SUMMARY

• 7 years of professional experience in Performance Test and Software testing. In depth knowledge of Software development life cycle, testing methodologies. Proficient in System, Functional, Regression and Performance testing of Client/Server and Web Based applications. Hands - on experience with diverse testing tools like Mercury’s and HP LoadRunner, HP Performance center and Quality Center.
• Expertise in Analyzing Business Specifications and develop Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts and execute them.
• Participated in project design and review meetings. Involved greatly in performance testing, Functional testing and Regression Testing using automated testing tools including LoadRunner, Performance Center, Quality Center, WinRunner and Test Director. Significant experience Load testing various applications including .Net, Websphere, J2EE and Citrix implementations.
• Extensive experience using Loadrunner for Performance Testing, Stress Testing, Longevity testing and Regression Testing.
• Proficient in Creating and Enhancing scripts, Executing Tests and Analyzing results using LoadRunner and Performance Center.
• Involved in Planning and Translation of Software Business Requirements into test conditions; execution of all types of tests; and identification as well as logging of Software bugs for business process improvement. Expertise in Manual, Automation and Load Testing. Created Load Testing Scripts using Load Runner VUGen.
• Experience in Analyze test results and identify possible performance related issues.
• Parameterized Stress and Load testing by using Load Runner.
• Performed Load Testing of web based application using Load Runner

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: LoadRunner 8.1/9.1/ 9.5/9.51/9.52/11, HP performance center 9.5/11,TestDirector8.0/7.6, Quality Center 9.0/9.2/10.0

Languages: C, C++, Java, VB Script, TSL, Visual Basic, .Net, SQL, PL/SQL, ASP

Internet Technologies: JavaScript, XML, HTML

Database Technologies: Oracle 8i/9i, MS-SQL Server 2000/05, Mainframes.

Others: MS-Word, MS Excel, MS-PowerPoint

Platforms: MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP, UNIX, LINUX

Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTML, SOAP, Web services, Web Click& script, winsocket

Web/Application Servers: IBM Web Sphere, BEA Web Logic and Microsoft IIS, EJB, IPlanet 7.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Plano, TX

Sr. Performance /Engineer Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing requirements and system design documentation to develop a performance test plan and strategy.
• Developing technical performance test plans Review server capacity planning and performance analysis for UNIX, Windows, and Database and Mainframe platforms.
• Planning, design, execute and evaluate performance tests of applications and services to ensure optimal application performance.
• Researching and modeling test scenarios based on realistic client usage patterns.
• Identifying performance bottlenecks throughout the system.
• Using Load Runner to design and execute load and performance tests against Web applications, web services and Database. Establish and maintain test data.
• Analyzing load test results to accurately assess product quality and identify solutions to improve application performance.
• Documenting and presenting performance test findings throughout the life of the project, Detailed and Summary and Maintaining baseline metrics for each application, component and release.
• Configuring Web, Application, and Database server performance monitoring setup using TeamQuest.
• Providing ad-hoc performance testing/load generation for support of client side development tasks.
• Monitoring the bottlenecks like JSP response time, DB AVG response time, on Wily IntroScope
• Coordinating and collaborating with Developers, Production support team, Project Management folks to gather the requirements to create test scope and test plan.

Environment: Java 1.6,.ASP.Net 2.4 framework 3.0, c#, asp.net Ajax, Windows 2000/XP Professional, UNIX, Oracle 9I/10G, DB2,sql server 2005/2008, Quality Center 9.5, VuGen 11.0,9.52 HP Performance Center/Loadrunner 11.0,9.52 Oracle 11i,TeamQuest,WilyIntroscope.

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Sr. Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• As the middleware performance Engineer, my role involves analyzing web traffic patterns and conducting periodic load tests on middleware API’s to detect performance issues for Enterprise releases.
• Extensive experience in planning load test scenarios, creating test scripts and executing load/stress tests across the applications in the enterprise.
• Worked in agile environment, gathered information of any bugs, problems and risks.
• Prepared Load Test Plan and worked based on the application.
• Created Load Testing Scripts using Load Runner VUGen.
• Created web based scripts and executing them in LR controller, HP Performance center9.5/11, analyze the graphs and reports publish them to Project Lead.
• Used on Web (http/html), windows socket protocols. Worked on manual, automated correlation and parameterization to create the scripts.
• Worked on service Level testing and TCP testing.
• Used HTML recording mode on Web (http/html) protocol for generating the scripts.
• Used Web reg save paramfunction captures the values of one output response and putting those values into next input request. Used pacing and think time in scripting and executing. Used thread option in runtime settings for memory efficiency.
• Analyzes performance test results to evaluate impacts on production infrastructure and make comparisons with previous release benchmarks.
• Configured Web, Application, and Database server performance monitoring setup using Site scope.
• Used performance trending reports for comparison test for prior releases, created Site scope graphs, Write clear and concise performance reports and review them with clients.
• Used sequential, random and unique parameterization based on the requirement.
• Used SQL Profiler to capture the SQL events to analyze the statements and query trace.
• Used the Windows socket protocol for RTR project.
• Worked closely with the development teams for fix the bugs and issues for the application. Created windows socket scripts and executing them in Performance center, analyze the graphs and reports publish them to Project Lead.
• Load tested on Wily IntroScope with the possible scenarios on preprod environments.
• Conducted scalability, stress and endurance tests on MQ servers, checking the CPU, memory, thread count.
• Used the UNIX commands to monitor the server logs. Conducted Loadtest and baseline tests for various internal projects. Conducted the stress, capacity and failover testing’s for various projects. Worked on different analysis reports using Loadrunner Analysis tool 9.5/11. Conducted the baseline test, loadtest on WAS6 to WAS8 migration.
• Obtained clear understanding of enterprise system parameters including load balancing/ server clustering /connection pooling. Monitoring the JVM's and analyzed garbage collection logs and GC Heap size, provided necessary recommendations to the client.
• Load, volume and stress tested on Mainframe applications and find out the MQ length and depth. Monitor the server stats on Site scope.
• Used SQL Profiler to capture the SQL events to analyze the statements and query trace.
• Added various monitoring parameters CPU, Memory to the LoadRunner controller for monitoring.
• Run full formal performance test including Peak, Breakpoint, Burst, Longevity and Failover. Worked on Shunra for accurate test results.
• Created multiple reports and different business templates for the clients.
• Created multiple Perl scripts to process server logs and obtain relevant information as per requirement.
• As a senior performance Test Engineer in the team, I am responsible for conducting application performance test reviews, coordinating activities across various teams to ensure the performance requirements are met.
• Responsible for executing tests and reporting the results to the Enterprise Architects and Senior Management at Confidential . Executed SQL queries to perform database testing using Oracle.
• Used SQL Queries were to retrieve data from tables and to perform Back-End testing.
• Write SQL Query to extract data from various database tables for testing purpose.
• Mentor the junior members of the team with the use of performance test procedures/ Loadrunner scripting and test automation.
• Work closely with senior members of middleware team/Web Sphere Administrators and SMEs across various groups.

Environment: LoadRunner 9.5/9.51/9.52/11, Performance Center 9.52/11, ALM Performance center11, Site Scope v9/v11,Shunra Wan Emulation 5.5,Web sphere Application Server 6.1/8, MQ,SOA, Web 2.0,RAD 7.5, WS 6.0, Java 5.0, J2EE 2.0, JDBC, IBATIS, Hibernate, AJAX, Oracle 9i,TOAD, ANT, DB2 8.2, MKS, Perl.