SUMMARY

• 5+ Years of extensive experience in Performance Testing, QA Life Cycle, Software Quality Assurance (SQA) and implementation of various Client/Server and Web based applications using Agile methodologies
• Solid expertise in Performance Testing with an excellent working experience on HP LoadRunner and Jmeter
• Excellent experience on Requirements Gathering, Load Modeling and Report Analyzing for Performance Testing
• Highly experienced in scripting of Web (HTTP/HTML), Web Services, Truclient - Web using LoadRunner Vugen.
• Well experienced with using LoadRunner Controller and its functions such as thread, rendezvous point, ramp up rate, duration and ramp down rate
• Train and setup HP Loadrunner (performance /Load / Volume) test environment
• Excellent experience in developing complex performance test scripts for various protocols
• Excellent knowledge and experience on creating Test Plans Test Strategy and Test Case documents and their execution- Manual as well as Automated process
• Extensive working experience on Servers Monitoring with the help of Sitescope, New Relic and Steel Center
• Wide knowledge of Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, System testing, and UAT with Black Box testing methods
• Experienced in automated testing tools like Load Runner, Quick Test Pro, Test Director and Quality Center
• Strong working experience and knowledge on applying HP Tools like ALM, Load Runner, Quality Centre and Performance Center
• Strong skills and working experience in different types of Performance and Reliability testing (Load, Stress, Endurance, Capacity, Volume, Scalability, Reliability etc) by using Load Runner and Jmeter
• Excellent working experience in a fast-paced environment using agile methodologies
• Knowledge on Performance Tuning Activities
• Managed performance across the application lifecycle by using Application Performance Management tool suite
• Extensive knowledge of SOAP REST html http and external data source testing and deep understanding of web services creation development design and functionality testing
• Used Wily introscope to monitor the health of various applications
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills as well as a good team player, self-starter and quick learner
• Ability to work on tight schedules and on different projects concurrently
• Flexible and versatile to adapt to new environments and work on new projects
• Proficient in writing functions to emulate real time environment for load runner scripts
• Monitored database for sessions, connection pool and memory issues
• Experience in monitoring and diagnosing application performance and/or configuration issues

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Load Testing tool: LoadRunner, HP Performance Center, HP ALM Performance Center, Quality Center, GitHub and Jenkins

Loadrunner Protocols: HTTP, Citrix, SAP, PeopleSoft, Tru Client, API Rest Client, Web-Services, JAVA-RMI, Flex

Monitoring Tool: New Relic, Sitescope, Wily Introscope, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Dyna traces, HP Diagnostics

Web/Application Servers: IBM Web Sphere, Tomcat

Operating system: Windows 2008 R2, Windows NT, UNIX

Languages: Java, JSP, Html, Visual Basic, Oracle, C, SQL, C #

Databases: MS SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, SQL, PL SQL, TOAD

Methodologies: Performance Testing, Quality Assurance, Agile

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Columbus, Georgia

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in different meetings to gather specifications and requirements (Load Metrics, Performance Requirements, SLA, Workflows, etc.) Prior to testing
• Participated and implemented agile testing practices for widely distributed teams and executed Performance Test Plan and Test Cases with a standard format
• Developed Vugen scripts using different protocols like Web (HTTP/HTML) and Web Services.
• Developed scripts and scenarios for performance testing new and enhanced web based products using LoadRunner
• Generated LoadRunner automation scripts and prepared the test data accurately with the help of additional sub-scripts
• Worked closely with the other engineers to determine if the proposed architecture can handle current and anticipated production volume.
• Executed different performance tests (Smoke Test, Baseline Test, Load Test, Stress Test, Capacity Test, and Endurance Test).
• Analyzed the report and validate that the forecasted load levels can be reached with acceptable response times of Open Pages for given functionalities.
• Identifying the breakpoint for the Product by the increasing number of users using the application support without degrading the performance using Stress test.
• Using Blaze meter executed the performance tests in cloud performance testing
• Used rendezvous concept of LoadRunner to generate peak load onto the server thereby stressing it and measuring its Performance.
• Identify the specific system components response times to troubleshoot performance bottlenecks.
• Independently developed test scripts according to the test specifications/requirements.
• Responsible for developing and executing performance load tests.
• Working with SDLC team to troubleshoot root cause of the issues related DB and Application servers using Dynatrace Tool.
• Monitor and used CA Wily APM to generate reports, graphs, analysis of application latency.
• Used Java Garbage collection monitoring tool to understand if there are any memory leaks during the Capacity & Endurance Tests.
• Used dynaTrace to measure web site performance in test environment to capture performance metrics of key product features
• Used APM tool DynaTrace, AppDynamics to Monitor End User Experience, Overall Application.
• Performance, Business Transaction Performance and Application Infrastructure Performance across all tiers (web/app/DB) of the applications. Adding DynaTrace headers to the VuGen scripts to monitor response times closely.
• Used SPLUNK tool to check whether the messages are triggering at back end.
• Used Hp Diagnostics & Wily Introscope to further monitor various graphs like VM Heap, GC, threads status, Java Process utilization, JVM exceptions, collection leaks and context switch\sec to pin point issues.
• Collected the frequency of JVM Heap & Garbage Collection in DCT Server during Test.
• Worked on performance testing report and made recommendation for systems application performance improvement.
• Identifying the problems, prioritizing them and communicated the bugs to the developers using Bug Tracking Tool Quality Center.

Confidential, New Jersey

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Develop performance test suites, creating threads and setting up sampler using JMeter Testing tools
• Involved in Localization testing and Performance testing of web-based modules, handled Load testing using JMeter.
• Provided support in theperformancetesting usingJMetertask includes developing test plan, test script and reports.
• Presently working in an Agile development environment. Participate in weekly Scrum meetings for the applications development.
• Develop scenario-based testing for theJMeterscripts.
• Create, schedule and run the scenarios usingJMeterand generate necessary graphs
• Extensively worked onJMeterto create Thread Groups and test Web Application for various loads on key business scenarios
• Used Blazemeter extension for recording the Performance Scripts
• Converted the files from Blazemeter to JMX
• Performancetest development for 'Continuous Benchmarking' usingJMeterand Jenkins
• Created and executedJMeterscripts forperformancetesting of portal
• Verifying the Requirements via the Automated Scripts, Installing Rational Robot Tool on different environment).
• Involved modifying the automated scripts-based Problem Report return against the application by the end users.
• Provide support and responsible for managing and tracking infrastructure requirements and software upgrade.

Confidential

Junior QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Execute performance test scripts from LoadRunner Controller and logged defects in QC.
• Performed web service performance testing using Soap UI Pro.
• Used Quality Center to prepare Test Cases with the complete description of requirements
• Reported and managed software performance defects using Quality Center and interacted with the developers to resolve technical performance issues.
• Actively involved in QA reviews, walk through and audits during various software development life cycle phases.
• Involved in Integration and System and Database tuning
• Worked collaboratively with QA, development, and business groups to complete comprehensive testing on new, major releases.
• Participated in weekly meetings and walk through to discuss defect priorities. Perform system, unit, acceptance, regression, load, and functional/performance testing on application using manual testing methods
• Involved in preparing Test Plan and Test Cases based on business requirements.