SUMMARY:

• 8+ Years of diverse experience in Performance testing with expertise in requirements gathering, test planning, test execution and detailed performance analysis of Web based applications, Client Server and Mainframe applications.
• Worked in performance projects under agile/scurm methodoloigies.
• Conducted performance testing, stress testing, endurance and capacity testing using LoadRunner/Jmeter for Cloud (AWS) and inhouse multi tier applications.
• Knowledge of Java Virtual Machine internals including class loading, threads, synchronization, and garbage collection in Java 7 and Java 8.
• Worked in frond end performane engineering using tools like webpagetest, gtmetrix, catchpoint, rigor and mpulse and used best practices to enhance performance of websites.
• Experence in creating load testing stratergies and test plans .
• Worked as team lead and onsite/offshore coordinator and made sure the quality is delivered by following proper procedures.
• Developing /Enhancing Vuser scripts, strong experience in customizing loadrunner scripts.
• Hands on experience in implementing LoadRunner, Developing Load Test Conditions and Test Scenarios.
• Worked on various Load Runner Protocols like Web (HTTP/HTML), Web Services, Winsock, Citrix,.NET, JAVA - RMI, Java Over HTTP, MQ and Ajax.
• Performed IP Spoofing using LoadRunner.
• Configured and used SiteScope Performance Monitors to analyze the performance of the server by generating various reports from CPU utilization, Memory Usage to load average etc.
• Worked on Dynatrace tool to create system profiles and monitor/analyse the CPU samplings, memory samplings, pure path’s and JVM profiling.
• Used Jira for tracking and reporting bugs.
• Worked on CI/CD with Jmeter and Jenkins
• Well versed with the behavior of online monitors and the techniques to fix the monitoring issues and monitoring Vuser status
• Utilized Database, Network, Application server and WebLogic Monitors during the execution to identify bottlenecks, bandwidth problems, infrastructure problems, and the scalability and reliability benchmarks.
• Quick Learner and motivated team player with strong analytical and problem solving.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: LoadRunner 12.5,ALM Performance center 12.3, Shunra, JMeter

Front End Tools: WebPage test, GTMetrix, CatchPoint, Rigor and Mpulse (Soasta)

Monitoring Tools: Cloud Watch, HP Sitescope, dynaTrace, HP Diagnostics, App Dynamics, NMON, perfmon and Perfecto.

Protocols: HTTP/HTML, Web Service, TruClient, Citrix, .NET, AJAX Click and Script

Programming: LanguagesC, C++, Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, XML,Python: Web/ApplicationAWS, IBM Web Sphere, BEA Web Logic 7.x/8.x/10.x, Tomcat 5.0/5.5, Apache: Operating

Systems: Windows Server 2003 - 2008, Windows 2000/2003/Vista/ 7/8, Unix, Linux

Database: Oracle, DB2, MY SQL, SQL Server,MongoDB

Domain Knowledge: E-Commerce, Financial, Health Insurance, Retailing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NYC

Sr. Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared the performance & Monitoring Plan and work with the team to evaluate & fine-tune system response time to establish benchmarks & ongoing monitoring processes.
• Worked on both WebMB consumer and professional verticas
• Worked in downloading various JMeter listeners required for reporting.
• Worked in setting up the JMETER 3.1 tool on various environments.
• Extensevely worked on both LoadRunner and Jmeter tool to perform load tests.
• Used JMeter to execute load tests outside the company firewall by configuring host machines with JMeter in AWS.
• Performance tested high throughtput calls close to 450 tps for Kafka, Rabbit MQ and Active MQ middleware .
• Monitored linux servers using NMOM tool and perform for windows servers
• Monitored .Net counters using perfecto tool
• Extensevely used Dynatrace for deep dive diagnotics and performed thread dumps, CPU samplings to identify the root causes for the applications
• Worked on applications running on node.js technologies
• Worked on performance testing on documentation application
• Experienced in monitoring CPU, Memory, ASP Requests, Network, Web connections and through put while running Baseline, Performance, Load, Stress, Volume and Endurance tests
• Performance tested REST based APIs and services using SOAPUI and LoadRunner
• Attended daily scrum meetings and standups to discuss the progress and roadblocks
• Strong process and documentation skills for performance testing/engineering.
• Ability to successfully manage multiple deadlines and multiple projects effectively through a combination of business and technical skills.

Environment: LoadRunner,Vugen,Performance Center, SiteScope, DynaTrace, Citrix, Web services, Jmeter, nmon,perfmon,perfecto,nodejs,kafka,activeMQ,rabbitMQ,Postman API

Sr. Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared the performance & Monitoring Plan and work with the team to evaluate & fine-tune system response time to establish benchmarks & ongoing monitoring processes.
• Developed a comprehensive Performance Management Plan and executed all aspects of the plan. Ensured that the implementation, key user types, locations, and scenarios are assessed as part of the overall plan
• Worked with the implementation team to identify critical business processes and key application transactions to define performance requirements
• Conducted Analysis of Testing Results and recommended solutions for software and infrastructure tuning
• Worked on SQL server 2008/2012 databases for performing tuning and suggested recommendations for better performance
• Exposure to IDE tools like Eclipse and Visual studio to understand the devolper code
• Coordinated all aspects of test design, planning, and execution with product vendor and service providers
• Worked with the business team to set expectations and establish key performance benchmarks to use in end user communications as well as QA/ Performance Team
• Involved in Load Testing of various modules and software application using LoadRunner12.20.
• Conducted memory leak testing for all the applications using LoadRunner and App Dynamics
• Monitored and analyzed system performance during load tests using SiteScope.
• Responsible for developing and executing performance and volume tests.
• Setup test scenarios to properly load / stress the system in test environment and monitor / debug performance & stability problems.

Environment: LoadRunner,Vugen,Performance Center, SiteScope, App Dynamics, Citrix, Web services, Windows, and HP-UX.

Sr. Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in various meetings with customers/Development team to gather the performance requirements and SLAs before the testing.
• Authored the performance test plan based on the performance requirements and key objectives.
• Developed LoadRunner test scripts and scenarios according to the test specifications/Requirements using
• Created a solid plan for repeated performance testing which are data dependent for DB restore and backup
• Excellent team player in conducting and executing performance testing activities.
• Devolped scripts using Vugen.
• Customized scripts for error handling.
• Responsible for writing startup scripts and compiled module functions for the front and backend validation.
• Involved in the root cause analysis for the problems in proposed architecture.
• Used IP spoofing to generate and associate different IP addresses to Virtual Users to emulate real-time scenarios for load balancing issues.
• Used to identify the queries which was taking long time and optimize those queries to improve the performance
• Monitored the CPU, memory, and network utilizations using Site Scope monitor.
• Involved in analyzing the problems using transaction breakdown, Network monitoring and Resource monitoring to find the performance bottlenecks.
• Develop and implement load, capacity and stress tests with Load Runner and Present performance statistics to application teams and provided recommendations of performance improvement.
• Investigate and troubleshoot performance problems in a lab environment including analysis of performance problems.
• Performed in-depth analysis to isolate points of failure in application.
• Developed and deployed test automation scripts to do end to end performance testing using.

Environment: LoadRunner, Performance Center, Vugen, Quality Center, UNIX, Windows, Java, J2EE, Web services, Oracle, XML, SQL Server and HTML.

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensiviely on Peformance Center 11.52 version.
• Involved in various meetings with customers/clients to gather the performance requirements and SLAs before testing.
• Design and executed performance test plan and test cases.
• Worked with business team in establishing benchmarks to use during deployment.
• Created a number of Load testing scripts for Data seeding purposes.
• Responsible for creating the Load Distribution tables for various scripting modules involved.
• Responsible for creating the work load model along with various run time settings.
• Used Performance center for scheduling and execution of load tests.
• Responsible for conducting Benchmark, Volume, Baseline and soak testing
• Developed and maintained Performance test strategies and plans based on functional requirements, use cases, user interface designs, system design documents and domain knowledge.
• Created high level strategy documentation and detailed test documents.
• Written test case creation and always tried to enhance the Test cases for the application.
• Worked with database team and submission and processing of data requests
• Conducted Load Testing using LoadRunner for response time monitoring.
• Generated Virtual users to ensure multiuser logging, and multi session logging and analyzed the results.
• System resource utilization (CPU, Memory, Threads, etc.) was monitored with the help of SiteScope and Perfmon.
• Managed and edited additional information for the bugs in the Defect Tracking system and helped developers to track the problem and resolve technical issues.
• Maintained strong relationships with developers which helped in better triaging and narrowing down the bugs.
• Worked on Middleware performance testing, used Webservices protocol to accomplish the task
• Participated in regular meetings with developers for reviews and walk-throughs.
• Responsible for ensuring the usability of the application, Navigation and graphical interfaces and the database integrity by performing extensive smoke test, functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, and data driven testing.

Environment: LoadRunner, Vugen/Controller, HTML, XML, Java, Quality Center, MS office and Windows.