Performance Testing

• Objective: A challenging opportunity in the field of Performance engineering which fully utilizes my strengths like team building skills, commitment to work and my passion to drive towards excellence.
• A Total experience of 8 years in Performance Testing.
• Expertise in scripting with LoadRunner 11.5 and older for various protocols like Web HTTP/HTML, WebServices, SAP - Web, LDAP, Oracle NCA, Siebel, RTE, Java RMI, Java, JMS, PeopleSoft, Flex, AMF, SAP GUI, Citrix, SMTP and Sybase .
• Executing various tests like Load, Stress, Stability, Failover in Performance center and controller, also automating the complete load test cycle.
• Develop a Performance Test Plan and Test Cases based on the requirement and mentioned SLAs'.
• Obtain Sign-off and get the test plan approved from the business and all stake holders
• Experience with new ALM platform Quality Center, Performance Center
• Conducted Performance testing of Web Based applications and Client server applications using Load Runner.
• Conducted offshore as well as onsite project assignments.
• Experience in performance center administration. Create Projects, Adding users, Users permissions, Licenses update Etc.
• Expertise in almost every major protocol in loadrunner.
• Managed performance center administration for large organizations.
• Manage licensing information, Manage disk space allocation for HP PC and Load Generators.
• Conducted Performance testing of Web Based applications and Client server applications using Load Runner.
• Innovating and implementing new ideas for Performance Testing.
• Extensive Experience in Insurance, Banking, Retail and Health Care Domains.
• Extensive experience in analyzing performance bottlenecks and providing valuable suggestions to overcome these.
• Expertise in performance testing for data center migrations and upgrade.
• Investigate and troubleshoot performance problems in a lab environment. This also includes analysis of performance problems in a production environment.
• Interface with developers, project managers, and management in the development, execution and reporting of performance test results
• Expert in the different types of testing that include Shakeout and Smoke testing, Endurance testing, Regression testing, Load testing and Stress testing.
• Detailed working experience in HP LoadRunner components, including VuGen, Controller, Load Generators, Agents, Analysis. Detailed experience analyzing Load Runner test results and articulating these into an accurate report for business, development, and management teams as well as operations stakeholders.
• Innovating new ideas for resolving technical issues and challenges in scripting or execution of Load test.
• Maintaining an online repository for current status and reports of the project.
• Building a common dashboard, that acts as a single point of viewing all the analysis data about each and every activity.
• Building and presenting a performance trend graph for the application by determining its behavior at various user loads.
• Analyzing the application behavior for performance constraints by conducting different types of load test
• Monitoring Database and Application server, generating reports for their performance during load tests.
• Good experience working in agile development environment. Experience in developing Performance Test Plan, Test cases.
• Developing and Executing VUGen Scripts in Load Runner.
• Trained by HP on Sitescope, Diagnostics, Profiling, Instrumentation and Load Runner.
• Provided L2 support on Load Runner for numerous clients of HP. Awarded as the best performer on providing support on Load Runner.
• Gather performance testing requirements and consult with the business the key transactions of the application that need to be tested.Confidential

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Performance Test Lead, PC Admin

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Performance Test Engineer

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Performance Test Engineer

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Performance Tester

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Performance Test Analyst

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Performance Test Engineer

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Performance Test Engineer

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Loadrunner Specialist

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Developer

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Technical Support

Technical Expertise

• Operating Systems
• Win98, Win2k, Win 2003 Server, Win XP, Win Vista, Unix, Linux
• Web Servers
• IIS6.0, Web logic 8.1, Web Sphere 6.1, Tomcat
• Programming Languages
• Java/J2EE 5.0, C, C, Visual Basic 6.0
• Databases
• Oracle RAC, MS SQL Server, MS-Access, IBM, DB2
• Testing Tools
• Load Runner, Performance Center,Quality Center /Test Director, Site Scope, Wily Introscope

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Performance Test Lead/ PC Admin Performance Center Admin

• Actively working on 6 8 performance testing projects simultaneously.
• Gathering requirements from the client and analyzing them.
• Gather performance testing requirements and consult with the business the key transactions of the application that need to be tested.
• Expertise in scripting with Load Runner for various protocols like Web Protocol, SAP-Web, LDAP, Oracle NCA, Siebel, RTE, Java RMI, Java, JMS, PeopleSoft, Flex, SAP GUI, Citrix and Web Services .
• Executing various tests like Load, Stress, Stability, Failover in Performance center and controller, also automating the complete load test cycle.
• Develop a Performance Test Plan and Test Cases based on the requirement and mentioned SLAs'.
• Obtain Sign-off and get the test plan approved from the business and all stake holders
• Co-ordinating and leading the offshore team to develop a solution towards the requirements.
• Hand-on scripting with various protocols such as Web, Web Services, Flex, LDAP
• Extensive experience in analyzing performance bottlenecks and providing valuable suggestions to overcome these.
• Expertise in performance testing for data center migrations and upgrade.
• Investigate and troubleshoot performance problems in a lab environment. This also includes analysis of performance problems in a production environment.
• Interface with developers, project managers, and management in the development, execution and reporting of performance test results
• Expert in the different types of testing that include Shakeout and Smoke testing, Endurance testing, Regression testing, Load testing and Stress testing.

PC Admin Performance Center Admin

• Create Projects, Adding users, Users permissions, Licenses update Etc.
• PC Issues tracker Issues and resolutions.
• Manage licensing information, Manage disk space allocation for HP PC and Load Generators.
• General for all admin related activities ex. Host addition/removal, Downtime/Resume etc .
• Update the patches on all servers.
• Host Maintenance This includes all Controllers/generators PC Servers .
• Update Hardware and software of PC Web, File, DB and utility server.

Environment: Performance center 9.5, 11.00.

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Performance Test Engineer

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• Gather performance testing requirements and consult with the business the key transactions of the application that need to be tested.
• Develop a Performance Test Plan and Test Cases based on the requirement and mentioned SLAs'.
• Obtain Sign-off and get the test plan approved from the business and all stake holders
• Extensively used SAP-Web protocol for creating scripts using LoadRunner.
• Made necessary settings and developed scripts in LoadRunner VuGen according to the written test cases and defined transactions.
• Enhanced scripts by adding parameterization, correlations, and different settings based on the scenario.
• During the Performance test, created crash dump files and analyzed them in Win debugger to find the performance issues if exists .
• Conducted Soak test for an extended period to find out the memory leaks in the system.
• Used Log Parser Lizard for IIS logs and retrieved Top N records from those logs.
• Involved in executing the different scenarios which mimics the production transaction volumes, user profiles and database traffic.
• Involved in writing various functions to create realistic load test on the applications.
• Configuration of SiteScope to get different counters from different systems under test.
• Monitored the performance of web/application servers, database servers with different loads produced under different scenarios using HP SiteScope.
• As per the plan proceeded with Base Line test, Stability test, Stress test and with Load test..
• Provided management with analysis reports and recommendations.

Environment: Quality Center, LoadRunner/Performance Center, HP SiteScope, Wily Introscope, Windows Server, SAP R/3 4.7, Web Services, Java/J2EE.

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Performance Test Lead

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• Developed Vuser scripts for Web HTTP/HTML, Siebel, WebServices.
• Used Load Runner for creating Performance test scripts using VUGen.
• Parameterized and Co-related the Load Runner scripts for dynamic variable.
• Used Tivoli Performance monitors and Load Runner graphs to analyze the results
• The web server performance is monitored using different online performance monitors.
• Various System bottlenecks like CPU utilization. Memory Utilization were found and analyzed.
• Used Quality Center to generate the defect reports for regression, functional testing of the application.
• Performed Stress/Volume/Endurance Testing using Load Runner 9.5 and 11.0
• Independently develop HP Load Runner test scripts according to test specifications/requirements.
• Using HP Load Runner, execute multi-user performance tests, used online monitors, real-time output messages and other features of the LoadRunner Controller.
• Investigate and troubleshoot performance problems in a lab environment. This will also include analysis of performance problems in a production environment.
• Interface with developers, project managers, and management in the development, execution and reporting of test automation results
• Accurately produce regular project status reports to senior management to ensure on-time project launch.
• Verify that new or upgraded applications meet specified performance requirements.
• Used to identify the queries which taking too long and optimize those queries to improve performance
• Changed the runtime settings such as pacing, think time, Log settings, browser emulation and timeout settings in HP LoadRunner VUGEN and controller to simulate the real scenario.
• Also executed various SQL Queries to perform the backend testing.
• Extensively worked on Performance Monitoring and analyzed the response time, Memory leaks, hits/sec and throughput graph using LoadRunner Controller
• Recorded Vuser Scripts using Vuser Generator VuGen, inserted transaction points to calculate the transaction response times and employed Rendezvous Points to simulate real world scenario.
• Used Controller to schedule the Vusers and connect to different hosts and run the scenarios with Load Runner.
• Also analyzed the LoadRunner reports to calculate Response time and Transactions per second TPS .
• Conducted 1 Vuser tests in production to get the response times after every new build.
• Monitored the metrics such as response times, throughput and server resources such as Total Processor Time, Available Bytes and Process Bytes by using LoadRunner Monitors.
• Scheduled Load Tests to run overnight due to unavailability of environment during the day time.

Environment: Performance center, Loadrunner, Java, Quality Center, IBM Web Sphere, Wiley Introscope.

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Performance Test Engineer

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• Expertise in scripting and correlating Web, Web Services, Sybase, Java RMI and Citrix Applications or any application depending on the requirement.
• Creating custom codes in C for scripting the application.
• Configuring diagnostic server probes, instrument the correct components, doing in depth analysis, hence identifying the slowest class.
• Identifying memory related issues and suggesting solutions.
• Working with SSL based Web applications importing certificates and integrating them into Load Runner.
• Monitoring App and database servers by integrating them into the scenario and analyzing CPU, Memory and database metrics to identify the performance.
• Troubleshooting Network related issues for the application.
• Integrating Sitescope with Load Runner to monitor the performance of the servers.
• Analyzing and creating presentations for the test results and reporting them to the client.
• Verifying various performance criteria that the application is expected to follow by merging and crossing various results.
• Co-coordinating with developers, database administrators for performance improvements in the Application.
• Helping teammates by giving them solutions for various technical issues, also training them for various protocols.

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Performance Test Engineer

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• Consulting product with Clients to integrate application and determine correct protocol for scripting the application.
• Creating Custom code in C to achieve Business requirement with Load Runner.
• Creating Customized call for WEBSERVICE, RTE application for manipulation XML Data.
• Configured Scenario against CITRIX based Application.
• Hands on SAP, Sap GUI, RTE, Oracle NCA, Oracle Application 11i, RDP and Window socket Protocol.
• Analyzing result data helping Client to understand Application Behavior based on different Load Scenario.
• Connectivity with Site scope server and configuring several Monitors within Sitescope.
• Enhanced Vusers scripts by correlation, transaction points and various Loadrunner functions. Writing custom codes if required.
• Extensively involved in manual correlation of Vuser scripts.
• Analyze logs, performance data and infrastructure measurements.
• Providing integration solutions for Sitescope with Load runner.
• As a senior member of the team, I am involved in knowledge transfer, training and mentoring of newer team members.

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Performance Test Engineer

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• Performance tested the configuration workflow process to handle automatic top-up, balance update and payment processing.
• Tested the performance of the modules Online Bill payment, e-Brokerage and escalated the bottle necks through Performance test analysis.
• Experienced in mentoring the functional process flows for major online banking transactions to the team and enhanced the testing standards by revising the existing standards.
• Recommended and provided solutions to the client as part of Performance optimization.
• Experienced in Benchmark, Stress and Performance Testing financial flows.
• Involved and assisted the support team in configuring Application Server, Database servers by analyzing the test results after every performance test execution.
• Involved in optimizing database configurations and customized both CRM applications.
• Identified the bottle-necks of the application using LoadRunner's system resource monitors.
• Involved in executing the scenarios which mimics the production transaction volumes, user profiles and database traffic.
• Analyzed and provided the test results to the client by monitoring Network latency, Throughput/Hits per sec.
• Experienced in testing Load balancer, Web server session management, Connection pools, garbage collection.
• Involved in testing Web Services using XML and WSDL files using SOAP protocol.

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Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuring diagnostic server probes, instrument the correct components, doing in depth analysis, hence identifying the slowest class.
• Identifying memory related issues and suggesting solutions.
• Working with SSL based Web applications importing certificates and integrating them into Load Runner.
• Monitoring App and database servers by integrating them into the scenario and analyzing CPU, Memory and database metrics to identify the performance.
• Troubleshooting Network related issues for the application.
• Integrating Sitescope with Load Runner to monitor the performance of the servers.

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Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Consulting product with Clients to integrate application and determine correct protocol for scripting the application.
• Creating Custom code in C to achieve Business requirement with Load Runner.
• Creating Customized call for WEBSERVICE application for manipulation XML Data.
• Configured Scenario against CITRIX based Application.
• Hands on LDAP, SAP, SapGUI, RTE, Oracle NCA, Oracle Application 11i, RDP and Window socket Protocol.
• Analyzing result data helping Client to understand Application Behavior based on different Load Scenario.
• Connectivity with Sitescope server and configuring several Monitors within Sitescope.
• Enhanced Vusers scripts by correlation, transaction points and various Loadrunner functions. Writing custom codes if required.
• Extensively involved in manual correlation of Vuser scripts.
• Analyze logs, performance data and infrastructure measurements.
• Providing integration solutions for Sitescope with Loadrunner.
• As a senior member of the team, I am involved in knowledge transfer, training and mentoring of newer team members.

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Developer

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• Worked with development team of
• Worked on Ruby on Rails.
• Programming the Web Based Environment.
• This language includes the development platform Ruby an interpreted Language and admin server Rail.

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Developer

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• Trouble Shooting of VPN Virtual Private Network Physical Network, which includes ISDN, Broadband Dialup Services.
• Networking Hardware Configuration Win 2000 Server/client
• Designing Implementing LAN, switches, Professional Experience TATA VSNL
• Trouble shooting of RAS, DHCP, Transport Protocol
• Handles the standard error code provided by Microsoft by error handling mechanism
• Monitor the VSNL client billing with help CRM and CRM-5.
• Maintaining Oracle Database
• Messaging Systems:
• Handling the POP3 and SMTP server errors.
• Handling the standard Message Code related with Email Client like OE, MOE, and Postmaster during the access of pop3 and SMTP server.