SUMMARY

• Over 8.8 years of Software Quality Assurance (QA) experience working with Client/Server and Web applications. Good Experience in Functional and Performance testing using tools like HP LoadRunner, JMeter, Performance Center and Load Runner Enterprise.
• Supported multiple projects from migration to day - to - day change controls while providing expert analysis and recommendations.
• Currently in the role as Performance Test Lead and has instrumental in organizing work activities for the offshore resources, ensure testing objectives and scheduled deadlines are met along with performing the daily performance testing activities.
• Expert in all the phases of Performance testing tasks like performance test plan preparations, in enhancing and executing the performance test scripts using LoadRunner and JMeter, design and run test scenarios, monitoring servers, and analysis and report preparations.
• Experience in conducting different performance tests including Load, Stress, Spike, Endurance and Destructive testing on multiple applications.
• Good exposure on Web protocols, Web Services, Restful Web Services and Java protocols and to debug and execute in LoadRunner and JMeter Scripts.
• Proficient in API testing (Rest API, SOAP).
• Analyzed the performance of the application using various loads with the help of the graphs.
• Good experience on monitoring tools like App Dynamics, Splunk, Grafana.
• Good at bottleneck identification and ability to drill down end-to-end root cause analysis on performance bottlenecks.
• Good exposure on Web servers, Application servers and DB servers.
• Being an Applications Lead from past few years, maintaining good collaboration with the development team.
• Maintain good communications and productive collaboration with the development team by constantly sharing issues encountered with team members and developers.
• Lead the testing effort across project through effective planning, scheduling, oversight, and execution.
• Experience in working with developers, analysts to identify and mitigate risks to quality.
• Experience in debugging applications, processing, and validating backend logs.
• Ability to interact with developers and product analysts regarding testing status and defect tracking.
• Proven skills on leading-edge monitoring technologies reducing downtime and ensuring optimum application performance such as AppDynamics, Splunk, and Grafana.
• Proficient in API (Rest/Soap), Web based applications and Retail applications, hands on Performance testing enterprise Java, cloud-based systems, and CI/CD Pipeline.
• Experience is coordinating different teams and strong in problem solving, troubleshooting skills, highly motivated and ability to work as an individual and as a dynamic member in the team.
• Good communication skills, quality input, hard work and an insatiable thirst for knowledge, would like to help the organization achieve the zenith of success and in turn add value to the society.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Performance Tool: Load Runner 2021 R1, JMeter 5.5, Blaze meter, LRE

Monitoring Tools: AppDynamics, Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace, Perfmon

Languages: C, XML, HTML5, JavaScript, SQL

Web services: SOAP/REST services, JSON, Java Script, HTML, XML

Database: MYSQL, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL

Scripting Protocols: Web Service, Web HTTP/HTML, Java User

Defect Tracking: Quality Center, Bugzilla

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX/Linux

Others: Microsoft Office, Postman, Insomnia, Perf analyzer, putty, Super Putty

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TN

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Carry out performance testing on the features developed in the Corporate Loads/Sprint.
• Meetings with client, business team, Architects to understand and to identify the key scenarios for performance testing.
• Articulate performance test strategy and performance test plan.
• Creation of scenarios on cloud-based HP Performance Center and Test Execution.
• Exposure to Agile Methodology for testing.
• Review and analyze the project requirements.
• Review the software test plan and get approved/signed-off by the relevant stakeholders.
• Track the assigned tasks with respect to the software test plan and the project schedule.
• Report the daily status to the stakeholder.
• Coordinating work and ensuring timely and high-quality delivery of the performance testing and engineering activities with the offshore team.
• Conducting meetings with technical architects and track team development leads for understanding, discussing, and reporting the issues and tracking the progress of the sprints/different stages of the project.
• Involved in developing Web services test scripts using HP LoadRunner and executing Load, Stress, Capacity, Endurance tests to check performance of the services/web portal UI against the ship side and shore side environments to mimic the real-world scenario. Performance Monitoring done using AppDynamics/Grafana.
• Executing Load, Stress, Spike, Volume and Endurance tests to check applications/web services for response time and bottle necks.
• Testing of web services through Postman/Insomnia.
• Monitoring the System performance of the server using Performance Monitoring tools like AppDynamics/Dynatrace.
• Analyzing the test results and sharing the test results with the track teams (developers, architects).
• Good exposure to software life cycles like SDLC, Agile, Waterfall.

Environment: Quality Center, Performance Center, HP LoadRunner, APM, JMeter, mRemote, Putty, Windows, Java, AppDynamics, Grafana, Splunk, BlazeMeter, SoapUI, Insomnia, HP ALM, Postman

Confidential

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Key Responsibilities include script development, Scenario Creation, Test Execution, Result Analysis and Report Preparation.
• Prepared Test Reports. Analyzed client-side metrics using Analysis tool and used User logs to retrieve important information to corner bottlenecks and present to the development team.
• Proficient in working with Performance tools like HP LoadRunner, Apache JMeter, APM.
• Create Test scripts Using vuGen by Web Http/Html, Web Services.
• Hands on Java Protocol.
• Create the test scripts (JMeter) and debug for its validation.
• Design workload model and execute scenarios with using JMeter, to see application performance.
• Run JMeter tests in non-GUI mode.
• Conditions, Variable Extraction (correlation), Parameterization and response validations.
• Capacity planning and execute the Load Test, Stress test and Endurance testing as part of performance observation and to identify bottlenecks.
• Maintain result in to standardized directories and respective baseline result sheets to analyze and compare them with historical values
• Identify key performance bottlenecks in the application and perform end-to-end root cause analysis on these bottlenecks to pinpoint the reasons then provide.
• Adequate information to application teams/stakeholders.
• Analyze/Monitor logs and graphs for the client side, server-side metrics like Transaction Response Time, Hits per second graph, Pages download per second, Throughput, Memory & CPU utilization, pods available by using Grafana, AppDynamics and Splunk
• Summarize & Consolidate the Performance Test Execution Report from all the runs into one final report called EOTR (End of Test Report) and then share to business with sufficient observations and graphs about the Performance under load.
• Excellent in communicating with clients in both Verbal and email communication.
• Zeal to learn new technologies.
• Excellent ability to work within a team and coordinate activities across multiple diverse teams.
• Involved in the Performance Engineering Activities like results analysis, CPU - Memory - Thread Analysis, Root Cause Analysis.
• Good exposure in onsite offshore modelling

Environment: Quality Center, Performance Center, HP LoadRunner, JMeter, mRemote, Putty, Windows, Java, AppDynamics, Grafana, BlazeMeter, SoapUI, HP ALM, Postman, Insomnia, Splunk, APM

Confidential

Performance Test consultant

Responsibilities:

• Key Responsibilities include script development, Scenario Creation, Test Execution, Result Analysis and Report Preparation under Magic Project.
• Hands on experience using performance testing tools such as JMeter, BlazeMeter, HP LoadRunner on Multiple Protocols such as Web HTTP/HTML, Web Services, Soap/Rest API, Java V user.
• Handled MAGS Applications (GTM Project) using JMeter tasks includes developing test plan, test script and reports.
• Good experience in using AppDynamics in monitoring business transaction across all tiers (web/app/DB) of the applications.
• Has very strong exposure on Performance using LoadRunner and JMeter
• Validated web services, Json requests manually through SOAP UI, Postman collection.
• Develop scenario-based testing for the JMeter scripts.
• Create, schedule, and run the scenarios using JMeter and generate necessary graphs
• Extensively worked on JMeter to create Thread Groups and test Web Application for various loads on key business scenarios
• Created and executed JMeter scripts for performance testing of portal.
• Involved modifying the Regression scripts based by the Problem Report return against the application by the end users.
• Provide support and responsible for managing and tracking infrastructure requirements and software upgrade.
• Support in developing status briefings for executive-level clients.
• Performance test development for 'Continuous Benchmarking' using JMeter
• Design, Develop and Execute load tests using JMeter.
• Created JMeter Test Cases to measure performance and functionality of web services
• Executed Load, Stress, Endurance in Non - GUI mode based on the requirements of the application.
• Execution of Regression test scripts using JMeter based on business/functional specifications
• Used regular expression for dynamic values in JMeter
• Provided support in the synchronization Mercury Quality
• Center for defect and tracking the requirements in the quality center which can be mapped for each the test cases.
• Developed test case format in the Excel spreadsheet to be used for the GTM project.

Environment: JMeter, Blaze Meter, SoapUI, AppDynamics, HP ALM, Java, Postman, HP LoadRunner, HP ALM, Quality Center, Dynatrace, APM

Confidential

Test Engineer analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participate in early phase of test designs, create test scenarios with performance and limitation guidelines.
• Gathered and analyzed the business requirements, system specifications, Design, and technical specifications.
• Maintain test data and results into Quality Center.
• Evaluate system for Performance testing and analyze the non-functional requirements.
• Design and develop the performance test plan and estimation.
• Creating scripts in VuGen and emulating the behavior of real users.
• Enhancing the scripts using parameterization, correlation, and user defined functions.
• Performing in-depth failure analysis doing multiple debug tests.
• Gather client’s statistics and server-side statistics to do analysis.
• Develop Test scripts for the Load Test using LoadRunner (VuGen).
• Conduct Load Testing, Soak Testing, Failover Testing using HP Performance Center.
• Regression testing to ensure other components are not impacted by modifications.
• Using performance center for analyzing the performance of the application also followed up the development team to verify bug fixes and updating bug status.
• Hands on JMeter Scripting on Web Services.
• Executed Load, Stress Tests using GUI and Non - GUI mode based on the requirements of the application.
• Present performance statistics to application teams and provide recommendations on performance improvement.
• Involve in using utilities several performance Testing tools such as Putty, mRemote to capture logs.
• Identify Memory Leak issue, Java Heap, Garbage collection issues using AppDynamics.
• Document Summary and Closure reports for each test execution.

Environment: Quality Center, APM, Performance Center, HP LoadRunner, JMeter, mRemote, Putty, Windows, Java, AppDynamics, Bugzilla