SUMMARY:

• Over 5 years of experience in Performance Testing in various domains.
• Expertise in LoadRunner, Performance Center, Quality Center, Perfmon, Wily Introscope, Fiddler, QTP, Test Director, Rational Clear Quest, Toad, Winsql, Putty
• Strong understanding of QA Process and Agile, Water Fall, SDLC methodologies and can work through different releases of product.
• Proficient in Analyzing Performance Requirements,System & Functional Specifications, Use Cases, Business Requirements, Business Rules to Identify Test Requirements, track the requirements
• Have extensive experience in creating, maintaining and performing Load, Stress, Failover, Capacity and Endurance Tests using LoadRunner
• Experience in conducting Endurance Test of Client Side Apps to find memory leaks
• Expertise in developing performance Load Distribution Models as per Production load
• Experience of Using following LR Protocols: Web, Ajax Tru Client (Available from LR11), Web Services, Action Message Format, Flex, Java Vuser.
• Experience in monitoring Windows and Unix based App, Web and Database Servers
• Have experience in using Oracle Weblogic Admin Console and Wily for monitoring system health.
• Experience in analyzing LR Reports, finding and resolving bottlenecks using tuning process.
• Preparing performance reports for management.
• Experience in implementing IP Spoofing
• Experience in examining log files, executing batch and shell scripts.
• Experience in analyzing Oracle AWR reports
• Have used Fiddler for observing web requests and response.
• Prepared Test Plans,Testing Strategy, Testing Procedures, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Data, and Execute Test Runs.
• Experience in Functional, GUI, Integration, Regression, Busines Process, User Acceptance (UAT) and Database (Back end) testing
• Diverse industry experience includes hands on experience in Telecom, Advertising & Media, Life Science, Banking and Financial Services Applications.
• Proficiency in providing Metrics to management, Defect management including Defect creation, modification, reproducing (wherever necessary), tracking, prioritizing and reporting using Industry standard Tools like Test Director, Quality Center  and manually using detailed formats in Microsoft Excel.
• Exposure in the Quality processes involving in Defect Prevention, Metrics collection, Software Configuration Management and Version Control Management.
• Extensively used SQL and Scripting to automate manual tasks and for backend verification.
• Experience in Microsoft VSS, Documentum and Tortoise SVN for Version Control Management
• Experience in Microsoft Project Plan for Project Planning
• Have experience in new, enhancement and maintenance projects.
• Have experience in AJAX, PHP, ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, Mysql.
• Excellent Communication, Leadership and Interpersonal skills
• Familiar with CMM Levels

EDUCATION:

• Master of Science in Professional Science Biotechnology, Tennessee State University, TN - 2007
• Bachelor of Technology, D.Y.Patil University, India - 2005

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Performance Testing Tools: LoadRunner, Performance Center, JMeter
Monitoring Tools: Wiley Introscope, Perfmon, LR monitors, rstatd, Oracle web admin console
Languages: C, C++, VB, PHP, ASP, SQL.
Operating Systems: Windows 98/XP/7, MS-DOS, UNIX.
Functional Testing Tools: Quality Center, QTP, Test Director, Clear Quest
Issue Resolution Tool: JIRA
Application Servers : Weblogic, Websphere
Web Servers: IIS  
Database: Oracle, SQL Server, Mysql.
Database Tools: Toad, Aqua Data Studio, SQL Developer
Configuration management: VSS, SVN, Documentum.
Web Technologies                    : HTML, XML, AJAX.
XML Tools                                  : Xmlpad.

EXPERIENCE:

Client: Confidential,  UT, Feb’11 to Till Date
Role:  Performance Tester
Team Size: 5

Roles & Responsibilities: 

• Leading performance test activities from offshore
• Gathering performance test requirements
• Preparing requirements document
• Developing business flow document
• Creating Load Distribution Document as per projected production load
• Planning Load Test, Stress Test, Endurance Test
• Creating scripts in Vugen
• Creating bulk data using excel macros
• Developing and Executing Scenarios in Controller
• Monitoring the load tests, stress tests and endurance tests using wily and oracle web admin console
• Setting Load Generators
• Monitored GC, Heap, Active Threads using wily
• Analyzing Load Runner results with different monitoring tools.
• Identified the bottlenecks and performed tuning.
• Creating Performance Report for management
• Maintaining Performance test results for comparison
• Creating result comparison with previous release results
• Collecting wily graphs
• Collecting backend logs using Winscp
• Reporting backend errors and weblogic stuck thread issues to development team
• Reviewing work done by Team Members
• Providing feedback about Team Members
• Conducting weekly team meetings to get inputs from team members
• Raising Performance and Functional defects
• Getting the defects fixed
• Coordinating with client contact onsite
• Allocating work to team members
• Training Team members about performance testing process

Client: Confidential, USA, Mar’10 to Feb’11
Role: Performance Engineer

• Leading performance test activities from offshore
• Gathering performance test requirements
• Developing business flow document
• Creating Load Distribution Document as per projected production load
• Planning Load Test, Stress Test, Endurance Test
• Creating scripts in Vugen and uploading to Performance Center
• Developing and Executing Scenarios in Performance Center
• Monitoring the load tests, stress tests and endurance tests using LR Monitors based on rstatd
• Doing client app memory leak tests
• Monitoring client app resource usage using Perfmon
• Executing Failover test in collaboration with development team
• Found the bottlenecks and tuned them.
• Analyzing LoadRunner Reports
• Creating Performance Report for management
• Maintaining and comparing Performance test results
• Providing estimate for performance test activities
• Reviewing work done by Team Members
• Providing feedback about Team Members
• Conducting weekly team meetings to get inputs from team members
• Raising Performance and Functional defects
• Getting the defects fixed
• Conducting Interviews
• Coordinating with client contact onsite
• Allocating work to team members
• Training Team members about performance testing process
• Training Team members about client applications

Client: Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA, Jun’08 to Mar’10

Roles & Responsibilities:  Performance Tester

• Gathering Performance & Automation Test Requirements
• Provide estimate of performance and automation test activities
• Developing business flow document
• Creating Scripts in Vugen
• Maintaining scripts in Performance Center
• Developing and Executing Scenarios in Performance Center
• Monitoring the load tests, stress tests and endurance tests using sitescope and LR monitors
• Conducting Capacity Test for training department of client
• Executing batch tests and monitoring cpu usage using top command
• Setting up Load Generators and IP Spoofing
• Analyzing LoadRunner Reports
• Creating Performance Report for management
• Created loadrunner scripts using VuGen.
• Enhanced and customised the loadrunner VuGen scripts by using parameterization,correlation(manual and automation) to work VuGen Scripts with various loads in various environemnts for load/Stress testing.
• Executedd load/Stress tests using HP Performance Center9.52.
• Analyzed load/stress using loadrunner Analysis.
• Conducting analysis on the current automation framework and the test data utilized for automation testing and came up with solutions to overcome the existing restrictions and establishing the process.
• Monitored Monitored CPU and Memory usage using, Windows resources, Perfmon, UNIX and Wily interscope monitor stool.
• Setting up the standards for test tool usage. Suggestion and introduction of new tools to effectively mange the project.
• Identified issues in different levels of performance testing and identified bottle necks and escalated to development  to fix the issues by tuning.

Client: Confidential, CA, Apr’07 to May’08
Role: Performance Tester

• Involved in developing  Test plan which includes all necessary elements to do Load testing(objectives, scope, resources, scenario’s, test cases, schedule)
• Analyzed Test Requirements and objectives of the Load Test provided by the Application Group.
• Analyze the Latency and Load Test cases and collect required Test Data.
• Created and Executed LR Scripts for testing the performance of various web applications.
• Created loadrunner scripts using VuGen.
• Enhanced and customised the loadrunner VuGen scripts by using parameterization,correlation(manual and automation) to work VuGen Scripts with various loads in various environemnts for load/Stress testing.
• Conducted load/Stress tests using Loadrunner Controller.
• Analyzed load/stress using loadrunner Analysis.
• Conducting analysis on the current automation framework and the test data utilized for automation testing and came up with solutions to overcome the existing restrictions and establishing the process.
• Monitored CPU and Memory usage using, Windows resources, Perfmon, UNIX and Wily interscope monitor stool.
• Defined better performance testing results analysis templates uniformly for all the projects.
• Setting up the standards for test tool usage. Suggestion and introduction of new tools to effectively mange the project.
• Tracking and monitoring the progress of project through project plan schedules and cost overruns.
• Conducted team meetings and provided/taken valuable inputs at every stage of the project
• Open, monitor, communicate, retest and close defects.