SUMMARY

• Highly motivated Lead Performance Test Engineer with over ten (10) years of job experience in a variety of IT domains, capable of effectively managing a team by enabling individual potential and have proven ability on dealing multiple complex projects and implement DevOps processes align with company’s corporate objectives.
• Prepared plan for future projects and ad - hoc requests/vendor engagements ahead of time to support corporate objectives.
• Estimated resource requirements/man-hours for new/future projects and also helped supervisor/manager in technical interview for hiring new resources.
• Helped supervisor/manager to onboard a new associate/contractor like opening a SAR for laptop/desk allocation and security access etc.
• Lead a team of seven (07) onsite and five (05) offshore resources.
• Assisted manager to setup goals for individual team members and review their performance in the end of the year.
• Experienced in delegating work to immediate team members and mentor as required.
• Experienced in managing multiple complex projects simultaneously and keep posted to management with latest update.
• Experienced in hosting daily scrum/Kanban meetings, keep track of tasks using TFS and generate weekly report for management.
• Experienced in self-service load test framework and load test integration in CI/CD pipeline.
• Comprehensive knowledge of software testing life cycle in Agile and water fall methodology
• Expert in performance/load testing and monitoring the system, collecting the server metrics and business transaction metrics using Appdynamics/dynatrce/wily/sitescope.
• Completed Confidential ITMA-leadership training.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tool: StormRunner Load, Performance Center, Load Runner, Jmeter, SOAP UI

Languages/API: C, C++, Java, Java Script, VB, PL/SQL, HTML, PHP, Shell script

Operating System: Windows 98/2K/XP/2003/2008, Windows server 2003 and 2008, UNIX

Web/App Servers: Web Sphere, IIS and Apache, Weblogic, JBoss

DB Servers: Oracle, MS SQL

Packages: MS Office, Open Office

Utilities: Jconsole, Jmap, Jvmvisual, Jhat, Toad, Putty, PAL, winscp

Monitoring Tools: HP site scope, CA Wily, Dynatrace, Splunk

Management Tool: HP-ALM, Quality Center, JIRA

Build Deployment tool: Jenkins, Quick Builds and HPSA

Task Management tool: Team Foundation Server (TFS), VSTS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Plano, TX

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed test plan for future load testing and ad-hoc requests to support Confidential corporate objectives.
• Estimated resource allocation for new/future projects and also helped supervisor/manager in technical interview for hiring new resources.
• Experienced in delegating work among team members and help to resolve technical difficulties.
• Experienced in managing multiple complex project simultaneously and keep posted to stakeholders with latest test updates.
• Proficient in risk analysis for a given changes in performance test perspective.
• Expert in monitoring production environment and simulate production like behavior in tech test environment.
• Performed root cause analysis of a system and finding the bottlenecks using monitoring tools AppDynamics and Dynatrace.
• Facilitated release sign off meeting with stakeholders and present test results findings during performance test.
• Streamlined current process through automation.

Environment: Performance Center 12.2, AppDynamics, Splunk, Unix, Windows, IIS, Oracle, Websphere, Agile methodology.

Confidential, Chevy Chase, MD

Performance Test Lead (Senior System Engineer-II)

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plan for application performance tests and arranged review meeting to get sign off by multiple stake holders.
• Estimated the number of man hours require to accomplish the projects.
• Experienced in assigning work to immediate team members and mentoring team member as required.
• Helped manager to setup goals for team members and review their performance in the end of the year.
• Experienced in managing complex projects concurrently and keep posted to management with latest update.
• Developed a plugin to integrate load test in CI\CD pipeline.
• Performed Automated Load, Stress, and Endurance and Peak Hour tests.
• Monitored resources to identify Performance Bottlenecks, Analyzed test results along with development team and database team and report the findings to the clients using LoadRunner.
• Involved in Performance test planning, setting goals for the release and also concerned in project level status meetings.
• Tracked and reported the errors discovered using ALM Performance Center.
• Wrote SQL Queries for performing Back end testing on Oracle data bases.
• Queried data from Data base and input data for data driven tests; kept data in excel files.
• Created scripts using LoadRunner Virtual User Generator.
• Parameterized Unique and Dynamic content in the application scripts for real time emulation using LoadRunner.
• Extensively worked with LoadRunner in analyzed applications performance for varying Loads and Stress conditions.
• Involved in Localization testing and Performance testing of web based modules, handled Load testing using LoadRunner.
• Interacted with HP support team in enhancing the performance testing.

Environment: Storm Runner Load, Unix, Windows, IIS, Oracle, Websphere, Dynatrace, Agile methodology.

Confidential, Chevy Chase, MD

Senior System Engineer-I

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Performance test planning, setting goals for the release and also concerned in project level status meetings.
• Tracked and reported the errors discovered using ALM Performance Center.
• Wrote SQL Queries for performing Back end testing on Oracle data bases.
• Queried data from Data base and input data for data driven tests; kept data in excel files.
• Created scripts using LoadRunner Virtual User Generator.
• Parameterized Unique and Dynamic content in the application scripts for real time emulation using LoadRunner.
• Extensively worked with LoadRunner in analyzed applications performance for varying Loads and Stress conditions.
• Involved in Localization testing and Performance testing of web based modules, handled Load testing using LoadRunner.
• Interacted with HP support team in enhancing the performance testing.

Environment: Performance Center 12.2, Unix, Windows, IIS, Oracle, Websphere, HP Sitescope, Dynatrace, Agile methodology.

Confidential -New York City, NY

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed and maintained Performance guidelines and strategy for applications.
• Involved in Gathering non Functional requirements and Performance test planning, work assignment, setting goals for the release, work trackers, and also involved in regular project level status meetings.
• Performed load test where software developed in Water Fall methodology.
• Performed Regression testing while software is developed in agile methodology.
• Used sitescope for Performance measurements of UNIX where Oracle is installed, and Web sphere servers where Web Logics are installed.
• Monitored online transaction response times, Web hits, TCP IP Connections, Throughput, CPU, Memory, Various Http requests etc using LoadRunner.
• Involved in Localization testing and Performance testing of web based modules; handled Load testing using Loadrunner.
• Created Performance benchmark for the product and compared test results of new build with benchmark results using LoadRunner.
• Monitored resources to identify Performance Bottlenecks, Analyzed test results along with development team and database team and report the findings to the clients using LoadRunner.
• Built procedures and handled multiple and frequent releases as part of testing life to visualize the Risks, issues and proactively plan for mitigation as part of release management.
• Handled End-to-End system testing.
• Performed Manual Testing and Automated Performance, Load & Stress testing.
• Involved in managing workflows, user setup, roles, project creation, schema creation, implementation with ALM/Quality Center.
• Tracked and reported the errors discovered using ALM/Quality Center.
• Wrote SQL Queries for performing Back end testing on Oracle data bases.
• Queried data from Data base and input data for data driven tests; kept data in excel files.
• Created scripts using LoadRunner Virtual User Generator and VSTS.
• Parameterized Unique and Dynamic content in the application scripts for real time emulation using LoadRunner.

Environment: ALM Performance Center, VSTS, Windows2k8, IIS 6, Oracle, Websphere, Wily CA Introscope, Agile methodology.

Confidential -Jersey City, NJ

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the business requirement to do test plan.
• Customized old script using LoadRunner Virtual User Generator.
• Parameterized Unique and Dynamic content in the application scripts for real time emulation using LoadRunner.
• Created Performance benchmark for the product and compared test results of new build with benchmark results using LoadRunner.
• Monitored resources to identify Performance Bottlenecks, Analyzed test results along with development team and database team and report the findings to the clients using LoadRunner.
• Built procedures and handled multiple and frequent releases as part of testing life to visualize the Risks, issues and proactively plan for mitigation as part of release management.
• Handled End-to-End system testing.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancements and Modification Request issues.
• Performed Manual Testing and Automated Performance, Load & Stress testing.
• Involved in managing workflows, user setup, roles, project creation, schema creation, implementation with ALM/Quality Center.
• Tracked and reported the errors discovered using Quality Center.
• Wrote SQL Queries for performing Back end testing on Oracle data bases.
• Queried data from Data base and input data for data driven tests; kept data in excel files.
• Write shell script to perform do some automation in UNIX environment.
• Interacted with HP support team in enhancing the performance testing.

Environment: Performance Center/LoadRunner, HP site scope, WebSphere, UNIX, Oracle.