PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 8 years of total IT experience.
• 7+ years of experience in Non - Functional Performance testing for Retail Banking and Investment Sectors, Health Care.
• 7+ years of Working Knowledge in different stages of STLC, Test Planning/Strategy, Work-Load Modeling, Test Cases Design, Scripting, Scenario Design, Test Environment Setup, Test Data Setup, Defect Management, Configuration Management.
• Hands on experience in using automated tools like HP Load Runner, Performance Center, Jmeter, Quality Centre, JIRA.
• Hands-on Experience in End to End software testing life cycle, performance testing of Middleware, Web & Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based applications, Cloud based applications, performance testing includes Scalability test, Stability/Endurance test and Stress test; batch testing, server performance monitoring, bottleneck analysis and performance tuning.
• Have working experiment in both Waterfall as well as Agile Methodologies.
• Hands-on experience in Work-Load Modeling of an existing system as well as a new system by analyzing trends of load in webserver logs or manually captured details and applying the same to test scenarios.
• Hands-on experience in designing script and scenarios in Load Runner and Jmeter. Have also done POCs on Neoload.
• Worked closely with the Dev team and QA test team to understand the business requirements and overall strategies.
• Hands-on experience in Load runner protocols such as Web (HTTP/HTML) and Web services.
• Hands-on experience in Jmeter scripting with HTTP Request sampler for application as well as API testing.
• Hands-on experience on Monitoring and Analysis tools such as HP SiteScope, Willy Introscope, Informatica DX Console, TOAD, Splunk, Dynatrace, IBM ISA Tool, HTTPwatch, Hawkular metrics, Kibana etc.
• Hands-on experiences on others tools/emulators such as SoapUI/RUMBA.
• Hands-on experience on UNIX/LINUX and shell scripting.
• Hands-on experience on other test repository and tools such as HP Quality Center, JIRA.
• Expertise in Manual Correlations to handle dynamic values.
• Experience in Monitoring system resources such as CPU Usage, Memory Occupied, Disk usage.
• Hands on experience in JVM/Heap/Garbage Collection Monitoring.
• Strong process and documentation skills for performance testing/engineering.
• Have an ability to handle multiple projects with competing priorities.
• Good Communication and Analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Types: Performance testing and Manual functional testing

Testing Tools: Load-runner, Jmeter and POC on Neoload

Monitoring Tools: HP SiteScope, Wily Intoscope, Informatica DX Console, TOAD, Splunk, Dynatrace, HTTPwatch, Hawkular metrics, Kibana

Diagnostic Tools: IBM ISA Tool, In-house Log parser and Garbage Collection Analysis tools.

Test Repository Tools: HP Quality Center, JIRA

Integration Tools: Jenkins.

Deployment Tools: IBM uDeploy and In-house wrapper tool over UNIX/LINUX admin console.

Other Tools: SoapUI and RUMBA.

OS Worked on: Windows, UNIX and LINUX.

Servers Worked on: Websphere, Tomcat, BPM, eXtreme Scale and Message Broker.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Nonfunctional requirements analysis.
• Understand application architecture and identify critical business scenarios and prepare business flow documents.
• Workload modeling from the details shared by the client.
• Prepare detailed test plan and traversal flow document.
• Setup Jmeter before scripting.
• Test scripts development and enhancement using Jmeter.
• Test Data Set up.
• Create scenario with different business flows and their respective load distribution using Jmeter.
• Monitor various performance parameters like CPU and Memory utilization of POD with Hawkular metrics
• Analyze the test results and prepare preliminary reports and executive summary reports.
• Daily status reporting.
• Logging and tracking the defects in JIRA.
• Attend Defect meetings and address defects logged by Performance team.
• Re-test the defects and update JIRA defects with new results.
• Give suggestions to the Application team based on result analysis

Environment: Windows 2007, Jmeter 3.1, HTTP Watch, JIRA, Hawkular metrics, Kibana

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Performance Test Engineer / Lead

Responsibilities:

• Nonfunctional requirements analysis.
• Understand application architecture and identify critical business scenarios and prepare business flow documents.
• Prepare detailed test plan and traversal flow document (File processing flow as well as online application flow)
• Test scripts development and enhancement using Vugen.
• Test Data Set up.
• Create test files using Load Runner scripts and drop it in different servers for processing using Load Runner scenario or manually using WinSCP.
• Monitor the file processing using Informatica DX consoles, TOAD and Online application.
• Create script and scenarios for online application and execute using Load Runner.
• Monitor various performance parameters like CPU and Memory utilization using Wily Introscope.
• Used Dynatrace, Splunk for Performance bottleneck analysis.
• Analyze the test results and prepare preliminary reports and executive summary reports.
• Logging and tracking the defects in HP Quality Centre.
• Attend Defect meetings and address defects logged by Performance team.
• Re-test the defects and update QC defects with new results.
• Give suggestions to the Application team based on result analysis
• Allocating work and mentoring team members.

Environment: Windows 2007, Unix, Linux, WinSCP, Loadrunner 12.02, Wily Introscope, Informatica DX consoles, TOAD, HTTP Watch, HP Quality Center, Dynatrace, Splunk

Confidential

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for drafting the Performance strategy & plan for Various Applications including OLTP, SOA etc to performance certify the Application.
• Understanding the business and non functional requirements, Design of the Performance test scenarios and test cases.
• Understanding the architecture of the system under test and design test cases depending on Work Load Model acquired from the Production servers.
• Understanding the complete functionality of the End-to-End system and develop Load Runner scripts that emulate the performance critical flows.
• Design Load Runner scenario that emulate a real-world situation at full load subscription.
• Execution of planned Performance test suites (Capacity test, Endurance test, Stress test) in accordance with the test strategy and plan.
• Execute Performance Client-Side sanity test with the help of HttpWatch tool, conducted at with and with-out load conditions.
• Monitoring and analysis of various performance parameters like the CPU, memory and network utilizations on the UNIX server using HP SiteScope.
• Analyzed GC using IBM ISA or in-house tool log parser.
• Design shell scripts to capture various performance parameters such as prstat, vmstat, netstat etc.
• Identifying and investigating performance Bottleneck from the acquired performance test results.
• Logging and tracking the defects in QC.
• Daily status reporting

Environment: Windows 2007, Unix, Linux, Websphere, Tomcat, BPM, eXtreme Scale and Message Broker, Web Services, XML, Loadrunner 9.5, Loadrunner 11.52, Dynatrace, Splunk, Hp Site scope, IBM ISA Tool, In-house Log parser, SoapUI, Rumba, WinSCP, Jmeter, NeoLoad

Confidential

Performance Assistant Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Non Functional Requirement Analysis to indentify the required number of hits per second, active users, Session time.
• Responsible for understanding and identifying critical performance impacting flows of the product.
• Responsible for setting up the Performance test data. Worked on RUMBA to create customer records in legacy system.
• Scripting LR Vugen Scripts emulating the critical performance flow identified.
• Design scenario on the understanding of Work load model from Production logs and NFR analysis.
• Execution of load, stress and endurance testing of the test suite.
• Monitoring various performance parameters such as process stats, box-level stats, resource utilization (CPU and Memory), network stats along % utilized and data-packets read-write, thread counts, Garbage-Collection along with response time and error rate in HP Sitescope.
• Responsible for analyzing the performance metrics and investigating the ERRORs encountered in logs.
• Reporting the details to the stack-holders involved, thus helping in decision making on the product sign-off.
• Effective coordination with development and testing team to get the deliverables on time.

Environment: Windows 2007, Unix, Linux, Websphere, Tomcat, Web Services, XML, Loadrunner 9.5, Hp Site scope

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for detailed Functional Requirement Analysis, Developing test plan and test strategy.
• Developing test scenarios and test cases written for integration and acceptance level.
• Mapping test cases to their requirement for % coverage.
• Execution of the Functional test cases.
• Identify functional Defects and log them on to a common repository.
• Analyzing, reporting, and tracking functional defects to closure. Mapping the identified Defects to requirements via traceability matrix and Quality center.
• Working hand-in-hand with development to get the deliverables on time.
• Representing QA team for defect calls.