SUMMARY

• Around 7 years of experience in defining Performance Testing/ Engineer Methodologies, designing Test Plans, Verifying and Validating Application Software and Documentation based on standards for Software Development and effective QA implementation in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Expertise in Performance Testing and Load Testing. Used Protocols - Web (HTTP/HTML), Web (Click and Script), MQ Series, Ajax (Click and Script), Winsock, Citrix, Oracle (2-Tier) to create script for Performance and Load Testing.
• Good communication and presentation skills. Can adapt to any newer technology or software at a greater pace.
• Able to define and fulfill the project’s goals. Dedicated and conscientious work ethic, able to work independently or as participating member in a team environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

LoadRunner Protocols: Web(http/html), MQ Client/Server, Winsock, Citrix, Web/Winsock Dual Protocol, SAP GUI, Click & Script.

Testing Tools: Performance Center, LoadRunner, Wily IntroScope, SiteScope, JMeter, Vcops, NMON

Languages: C, C++, C#, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, DHTML, XML, JAVA, JavaScript, Unix Shell, VB Script

Application Tools: MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio

HP Test Suite: LoadRunner, Quality Center (Test Director), Performance Center, Monitoring tools, SiteScope

Web Technologies: HTML, XHTML, VB Script, Jscript

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/XP/VISTA, UNIX, Linux, Solaris, Windows NT.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering requirements for performance testing.
• Lead a team of offshore performance testers, and assigned them tasks. Also mentored the offshore team.
• Developed LoadRunner Scripts for Web, Citrix and Web services protocols.
• Used Wily IntroScope for Performance data for problem solving, trend analysis, and capacity planning.
• Monitored and Analyzed activity Report and Performance Report created using LoadRunner
• Gathered data from Production Support about application usage and load rates and identified load critical transactions.
• Developed weekly reports of Performance data and metrics.
• Involved in walkthroughs and meetings with Performance team to discuss related issues
• Developed and executed test Load scripts to do end to end performance testing using LoadRunner and Performance Center.
• Monitoring Strategy and Configuration.
• Trained Splunk security team members for complex search strings and ES modules.
• Analyzed security based events, risks and reporting instances.
• Managed and maintained use cases into correlation systems.

Environment: Load Runner 9.52 & 11, Performance Center 9.50, SiteScope, HP RUM, Wily IntroScope, HP Diagnostics, CVS, Excel, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Web logic, F5 Load Balancer, JAVA, JMETER, AJAX, ASP.NET, Quality Center, J2EE Diagnostic Tool, web, Windows 2000/XP, Adobe flex, SOUPUI.

Confidential, VA

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed NFR’s and wrote Performance Test Plans.
• Responsible for presenting performance statistics to application teams, and provide recommendations on performance improvements.
• Conducted performance as well as load testing using Performance Center and LoadRunner.
• Independently developed LoadRunner test scripts according to test specifications/requirements.
• Analyzed results using LoadRunner Analysis tool and analyzed Oracle database connections, sessions, Web Logic log files.
• Developed Automation scripts using Load Runner for web services, web and citrix applications.
• Developed and deployed test load scripts to do end to end performance testing using LoadRunner.
• Performed stress testing using various features of LoadRunner, recorded and debugged scripts using multiple actions using VuGen module in LoadRunner.
• Enhanced LoadRunner Vuser scripts by Parameterization, error handling, and correlation to test the new builds of the application.
• Experienced in configuring and utilizing SiteScope and CA IntroScope for performance monitoring.
• Experienced in server side monitoring and test result analysis using DynaTrace, SiteScope and CA IntroScope for application server to identify performance bottlenecks.
• Monitored the CPU, memory and network utilizations on the UNIX server using SiteScope monitors.
• Configured and used SiteScope to monitor and analyze the performance of the server by generating various reports from CPU utilization, Memory Usage to load average.

Environment: Load Runner, Performance Center, SiteScope, DynaTrace, Excel, Oracle, IIS, MS SQL Server, Web logic, Load Balancer, JAVA, J2EE Diagnostic Tool, Windows, HP-UX, HP Service Test.

Confidential, IL

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for project planning, coordination and implementation of performance methodology.
• Closely engaged in scripting and performance testing of web and web services applications.
• Identified performance bottlenecks and involved in performance tuning process for improving the application response time.
• Gathered performance requirements for the application and designed performance tests for various applications
• Analyzed various graphs generated by LoadRunner Analysis and communicated bottlenecks to the system administrators.
• Executed Load, Stress, Endurance and Spike Tests.
• Monitored and analyzed system performance during load tests using SiteScope and DynaTrace.
• Created rendezvous point for performance test scenarios to find deadlocks.
• Used and developed shell scripts for executing batch jobs
• Created comprehensive performance test results reports.

Environment: LoadRunner, SiteScope, Performance Center, DynaTrace, Shell Scripts, Quality Center, Java, Oracle, SQL server, Windows, Web Sphere and UNIX.

Confidential, MD

Performance Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing scenarios and monitoring them using LoadRunner.
• Responsible for Load, Stress, Sizing, Scalability and Capacity planning of different Client products.
• Conducted performance, load and stress testing using LoadRunner.
• Performed parameterization in LoadRunner.
• Monitored the activities through LoadRunner Controller.
• Defined requirements for large-scale LoadRunner performance tests of the web, client-server and database server Applications.
• Utilized LoadRunner Controller to execute performance testing.
• Responsible for setting up performance monitors using SiteScope.
• Developed LoadRunner scripts, and enhanced them to support the load testing efforts.

Environment: LoadRunner, Performance Center, SiteScope, JAVA, Web logic, Oracle, XML, MS Access, MS Vision, MS Project, SQL Server, HTML, UNIX, Windows.