SUMMARY:

• Possess a total experience of 11 years in Information Technology including 9 years of diverse experience in Performance Testing methodologies using industry - leading tools like HP Load Runner, HP Performance Center and SOAP UI. Has the proficiency in designing, development and execution of performance test plans, end-to-end performance testing of the applications, analyzing the performance test results, preparing intermediate and final summary reports, identifying the performance bottlenecks and presenting the findings to business stakeholders.
• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Performance Test Life Cycle. Have thorough understanding of various phases like Requirement Gathering, Test Planning, Design, Development and Testing
• Familiarity with the Agile Methodology
• Extensive experience in Load Runner with protocols like Web (HTTP/HTML), Web Services, AJAX TruClient and MQ technology Adept with the tools like SOAP UI
• Expertise in development of Performance Test Plan, Load Model and Performance Analysis
• Experience in gathering and analysing the non-functional testing requirements and mapping them into business critical flows
• Sound knowledge of creating Load, Stress and Performance tests using Load Runner
• Experience in monitoring servers using tools like HP SiteScope and Wily Introscope
• Analyzing the test results (TPS, Hits/second, Transaction response time, CPU utilization etc.) using HP Load Runner Analysis and various monitoring tools to prepare the intermediate and final Performance Test Reports
• Extensively used of Quality Center for Defect Tracking
• Excellent Documentation, Management and Presentation skills for the QA Project Team including Test Plan, Test Requirement and Defect Reports

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP Load Runner, HP Performance Center, SOAP UI, HP Performance Manager, WILY Introscope, Open NMS, Perfmon, HP ALM, HP Sitescope, HP Quality Center

Operating Systems: Windows XP/2000/NT/2003/7

Languages: C, C#, XML, PL/SQL

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle 11i

Web Servers: IIS

Design Tools: MS Visio

Middleware: MQ Gateways, Queues

Internet Tools: HTML, XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MN

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Conduct meeting with business or development team to identify the performance test scope and gather non-functional requirements
• Analyze the business requirements and use case documents to develop Performance test cases, test scenarios and test plan accordingly.
• Create Test Strategy, Test plan, Test closure reports for the performance testing effort.
• Secure the performance test environment
• Involve in preparing Test Data for Performance testing.
• Develop the Load Test scripts using HP Load Runner and enhance the scripts by including transactions, parameterize the constant values and correlating the dynamic values
• Execute performance tests and analyze the results to identify the possible bottlenecks
• Configure performance metrics to monitor and analyze the performance of the server
• Coordinate, schedule and implement the testing phase for new instances as well as upgrades to existing instances.
• Present the report to the development/business team
• Secure the approvals from the architects
• Generate test summary reports for management review
• Review and recommending improvements to existing test procedures

Environment : HP Load Runner v12, HP Performance Center v12, SOAP UI, Web Services, XML, HP ALM

Confidential, MN

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understand the business needs for the application and determining the scope for performance testing
• Prepare performance test artifacts including the performance test strategy which clearly documents the non functional requirements
• Design and develop the performance test scripts
• Conduct application level performance tests to ensure system reliability, capacity and scalability.
• Analyze test results and coordinate with development teams for bug fixes.
• Generate test summary reports for management review.
• Identify high priority defects and bottlenecks during the performance test execution and follow the defect documentation process.
• Publish findings/analysis and recommendations of performance evaluation carried out in the form of a summary report, and obtain a sign-off on this from the key project stakeholders
• Review and recommend improvements to existing test procedures.

Environment: HP Load Runner v12, HP Performance Center v12, Soap UI, Web Services, XML, WILY Introscope, Quality Center

Confidential, MN

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Identify the business requirements for performance engineering of the applications and finalizing the engineering scope.
• Understand the technical architecture.
• Coordinate with the project stakeholders to obtain information required to derive a performance engineering plan.
• Document all information into a performance requirement engineering document and obtaining sign-off on this from the key project stakeholders.
• Formulate performance engineering plan and underlining dependencies on various teams for each activity.
• Lay down performance engineering schedule for the release and publishing the performance engineering plan to obtain a sign-off on this from the key project stakeholders.
• Carry out performance evaluation of the application using relevant tools and methodologies.
• Verify SOAP message delivery to the web services and verified the XML formatted response using the SOAP UI.
• Evaluate application performance after tuning to validate performance improvement.
• Publish findings/analysis and recommendations of performance evaluation carried out in the form of a summary report, and obtaining a sign-off on this from the key project stakeholders.

Environment: HP Load Runner v9,5, SOAP UI, MQ Gateways, Queues, Web Services, XML, Wily Introscope, Quality Center

Confidential

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate the project from the business end at the client location
• Interact with the various project teams to identify the scope of performance testing
• Understand and gather the key business critical scenarios from the business team
• Involve the infrastructure team to setup E2E test environment to mimic the production setup
• Prepare the performance test strategy and obtain sign-off from various teams
• Design and develop business critical flows using HP Load Runner and SOAP UI
• Work with the development team to get the test data required to simulate the load
• Execute load, stress and endurance tests for all the scenarios using HP Performance Center and SOAP UI to assess the application performance
• Identify bottlenecks by monitoring the application server stats on Open NMS.
• Analyze the test results and prepare detailed performance test reports
• Present the final performance test summary to the business

Environment : HP Load Runner v9.5, SOAP UI, Web Services, XML, Open NMS, MS SQL Server 2008, Quality Center

J ohn Hancock, MA

Senior Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Gather non functional requirements and identify the scope of the performance testing
• Prepare performance test plan and other artifacts based on the non-functional requirements
• Design and enhance performance scripts for load testing using HP Load Runner.
• Create performance test scenarios to generate realistic load on the server.
• Perform sanity testing to ensure build readiness using scripts as a part of build verification.
• Use performance monitors to measure the application health and system resources
• Monitor CPU usage, memory usage and other metrics
• Work on test data setup for all complex business test cases
• Analyze test results and prepare detailed performance test reports including recommendations.

Environment: HP Load Runner v9.5, SOAP UI, Web Services, XML, MS SQL Server 2005, PerfMon

Confidential

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities :

• Understand the technical architecture of the application
• Gather non functional business requirement from the key stakeholders and business
• Design and validate performance test scripts using HP Load Runner
• Design scenarios for benchmark, stress and endurance tests
• Analyze test results of the application performance for optimizing server configurations
• Interact with developers during testing to identify potential memory leaks
• Maintain test matrix and generate monthly status reports
• Work closely with DEV team and optimize test scenarios to ensure that the application meets the highest quality standards
• Measure performance units like response times, throughput etc

Environment: HP Load Runner v9.5, XML, MS SQL Server 2005, Perfmon, HP Quality Center

Confidential

Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop modules using MS Visual Studio to match the functional requirements
• Implement the change requests
• Unit test execution
• Track bugs using HP Quality Center

Environment: MS Visual Studio 2005, MS SQL Server 2005, HP Quality Center