SUMMARY

• 10 plus years of Experience in Performance Testing /Engineering.
• 4 Plus years handling both technical & management.
• Managed large projects (approx.8 to 9 projects in parallel) with big teams in fast faced development environments i.e. Agile development & waterfall modals.
• Explored new performance testing & monitoring tools which can replace the licensed tools like HP/Micro Focus Load runner, App Dynatrace, App Dynamics.
• Project Management - Plan, WBS (Work Breakdown Structure), and Budget estimation, Risk management, Resource management and Reporting.
• Establish and implementation of Process and resource Optimization.
• Establish new hire mentor process for newly hired resource to maximize talent to get up to the speed
• Define and implement Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test metrics, Test procedures, testing techniques.
• Offshore, Onsite management and support.
• Identify issues and risks early and develop risk mitigation plans to avoid or minimize impact on projects delivered in budget and timely.
• Interacting with production team to understand the production usage, suggesting and finalizing the realistic model for performance Testing.
• Coordinating testing effort, responsible for test deliverables, status reporting to leadership management which involves Sr. Manager, Directors, MD’s and suggesting the best solution & approach in case of any issue in prior to higher management.
• Monitoring and Mentoring the new team members as and when required.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Performance Test Tools: HP LoadRunner, Performance center, JMeter, Locust

Monitoring Tools: App Dynamics, Site scope, Dynatrace, Kibana, Java Visual VM, Eclipse MAT, Monitoring application servers using VMstats /IOstats/SAR Commands, JConsole, Grafana, Influx DB, Prometheus, Jaegar, Splunk.

Misc. Tools: Kubernetes, OpenShift HP Shunra, HP VTS, SQL Developer, DBeaver, postman, WinSCP, Fiddler, HTTP Watch, Charles, Google REST Client, Filezilla

Protocol Worked for Scripting: Web Http/Html, Mobile Application Http/Html, Flex, Ajax Tru Client, Webservice, RDP, Web service Protocol, Citrix

CI/CD: Jenkins, Team city

Defect Management Tools: HP Quality Center/ HP ALM, JIRA, TFS

Databases: MS SQL, SQL Server, Oracle Database, DB2, Netezza, Google Cloud (GCP)

Web Servers/Application Servers: Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere, Open Shift Web console

Operating Systems: Windows, Windows Server, IBM AIX, Red hat Linux, Mac OS

Version Control: GIT, Visual SVN

Testing Methodologies: Performance Testing and Engineering.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Performance Engineer Lead

Responsibilities:

• Trusted Advisor for Confidential ’s in terms of GO/NO GO decisions.
• Taking the lead, in measuring application and identifying opportunities to enhance performance.
• This include direct hands on activities such as data analysis for testing and design the performance environment.
• To narrow down the performance issues during the Web User Interface load test and database performance load test using monitoring tools.
• Provide technical assistance to improve system/application performance, capacity, reliability and scalability.
• Oversee system performance lifecycle and identify key metrics for performance improvements.
• Evaluate system /application performances and recommend improvements.
• Evaluate new technologies and introducing new performance open source tool to overcome the paid licensing tools without affecting the performance test quality.
• Participate in decision making, accounting for several factors such as speed and scalability and contribute to disaster recovery planning.
• Provide technical oversight and train juniors to resolve complex and severe technical issues.
• Also involve in Defining and implementing Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test metrics, Test procedures, testing techniques.
• Used Apache Jmeter as primary tool for Scripting to test microservice endpoints.
• Executing load test and identifying the bottleneck.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Performance Engineer Lead

Responsibilities:

• Trusted Advisor for Confidential in terms of GO/NO GO decisions.
• Analyzing the client requirement, change request, High level design.
• Interacting with Client production team to understand the production usage and preparing a realistic model for performance Testing.
• Defining Testing Methodologies, Designing Test Plans and Test Cases, Analyzing and validating load test run and documentation the test results based on the analysis.
• Coordinating testing effort, responsible for test deliverables, status reporting to leadership management and issue escalations if any to higher management.
• Creating performance usage model with the client requirement using Early Diagnostic Predictive Model. Early diagnosis modeling helps to identify performance bottlenecks and performance opportunities early in the life cycle of the system and avoids changes at the later part of the project. It also provides Performance Testing Benchmarking.
• Planning all the phases of Performance testing and helps customer to understand the types of testing required for the New Change Request or any new requirement clients or customer.
• Worked in creating the scripts for testing the application using tools like HP Virtual User Generator, Apache JMeter as per the client’s approval and analysis the performance bottleneck.
• Executing the load scenario using HP controller / HP Performance Center and analyzing the Load Scenario from front end & Backend perspective, result preparation and creating reports using metrics from HP Analyzer.
• To narrow down the performance issues during the Web User Interface load test and database performance load test using monitoring tools like Java Visual VM (package of JDK), Eclipse MAT tool, HP Site Scope, App Dynamic, Dynatrace .
• Monitoring and Mentoring the new team members as and when required.

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Performance Engineer Lead

Responsibilities:

• Confidential end to end testing activities, includes to ensure quality and defect free products are delivered on time without any issues.
• Define and implement Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test metrics, Test procedures, testing techniques.
• Trusted Advisor for Nielsen in terms of GO/NO GO decisions.
• Relationship management with Portfolio, Program managers, Sr. Manager and Directors.
• Work with project sponsors to Analyze, understand and write stakeholder specifications, scoping project, defining project objectives, project planning/budget estimation.
• Estimation of testing requirements including, man-hours, tools and schedule.
• Evaluation/assessment of Risk involved in the projects deßvelopments and mitigation plan to overcome Risks
• Define and make sure to execute Test Strategies and Test plans to deliver products with high quality and defect free
• Make sure that adequate testing is covered and issues resolved timely basis, by analyzing defect reports
• Coordination of releases with business, plan, build and operate teams to ensure expected product is delivered with adequate quality.
• Review and optimize Testing process constantly to tune to emerging technologies and industry standards.
• Worked in creating the scripts and executing the load scenario using HP controller / HP Performance Center
• To narrow down the performance issues.
• Test deliverables, status reporting to leadership management which involves Sr. Manager and Directors and suggesting the best solution & approach in case of any issue in prior to higher management.

Confidential

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performance testing the assigned module for defect free product deliverable.
• Significant degree of coordination to ensure adequate test coverage throughout the life-cycle of projects/ programs
• Analyzing the Requirements.
• Preparing High level and Low-Level Design documents
• Performing defect analysis.
• Creating performance test scripts, Proof of Concepts and solution for resolving Technical Issues.
• Training Fresher’s