SUMMARY

• Over 9+ years of extensive hands on experience in IT industry, specializing in Performance Engineering Process and Methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of entire SDLC - Requirement Gathering & Analysis, Planning, Design, Development, Testing and Implementation.
• Highly experienced in developing Test Cases, Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Analysis for Performance Testing
• Extensive experience using LoadRunner for Performance Testing, Stress Testing, Longevity Testing and Load Testing.
• Experience in testing Functional, Regression, System, GUI and UAT for different software Releases & Builds.
• Used HP tools Quality Center (QC), LoadRunner, and Performance Center.
• Developed SQL queries to extract data from the database.
• Experience with LoadRunner components: VuGen, Controller, Analysis and Load Generator.
• Worked on different VuGen Protocols like Http/Html, Web Services, AJAX Click & Script, Sybase Ctlib, Siebel Web, RTE, FLEX etc.,
• Installed & set up all the components of LoadRunner in the test environment.
• Experienced in benchmarking the application for Performance Metrics and analyzed Load Balancer for validating Spoofing.
• Proficiency in working on different databases like Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2.
• Used Performance Center for managing all the performance test activities.
• Experience using monitoring tools like NMON, Sitescope, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Foglight, Wily.
• Expertise in testing Web/J2EE technologies, middleware, Web services, Customer facing applications.
• Experience in enhancing the VuGen scripts by Manual & Auto Correlation techniques, Parameterization, and Synchronizations.
• Experience in Monitoring performance metrics using various tools along with LoadRunner’s own monitoring capabilities.
• Strong Judgment, Analytical, Communication and Documentation skills in all phases of QA process.
• Good Team Player, ability to work independently and quick learner.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: LoadRunner 8.0/9.1/9.5/11/11.52 , QTP 6.0/8.0/9.2, Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, Performance Center, ALM, Jmeter, NeoLoad

OPERATING SYSTEM: AIX, HP UX, Solaris, UNIX, Linux, WINDOWS XP, WINDOWS 7, WINDOWS 10, Windows Server 2003/2008.

LANGUAGES: C, SQL, VB.NET, JAVA, XML, HTML, Python

RDBMS: MS SQL, Access, SQL Server, Oracle DB2

PACKAGES: MS Office 2008, MS Outlook, Groovy web/app Servers: Weblogic, Websphere, Apache/Tomcat

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TX

Senior Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supported performance testing of Verizon applications and Confidential website
• Executed load tests in Production environment
• Worked with dev teams and business to gather requirements and built test plans and test strategy
• Developed performance test scripts using Loadrunner and Jmeter
• Created performance test reports and reviewed results with stakeholders
• Used Loadrunner and Jmeter tools for performance testing
• Experienced in testing performance of RESTful API

Environment: HP ALM 12.53, Jmeter, Dynatrace, Sitescope, Grafana, Postman, SoapUI

Confidential, TX

Senior Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Performance of Southwest.com website and Mobile Application
• Worked directly with Solution Architects and developers on any performance related issues
• Extensive performance testing on a release basis and certifying the code for deployment into Production
• Responsible for performance testing all the applications in the Commercial portfolio of Confidential
• Extensively used monitoring tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, SiteScope for application performance and root cause analysis
• Used HP LoadRunner, Performance center, Micro focus StormRunner Load for performance testing of web applications, JMS queues, MQ, EMS
• Executed various performance tests like load, stress, endurance, spike using different TPS levels
• Monitored application health using Dynatrace and reviewing performance of different components of web pages. Also compared daily, weekly and monthly trends for analysis
• Analyzing performance critical transactions using tagged web requests and purepaths to trace bottlenecks
• Analyzed heap behavior, throughputs and pauses in GC and tracking memory leaks
• Tuned number of full GC and its CPU spikes at high memory usage conditions by tuning heap size and thereby eliminating JVM abnormalities
• Created detailed performance reports with all the JVM metrics, host metrics, response times for most valuable business products and scenarios of Dotcom and Mobile application
• Reviewed performance test results with all the stakeholders for every release and new products
• Lead a team of performance engineers both onshore and offshore
• Executed tests in Production environment for readiness during sales and new enhancements/infrastructure

Environment: HP ALM, LoadRunner 12.53, Jmeter, Performance Center, Stormrunner, Splunk, Dynatrace, Sitescope, Grafana, Visual VM, Postman, SoapUI

Confidential, CA

Senior Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Used Jmeter 2.8 for Web applications testing and API testing
• Used HP Loadrunner for scripts creation using Web & Truclient protocols
• Used Jmeter for testing webservice, SOA along with loadrunner
• Designed SOA test frameworks using Jmeter
• Ran load tests using HP ALM Performance center and Jmeter
• Executed tests using GUI and non-GUI in distributed mode and standalone mode using Jmeter
• Share the test results with project team and involved in daily performance testing status meetings
• Developed entry criteria for performance testing
• Working in an Onshore Offshore model.
• Used Splunk to get stats after a test and the resource utilization graphs and to debug errors.

Environment: HP ALM, LoadRunner 12.50, Performance Center, Jmeter, Splunk, Postman, SoapUI

Confidential

Senior Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performance test scripts generation using Vugen.
• Extensively used Web HTTP/HTML, TrueClient, Webservices.
• Executed load tests for different applications on a release basis.
• Certified application performance in terms of response times, resource usage, and system availability before release to Production.
• Monitored JVM Heap, Non heap, Garbage collection intervals, CPU, Memory metrics of application under test using Yourkit profiler.
• Used Splunk to search server logs to debug errors after executing tests.
• Assisted in JVM tuning by running tests with varying load and duration.
• Used Wily Introscope to monitor the health of application servers during tests.
• Executed Load and Stress tests and presented performance statistics to application teams and provided recommendations of how and where performance can be improved.
• Documented results after tests and presented to leadership.

Environment: HP ALM, LoadRunner 12.53, Jmeter, Performance Center, SPLUNK, Yourkit, Mule, MongoDB, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Postman

Confidential

Senior Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created documentation and signed off an application on its readiness for deployment into production environment.
• Followed Agile scrum methodology.
• Scheduled meetings with the Stakeholders as part of Requirement Gathering phase every release to Initiate Release testing for multiple applications.
• Involved in writing Test Plans by incorporating Performance Testing Objectives, Testing Environment, User Profiles, Risks, Test Scenarios, Explanation about the Tools used, Schedules and Analysis, Monitors and Presentation of results.
• Prepared Test Strategies, Test Plan and Test Cases as per the business requirements and Use Cases.
• Worked closely with Development and Business team to get an understanding of the system architecture, system component interactions, application load pattern and the Performance SLA.
• Created Click stream documents, which have the business process steps that are to be scripted.
• Performance test scripts generation using Vugen.
• Used Http sniffers like Fiddler & HttpWatch to debug http requests generated while recording.
• Execute Load tests as per project needs on a release basis.
• Analyzed Running Vusers, Hit per second, Throughput, Transaction Summary, Average Transaction Response Time, Error per second graphs to understand the load behavior using Analysis.
• Assisted Application Developers and technical support staff in identifying and resolving defects.
• Involved in the defect triage meetings.
• Executed different types of tests to assist in bottleneck resolution.
• Coordinated with the team for testing and review & Weekly Status Report update for the respective modules.
• Worked on applications supported by Salesforce.
• Used Splunk to analyze the server logs and get query execution timings.
• Worked in an onshore offshore model and assigned tasks to offshore team members on a daily basis.
• Mentored offshore team members on process and guidelines.
• Created performance test results summary reports after test execution and shared with stakeholders.
• Scheduled many TestPlan Signoff, GoNoGo Meetings, Test Results Review & Bug Fix Meetings every release on a needed basis.

Environment: HP ALM, LoadRunner 12.50, Performance Center, Quality Center, XML, SoapUI, Agile Accelerator, Fiddler, SPLUNK, TOAD.