SUMMARY

• Over 10 years of experience in Information Technology industry providing solutions for various large Enterprises in Healthcare, Financial and IT domains. Also, had a diversified expertise in Performance Engineering, providing solutions for legacy systems as well as the Distributed systems at Enterprise level to improve the performance
• 8+ years of solid experience in Performance engineering; which includes
• Analyze and understand the real time Performance issues and capacity requirements.
• Design and develop the performance test strategy using various industry tools such as HP Performance Center, HP Load runner.
• Designing the Load scenario based on the scalability of the hardware.
• Monitor and analyze the behavior of application and the Infrastructure under various real time load scenarios.
• Identifying the Performance bottlenecks in the application and providing the recommendations to improve the performance of the application.
• Determining the Scalability of the applications for future growth.
• Documenting and Publishing the test strategy along with the results and recommendations to the stakeholders.
• Dynatrace APM 6.1
• Leverage dynaTrace APM for end - to-end monitoring and performance analysis of JVM, Browser and for User Experience
• Identify key performance Indicators and various metrics for performance monitoring
• Perform deep level instrumentation using dynaTrace to identify various performance issues and bottlenecks
• Use Dynatrace dashboards for monitoring various business transactions, workflows and application health during load test
• 8+ years of technically strong experience in Performance, Volume & Stress testing using Industry standard HP Performance products - Performance Center, Load Runner, Site Scope, Analysis.
• Expertise in Performance Center Administration.
• Expertise in monitoring the various servers involved at enterprise level using industry standard tools Dynatrace, Teamquest, ITCAM, Endmon, HP Diagnostics & Perfmon.
• Experience in Virtual Center 5.5 Platform
• Expert in VMware administration and setting up Vm environments
• Creating new VM template
• Creating VM clusters, Clones of VM and linked Clones of VM
• Monitor the ESXi host over VM Vsphere client
• Expert in writing shell scripts for automatically creating VM linked clones
• Considerable experience in Performance testing of Thick Clients & SAP applications.
• Solid experience in identifying the performance issues in Mainframe systems with the real time monitoring tool Omegamon and analyzing the results from Strobe & DB2PM.
• Good Knowledge on other Industry Performance testing tools such as Jmeter & Webload
• Expertise in most of the Load Runner Protocols like Web Protocols, Flex, Siebel, SAP Web, Java, ODBC, RTE, RDP & Citrix.
• Experience in capturing the Network trace with WIRESHARK product and analyzing the trace with the OPTNET tool.
• Expertise in using the SHUNRA product to simulate the real time users across the Globe in Performance test scenario.
• Over one year of experience in managing the Interactive Storage Management Facility (ISMF) product developed by Confidential which adheres to all phases in software development cycle (SDLC).
• Good knowledge in developing web application using object oriented methodologies.
• Good Knowledge and work experience in using XML, HTML and DHTML.
• Considerable experience in object oriented languages of C++, J2EE, JavaScript.
• Experience in Confidential WebSphere, SQL Server
• Experience in development methodologies like Agile.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programing Languages: C, C++, Java, COBOL, JCL, REXX, HLASM, PL/X & Unix Shell

Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, Java Script, XML & DTL

Database & Tools: DB2 V9, MS SQL & DB Visualizer

Web Servers: IIS, Tomcat & BEA Web Logic

Performance Test Tools: HP Performance Center v11, Load Runner, Analysis, Webload & Jmeter

Monitoring Products: Dynatrace, Teamquest, HP Sitescope, HP Diagnostics, ITCAM, OPTNET, Strobe and DB2PM

Systems & Platforms: Windows NT/2000/XP, LINUX, SUN Solaris & AIX

Other Products: CA-7 Scheduler, Endeavour, Wireshark, MS Office, HP Service Manager

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Malvern PA

Sr Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Define performance test scope, estimates and timelines and overall test strategy for various versions of SOARIAN applications
• Project planning, tracking and status reporting
• Participate in proposal design, pre-sales activities and client presentations
• Created reliable and maintainable scripts that would work on different machines and platforms.
• Created Load Test Plan and performed load and performance testing using LoadRunner11.0
• Scripting and troubleshooting the developed LoadRunner scripts in terms of correlation, parameterization and other technical issues.
• Monitoring & monitor setup in the controller component in various industries predominant environments.
• Timely reporting and data collection using LoadRunner analysis, analyzing LoadRunner Metrics and other performance reports on Application server level, database level and generating various reports without need for deadline extensions.
• Analyzing the performance trace logs and identifying the bottlenecks during the performance testing using different set of tools such as Dynatrace.
• Performance testing of the Soarian clinicals in Virtual platform (ESX5.5).
• Execute the load test in virtual guests and analyze the guest and host data using ESX plot.
• Involved in the Capacity Planning and management for Virtual platform.
• Administrating the HP performance center.
• Setting up various projects across different releases. upgrade the performance center version and migrate to newer hardware.
• Allocating the hosts and timely maintenance of Performance center.
• Preparation of Signoff and closure report
• Participated in WALK THROUGH meetings periodically with Developers.
• Preparation of Multi-user and Workflow Test Specification by interacting with the Client Implementation and Product Analysis Team
• Involved with the team for Scalability Testing by increasing the number of users and check how much the System can handle without Failures and Increase in Response time in a controlled fashion.
• Closely worked with the development team to resolve the performance issues identified.
• Involved in the Agile process

Confidential, Philadelphia

IT Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coach various teams through the performance test methodology
• Support the creation of performance testing approach/requirements document and gather all performance testing requirements
• Provide initial assessment of performance testing needs (whether application is right candidate for PVS testing )
• Coordinating the Test environment setup and Data setup for the Performance testing initiative.
• Validate test environment and tool configuration
• Identify all resources required to support the testing and coordinates with various teams to get their support during test executions.
• Coordinates all tasks involved in performance testing process and resolving testing issues.
• Analysis of performance requirements document which is given by the application team and translating them in to Performance Testing requirements.
• Publishing the performance report with the test strategy, result analysis and any performance tuning recommendations to the stakeholders.
• Determine the scalability of the application by extrapolating the test results to the inferior or superior hardware.
• Responsible for status and test scheduling communications during test process
• Ensures that business objectives are met during the PVS testing phase.
• Create, test and debug the scripts using Load runner.
• Add programming logic to scripts (think time, staggered delay, parametrization, correlation and synchronization)
• Track Defects.
• Develop and execute performance test scenarios using HP Performance Center.
• Develop the Schid’s for the mainframe applications and run through the CA7 scheduler.
• Monitor the test environment includes web server, Application server and Database during the test and collect the vital statistics.
• Analyzing the test results using Strobe, DB2PM & Analysis tool.
• Identify the areas for Performance improvements.
• Assist in upgrading the Performance Center Infrastructure.

Confidential, San Jose

Assistant System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis: Problem Memorandum Reports (PMR) opened by Confidential 's customers are analyzed to check whether the ISMF application or DFSMS utility has a problem or not. Various Diagnostic Aids like dumps and traces are collected from the user for analysis. The problem is reproduced in our test bed.
• Design and Coding: Once a problem is identified, Authorized Problem Analysis Report (APAR) is opened. Design and Coding of fix is done. Fix test, Unit Test and Regression test are carried out to ensure that fix is complete and correct.
• Setting up Test Environment: Bringing up (IPL) and maintaining (System Administration) test machines on various versions of OS/390 & z/OS operating systems.
• Functional Verification Testing: Involved in preparation of test plan and the execution of FVT.
• Quality: Active participant in the CMM related activities during the assessment. IPMS: Integrated Project Management System known, as IPMS helps in efficient project management and adherence to TCS quality procedures and standards.