SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of diverse experience as a Performance Engineer/ Tester / QA Analyst in both distributed Client/Server and web applications.
• Excellent in communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Extensive knowledge in Performance Test Life Cycle.
• Excellent implementation knowledge of Deploy Rest Application with GitLab CI/CD.
• Mid level of programming skills in designing and implementation of multi - tier applications using web-based technologies like Spring Boot
• Experience in the Entire SDLC life cycle, from requirements gathering to releasing into production.
• Execute performance / load / stress and other non-functional tests. Monitor application logs to determine system behavior.
• Address all technical issues, facilitate the resolution and necessarily follow up with PM, IS/IT, Development, and other cross-functional departments
• Performance testing post-test tasks: Gather various reports and statistics from monitoring groups, packaging and reporting results to project teams.
• Assist in explanation of results and other post-test initiatives
• Generate performance graphs, session reports and other related documentation required for validation and analysis.
• Publish results and receive appropriate signoff. Prepare detail status reports, and monitoring of all defects and issues
• Hands on experience with Performance Testing of Web Services, Web Application, using Load Runner.
• Defining performance metrics, analyzing the usage of the application, conducting test by both Manual Scenario in Percentage mode and Through Goal Oriented Scenario.
• Expertise in using performance testing tools such as HP LoadRunner, Performance Center, Jmeter.
• Developed load and performance test scripts using Web HTTP/HTML, Web Services, TruClient protocols.
• Expert in Developing VUGEN Scripts.
• Experience in monitoring servers using tools like Dynatrace, Wily Introscope and SiteScope.
• Analyzing system resources such as CPU, Memory usage, Garbage Collection and DB connections to verify the performance of an application.
• Extensively experience in performance tuning of application servers such as Weblogic and Tuxedo.
• Extensively experience in Performance tuning of Web servers such as web sphere.
• Strong theoretical and practical experience with various Agile approaches and implementation in a large organization.
• Extensive experience with baseline, benchmark, load, stress and endurance testing for performance.
• Collecting the frequency of JVM Heap and Garbage Collection in WebSphere and Weblogic during test.
• Excellent Knowledge of programming languages like C to debug and execute LoadRunner scripts.
• Excellent with parameterization and correlation.
• Contributed to the completion of all projects on time.
• Ability to work in tight schedules and on different applications concurrently.
• Proficient with using, installing, configuring VUGEN, Controller, Analysis and Load Generators.
• Expertise in Problem solving and Bug Tracking Reports using Bug tracking Tools.
• Executed the test Performance scripts using LoadRunner and analyzed the results.
• Conducted performance testing, stress testing using LoadRunner.
• Created various functions to create realistic load test on the applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: LoadRunner, JMeter, Performance Center, Silk Performer & Selenium

Monitoring Tools: Dynatrace, AppDynamics & Wily Introscope

Defect Tracking tools: HP ALM, JIRA, IBM Rational Clear Quest, Bugzilla

Operating Systems: UNIX, MS DOS Linux Windows 95/98/2000/NT4.0/XP/Vista, Sun-Solaris, IBM Mainframes, HP-UX

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

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

Servers: IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, Apache Tomcat, IIS

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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Plano, TX

Sr. Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Strategy, Test Plan and Test Cases based on the non-functional business requirements to meet SLA timings
• Collaborated with architecture and development teams to analyze the application’s core functionalities and its various dependencies for effectively identifying potential bottlenecks
• Customized Loadrunner scripts in C language like String manipulation for the Loadrunner Scripts
• Monitored different graphs like transaction response time and analyzed server performance status, hits per second, throughput, application resources and database server resources etc
• Used Dynatrace to get metrics from servers.
• Analyzed results for Bottlenecks and made recommendations for the bottlenecks
• Monitored Metrics on Application server, Web server and database server.
• Created rendezvous point for Performance test scenarios to find deadlocks
• Developed and Executed the Test cases & scripts for Smoke, Functional, System, Regression, and Performance.
• Involved in Business functionality review meetings and Use-Case Analysis and developing the templates for User/Customer Training and documentation.
• Extensively used HP Loadrunner for Developing Vuser Scripts
• Developed Loadrunner Scripts in, Web, Web Services and Citrix protocols.
• Executed Performance tests using Performance Center.
• Gathered Performance requirements for the application and designed performance tests for the multiple clients within the organization.

Environment: Testing tools: HP-LoadRunner, Performance Center, Dynatrace, LoadRunner protocols: Web (http/html)), TruClient

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Found performance degradation issues like “Out of Memory” problems and improved Thread pool utilization, Memory Leaks, & JDBC connection Pool size
• Analyzed Load pattern and created test scenarios to emulate the real life stress conditions
• Developed Vuser scripts using Web (HTTP/HTML), Truclient and Web Services protocols
• Created Test Metrics, Bug Database and generated weekly reports for senior management
• Conducted meetings with developers, application team, business team to analyze the defects evaluate the test executions
• Involved in the decision making with the management for final applications releases
• Interacted with the Business Analyst and application teams to discuss the performance requirements and load test strategy
• Developed the performance Test Plans and Load Test Strategies
• Developed Web Service Vuser scripts for a Web Service Call using Soap UI
• Created customized LoadRunner VuGen scripts at API level with manual correlation, user defined functions, development libraries (classes and methods), and error handling.
• Enhanced Vuser scripts by adding correlations, parameters, condition controls, and checking/validation functions
• Used SiteScope and Introscope to monitored the databases, application and web servers (at OS & Application level) for Performance bottlenecks while conducting Load, Stress, volume, and Memory tests

Environment: HP LoadRunner, Wily Interscope, HP Performance Center, Dynatrace, Quality Center, Web Services, Java, Oracle, Web Sphere and UNIX

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assisted QA Manager in coordinating/leading the testing efforts
• Gathered business requirement, studied the application and collected the information from Analysts
• Created LoadRunner Scenarios and Scheduled the Virtual user to generate realistic load on the server using LoadRunner
• Created and implemented Performance tests using Mercury Interactive LoadRunner
• Involved in developing the Test Plan Strategy, build the test client and test environment
• Enhancing the scripts using Generator and performed Parameterization and Correlation to meet the requirements
• Written Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Test Scripts to follow the CMM Level 2 standards
• As an Automation Engineer carried out testing, to check whether the application is functioning as per the design documentation and functional requirements
• Involved in performing load and stress test on the application and server by configuring LoadRunner to simulate hundreds of virtual users and provided key metrics to the manage ment
• Configured and used SiteScope Performance Monitor to monitor and analyze the performance of the server by generating various reports from CPU utilization, Memory Usage to load average etc
• Conducted all tests in the Controller by creating 100, 200, 400 virtual users for load,stress and steady state test respectively
• Performed Data Driven and Security Testing
• Involved in conducting stress tests and volume tests against the application using LoadRunner
• Helped resident DBAs identify and resolve bottlenecks
• Written & executed UNIX Shell scripts to see the output
• Used Test Director to invoke the scripts and initially performed the baseline testing and organized all the scripts systematically and generated reports
• Extensively used Test Director for test planning, maintain test cases and test scripts for test execution as well as bug reporting
• Involved in defect tracking, reporting and coordination with various groups from initial finding of defects to final resolution

Environment: Load runner, HP Site scope, ASP.NET, Silverlight, SQL Server, Linux, MS Windows NT/2000, MS Office Suite.