SUMMARY

• 7 years of Performance testing / engineering experience including requirement gathering, project planning, designing performance test scenarios, creating loadrunner scripts, Setting up load testing environment, monitoring, results analysis, defect tracking and reporting.
• Extensive exposure in performance testing using HP Loadrunner Suite - Vugen, Performance Center & Analysis, VTS.
• Expert in Vugen Scripting using protocols Web Services, SOAP, REST, HTTP/HTML, TruClient with HP Loadrunner.
• Hands-on experience with diagnostics/monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Wily, Sitescope etc.
• Expertise in gathering and analyzing various usage statistics like peak hour traffic and peak hour resource usage and designing production like scenario.
• Exposure in pointing out bottlenecks, memory leaks, etc.
• Exposure in Performance testing of Microsoft (IIS based) and java based technologies (Weblogic, tomcat, etc).
• Expert level exposure in the process of execution of performance testing projects.
• Familiarity with build and deployment processes.
• Strong experience in project co-ordination with different teams including onsite-offshore co-ordination.
• Good experience publishing performance analysis reports and presenting to stakeholders.Prepared User Manuals for Projects Modules level.
• Experience using SOATEST.
• Worked with automation tools QTP, Sahi Pro.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Building an agile performance testing approach.
• Discuss with Product Team to gather information and SLAs of the application
• Participated in end to end project meetings with Development Team to review application architecture, and build contacts for resolving future issues.
• Data profiling in order to understand types of data attributes that will be required for applications under test.
• Coordinated with Database teams to build or reconfigure Data for tests.
• Discuss with business team to understand the projected traffic for current release.
• Designed load, capacity, stress, etc. tests.
• Created performance test scripts using Vugen, and modularized common functions used in Test Cases.
• Analyzed performance test results using Loadrunner analysis, and Dynatrace. From Dynatrace session, analyzed application performance using pure-paths, business transactions, measures, dashboards and metrics.
• Develop systematic way of categorizing severity defects, prioritizing most important, reporting in Quality Center.
• Executed Loadrunner tests using Dynatrace to analyze results. Opened defects.
• Tailored performance test reports to the needs of clients.
• Pinpointed issues and bottlenecks and presented them to development team.
• Defined criteria for sign off and monitored results in production.

Confidential

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a performance engineer worked closely with all the stakeholders in the project to ensure that the performance testing is completed successfully and the deliverables have been handed over in time. Assisted QA Performance Manager in coordinating/leading the testing efforts.
• Understand new project requirements, develop performance test scenarios, create scripts, and analyze results using loadrunner analysis and dynatrace.
• Recorded and developed scripts in multiple protocols, including Http/Html, Web Services and TruClient protocols.
• Performed real browser user testing using TruClient scripts.
• Executed Load and stress test and pointed out memory leaks using dynatrace.
• Ran test using HP Network Virtualization to understand the performance of the application from different geographical locations.
• Assisted junior team members with technical issues.
• Closely worked with other stake holders on daily basis to keep everyone on same page on progress of testing.
• Co-ordinated with onsite and offshore teams for test execution.
• Manage multiple deadlines and multiple projects
• Created scripts using QTP for functional testing

Confidential, Chicago

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Served as Subject Matter Expert for Vugen Scripting and Loadrunner Testing.
• As a lead worked closely with all the stakeholders in the project to ensure that the performance testing is completed successfully and the deliverables have been handed over in time. Assisted QA Performance Manager in coordinating/leading the testing efforts.
• Deep analysis of the test results using Loadrunner analysis.
• Co-ordinated with onsite and offshore teams for test execution.
• Worked closely with Infrastructure team, dev team and DBAs to facilitate the setting up of the performance environment and to discuss the design and testing aspects of the applications to design the test plans.
• Worked closely with business and architecture team to understand the load pattern in production environment to design the performance testing scenario that mimics production load pattern.
• Reviewed BRD, SRS to prepare Performance acceptance criteria, performance strategy, Test Plan and estimations.
• Actively participated in the daily project meetings, walkthroughs and standups.
• Responsible for recycling, rebooting, and overall administration of the testing tool architecture to ensure value added performance engineering practice.
• Analyzed production metrics and workload and implemented the same in the performance testing workload for a better real time Scenario execution.
• After all testing is completed for a release cycle, prepared the performance impact analysis document and conducted a walkthrough with all the stakeholders.

Confidential

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a lead worked closely with all the stakeholders in the project to ensure that the performance testing is completed successfully and the deliverables have been handed over in time.
• Assisted Sr. Performance Engineer in coordinating/leading the testing efforts.
• Planed, designed, Implemented and Executed Stress/Load/Performance Testing Efforts.
• Created Virtual Users in Vugen and configured Scenarios to meet the load testing requirements in ALM Performance Center 11.
• Developed test scenarios to properly load / stress the system in a lab environment and monitor / debug performance & stability problems.
• Wrote high level Loadrunner scripts by using Virtual User generator for Single User, Base Line, Soak (Endurance test) scenarios by storing dynamically varying object IDs in parameters and validating correct downloads of HTML pages by validating content in sources.
• Parameterized unique IDs and stored dynamic content in variables and pared the values to Web submits under Http protocols.
• Monitored database for sessions, connection pool and Memory issues via Wiley & SiteScope.
• Identified and eliminated performance bottlenecks during the development lifecycle.
• Created Web Services scripts using Vugen.
• Configured UNIX, database resources for performance monitoring on Performance Center.
• Performed the Endurance test by executing the test for longer hours in order to find out any Memory Leaks, slow resource consumption problem.