PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Overall 14+ years of experience in Information Technology industry, with 10+ years of experience in Performance Testing/Engineering.. I have been actively focused on all performance testing/engineering activities like - requirement gathering for performance tests, understanding production load patterns, designing performance test scenarios, creating test scripts, monitoring, results and analysis, defect tracking and reporting. I am currently working as a Sr. Performance Engineer at Confidential and my primary responsibility involves all the performance testing efforts end to extensive interaction with architects, Project managers, Infra team, etc. for requirement gathering, Creating workload models, creating test scripts and scenarios and running load tests using HP Loadrunner, Analysis and reporting of performance tests using dynatrace, training and guiding junior team members, etc.
• Extensive experience in performance testing using HP Loadrunner Suite -
• Vugen scripting, Performance center/controller & analysis. Used protocols - Web / HTTP, Web-Click & script.
• Extensive experience in creating complex scripts using Vugen (Web/Http protocol, True client, ODBC, Java protocol) which includes manual co-relation with regular and dynamic boundaries, using various LR functions, dynamic request building, etc.
• Extensive experience in designing test scenarios and execution using LR - controller. Peak load test, endurance tests, breakpoint test, etc.
• Extensive experience using loadrunner analysis for creating various graphs and reports and presenting to client.
• Experience using shunra with loadrunner to find the response times of application from various geographical locations.
• Experience using Virtual Table server with loadrunner.
• Extensive experience using diagnostics tools - Dynatrace and wily introscope to find out performance bottleneck, memory leaks, analyze User experience Management, etc.
• Expert level experience in the process of execution of performance testing projects.
• Experience in analyzing the production load pattern/behavior using different tools and designing production like performance test scenario.
• Expertise in gathering and analyzing various usage statistics like peak hour traffic and peak hour resource usage, etc to simulate the same in the testing environment.
• Extensive experience in creating/conditioning test data using sqls as prerequisite for tests, backup & restore of databases, etc.
• Experience in finding memory leaks and tuning.
• Experience in Performance testing of Microsoft (IIS based) and java based technologies (Weblogic, tomcat, etc).
• Familiarity with server execute threads, connection pools, clustering, load balancing, etc.
• Exposure/Experimented freeware tools like jmeter, apache bench and tsung.
• Familiarity with build and deployment processes.
• Strong experience in project co-ordination with different teams at onsite and onsite-offshore co-ordination.
• Load testing experience using NetStorm that created real-world simulation of web users and collected response time as seen by geographically distributed users and compared against SLA’s. Analysis to improve response time.
• Experience creating performance analysis reports and presenting to stakeholders.
• Executed projects under SDLC and agile processes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Performance Engineering Technologies: HP Loadrunner-V12 (Vugen, controller & Analysis), Dynatrace diagnostics, Wily Introscope, Fiddler, HTTP Watch, Jmeter, perfmon, SoapUI, Quality center.

Programing languages: C/C++, Visual basic.

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, Java Script, Web Services, Java/Jsp.

Web/Application Server: Weblogic Server, tomcat, IIS Server

Data Bases: SQL Server, Oracle 11g

Operating Systems: Windows 2008 Server, Linux/Unix, Solaris.

Source Control: SVN, VSS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Philadelphia

Sr Performance Engineer/ lead

Responsibilities:

• As a lead worked closely with all the stakeholders in the project to ensure that the performance testing is completed successfully and the deliverables have been handed over in time. Assisted QA Performance Manager in coordinating/leading the testing efforts.
• Understand new project requirements, develop performance test scenarios, create scripts, and analyze results using loadrunner analysis and dynatrace.
• Used dynatrace for result analysis and detect performance bottlenecks in the application.
• Used VTS with loadrunner to pass dynamic data across multiple scripts.
• Experimented various freeware performance testing tools like jmeter, apache bench and tsung to create 1 million request per sec as per requirements of a project.
• Performance tested large file transfers from aspera.
• Performance tested projects involving Kafka queues and other Hadoop components.
• Create detailed reports and present results to all stake holders.
• Train/guide junior team members.

Environment: HP Loadrunner Suite Version-12.5 Dynatrace-6.2, Windows server 2008, UNIX, MS Sql, Java and .Net applications.

Confidential, Delaware

Sr Performance Engineer/ lead

Responsibilities:

• As a lead worked closely with all the stakeholders in the project to ensure that the performance testing is completed successfully and the deliverables have been handed over in time. Assisted QA Performance Manager in coordinating/leading the testing efforts.
• Understand new project requirements, develop performance test scenarios, create scripts, and analyze results using loadrunner analysis and dynatrace.
• Use dynatrace to for test result analysis and findout if any performance bottlenecks in the application. Also UEM and Browser agent for client side testing.
• Create detailed reports and present results to all stake holders.
• For certain applications, executed load tests with various JVM/GC settings to determine optimal performance.
• Train/guide junior team members.

Environment: HP Loadrunner Suite Version-12 Dynatrace-6, Windows server 2008, Java and .Net applications.

Confidential, Chicago

Sr Performance test lead

Responsibilities:

• As a lead worked closely with all the stakeholders in the project to ensure that the performance testing is completed successfully and the deliverables have been handed over in time. Assisted QA Performance Manager in coordinating/leading the testing efforts.
• Deep analysis of the test results using netstorm tool.
• Performed Real Browser User testing with netstorm tool.
• Co-ordinated with onsite and offshore teams for test execution.
• Worked closely with Infrastructure team, dev team and DBAs to facilitate the setting up of the performance environment and to discuss the design and testing aspects of the applications to design the test plans.
• Worked closely with business and architecture team to understand the load pattern in production environment to design the performance testing scenario that mimics production load pattern.
• Reviewed BRD, SRS to prepare Performance acceptance criteria, performance strategy, Test Plan and estimations.
• Actively participated in the daily project meetings, walkthroughs and standups.
• Used MS sql server to run sql queries to create test data / troubleshoot issues, Backup and restore databases.
• After all testing is completed for a release cycle, prepared the performance impact analysis document and conducted a walkthrough with all the stakeholders.

Environment: Netstorm (Like HP Loadrunner), Microsoft IIS7,MS Sql server. Windows server 2008.

Confidential, San Francisco

Sr Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a lead worked closely with all the stakeholders in the project to ensure that the performance testing is completed successfully and the deliverables have been handed over in time. Assisted QA Performance Manager in coordinating/leading the testing efforts.
• Performed loadtesting on Confidential mobile site - m. Confidential .com.
• Performed Real Browser User testing with netstorm tool.
• Co-ordinated with onsite and offshore teams for test execution.
• Worked closely with Infrastructure team, dev team and DBAs to facilitate the setting up of the performance environment and to discuss the design and testing aspects of the applications to design the test plans.

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Sr Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a lead worked closely with all the stakeholders in the project to ensure that the performance testing is completed successfully and the deliverables have been handed over in time. Assisted QA Performance Manager in coordinating/leading the testing efforts.
• Involved in upgrade of loadrunner 9.5 to 11.0.
• Worked as an independent consultant for performance testing and lead a team of 5 members with 2 onsite members and 3 members at offshore. Co-ordinated with onsite and offshore teams for test execution.
• Worked closely with Infrastructure team, dev team and DBAs to facilitate the setting up of the performance environment and to discuss the design and testing aspects of the applications to design the test plans.
• Worked closely with business and architecture team to understand the load pattern in production environment to design the performance testing scenario that mimics production load pattern.
• Reviewed BRD, SRS to prepare Performance acceptance criteria, performance strategy, Test Plan and estimations.
• Actively participated in the daily project meetings and walkthroughs.
• Worked on Web-HTML/HTTP, Web (Click & script) and Webservice (SOAP) protocols of HP Loadrunner Suite and conducted performance testing on web based J2EE application running under Tomcat server and on Linux platform.
• Designed performance testing scenarios using HP Loadrunner controller, scripts using VuGen and analyzed results using Loadrunner Result Analysis.
• Using HP Loadrunner Suite executed various performance tests like certification test, long duration tests, stress tests and component failover tests. Also executed test with various settings of shunra.
• Used diagnostics tools Wily Introscope, dynatrace and sitescope for in depth diagnostics to isolate points of failure like long running SQL queries, etc. and monitor system resources like CPU usage, Heap usage, and Garbage collection behavior, execute threads, etc during test execution.
• Also used various UNIX commands like top, vmstat, netstat, etc to monitor CPU and Memory usage.
• Used oracle/toad to run sql queries to create test data. Extracted test data from toad and prepared .dat files for loadrunner scripts.
• For certain applications, executed load tests with various JVM/GC settings to determine optimal performance of application.
• Involved in defect tracking, reporting and coordination with various groups from initial finding of defects to final resolution using HP Quality Center.
• After all testing is completed for a release cycle, prepared the performance impact analysis document and conducted a walkthrough with all the stakeholders.

Environment: Load Runner 9.52 & 11, Shunra, Sitescope, Dynatrace,Wily Introscope, Oracle/toad, tomcat, J2EE, AJAX, Quality Center, web, Windows 2003 TS / XP, Microsoft project plan, excel.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assisted QA Performance Manager in coordinating/leading the testing efforts.
• Worked as an independent consultant for performance testing and lead a team of 3 members at offshore. Co-ordinated with onsite and offshore teams for test execution.
• Worked closely with development team to discuss the design and testing aspects of the applications to design the test plans. Worked closely with architecture team to understand the load pattern in production environment and designed performance testing scenario that mimics production load pattern.
• Actively participated in the daily project meetings and walkthroughs.
• Conducted performance testing on web based J2EE application running under JBoss server and on Linux platform.
• Designed performance testing scenarios and scripts using Jmeter tool.
• Executed various performance tests like certification test and long duration tests.
• Involved in configuring Wily introscope (Java again and EP agent) on performance environment.
• Used Wily Introscope for in depth diagnostics to isolate points of failure like long running SQL queries, etc. and monitor system resources like CPU usage, Heap usage, Garbage collection behavior, execute threads, etc during test execution.
• Also used various UNIX commands like top, vmstat, netstat, etc to monitor CPU and Memory usage.
• Involved in defect tracking and reporting.
• After all testing is completed for a release cycle, prepared the performance impact analysis document and conducted a walkthrough with all the stakeholders.

Environment: Jmeter, Wily Introscope, Oracle/toad, JBoss, J2EE, Windows 2003 Terminal Server, Ms office.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Performance test lead

Responsibilities:

• As a lead worked closely with all the stakeholders in the project to ensure that the performance testing is completed successfully and the deliverables have been handed over in time. Assisted QA Performance Manager in coordinating/leading the testing efforts.
• Worked as an independent consultant for performance testing and lead a team of 2 members at onsite.
• Worked closely with Infrastructure team, dev team and DBAs to facilitate the setting up of the performance environment and to discuss the design and testing aspects of the applications to design the test plans.
• Worked closely with business and architecture team to understand the load pattern in production environment to design the performance testing scenario that mimics production load pattern.
• Reviewed BRD, SRS to prepare Performance acceptance criteria, performance strategy, Test Plan and estimations.
• Actively participated in the daily project meetings and walkthroughs.
• Worked on Web-HTML/HTTP, Web (Click & script) and Webservice (SOAP) protocols of HP Loadrunner Suite and conducted performance testing on web based J2EE application running under weblogic server and on solaris platform.
• Designed performance testing scenarios using HP Loadrunner controller, scripts using VuGen and analyzed results using Loadrunner Result Analysis.
• Worked extensively on web services. Extracted the Web service requests from WSDL files and created loadrunner scripts using these requests.
• Using HP Loadrunner Suite executed various performance tests like certification test, long duration tests, stress tests and component failover tests. Also
• Involved in testing batch jobs and monitoring the same.
• Used diagnostics tool Wily Introscope for in depth diagnostics to isolate points of failure like long running SQL queries, etc. and monitor system resources like
• CPU usage, Heap usage, and Garbage collection behavior, execute threads, etc during test execution.
• Collecting of metrics using Wily IntroScope writing PBDs and maintaining them.
• Extensively used UNIX commands like top, vmstat, netstat, etc to monitor CPU and Memory usage. Also used various grep commands for checking logs.
• Used oracle/toad to run sql queries to create test data. Extracted test data from toad and prepared .dat files for loadrunner scripts.
• Involved in defect tracking and reporting.
• After all testing is completed for a release cycle, prepared the performance impact analysis document and conducted a walkthrough with all the stakeholders.

Environment: Load Runner 9.52, Wily Introscope, Oracle/toad, Weblogic, J2EE, F5, Tea leaf, Windows 2003 TS / XP, excel.

Confidential, New York, NY

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assisted QA Performance Manager in coordinating/leading the testing efforts.
• Worked on a onsite co-ordinator for Performance testing efforts.
• Reviewed BRD, SRS to prepare Performance acceptance criteria, performance strategy, Test Plan.
• Actively participated in the daily project meetings and walkthroughs.
• Worked on Web-HTML/HTTP protocols of HP Loadrunner Suite and conducted performance testing on web based J2EE application running under weblogic server and on solaris platform.
• Designed performance testing scenarios using HP Loadrunner controller, scripts using VuGen and analyzed results using Loadrunner Result Analysis.
• Using HP Loadrunner Suite executed various performance tests like certification test, long duration tests, stress tests and component failover tests. Also
• Used diagnostics tool Wily Introscope for in depth diagnostics to isolate points of failure like long running SQL queries, etc. and monitor system resources like CPU usage, Heap usage, and Garbage collection behavior, execute threads, etc during test execution.
• Extensively used UNIX commands like top, vmstat, netstat, etc to monitor CPU and Memory usage. Also used various grep commands for checking logs.
• Used oracle/toad to run sql queries to create test data. Extracted test data from toad and prepared .dat files for loadrunner scripts.
• Involved in defect tracking and reporting.
• Worked closely with Weblogic consultants to resolve performance issues.
• After all testing is completed for a release cycle, prepared the performance impact analysis document and conducted a walkthrough with all the stakeholders.

Environment: Load Runner 8.0 suite, Wily Introscope, optimizit, Oracle/toad, Weblogic, J2EE, eG, Windows 2003 TS / XP, Ms-Office.

Confidential

Developer and Performance tester

Responsibilities:

• Work on production tickets received from onsite. Working on this involved analyzing the java/J2ee code, finding out the issues and fixing them.
• Conduct Unit testing in the dev/IST environments.
• Conduct performance tests after weekly build in the environment and report if any issues.
• Co-ordinate and work with onsite co-coordinator.

Environment: Load Runner 7.0 suite, Quick test pro, Oracle/toad, Weblogic, J2EE, HP Test director, Windows 2003 TS / XP, Ms-Office.

Confidential

System administration and Networking.

Responsibilities:

• System Administration, maintenance and support on 60 Windows NT machines.
• Training students on visual basic.

Environment: Windows NT, Linux, C, C++, Visual Basic, Asp, Java, Ms-Office.