SUMMARY

• 12+ years of IT experience in the field of Performance Test Strategic and Engineering activities.
• Extensive experience in Enterprise applications Performance Engineering, end to end Performance Testing.
• Experienced in driving performance and stability improvements of critical business applications, the architecture, and integrations to ensure optimal end user experience by working closely with Application development, Infrastructure, Database and middleware teams.
• Experienced in - monitoring application performance trends in hybrid environment (cloud & on-Premise) and identifying opportunities to improve performance and/or availability.
• Proactive and analytical problem solver with strong leadership and excellent interpersonal skills; also has good client interaction and team skills.
• 17 years’ experience in Software Quality Assurance including hands-on and leadership roles, solid understanding of Performance Testing, Performance Engineering Fundamentals.
• Experienced in gathering and analyzing Nonfunctional requirements. Understand the application architecture and business domain to design test scenarios.
• Hands on experience in performance testing tools: Load runner, JMeter, Neoload, monitoring on the cloud & Application Monitoring Tools (Dynatrace, AppDynamics & HP Diagnostics). Well versus in scripting with various protocols like HTTP, APIs, RTE, True Client and Messaging etc.
• Good knowledge of software architecture, development methodologies, triaging, debugging, automating, and releasing a high-quality features E2E in a complex heterogeneous environment.
• Strong experienced in agile project development lifecycle and Testing Methodologies from project definition to post-deployment.
• Experienced in finding performance bottlenecks both in client side and server side and making recommendations for Performance Profiling or Tuning.
• Proficient in analyzing the CPU Utilization, Memory usage, and Garbage Collection and DB connections to verify the performance of the applications.
• Proficient of web services architecture and distributed systems at scale, also able to develop comprehensive strategy for performance testing, measurement, monitoring and analysis, baselining and performance tuning.
• Experienced in analyzing and understanding application and performance test results and identify problem areas and monitoring needs.
• Experienced in preparing and delivering executive-level presentations to business and technology audiences.
• Experienced in creating good acceptance and integration test automation scripts and integrate with Continuous integration (Jenkins).
• Extensive Experience in coordinating on-shore and off-shore resources.
• Excellent inter-personal abilities and a self-starter with good communication & presentation skills, problem solving skills, analytical skills and leadership qualities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Load Runner 12.60, JMeter, Neo-load, ALM, RPT, Silk Performer
• Dyna trace, App-Dynamics4.4,, HP Diagnostics, Blue stripe
• HP ALM, HP Quality Center, Clear Quest
• Selenium, Win Runner 7.8, QTP, Rational Robot. Silk
• C, C++, Visual Basic, XML, Java, Java script, VXML
• Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Solaris, MAC OS
• MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft Access 2000
• IIS, Web Sphere, Web Logic, Tomcat
• Ruby, Selenium
• Intro-scope, Site-scope, Splunk, Sumo-logic, devTest Solutions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Travel Domain Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement holistic performance test strategy for end to end performance testing for cloud and Mobile applications.
• Design, develop and execute overall automated Performance Test Plans to continuously validate Load, Stability, Scalability, and reliability standards for applications.
• Perform production analysis of performance, availability and capacity using Dynatrace.
• Guide and establish the Performance Engineering Culture, onboarding all the stakeholders.
• Establish the Performance Footprints for the platform Cloud, Mobile application projects.
• Simulate the Mobile app user action using Appium, capture the response times, app metrics.
• Load injection to capture the mobile app transactions, simulate network connection speeds using network virtualization.
• Oversees and actively participates in performance test execution and the development of performance testing artifacts, including: working on proof of concepts with tools to simply the job, defect tracking and reporting, performance test cases, scripts, reports, etc. for assigned projects.
• Perform root cause analysis of performance issues and suggest corrective actions.
• Focus on Agile software development and DevOps
• Provide continuous feedback for the next iteration by continuously monitoring the performance expectations during/after deployment.
• Performance Analysis for AWS API Gateway, Micro services, Akamai, Adobe, Apgiee & Kubernetes on AWS platform.

Environment: Load runner VUGen 12.60, Performance Center, ALM, Unix, AWS, Kubernetes, Apigee microservices, Openshift, Akamai, PAAS, Sumo Logic, Mobiwatch (Mobile Testing).NodeJS, CI/CD.

Confidential

Banking Domain Sr. Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design and implement performance engineering objectives to exercise target systems to ensure that actual performance meets defined requirements.
• Responsible for design suite of tests that focus on performance, starting with a single user, then move to performance under load, and then other resiliency and capacity scenarios as needed.
• Ensures that code meets the design and includes proper options for changing the configuration as demands shift with growth. Review codebase and make recommendations for improving performance
• Ensures there's adequate planning for redesign and rescaling as loads shift.
• Examine the structure and architecture of the software with an eye for performance, and Adhere to the non-functional requirements and validate post-deployment by monitoring the production systems and has exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Provides expertise in measuring/monitoring performance of various layers involved in end-to-end system
• Troubleshoot performance issues across the entire stack hardware, software, application and network
• Oversees and actively participates in performance test execution and the development of performance testing artifacts, including: working on proof of concepts with tools to simply the job, defect tracking and reporting, performance test plans, cases, scripts, reports, etc. for assigned projects.
• Prototype software test tools and strategies and incorporate reusable assets to support Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) using Jenkins, devTest Solutions.

Environment: Load runner VUGen 12.53, Performance Center, ALM, Solaris, Unix, DB2, J2EE, .NET, MQ scripting, Java Script, Oracle HOGAN, Oracle, XML, Linux, Tomcat, and Clear Quest, Appdynamics 4.4, devTest Solutions 10.1, Splunk, Intrascope, Sitescope.

Confidential

Retail Industry Sr. Performance Engineer & Lead

Responsibilities:

• Define and develop performance test plans and automated scripts using industry standard testing tools.
• Assists with analyzing test and operational problems to determine presence and scope of potential code defects.
• Responsible for developing Robust Workload patterns using Production data.
• Responsible for creating all project deliverables including performance test plans, performance test reports and performance dashboards.
• Develops test solutions to support load, stress, integration, and performance testing needs of multiple enterprise applications
• Executes performance test, analyze and evaluate test results; generate performance metric reports and provide recommendations.
• Responsible to utilize performance/monitoring tools, analyzing results, resolving performance related issues to include optimization and tuning.
• Responsible to analyze the performance issue starting from browser level to server level using available monitoring tools like Fiddler, apache/tomcat logs, Splunk
• Makes contingency decisions during the test execution for retest and modification of test scenarios.
• Worked closely with development on the design and implementation of enhancements based on the tuning recommendations.
• Coordinate and prioritize all escalated activities, including testing, project management and implementation of system upgrades, enhancements, and bug fixes.
• Lead multiple projects/efforts and produce efficient results.

Environment: Load runner VUGen 12.2, ALM, Datapower, Solaris, DB2, J2EE, .NET, Siebel, True Client, Mobile Application, MQ scripting, Java Script, Java, XML, JSON, Tomcat, Splunk, Intrascope, BMC Tools.

Confidential

Banking Domain Performance Engineer & Lead

Responsibilities:

• Manage and contributes to the development of performance test objectives and related requirements.
• Manage sizes test effort, identifies tasks, and documents tasks for the project plan and the performance test plan with partnership of business and development partners.
• Supports the preparation of the performance test environment, infrastructure, system and Integration testing.
• Performs the execution of the performance testing, problem resolution, data collection and analysis according to the project plan schedule.
• Makes contingency decisions during the test execution for retest and modification of test scenarios.
• Responsible for creating all project deliverables including performance test plans, performance test reports and performance dashboards.
• Provide defined structure and rigor for performance test execution.
• Create recommendations and best practices of Technical Testing for the application.
• Establish credibility by demonstrating understanding of the components of assigned application(s).
• Analyze and understand Production support and Production concerns in the test environment.
• Identify and escalate issues and risks as appropriate.

Environment: Load runner VUGen 12.1, Performance Center, ALM, Solaris, Unix, DB2, J2EE, .NET, MQ scripting, Java Script, Java, Oracle GoldenGate, Oracle, XML, Linux, Tomcat, and ClearQuest, Selenium, HP Diagnostics Tool, Dynatrace 5.2, itko LISA, Splunk, Intrascope, Sitescope.