SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of IT experience as a Performance Engineer with hands on experience in end to end performance testing lifecycle.
• Gathered Performance Test requirements from the client and designed Performance tests.
• Proficient in debugging and executing Load Runner scripts.
• Ability to work on multiplatform environments like Windows, UNIX with clear understanding of file system, environment variables and file transfer protocol (FTP).
• Good with debugging and adjusting scripts by running it within Vugen with Runtime Settings logs set to display all messages.
• Experience in executing SQL queries to validate the data in the back end.
• Working experience in Load Testing, Stress Testing, Endurance Testing and Spike testing.
• Extensively involved in all phases of Performance Testing Life Cycle.
• Familiarity with run time settings/recording options and general options in Load Runner.
• Highly motivated individual with excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Possess strong ability to quickly adapt to new applications and platforms.
• Good team leader with strong analytical and communication skills.
• Extensive working experience on an open source tool Jmeter in order to simulate user loads outside the firewall.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, XHTML, WebSphere.

Languages: C, C++, C#, JAVA, SQL, PL/SQL, JavaScript, VB Script, Unix Shell.

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

Project Management Tools: MS - Project, MS - Visio

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, Performance Testing.

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, Linux, Solaris.

Automation Tools: LoadRunner, Performance Center, Jmeter

Defect Tracking Tools: Test Director, Lotus Notes, Bugzilla, Quality Center, Clear Quest

Other Tools: Dynatrace, SiteScope, Wily Introscope, AppDynamics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MD

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Develop, manages and tracks detailed projects plans to ensure timely completion of deliverables in Agile environment.
• Responsible for gathering and interpreting performance test requirements on multiple projects at different phases of the Test Life Cycle.
• Responsible for managing and keeping all performance testing activities regarding software/code upgrades, infrastructure migrations and new implementations.
• Performed requirement analysis by gathering both functional and Non-Functional requirements on the claim management and actuarial services based on workers compensation with the process owners & stake holders and document analysis, represented them in requirements traceability matrix (RTM).
• Extensively used Performance Monitors to analyze the System Bottlenecks like Memory Leaks, CPU Utilization and Network Bottlenecks on AppDynamics and Dynatrace.
• Created different web services scenarios depending on the number of calls per second for peak services.
• Performed Load/Performance/Stress by creating and executing different sets of scenarios to accomplish different objectives based on the Load Models.
• Experience in troubleshooting and debugging codes using check points and logged defects related to application performance issues.
• Monitored System Resource Graphs (Windows Resources), Web Server Resource Graphs (MS IIS), Network Graphs (Network Delay Time) and DB Resource Graphs (SQL Server, Oracle).
• Executed scenarios using performance center and provided analysis report to a Project team.

Environment: LoadRunner, Performance Center, Wily Introscope, SiteScope, nmon, Quality Center and Oracle, SOAP, WebServices, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Splunk.

Confidential, NY

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked under different LOB’s by implementing Process based testing and tuning activities.
• Responsible for developing the performance test strategies, plans and cases.
• Created Vusers using VUGEN for performance testing using Load Runner.
• Conducted memory leak testing for all the applications using LoadRunner and CA IntroScope.
• Evaluated Performance Testing Tools from HP Suite.
• Responsible for monitoring and analyzing performance issues using DynaTrace
• Performed Parameterization in LoadRunner.
• Involved in initiating network monitoring and analyzation of server metrics using nmon analyzer.
• Verify that new or upgraded applications to meet specified performance requirements
• Gathered and Analyzed Business requirements and procedures.
• Creation of project plan, test plans, estimations, development and tracking projects at every phase.
• Analyzed requirement and design documents.

Environment: LoadRunner, Performance Center, DyanTrace, Web logic, IIS, Java, CA Introscope, SiteScope, nmon, Quality Center and Oracle.

Confidential, NH

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created scripts using Web (Http/Html) and TruClient Protocols.
• Worked under different LOB’s by implementing Process based testing and tuning activities.
• Performed load, stress, Endurance tests for the business critical transactions identified.
• Monitored server health of web, app and DB using Dynatrace.
• Worked on analyzing the time taken by the calls to troubleshoot in reducing the time being taken.
• Assess impact, isolate the component causing and identify the root cause of the problem where pure path and pure stack gives the end to end visibility.
• Attend weekly status meeting with SME’s to update on work around regarding performance.
• Worked on finding the bottlenecks by JVM Profiling, Garbage Collector, Thread Dumps, Heap Dumps, Connection pool, Network monitoring.
• Used JIRA Agile tool for defect tracking and tasks worked on.
• Initiated a macro from windows using Tmon and ran tests against CSIS and troubleshooting the results if mainframes have affected the response time.
• Analyze and Report the test runs and the response time difference if it’s reduced or not from previous build to current builds.
• Worked with a team of 3 onsite on two applications simultaneously.
• Widely used Excel for reporting, maintained a log on the runs performed to view the response time metrics.

Environment: LoadRunner, Performance Center, DyanTrace, Web logic, IIS, Java, CA Introscope, SiteScope, Quality Center, Jira, IHS Server, Mainframes, Ms Excel, Windows XP, Fiddler.

Confidential, DE

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Widely used Excel for reporting, maintained a log on the runs performed to view the response time metrics.
• Involved in gathering business requirement, collecting information from developers and business, to create the performance test plan and specification documents.
• Independently developed LoadRunner test scripts according to the test specification and requirements
• Supported a hardware upgrade project where multiple applications residing on existing legacy hardware moved to SPARC hardware.
• Recorded scripts using Web Services, Web (HTTP/HTML) and TruClient.
• Supported Desktop underwriter’s integration with Enterprise Geocoder service from legacy geocoder.
• Participated in the analysis of workload model discussions whenever there was a need to revisit the existing numbers.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining production application dashboards using App-Dynamics, Wily and Cacti.
• Responsible for creating health rules and alerts for production in Wily and App-Dynamics.
• Extensively worked on web and web services protocol.
• Created web service scripts to publish messages directly on queues and topics by using jms functions in LoadRunner.
• Identified and eliminated performance bottlenecks during the development lifecycle.
• Analyzed the system resource graphs, network monitor graphs and error graphs to identify transaction performance time and network problems.
• Used Putty extensively to monitor server logs, and gather component level response times.
• Summarized performance test result after each testing cycle with issues, risks and observations.

Environment: Vugen, Sitescope, Splunk, Wily, J meter, App Dynamics, Winscp, Putty, Toad, GEMS, Quality Center, Jira, LoadRunner, Performance Center,.