applications
• Involve in Sprint Planning meetings and create User stories
• Capture volumetric from Production for user load and Backend response times (for stubs)
• Coordination wif Infra team for Setting up of teh Environments wif stubs using Lisa Wily/Parasoft
• Validation of environments and End to End flows by checking logs in Splunk for backend errors
• Creation and enhancement of test scripts using Web/HTTP, Ajax and Webservices protocols
• Prepare Performance test scenarios and workload models
• Conduct Load testing, Stress, Endurance, Capacity, Scalability and Soak testing, using Web, Ajax and Webservices protocols
• Create Dashboards and reports in Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics
• Using Websphere tool, Turn ON/OFF teh servers for environment scaling to conduct different test types
• Monitor logs, server stats, Application performance (Resp times) in Splunk, AppDynamics and Dynatrace
• Deep dive root cause analysis, Heap dump and Thread dump analysis, Frontend web components analysis and providing tuning recommendations
• Defect creation and Defect Management (Creation, Follow up, Re-test and Closure)
• Regular Status updates, and coordination wif project stakeholders

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Technology: Dynatrace, Introscope., Splunk, Micro Focus Loadrunner, ALM, JIRA, WebSphere

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Project System Study and Capture Non-Functional Requirements
• Work wif Design and Development teams for capturing Performance SLAs and User Load Volumetric
• Understanding teh application architecture and application design
• Translate all requirements to Performance objectives and teh specification of a peak usage model (peak workload model)
• Preparation of Test Plan and Test Case documents and Test Data
• Peer reviews and uploading teh test cases to HP ALM
• Create automated test scripts using Load runner for teh identified performance test cases
• Enhance teh scripts and apply parameterization, correlations and error handling
• Create Performance Test Scenarios and execute teh scripts in HP Performance Center, for benchmark testing, Load test, stress test, Capacity test and soak tests
• Identify Performance issues and bottlenecks related to Frontend metrics such as Response Time, Hits/Sec, Errors, Throughput etc)
• Monitor teh frontend metrics in Dynatrace tool and conduct root cause analysis using Transaction tracing and Pure path technology
• Monitor server parameters such as CPU, Memory, GC Heap, Threads, Connections in CA Introscope
• Use Splunk queries and Dashboards for performance trend analysis and leadership reporting
• Conduct root cause analysis and create test reports wif performance recommendations
• Create performance defects in HP ALM and assign to teh dev team
• Follow up of teh defects until closure
• Attend daily and weekly status calls (internal and external)
• Regular Status updates, and coordination wif project stakeholders

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Technology: Dynatrace, Introscope., Splunk, Loadrunner, Performance Center, JIRA

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Project System Study, Requirements scoping & gathering
• Understanding teh application architecture and application design
• Involve in teh preparation of Test plans and Test strategy documents
• Translate all requirements to Performance objectives and teh specification of a peak usage model (peak workload model)
• Create test scripts for backend system APIs using Load Runner, Jmeter and validate using Postman
• Preparation of performance test data for multiple iterations
• Peer reviews and uploading teh test scripts into HP Quality Center
• Conduct Sanity tests, Load test, stress test, capacity test, batch job tests and soak tests
• Monitor teh API performance, and other metrics like transactions/sec, errors per sec, etc.
• Monitor server parameters like CPU, Memory, GC Heap, Threads, Connections in CA Introscope
• Root cause Analysis and recommendations for API Tuning, Asset caching, API Pre-fetch, Tag optimization, Server performance, etc
• Conduct root cause analysis and create test reports wif performance recommendations
• Create performance defects in HP ALM and assign to teh dev team
• Follow up of teh defects until closure
• Attend daily and weekly status calls
• Regular Status updates, and coordination wif project stakeholders

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Technology: Loadrunner, Introscope, Performance Center and Several In-house tools

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Project System Study and Capture Non-Functional Requirements and user volumetric
• Understanding teh application architecture and application design
• Preparation of Test Plan and Test Case documents and Test Data
• Peer reviews and uploading teh test cases to HP ALM
• Create automated test scripts using Load runner for teh identified performance test cases
• Enhance teh scripts and apply parameterization, correlations and error handling
• Create Performance Test Scenarios and execute teh scripts in HP Performance Center, for benchmark testing, Load test, stress test and soak tests
• Identify Performance issues and bottlenecks related to Frontend metrics such as Response Time, Hits/Sec, Errors, Throughput etc)
• Monitor server parameters like CPU, Memory, GC Heap, Threads, Connections in CA Introscope
• Conduct root cause analysis and create test reports wif performance recommendations
• Raise defects in HP Quality center and work wif Dev teams
• Follow up of teh defects until closure
• Attend daily and weekly status calls (internal and external)
• Regular Status updates, and coordination wif project stakeholders