SUMMARY

• 14 + years of experience in testing Web, Mainframe, Client/Server, Distributed Software Applications & Embedded Systems in various industry verticals like Finance, Insurance, E - Commerce, Pharmaceutical and Manufacturing.
• Expertise in identifying Performance bottlenecks and providing the resolutions for Enterprise level applications to meet the SLAs.
• Proven experience in Pre and Post implementation phases of SDLC including Requirements Analysis, Test Planning, Test Design, Test Execution, Test Analysis, Defect Reporting and Defect Tracking in fast paced Agile and Waterfall environment.
• Substantial expertise in Performance Optimization of Web (Server & Client side), Web Services, Mainframe Applications using HP ALM Performance Center, HP LoadRunner, CA Wily Introscope, dynaTrace, HttpWatch, Gomez, HP Sitescope, JConsole.
• Substantial expertise in System, Functional, Integration, Regression, Black Box, User Acceptance Testing using QTP, Silk Test, WinRunner, Quality Center and Rational Suite.
• Experience as a Test Lead handling multiple projects, multiple releases & teams; meeting aggressive deadlines.
• Substantial experience in Building the Test environment with standards and tools.
• Experience in managing Onsite-Offsite team of QA Analysts across multiple projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software Testing Tools: HP Performance Center - 12.x/11.x/9.x, HP LoadRunner 12/11.x/9.x/8.x, JMeter, HttpWatch, Empirix Hammer, Quick Test Pro(QTP) 9.x, Silk Test 7.x, WinRunner 7.x, IBM Rational 7.x, SOAP UI, Sikuli

Test Management Tools: HP ALM Performance Center(PC) 12/11, HP Quality Center(QC) 10.x/9.x, Clear Quest Test Manager

Monitoring Tools: CA Wily Introscope, IBM Tivoli, vCenter Operations Manager, dynaTrace APM, dynaTrace AJAX, Splunk, Sitescope, JConsole, VisualVM, VSphere 5.x, AWR, Google Analytics, Gomez, Compuware DCRUM, IBM Tealeaf, Process Explorer

Software Languages: C, Ladder Programming (Boolean Logic), SQL, UNIX

Configuration Management: Confluence, SharePoint, Visual SourceSafe, PVCS, Calligo

Web / Application Servers: IBM WebSphere, Apache, Tomcat, Microsoft IIS, Weblogic, JBoss, iPlanet, ABB, Blaze

RDBMS: SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2, LUW, Sybase, TOAD, Rocketshuttle.

Protocols: Web(HTTP/HTML), Web Services, AJAX Truclient, SAP web, SAP GUI, RTE, Citrix, Windows Sockets, Java

Professional Training: Compuware DCRUM, IBM Tealeaf

Job Functions: Requirement Analysis, Functional and Performance Testing, Test Management, Configuration Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, DC

Lead Performance Engineer

Environment: ALM Performance Center 12, CA Wily Introscope 9.x, Compuware RUM, Splunk, NMON, TMON, LPAR2RRD, HTML, Java, J2EE, AJAX, Angular JS, AIX, Control-M, IBM Websphere, Pega 7, IBM DB2, LUW, IBM MQ, IBM Datapower

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Performance Engineering & Optimization of Mid-Tier, End to End Applications and Batch jobs in Distributed environment for Insurance application.
• Responsible for leading a team of Dynamic Performance testers and First Time Right and On Time delivery of projects in Agile as well as Waterfall Environment.
• Responsible for Operational Capacity Planning & Troubleshooting of Operational Performance issues.
• Continuous identification of Performance improvement areas.
• Define and implement process for Operational Performance Improvement outside Performance Testing cycle.
• Gather Nonfunctional and Performance Requirements, prepare Approach document and Load Model, for Web based, Web Services, Batch Job and Distributed Application Performance Tests.
• Participate in Release Planning, User Story Grooming, Weekly grooming, and Daily Scrum meetings and collaborate with Product Owner, Architecture, App Dev, DBA and Environment teams.
• Participate in Architecture, Design and Code Review sessions to identify performance improvement areas from very early stages of the life cycle.
• Review the Performance Test Approach with Business, AD Team, Infrastructure Team, DBAs and other stake holders.
• Review the work of Performance Testers to ensure that business processes are covered in the test scripts.
• Identify monitoring needs/approach and monitors for Performance Tests.
• Monitor various Load conditions, Transactions and Resources using various resource graphs from Performance Center, Wily Introscope, and NMON for resources such as CPU, Available Memory and Heap Usage.
• Analyze test results using graphs from multiple Resource monitors: Performance Center, Wily Introscope, custom monitors to identify performance and scalability issues in application, network delays, and server delays.
• Create & present Performance Test Reports with issues, recommendations & next steps/tuning areas to the stakeholders.
• Certify Performance of the System/Application & provided Go / No Go decisions based on Performance of the application.
• Post Prod Monitoring & Reporting performance of the application.
• Daily, Weekly Status Reporting & Dashboard presentation to the Director.

Confidential, DE

Performance Test Lead

Environment: ALM Performance Center 12, CA Wily Introscope 8.2, vCOPS, VSphere 5.x, JConsole, ALM Quality Center 11.0, HTML, Java, J2EE, AJAX, Linux, Windows, ABB, Control-M, Filezilla, WAF, Apache, Tomcat, Blaze Rules Server, IBM 3270 Terminal, Oracle, IBM MQ, Genesys, OnQ, AOD, UIP.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Requirement Analysis, Estimation, Performance Test plan Creation & reviews, Test Script creation & reviews, Performance Test Execution, Result Analysis, Performance Tuning and Test Reporting.
• Lead Onsite-Offsite Test effort for End to End Performance Testing with on & before Time Delivery of the Project.
• Assisted in setting up Test Environment.
• Gathered Requirements and prepared Load Model, Approach document for Web based, Mainframe, Batch Job and Distributed Application Performance Tests.
• Developed load test scripts using VuGen in LoadRunner for Web based, AJAX Trueclient, RTE, Java protocols.
• Created & executed Scenario based or Group based test scenarios for Base line, Load, Stress, Break and Soak Test emulating the real time usage model of the applications.
• Monitored various Load conditions, Transactions and Resources using various resource graphs of LoadRunner, Wily Introscope, JConsole, vCOPS, Tivoli, VSphere monitors for resources such as CPU, Available Memory and Heap Usage.
• Coordinated with DBA, Network, Server, Development, CICS and Downstream Teams during Performance testing to identify bandwidth & Infrastructure Problems.
• Collated and Analyzed test results using graphs from multiple Resource monitors: LoadRunner, Wily Introscope, Windows Performance Monitor, JConsole, vCOPS, VSphere, UNIX stats, AWR, custom monitors to identify performance and scalability issues in application, network delays, server delays.
• Created & presented Performance Test Reports with issues, recommendations & next steps/tuning areas to the stakeholders.
• Certified Performance of the System/Application & provided Go / No Go decisions based on Performance of the application.
• Defect Reporting & Tracking in Quality Center 11.0.
• Post Prod Monitoring & Reporting performance of the application.
• Daily, Weekly Status Reporting & Dashboard presentation.

Confidential, CT

Performance Test Lead

Environment: LoadRunner 11.0, JMeter, Compuware DCRUM, IBM Tealeaf, Google Analytics, JConsole, AWR, Java, J2EE, AJAX, HTML, JMX, XML, Apache, Tomcat, Oracle, Netscaler, Clairmail, Weblogic, Web Services, Quality center, Sharepoint.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Nonfunctional Requirement Analysis, Performance Test plan Creation & reviews, Test Script creation, Performance Test Execution, Result Analysis, Test Reporting & Performance Optimization.
• Successful Transitioning from LoadRunner 11.0 to JMeter for cost-effective Performance Testing while ensuring Quality.
• Active participation in identifying new functionalities for the Performance Test.
• Helping the team define SLAs for Web, Mobile & Middleware application.
• Creating Work Load Model for Web, Mobile & Middleware application.
• Performance (Base line, Stress and Durability) Testing of AJAX Web and Middleware applications with Web (HTTP/HTML), AJAX TruClient and Web Services protocols using LoadRunner 11.0.
• Responsible for Transitioning from LoadRunner 11.0 Performance test environment to Jmeter environment.
• Defining Performance Testing Process for JMeter.
• Setting up Master and Slave systems, Custom monitors and Stabilizing Performance Test environment for JMeter.
• Developing JMeter Test Scripts for AJAX Web and Middleware applications using HTTP Request, SOAP/XML-RPC Request Sampler, Firebug & Tamper Data.
• Creating and Executing Thread based Test scenarios for Base line, Stress and Durability Test emulating the real time usage model of the applications using JMeter.
• Monitoring various Load conditions, Transactions and Resources using various resource graphs of LoadRunner, JMeter, JMeter Plugins, JConsole, AWR and Compuware DCRUM for JMX, DB, Network, CPU, Memory and Heap Usage.
• Coordinating with Network, Server, Development and Downstream Teams during Performance testing to identify Server side issues, bandwidth problems, Infrastructure Problems.
• Collating and Analyzing test results to identify performance and scalability issues in application, network delays, server delays.
• Submitting Performance Test Reports to the stakeholders and hosting Performance Test Report Review meetings to escalate resolution process of Performance issues and identifying Performance Optimization areas.
• Defect Reporting and Defect Tracking using Quality center.
• Document management using SharePoint.

Confidential, PA

Sr. Performance Test Engineer

Environment: ALM Performance Center 11.0, HP Sitescope, dynaTrace AJAX 4, dynaTrace Diagnostics, HttpWatch, Gomez, Sikuli, HTML, Java, J2EE, JMX, XML, Apache, Tomcat, Oracle, Sonic, SOLR, MQ, Websphere, Weblogic, Web Services, JIRA, Confluence.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Nonfunctional Requirement Analysis, Performance Test plan Creation & reviews, Test Script creation & review, Performance Test Execution, Result Analysis, Performance Optimization and Test Reporting.
• Active participation in defining Performance Testing Process and stabilizing ALM PC 11.0 environment for Performance Test Management.
• Gathered Requirements and prepared Load Model, Approach document for Performance Test.
• Developed load test scripts using VuGen in PC 11.0 for Web based, JMX, Middleware applications using Web (HTTP/HTML), Web Services protocols.
• Created Scenario based or Group based test scenarios for Base line, Stress and Durability Test emulating the real time usage model of the applications in PC 11.0.
• Executed Test scenarios for Base line, Stress and Durability Test with PC for various SLAs.
• Monitored various Load conditions, Transactions and Resources using various resource graphs of LoadRunner, HP Sitescope for resources such as JMX, DB, CPU, Memory and Heap Usage.
• Diagnosed Server side and Client side Performance issues using dynaTrace Diagnotics and dynaTrace AJAX respectively.
• Client side performance diagnostic using Sikuli, dynaTrace AJAX and Httpwatch.
• Collected Real time Browser data using Gomez.
• Coordinated with Network, Server, Development and Downstream Teams during Performance testing to identify bandwidth problems, Infrastructure Problems.
• Collated and Analyzed test results using graphs from multiple Resource monitors: LoadRunner, HP Sitescope to identify performance and scalability issues in application, network delays, server delays.
• Created Performance Test Reports and reported bottlenecks to the stakeholders.
• Recommended JVM parameters for Apache & Tomcat servers for better application performance.
• Adapted planning based on test results and took any action necessary to compensate for problems / Technical issues.
• Defect Reporting & Tracking in JIRA.
• Document management using Confluence.

Confidential, DE

Sr. Performance Tester/Lead

Environment: LoadRunner 9.52, CA Wily Introscope 8.2, Empirix Hammer, JConsole, LHMON, Process Explorer, Quality Center 10.0, HTML, Java, J2EE, ASP.NET, VB, XML, Apache, Tomcat, Oracle, Sybase, IDAS, MQ, Websphere, Weblogic, Web Services, Win2000.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Requirement Analysis, Performance Test plan Creation & reviews, Test Script creation & review, Performance Test Execution, Result Analysis, Performance Tuning and Test Reporting.
• Assisted in setting up Test Environment.
• Gathered Requirements and prepared Load Model, Approach document for Performance Test.
• Test Script creation, Test Scenario creation, Test Execution & monitoring, Result Analysis of Hammer Testing using Empirix Hammer.
• Developed load test scripts using VuGen in LoadRunner for Web based, VXML, Middleware applications using Web (HTTP/HTML), Web Services, Java protocols.
• Used SOAP UI to create Test scripts for Performance Testing of Web Services.
• Created Scenario based or Group based test scenarios for Base line, Stress, Stretch, Step, Fail Over, Day in the Life, Night in the Life and Soak Test emulating the real time usage model of the applications.
• Executed Test scenarios for Base line, Stress, Stretch, Step, Fail Over, Day in the Life, Night in the Life and Soak Test with LoadRunner for various Vuser loads.
• Monitored various Load conditions, Transactions and Resources using various resource graphs of LoadRunner, Wily Introscope, JConsole, Process Explorer monitors for resources such as CPU, Available Memory and Heap Usage.
• Coordinated with Network, Server, Development and Downstream Teams during Performance testing to identify bandwidth problems, Infrastructure Problems.
• Collated and Analyzed test results using graphs from multiple Resource monitors: LoadRunner, Wily Introscope, Windows Performance Monitor, JConsole, Process Explorer, LHMON to identify performance and scalability issues in application, network delays, server delays.
• Created Performance Test Reports and reported bottlenecks to the stakeholders.
• Recommended JVM parameters for Apache & Tomcat servers for better application performance.
• Adapted planning based on test results and progress and took any action necessary to compensate for problems / Technical issues.
• Defect Reporting & Tracking in Quality Center 10.0.

Confidential, CO

Performance Tester/Lead

Environment: LoadRunner 9.52, Performance Center 9.52, QTP 9.2, Quality Center 10.0/9.0, SiteMinder, HTML, ASP.NET, XML, Oracle, Websphere, Weblogic, Web Services, LDAP, Win2000, Team Track

Responsibilities:

• Decided Release based Test Strategy.
• Planned and executed SDLC activities for each release. Example: Retrofit, Functional, Regression, Performance Testing.
• Responsible for Requirement Analysis, Cost estimation, Test Plan Creation & reviews, Preparing Requirements Traceability Matrix, Test case creation & review, Performance Test plan Creation, Performance Test Execution, Performance Tuning and Test Reporting.
• Created and reviewed Test cases using Quality Center 10.0/9.0.
• Gathered Requirements and prepared Task Distribution Diagram, Transaction Profile and Approach document for Performance Test.
• Developed load test scripts using VuGen in LoadRunner for Web based applications using Web (HTTP/HTML) protocols.
• Created Scenario based or Group based test scenarios for Load, Stress, and Volume Test which emulate the real time usage model of the web application using Performance Center 9.52.
• Executed Test scenarios for Load, Stress and Volume Test with PC for various Vuser loads.
• Monitored various Load conditions, Transactions and Resources using various resource graphs of LoadRunner, Process Explorer monitors for resources such as CPU, Available Memory and Heap Usage.
• Coordinated with Network, Server, Development and Downstream Teams during Performance testing to identify bandwidth problems, Infrastructure Problems.
• Collated and Analyzed test results using graphs from multiple Resource monitors: LoadRunner, Windows Performance Monitor to identify performance and scalability issues in application, network delays and server delays.
• Created Performance Test Reports and reported bottlenecks to the stakeholders.
• Adapted planning based on test results and progress and took any action necessary to compensate for problems / Technical issues.
• Defect Reporting & Tracking in Quality Center 10.0/9.0.
• Used Team Track for Incident Management.
• Team building - Motivated, Mentored the team and Recognized their contribution.
• Observation and Recommendation on improving Test processes and testing efficiency.

Confidential, NY

Performance Lead / Test Manager

Environment: LoadRunner 9.51/9.1, PC 9.5, QTP 9.5/9.2, Silk LoadR Test 7.0, Quality Center, ClearQuest Test Manager, ClearQuest, Rational Manual Tester, HTML, ASP.NET, Ajax (Web 2.0), XML, Weblogic, DB2, Oracle, Sybase 12, Web services, Team Track, Java, J2EE, HTML, JavaScript, Unix, Win2000, Visual Source Safe, etc

Responsibilities:

• Decided Release based Test Strategy for each release.
• Reviewed Requirements, created Test Plan, reviewed Test plan, Test Designing, prepared Requirements Traceability Matrix, created Use Cases, Test Execution, Test Reporting, Performance Test plan Creation, Performance Test Execution, Performance Tuning and Test Reporting.
• Responsible for Test case creation & reviews using CQTM & RMT.
• Gathered Requirements and prepared Task Distribution Diagram, Transaction Profile and Performance Test Plan for Performance Test.
• Developed load test scripts using VuGen in LoadRunner for Web based applications using Web (HTTP/HTML), AJAX (Click & Script) protocols.
• Created Scenario based or Group based test scenarios for Load, Stress and Volume Test which emulate the real time usage model of the web application using multiple Load Generators.
• Executed Test scenarios for Load, Stress and Volume Test for various Vuser loads.
• Monitored various Load conditions, Transactions and Resources using various resource graphs of LoadRunner, JConsole monitors for resources such as CPU, Available Memory, Heap Usage.
• Coordinated with Network, Server, Development and Downstream Teams during Performance testing to identify bandwidth problems, Infrastructure Problems.
• Collated and Analyzed test results using graphs from multiple Resource monitors: LoadRunner, JConsole, Windows Performance Monitor to identify performance and scalability issues in application, network delays and server delays.
• Created Performance Test Reports and reported bottlenecks to the stakeholders.
• Adapted planning based on test results and progress and took any action necessary to compensate for problems / Technical issues.
• Understood the NaviSys product and carry out the manual / automated testing, report and track actual result / bug in Clear Quest.
• Created and executed Test Scripts for Functional Testing with Silk Test and QTP 9.5.
• Team building - Motivated, Mentored the team and recognized their contribution.
• Performed XML validations.
• Configuration Management using Visual Source safe.
• Used Team Track for Incident Management.

Confidential, MA

Performance Test Engineer

Environment: LoadRunner 8.0, HTML, JavaScript, XML, J2EE, Weblogic, Sybase 12, UNIX, Win2003, LDAP, ClearQuest

Key Responsibilities:

• Worked in all phases of Performance Testing including Test Planning, Test Script creation, Scenario creation, Test Execution, Result Analysis and Performance Tuning.
• Gathered Requirements, prepared Task Distribution Diagram, Transaction Profile and Performance Test Plan for Performance Test.
• Developed load test scripts using VuGen in LoadRunner for Web based applications using Web (HTTP/HTML) protocols.
• Created Group based test scenarios for Load, Stress and Endurance Test which emulate the real time usage model of the web application using multiple Load Generators.
• Executed Test scenarios for Load, Stress and Endurance Test for various Concurrent & Simultaneous Vuser loads.
• Monitored various Load conditions, Transactions and Resources using various resource graphs of LoadRunner monitors for resources such as CPU, Available Memory and Heap Usage.
• Coordinated with Network, Server, Development and Downstream Teams during Performance testing to identify bottleneck.
• Collated and Analyzed test results using graphs from multiple Resource monitors: LoadRunner, Windows Performance Monitor to identify performance and scalability issues in application, network delays and server delays.
• Created Performance Test Reports and reported bottlenecks to the stakeholders.
• Adapted planning based on test results and progress and took any action necessary to compensate for problems / Technical issues.
• Did Defect Tracking & Defect Reporting using ClearQuest.

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Environment: QTP 8.0, Bugzilla, TOAD, Java, VB, Weblogic, Oracle 9i, Application Server, Oracle 10G, Solaris, Win2000

Responsibilities:

• Designed, scheduled and implemented QA practices and procedures.
• Developed test cases, gathered business and functional requirements and identified test data requirements.
• Identified and developed functions using VB script in QTP.
• Generated and executed QTP scripts for Regression Testing.
• Extensively involved in meetings and reviewed to resolve open issues.
• Used TOAD for Data Access for testing.
• Tested the application on different operating systems and browser configurations.
• Created bug fixing priorities matrix with the help of Development Team.
• Reported and reviewed actual result/defects using Bugzilla.