SUMMARY:

• Detail oriented Performance Test Engineer with a public trust T3 clearance and over 6 years of extensive hands - on experience in performance testing.
• Extensive involvement in all stages of Performance Testing Lifecycle from Requirement Analysis, Test Plan Development, Scripting, Execution, Monitoring, Tuning, and Reporting. Possess excellent professional skills and have a proven track record of delivering high quality results.
• Skilled in identifying Non Functional Requirements, defining Test case/scenarios based on High Transaction Volumes, drawing test plan/strategy to identify bottlenecks by means of executing performance tests, analyzing test results & recommending feasible performance tuning and implementing solution that meets current and future expectations of business.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Expertise in Load, Stress and Performance testing using LoadRunner.
• Experienced with SOAP testing and Knowledge of Web Service testing.
• Excellent with Debugging, Identifying, Adjusting and fixing script errors by running VuGen
• Expertise in Back End Testing using SQL queries.
• Experience with Performance testing of .NET/J2EE Applications.
• Successfully created and modified customized robust VuGen test scripts for front/back end based applications.
• Created Jmeter test scripts and analyzed test results/ Compared test results against the benchmark.
• Created scripts for web services for different operations in the given WSDL file for the specified end point URL s.
• Performed Load/Performance/Stress by creating and executing different sets of scenarios to accomplish different objectives based on the Load Models.
• Use of monitoring tools such PerfMon, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Opnet and Wily Introscope to monitor CPU and Memory/Thread utilization to drill down to transaction/function call level.
• Monitored different Graphs like Transaction Response time and Analyzed Server performance Status, Hits per Second, Throughput, and Windows Resources, UNIX resources and Database Server Resources.
• Technically skilled to utilize various Application Performance and Memory/Thread based profile tools for Root-Cause analysis efforts.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Falls Church, VA

Performance Engineer

Responsibility

• Work with Project /Test Data Management Teams to establish test data in sufficient quantity to support the performance testing effort
• Performed Load/Performance/Stress Tests using Load Runner, by creating and executing different sets of scenarios to accomplish different objectives based on the Load Models.
• Extensively used Performance Monitors to analyze the System Bottlenecks like Memory Leaks, CPU Utilization and Network Bottlenecks etc.
• Monitored different Graphs like Transaction Response time and Analyzed Server performance Status, Hits per Second, Throughput, and Windows Resources, UNIX resources and Database Server Resources.
• Performed SQL querying to validate the data in the back end data base, and also to check the data flow between different modules
• Present the Performance Test results with any recommendations or enhancements and escalate any issues or risks that may rise during the Performance Test Life Cycle.
• Manage the submittal of the performance defects through the proper Defect Life Cycle for proper escalation.
• Develops new techniques and/or improved processes, materials, or products
• Actively participate in establishing project plans, estimating work and monitoring progress against milestones
• Execute, monitor, analyze, and report performance tests
• Develop and deliver performance test reports utilizing Navy Federal Credit Union ISD standards

Confidential, St. Louis, Missouri

Performance Engineer

Responsibility

• Conducted performance, load, and stress testing using LoadRunner.
• Extensively used Web (Http/html), Webservices, Ajax TruClient and Oracle NCA protocols in LoadRunner.
• Analyzed various graphs including Database Resource graphs, Network Monitor graphs, User Graphs, Error Graphs, Transaction graphs, SiteScope, and Web Server Resource Graphs.
• Used Dynatrace tool to monitor server metrics and in-depth analysis, pointing out performance issue and bottlenecks.
• Identified and suggested type of performance tests needed based on business and technical requirements.
• Used Performance Center to generate realistic load on an application under test.
• Worked in Loadrunner Winsock, Web (http/html), SAP WEB/GUI, Web Services and Oracle, Citrix, NCA Protocols.
• Configured Web/Application/Database server monitoring setup using LoadRunner Controller.
• Used IP spoofing to generate and associate different IP addresses to Virtual Users to emulate real-time scenarios for load balancing issues
• Activating / configuring monitors and adding desired performance counters into the Graphs
• Performed SQL querying to validate the data in the back end data base, and also to check the data flow between different modules
• Monitored the CPU, memory, and network utilizations on the Unix server using Site Scope monitors.
• Analyzed results of Transactions Response time, Transaction under load, Transaction Summary by Vusers, Hit per Second and Throughput
• Determined the source of bottlenecks by correlating the performance data with end-user loads and response times.

Environment: HP LoadRunner, HP Performance Center, WebService, Http watch, Dev tool, Postman, Dynatrace, J2EE, ASP, JSP, Oracle, UNIX, WebSphere, Splunk, JMeter

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Performance Engineer

Responsibility

• Extensively used Performance Monitors to analyze the System Bottlenecks like Memory Leaks, CPU Utilization and Network Bottlenecks etc.
• Developed and implemented load and stress tests with LoadRunner and presented performance statistics to application teams, and provided the performance report of all the activity done and suggestions on the upgrades needed and also the user load current production can handle with the current architecture
• Extensively used Performance Monitors to analyze the System Bottlenecks like Memory Leaks, CPU Utilization and Network Bottlenecks etc.
• Monitored different Graphs like Transaction Response time and Analyzed Server performance Status, Hits per Second, Throughput, and Windows Resources, UNIX resources and Database Server Resources etc.
• Performed load testing on applications developed in .Net based environments.
• Created the scripts for XML web services, and front end Portal UI application using load runner web services protocol, web and web services multi-protocol. (HTTP over Web Services protocol)
• Created scripts for web services for different operations in the given WSDL file for the specified end point URL’s.
• Performed Load/Performance/Stress Tests using Load Runner, by creating and executing different sets of scenarios to accomplish different objectives based on the Load Models.
• Created different web services scenarios depending on the number of calls per second for high transactional volume service.

Environment: HP LoadRunner, HP Performance Center, ALM, Performance Center, JMeter, SiteScope, App Dynamics, HTTP Watch, .NET ASP, JSP, Oracle, UNIX, WebSphere

Confidential, Dallas Texas

Performance Tester

Responsibility

• Performed Load/Performance/Stress Tests using Load Runner, by creating and executing different sets of scenarios to accomplish different objectives based on the Load Models.
• Created a baseline and ran reliability, scalability and stability/performance tests in Staging and AUT environments.
• Extensively used Performance Monitors to analyze the System Bottlenecks like Memory Leaks, CPU Utilization and Network Bottlenecks.
• Configure the runtime settings such as pacing, Think-time, Log settings, browser emulation and timeout settings in LoadRunner VUGEN and controller to simulate the real scenario.
• Leveraged scripts for data conditioning.
• Created scripts for web services for different operations in the given WSDL file for the specified end point URL’s.
• Executed Endurance Test along with regular peak, off-peak and latency tests.
• Created different web services scenarios depending upon the number of calls per second for each and every services.
• Performed SQL querying to validate the data in the back end data base, and also to check the data flow between different modules
• Monitored different the Transaction Response time, analyzed Server performance Status, Hits per Second, Throughput, and Windows Resources, UNIX resources and Database Server Resources (Using HP Application Lifecycle Management test tool, PerfMon.)
• Determined the source of bottlenecks by correlating the performance data with end-user loads and response times.

Environment: HP LoadRunner, HP Performance Center, ALM, Performance Center, SiteScope, J2EE, ASP, JSP, Oracle, UNIX, WebSphere, fiddler, App Dynamics