SUMMARY:

• Over six years of experience in IT as a Performance Engineer for various internally and externally facing Client/Server applications.
• Sound knowledge on all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Skilled in testing methodologies - Waterfall Model and Agile
• Well versed with all the stages of Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Analyzing business requirements and developing Performance Strategy for benchmarking.
• System Analysis for Performance, Load, Stress and Endurance testing.
• Good at defining testing methodologies, assisted Designing and writing the Test plan, Test Summary report, experienced in writing Test cases verifying and validating Web and Client Server based applications.
• Estimation and Hardware sizing with to the HP standard specification for implementation of ALM 11.0 .
• Expert in indentifying performance degradation issues like “out of memory” problems and improved Thread pool utilization, memory leaks, JDBC connection pool size and transaction roll backs.
• Worked on various protocols like HTML, FLEX, AJAX, Web Services, Citrix ICA, JDBC and Win Sock etc.,
• Performed load testing usingPerformance Centerin a complex third Party environment.
• Extensive knowledge of creating Vuser Generator scripts using WSDL files, uploading scripts, creating scenarios, executing load tests, reserving/scheduling time slots and reviewing/developing analysis in Performance Center.
• Performed demos and orientation on HP ALM tool to the users, so as to support initial use of ALM testing and defect management tool..
• Completed complex analysis to uncover application server, load balancer and database bottlenecks within the application in relation to the various modules.
• Identified the present manual scripts for Load and Performance test automation using LoadRunner
• Tested web-servers and Application server performance and conducting load testing using LoadRunner
• Sound knowledge in Requirements Verification, Preparing Verification and Validation Summary Report from HP ALM, Experienced in MS Excel for report preparation.
• Responsible for managing ALM Performance Center 11.52 infrastructure.
• Experience in analyzing Business and Development Specifications, Use Cases, and Detail Design to develop test requirements, procedures and test cases
• Sound knowledge in status reporting and issue tracking during daily Status meetings with business teams, development partners and other project stakeholders
• Worked on testing web services using SOAP UI and Web Services Protocol
• Proficient in working independently, collaboratively in teams and in onsite-offshore model
• Sound knowledge in software performance test life cycle.
• Very flexible to learn new technologies and tools.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP Load Runner 9.5/11, ALM 11, Mercury Win runner 7.6, 8.0, HP Quality Center, ALM Performance Center v11.02, 11.50, SoapUI, JMeter

Programming Languages: Java, J2EE, Html, Oracle, C, C++,SQL, XML

Monitoring Tools: Sitescope, Perfmon, BMC patrol, Dynatrace, Wily Introscope, Topaz

Methodologies: Agile and Waterfall

Database: DB2, MS-ACCESS, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server 2005.

Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000/XP/7, Unix, Linux and Solaris

Others: MS Office, WordPerfect Office Suite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential: Birmingham, Alabama

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Business Analysts and Developers to gather Application Requirements and Business Processes in order to formulate the test plan.
• Developed scripts using LoadRunner by recording/playback and as well as by writing custom functions.
• Involved in test environment build and designed Load (capacity) model on the basis of current volume and projected percentage increase in volume.
• Interacted directly with developers, project managers for the development, execution and reporting of all testing efforts.
• Actively took ownership of defects and coordinate with different groups from initial finding of defects to final resolution.
• Analyzed Load Runner on-line graphs and reports to identify network/client delays, CPU /memory usage, I/O delays, database locking and other issues at server level.
• Responsible for Performance Tuning Java Application.
• Performed both automatic and manual correlation using the options in LoadRunner.
• Analyzed system usage information such as task distribution diagram and load model to create effective test scenarios.
• Configured Web/Application/Database server monitoring setup using LoadRunner Controller.
• Used IP spoofing to generate and associate different IP addresses to Virtual Users to emulate real-time scenarios for load balancing issues.
• Activating / configuring monitors and adding desired performance counters into the Graphs.
• Performed SQL querying to validate the data in the back end data base, and also to check the data flow between different modules.
• Monitored the CPU, memory, and network utilizations on the UNIX server using Site Scope monitor.
• Analyzed results of Transactions Response time, Transaction under load, Transaction Summary by Vusers, Hit per Second and Throughput.
• Tested Custom Screens, Views and Applets in Siebel to suit the business requirements.
• Responsible for complete functional and regression testing, the Siebel application used to manage and maintain the leasing data in the company.
• Determined the source of bottlenecks by correlating the performance data with end-user loads and response times.

Confidential: New York, NY

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Used Citrix Protocol to test various applications on Windows 2003/2008 servers.
• Responsible for gathering and analyzing performance test requirements.
• Wrote Performance Test Plan and Test Case design document with the inputs from developers and functional testers.
• Extensively used LoadRunner using Virtual User Generator to script and customize performance test harness Web Protocol.
• Extensively used Controller to generate load and define load generators.
• Used Test Results to provide summary reports, response times and monitor averages.
• Design and execution of performance tests for new and existing applications using HP performance center 9.5
• Analyzing performance test results and generating reports using HP Analysis tool 9.5.
• Monitored metrics like errors, instance count, memory, CPU utilization etc.
• Consolidate findings and writing suggestion and recommendation.
• Performed in depth analysis with Analysis Tool and presented results to management in Excel spreadsheets for review and Q & A sessions.
• Performed expert level analysis using the results from SiteScope Monitoring Tool
• Conduct iterative performance effort during Load balance verification and siteminder setup of portal. Extracted Reports from Requirements, Test Plan and Test Lab and verified the Traceability, Req Coverage, Execution status, Test Set Location.
• Analyzed the CPU utilization, memory usage, garbage collection and DB connections to verify performance of the application.
• Created customized Load Runner VuGen scripts at the API level with manual correlation, user defined functions, development libraries (classes and methods), and error handling.
• Monitored different graphs like transaction response time and analyzed server performance status, hits per second, throughput, windows resources and database server resources etc.
• Used sitescope and Introscope to monitor the databases, application and web servers (at OS and application level) for performance bottlenecks while conducting load, stress, volume and memory tests.

Confidential: Lenexa, KS

Performance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design and Developed performance testing automation artifacts (scripts, functions, processes) for simple to complex testing situation using HP Load Runner.
• Performed various load test on SOA based applications using web services protocol.
• Involved in reviewing Service Level agreement documents and create test plan documents.
• Created test strategies and conditions for load stress, concurrent users and network bandwidth scenarios using Shunra.
• Involved with business and technology leads to identify the appropriate data for testing and prepare the data for the test cases.
• Created customized LoadRunner scripts for different applications
• Responsible for monitoring the Test results, Transaction Response Time, measuring the CPU and Memory Utilization of the Citrix Servers.
• Coordinated with Citrix and Network teams to identify the bottle necks.
• Ensured that Citrix Servers can support the volume and system usage.
• Monitored performance of applications using Wily Interscope and Sitescope.
• Generated and analyzed the performance matrices from Performance Center.
• Analyzed performance, transaction and server resource monitors for meaningful results.
• Scripted & Executed System Performance Test Cases for Various Service requests to validate the activities on server
• Responsible for updating the new script after migration.
• Analyzed LoadRunner reports to calculate the response time and transaction time per second.
• Using Agile Methodology for developing the project.
• Analyzed the result of the entire test and observed the load test result for any error.
• Involved in team meetings to resolve the bug and know the functionality and flow of the application.

Confidential : Woodcliff lake, NJ

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for extensive communication with the product teams to determine performance requirements.
• Evaluation of performance requirements and designing load runner scenarios to accommodate the effective testing of these requirements.
• Documentation of the system test plan and conducting its internal and external review with product teams during team meetings.
• Documentation of system test reports for test efforts related to product and project.
• Conduct separate tests for all bottlenecks.
• Conducted subsequent review of these documents with product & project teams.
• Analysis of test results and provision of feedback on the results of tests conducted and the conclusions drawn from them.
• Aiding the product team in the comprehension of the test results and coordinating with DBAs to developers to resolve performance bottlenecks.
• Responsible for the development of LoadRunner scripts and their validation.
• Responsible for preparing data estimates that will be required for testing and the consequent evaluation of that data.

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specification, Test plan, Implementation Specifications.
• Developed test plans, test cases based on functional specifications and design documents.
• Drafted and revised scripts and ensured traceability between test scripts and business requirements and technical specifications.
• Created, developed and executed test cases and test scripts manually.
• Performed System testing, Integration, End-to-End, Back-End testing during the testing of different services.
• Involved in Defect review meeting and Interacted with developers to resolve technical issues and investigated the bugs in the application.
• Used Quality Centre to house all test documentation and report/track all issues including software bugs to resolve technical issues and defects.
• Involved in design and developing QTP test scripts for testing.
• Used SQL for testing various databases for services which involved certain back-end testing for the verification and modification of tables.
• Involved in integration tests, user acceptance testing.
• Used AGILE methodology for testing this application.