SUMMARY:

• Performance test engineer/Quality Analyst with Around 8+ years of diversified exposure in developing numerous test strategies comprising of multiple test plans, scenarios along with creating multitudinal test scripts and reports, having wide experience in both automation and manual testing of various Web based Services and Client/Server Applications.
• Expert in LoadRunner and Performance Center Tools for creating Vugen Scripts their monitoring. Documenting those, analyzing test results and provide suggestion to tune their application and infrastructure.
• Well Versed understanding of various QA methodologies, Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) along with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Methodologies including Waterfall, Parallel, Iterative, and Agile Etc. Strong knowledge of entire SDLC - Requirement Gathering & Analysis, Planning, Design, Development, Testing and Implementation.
• Widely expertise in supervising and conducting different types of Load Test including Component Testing, Stress Testing, Destructive testing, Load Testing, Capacity and Volume Testing using Load Runner.
• Enhanced LoadRunner Vuser script with C functions, Randomization, Parameterization, manual and automatic Correlation, Transaction and Check points and Run time settings configuration for web users.
• Testing Experience of multiple Protocols like Web Services, Web (HTTP/HTML), TruClient.
• Experience in using LoadRunner Controller and its various functions and Runtime settings Such as Rendezvous point, ramp up and down, duration, Thread and analyzing Load Result.
• Experienced in developing, executing and maintaining numerous Test Plans, Test scripts/Procedures under Windows and UNIX Platforms, Test Evaluation Summary, fusing multiple graphs and preparing Test Reports of those Test cases.
• Expert in root cause analysis Tools like DynaTrace and Appdynamics for error findings and bottleneck for infrastructure.
• Excellent Skills and knowledge of performance bottlenecks, web performance measures like Average server Response time, Hits per seconds, Throughput and Network latency.
• Experience with Tools for Ticketing like Jira
• Demonstrate ability to be flexible in a fast-pace environment to manage multiple project assignments with changing ps, prioritizing tasks and accomplishing deliverables on time while working independently.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, a self-motivated, quick learner, and a team player. With determination to learn new technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: - Micro Focus LoadRunner v9.5, 11.5, 12.55, 12.60, Micro Focus Performance Center,Micro Focus ALM, Click and Script, Win Runner.

Monitoring Tools: - DynaTrace, Salesforce, HP diagnostic.

Protocols: - Web (HTTP/HTML), Web Services, Web (Click and Script), TruClient.

Languages: - C Language, C++, VB Script, XML, Basic Java.

Operating Systems: - WINDOWS XP/07/08/10, UNIX, AIX

Other Tools: - MS WORD, POWER POINT, OUTLOOK, EXCEL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Reston, VA

Senior Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Highly proficient in gathering requirements, delivering findings and Designing the Documenting Test Plans and scripting them, then executing those scripts through different tests like Load Test, Break-point Test, Endurance Test and Volume Test etc.
• Performed load testing against internal applications and services to emulate users and monitor systems performance. Successfully tuned up various Software and Hardware level bottlenecks for high users load testing.
• Supported performance in both Waterfall and Agile model and have hands on experience on various performance testing tools versions - LoadRunner 12.55 and 12.60.
• Developed scripts and scenarios for automated testing new and enhanced web based products using Load Runner along with Deep-dive analysis of performance results
• Written custom functions and programs based on C to support the load testing efforts.
• Identified various performance issues over the time, including database connectivity problems, deadlock conditions and system crashes under heavy load or during peak hours.
• Creation of a performance scenario to satisfy all the fast configuration changes during testing.
• Analyzed the LoadRunner reports for Response time and Transactions per minute, Hits per sec, Throughput. Along with statistics from production logs to get help in understanding the user load pattern in real time.
• Analyze and solved different performance and functionality issues from exception error handling to various deadlock conditions including system crashing/poor performance under load in peak hours and documenting those analyze results.
• Analyzed various graphs generated by Load Runner Analyzer and communicated problems to the System Administrators to tune the application.
• Used DynaTrace monitoring Tool for tuning and error findings.
• Ability to learn new technologies, software’s and challenging concepts quickly and implement them effectively. Strong communication, interpersonal and managerial skills to contributes proactively towards the team goal and executing projects with in Time Limit.

Environment: Micro Focus LoadRunner, MS Office, Win Server 2007, Oracle, Micro Focus ALM.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Senior Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated meetings between Business Analysts, Database Administrators and QA team to understand performance testing requirements.
• Create performance profiles that documented how application must be configured to simulate login times, transaction activity and volumes up against performance requirements such as maximum and average response times.
• Extensively used LoadRunner's Web (HTTP/HTML) and web services protocols.
• Created a Manual and Goal oriented scenario with certain amount of Vusers giving Ramp up, Ramp Down and Run time in the Controller of LoadRunner.
• Use web diagnostics to enable web page breakdown graph in order to find bottlenecks in webpages.
• Identified the performance bottlenecks of the application under heavy load using LoadRunner and checked its compatibility on various browsers.
• Enhanced script by inserting various checkpoints to check if Virtual users are accessing the correct page which they are supposed to be accessing.
• Analyzed functional specification, detailed design and system requirements documents.
• Used DynaTrace to diagnose and fix many performance issues. Its ability to dig deep even to code level aids in root cause analysis of the issue.
• Recommendations to tune and optimize the performance of applications by analyzing results.
• Met with managers, business analyst and developers to provide analyzed test results and provided recommendation for performance improvements as needed.

Environment: Micro Focus LoadRunner, ALM, HTTP/HTML, Web Services, C, Windows, UNIX.

Confidential

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirement Specification (BRS) and Software Requirement Specification (SRS) to design and develop test plan, test cases and test scripts for different applications.
• Write custom C codes in the script to replace real time user behavior and also matching up with the business requirements.
• Used Micro Focus Performance Center for performing load testing to ensure system reliability, capacity and scalability by performing different type of performance test like load, stress, endurance to check the system's capability.
• Used Rendezvous point, Parameterization, Start and End Transaction, Correlation features in Virtual User Generator of Load Runner to check its performance under load.
• Performed Load Testing of an application which is on the Mainframe.
• Created detailed periodic status reports for senior management to keep them updated on the progress of testing and implementation. Developed various reports and metrics to measure and track testing effort.
• Analyze test results and coordinate with concerned team for improvement. Also provide them with various performance graphs, reports and other related documents required for analysis.
• Excellent analytical and decision making skills with ability to co-ordinate activities in a fast paced team environment.

Environment: Micro Focus Performance Center, LoadRunner, ALM, HTML, UNIX and Windows.

Confidential, Brentwood, CA

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed Business and Functional Requirement Documents.
• Prepared Test Plan to create test cases and test procedures.
• Worked on Test Script development and Test Script deployment.
• Identify testing objectives, planned well implementation of LoadRunner and performed the simulation accordingly.
• Create Load Runner scripts to test high load traffic end user processes for performance and reliability.
• Created a Manual, real timed and Goal oriented scenario with certain amount of Vusers using Ramp Up, Ramp Down, Rendezvous point, Start and End Transaction, Correlation and Parameterization features in Load Runner Controller.
• Met with managers, developers and team leaders to communicate any issues and status of the deliverables on LoadRunner, Scripting and Performance Testing.
• Used web reg save param functions to Performed correlation by capturing the random values and parameterize the data dependencies accordingly to the part of Business process.
• Response time, Hits per second and Transactions per second are calculated by using LoadRunner.
• Analyze and Monitor the performance of server by generating various reports of CPU utilization and Memory Usage.
• Analyzed the results to measure the performance of the application. Worked with various analysis graphs and generated reports to analyze root causes of performance issues and provide corrective actions to concerned team and department.

Environment: Micro Focus Load Runner, HP Diagnostics, VBScript, HTML, UNIX.