PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Have 6+ years of experience in Performance Testing and engineering services.
• Certified in International Software Testing Qualifications Board foundation level
• Certified HP LoadRunner AIS professional.
• Have been handling the Performance engagements individually or with the team and responsible for the delivery of the performance assignments.
• Expertise in Performance Testing Life Cycle - Involved in Requirement Collection, Planning, Design Performance Scripts, Execution and Reporting.
• Extensive experience in analyzing performance tests results, client side and server side metrics to identify the bottlenecks and provide recommendations to assure the quality of the product
• Expertise in using the performance testing tools like Radview- WebLOAD, HP- LoadRunner, Performance center and Microfocus- SilkPerformer
• Proficiency in testing WEB HTTP/HTML, Web TrueClient, Citrix and Web Services protocols in Load Testing.
• Good working experience on Web Services and REST services Performance Testing.
• Expertise in monitoring various application servers like WebLogic, Apache, IIS and Operating system counters on Windows, Linux, Unix and Solaris.
• Configured scenarios and set up the monitors to capture the performance of the Application servers, Web servers and Database servers using Load runner.
• Identify the Test Data for performance testing needs.
• Created Best Practices in various phases of the Performance Testing Life Cycle.
• Involving Design review meetings and providing best approaches and business approaches as per prior experience in various Domains.
• Created and maintained project plans, meeting summaries, status reports, risk and issue logs, and change management.
• Good understanding of each of the performance platforms to aid in data analysis and detailed test planning.
• Identified and analyzed different business scenarios and load distributions according to the test requirements & developed LoadRunner test scripts independently.
• Enhanced the scripts by applying different techniques like Correlation, Parameterization, Rendezvous point, Recording Options & Run-time settings in Load Testing.
• Created and implemented best practices, utility functions to reduce the redundant activities in performance testing and tools.
• Handled critical problems in various phases of the Performance Testing.
• Good working experience on network sniffers tools like HTTP Watch and monitoring tools like Dynatrace
• Good experience on Oracle Server Performance monitoring using AWR Report and tuned the DB (Optimum Query Utilization, Indexing, Cache Usage, Query Execution Time)
• Proficient in Load Testing, Stress Testing, Endurance Testing and Regression Testing.
• Have good experience in concepts of JVM, Heap Utilization, and Web/App Server Settings and also in tuning.
• Scheduling weekly status meetings with the Developers, Performance Testing Team and developing Comparison metrics to track the performance of the application over various builds.
• Extensive working knowledge in Banking, Insurance, e-learning and e-business related applications.
• Mentoring on performance testing concepts and various performance testing tools. Successfully trained 4 batches of manual testers on Performance Testing and LoadRunner tool for the implementation of Performance testing practice in the projects at various Client locations.
• Experience in Shell scripting and Unix//Linux.
• Work with key team members to determine when performance testing for risks identified has been completed.
• Involved in Risk Analysis and opened RISKS and ISSUES and tracking them in a scheduled manner.
• Effective team player and can work individually on dynamic and fast paced environment. Highly motivated, detail oriented with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software Testing Tools: Radview WebLoad, HP Load Runner, HP-ALM Performance Center, Microfocus SilkPerformer

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix, Linux, Solaris

Protocols/Application Types: Web (HTTP/HTML), Citrix, AJAX (C&S), Web Services & TrueClient Protocols

Languages: C, C++, JAVA

RDBMS: SQL Server, Oracle

Servers: Apache Tomcat, IIS, WebLogic & WebSphere Application Server

Scripting Languages: Java Script, Perl, BDL

Network Sniffer Tools: HTTP Watch, Http Fox, Fiddler

Monitoring Tools: PerfMon, Wily Introscope and Dynatrace

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with Development and support team.
• Designed and reviewed of Business flow through requirements specifications.
• Preparation of Performance Test plan & Strategy
• Analyzed and developed the scripts by using Silk Performer.
• Created Work load model and identified feasibility for the testcases.
• Manage all test executions such as Load, Stress, Endurance, Failover and Destructive tests
• Documentation and Innovations/Improvements
• Documented Test Summary Report, Defect Report and Test Execution Report
• Participated in Project Kickoff Meetings and Test Plan reviews.
• Routed test plan, test schedule, test design docs, evidence of test and summary report documents for signoff.
• Reviewed and analyzed performance test analysis reports using various metrics (%disk, CPU Utilization, Throughput, %page breakdowns, Response Times, Network Monitors, Web Server Monitor Counters, System Performance Counters and Database Performance Counters).
• Validated and documented the test results.
• Reviewed team’s daily & weekly status and track the deliverables.
• Analyzed Heap behavior, throughputs and pauses in garbage collections as well as tracking down memory leaks while executing the longevity tests.
• Identified Performance Bottlenecks and Performed in-depth analysis to isolate root cause of the application failure.

Environnent:JAVA, J2EE, Agile, SOA - Web Services, Apache Servers, WebLogic Application Servers, Oracle Data Base, Wily Introscope, SOAP UI, Unix Operating Systems, Silk Performer 16.0

Confidential

Senior Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Review & develop performance testing requirements
• Preparation of Performance Test plan & Strategy
• Analyzing the Production Web Logs to create Load Profile to simulate the similar load on Test Environment
• Preparation of Performance test scripts
• Performed Sanity testing, Load testing, Stress/Scalability testing, Stability/Spike testing, Endurance/Longevity testing, Component testing, and Regression testing.
• Test Monitoring, Reporting and Performance Bottleneck analysis and provide recommendations.
• Coordinating with Development and support teams.
• Develop and Updates Detailed Test Plan Specification.
• Update Status in all Systems available and also provide direct status updates to assigned PM.
• Directly interact with Business/Environment/Development partners as it relates to our assigned project.
• Checking All Traffic Logs in Web, App and DB Servers.
• Debug Scripts and applications issues.
• Analyze execution results and prepare Summary Reports.
• Coordinate debugging sessions if needed.
• Attend Performance Testing related meetings

Environnent: Java/J2EE, Web Services, Rest Services, APIs, IIS, WebLogic, Oracle, Load Runner, SOAPUI, Wily IntroscopeConfidential

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Review & develop performance testing requirements
• Preparation of Performance Test plan & Strategy
• Preparation of Performance test scripts
• Test Monitoring & Test Reporting
• Performance Bottleneck analysis
• Handling client communication through mails and calls on daily

Environment: Java/J2EE, WebLogic, Web (http/html), Oracle, LoadRunner 9.5, Performance Center, DynaTrace, AppDynamics

Confidential

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed performance test strategies
• Responsible for gathering requirements, developing test plans and executing performance tests & assist in performance related issues.
• Performed a feasibility study on the application.
• Develop efficient and accurate automated test scripts.
• Executed the application with different protocols (ODBC, ADO.Net, Citrix, GUI Level Vuser)
• Performed the multiple test runs with different load sizes.
• Gather server side and end-user performance metrics and compare the responsiveness of the application
• Provide an executive performance report for the test runs conducted with performance observations on scalability, responsiveness and server side metrics.

Environment: .NET, IIS, MS SQL Server, ODBC, ADO.Net Citrix, Silk Performer 2008 R2, Perfmon

Confidential

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Feasibility study of the tool to support the Linux Load Generators and support for LMTP protocol.
• Developed the scripts to simulate the user actions.
• Participated in script development strategy, and preparation of the script framework
• Executing smoke tests to validate the scripts, and test environment
• Executing the pre-population tests
• Load test executions
• Involved in preparation of a comprehensive test report

Environment: Java/J2ee, Web (http/html), POP, LMTP, Zimbra server, Linux, Solaris operating systems, WebLoad7.3