SUMMARY

• Experienced Automation, Performance Testing and Engineering lead for Software Quality Assurance (QA) with a proven ability in full software development lifecycle. Delivering scalable, fault - tolerant, fault-resilient solutions for complex problems & emerging technologies from QA perspective. Worked with different verticals including fortune 500 and varied level of stake holders, handling enterprise level application performance testing.
• Twelve plus years of experience in Performance Testing and Engineering.
• Experience in Waterfall, Scrum, SaFe Agile Software Development Life Cycle methodologies and also have programming experience in Java/J2EE.
• Handled and worked with varied level of Business teams & Project stakeholders delivering Performance testing milestones.
• Managed Functional, Non-Functional Testing (Load, Stress, Network, Failover, Outage, Failover, Outage, Disaster Recovery) and Automation Testing.
• Experience in managing team members in Onsite & Offshore with 24/7 support
• Experience in Requirements gathering, Estimation, Scoping, Resourcing, Developing Test Plan, Test Scripting, Test Execution, Test Reporting & Defect Management
• Architected and Managed different enterprise level applications from performance perspective - Web applications, Webservices, Microservices, Middleware, SOA, Engineering activities (Code Profiling, memory leak analyzing, Thread Dump & Heap Dump Analysis).
• Expert in performance testing tools HP LoadRunner/ Performance Center, JMeter to conduct various Performance Testing like Load, Stress, Endurance/Soak, Spike, Scalability & Network Testing (using Shunra VCat/Network Virtualization)
• Scripting Experience in various protocols HTTP/HTML, Webservices (SOAP/REST), Web (React JS, Angular JS, J2EE), Java Vuser for Middleware Technologies (JMS/MQ Queue), SAP(GUI/WEB), True Client, and Citrix & RTE
• Expert in Performance Testing applications (Enterprise Web applications, Webservices, Microservices, Citrix, SAP, Middleware based applications but not limited to) hosted in On-premises Datacenter, AWS Hybrid Cloud (Kubernetes EKS).
• Experience in developing a Performance Testing framework/scripts for the products including but not limited SiteMinder, Identity Manager, SAP ERP, Citrix(Desktop/Browser applications), JDA Warehouse Pivotal Gem fire(Data fabric), CDNs(Akamai, Cloudflare), Akka Framework, Amazon AWS Services(Kubernetes, Kinesis, DynamoDB, SQS)
• Experience in Client-side Performance Testing tools HttpWatch, Fiddler and Yslow
• Worked extensively in monitoring tools using APM tools like AppDynamics, Dynatrace, HP Diagnostics,
• AppDynamics/Dynatrace to find out performance bottleneck in Web/App/DB layers
• Experience in monitoring Windows/Unix/Linux Servers using tools SiteScope, Perfmon, Nmon/SAR/Unix Native shell commands

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing tools (Automation, Network and General tools used): HP LoadRunner, JMeter, NeoLoad, Performance Center, Selenium, Cucumber, HP Shunra VCat/Network Virtualization, Soap UI, Postman, ETL Pentaho Kettle, Kubectl/ AWS CLI in AWS Cloud

Application Performance Diagnostic/Scaling/optimization tools: AppDynamics, Dynatrace, HP Diagnostics, HP Site Scope, CA Wily Introscope, Visual VM, JConsole, IBM MAT, Perfmon, Nmon/SAR/Unix Shell, Thread/Heap analyzer, Kibana, Grafana, HTTP Watch, Fiddler, Yslow.

Programming and Scripting: Java/J2EE, JavaScript, HTTP/HTML, Webservices (SOAP/REST), API, Java Vuser for JMS/MQ Queue, SAP(GUI/WEB), True Client, Web (React JS, Angular JS, J2EE)

Software Products: SiteMinder, Identity Manager, JDA Warehouse, SAP ERP, Citrix(Desktop/Web), Gemfire(Caching), CDNs(Akamai, Cloudflare)

Application/Web Servers: JBoss AS, WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat & IIS, Apache, IIS, NGNIX

Databases/ORM: Teradata, DB2, Oracle, MS-SQL server, MS Access, MySQL

IDE, CI/CD: Jenkins, AWS CI/CD, Eclipse, NetBeans

Infrastructure, Cloud and Containerization: AWS Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, RHEL/Solaris, Windows, Kubectl, AWS CLI, Kinesis, Dynamo DB, SQS

SDLC Models: AGILE - SCRUM, SaFe, Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Attended PI Planning meeting and gathered Non-Functional requirements for Features planned for the release
• Worked with the Scrum Master/Business Analysts/Solution Architects to capture the Acceptance Criteria for Performance Testing Features
• Worked with Scrum Master/Business Analysts/Solution Architects to derive the workload/usage model for performance testing
• Attended Test Environment management weekly meeting to reserve Test Data and Test Environment for performance testing
• Worked closely with Development Tech Lead & Solution Architects in designing Performance Testing Strategy
• Followed up with stakeholders to sign off on the Test Plan, Test Summary Report with stakeholders
• Conducted Performance Testing, Failover/Outage, Disaster Recovery Testing for Early Performance Testing & Certification Testing
• Attended Daily Stand Ups and provide Performance Testing Status to stakeholders
• Attended Sprint Iteration Review & Retrospective meeting
• Prepared Daily and Weekly status reports, conducted meeting with Reporting Manager
• Managed Offshore team and Deliverables
• Scheduled Defect Triage Meeting to convey the importance of the critical Defects
• Maintained the RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies) from performance test perspective and highlight it to the Project Management team.
• Certified the application performance after analyzing the Performance Test Results
• Participated in “Go/No-go” calls before production to determine release worthiness

Confidential

Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Attended Project Kick Off meeting or PI planning team
• Gathered Non-Functional Testing requirements from PI planning or Project Kick Off Meeting
• Provided Performance Testing estimates based on requirements
• Worked closely with Architects in designing performance testing strategy and capture Acceptance Criteria
• Worked with the Architects, Business Analysts & Development Leads to derive the Workload/Usage model for Performance testing
• Followed up with stakeholders for sign off on the Test plan & final Test report document, status updates to the stakeholders
• Conducted Performance Testing, Failover/Outage, Disaster Recovery Testing for Early Performance Testing & Certification Testing
• Prepared Daily and Weekly status reports, conducted meeting with Reporting Manager
• Managed Offshore team and Deliverables
• Scheduled Defect Triage Meeting to convey the importance of the critical Defects
• Maintained the RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies) from performance test perspective and highlight it to the Project Management team.
• Certified the application performance after analyzing the Performance Test Results
• Participated in “Go/No-go” calls before production to determine release worthiness

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed the Performance test plan and validated the Test approach with stakeholders
• Reviewed Test Scripts and Delivered them to Onsite
• Prepared weekly status reports and shared with reporting manager
• Participated in Project Weekly Status calls and provided Performance Testing status
• Certified the application performance after analyzed the Performance Test Results

Confidential

Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the Business Analysts & Development team to derive the Workload/Usage model for Performance testing. Estimated the effort for performance testing
• Designed the Performance test plan and validated the Test approach with the team
• Tracked the tests executed by the team and reviewed the test results
• Participated in Project status calls and provided performance testing status
• Prepared Daily and Weekly status reports, conducted meeting with Reporting Manager
• Certified the application performance after analyzed the Performance Test Results