SUMMARY

• Possess a total experience of 11 years in Information Technology including 9 years of diverse experience in Performance Testing methodologiesusing industry - leading tools like HP Load Runner, HP Performance Center and SOAP UI.
• Has the proficiency in designing, development and execution of performance test plans,end-to-end performance testing of the applications, analyzing the performance test results, preparing intermediate and final summary reports, identifying the performance bottlenecks and presenting the findings to business stakeholders.
• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)andPerformance Test Life Cycle. Have thorough understanding ofvarious phases like Requirement Gathering,Test Planning,Design, Development and Testing
• Familiarity withthe Agile Methodology
• Extensiveexperience in Load Runnerwithprotocols likeWeb (HTTP/HTML), Web Services, AJAX TruClientand MQ technology Adept with the tools like SOAP UI
• Expertise in development ofPerformance TestPlan,Load Model and Performance Analysis
• Experience ingathering and analysing thenon-functional testing requirementsand mapping them into business critical flows
• Sound knowledge of creating Load, Stress and Performance tests using Load Runner
• Experience in monitoring servers using tools likeHPSiteScopeandWilyIntroscope
• Analyzing the test results (TPS, Hits/second, Transaction response time, CPU utilization etc.) using HP Load Runner Analysisand various monitoring tools to prepare the intermediate and final PerformanceTest Reports
• Extensively used of Quality Centerfor Defect Tracking
• Excellent Documentation, Management and Presentation skills for the QA Project Team including Test Plan, Test Requirementand Defect Reports

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP Load Runner, HP Performance Center, SOAP UI, HP Performance Manager, WILY Introscope, Open NMS, Perfmon, HP ALM, HP Sitescope, HP Quality Center

Operating Systems: Windows XP/2000/NT/2003/7

Languages: C, C#, XML, PL/SQL

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle 11i

Web Servers: IIS

Design Tools: MS Visio

Middleware: MQ Gateways, Queues

Internet Tools: HTML, XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MN

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Conduct meeting with business or development team to identify the performance testing scope and gathering non-functional requirements
• Analyse the business requirements and use case documents to develop Performance test cases, test scenarios and test plan accordingly.
• Create Test Strategy, Test plan, Test closure reports for the performance testing effort.
• Secure the performance test environment
• Involve in preparing Test Data for Performance testing.
• Develop the Load Test scripts using the Load Runner Virtual User Generator (VuGen) and enhancing the scripts by including transactions, parameterize the constant values and correlating the dynamic values.
• Execute performance tests and analysed the results to identify the possible bottlenecks
• Configure HP Performance Monitor to monitor and analyze the performance of the server by generating various reports from CPU utilization, Memory Usage to load average etc.
• Involve in performance defect review meetings
• Coordinate, schedule and implement the testing phase for new instances as well as upgrades to existing instances.
• Present the report to the development/business team
• Secure the approvals from the architects
• Generate test summary reports for management review
• Review and recommending improvements to existing test procedures

Environment: HP Load Runner v12, HP Performance Center v12, SOAP UI, Web Services, XML, HP ALM

Confidential, MN

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understand the business needs for the application
• Conduct application level performance tests to ensure system reliability, capacity and scalability.
• Define performance test strategiesfor low /mediumcomplexity SharePoint web-parts for low tomediumcomplexityapplication businessfunctionality.
• Execute theperformance test scripton the appropriate test environment, using the correct test data and recording the execution outcome
• Analyse test results and coordinate with development teams for bug fixes.
• Generate test summary reports for management review.
• Identify high priority defects and bottlenecks during the performance test execution and follow the defectdocumentationprocess.
• Analyse root causes of performance issues and provide corrective actions.
• Develop automated test scenarios and environments for performance testing.
• Publishing findings/analysis and recommendations of performance evaluation carried out in the form of a summary report, and obtaining a sign-off on this from the key project stakeholders
• Review and recommend improvements to existing test procedures.

Environment: HP Load Runner v12, HP Performance Center v12, Soap UI, Web Services, XML, WILY Introscope, Quality Center

Confidential, MN

Senior Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Identify the business requirements for performance engineering of the applications and finalizing the engineering scope.
• Understand the technical architecture.
• Coordinate with the project stakeholders to obtain information required to derive a performance engineering plan.
• Document all information into a performance requirement engineering document and obtaining sign-off on this from the key project stakeholders.
• Formulate performance engineering plan and underlining dependencies on various teams for each activity.
• Lay down performance engineering schedule for the release and publishing the performance engineering plan to obtain a sign-off on this from the key project stakeholders.
• Carry out performance evaluation of the application using relevant tools and methodologies.
• Verify SOAP message delivery to the web services and verified the XML formatted response using the SOAP UI.
• Evaluate application performance after tuning to validate performance improvement.
• Publish findings/analysis and recommendations of performance evaluation carried out in the form of a summary report, and obtaining a sign-off on this from the key project stakeholders.

Environment: HP Load Runner v9,5, SOAP UI, MQ Gateways, Queues,Web Services, XML, Wily Introscope, Quality Center

Confidential, KY

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate the project from the business end at the client location
• Interact with the various project teamsto identify thework flow of the system
• Understandand gathering the key business criticalscenarios fromtheDevelopment team
• Involve the infrastructure teamto setup E2E testenvironment tomimic the production setup
• RequirementGatheringand Performance Test Plan preparation for signoff from various teams
• Scriptbusiness critical flows on VUGEN component of HP Load Runner by verifying traversal flow documents provided by the Development team
• Work with thedevelopment team to get the test data required to simulate the load
• ExecuteLoad, Stressand Endurance tests for all the scenarios using HP Performance Center and SOAP UI to identify the breaking point of the system
• Identify bottlenecks by monitoring the application server stats on Open NMS.
• Analyse thetest results and prepared detailed Performance Test Reports and provided them to various teams

Environment: HP Load Runner v9.5, Soap UI,Web Services, XML, Open NMS, MS SQL Server 2008, Quality Center

Confidential, MA

Senior Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepare Performance Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test Scripts and Test scenarios based on non-functional business requirements to meet SLA’s.
• Create performance scripts for load and performance testing using HP Load Runner.
• Create scripts in VuGen and enhancing the script by performing correlation, parameterization and error handling.
• Create performance test scenarios to generate realistic load on the server.
• Perform sanity testing to ensure build readiness using scripts as a part of build verification.
• Conduct memory leak testing for all the applications using Load Runner.
• Use Load Runner monitors to measure the Transaction Response time and Throughput.
• Monitor system resources such as CPU Usage, % of Memory Occupied and other JVM Stats, time consuming SQL queries, I/O Stats using WILY Introscope.
• Work on Test Data Setup for all complex business Test cases.
• Involve in walkthroughs and meetings with Performance team to discuss related issues.
• Analyse test results and prepare detailed Performance Test Reports including the recommendations.

Environment: HPLoad Runner v9.5, SOAP UI,Web Services, XML, MS SQL Server 2005, Perfmon

Confidential

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understand the technical architecture of the application
• Involve in gathering business requirement and collecting the required information from developers and business.
• Develop VUser scripts using HP Load Runner VuGen module
• Validate scripts to make sure that they confirm to the scenario description.
• Design tests for Benchmark, Stress and Endurance Testing.
• Parameterize large and complex test data to accurate depict production trends.
• Analyse results for the application performance and components behaviour with heavier loads for optimizing server configurations
• Interact with developers during testing for identifying memory leaks, fixing bugs and for optimizing server settings at web, app and database levels.
• Maintain test matrix and bug database and generated monthly reports.
• Work closely with software developers and took an active role in ensuring that the software components meet the highest quality standards.
• Provide support to the development team in identifying the business critical
• Measure performance units like response times, throughput etc.

Environment: HP Load Runner v9.5, XML, MS SQL Server 2005, Perfmon, Quality Center

Confidential

Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Develop of modules using MS Visual Studio 2005 tomatchthe functional requirements
• Implementing the change requests
• Unit test execution
• Track bugs using HP Quality Center

Environment: MS Visual Studio 2005, MS SQL Server 2005, Quality Center