SUMMARY

• Around 5 years of Quality Assurance experience with strong expertise in Performance/Load & Stress Testing using HP Load Runner and JMeter
• Extensive experience in automated testing of Web based and Client/Server applications with proficiency in Load and Performance Testing. Good experience in agile methodology.
• Excellent knowledge of all phases of Software Development Life Cycle methodologies like Agile, Scrum and Waterfall.
• Expertise in all phases of performance testing.
• Has strong expertise in Load test tools like HP Load Runner, HP Performance Center, JMeter.
• Expertise in testing web services using SOAP UI.
• In - depth knowledge & experience in developing scripts for complex scenarios, monitoring of web, applications and database servers.
• Scripting expertise in wide range of protocols like Web (http/html), JDBC, Ajax TruClient, Click&Script (Web) and Web Services.
• Experience in analyzing performance requirements from the Business/application team.
• Identifying and Preparing Test Plan and Test cases for Performance Business Critical Transactions.
• Experience in preparation of Test scripts and Test scenarios.
• Executed different types of performance tests like Load testing, Stress testing and Endurance testing.
• Creating and analyzing graphs, generation of performance test summary reports.
• Experience in analyzing the Memory usage, Garbage Collection, Network, Heap Usage and DB connections to verify the performance of the applications.
• Analyzed the test results like TPS, Hits/Sec, Transaction response time, CPU utilization etc., by using Load Runner Analysis, JMeter Listeners, various monitoring tools and prepared test reports.
• Great working knowledge of Bug Reporting Tools using quality center.
• Experience in managing the testing schedule, communicating testing progress, deliverables tracking and reporting.
• Experience with monitoring tools like Dynatrace, HP SiteScope and Wily Introscope.
• Great knowledge in Object Oriented Programming, experienced with C programming, HTML, XML, CSS.
• Coordinate with offshore team on developing test planning, scripts, scenarios, execution and result analysis.
• Ability to work effectively in a team and as well as an individual.
• Proactive team player with a positive attitude combined with good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work on tight schedules and on different projects concurrently.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Automation Tool: HP Performance Center, Quality center 9x/10.0/11, LoadRunner8x/9x/11x, JMeter.

Scripting: VB Script, CSS, JQuery, C, JavaScript, XML, HTML, Pearl, Python

Web/Application Servers: MS IIS, Apache, Web Sphere

Monitoring Tools: HP SiteScope, HP Diagnostics Suite, Wily Introscope & Dynatrace.

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/XP/7, UNIX( Sun Solaris, Linux, HP-UX)

Languages: C, C++, XML, HTML, VB.net, C#.net.

Databases: SQL Server / Oracle

Work Flow Tools: MS-Visio, MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-PowerPoint

Protocols: Web-HTTP, Web Services, JDBC, Ajax TruClient, Click&Script

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Topeka, KS

Sr Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Gathered the requirements from Business Analysts and compiled them into Test Plan
• Followed Agile Methodologies (scrum)
• Developed performance workload distribution test models.
• Created Test Plan/Strategy, which includes Testing Resources, Testing Strategy, Risks and testing of end-to-end scenarios.
• Installed JMETER, FIDDLER tool and configured plug-ins on various VM’s.
• Involved in setting up the Client setup on various cloud environments like Rack Space VM's and Open Stack VM's depending on the load and requirement for various projects.
• Created the test scripts for the various scenarios using the JMeter tool.
• Performancetested the .Net application using JMeter with various protocols.
• Automated the major functionalities of the application and the bugs reported using JMeter.
• Installed, Setting up environment in JMeter and Configured Http Header manager.
• Performed Baseline test, Load test, stress test with high volume of users using JMeter and monitored theperformanceof the load test on the system and measured database response time, Http request, Login and proxy server.
• Involved in downloading various JMeter listeners required for reporting.
• Created the Scripts for Web Services to test using SOAP UI.
• Worked with the System Admin team to know the Scalability between thePerformanceand production environments.
• Works closely with customers to evaluate system architecture, deployment requirements, and DynaTrace configuration needs.
• Involved in analyzing the requirements from the developers and Business users.
• Installed Agents on Dynatrace server and configured them with application to monitor metrics (CPU, Memory, Heap, Response Times)
• Communicated with team members to discuss test reports. Involved in walk-through and meetings with the Test team.
• Involved as an embedded tester with the development team and verified bugs which were assigned in TFS.

Environment: JMeter 3.2, Fiddler 4.6, SQL Server 2016, Web Services, Dynatrace, Soap UI, Team Foundation Server, Windows 7,Windows Server 2012 R2.

Confidential, Phoenix,AZ

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the full life-cycle of the project from requirements gathering to transition and followed methodology.
• Creating and executing scenarios for Focus tests to target key business use cases.
• Prepared test Estimations and presented in front of higher management for approvals.
• Created automated scripts by including timers for recording response times, and test checks for confirming the retrieval of the correct page.
• Developed test scripts in VuGen using Web html/http, flex, Web Services, Ajax TruClient and Enhanced the scripts by adding checkpoints, functions in C Language, transactions, created parameters, shared Queues Assertions, and performed manual correlation to develop robust scripts .
• Extensively did performance testing of server’s load and scalability by creating multiple Virtual Users by using Load Runner Virtual User Generator(VuGen) component.
• Developed Vuser Scripts by using VuGen and enhanced the scripts with Parameterization, Pacing, and correlation.
• Preparation and execution of test scripts using JMeter sand SOAP UI tool to perform Web Services testing.
• Extensive backend knowledgeof Oracle 10g,11g,SOA.
• Actively involved in automating the Regression Testing process of the application using the existing manual testing scenarios using C#, ADO.Net.
• Correlated the dynamically created session data in the load test scripts in VuGen to synchronize with the application.
• Created Various Vuser Scripts based on the Transactions such as Transfer funds, My Accounts, Customer service, Alerts, and pay bills Used by the Real Time users using VuGen of Load Runner.
• Defined and configured SLAs for hits/sec, throughput, transactions per second in Performance Center.
• Identify system/application bottlenecks and work with Bottom-line to facilitate the tuning of the application/environment in order to optimize capacity and improve performance of the application in order to handle peak workloads generated via Mercury Interactive Performance Center tool to simulate activity.
• Used Dynatrace agent based metrics and web tagged requests from headers in LoadRunner scripts to identify bottlenecks.
• Extensively used Dynatrace to diagnose and troubleshoot performance issues.
• Involved in various performance testing such as Load, Stress and Volume testing using LoadRunner and JMeter.
• Configured Web, Application, and Database server performance monitoring setup using LoadRunner Controller, Wily Introscope, Splunk& HP Diagnostics.
• Responsible for analyzing the results like CPU usage, memory usage, garbage collection/heap size, server response times, database response times, active/idle threads, size of Weblogic queues, etc.
• Added various monitoring parameters (CPU, Memory) to the Performance Center controller for monitoring.
• Detecting & Reporting bugs using JIRA & classifying the based on severity.
• Analyzing Throughput Graph, Hits/Second Graph, Transactions per second Graph and Rendezvous Graphs using the LR Analysis Tool.

Environment: JAVA, J2EE, Java JRE1.7,Weblogic, Web HTTP/HTML, Mobile Http/Html, Web Services, XML, VuGen, Performance Center, Load Runner,JMeter, JIRA, SoapUI, Quality Center,Dynatrace.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the test scripts prepared by the team and the Business User Support group.
• Worked in process development and metrics evaluation for Feature Testing, which involves tracking feature movement for the entire period of Feature Testing cycle.
• Also worked in metrics and process development Regression Testing cycle.
• Performed Functional testing, Regression testing and End-to-End Testing.
• Create Performance scripts using Load Runner’s VuGen.
• Developed UAT Test Scripts and maintained them in HP Quality Center.
• Developed single and multiple web sampler scripts using JMeter.
• Parameterized the LoadRunner scripts to access data sheets based on environment like QA, UAT and Production.
• Used transaction controllers, throughput controllers for different performance scenarios, and also used JMeter functions to create the test data instead of CSV files.
• Analyzed the results using Online Monitors and Graphs to identify bottlenecks in the server resources using Load Runner and JMeter.
• Used Load Runner Controller to generate load andmonitor the performance under load of the application being tested.
• Monitored and collected different applications metrics like Average Response time, CPU utilization etc using Dynatrace.
• Worked onLogging, recording, issues, tracking and maintainingthe defects using Bugzilla.
• Generated the reports using Bugzilla on a daily basis.
• Entered defects in Quality Center and participated in the defect-review calls every day.
• Developed and executed SQL Scripts to verify the Analytics data and the corresponding data displayed in the UI.
• Aided performance modification, managed and resolved technical issues.
• Documented delays and coordinated test results.
• Participated in conference calls with clients and effectively communicated issues, project updates etc.
• Created detailed test status reports, performance capacity reports, web trend analysis reports, and graphical charts for upper management using Load Runner analysis component.

Environment: Web HTML/HTTP, Web Services, Ajax True Client, UNIX, Java, JavaScript, JMeter, Load Runner, Bugzilla, Quality Center, Dynatrace, and SOAP UI.