SUMMARY

• Over 5+ years’ experience of performance testing utilizing HP/Mercury LoadRunner.
• Experience in LoadRunner and Performance Center: creating Vugen Scripts, monitoring. Runtime Transactions and analyzing the test results.
• Experience with HP Application Lifecycle Management.
• Written Load Runner Scripts, enhanced scripts with C functions, Parameterized, stored dynamic content in Load Runner functions. Text checks were written, Created scenarios for Concurrent (Rendezvous) and Sequential users. Run time settings were configured for web users, iterations. Simulated Modem speeds to bring the testing scenario to real world.
• CPU, Memory, ASP Requests, Network, Web connections and through put were monitored while running Baseline, Performance, Load, Stress and Soak testing
• Experience in testing of Web (HTTP/HTML), Client Server, Citrix ICA.
• Knowledge of performance bottlenecks, end - to-end performance, and web performance measures like server response time, throughput and network latency.
• Experience in analyzing Performance Bottlenecks, Root cause and Server Configuration problems using LoadRunner Monitors, Analysis, Site Scope and J2EE Diagnostics.
• Expertise in Manual and Automated Correlations to parameterize dynamically changing parameters values.
• Monitoring system resources such as CPU Usage, % of Memory Occupied, VM Stat, and I/O Stat.
• Good experience in Analyzing test results, merging graphs and preparing Test Reports.
• Experience in mobile application testing.
• Completed performance testing on Maximo 7.5 Mobile application and Aetna health insurance Mobile application.
• Install Quality Center 12.01
• Experience using HP Performance Center tool while working at various organizations in order to coordinate testing activities among colleagues while working remotely under tight project deadlines
• Experience in executing SQL queries to validate the data in the back end.
• Working experience in Load Testing, Stress Testing, Endurance Testing and Spike testing.
• Experience in server side monitoring and test result analysis using Sitescope for application server to identify performance bottlenecks.
• Highly skilled in quality assurance documentation, including test plans, test cases, requirements traceability matrix (RTM), defect management, performance metrics, etc.
• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle and Test Methodologies.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, self starter, quick learner, and a team player.
• At ease in high stress environments requiring superior ability to effectively handle multi-task levels of responsibility.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: LoadRunner, HP ALM, Performance Center, Quality Center/Test Director, and Rational Suites, QTP, Parasoft SOA.

Scripting: C, C++, VB Script, Perl,Java Script, .Net, Delphi, Visual Studio

LoadRunnerProtocols: Web (HTTP/HTML), SAPGUI, Web Services, Flex, AJAX

Monitoring Tools: Wiley Introscope, Dyna Trace, Site Scope.

Operating System: Windows, UNIX, and Solaris.

Database: Oracle, DB2, Sybase, and MS Access.

Methodologies: Waterfall, Iterative, Agile Servers IBMWeb Sphere, JBoss, Apache and Web Logic.

Others: Rapid SQL, Toad, MS Project, SharePoint, and Crystal Reports

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Portsmouth, NH

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Closely worked with Manager and Team lead in writing test plan document, planning, scheduling, developing and executing tests.
• Develop test case scenarios based on functional specifications and design documents.
• Responsible for the performance testing of Documented WebTop 6.7, WebTop 6.0, Learning management system (LMS) application.
• Automating the Restful API of the ITG application using Parasoft SOA.
• Wrote and executed the SQL Queries to test for the data validation.
• Restful Web Service testing using Http Client Java library.
• Executing test cases for SOAP and RESTful APIs using SOAPUI
• Perform load, stress, performance and response time testing by creating scenarios, parameterization, and synchronization of test data.
• Create defects in HP Application Lifecycle Management, assigned them to the responsible person and tracked them until they are fixed.
• Perform vigorous usability testing and contributed for the better user experience.
• Develop Test scripts using Load Runner by recording test cases, adding checkpoints, parameterization, correlation and also custom code as needed to enhance the scripts.
• Perform both Manual and Auto correlation (using Auto-Correlation Library) in LoadRunner VUGEN.
• Developing scenarios for performance test.
• Also involve in Vuser Setting for different scenarios and business processes in Performance center and analyzed graphs to find out the performance of the system.
• Giving feedback to the development team with possible improvements and discovered issues/benchmarks.
• Analyzed results of Transactions Response time, Transaction under load, Hits per Second and Throughput.
• Determined the source of bottlenecks by correlating the performance data with end-user loads and response times.
• Responsible for detecting problems in software and applications
• Involved in environment set up with developer and created Test dataset for scenario execution.
• Analyzed graphs with project manager and prepared load testing report.

Environment: Agile/ Extreme Programming, J2EE, Ajax, EJB, VBScript, HTML, XML, Microsoft Office, Windows 7, WebLogic Server, TOAD, LINUX, SQL DEVELOPER, PL/SQL, LoadRunner, QTP 10.5/ UFT 11.5, Quality Center, SOAPUI Pro, ETL, Oracle 11g, FTP, Putty, Bugzilla. TestNG

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed various reports to analyze the response time and hits per season the application.
• Analyzed the Test Results and created Bug Report.
• Involved in Load, Stress and Performance testing.
• Performed Restful web services testing on SOAP UI PRO Tool.
• Analyzed Restful web services in SOAP UI Pro using predefined assertions.
• Used the descriptive programming approach for developing test scripts using Load Runner.
• Executed performance testing using Load runner Controller.
• Used Auto and Manual Correlation, Parameterization and Content Check features.
• Tested the application manually and also using load runner for load testing.
• Designed and generated test scripts for stress and performance testing using Load Runner.
• Involved in ongoing Load Runner Vuser script maintenance in conjunction with new builds and new functional changes.
• Involved in preparation of Test Summary Report and responsible in providing test reports to the management.
• Used Performance monitor(DynaTrace) and Load Runner graphs to analyze the results.
• Parameterized the scripts and enhanced them according to the test case.
• Analyzed the Load Runner reports to calculate Response time and Transactions per minute, Hits per sec, Throughput.
• Created and coded a very flexible Load Runner script that allowed for fast configuration changes during testing.
• Analyzed the gaps between requirements and use cases and prepared a gap analysis document.
• Test plan walkthrough with the business analysts, developers, and Project Manager.
• Created test-scripts in Java.
• Attended daily defect review meetings (Joint Issues Management sessions) with developers, business analysts and project manager to clarify defects.
• Monitored different graphs like Transaction Response Time and Analyzed Server Performance Status, Hits per Second, Throughput.
• Experience in analyzing Performance Bottlenecks, Root cause and Server Configuration problems using Load Runner Monitors, Analysis, Sitescope and J2EE Diagnostics.
• Documented Summary Reports and Closure reports for each Test execution with Graphs.

Environment: HTTP/HTML,C Scripting, SQL, Junit, TOAD, JIRA, SoapUI PRO, SVN updates, CICS, PerfMON, NMON, Test Director, MS Excel, MS Word, Java, IBM DB2, HP QTP

Confidential, Las Vegas, NV

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Fully responsible for the performance testing on IBM Maximo 7.5 and IBM Maximo 6.2.6.
• Led the offshore performance testing team.
• Created performance testing environment and installed all the necessary components of Load Runner on all the remote machines.
• Preparation of the Test Plan, which specify testing overview, testing approach, testing strategy, roles & responsibilities and scope of testing.
• Designed scenarios for Performance Testing, Generating scripts and handling Correlation as well as parameterization using Load runner Vugen, executed scenarios using Controller.
• Generated data for the performance testing.
• Helping in implementing best practices and setting higher coding standards for Performance Test Scripts.
• Reviewed and checked test scripts created by other resources.
• Helping project teams in recognizing possible bottlenecks and potential trouble spots.
• Performed Baseline, full load, Stress and Capacity test.
• Analyzed Throughput Graph, Hits/Second graph, Transactions per second graph and Rendezvous graphs using LR Analysis tool.
• Scheduled practice sessions with Business Analysts to understand the IBM Maximo functionality.
• Interacted with BA Functional and Technical Leads/Developers for understanding the requirements.
• Interacted with Developers to follow up on Defects/Issues.
• Worked closely with developers and updated them with the load tests results.
• Conducted performance regression testing after upgrading the hardware and software.
• Created and coded a very flexible Load Runner script that allowed for fast configuration changes during testing

Environment: Load runner 11.0, Maximo7.5, Maximo6.2.6, MS Office 2010, Oracle database 11g, Oracle database 10g,IBM Websphere7, IBM Websphere6, HTTP/HTML

Confidential, Alpharetta GA

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for the setup and execution of the test cases, and capture data related to a performance test.
• Gathered, consolidated requirements for generating performance goals and test plans.
• Conducted Performance testing for the entire applications using various scenarios, which are designed specifically for testing real world scenarios.
• Expertise in developing/modifying automated test scripts.
• Verification/Check points had been implemented by using Load Runner as an automated Testing Tool such as global verification checkpoints, text checkpoints.
• Wrote application specific functions using C language to add logic to load testing scripts
• Designing and Executing Test Cases in Quality center.
• Created various performance scripts using Load Runner Vugen.
• Created Load Runner graphs to analyze the results
• Reported the bugs, Email notifications to the developers using the Quality center.
• Ability to work with multi-cultural teams across multiple time zones to accommodate offshore business hours.
• Used QC for Bug Tracking and Reporting
• Responsible for enhancement of previously developed automated scripts.
• Communicated with development team to resolve defects as needed
• Collaboratively worked with Capacity Planning to obtain the performance expectations of performance scenarios to be executed and provided results to validate current forecast models

Environment: UNIX, Load Runner, Quality Center, Agile(Scrum), Java, MS Share Point, MS Office