SUMMARY:

• Certified Confidential Expert One (HP0 - M19) in Confidential Virtual User Generator tool.
• Extensive experience in Performance Testing and Automated/Manual testing of Web based, Client/Server applications using Black Box and White Box testing techniques.
• Understanding about all phases of Software Development Life Cycle and methods used in Software Verification, Testing, Inspection and Reviews.
• Extensive experience in analyzing Business Requirements Docs, Functional and Technical Specifications Docs, Design Documents and breaking them in to detail Test Cases.
• Extensively Involved in Performance Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing and Content Testing, both manually as well as using Automated-testing tools including Performance Center, LoadRunner, Quick Test Professional and Quality Center.
• Excellent knowledge in performance testing, starting from setting up Load Test environment, installation and providing useful insight on analysis of the application servers and performance tunings.
• Extensive experience in writing, execution and reviewing of Test plans and preparing Traceability Matrix based on requirements and non-functional specifications.
• Experienced in implementing the Scalability, Stability and Reliability of the applications. Designing appropriate workload scenarios to analyze performance requirements.
• Exposure of preparing and presenting Test Execution Reports, Defect Tracking and Weekly Status Reports to the project team.
• Sound Knowledge on database access tools like iSeries-Navigator/GreenScreen, and DBMON.
• Good experience with monitoring tools such as Confidential Sitescope, DynaTrace, Perfmon, Nmon, Wily Introscope, Confidential Diagnostics, JVMHeap Analyzer, Solar winds and OEM (Oracle Enterprise Management).
• Sound Knowledge and responsible for monitoring the Memory related counters for .Net/Java based application during the test execution for early detection of performance related issues.
• Extensive experience on pinpointing the performance bottlenecks by using DynaTrace, Wily Introscope and Nmon monitoring tools. Also well versed to work the application team by providing the required support to fix the issues.
• Well versed with the diagnostic tools like DynaTrace to perform the Root Cause Analysis to pinpoint the performance bottlenecks by drilling deep down to method/object level.
• Experienced in Designing and Execution of Test criteria, Scenarios, and Scripts from business requirements.
• Involved in Planning and Translation of Software Business Requirements into test conditions, execution of all types of tests, and identification as well as logging of Software bugs and business process improvement.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automated Test Tools: Performance Center 12.x/11.x/9.5, LoadRunner 12.x/11.x/9.x/8.1/7.x, HP ALM, Quality Center 11.x/10.x, JMeter, OATS and Quick Test Pro 10.x/9.x

Monitoring Tools: HP Sitescope 11.x/10.x, DynaTrace 6.x/5.x, HP Diagnostics, Nmon, PerfMon, Wily Introscope, Solarwinds, and DBMON.

Languages: C, C++, .NET, JAVA, SQL

Configuration Mgmt Tools: HP Quality Center, HP ALM, JIRA, ClearQuest, PVCS, Visual SourceSafe, Confluence

RDBMS: iSeries/AS400 V6R1, Oracle R12/11i/10g, MS SQL Server 2000/6.x, MS Access 2000/9.x, DB2

FrontEnd: Visual Basic 6.0, Developer 2000

Internet: HTML, DHTML, VBScript, and Java Script

Environment: s: .NET, JAVA, SAP R/3, ECC 5.0/6.0, Siebel, WMS

Operating Systems: WinXP/ 2000/98/95/3.1, Unix, MS-DOS 6.22, Win NT4.0/3.51

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Sr. Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating and updating the Performance test plan based on the inputs from stakeholders like Business users, Business Analysts and Development team.
• Working with business owners and users on arriving at SLAs for the AUT.
• Involved in the Capacity Planning of the Application infrastructure based on the business estimates.
• Extensively worked on discovering the Performance bottlenecks arising from the Performance tests and working with various teams in an effort to resolve the issues, and developing performance testing best practices.
• Sound Knowledge and responsible for monitoring the Memory related counters during the test execution for early detection of performance related issues.
• Sound knowledge in analyzing performance statistics (response times, throughput) of applications to confirm projections and application trends.
• Responsible for creating the test harness for the Load Testing activity.
• Responsible for coordinating with application teams for setting up the Test lab environment including Installation, Code Deployment, Troubleshooting and certificate Configuration on Windows/WebSphere application servers.
• Responsible for developing automated test cases from scratch using protocols like WEB (HTTP/HTML), Web Services and Seibel Web protocols.
• Extensive experience in developing advanced automated scripts with Vugen by using custom functions, parameterization, and correlation concepts to emulate the real time user actions on the application.
• Extensively used LR utility functions for error handling.
• Designed Load, stress, capacity and duration test scenarios and scheduled test execution using Performance Center.
• Extensively worked on setting up the performance monitoring counters from Confidential Sitescope to monitor the AUT.
• Responsible for monitoring system resource utilization during test execution on application host machines.
• Used Process Explorer to see if any extraneous processes other than the Load Testing processes are running while the Load Test execution is in progress.
• Used Quality Center for defect management and to report the identified defects during the performance tests.
• Worked on SOA based Applications.
• Collaborated with team member’s to create stubs using CA LISA for the web services, which are calling third party applications.
• Developing and presenting detailed Performance Test Results by documenting the test findings, recommendations and application performance during the tests to relevant stake holders that includes developers, DBAs, Product Owners, Project Managers etc.,
• Debug, troubleshoot, and work with team members to find and fix application defects.

Environment: HP Performance Center 12.x,/HP ALM, HP Sitescope, Nmon, HP Quality Center 11.x, Wily Introscope, CA LISA, TCP/IP, HTTP Watch, JavaJ2EE, Wireshark, HTTP Watch, Linux, WebSphere, Web Services, .NET, Windows, JavaScript, Putty, SQL DB, AWR, Oracle 10g, MS SharePoint, Windows 2008 Server.

Sr. Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering requirements from business analysts and development teams.
• Involved in effort estimation, defining test strategy s with respect to the applications and developing Performance Test Plans based on the information.
• Extensively worked with business users to identify the mission critical business transactions/modules in the application and document the test cases.
• Extensively used Dynatrace to pin down the root cause for the high response times by drilling down to Pure Path/Transaction Flow and worked with the application teams to identify the root cause of the performance bottlenecks by executing the troubleshooting tests.
• Responsible to monitor/analyze the system resource utilization like CPU, memory utilization and connection pool on web application, and DB servers using Solarwinds, OEM, and Dynatrace.
• Extensively worked on creating automated scripts for the identified mission critical flows using VU Generator.
• Used different protocols like WEB (HTTP/HTML), Web Services, RTE, Ajax TruCleint and Oracle Web Application protocol for creating automated scripts in VU Generator.
• Responsible and well versed with Heap dump and Threads dumps analysis.
• Used various Correlation and parameterization techniques as part of the scripting process.
• Currently involved in Oracle EBS R12 End-to-End performance-testing process. This process includes loading the orders into Oracle EBS R12 from different entry source systems. Also involved in performance testing different workflows such as Order to Cash, Procure to Pay.
• Calculated the Load Distribution across the application and designed the load/performance test scenarios to emulate the real time use of the application in the production during the tests.
• Involved in POC testing on JMeter and OATS.
• Extensively used LR Analysis to analyze the load test results to pinpoint the performance bottlenecks by applying multiple features like adjusting granularity, correlating, merging and filtering the graphs.
• Involved with DBA teams to analyze the AWR reports to identify the high response time/load consuming SQL s.
• Used JIRA and Quality Center for defect management and to report the identified defects during the performance tests.
• Responsible for preparing Performance test results and presented the same to the management and required stakeholders.

Environment: LoadRunner 12, DynaTrace 6.0, Nmon, Oracle EBS 11i, Oracle EBS R12, DB2, Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), Solarwinds, OATS, HP Quality Center 11.x, JMeter, JIRA, Confluence, Stash, HTTP Watch, MQ, Bamboo, Wireshark, WebSphere 8.1, Tomcat, J2EE Diagnostics 3.5, Web Services, SOAP UI, JAVA.

Sr. Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Interact with the application teams to understand the business requirements for creating the Performance Test Plan and documenting Test Cases.
• Involved in reviewing project related documents like BRD's/HLD's/LLD's.
• Extensive experience in creating advanced LoadRunner scripts with Vugen, using custom functions and programs to support performance-testing efforts.
• Experienced in determining the test strategy, designing test scenarios based on application requirements.
• Tailored some of the existing scripts by inserting programming elements into the script to conditionally execute transactions.
• Created and coded a very flexible LoadRunner scripts that allowed for fast configuration changes during testing.
• Used Quality Center for Defect Management and reporting test defects for multiple development teams.
• Created and executed various scenarios, generated graphs, overlaid graphs for comparison, analyzed the load test results and unearthed performance bottlenecks.
• Extensively used Performance Center for creating LR scenarios and executing LR scripts to simulate multiple users and transactional workload for performance testing using WEB (HTTP/HTML), Seibel Web, AJAX TruClient and WebServices protocols.
• Extensively involved in providing/suggesting performance tuning recommendations like new indexes, avoiding full table scans etc.
• Sound knowledge in working with windows level monitoring tools like DynaTrace, Confidential Sitescope and to monitor Servers/CPU/Memory usage etc while the application is under test.
• Extensively worked on iSeries monitoring using DBMON.
• Extensively worked on database access tools like iSeries-Navigator/GreenScreen, SQL-Server Management Studio.
• Used LoadRunner Analysis for generating a variety of graphs including Merging, Overlaying of the existing baseline results.
• Facilitate various performance-tweaking exercises and work with developers to resolve performance related issues.
• Perform application benchmark testing, interpret test results and work with the application developers for capacity planning and tuning purposes.

Environment: HP Performance Center 11.x/10.x/HP ALM, HP Quality Center 11.x/9.x, HP SiteScope 11.x, DynaTrace 5.5, Nmon, Wireshark, HTTP Watch, .NET, SQL Server 2005, DB2, iSeries/AS400 V6R1, Putty, SOAP UI, Web Services, Windows 2003 Server.

Sr. Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with IBM’S Global Logistics team for performance tuning of the E-commerce application.
• Analyzed System Requirements and developed Test Plan, Test Procedures and Test Cases.
• Interacted with the business teams to understand user requirements and gather inputs for creating the test cases for testing user creation, transactions.
• Prepared Load test strategy following the specification requirements and System architecture.
• Used C utility functions to enhance LR Scripts to handle exceptions.
• Created Vuser scripts using LR VU Generator for multiple protocols like, WEB (HTTP/HTML), AJAX TruClient, AJAX Click and Script and WebService.
• Performed extensive Correlation in .NET applications using the View state params for the recorded script to handle Dynamic values returned by the server.
• Extensively performed Parameterization of the VuGen scripts to ensure the real time load conditions.
• Extensively used Performance center for executing load tests. Also, involved in administering the Performance center including Controllers, Load Generators etc.
• Worked on DynaTrace in an effort to troubleshoot the bottlenecks across the Application infrastructure.
• Involved in designing the load matrix for the baseline testing scenarios across various modules.
• Implemented performance test cases for testing the response time of the transactions, which covered both end to end test cases and test cases to test a specific functionality.
• Involved in the capacity planning of the various Applications Under test.
• Analyzed Performance Bottlenecks using LoadRunner Monitors, DynaTrace, ITCam.
• Used Confidential Performance center for scheduling, executing and monitoring Load Tests.
• Used LR Analysis tool to view Load test results and drill down to identify potential performance bottlenecks.
• Supervise and provide technical guidance to the extended team in the design and analysis of effective performance tests and System Tuning activities.

Environment: HP LoadRunner 9.x, DynaTrace 5.5, Clear Quest, Java J2EE, .NET, Siebel, ASP, C#, VB.NET, Webmethods, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, SOAP, JBoss, WebSphere, HTTP Watch, SOA test 5.1, Web Services, IBM Tivoli, AJAX, HP Quality Center 9.1, Linux and Windows 2003 Server.

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Prepared performance test plan based on Business requirement document and prepared test cases and test procedures.
• Created Vuser scripts for multiple protocols including WEB (HTTP/HTML), AJAX Click and Script and Web Services.
• Created Load Test Scenarios scheduled the VUsers to generate realistic load on the application servers.
• Performed Load, Scalability, Stability and Performance testing on the SAP ECC, WebSphere web-application server using LoadRunner.
• Developed a number of scripts using VuGen.
• Forecast system load levels and develop scripts that stress the system to those levels.
• Performed load and performance testing on the WebSphere web-application server using LoadRunner.
• Identified Potential Performance Problems during design.
• Designed and developed automated Load, Stress, capacity and endurance tests.
• Identified Performance Bottlenecks, working with engineers and developers to resolve issues, and developing performance testing best practices.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and work with team members to find and fix software defects.
• Executing Tests and creation of results using Analysis.
• Knowledge of Microsoft VSTS.
• Created Reports that describes detected defects and possible causes.
• Facilitate Tuning exercises and work with developers to resolve performance related bugs.
• Writing SQL scripts that execute SQL files to verify orders data and to pre-populate application user profiles.

Environment: HP Performance Center 9.x, HP Quality Center, HP Sitescope, HP Diagnostics, ASP.NET, C#, ADO.NET, VB Script, Webmethods, Wireshark, HTTP Watch, App Dynamincs, Web Services, IBM WebSphere, Java Script, TIBCO, Clear Quest, Oracle 8i, SQL, Windows XP and UNIX.

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in planning and coordination effort throughout QA life cycle.
• Participated in capacity planning for the Application under Test based on the Production estimate usages.
• Responsible for designing load test strategies based on the environment activity.
• Responsible for estimating the concurrent users for the load test based on the Transactions/sec that is seen in production.
• Responsible for creating test scripts using LoadRunner Vugen.
• Responsible for setting up the LoadRunner Agents in the load testing set up.
• Performed the correlation and Parameterization using LoadRunner Vugen.
• Responsible for creating Load Test scenarios based on the load testing scripts that are to be loaded.
• Responsible for identifying the counters that needs to be added onto the scenario for data collection from analysis perspective.
• Responsible for Co-ordination with DBA for migrating the necessary stored procedures and other database stuff that is needed by the Load Test database.
• Involved in compatibility testing of the application with different platforms using Quick Test Pro.
• Responsible for Load Testing Co-ordination with various other projects involved in load testing activity.
• Responsible for the generation of the LoadRunner Analysis files based on the LoadRunner results file generated by the load test.
• Responsible for filtering the analysis file data based on the durations required.
• Generated detailed test status reports, performance/capacity reports, web trend analysis reports, and graphical charts for upper management.

Environment: HP Performance Center 8.1, Wily Introscope, HP Quality Center 8.0, J2EE, .Net, Wireshark, HTTP Watch, SQL, HTML, LDAP, IBM AIX 4.2, Rational Robot, Windows NT.