SUMMARY:

• Over 9 years of Performance tuning and Software Quality Assurance testing experience (automation/manual) in Windows and UNIX environments.
• Experienced in gathering the requirements for Performance Testing by working closely with functional test teams, development and business teams.
• Experienced in identifying Test Environment and Performance Acceptance Criteria.
• Designed appropriately sized environments to generate adequate load to emulate various production traffic patterns that may include network and end user simulation, scalability and failover testing, and application profiling.
• Experience in designing test strategy and setting the direction for testing to validate testing environment readiness and help transition solutions into production.
• Strong experience in both Manual and Automation Testing using HP testing tools such as HP Quality Center, LoadRunner 12.50, Performance Center.
• Proficient in finding performance bottlenecks and end - to-end performance metrics (Transaction response time, throughput, network latency, CPU, and Memory utilization
• Performance test execution, test results analysis and reporting
• Strong experience with web-services unit and load testing using Ready API .
• Good working experience with ESB and SAO Environment. worked with both Waterfall and Agile Methodologies
• Very Good with TFS administration, installation, and configuration
• Excellent oral and written communications skills, Solid teamwork and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP LoadRunner 12.50, HP ALM/ Quality center, Performance Center, SoapUI, LoadUI (Ready API 1.9.0), TFS 2013

Apache JMeterDatabases and Utilities: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Oracle SQL Developer, WinSQL

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix/Linux, AIX

Monitoring Tools Utilities: TypePerf, SiteScope, JConsole, JVisualVM, IBM Garbage Collection Analyzer, PoolMon, Log Parser, Process Explorer,Dynatrace, Splunk.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in test environment creation and configuration.
• LoadRunner installation and configuration.
• Built performance testing data driven framework
• Data staging, and testing environment readiness
• Involved in non functional requirement gathering by working closely with the business analysts, developers, and functional testing teams
• Developed Performance test strategy, and test plan for performance testing.
• Loadrunner script development, script enhancement, and validation.
• Load test scenario definition and load distribution
• Responsible for Performance test execution, test results analysis and reporting.
• Worked on collaboration with HP support team in order to resolve LoadRunner related issues.
• ESB capacity testing.
• Performed Web services unit and load testing using Ready API.
• TFS 2013 Installation, configuration and administration

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing the Performance test plan, and test strategy.
• Involved in gathering the functional and performance testing requirements.
• Developed Load Testing scenarios and Load Carrying out various type of performance testing using LoadRunner.
• Used Performance Center for Smoke, Load, Stress, and Endurance testing so as to predict system behavior and performance.
• Responsible for Performance test execution, test results analysis and reporting.
• Performance bottlenecks findings and end-to-end performance metrics (Transaction response time, throughput, network latency, CPU, and Memory usage.
• Identified Memory Leak issues, Java Heap, Garbage Collection.

Confidential, New York, NY

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating and modifying documents like test plan, test strategy, test cases.
• Converted requirements into test cases and loaded them from excel to HP Quality Center for execution and defects tracking.
• Used Quality Center for test plans and case execution and for the defects module.
• Wrote SQL queries for data validation.
• Involved in Scripts creation using LoadRunner Vuser Generator.
• Involved in scripts enhancement including reviewing/defining transactions, adding parameters and correlating values.
• Responsible for Performance test execution, results analysis, reporting and recommendations.
• Measured Throughput, Hits per second, Response time, Transaction time using LoadRunner Analysis.
• Participated in the creation and execution of the Performance test plans and scripts to determine optimal application performance according to specifications using LoadRunner.
• Used Windows Typeperf & Perfmon Utility to create custom config file and collect windows resources statistics remotely and generate report with PAL.
• Involved in using Vmstat, Sar Utilities & Unix System Monitor to measure Unix system Performance under load.

Confidential, NY

Junior Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in participating in requirement gathering sessions and prepared test strategy, test cases for the application under test.
• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specifications.
• Involved in both manual and performance testing activities
• Created Bug Reports to present the testing results using HP Quality Center.
• Developed various SQL queries to perform Back end data base testing.
• Involved in Scripts creation using LoadRunner Vuser Generator.
• Involved in scripts enhancement including reviewing/defining transactions, adding parameters and correlating values.
• Involved in designing scenarios using LoadRunner Controller.
• Participated in bug review meetings and resolving the issues related to the bugs.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing on behalf of End Users at client’s environment.