SUMMARY

• Over 18 years of experience in IT Software Quality Assurance, scrum methodologies especially in performance engineering
• Experienced Performance Engineering leader across multiple large organizations like Oracle, Cisco and USPTO
• Proficient in end - to-end Performance Testing with focus on Agile software development methodology
• Over 8 years of experience in using HP’s LoadRunner (v9.5 to v12.53) for Performance testing
• Strong understanding of performance testing methodologies and practices
• In-depth knowledge of Oracle Web Logic Server (WLS), Oracle Data Bases and SQL
• Detail oriented and very dependable
• Team player with strong analytical thinking and process know how
• Experience in identifying and analyzing Java/J2EE Application Performance including Memory Leaks, CPU spinners, threading synchronization issues like dead locks, thread starvation etc.
• Over 6 years of SQA lead experience
• Thorough understanding of software quality assurance best practices, SDLC and agile frameworks.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Performance Engineer

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Designed, created, maintained and used performance test scripts for web-based applications using HP LoadRunner (including test scripting, test execution, results analysis, troubleshooting and reporting).
• Created SOAP, JMS and MQ scripts using web services and Java protocols in LoadRunner.
• Configured the scripts to output all the input data and responses to text files for use in analysis of test results.
• Modeled workloads to suite after studying the requirements for baseline, stress and endurance tests.
• Performance Monitoring and Bottleneck identification of Resource Utilization for Windows and Linux System using System tools and Dynatrace
• Created and executed both performance tests for web services.
• Worked closely with the web development team to ensure quality deliverables.

Environment: Load Runner 12.53, SiteScope, JProfiler, DynaTrace, SOAP UI, Java, Perfmon, Oracle DB, Python, Splunk

Senior Performance Engineer

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Responsibilities:

• Executed over 30 projects in two years with high stakeholder satisfaction
• Conduct requirements gathering and test analysis working closely with product owners and development teams
• Lead and actively participate in meetings with product owners
• Expertise in script creation and design using LoadRunner v12.53 for HTTP/HTML, Seibel, TruClient and Web Services (SOAP, WSDL, XML, JSON)
• Skilled in using LoadRunner tools - Vugen, Controller, Load Generator, VTS and Analysis
• Create precise test scenarios by studying workload and conducting timing tests
• Expertise in analyzing and correlating load test results with server side metrics
• Experience in integrating test scripts with VTS (Virtual Table Server) of LoadRunner
• Extensively used TeamQuest, SiteScope, Splunk, AppDynamics Open NMS to monitor performance tests and debug errors and bottlenecks.
• Creating complete test documentation like Test Plans, Test Reports
• Report and log negative trends and KPI breaks as performance test defects.
• Contribute to system and architectural studies.
• Create trend analysis based on previous test executions.
• Attended daily scrum meetings. Participated in sprint review and sprint retrospective meetings

Environment: Load Runner 12.53, SiteScope, JProfiler, AppDynamics, SOAP UI .Net, Java, Perfmon, Citrix, Windows Server 2008, Oracle DB, Python, Splunk, Solr, Tomcat

Team Lead - Performance Engineering

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Gathering and understanding the requirements
• Creating automated scripts using LoadRunner 11.2 and Jmeter
• Auditing and peer review of team’s scripts and scenarios
• Designing load testing scenarios for various load conditions.
• Preparation of daily and weekly status reports.
• Involved in Performance test execution
• Involved in Server Side Monitoring during performance test execution
• Analyzing the Performance Test Execution Report
• Used online monitors and real-time output messages
• Analyzed, interpreted, and summarized meaningful and relevant results to create test reports.
• Skilled at raising defects in QC ALM.

Environment: Load Runner 11.52, Performance Center 11.52, Jmeter, SiteScope, JProfiler, SAP, SOAP UI .Net, Java, Perfmon, Citrix XenApp, Windows Server 2008, QC, QTP, Oracle DB, Python

Principal Member of Technical Staff

Confidential, Redwood Shores, CA

Responsibilities:

• Designed, created, maintained and used performance test scripts for web-based applications using HP LoadRunner (including test scripting, test execution, results analysis, tuning/troubleshooting and reporting).
• Performance Monitoring and Bottleneck identification of Resource Utilization for Windows and Linux System using System tools, SiteScope.
• Preparing detailed test plans, acceptance criteria and test scenarios.
• Created, maintained and used automated test scripts for web-based applications with Frameworks using QTP
• Create test suites and test cases for SOA testing
• SOA testing, synchronous and asynchronous message-level testing Oracle 11i and R12
• Creation of Databases of Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g and 11g. Database Administration of test databases for Oracle Applications of 11iX and R12 releases, using middle-tier Oracle iAS, on Unix / Linux / Windows NT Operating Systems.
• Full cycle regression test suites on WinRunner, Suite Runner applications using PLSQL, SQL, C, TSL, 4Test, VBScript languages and data-driven techniques and ODBC connectivity techniques for Oracle applications 11i and R12
• Involved in the functional testing of applications using WinRunner
• Developed a custom reporting tool for interactive reporting of test results as HTML pages

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Senior QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Volume, stress and Performance tests using LoadRunner
• Led a team of 4 QA engineers.

Confidential, FL

Senior Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a Capacity assessment project for a new application
• Received special appreciation letter

Environment: LoadRunner 6.0