SUMMARY

• Over 9+ years of experience in performance engineering and involved in test planning, scripting, execution, analysis, reporting, and troubleshooting of performance issues.
• Hands - on experience working on various performance tools like LoadRunner, Performance Center and JMeter.
• Hands-on-experience in performance testing complex Web Applications, Data Warehouse applications, Siebel Applications.
• Well versed in working with onshore/offshore business models.
• Good experience in requirement gathering, test planning, scripting, execution, monitoring, and analysis
• Identifying Business critical scenarios and creating of performance test cases accordingly.
• Involved in the preparation of Performance test strategy and arranging internal/external review.
• Thorough Knowledge in the creation and debugging scripts as per scripting standards.
• Expertise in HP Performance Center/ Load Runner (Web/HTTP, Web Services, JAVA, citrix protocols)
• Creating Performance Test scenarios in the Performance Center to emulate the production workload.
• Have experience in different testing methodologies i.e. Standalone Testing, Functional Regression Testing, Stress Testing, Platform Regression Testing, and endurance Testing.
• Analyzing the performance test results, and publishing the results to the concerned stakeholders with detailed monitoring stats, observations and recommendations.
• Interface with developers, project managers, and management in the development, execution, and reporting of performance test results
• Familiarization with monitoring UNIX/Windows servers (Web, App & DB) and Splunk.
• Have experience in monitoring cloud-based applications in AWS.
• Have knowledge of Kibana, and Grafana monitoring tools.
• Setting up calls with development and design teams to identify the root causes of performance issues and get them resolved.
• Good experience working in agile development environment. Experience in developing Performance Test Plan, Test cases.
• Proficient in articulating modern web application architectural components, including application server containers, session management, authentication and authorization techniques,loadbalancing devices, and proxies.
• Team player, result-oriented, fast learner, excellent communication skills with strong research capability.
• Strong collaborator, ability to work independently and in a team as well, ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment, commitment towards learning, Possess excellent communication, project management, documentation, people skills.
• Good analytical, communication, interpersonal skills and presentation skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Tools: Load Runner, Performance Center, Apache JMeter

Issue Reporting Tools: JIRA, Quality Center, Remedy

Monitoring Tools: Introscope, AppDynamics, DynaTrace, Splunk

Languages: C, C++, UNIX, PERL, JAVA, SQL, PL/SQL

Operating System: Windows / UNIX / Linux, AWS

Databases: Oracle 9i/10g, SQL Server

Web/Application Servers: Apache HTTP Server, IBM HTTP Server, IIS, WebSphere, WebLogic

Methodologies: Performance Testing, Agile

Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, CSS, XML, XSL, XSLT, XHTML, IIS, Front Page, AJAX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - OR

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in End to End performance testing life cycle
• Involved in gathering business requirements and identifying performance test cases.
• Involved in developing test plans which include scope, test strategies, test scenarios, types of tests, test summary reports, and test execution metrics.
• Involved in developing and enhancing the Web (HTTP-HTML) scripts using LoadRunner.
• Conducted load/Stress tests using Performance Center/Load runner and communicated with the Developers, Architects, and Managers in the project team.
• Involved in developing and enhancing the Web services scripts using Jmeter.
• Responsible for developing and executing stress, load, soak, and spike tests.
• Analyze the test results and metrics from load generation tools & APM tools, based on Analysis pinpointed the bottlenecks of the application.
• Involved in application monitoring using tools like AppDynamics.
• Ensure the compatibility of all application platform components, configurations, and upgrade levels in production and make necessary changes to the lab environment to match production.
• Submitted High-level test results summary report to the team.
• Coordinate with offshore team members and communicate status updates on testing activities to the Project Management Team

Environment: Java, J2EE, Web Logic, Oracle, SQL, Linux, F5 Load Balancer, Windows, Load runner/ALM Performance Center, Jmeter, JIRA and AppDynamics

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with business and development teams in identifying real-world use cases and appropriate workflows.
• Test plan design which includes scope, test strategies, test scenarios and types of tests to be executed.
• Extensively worked in developing Vuser scripts for applications using web (HTTP/HTML) and web service protocol.
• Validated the scripts to make sure they have been executed correctly and meet the scenario description.
• Parameterized large and complex test data to accurately depict production trends.
• Designed tests for Benchmark, Stress, and Endurance Testing.
• Perform Analysis in Performance Center to evaluate the performance of the application.
• Analyze the results using the Performance center and based on Analysis pinpointed the bottlenecks, and memory leaks ahead of time to help increase application performance.
• Responsible for analyzing application and components behavior with heavier loads and optimizing server configurations
• Analyzed Application CPU Usage, Heap Memory, GC activity, loaded classes, and threads using Dynatrace.
• Conducted result analysis and communicated technical issues with developers and architects.
• Worked on the Jmeter as well along with the load runner to baseline the load tests with open source tools.
• Involved in defect tracking, reporting, and coordination with various groups from initial finding of defects to final resolution.
• Created comprehensive test results report for the management.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Web Logic, Oracle, iPlanet, SQL, F5 Load Balancer, Red hat Linux, AWS, LoadRunner, Jmeter, Jconsole, Dynatrace

Confidential - Portland, OR

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Develop test suites for regression of existing functionality, bug isolation, and new functionality. Reviews of acceptance test cases, testing and release deliverables.
• Follow Agile (SCRUM) Methodologies for all the Phases of SDLC
• Ensure that the testing is carried out in a customer-like simulated environment.
• Ensure all features/fixes promised in the release are present and working.
• Diagnose and provide detailed technical analysis of reported problems with product installation and operation.
• Review current practices and execute product testing roadmap
• Provide cable industry specific tier 2 and tier3 customer care support for operational software support products;
• Support customer operations and deployment groups as an escalation point of contact when complex problems arise
• Testing on handheld device(WinCE\Android\IOS).
• Certifying new transactions with the Billing system interface.
• Interact with development & implementation teams.

Environment: Java, Web Logic, Oracle, Red hat Linux, C#, SQL server, Bitbucket, Bamboo, SoapUI

Confidential - Atlanta, GA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering business requirements for the project by interacting with the business and holding sessions with Technical Architects and Developers.
• Create defects in defect tracking tool for the failed test cases.
• Verify the bug fixes
• Work closely with development team
• Attend daily and weekly meeting to discuss the progress of the project.
• Write and maintain documentation on software testing process.
• Write and manage test cases
• Performed Black box, module integration, system and End to end testing.
• Make regression test for each release
• Involved in testing applications on different mobile Platforms such as iOS and Android devices.
• Following up with the concerned teams for the issues raised
• Responsible for handling client communication throughout the test cycle
• Attending Daily Standup calls, External/Client Review calls and updating them on performance test status and dependencies if any
• Sending daily and weekly status reports as per build line
• Preparing Performance Test Plan, Performance Test strategy and Performance Test log.
• Providing detailed test execution reports to concerned stakeholders on a periodic basis

Environment: Oracle, Java, Tomcat, Maven, Git. JIRA,Postman,Remedy