SUMMARY:

• 11 years 5 months of rich experience in Non - Functional - Performance Testing & engineering of IT applications that would enable me to utilize all my capabilities. As part of my assignments, I have been leading a performance testing team in Cognizant health care verticals.
• Around 8+ years of experience in Health care domain level performance testing & engineering using Performance Centre, Jmeter, Neoload, VSTS, ALM, SOAPUI, SQL Profiler, Dynatrace and Appdynamics for all the payers and providers related transactions.
• Strong experience in Performance Testing & Performance Engineering Activities.
• Experience in handling 75+ Applications with different protocols using different tools & techniques.
• Experienced in Preparation of POC and Feasibility Document.
• Experienced in Preparation of Test plan, Test Design, Effort Estimation, creating roadmap & process documentation and Business Workflow for performance testing.
• Experienced in Preparation of In-depth Analysis on Performance Report in terms of hits, throughput, Error statists, UNIX(NMON & AWR ) & Windows resources etc.,
• Experience in Analyzing the server statistics ( CPU, memory, disk I/O, heap memory, core dump & run queue, NMON, AWR, Perfmon etc.,)
• Extensive knowledge of creating and handling scripts, functions & analysis logs etc.,
• Involved in PoC’s and project presentations
• Conducted Performance training /demos
• Hands on experience in Security &Accessibility testing
• Certified Performance tester
• Certified Security tester
• Experienced in Leading a Performance team
• Possesses excellent communication skills and a committed team player.
• Good knowledge of HP Load Runner Pack Performance Testing Tools.
• Good Knowledge on Reporting and Analysis Performance logs.
• Good interpersonal skills, committed, result oriented, hard working with a Quest and zeal to learn new technologies and to perform challenging tasks.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages and Scripts: C, C++, VB Script, very basic groovy script

Middleware Tools: SoapUI 5.3.1

Performance & Profiling Tools: HP Load runner Pack (Vugen, Controller, Analysis & Console), Jmeter, SQL profiler, Neoload, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, F12 Developer tool, Wireshark & Fiddler.

Test Management Tool: Quality Center & Clear Quest

Other Tools/Analysis tools: NMON & AWR analysis and Tivoli

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server

Domain: Healthcare, Banking & Retail

Security Management Tool: Very basic IBM App Scan

Accessibility Testing Tools: Section 508, JAWS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL & Arizona

Responsibilities:

• Consult with customer and understand customer constraints and performance requirements.
• Analyse system’s architecture and design, gathered required documents to create NFR artefacts.
• Response for detailed planning along with the review and monitoring the performance strategy, understand the scope, prepare high level approach to accomplish the scope of work, co-ordinate with client manager for high level performance planning and allocation, prepare a high level performance execution plan, mentor performance lead and engineers, on the framework, prepare high level estimation and staffing plan for the performance evaluation, effectively communicate project exceptions to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion, define the project milestone dates and create project plan, estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals, define phases of the project execution stage and respective deliverables, co-ordinate and resolve the client issues/concerns & metrics reporting to the client on weekly basis
• Manage onsite performance team and provide clarification on the performance requirements by having meeting with stake holders.
• Analyze the requirements to create a performance test plan, project estimation and ROI projections.
• Preparing the performance business framework to validate each and every components of the application.
• Responsible for the preparation of project status report - weekly & monthly updates and used a wide range of performance testing tools like Performance Center, ALM, Dynatrace & j-meter for testing.
• Support customer for End-to-End performance testing activities using different market tools
• Provided training and knowledge transfer to the identified customer core team.

Performance Lead

Responsibilities:

• As an senior associate, response for detailed planning along with the review and monitoring the performance strategy, understand the scope, prepare high level approach to accomplish the scope of work, co-ordinate with client manager for high level performance planning and allocation, prepare a high level performance execution plan, mentor performance lead and engineers, on the framework, prepare high level estimation and staffing plan for the performance evaluation, effectively communicate project exceptions to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion, define the project milestone dates and create project plan, estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals, define phases of the project execution stage and respective deliverables, co-ordinate and resolve the client issues/concerns & metrics reporting to the client on weekly basis.
• Determine the performance test plan, performance regression cycle, strategy and number of cycles of performance validation, tools required and communicate review completion activity along with issues to respective stakeholders.
• Manage onsite and offshore performance team and provide clarification on the performance requirements by having meeting with stake holders.
• Analyze the requirements to create a performance test plan, project estimation and roi projections.
• Preparing the performance business framework to validate each and every components of the application.
• Responsible for the preparation of project status report - weekly & monthly updates and used a wide range of performance testing tools like hp load runner, alm & j-meter for testing and Cognizant’s proprietary tools like an etracker.
• Imparting domain and technical knowledge to the offshore associates and new entrants.

Performance Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all the Performance Testing activities that includes Non-Functional Requirement gathering, Test Design, Test Development, Test data Preparation, Test Scenario setup, Performance Test Execution and Analysis & Reporting of Performance Test Results. He involved in the preparation of Estimation and Project plan. He is responsible for all the deliverables of the projects. He has involved in the review of test coverage document by analyzing the non-functional requirements and deriving test scenarios and traceability matrix. He conducted and collected various metrics for analysis and participated in Project Management Review meetings. He is responsible for the preparation of Project Status Report - weekly & Monthly Updates. Utilizing a wide range of performance testing tools like Load Runner, J-Meter for testing and Cognizant’s proprietary tools like eTracker, Cognizant 2.0 for tracking efforts during project execution phase and quality assurance respectively. Imparting domain and technical knowledge to the new entrants and also fellow team members. Actively participating in various Cognizant quality audits conducted by Cognizant’s Delivery Assurance Group (DAG).

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Performance Testing deliverables for the projects. Played an active role in Non-Functional Requirement gathering, Understanding Business Requirement Specifications and System Requirement Specifications and he involved preparing the virtual users scripts and execute the scripts with x number of users. Involved raising a defect in the Bugzilla and do the regression round once the new code is deployed in the server.

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the Non-Functional Requirement gathering, preparation of Performance Test script preparation, test data preparation, Monitoring SAP servers and Analysis & Reporting of Performance Test results. He involved in Peer Reviews and Test execution Reviews. Responsible for providing Test sign off and preparing Traceability Matrix. He involved in collecting the statistics of the performance defects raised and tracked till closure. He has involved in attending the Client meeting every week to share the various statistics of the project that includes addressing the performance issues in the application, performance defect tracking, defect closure etc.,