SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of diversified experience as Performance Test Engineer. I have extensively worked on LoadRunner, Performance Center, DynaTrace, IntroScope, SiteScope, and HP Diagnostics.
• Extensive involvement in all stages of Performance Testing Lifecycle from Requirement Analysis, Test Plan Development, Scripting, Execution, Monitoring, Tuning, and Reporting.
• Possess excellent professional skills, and have a proven track record of delivering high quality results.
• Proficient with using, installing, configuring VUGEN, Controller, Analysis and Load Generators.
• Expert in debugging, identifying, and fixing script errors within VuGen.
• Excellent Knowledge of programming languages like C, and Java to debug and execute LoadRunner scripts.
• Executed Performance Tests and Stress Tests using LoadRunner and analyzed the results.
• Proficient in putting loops into the LoadRunner scripts to run scripts for multiple iterations.
• Activating / configuring monitors and adding desired performance counters into the Graphs
• Plotting and implementing scenarios and loading LoadRunner scripts into controller.
• Well versed with all functionality of Virtual User Generator.
• Hands - on experience on different versions of LoadRunner.
• Configuring run-time settings for VuGen and Controller
• Analyzing scenario performance, graphs and reports.
• Working with different Vuser types and groups.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: LoadRunner, Performance Center, Quality Center, CA IntroScope, DynaTrace, SiteScope, HP Diagnostics

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, Linux, Sun-Solaris, IBM Mainframes, HP-UX

Programming Languages: C, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, Java, JavaScript, VB Script, PERL, Shell Scripting

Database: Oracle, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, MS Access, My SQL

Tools: & Utilities MS Office, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Visio, Outlook, Lotus Notes, TOAD, SQL Plus

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements and developed Performance Test Plan.
• Developed and deployed test Load scripts to do end to end performance testing using LoadRunner.
• Responsible for designing scenarios for performance testing, generating scripts and handling correlation as well as parameterization using LoadRunner.
• Created LoadRunner scenarios and scheduled the virtual user’s to generate realistic load on the server using LoadRunner.
• Used to identify the queries which were taking too long and optimize those queries to improve performance
• Interacted with the Business teams to find out the end user actions and scenarios.
• Debugged and enhanced the LoadRunner Scripts using VuGen.
• Created the Virtual user scripts and enhanced them with transactions and error handling.
• Responsible for developing and executing performance and volume tests
• Defining the performance goals and objectives based on the client requirements and input.
• Executed tests and monitored system performance using SiteScope in LoadRunner Controller.
• Identified and eliminated performance bottlenecks during the development lifecycle.

Environment: LoadRunner, Performance Center, Quality Center, SiteScope, Oracle, Citrix, MS SQL Server, Load Balancer, JAVA, Quality Center, J2EE Diagnostic Tool, web, Windows 2000/XP.

Confidential, CT

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Define test goals, set direction for testing, identify test plan scope, schedule, requirements, environmental and data needs.
• Developed the load test scripts using the LoadRunner Virtual User Generator (VuGen) and enhanced the scripts by including transactions, parameterized the variable values and correlated the dynamic values.
• Responsible for Formulating and defining system scope and objectives of projects based upon both user needs and an understanding of business systems and industry requirements
• Conducted testing on the servers using LoadRunner to establish the load capacity of the server.
• Provide weekly status report of individual projects to Executives.
• Created final test report along with comparison of timings/statistics at the user/system level.
• Created Vuser Scripts using LoadRunner by enhancing recordings, incorporating transactions, rendezvous points, correlation and think time.
• Analyzed Graphs like Runtime Graphs, Transaction Graphs, Web Resource Graphs and System Resource Graphs in LR Analysis.
• Defined requirements and workload models for performance tests.
• Created comprehensive Performance Test Results Report.

Environment: LoadRunner, Performance Center, IBM Clear Quest, Clear case, Java, VB script, J2EE, JIRA, Java scripts, Oracle, Citrix, CA IntroScope, Java, HTML, MS SQL, Microsoft Windows, Oracle, SQL Server

Confidential, MN

Performance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plans for Performance testing.
• Performed load tests using LoadRunner and utilizing C programming.
• Determined load, stress, scalability and capacity workloads for various applications.
• Built and analyzed summary reports, HTML Reports, and worked on transaction reports.
• Monitored and analyzed system performance during load tests using SiteScope.
• Responsible for developing and executing performance and volume tests.
• Setup test scenarios to properly load / stress the system in test environment and monitor / debug performance & stability problems
• Developed load testing scripts using VuGen of LoadRunner.
• Worked with DBA’s on performance enhancements to SQL queries to improve the response times.
• Coordinated the fixing of performance bugs as part the post production support. Interacted with the business teams to understand/modify the actual business requirements to optimize the code.

Environment: LoadRunner, CA IntroScope, Performance Center, Java, J2EE, PL/SQL, UNIX, Oracle

Confidential, CA

Performance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted performance testing, stress testing, and volume testing.
• Analyzed application and components behavior with heavier loads while optimizing server configurations.
• Extensively used LoadRunner for performance and stress testing.
• Exclusively worked on Web Services and Web (Http/html) protocols on LoadRunner.
• Developed vuser scripts and enhanced the basic scripts by parameterizing the variable values using LoadRunner.
• Executed batch jobs using shell scripts.
• Created various scenarios in LoadRunner controller for performing baseline, benchmark and endurance tests.
• Monitored the metrics such as response times and server resources using LoadRunner Analysis and SiteScope.
• Analyzed different graphs like transaction response time, hits per second, throughput, windows resources and database server resources etc.

Environment: LoadRunner, SiteScope, Windows Server, Apache, IIS, Java, J2EE, Web Sphere, Web logic, Solaris, Oracle Database