SUMMARY

• Proficient in using performance tools like HP Load Runner and Performance Center for Load Stress, Endurance and capacity Testing.
• Experience working with different protocols including Web/HTTP, Web services, .NET, Citrix, Ajax, ODBC and Java over HTTP in HP Loadrunner.
• Created dynamic performance scripts wherever applicable using C external functions/library.
• Experience in monitoring tools like CA Wily Introscope, Sitescope, HP Diagnostic, perfmon and IBM Heap Analyzer during load testing for troubleshooting and monitoring the key system metrics (CPU, Memory Utilization, Java Heap Size and others.)
• Involved in work allocation to the offshore team member and assuring the delivery on time.
• Excellent Team leadership skills, Strong project management and Interpersonal skills, involvement in full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience in analysis of Business Requirements and Software Requirement Specifications with exposure to Agile development methodology.
• Involved in various phases of Performance testing i.e. define Testing strategy and plan, Test co - ordination, Script Creation/Execution, Result Analysis, Test Report preparations & bug tracking.
• Individual with good analytical, inter personal and problem solving skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Performance Engineering Technologies: HP Loadrunner, Perfromance Center, Dynatrace, CA Introscope, Fiddler, HTTP Watch, Jmeter, perfmon, AppDynamics, SiteScope, SoapUI, Quality center, VSTS.

Programing languages: C/C++, Visual basic.

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, Java Script, Web Services, Java/Jsp.

Web/Application Server: Weblogic Server, tomcat, IIS Server

Data Bases: SQL Server, Oracle 11g

Operating Systems: Windows 2008 Server, Linux/Unix, Solaris.

Source Control: SVN, VSS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, AZ

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in walkthrough, presentations and status tracking calls.
• Attended all Business and Technical requirements review meetings and reviewed the Business Requirements Documents to identify load critical functionality.
• Prepared the Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test cases and Test Scripts for performance testing.
• Coordinated the setup of test environment and conducted execution for various performance tests.
• Designed and developed Performance Framework and re-usable functions.
• Designed and maintained Performance, Load, Stress, Back-end, and Acceptance testing for the application.
• Performed both automated testing on critical functionalities of the application to verify the application is complete and stable.
• Logged defects with the help of HP Quality Center (ALM), JIRA and assigned them to the development Team.
• Performed Smoke Testing on the build using low volume baseline tests.
• Maintained the test execution results and review reports.
• Verified the Defects after development Team resolved them.
• Created and managed testing schedule and monitored completion of activities.
• Used LoadRunner to create Vugen scripts and scenarios for Load and Performance testing with different host systems and also configured the test environment.
• Used Jmeter to execute various SOAP and REST based webservices under load.
• Used DynaTrace, OEM, and AWR Reports to identify perfromance bottlenecks.
• Prepared various test reports and published to Management, Development and QA team.

Environment: HP LoadRunner, Perfromance Center, DynaTrace, AWR, Jmeter, Oracle, LDAP, MS Office, SqlDeveloper,Putty, WinSCP, JvisualVM, Jconsole, fiddler, firebug, VM Ware,Windows, Solaris, Siebel Enterprise,Siebel CRM, WebLogic, Oracle enterprise manager, MicroStrategy, Informatica, MS, MS Sharepoint, IBM NMON Analyser, IBM HeapAnalyzer

Confidential, PA

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Create VUSER scripts in VUGEN using C language. Enhanced scripts by adding correlations, parameterization, conditions control, check point etc.
• Developed/created vusers scripts using web (http/html), Ajax True Client, Ajax click and script, webservices and oracle protocol.
• Understand the entire system architecture.
• Gather Performance test requirements for the application and Develop Performance Plan and test strategies.
• Develop test plans, test scenario, test cases, and prepared data for different types of performance tests.
• Detected Performance degradation issues like memory leak, high CPU/memory utilization and found the root cause of performance issues.
• Executed different type of test - performance/load/stress/regression/capacity.
• Analyzed load patterns and create real time load test scenario in the performance center and execute test.
• Created test metrics, performance graphs, analysis report and create test report for the senior management.
• Worked with technical team members - DBA, and Infrastructure to support test execution to ensure correct environment before test execution.
• Used monitoring tools - CA Introscope and AppDynamics to get server metrics.
• Monitor metrics on Application server, webserver and database server.
• Analyze results for bottlenecks and make recommendation for bottlenecks.

Environment: HPLoadRunner, HP Performance Center, AppDynamics, CA IntroScope IBM MQserver, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Weblogic, Load Balancer, Visual Studios, JAVA, AJAX, PERL, Open VMS, Windows.

Confidential, IL

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved to create Performance Test Plans including - test objectives, test cases, environment requirement, test data, types of testing, and real time production like scenario.
• Worked with business and technology leads to identify the appropriate data for testing, and prepared that data for the test cases.
• Verified, reviewed and created scripts using HP VUGEN.
• Used Performance Center to create the scenarios for User's Ramp up/Ramp down and assigned Vusers group to different Load Generators and prepare production like scenario.
• Created test strategies and conditions for load, stress, concurrent users and network bandwidth scenarios in HP Performance Center.
• Involved with business and technology leads to identify the appropriate data for testing and prepare the data for the test cases.
• Involved in preparation of Test Data used to test the latest application builds delivered.
• Observed the entire load test run for any failures/errors and monitored metrics such as Transaction Response Times, Running Virtual Users, Hits per Second and Windows Resources graph.
• Tracked defect in Quality Center with necessary information and assigned it to development team.
• Analyzed performance of the application, transaction response times, CPU Utilization and Memory Utilization using Sitescope.
• Identify Performance related bottleneck and recommended possible steps to overcome the issue.
• Involved in team meetings.

Environment: HP Load Runner, HP Performance Center, HP QTP, Quality Center, Sitescope, Jmeter,Windows 2000, NT, Unix, DB2, SQL, SOAP, UI, VUGen, Web Services, HP Service Test, VMWare, WMB, HP Diagnostics.

Confidential, MA

Performance Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted QA Performance Manager in coordinating/leading the performance testing efforts.
• Worked on an onsite co-ordinator for Performance testing efforts.
• Reviewed BRD, SRS to prepare Performance acceptance criteria, performance strategy, and test plan.
• Actively participated in the daily project meetings and walkthroughs.
• Worked on Web-HTML/HTTP protocols of HP Loadrunner Suite and conducted performance testing on web based J2EE application running under weblogic server and on solaris platform.
• Designed performance testing scenarios using HP Loadrunner controller, scripts using VuGen and analyzed results using Loadrunner Result Analysis.
• Using HP Loadrunner Suite executed various performance tests like certification test, long duration tests, stress tests and component failover tests. Also
• Used diagnostics tool including Wily Introscope for in depth diagnostics to isolate points of failure like long running SQL queries, etc. and monitored system resources like CPU usage, Heap usage, and Garbage collection behavior, executing threads, etc during test execution.
• Extensively used UNIX commands like top, vmstat, netstat, etc to monitor CPU and Memory usage. Also used various grep commands for checking logs.
• Used oracle/toad to run sql queries to create test data. Extracted test data from toad and prepared .dat files for loadrunner scripts.
• Involved in defect tracking and reporting.
• Worked closely with Weblogic admins to resolve performance issues.
• After all testing was completed for a release cycle, prepared the performance impact analysis document and conducted a walkthrough with all the stakeholders.

Environment: LoadRunner, Wily Introscope, Oracle/Toad, Weblogic, J2EE, eG, Windows, AIX, HP-UX, Ms-Office.