SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of experience in defining Testing Methodologies, Designing Test Plans and Test Cases, Verifying and Validating Application Software and Documentation based on standards for Software Development and effective implementation in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Strong knowledge and experience in using Dynatrace and SOASTA
• Used SOASTA Mpulse extensively
• Strong experience in preparing Performance Test Plans, Performance Test Strategy, Performance Test Analysis Reports.
• Setup Performance Environment.
• Flex protocol experience, experience on mobile performance test fro mobile protocols
• Monitoring Strategy and Configuration.
• Configured and used SiteScope Performance Monitor to monitor and analyze the performance of the server by generating various reports from CPU utilization, Memory Usage to load average etc.
• Extensively Worked in Web, Citrix Click and Script, Oracle Protocol, Seibel, Winsock, SOAP protocols.
• Involved in analyzing, interpreting and summarizing meaningful and relevant results in a complete Performance Test Report.
• Hands on experience with Functionality Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, GUI Testing, Regression Testing, Performance Testing, Stress Testing, Load Testing, Volume Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Database Testing, Smoke Testing and Sanity Testing.
• Involved in setting up of Performance Testing environment, Code Migration, Middleware Support.
• Proficient in working with VuGen, Performance Center, LoadRunner, WinRunner, Quick Test Pro, Site Scope, JIRA, Test Director and Quality Center.
• Experience in using Web/HTTP, AJAX Click & Script, WinSock, SAP/SAP GUI, SOAP UI, Oracle 2 tier protocols.
• Experience with programming languages C, Java, and VB Script.
• Experienced in UNIX (Use of Process, Network, Information, Pattern Searching, directory & File command), Shell and Perl Scripting with use of Testing.
• Experienced in Developing complex SQL Queries and Procedures to perform database testing.
• Experienced in Developing and Maintaining Test Scripts, analyzing bugs and interacting with development team members in fixing the defects.
• Experience with Load, stress, volume, endurance, capacity, failover tests.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automation Testing Tools: LoadRunner, Performance Center, Dynatrace, SiteScope, Wily IntroScope, Quick Test Pro (QTP), WinRunner, SOAPUI,SOASTA

Defects Tracking Tools: Quality Center, DCRUM, Test Director, Bugzilla, Clear Quest

Languages: C, C++, C#, JAVA, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, DHTML, XML, JavaScript, VB Script, Unix Shell, TSL

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/XP/VISTA, UNIX, Linux, Solaris, Windows NT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Lead Performance Engineer

Confidential, Woonsocket, RI

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system documentation like Requirements document, User Interface Specifications to develop and Execute Test scripts
• Certify releases with respect to performance of the application as compared to baseline.
• Designed the Test Environment and the Scenarios for the Load Testing.
• Co - coordinated with different Business Analysts and Developers to define the KPI for the workflows.
• Design and develop scripts based on requirements and business needs
• Conducted performance, load, and stress testing using LoadRunner.
• Performed parameterization in LoadRunner.
• Extensive performance testing on mobile applications
• Involved in Correlation and Parameterization for the script, to ensure the script runs successfully during replay. Monitored the activities through LoadRunner Controller.
• Involved in the preparation of Performance test plan, test cases and execution strategies
• Responsible for data verification and modification by accessing database directly through tools like Oracle SQL developer.
• Extensive experience on Flex protocol for AMF action block and Serialization/De-serialization of objects within the flex code.
• Worked on various Loadrunner protocols including Web (http/html), Webservices and Peoplesoft.
• Developed test scripts through LoadRunner Vugen and executed them using LoadRunner Controller
• Utilized Mercury Load Runner for the Web to create automated load scripts for PeopleSoft with the VUGen to run through the Load Controller and Load Analysis tool to produce results for upper level management.
• Developed test scenarios in the controller and executed multiple cycles of test scripts
• Work involved coordinating with the infrastructure team to ensure proper functioning of servers either before setting up monitors in the controller or during execution of scripts
• Analyzed results using the LoadRunner analysis tool and sent out daily updates to relevant stakeholders
• Identified bottlenecks in performance and reported them to the technical/infrastructure teams for fixing defects or tuning for better performance. Logging of defects was done using Mercury Quality Center
• Was the primary person responsible for maintaining documents (test plan execution plan, meeting minutes) and results and in the preparation of the final performance report.
• Experience in Test management tools HP Quality Center/ALM and Soap UI

Environment: LoadRunner, Peoplesoft Quality Center, Toad, Oracle, Mainframe, Dynatrace, MQ Series, Unix, HTML, DHTML,XML, Dynatrace, QTP, IIS, Apache, Quality Center

Sr. Performance Engineer

Confidential - Bloomington IL

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for reviewing and analyzing the requirements of the new system and identifying discrepancies that can hinder System, Regression, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Responsible for performance testing (Load, Stress and Volume) using LoadRunner (Controller, Virtual User Generator, Analysis)
• Tested .Net Application using Loadrunner.
• Installation and Setup of Performance Center and Multi LoadRunner Agents SiteScope Installation and Set up (classic) includes creating Groups and Monitors for UNIX, Tuxedo, Weblogic and Oracle Database
• Coordinated with Technical Teams to Setup Heart (Database Query, CPU Utilization, Memory and URL)
• Extensively used Web (HTTP/HTML), Web Services, .Net, and Winsock protocols.
• Coordinated with Functional Teams to Identify the Business Process to be Performance Tested.
• Extensively worked on UNIX to change the database connections, tracing logs, monitor resources of the machines.
• Used Wily Introscope for Performance data for problem solving, trend analysis, and capacity planning
• Extensive TSL modifications in performance testing of all modules of PeopleSoft with transferring data from front end to the back application using Loadrunner.
• Design and develop performance test scenarios and test data for company's applications, APIs and data processing engine.
• Executed performance test scenarios and analyzed results and reported findings to the project manager.
• Tuned the Application server JVM properties by exercising with the different JVM property settings to analyze the best performance of application. Configuration of JVM parameters, particularly those related to memory usage and garbage collection.
• Setup LoadRunner monitor resources to identify performance bottlenecks analyze test results and report the findings to the clients, and provide recommendation for performance improvements as needed
• Identified problematic areas and recommended solutions to the developers and upper management.
• Tune systems for optimal performance and characterize systems on multiple platform and configuration combinations

Environment: J2EE, XML, JSP, JMS, Servlets, waterfall model, Wily Introscope, .Net, Agile Methodologies, Oracle, LADP, ATG & BEA Web Servers, SOAP, Quick Test Pro, Avicode, Loadrunner, Peoplesoft, Quality Center, Unix, Windows XP and Visual Source Safe.

Sr. Performance Analyst

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and analyzed system requirement specifications.
• Developed Test plan, Traceability metrics mapping with Requirements and Test Cases.
• Developed test cases for different added functionality as per the Requirement Specs and Functional specs.
• Developed Performance Test Scripts by using LoadRunner VuGen and did the Runtime settings, Parameterization, Pacing, and correlation.
• Correlated the dynamically created session data in the load test scripts in LoadRunner VuGen to synchronize with the application.
• Configured Parameters to monitor Memory Utilization, CPU Utilization, Throughput, Network Connections, etc… for Web Server, App Server and Data Base Server in LoadRunner.
• Monitored Different kinds of Graphs including Throughput, Hits/Sec, Transaction Response time, Windows Resources (Memory Utilization, CPU Utilization, Threads, etc) while executing the scripts from LoadRunner Controller.
• Analyzed the results of scripts execution by using the LoadRunner Analysis tool.
• Developed Load/Stress testing scenarios for performance testing using the LoadRunner Controller by creating virtual users.
• Verified the SOAP message delivery to the web services and verified the XML formatted response using the SOAP UI.
• Monitored and Analyzed activity Report and Performance Report created using LoadRunner Analysis and Wily Introscope.
• Developed and Executed UNIX commands (Use of Process, Network, Information, Pattern Searching, vi editor, directory & File command) with use of Testing.
• Performed Backend testing by integrating SQL queries within scripts and validated the backend workflow under load testing.
• Developed and executed complex SQL Queries and Procedures to perform database testing.
• Used Quality Center as repository for requirement analysis, design test cases, Execute test cases, Bug tracking and reporting.

Environment: LoadRunner, VTS (Virtual Table Server), PeopleSoft, Wily, Windows Server, Apache, IIS, Livelink, BEA Weblogic, Servlets, EJB, Java, J2EE, Jprofiler, Websphere, Weblogic, Solaris, Oracle Database