SUMMARY

• 5+ Years of extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), 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
• 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 in Backend Testing, API’s Testing and Database Testing
• Strong working experience and knowledge on applying HP Tools like ALM, Load Runner, QTP (UFT), 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
• Performance test development for ‘Continuous Benchmarking’ using JMeter and Jenkins
• Design, Develop and Execute loads tests using JMeter and Jenkins
• Used Regular Expression Extractor and Boundary Extractor for dynamic values in JMeter
• Monitored Response time inPurePathDashboardusingDynaTraceclientandMonitoring test as well as production environments onDynatrace.Engaged to implement Dynatrace to monitor real time performance. Direct performance optimization efforts using Dynatrace and Helps differentiate bad and busy days through Dynatrace.
• Identifying hotspots and isolate performance problems in Internet Explorer and Firefox using Dynatrace. Work with cross-functional team of internal and external resources.Mentor,coach, and guide team members.2 offshore and 1 onsite.
• PerformedBaseline test, stress test andhigh volume ofultimateusers usingJMeterand monitoring the performance of the load test on the system and measured database response time, Http request, Login and proxy server.PerformingAPI testingwith JMeterandDeveloping and deploytest Load scripts to do end to end performance testing usingJMeter
• 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
• 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 tools: LoadRunner, HP Performance Center, HP ALM Performance Center, Quality Center, Blaze Meter, 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, Charlotte, NC

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
• Gather Performance Test Requirement by using (Interview Method, Questionnaire and Meeting with clients)
• 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
• 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)
• Used Blaze meter executed the performance tests in cloud performance testing
• Involved in analyzing various graphs for the client side and server-side metrics like Transaction Response Time, Hits per second graph, Throughput, Memory & CPU utilization
• Involved modifying the automated scripts-based Problem Report return against the application by the end users
• Configured CI/CD Pipeline in Jenkins to Execute Performance Test
• Wrote Groovy Code to Configure connection Jenkins and Git-Hub
• Provide support and responsible for managing and tracking infrastructure requirements and software upgrade.
• Created Jira tickets and accurately produced regular project status reports to senior management to ensure on-time project launch

Confidential, PHILADELPHIA, PA

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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Work in Agile/Sprint environment.
• Work closely with Production Managers, Technical Managers and Business Managers in planning, scheduling, developing, and executing performance tests
• 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, Maryland

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.