SUMMARY

• Senior performance Engineer with thirteen plus years of significant experience in system Analysis, Data validation, script design Load test executions, Performance Testing and Engineering of major software applications in various industries such as Banking, Finance, Retail and HealthCare sectors.
• Proficient in testing and tuning java, .net, LDAP, web, DB, Citrix applications and CI CD Implementation, Defect lifecycle management with tools (HP - ALM) and Defect tracking tool(JIRA)
• Strong experience in using Load testing tools such as Microfocus LoadRunner, Performance center, Apache JMeter, LoginVSI and Blazemeter.
• Good understanding on principles Queuing theory and Capacity planning.
• Well-versed with monitoring tools Sitescope,Splunk,Dynatrace and Wily Introscope
• Well versed with other load testing tools like OpenSTA and Cloud based tools and Cloud based technologies like AWS,AZURE and GCP platforms to integrate the CI/CD process with JULES/JENKINS INTEGRATION
• Implemented CI/CD framework integration with Blazemeter
• Worked with protocols such as Web, WebServices,REST API’s, Oracle NCA, SAP, AJAX TC
• Specialized in load testing Virtual desktop environments and cloud platforms
• Solved major production issues and reduced critical business hurts
• Executed performance scripts on different browsers and reported defects/results to the team.
• Involved in developing Performance Test Plans, Scenario design, workload design, Test Environment setup and analyzing Test Results.
• Experience in Testing Database Applications (ORACLE, DB2, MS SQL Server, Sybase and MS Access).
• Excellent testing experience in all phases of Performance Testing Life Cycle (PTLC) and agile methodologies.
• Expertise in backend testing Batch Job processes that extract data from homogeneous or heterogeneous sources.
• Skilled in developing and maintaining test plans and scripts.
• Good knowledge on all phases of Project Life Cycle/SDLC including Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Testing, Software quality standards, configuration management, change management and Quality procedures.
• Good understanding of data warehousing concepts and data analysis.
• Strong knowledge of relational database design concepts.
• Strong ability to identify performance defects.
• Well versed with RDBMS and excellent SQL skills to build complex queries.
• Versatile team player with excellent analytical and interpersonal skills with an aptitude to learn new technologies.
• Expertise in Project documentation, Testing and Quality audit reviews.
• Extensively worked on MS Office Tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Access).
• Has Team Building/handling experience.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills and presentation skills, which helped achieve excellent results and meet client expectations, all through.
• Have an ability to communicate ideas, issues and solutions clearly to both functional and technology preferences.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: C, .NET,C#, Oracle PL/SQL and Java

Databases: RDBMS,DB28.1, IMS/DB, SQL Server 2005, Oracle 7.x/8.0 9i

Defect Tracking Tools: HP ALM,Jira and Confluence

Operating Systems/Languages: Windows, Windows 98/ME/XP, UNIX, C, C++, JAVA, SQL, VB 6.0

Testing Tools: Load Runner, Jmeter, Neoload,Performance Center,Blazemeter

Other Tools: Jenkins, SharePoint, Github, Dynatrace, Splunk,Python

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Performance Architect

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Planning phase by interacting with application owners to gather the performance requirements.
• Creation and maintenance of Test scripts & executing the test scenarios for UI, web services and REST API’s integration.
• Guiding and mentoring the offshore team members on various parameters like Creating Effective test Plan, Test scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Executions, raising defects and dealing with client calls and report walkthrough calls with the product owners
• Execute performance, Stress and Endurance test runs for holiday readiness.
• Analyze the performance test results - Back-end performance using Dynatrace, Log analysis using Splunk and front-end performance using APM tools.
• Analyze JVM heap memory usage, Garbage collection activity, thread pools statistics.
• Analyze historical traffic patterns and design workload model for holiday season.
• Performance strategy design for multiple applications within tailored brands and Jos A bank
• Production performance analysis daily basis is using Dynatrace, Akamai mpulse and

Confidential

Performance Solution Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading the team size of 10 performance testers
• Creation and maintenance of Test scripts & executing the test scenarios for UI, web services and REST API’s integration.
• Guiding and mentoring the offshore team members on various parameters like Creating Effective test Plan, Test scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Executions, raising defects and dealing with client calls and report walkthrough calls with the product owners
• Co-ordinating with the Application team on performance test gathering requirements.
• Involved in all the phases of performance testing engagement from plan to report analysis
• Interacting with the developers, stake holders and product owners on final reports walkthrough
• Worked on CI/CD and Blazemeter integration with Jules pipeline/Jenkins in GAIA private cloud platform
• Automation of the framework with PYTHON scripting
• Involved in the load testing, Volume testing for UI/Webservices and Batch Jobs using Control-M scheduler
• Designed the test scenarios based on the business requirements
• Involved in analyzing Server health utilizations and performed deep dive analysis on the utilizations during the load tests.
• Worked with TDM team to execute and design the SQL queries to generate required test data for Load/Stress and Endurance testing
• Performed various load tests to identify the memory leaks in the applications.

Confidential - California

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Gathering, Understanding the requirements, creating test plan document, suitable scenarios based on the critical transactions, analyzing the production logs to get the benchmark response times to be reached (SLA)
• Interacting with the Development team and setting up the standing and working sessions with the issues observed during the performance testing phase
• Creating the workload model based on the Vuser count and the no. of transactions to be achieved in a particular duration and execute these scenarios in Controller
• Analyzing the statistics of the run and helping the team in using the custom codes to debug the scripts in case of errors during the run
• Reporting to the concerned team
• Consolidating the project status to the customers on daily basis

Confidential

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Individual Contribution to the overall engagement
• Performance requirements analysis
• Prepare performance test plan for end-end performance testing activities.
• Understand the technology stack
• Identified the business flows and documented the same interact with various groups to gather performance requirements
• Monitor hardware utilization
• Prepared test execution design using performance center
• Prepared test execution detailed report
• Observations in the test execution report and provide recommendations

Confidential, Atlanta

Performance Test lead

Technologies: J2EE, JQuery, Windows (Load Generation), Linux, Apache, DB2.Oracle, WebSphere

Responsibilities:

• Thought leadership to the overall engagement
• Performance requirements analysis
• Prepare performance test plan for end-end performance testing activities.
• Understand the technology stack
• Monitor hardware utilization using SiteScope
• Component level performance testing
• Prepared test execution design using performance center
• Prepared test execution detailed report
• Observations in the test execution report and provide recommendations if any

Confidential

Performance Test Lead

Technologies: Loadrunner 11.0 with HTTP, AJAX TRUE Client protocols, WebSphere, IIS, NMON, Nimbus, WebSphere, Oracle 10g

Responsibilities:

• Performance requirements analysis
• Prepare performance strategy and plan document
• Conduct performance test runs
• Designed and deployed performance monitor
• Validate test data provided by the customer
• Designed the load test for the different scenarios in ALM.
• Conduct POC’s to identify suitable tools for various aged client server applications and applications hosted on workspace

Confidential

Performance Lead

Technologies: JMeter, Appcloud, WebSphere, Linux, Oracle 10g, Apache, Big IP load balancer, Java, J2EE

Responsibilities:

• Understand the performance requirements
• Automate the identified business scenarios
• Execute the load tests with anticipated user loads using Appcloud
• Analyze the results and report to the customer
• Analyze the results and tune the system to meet performance SLA’s

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Technologies: Windows (Load Generation), IIS, Oracle JRE1.5(Sun)and Load runner 11.0, Performance Center 9.52: Windows server 2003

Responsibilities:

• Performance requirements analysis
• Prepare performance strategy and plan document
• Conduct baseline, benchmark tests
• Conduct load test with 500 concurrent users using Performance Center and monitor Servers.
• Analyze the results and tune the system to meet performance SLA’s

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Technical Understanding of Application and architecture
• Walkthrough of the Application
• Involved in Test Plan Preparation.
• Involved in Test Data Preparation.
• Walkthrough the Scenario for testing
• Documentation of Step-by-Step workflow of Scenario
• Establish performance goals and criteria for the application
• Designed Performance Scenarios as per the business
• Designed Simulation Scripts
• Designed and deployed performance monitor
• Validate test data provided by Customer
• Analyzed client side and server-side performance counters information
• Prepared test execution design using Appcloud Instances
• Prepared test execution detailed report
• To analyze Observations in the test execution report and provide recommendations if any

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Technical Understanding of Application and architecture
• Identifying the business Scenarios
• Conducted POC on Application using Loadrunner tool
• Involved in validating the Test data
• Finalizing the Scenarios for testing
• Establish performance goals and criteria for the application
• Designed Performance Scenarios
• Designed Simulation Scripts
• Designed and deployed performance monitor
• Validate test data provided by Customer
• Analyzed client-side performance counters information
• Prepared test execution detailed report
• Observations in the test execution report and provide recommendations if any.