SUMMARY

• 5+ years of experience in Performance testing using Loadrunner and JMeter.
• Analyze results, graphs, service level agreement (SLA), Site Scope, Reports, Analysis and work load using Performance Center.
• Complete understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including System Analysis, User Requirements Determination, Data modeling, Coding, Implementation and Testing.
• Experienced in using various methodologies and automated tools, Expertise in Functional and Performance test Automation.
• Highly experienced in Loadrunner service test and perform load test on various types of Windows, Web portal, and Web based application.
• Hands on experience in Loadrunner and PC (Performance Center) used for endurance test and stress tests to improve application performance.
• Experienced in using Loadrunner and PC (Performance Center) to setup, and distribute load to multiple Load Generators.
• Experienced in using JMeter and Blazemeter to setup different types of tests.
• Hands on experienced in installing new HP ALM PC Server and Host Software (including latest patch available) to upgrade production & performance testing infrastructure for Installation, Implementation and Configuration purposes.
• Experienced in Performance and Load testing arena using HP ALM PC with various runtime settings.
• Expert in creating and enhancing Virtual User Generators (VuGen) Scripts with single and multiple protocol, adding Checkpoints, Rendezvous point, Parameterization and Correlation.
• Proficient in developing and deploying test automation scripts to do end to end performance testing using Loadrunner.
• Proficient in Loadrunner and ALM PC (Performance Center) to design test scenarios considered critical from a Business Flow standpoint.
• Expert in Loadrunner Analysis with custom Template including compiling and reporting the test results.
• Complete knowledge in ALM PC (Performance Center) to execute step, load and stress tests to measure and report response times, server resource (Memory and CPU) utilization.
• Hands on experienced on open source monitoring tool such as Apache JMeter, BadBoy and Fiddler to perform server hardening (HTTP request & responses) and server health check.
• Extensively used utilities like Remote Desktop Connection (RDP), Putty, Winscp, Perfmon, JConsole and Firebug.
• Experienced in JProfiler to identify Memory Leak issue, Java Heap, Garbage collection issues on J2EE applications.
• Highly experienced in using vmstat & System Monitor in UNIX System to measure Unix system Performance under load.
• Experienced in HP Site Scope & CA Wily Introscope to monitor the whole infrastructure.
• Hands on experienced with HP SiteScope installation and integration on testing environment including new patch upgrade.
• Experienced in created Virtual User Scripts, defined User Behavior, ran Load Test Scenario, monitored the Performance, Analyzing Results using Loadrunner.
• Extensively experienced in Testing Web based and Client - Server Applications.
• Experienced in writing Technical Documentation and performing Analysis, Functionality Testing, Regression Testing, Performance Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), End-to-End Testing, Load Testing.
• Experienced in Database Queries over DOS command prompt, MS Access, Visual Studio and MSSQL Server Management Studio for performing backups/restores and associated tasks (database mirroring and recovery).
• Widely used SQL, Pl/SQL critical queries for back-end testing on both Oracle and MSSQL Server Databases.
• Experienced in creating and maintaining defects using HP Quality Center, involved in reporting defects using Quality Center.
• Experienced in working in Banking/Finance, Publishing and Telecommunication domains.
• Participated in Status and Reviews, Co-ordination with Team, Client & Management (both onsite & offsite).
• Extensively experienced in Onsite - offshore model.
• Highly experienced working in Agile methodology.
• Hands on experience in project lead with fully satisfactory planned, implemented, energized and coordinated project and team members.
• Highly experienced in managing multiple requests during critical business issues and mitigating risks.
• Prompt in communication fluently and effectively with all level of business users, technical teams, and management across the organization.
• Exceptional ability to quickly master new concepts, applications and an effective team player with good problem solving and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Performance testing tools: Loadrunner, JMeter, Blazemeter Performance Center, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Monitoring tools: Perfmon, Sitescope, Introscope

Programming Languages: C, C#, .Net, JAVA

Other Software: Microsoft Office(Word, Powerpoint, Excel )

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bentonville, Arkansas

Performance Lead

Responsibilities:

• Working in Agile model with an offshore team of 8.
• Handling 4 major modules (Plan & Buy, Order Management system, Space Management and Cost Negotiation) end - to-end starting from NFR gathering to reporting single handedly.
• Develop Testing artifacts including Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Summary reports
• Extensively used LoadRunner VuGen to generate automated test scripts for the application under test to perform Stress/Volume testing.
• Using Web (HTTP/HTML) protocol to script the scenarios.
• Experience in executing LoadRunner scripts with load.
• Parameterize scripts for multiple users and enhance them according to the test cases.
• Work extensively with HP ALM to create scenarios for different load tests like Durability test, Stress test and Performance test.
• Correlate scripts for multiple users and enhance them according to the workflow.
• Analyze graphs and reports by using Analysis component to identify the bottlenecks in the Database, Server and Network side and reported to client along with necessary recommendations to improve performance of the application.
• Wrote SQL Queries to extract data from various database tables for testing purpose and executed various SQL Queries to compare the expected results with the database.
• Monitor different graphs/measures like Transaction response time, transaction rates, and other time-sensitive requirements against the published requirements for the system/application and verified whether the performance requirements have been achieved during normal projected user loads.
• Responsible for simultaneous monitoring of webserver/appservers and database (or post-test log review) to see load levels Confidential every point possible during the load test.
• Matching up load test throughput graphs to web/app servers and database load levels to identify which component is introducing the most transactional delay.
• Provide test data to support test scenarios.
• Working in Agile Methodology and leading a team of 6 in offshore.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Performance Lead

Responsibilities:

• Develop Testing artifacts including Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Summary reports that outline strategies, methodologies, and procedures for System, Integration, Functional and Regression testing of all applications under test.
• Extensively used LoadRunner VuGen to generate automated test scripts for the application under test to perform Stress/Volume testing.
• Used different protocols like Web (HTTP/HTML), Web Services, Seibel,SAP GUI.
• Experience in executing LoadRunner scripts with load.
• Parameterize scripts for multiple users and enhance them according to the test cases.
• Work extensively with LoadRunner Controller to create scenarios for different load tests like Durability test, Stress test and Performance test.
• Correlate scripts for multiple users and enhance them according to the workflow.
• Analyze graphs and reports by using Analysis component to identify the bottlenecks in the Database, Server and Network side and reported to client along with necessary recommendations to improve performance of the application.
• Wrote SQL Queries to extract data from various database tables for testing purpose and executed various SQL Queries to compare the expected results with the database.
• Monitor different graphs/measures like Transaction response time, transaction rates, and other time - sensitive requirements against the published requirements for the system/application and verified whether the performance requirements have been achieved during normal projected user loads.
• Use AppDynamics for detail analysis on the system resource usage and Sitescope and Wily to monitor application and database related metrics like JVM Memory Usage, JDBC Pools, Thread Pools, and troubleshoot if any issues.
• Responsible for simultaneous monitoring of webserver/appservers and database (or post-test log review) to see load levels Confidential every point possible during the load test.
• Matching up load test throughput graphs to web/app servers and database load levels to identify which component is introducing the most transactional delay.
• Provide test data to support test scenarios.
• Working in Agile Methodology and leading a team of 6 in offshore.

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Performance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing application and components behavior with heavier loads and optimizing server configurations.
• Interacted with the Business community and the end users to gather requirements and developing (User Requirement Specification) URS documents.
• Generated Performance Test plan in order to Execute Performance Testing Using Load runner.
• Worked closely with clients Interface with developers, project managers, and management in the development.
• Developed Vuser scripts using Loadrunner Web (HTTP/HTML) and JMeter based on the user workflows
• Performed lot of enhancements in the Vuser Scripts like Parameterization, Correlation and so on using Vugen of Load Runner.
• Executed different Scenarios like Bench Marking, Increasing Load, Stress tests, Soak tests and Endurance tests.
• Accurately produce regular project status reports to senior management to ensure on - time project launch.
• Work closely with software developers and take an active role in ensuring that the software components meet the highest quality standards.
• Used to identify the queries which were taking too long and optimize those queries to improve performance.
• Used Wily Introscope for Monitoring J2EE Applications.
• Interacted with developers during testing for identifying memory leaks, fixing bugs and for optimizing server settings Confidential web, app and database levels.

Confidential

Performance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed and executed performance testing activities identified as a pre - requisite for the rollout of a Business Process Management application.
• Developed Loadrunner scripts for the application UI and the Web Services in the Web HTTP/HTML protocol.
• Designed load tests by identifying business critical scenarios and concurrency requirements of the application.
• Executed performance tests and identified areas of bottleneck by analyzing Loadrunner test results and using native log analyzing tools.
• Provide a daily test execution and defect updates in Team scrums.
• Coordination with business users during User Acceptance Testing.
• Performed Component testing of each backend call by calling the web service, using Load Runner Web Services Protocol.
• Coordination with development team to understand the application.
• Perform Analysis on Load test results and create defect for issues identified during load test.
• Created database queries to capture / gather the data.
• Reviewed & analyzed the results & the data and published the final report after every test with all the issues identified with the potential causes of performance bottlenecks.
• Executed the SCALABILITY TEST with increasing the load by 25% of production volumes.
• Identified issues across different tiers of the application issues related to throttling, high Response time, high CPU utilization, high thread utilization - Analyzed those & with support from the respective team resolved.
• Created stubs for the application in testing environment used for Performance testing.
• Worked on carrying out a proof of concept to evaluate the feasibility of performance monitoring over the internet by using Keynote tool.

Confidential

Performance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as on the offshore team - member in the project and was involved in the application performance evaluation.
• Collecting the non-functional requirements from the customers, understanding the application topology and architecture to develop design/plan documents, script creation and validation and environment set-up.
• Developed Vuser scripts using Loadrunner Web (HTTP/HTML) and JMeter based on the user workflows
• Analyzing the server side monitoring logs to make sure that the application performance was within the service level agreements under steady and normal physical resource usage of the servers.
• Preparing the report consisting of the response time, scalability point and the threshold level of the application.
• Presented the final summary report to the respective teams by mentioning all the performance issues identified and recommendations.
• Involved in preparing Test Plans based on Business Requirements Documents.
• Developed the Test Cases to test User Interface and Functionality of the application.
• Performed Functionality Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, and Back-end Testing.
• Created Vuser Scripts using Loadrunner VuGen and used controller to generate and execute Loadrunner test scenarios.
• Executed in Load, Stress and Endurance testing to simulate a process that allows more than 1000 concurrent users to login Confidential the same time by using Loadrunner.
• Independently executed the Loadrunner test scenario, analyzed the execution statistics by monitoring the online graphs.
• Performed Database Validation by executing SQL queries; interacted with developers as needed to isolate the major cause of defects and performed backend testing.
• Prepared status summary reports with details of executed, passed and failed test cases.
• Worked on the Build Management and Release Management for the product release.
• Involved in different phases of the project life cycle (PLC).
• Responsible for conducting weekly status meetings with Client periodically.

Confidential

Performance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining the repository of all the required documents like sign - off of all work streams in Share Point.
• Preparing Project Plan, Test Plan, Test Logs, Test Scenarios and execution of Test Cases.
• Tested Web services, XML request and responses.
• Gathering and analyzing the performance requirements in order to assess the capacity requirement, performance, reliability and scalability of the applications being evaluated.
• Feasibility study, effort estimation, project strategy preparation, script enhancement, script validation, scenario setup, execution, analysis and tuning of the critical web-services.
• Monitoring the database server using a Loadrunner native monitor.
• Providing proof of concept for the recommendations provided as deliverable to the client.
• Analyzing the various new features established in the current versions of the software used by the client and providing the performance impact of changing the code using the new features available.
• Used Microsoft Office tools for the documentations of the different processes carried out and to prepare an executive summary report during the project closure.
• Analyzed the thread and heap dumps of the application to find out potential performance bottlenecks
• Presenting the recommendations and code tuning techniques to overcome the bottleneck to achieve better application performance.
• Delivering the final application health report for every release of all the applications.

Confidential

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Executed the performance test scenarios in controller module of Loadrunner.
• Preparation and execution of test scripts using JMeter to perform Web Services testing.
• Created and Maintained Performance Test scripts and Test Suites.
• Created Virtual User scripts using Loadrunner.
• Conducted Ramp - up and Ramp-down Tests using Loadrunner.
• Extensively Monitored Application Server resources, Database resources against Virtual User Load using Loadrunner monitors.
• Analyzed Performance, Response Vs. time, CPU Utilization, Memory, I/O, and Throughput graphs
• Created and executed scenarios in Load Runner controller to analyze system performance in Load Runner Analyzer under load.
• Used rendezvous concept of Load Runner to generate peak load onto the server thereby stressing it, and measuring its performance.
• Attended the Review meetings and walkthroughs and interacted to Business Analysts and Developers for defects solving.
• Using App Dynamic Tool which monitors application code running on JVMs and which provides how it executes in production.
• Involved in designing, updating, reviewing and optimizing of regression suite.
• Performed System, Regression, Integration and End to end testing.
• Performed Cross browser, cross device testing along with NFR(Non-Functional Requirements) by utilizing tools/utilities, browser add-ons.
• Prepared Test Execution Summary Report and ensured sign-off received from all stakeholders
• Conducted Knowledge sharing sessions to the team and acted as a functional consultant for the project team
• Preparing and delivering the test status reports during test execution and final test reports.
• Participating and reporting statuses in the entire test related project team meetings.
• Documented the system understanding for all the applications.Preparation and execution of test scripts using JMeter to perform Web Services testing
• Executed the performance test scenarios in controller module of Loadrunner.
• Created and Maintained Performance Test scripts and Test Suites.
• Created Virtual User scripts using Loadrunner.
• Conducted Ramp-up and Ramp-down Tests using Loadrunner.
• Extensively Monitored Application Server resources, Database resources against Virtual User Load using Loadrunner monitors.
• Analyzed Performance, Response Vs. time, CPU Utilization, Memory, I/O, and Throughput graphs
• Created and executed scenarios in Load Runner controller to analyze system performance in Load Runner Analyzer under load.
• Used rendezvous concept of Load Runner to generate peak load onto the server thereby stressing it, and measuring its performance.
• Attended the Review meetings and walkthroughs and interacted to Business Analysts and Developers for defects solving.
• Using App Dynamic Tool which monitors application code running on JVMs and which provides how it executes in production.
• Involved in designing, updating, reviewing and optimizing of regression suite.
• Performed System, Regression, Integration and End to end testing.
• Prepared Test Execution Summary Report and ensured sign-off received from all stakeholders.
• Conducted Knowledge sharing sessions to the team and acted as a functional consultant for the project team
• Preparing and delivering the test status reports during test execution and final test reports.
• Participating and reporting statuses in the entire test related project team meetings.
• Documented the system understanding for all the applications.

Confidential

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Gathering Performance requirements and writing test cases.
• Developed test strategy and test plans for multiple ecommerce applications.
• Determining the navigation flows and creating performance test plans and test scenarios accordingly.
• Creating VuGen script. Enhancing script by parameterizing the user input values, correlating the dynamic values, randomizing the system generated options and by using appropriate checks points and transaction points.
• Running load test with anticipated concurrent user load.
• Conducting scalability testing and spike testing.
• Using App Dynamic Tool for performance monitoring tool which assists to monitor and manage the applications efficiently.
• Creating results with goal oriented scenarios like hits/second and throughput.
• Creating performance test reports and enhancing the reports with appropriate graphs, merging graphs and customizing the graphs in order to create better understanding.
• Analyzing the Load Runner reports to calculate Response time and Transactions per minute, Hits per sec, throughput.
• Analyzing performances of various processes, comparing with SLA and determine their acceptance. Interacting with the development team about the types of problems.
• Monitoring system performance with the help of Performance Monitor.
• Conducting weekly status meetings, and conducting walkthroughs for team members and documenting the proceedings.