SUMMARY

• Analytical, talented and Multi skilled with overall 7 years of IT experience as Performance Test Engineer/ Sr. Performance Analyst.
• Experience in Software testing life cycle including as Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Performance/ Load Testing, System Testing, Smoke, Sanity and User Acceptance Testing.
• Experience in applying Testing Methodologies, creating Test Plans, Executing & Automation of Test Cases, Bug Tracking and Report Generation.
• Expert knowledge of Bottlenecks in Performance, Web Performance Throughput, Server Response Time, Network Latency.
• Simulated different levels of user load Vusers - simultaneous user load/concurrent user.
• Practiced tester of web application running Load Balancers with different types of logic for distributing incoming HTTP requests (round robin and sticky- both IP based and cookie based).
• Possess problem solving skills, communication and co-ordination skills coupled with a keen analytical aptitude along with a great sense of responsibility in execution.
• Expertise in Performance tools like Load Runner, JMeter
• Performed tests and analysis such as load test, stress test, endurance test, performance bottleneck test, benchmark test, and baseline test etc. using HP Load Runner on web server, application server and database server at different levels and loads.
• Experienced in Virtual User Generator (VuGen) scripting for performance/load testing, Multiple protocols, Controller and Analyzer Tools, Report generation.
• Experience of System Performance Testing Methodologies (peak/Stress/Endurance Tests).
• Extensive experience of Web languages (HTTP/HTML), Web Services, Oracle, Citrix Protocols, etc.
• Good understanding of Java / J2EE applications on weblogic and its usage from Performance prospective.
• Knowledge of testing front end web technologies based on JavaScript, DHTML, CSS, and HTML.
• Proficient in Structured Query Language (SQL), Joins, PL/SQL stored procedures & triggers.
• Experience in preparing Test data by retrieving data from Relational Databases Oracle, MS SQL Server.
• Experience on working with JMeter for load performance testing.
• Proven ability to check Network Bottlenecks using Vuser Graphs.
• Experience in Installation and Configuration of Software and Hardware in testing environment.
• Experience in working as a team member and also work independently to resolve technical issues
• Excellent Written/Verbal communication, highly motivated, self-starter able to work independently and collaboratively within a diverse technical team.
• Expert in finding the reasons for High Response Time.
• Excellent inter-personal abilities and a self-starter with good communication & presentation skills, problem solving skills, analytical skills and leadership qualities.
• Expert in findingperformancebottlenecks both in client side and server side and making recommendations forPerformanceProfiling or Tuning.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, UNIX, Windows, Mac OS X and LINUX.

Defect Tracking Tool: Quality Center, JIRA

Performance Testing Tool: HP Load Runner, JMeter, HP PC11.52, HP

Diagnostics, Microsoft Visual Studio:

Scripting Language: JavaScript

Programming Languages: C, C++, VB, PL/SQL, Java and J2EE

Database Tools: SQL Server, Oracle, MS-Access, My SQL, DB2

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, Java Script, VB Script

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the team lead in the preparation of the Test Plan and Test Strategy documents.
• Responsible for Load Testing Co-ordination with various other projects involved in load testing activity.
• Interacted with the Business Analyst and application teams to discuss the performancerequirements and test strategy also developed the performanceTest Plans and Load Test Strategies interacted with end client.
• Managing the team throughout the software Testing process involving creation all parameters, timelines and performance benchmarks are met.
• Multi-tasking between testing concurrently on multiple projects.
• Multiple protocol environments: Web (HTTP/HTML), AJAX TruClient, Web (Click & Script), Web services on LoadRunner VuGen 11.5.
• Analyzing required effort in terms of resources needed, script complexity, scenario design challenges, overall man-hours required and documenting them before project execution.
• Used Sitescope to monitor the application and setup monitor frequency.
• Used Dynatrace Application Monitoring tool to detect and diagnoses problems in real time, drilling down to the offending code for lightning fast resolution.
• Planned and generated VuGen scripts using Load runner 11.5 and TruClient protocol. Modified the scripts for parameterization, pacing and think times.
• Worked closely with the offshore by assigning them work on daily bases and also validation of work.
• Executed load, endurance, regression and performance tests based e-commerce website with user loads.
• Prepared analysis report with important graphs in Excel Sheet with HTML Reports.Adding new graphs to the Analyzer reports, comparing results with SLAs, merging two or more graphs to compare results, exporting HTML reports. Calculations of tps and response times across different users in one test.
• Interacted with capacity team during the test runs for monitoring of Apache and Jboss servers involved in the project for CPU utilization, memory and disk usage.
• Exclusively involved in performance tuning of servers such as Apache and Jboss.
• Identified bottle necks, performance issues using multiple user test results, online monitors, real-time output messages and LoadRunner Analyzer.
• Anticipated in defect review meetings conducted by the PM to discuss the status of defects to the application.
• Always met the deadline when required to do Load testing.
• Recorded videos of functionality flow and the replay of scripts using HP screen recorder.
• Used SOAP UI for web services is used for giving the input requests and the responses are captured and later scripted in load runner by giving them proper SSL Certs for secured endpoints.
• Prepared daily task sheets for offshore and also updated performance status sheets for manager onshore. Scheduled several meetings with business teams, applications teams and development team to discuss the daily status of the project.

Environment: Load Runner 11.5, ALM/Performance center 11.5, ALM/Quality center 11.5, Microsoft Visual Studio, Soap UI, IBM Green Hat, HP screen recorder.

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in planning and coordination effort throughout QA life cycle.
• Responsible for designing load test strategies based on the environment activity.
• Responsible for estimating the concurrent users for the load test based on the Transactions/sec that is seen in production.
• Responsible for creating test scripts using Load Runner using various protocols including web (HTTP/HTML) and Cytrix
• Responsible for setting up the Load Runner Agents in the load testing set up.
• Conducted Load and volume testing of various SAT transactions.
• Responsible for data creation/seeding and data loading for the AUT.
• Responsible for creating Load Test scenarios based on the load testing scripts that are to be loaded.
• Used Sitescope to monitor the application and setup monitor frequency.
• Responsible for identifying the counters that needs to be added onto the scenario for data collection from analysis perspective.
• Monitored the Available bytes graphs that would give an idea as to the Memory leak if any present in the system.
• Responsible for migrating the necessary stored procedures and other database stuff that is needed by the Load Test database.
• Responsible for installation of Quality Center with SQL Server database and creating user profiles for users.
• Used Performance center for designing and executing the Load Tests.
• Used Quality center for planning and tracking the testing resources.
• Used HP Deep dive Diagnostics for figuring out various Application bottlenecks.
• Involved in Database testing by writing SQL queries, testing triggers and PL/SQL procedures.
• Involved in setting up the test data for the individual modules for the load test.
• Worked in association with the DBAs in making sure that the databases are re-pointed to the original environments once we are done with the environment for the load test in question.
• Responsible for filtering the analysis file data based on the durations required.
• Generated detailed test status reports, performance/capacity reports, web trend analysis reports, and graphical charts for upper management.

Environment: Load Runner 7.5, HP Performance center 9.x, QTP, Web load, HP Deep dive diagnostics, Mercury Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, HTML

Confidential - Portsmouth, NH

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Designed test performance plans as required by customer for providing necessary support and ensured that development process was carried in accordance to strategy.
• Preparation of Paper Scripts (Manual Workflows) to make sure scripting activity is well planned to avoid any discrepancy in the flows.
• Gathering non-functional requirements for testability and participating in the review of the technical acceptance criteria.
• Load Runner script creation using Web (Http/HTML), PeopleSoft, Web Services protocols.
• Discussion of the scope with Solution Architect to identify thePerformance Test Scenarios and Volumes for all the DCTS applications.
• Creation of the Workload Model forPerformance Testing.
• Creation of TestData to be used for scripting and execution.
• Validating the environment forPerformance testing.
• Preparation of Paper Scripts (Manual Workflows) to make sure scripting activity is well planned to avoid any discrepancy in the flows.
• Execution of different kinds of tests like dry run, baseline, soak tests, peak loads, break points, failure tests using performance center
• Collected and maintained PBDs metrics using Wily Introscope
• Extensively used Wily Introscope and HP Diagnostic to analyze the system resources bottlenecks like Memory Leaks, CPU and Network Bottlenecks as well as problematic application and DB components.
• Analysis of results by monitoring graphs from different teams for WAS, WPS, DB2 and Report Preparation Via LR Analysis
• Used tools such as Dynatrace and AppDynamics to automatically see and analyzes every user transaction, all the time
• Monitoring to figure out the memory leaks / top CPU consuming code / SQLs share the performance test results with the business team, technical team and senior leadership
• Execute various kinds of performance tests (baseline, load, stress) with various transaction mix settings.
• Analyze the client side and server side metrics and provide a detailed report with observations and recommendations
• Simultaneously worked on different project using JMeter for designing and developing test scenarios, test scripts as well as integration solutions
• Used JMeter for heavy load on a server, group of servers, network or object to test its strength or to analyze overall performance under different load types
• Worked with JMeter in stimulating load on the servers to check performance of different load types
• Used Sitescope to monitor the application and setup monitor frequency.
• Actively participated in Defect Review meetings on a daily basis.
• Preparation of Daily and Weekly status reports. Attending weekly defect report meetings and presented progress updates.
• Attending conference calls with offshore team to discuss the Testing status and to assign the defects to the concerned developers.
• Participated in QA reviews and provided required support and clarification as needed for the reviewers.

Environment: DynaTrace, JMeter, HPALM, HP QTP, Java, SQL Server, Web services, Agile methodology

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Designed test performance plans as required by customer for providing necessary support and ensured that development process was carried in accordance to strategy.
• Developed automated tests and measured and validated performance of system against requirement and maintained automated tests environment and scripts for performance tests.
• Monitored CPU usage, Idle Thread Counts, GC Heap, Open Session Current Counts by using Introscope and WebLogic Console.
• Created VuGen scripts using different protocols like Web-HTTP, Cytrix, Web services.
• Preparation and execution of test scripts using JMeter and SOAP UI tool to perform Web Services testing.
• Preparation of Paper Scripts (Manual Workflows) to make sure scripting activity is well planned to avoid any discrepancy in the flows.
• With JMeter did test performance for both, static resources as well as dynamic resources, as well as handle a maximum number of concurrent users then your website can handle and providing the graphical analysis of performance reports.
• Configured different test plans and analyzed the results using JMeter.
• Worked in Test management for Oracle EBS Financial and Supply chain modules.
• Created Base Line test, Stability test, Stress test and Load test scenarios.
• Used Random Pacing between iterations to get the desired transactions per hour.
• Collected performance monitoring statistics coordinated with tech architects, business analysts to analyze the performance bottlenecks and provided recommendations to improve the performance of the application.
• Extensively used SQL queries to check the business transaction flows, editing existing batch jobs.

Environment: JMeter, Agile methodology, Quality center 11.0, SOA, Remote Desktop, Java, Load Testing tool,Monitoring tools (Dynatrace and AppDynamics)

Confidential

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in planning and coordination effort throughout QA life cycle.
• Responsible for designing load test strategies based on the environment activity.
• Requirement Gathering and Creation of thePerformance Test Plan.Performance testing.
• Created test strategy, test plans, performed risk assessment, managed dailytesting activities and resolve issues.
• Creation of the scripts using Load Runner using Web(Http/HTML), PeopleSoft, Flex, Citrix protocols.
• Preparing the detailed Test Scenarios and test scripts as per the client requirement documents and executes them.
• Designing the Workload Model (WLM) and Execution using Controller
• Scripts were prepared for two Environments, i.e. an old environment (Baselining) and the new Environment (After Upgradation)
• Load, Stress and Endurancetestingthe application usingPerformanceCenter
• Monitoring and analysis of server graphs i.e. WAS, WPS, DB
• Analyzing the results and reporting bottlenecks from LR Analysis.

Environment: LoadRunner 11.0, QTP, MS SharePoint, Quality Center, Oracle, ASP.NET, SQL

Confidential

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plan and Detailed Design Document (Test Scenarios) for the load & Performance testing to perform testing using different load levels.
• LoadRunner script creation using Web (Http/HTML), PeopleSoft, Web Services protocols.
• Prepared the QTP scripts with transactions and compared with real browser and LR emulated transactions for the WEB2.0 applications.
• Different VuGen scripts created to cover all the functionalities
• Preparation and execution of test scripts using JMeter and SOAP UI tool to perform Web Services testing.
• As part of each sprint, updated the Scripts and scenarios.
• Created different scenarios with different load configurations and executed the scenarios.
• Analyzed the results, prepared and published the Analysis Reports.

Environment: JMeter, HP QTP, Oracle, Toad for Oracle, Quality Center 10, SharePoint.