OBJECTIVE

• Performance Engineer with over 8 years of experience in performance testing working for Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential . Team player with excellent communication skills, and quick learner.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Sr. Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed automated test scripts for enterprise application using HP Load Runner.
• Hands on experience in carrying out end to end performance testing right from gathering requirements, test planning, scripting, execution, monitoring, analysis and reporting.
• Successfully managed around 3 to 5 applications prioritizing based on deadlines.
• Designed performance test for baseline, load, stress, and endurance test after gathering the requirements.
• Developed Vuser scripts using Web (HTTP/HTML), Web Services, and True Client protocol.
• Implemented error handling functions in Load Runner, which helped a lot in finding application related issues while running the load test scenario.
• Used Performance Center for test execution and New Relic for analyzing the root cause for performance bottleneck.
• Checked web and application server log files for different exceptions/errors while performing the load test and worked with development team to resolve the concurrency and other application related issues.
• Monitored system performance using HP Performance Manager.

Confidential

Sr. Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed performance testing plan based on business and technical requirements.
• Created scripts using web (HTTP/HTML), web services, and True - client protocols in Vugen.
• Gathered performance test requirements from business and created the workload model.
• Effectively used correlation, error handling and parameterization techniques for customizing the test scripts.
• Used JIRA for effectively managing the test cases and track defects.
• Performed baseline, load, stress, and endurance tests for the identified business critical scenarios.
• Executed and Monitored performance tests in Performance Center.
• Monitored different graphs like transaction response time, hits per second, and analyzed server performance status.
• Analyzed Performance test results, and prepared detailed Performance Test Report including recommendations.

Confidential

Sr. Performance engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed performance testing plan based on business and technical requirements.
• Created scripts using web (HTTP/HTML), web services, and True-client protocols in Vugen.
• Gathered performance test requirements from business and created the workload model.
• Effectively used correlation, error handling and parameterization techniques for customizing the test scripts.
• Performed baseline, load, stress, and endurance tests for the identified business critical scenarios.
• Executed and Monitored performance tests in Performance Center.
• Monitored different graphs like transaction response time, hits per second, and analyzed server performance status.
• Analyzed Performance test results, and prepared detailed Performance Test Report including recommendations.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Sr. Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating comprehensive test plans, test scripts, and use cases to support testing objectives
• Designed scenarios, created scripts and customized scripts by correlation as well as parameterization using Load Runner.
• Generated the Load Runner scripts using web (HTTP/HTML) web services protocol.
• Researched on the usability of SOASTA for testing the application under test.
• Performed baseline, load, stress, and endurance testing for business critical scenarios.
• Monitored system metrics using New Relic and Dyna trace tools to identify the performance bottlenecks in the application.
• Results were analyzed, shared, and discussed with team about application responses during test executions.

Confidential

Sr. Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the requirement, design documents, and prepared test plan.
• Scheduled daily and weekly status meeting with managers briefing the progress about the project.
• Created scripts using web (HTTP/HTML) protocols in Vugen.
• Designed and executed the scenarios using Performance Center.
• Performed baseline, load, stress, and endurance test for business process with heavy user and data volumes.
• Analyzed the test results after test execution from Load Runner graphs. Monitored and tracked defects using HP Quality Center

Confidential

Sr. Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in documenting, gathering requirements, and capturing key metrics for the application under test.
• Involved in the preparation of test plan and test strategy document.
• Reviewed test plans and procedures to ensure adequate coverage of system requirements.
• Coordinated with the functional team, and business analyst while documenting the business critical scenarios and test data.
• Coordinated with offshore and onshore teams to work effectively and meet the deadlines.
• SAP -Finance / Controlling Unit (FI & CO) and Business Process Consolidation (BPC) modules were tested.
• Used SAP - BPC Load Runner toolkit for converting the HTTP traffic captured using fiddler.
• Developed Scripts in HTML/HTTP, Web Services, SAP - GUI and SAP-Web protocol in LoadRunner.
• Configured and used IP spoofing in LoadRunner to simulate a more realistic testing scenario.
• Designed smoke,baseline, load, stress, Day-in-the-Life, and endurance testing scenarios to study the behavior of the application.
• Defects were tracked and monitored using HP Quality Center.
• Used Shunra to emulate latency inorder to observe the behavior of the application during the test executions to simulate global locations.
• Participated and involved in the Volume Test Optimization (VTO) service along with SAP resources.
• Involved in analyzing the test results using the graphs and tables from HP Load Runner analysis.
• Strong application knowledge, and excellent communication skills
• Prepared a final performance test report which includes the test results, defect raised during testing, and defect resolution.
• Reviewed test plans and procedures to ensure adequate coverage of system requirements.

Confidential

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in documenting, gathering requirements, and capturing key metrics for the application under test.
• Involved in documenting the test cases and capturing the test data by coordinating with functional developer and business analyst.
• Developed Scripts in web (HTML/HTTP) protocol in LoadRunner. Customized scripts by inserting transaction names, creating parameters, handling correlation, and adding error handling practices.
• Created the test data required for the load, stress, and endurance prior to executing tests.
• Conducted Load, Stress, Scalability, and Endurance testing using Load Runner for Day in Life scenario.
• Analyzed Load Runner results and graphs to identify bottlenecks in the application.
• Defects were tracked and monitored using HP Quality Center.

Confidential

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in documenting, gathering requirements, and capturing key metrics for the application under test.
• Involved in analyzing business requirement and prepare the test cases.
• Created scripts using Web (Http/Html), Web Services protocols in VuGen.
• Executed the performance test scenarios in controller module of Load Runner.
• Analyzed Performance test results, and prepared detailed Performance Test Reports.
• Detailed report was prepared for the application team to verify the performance metrics of the application.

Confidential

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in documenting, gathering requirements, and capturing key metrics for the application under test.
• Created test cases based on the specification document.
• Developed and validated the test scripts based on the business critical scenarios.
• Analyzed cross results, graphs and reports in Load Runner.
• Categorized test cases and test data for functionality, integration and end to end testing.
• Conducted Regression Testing for subsequent versions of the application using Load Runner and WinRunner.
• Quality Center was used to identify, logging, reporting and prioritizing defects.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in documenting, gathering requirements, and capturing key metrics for the application under test.
• Prepared Test Plan and Test Cases according the business requirements.
• Performed Developed cases and scripts using Quick Test Pro for Functionality, Security and Regression Testing.
• Created Text area Checkpoints to test the properties of the text in the application using Quick Test Pro.
• Created page checkpoints to test the properties and contents of the web page using Quick Test Pro.
• Created test report summarizing the observed results during the test execution.