SUMMARY

• Experienced in the IT industry for 16+ years in Software Quality Assurance & Performance Engineering.
• Experienced in manual and automated testing. Extensively used automated test tools like LoadRunner, PerfomanceCenter,QualityCenter,Quick Test Pro(QTP), Selenium, Fiddler, Team Quest, ClearQuest.
• PMP certified by PMI.
• Good knowledge and experience of providing quality assurance in web based as well as client - server applications including GUI testing.
• Good understanding in C/ C++, working in UNIX and Windows environment.
• Experienced in writing Unix Shell Scripts.
• Well versed in analyzing the steps of SDLC.
• Experienced with Agile development processes (Scrum, Kanban)
• Experienced in testing .NET technologies applications - VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, XML and Web Service, J2EE and also Citrix based application.
• Experienced in testing Java based applications, J2EE, EJB.
• Experienced in performance testing of SAP application.
• Extensively used security, compatibility and comparison testing for GUI and web applications.
• Very good at bug-reporting and bug-tracking using the test management tools.
• Experienced in using the methods of Data Exporting, Data Importing, and Data Loading using SQL and UNIX scripts and data loading using Sqlldr.
• Experience in writing queries to identify performance related issues in SQLServer. Oracle, MySQL.
• Sound knowledge and understanding of preparing various documents required in testing environment using my strong documentation skills.
• Excellent communication skill, self-motivated, detail oriented, time bound, responsible team player and ability to coordinate in a team environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: LoadRunner, Fiddler, QTP, Selenium, Quality Center, ClearQuest

Languages: VB, SQL, C, C++, TSL, Java.

Database Oracle, SQL Server, MY SQL:

Technology: .NET(C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, Web Services, XML), Java, J2EE, EJB

ERP: SAP

GUI: Visual Basic, JavaScript, HTML, XML, DHTML, Java Applet

OS: Win 95/98/2000/NT/XP, Sun Solaris, HP-Unix / Linux

Others: MS-Office, http, Citirx, Web Logic Server, TCP/IP, FTP, Networking

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Malvern PA

Associate Lead Software Engineer

Environment: Java,.NET,SQLServer,ApacheTomCat,PerformanceCenter12.01,Fiddler,Jprofiler, AppDynamics, Logstash, MySQL

Responsibilities:

• Define, develop Test Strategies, Test Plans for multicomponent, multiday Performance Testing on various performance environments.
• Taken ownership and responsibility for the design and development of all the aspects of performance test automation.
• Set-up meeting with developers, dba’s for Load / Stress planning & execution.
• Interacted with developers to resolve different Performance Related Issues.
• Developed Test Execution Metrics, Requirement mapping analysis during the test
• Set-up performance test environment
• Developed & enhanced loadrunner scripts in vugen for each application.
• Set up Performance Center environment for Controllers requirements, Load generator settings
• Executed Load test according to business requirements of the application.
• Monitored App server, Web servers during test to collect garbage collector file, process monitor files, servlet files, web container files, system files
• Monitor the application & servers health using AppDynamics
• Analyze thread & heap dump using Jprofiler
• Pinpointing application performance issues
• Validate fail-over/recovery scenario and measure any impact to response times and interruptions during execution of these scenarios.
• Analyzed system performance for both client and server based on different performance counters like Hits/sec, Throughput, AverageTransactiontime,TransactionPersec,Analyzing process monitor logs of application servers, webservers, content servers, garbage collection logs, web container files.
• Interacted with technology experts to interpret the compiled Analysis reports.
• Continue the load test for subsequent release of each application & compare the reports with their respective baseline reports.
• Participated on Client Support On Call periodically.

Confidential, Malvern PA

Sr. Performance Engineer / Lead

Environment: Java,.NET,Siteminder,Oracle,DB2,Windows2008,UNIX,Webspehere,Performance Center12.01, UFT, Quality Center, HTTP Watch, Jprofiler,Hummingbird Connectivity2008, Team Quest

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Strategies, Test Plans and Performance Test cases for different applications.
• Interacted with developers to resolve different Quality Related Issues.
• Developed Test Execution Metrics, Requirement mapping analysis during the test
• Developed the test plan for Load/Stress testing.
• Set-up performance test environment
• Set-up meeting with developers, dba’s for Load / Stress planning & execution
• Developed loadrunner scripts in vugen for each application.
• Set up Performance Center environment for Controllers requirements, Load generator settings
• Executed Load test according to business requirements of the application.
• Monitored App server, Web servers during test to collect garbage collector file, process monitor files, servlet files, web container files, system files
• Automatically detect performance anomalies by comparing recent metrics with baseline using Team Quest
• Compare actual performance to service levels in real time using Team Quest
• Analyze thread & heap dump using Jprofiler
• Analyzed system performance for both client and server based on different performance counters likeHits/sec,Throughput,AverageTransactiontime,TransactionPersec,Analyzing process monitor logs of application servers, webservers, content servers, garbage collection logs, web container files, AWR Report,Db2 counters, Developed and parameterized & enhanced Vugen scripts
• Interacted with technology experts to interpret the compiled Analysis reports.
• Continue the load test for subsequent release of each application & compare the reports with their respective baseline reports.

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Sr. Performance Engineer / Lead

Environment: Java, Jboss, MarkLogic, Oracle, SOAP, Performance Center11.0, QTP, Quality Center, HTTP Watch, New Relic, nmon

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Strategies, Test Plans and Performance Test cases for different applications.
• Interacted with developers to resolve different Quality Related Issues.
• Developed Test Execution Metrics, Requirement mapping analysis during the test
• Developed the test plan for Load/Stress testing.
• Set-up performance test environment
• Set-up meeting with developers, dba’s for Load / Stress planning & execution
• Developed loadrunner scripts in vugen for each application.
• Set up Performance Center environment for Controllers requirements, Load generator settings
• Executed Load test according to business requirements of the application.
• Monitored App server, Web servers during test to collect garbage collector file, process monitor files, servlet files, web container files, system files
• Analyzed system performance using monitoring tool New Relic.
• Interacted with technology experts to interpret the compiled Analysis reports.
• Continue the load test for subsequent release of each application & compare the reports with their respective baseline reports.

Confidential, Malvern PA

Sr. Performance Engineer / Lead

Environment: Java,.NET,Siteminder,Oracle,DB2,Windows2008,UNIX,Webspehere, Performance Center11.0, QTP, Quality Center, HTTP Watch, Hummingbird Connectivity2008, Team Quest

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Strategies, Test Plans and Performance Test cases for different applications.
• Interacted with developers to resolve different Quality Related Issues.
• Developed Test Execution Metrics, Requirement mapping analysis during the test
• Developed the test plan for Load/Stress testing.
• Set-up performance test environment
• Set-up meeting with developers, dba’s for Load / Stress planning & execution
• Developed loadrunner scripts in vugen for each application.
• Set up Performance Center environment for Controllers requirements, Load generator settings
• Executed Load test according to business requirements of the application.
• Monitored App server, Web servers during test to collect garbage collector file, process monitor files, servlet files, web container files, system files
• Automatically detect performance anomalies by comparing recent metrics with baseline using Team Quest
• Compare actual performance to service levels in real time using Team Quest
• Analyzed system performance for both client and server based on different performance counters likeHits/sec,Throughput,AverageTransactiontime,TransactionPersec,Analyzing process monitor logs of application servers, webservers, content servers, garbage collection logs, web container files, AWR Report,Db2 counters, Developed and parameterized & enhanced Vugen scripts
• Interacted with technology experts to interpret the compiled Analysis reports.
• Continue the load test for subsequent release of each application & compare the reports with their respective baseline reports.

Confidential, New York

Sr. Performance Engineer / Lead

Environment: VisualStudio.NET,WebServiceStudio,J2EE,JSP,SQLServer2000,Oracle,DB2,WindowsXPProf,UNIX,Office2007, VSS, BEA Weblogic, Citrix, QTP, Quality Center, LoadRunner 11.0, SiteScope 11.0

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Strategies, Test Plans and Performance Test cases for different applications.
• Leading & Monitoring offshore team.
• Works with Business Analysts and Business Intelligence to identify requirements and data for performance testing and capacity planning.
• Interacted with developers to resolve different Quality Related Issues.
• Developed Test Execution Metrics, Requirement mapping analysis during the test
• Develops, maintains, and upgrades automated test scripts and architectures for application products using Load Runner and Performance Center
• Developed the test plan for Load/Stress testing.
• Set-up performance test environment
• Set-up meeting with developers, dba’s for Load / Stress planning & execution
• Developed test scripts for Citrix based applications using citrix protocol and execute the tests for each release of the applications.
• Developed test scripts for SAP HR, FI module using SAP GUI & SAP Web Protocol.
• Executed Load test according to business requirements of the application.
• Set up LoadRunner environment for Controllers requirements, Load generator settings
• Analyzed system performance for both client and server based on different performance counters likeHits/sec,Throughput,AverageTransactiontime,UNIXcounters,Weblogic(JMX),Diagnostics for J2EE/.NET,CitirxMetaFrameXP,Developed and parameterized Vugen script
• Tracks and communicates testing efforts - Defines and tracks quality assurance metrics such as performance degradation, defects, defect counts, test results and test status
• Interacted with end users for UAT and further modified the application based on user requirements
• Executed test cases and updated Quality Center to nail down bugs.