SUMMARY

• Senior Performance Architect (Performance Testing and Engineering) with over 15+ years of experience in Lifesciences, Healthcare, Banking, Manufacturing & Logistics domains.
• Direct responsibility for the performance testing team, including cost & budget management, team/people/skill development, performance review and target setting/achievement.
• Extensive understanding of different Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies.
• Experience leading Performance Testing teams for SAP - Web, SAP-HANA, SAP-GUI, Web, AWS Migration, eCommerce, Digital, and mobility technology stacks.
• 14 years experience in Loadruner and 10+ years experience in Jmeter with different protocols WEB HTTP/HTML/Citrix, Web Services, Winsock, SAP etc.
• Expert in using ancillary tools like fiddler to create performance test scripts
• Introduced Performance Testing best practices, check sheets and processes across geographically distributed teams to enable standard delivery and maintaining ongoing process improvement through collaboration and project reviews.
• Extensive experience in setting up Business Application monitoring using Dynatrace, New Relic and Microfocus App Pulse and BSM tools.
• Experience in End-to-End Test Automation and Tools Strategies/Roadmaps, including performance and load testing.
• Implemented a customized IT defect tracking and workflow control system using Jira. Maintained requirements, test cases, test scripts and execution cycles for validation Testing using ALM.
• Established test metrics, entrance/exit criteria and standardized project level periodic and end-of-test reporting providing visibility to test results.
• Analysed current architecture and test platforms to formulate a vision for growth and expansion.
• Performed detailed test designs using sound software test engineering principals in the context of test platforms and integration across distributed systems.
• Experience with traditional, DevOps and agile software testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Requirement Mgmt/ Defect tracking: JIRA, HP ALM 11.5., QC

SDLC Methodology: Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid

Databases: MySQL, MS SQL, MS Access, Oracle 9i, IBM DB2

Testing tools: Jmeter, Loadrunner, Performance Centre, Silk Performer

APM Tools: Dynatrace, App Dynamics, Microfocus App Pulse

Performance Diagnostic tools: JProbe Profiler, Riverbed, Shunra VE suite, Dynatrace ajax, Wily Introscope

Programming Languages: JAVA/J2EE, C, C++, VB

Operating Systems: AIX, MS Windows servers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Performance Architect

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Create long term strategy for performance testing including leveraging selenium scripts for performance testing either using Load runner.
• Perform POC on the long-term approach
• Strategy to address how performance testing will be integrated within sprints
• Provide recommendations towards performance monitoring tools
• Support existing performance lead with the scripting, execution and reporting of release performance test

Performance Architect

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Delivering performance testing and troubleshooting services for Confidential in an onshore-offshore delivery model.
• Creating and reviewing Loadrunner scripts created by offshore team and supporting Test executions for different geo-locations for applications based in Web(Java, .Net), SAP, Citrix, web services
• Capturing and documenting non-functional (architectural) requirements.
• JVM Profiling, GC Analysis and Tuning.
• Capacity planning and Scalability Testing of Cloud hosted applications
• Focus on implementing Application Monitoring dashboards using Dynatrace and application performance troubleshooting.

Performance Testing and Engineering Lead

Confidential, MA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading performance testing and Engineering team for Confidential supporting all applications developed in-house and COTS applications.
• Managed and delivered over 70+ applications testing every year with the team distributed both onshore and offshore using performance testing tools - Loadrunner and Neoload supporting different technologies such as live streaming, Salesforce, SAP, web services, Web(Java,.net), Citrix etc.
• Implementing APM tools, such as Microfocus App Pulse and App Dynamics for Business Process Monitoring and worked with VMS teams to manage vendor performance with clearly defined SLAs.
• Improved application uptime to 99.99% from 99.6% and established accountability for performance KPIs in a largely COTS environment.
• Collaborating with IT Quality to effect adoption of non-functional risk assessment at the beginning of each project to ensure appropriate testing coverage includes performance, security and accessibility testing.

QA Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Experience in managing projects consisting multi-site/global teams, multiple platforms and changing requirements.
• As QA manager and NFT delivery lead for the Localized Automation Program, was responsible for Risk Management and creating test strategies for this multi-million GBP program that transformed all personal banking system deployed at Confidential banking centers.
• Coordinating and Managing Environments and test data for FT/NFT and UAT.
• Responsible for status reporting, estimation, planning, and execution of project with specific focus on requirement analysis and design.
• Holding weekly working group meeting for all QA personnel on the project.
• Managing and accountable for all QA deliverables, Maintaining RAID logs and managing stakeholder expectations
• Ensuring Compliance activities on RFQs, Finance & WABs, Document Signoffs, forecasted Demand & supply
• Responsible for Root cause Analysis of performance issues discovered in NFT using profiling and server monitoring tools.
• Stakeholder management, status updates to the customers & PMO.

Performance Test Lead

Confidential, CT

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Performance testing requirements from business users, stakeholders and Subject Matter Experts.
• As Delivery Assurance Lead responsible to Analyze, design, develop, and otherwise deliver customized Test Scenarios for assigned applications - Provider Finder, Consumer Portal and eBiz platform.
• Status reporting, estimation, planning, and execution of projects with specific focus on requirement analysis, Test design and Root Cause Analysis
• Performance Test Script Development, Test execution, Results and bottleneck analysis
• Identify and manage Risks, Assumptions, Issues & Dependencies from testing perspective and highlight it to the Project Management team

Performance Test Lead

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Manage performance engineering services for all Confidential initiatives and ensuring adherence to SLC standards and performance engineering best practices.
• Liaise with the customer and gather Performance test requirements for all applications.
• Review the Performance test plan & automated scripts prepared by the team and follow up with stakeholders for sign off.
• Identify the Risks, Assumptions, Issues & Dependencies from Performance test perspective and highlight it to the Project Management team.
• End to end management of Performance engineering engagements for all applications.
• Stakeholder management, status updates to the customer & PMO.
• Participate in “Go/No-go” calls to determine release worthiness before production.
• Certify the application performance after analysis of the results.
• Design and develop solution accelerators as required for increased effectiveness of processes and practices.

Sr. Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Functional analysis of requirements in all the modules.
• Object-oriented design of all modules in the project.
• Database modelling and incorporating changes to the database model for various releases of the project.
• Design and development of the Assessment, Tracking and Reporting module.
• Evaluating the Stored Procedures given by the Client for reporting module.
• Integration and System testing.
• Peer code review.
• Responsible for writing common validation and control display scripts to be used across the application.