SUMMARY:

• 5+ Years of experience inSoftware development (SDLC)ofQA and Automated Performance testing covering all test types and levels of test methodology.
• Strong Experience in QA &Performance Testing of web - basedapplications,SOA applications, Trizetto Facets, TIBCO applications and ETL Batch jobs.
• Strong experience in gathering and analyzing functional &non-functional requirements.
• Strong experience in Performance Testing tools HP Load Runner/ HP Performance Center.
• Strong experience in developing Performance Test Plans/Test strategies.
• Strong experience in developing Performance Test Scripts and executing Performance Tests.
• Strong experience in doing System Testing, Performance Testing, Benchmark Testing, Stress Testing and Endurance testing.
• Strong in Load runner Scripting concepts - Correlation,Parameterization, checkpoints and scripts customization.
• Strong experience in Web/HTTP, Web Service, Oracle2tier, Citrix and Ajax Truclient protocols.
• Experience in using monitoring tools Compuware DynaTrace, Wily IntroScope, andTeam Quest.
• Monitoring system resources using VM Stat, I/O Stat commands and collecting the metrics like CPU utilization, memory use,and Disks I/O rates, Paging space and paging rates etc.
• Experience with Automation Tools HP QTP/UFT, Selenium and Rational Functional.
• Experience with web services testing tools SOAP UI, Parasoft SOATest& JMeter.
• Experience in using UNIX command and writing UNIX shell scripts.
• Experience in working with XML, SOA and Messaging Queues.
• Experience in writing SQL queries for test data preparation and to validate test results.
• Involved in Performance Tuning of Oracle, DB2 and SQL server databases.
• Experience in defect management tools HP Quality Center/ALM.
• Experience in working with Waterfall model, V Model, and Agile SDLC methodologies.
• Excellent communication, coordination and interpersonal skills and worked as self-starter and performed well under little or no supervision.
• Ability to learn new technologies and challenging concepts quickly and implement them.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

QA/Testing Tools: Load Runner, Performance center, Para soft SOATest, Selenium IDE, SOAP UI, JMeter, Postman

Monitoring Tools: Compuware DynaTrace, Wily IntroScope, Teamquest, Splunk, BWPM

Defect Management Tools: HP Quality Center/ HP ALM

Databases: Oracle10g/9i/8i, DB2, MS SQL Server 2008

Web Servers/Application Servers: Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere

EAI: TIBCO BC, TIBCO BW

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/XP, Windows Server, IBM AIX, Red hat Linux

Languages: C,SQL,Concepts of Java

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Owings Mills, MD

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Gather the Performance requirements and identifying the Performance Test scenarios.
• Analyzed Business Requirements, Use Cases and developed Test Plan, and Test cases for complete end-to-end testing.
• Developing Performance Test Plan, Performance Test Cases, and Performance Test strategies.
• Interacting with project team to make sure the Performance Test environment is ready for Performance Tests.
• Developed workload model for various applications based on the application usage.
• Identified various Performance monitoring points based on the application architecture.
• Developing Performance Test scripts using Load Runner’s VuGen with protocols Web/HTTP, Web services and Ajax Truclient.
• Execute Web Services Performance Tests using Load Runner, JMeter, Parasoft SOATest tools
• Used Ajax Truclient to capture the response times of Ajax applications.
• Gathering the test data required to execute Performance Tests by interacting with Developers and Business Analysts.
• Enhancing the Performance Test scripts using correlation and parameterization.
• Implementing the content checks and error handling in Performance Test scripts.
• Used if conditions, for loops and c functions to customize the scripts wherever required.
• Inserting rendezvous points for simulating Vusers to simultaneously perform a task.
• Confirming that the Performance Test scripts are working, by checking in the database in case of updates or inserts.
• Designed the scenarios for Benchmark Testing, Stress Testing and Endurance testing using Load Runner Controller.
• Executed Performance Tests for different web technologies such as J2EE, Ajax, and PEGA.
• Monitoring the Performance metrics such as Response Times, Hits Per Second, Throughput during Performance Tests.
• Using Compuware DynaTrace Identified which layer is contributing most to the response times.
• Monitoring Heap usage, Web Container threads, JSP/Portlet response times through Wily IntroScope.
• Developing the Performance Test reports and reviewing the reports with project team.
• Identified various bottlenecks such as slow performing SQL queries, Load Balancing issues.
• Analyzed the server logs and heap dumps to find out hung threads and memory leaks.
• Developed UNIX shell scripts in extracting the logs after Performance Tests are executed.
• Interacted with developers, DBAs, System Admins to resolve performance issues.
• Used Ajax Truclient protocol for browser Performance Testing of web 2.0 applications.
• Monitored Queue depth while doing Performance Testing of TIBCO applications.
• Executed Performance Tests of batch jobs, monitored the duration of batch jobs and compared against the SLAs.
• Done Performance Tests of ETL(Informatica) batch jobs and collected Performance metrics.
• Executed Performance Tests of Trizetto Facets health care claims processing application.
• Used Firebug and HTTP Watch to monitor the requests of web applications.
• Used Selenium IDE to automate the scripts for data creation.

Environment: Load Runner, JMeter, SOATest, J2EE, TIBCO, BWPM,IBM Portals, WebSphere, Wily IntroScope,Site Scope,Splunk, Selenium, DynaTrace, PEGA, Oracle,SQL, HP ALM &QTP.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing the technical design documents of the application to understand the architecture.
• Gathering the Performance Requirements and identifying the Performance Test Scenarios.
• Develop Performance Test Scripts using HP Load Runner (Virtual User Generator).
• Used Web/HTTP protocol for developing the Performance Test Scripts.
• Correlating the Performance Test scripts by capturing the dynamically changing data.
• Parameterizing the Performance Test scripts to use various sets of data.
• Inserting Text check points to make sure the required pages are getting downloaded.
• Enhancing the Performance Test scripts using C functions wherever required.
• Designing the scenarios using HP Load Runner (Controller) for Load Tests and Stress Tests.
• Executing the Load Tests and Stress Tests using Controller.
• Monitoring the average response times, throughput, hits per second graphs using Controller during Performance Tests.
• Analyzing the Performance Test results using Load Runner Analysis by merging various graphs.
• Interacting with technical team members to find out and resolve the bottlenecks.
• Monitoring Server CPU and Memory usage using UNIX commands.
• Preparing Performance Test Report once the performance tests are completed.
• Reviewing Performance Test Reports with the project team members.
• Reviewed the business requirements and identified various test cases.
• Developed System Test Cases as per the requirements.
• Performed Smoke testing, System Testing, Regression Testing.
• Identified defects and tracked them using HP Quality Center.
• Identified the various test cases which need to be automated.
• Executed automation test cases using HP Quick Test Professional.

Environment: Load Runner,Oracle10g, J2EE, MS SQL Server 2000, Web Logic, IBM AIX 4.3, MQ Series 4.0, Quality Center 9.0, Quick Test Professional 9.1.