SUMMARY

• 7+ year’s Extensive experience in LoadRunner and Performance Center with all components like Virtual User Generator, Controller, LoadRunner Agents, Result Analysis and Diagnostic Tools.
• Extensive experience in LoadRunner’s Virtual User Generator Protocols like HTML/ HTTP, WinSock, Dual Web/Winsock, Web Services, SAPGUI, RMI, Java, Citrix, Siebel and Multi - protocol scripts.
• Used LoadRunner’s Test Results Analysis for Summary Performance Report, Windows Resources, Network Delay Monitor, Throughput and bits/second.
• Designed, Developed and Implemented Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Designs, Resource Matrix, Job Allocation Matrix, and Re-Traceability Matrix.
• Excellent knowledge on all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC) and Defect Management Life Cycle (DMLC)
• Excellent knowledge and working experience with test execution, developing and maintaining test procedures and test result analysis
• Experience in writing test plans and test reports, defining test cases, developing and maintaining test scripts(Manual & Automated), analyzing bugs and interacting with team members in fixing the errors
• Used Mercury Quality Center as a defect reporting and tracking tool, reviewed and analyzed test results using the result logs and reported defects using the defects module of Mercury Quality Center
• Experience with Agile Software Methodology, QA and CMM methodology.
• Proficiency in Automated Test Tools like Rationale’s Suit Test Studio, Rational Suite Performance Studio, RequisitePro, Rational Clear Quest, Mercury’s LoadRunner, WinRunner Test Suite, Active Test, Astra Load Test, Quick Test Professional, Test Director, Silk Suite, Visual Test, Visual Performance Test, QA Center from Compuware and RadView’s Web Load.
• Implemented LoadRunner, Quick Test Professional, WinRunner, Test Director, Astra Quick Test, Topaz and Rational SQA Team Test Edition.
• Performed Black Box, Grey Box and White Box in Java, Java Script, ColdFusion and spectra and other web technologies.
• Extensive experience with every technique applicable to the identification of anomalies (defects) with regard to software testing evolutions like Unit, Boundary, Performance, GUI testing, back-end testing, Load balancing, Installation, System, Security, Interface, Maintenance and User-Acceptance
• Worked under SDLC models like Waterfall, Iterative Model and V-Model
• Created various Testing Metrics in the various status reports like Weekly Status Reports, Monthly Dashboard and Test Summary Reports.
• Strong Team player and contribute towards the team goals. Ability to work productively and effectively in a team as well as individually

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Quality center, Test Director, Winrunner, QTP, Loadrunner, Silk Test, iTKO LISA Tool, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Test Manager

ERP/CRM: JDEdwards ERP812, One World Xe, Manufacturing, Financials, XPI, Web methods, People Soft 8x, SAP R/3, SAP SD, Kana 6.0.

Version Control: PVCS, Visual Source Safe 6.0, CVS, UML, Clear Case and RUP.

Languages: Java, J2EE, JavaScript, HTML, XML, JSP, Visual Basic 6.0,Cobol, Perl, SQL, PL/SQL, C, C++, ASP, Cold fusion, RPG/400.

GUI/Tools: Developer 2000, File Maker Pro, BugZilla, DB Admin 5, IBM Lotus notes, Informatica ETL, MS Project, Data Integrator ETL Tool, Actuate 8.0,Business Objects 6.5, Business Services, MS-Office.

RDBMS: SQL Server 2000, Oracle 9i/10g, DB2, MS Access 2000.

OS: Windows 2003/2005/XP/Vista, Wins7, Sun Solaris 2.x, IBM AS/400, UNIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Mt Laurel, NJ

Sr. Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with business team to get the performance requirements for the Load Testing, Stress Testing and Capacity Planning.
• Developed Performance Test Plan and Test Case design document with the inputs from developers and functional testers.
• Utilized Loadrunner and Performance Center for conducting performance tests.
• Extensively used LoadRunner using Virtual User Generator to script and customize performance test harness Web Protocol.
• Utilized Loadrunner Controller to execute multiple scenarios.
• Used Test Results to provide summary reports, response times and monitor averages.
• Provided results by analyzing average response time graph, throughput and hits per second.
• Extensive familiarity with protocols like Web (HTTP / HTML), Web Services and Winsock.
• Parameterized scripts to emulate realistic load.
• Involved in performing load and stress test on the application and server by configuring LoadRunner to simulate hundreds of virtual users and provided key metrics to the manage ment.
• Configured and used SiteScope Performance Monitor to monitor and analyze the performance of the server by generating various reports from CPU utilization, Memory Usage to load average etc.
• Performed Data Driven and Security Testing.
• Involved in conducting stress tests and volume tests against the application using LoadRunner.
• Helped resident DBAs identify and resolve bottlenecks.
• Written & executed UNIX Shell scripts to see the output.
• Used Quality Center to invoke the scripts and initially performed the baseline testing and organized all the scripts systematically and generated reports.
• Responsible for analyzing the requirements, designing, debugging, execution and report generation of existing legacy system and new application.
• Executed baseline, load and endurance tests.
• Analyzed business critical transactions average response times.
• Responsible for creating automated Performance scripts for load testing using LoadRunner.
• Involved in installing Loadrunner compotents on multiple desktops.
• Coordinated with Application Owner and System Administrators to identify the bottlenecks and fine tune the application.
• Worked with Vendor teams to identify the bottlenecks and performed regression testing to compare results.

Environment: LoadRunner/Performance Center, Soap UI, Java, .NET Oracle 9iAS Forms Server, Report Server Oracle Database, Oracle J-Initiator, Cisco F5 SSL, Windows XP, JDK,SQL Navigator, PIMS

Confidential, Erie, PA

Sr. Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing test scenario, test suite, test plan and test cases for Performance Testing using Loadrunner and Performance Center.
• Responsible for mentoring different teams for the training of Loadrunner.
• Performance Tested application with various load rate, ranging from 50 concurrent users to 800 users.
• Managed resources and process of performance testing (like Load, Stress, Volume, Endurance and Failover) using LoadRunner (Controller, Virtual User Generator, Analysis).
• Utilized Unix commands such as VMSTAT, TOP and SVMON to monitor system metrics.
• Coordinated with tools team to Install HP Diagnostics, Wily Introscope and Sitescope on the performance environments for monitoring.
• Managed on-shore and off-shore team to develop test harness, execute performance scenarios during nights and weekends and reported the results.
• Responsible for collecting the frequency of JVM Heap and Garbage Collection in Weblogic during test
• Tracked defects using Quality Center.
• Involved in Database tuning to enhance the application performance.
• Provide weekly updates to the client and application team based on the test results and analysis.
• Participated in design review /walkthrough sessions with Project Managers, Developers, and Products Team.
• Presented performance test results to Project management and stakeholders.
• Involved with project management team to schedule the testing activities and resource allocation.

Environment: LoadRunner/Performance Center, PeopleSoft, ASP, VBScript, Toad, Oracle, Mainframe, MQ Series, Unix, HTML, DHTML,XML, QTP8.0,IIS, Apache, Test Director 7.6,Agile

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the requirement and design documents.
• Involved in writing Test Plans by incorporating Performance Testing Objectives, Testing Environment, User Profiles, Risks, Test Scenarios, Explanation about the Tools used, Schedules and Analysis, Monitors and Presentation of results.
• Written LoadRunner Scripts, enhanced scripts with C functions, Parameterized Users, stored dynamic content in LoadRunner functions, used client side secure certificates.
• Text checks were written, Created scenarios for Concurrent (Rendezvous) and Sequential users. Run time settings were configured for HTTP, iterations.
• Simulated Modem speeds to bring the testing scenario to real world. CPU, Memory, ASP Requests, Network, Web connections and throughput were monitored while running the Various scenarios in the LoadRunner.
• Created Single User, Base Line and Soak test scenarios. Random pacing between iterations was introduced to get the desired transactions per hour
• Added performance measurements for Oracle, Web Logic, IIS in LoadRunner.
• Analyzed results using LoadRunner Analysis tool and analyzed Oracle database connections, sessions, Web Logic log files.
• Responsible for analyzing application and components behavior with heavier loads and optimizing server configurations
• Worked closely with Production Managers, Technical Managers and Business Managers in planning, scheduling, developing, and executing performance tests.
• Interacted with developers during testing for identifying memory leaks, fixing bugs and for optimizing server settings at web, app and database levels.

Environment: LoadRunner, JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, JSP, VBScript, Toad, Oracle, UML, Mainframe, MQ Series, Unix, HTML, DHTML,XML, Windows NT, QTP8.0,Test Director 7.6,Agile