SUMMARY:

• I have 10.5 plus years of IT - QA experience of which around 8.5 years of expertise in Performance testing & 2 years of expertise in Functional testing.
• Experience in Multiple Domains such as Banking, Insurance, Retail & Telecom.
• I have expertise in non-functional requirements gathering, performance benchmarks & workload modelling based on historical data.
• I have worked on HP Load Runner (ALM and Controller) and JMeter tools for performance testing. I have created scripts in HTTP/HTML, Ajax True Client and Web-Services protocols.
• I have used DynaTrace, New Relic, HP Diagnostic, JConsole, Java VisualVM, SiteScope etc for performance monitoring.
• I have worked on HP Service Virtualization and Parasoft Virtualize to create service mocks for 3rd party calls.
• Strong knowledge in Defect reporting and Documentation. Worked on Defect tracking tools like HP Quality Center, JIRA.
• I Have worked on agile methodology for performance projects.
• I have worked on onsite/offshore model, lead teams from both onsite and offshore.
• Have coordinated with leading third party IT vendors (Salesforce & Edgenet consultants’ team) for performance testing of complex applications.
• Have mitigated issues by supporting end to end QA environment coordination across various phases of STLC.
• Adept knowledge in Functional testing concepts, understanding and execution of all testing processes (System, Integration, Smoke, Regression, and UAT).
• Have proficiency in both functional & nonfunctional testing methodologies & processes.
• Have involved in various phases of performance testing and has expertise in creating POC (Proof of concept), Performance baselines, performance testing, User Acceptance Test (UAT - Functional), regression (Functional testing).
• Experience in creating functional test artefacts (test plans, test cases, RTM and test exit reports).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Performance test tools: HP Loadrunner (ALM (12.01), Controller & Performance Center), JMeter, SOASTA CloudTestLite, firebug, HTTPwatch, Fiddler

Protocols worked on: HTTP/HTML, Ajax Truclient, WebServices, Web Click & script, Flex, API scripting

Monitoring tools: Dynatrace, New Relic, JConsole, Java VisualVM, Catchpoint, IBM NMON, Perfmon, HP Sitescope

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/2003/ XP, Windows NT and Vista

Defect management tools: HP Quality Center, JIRA

Methodologies / Techniques: Agile, Waterfall and Test Driven Development

DB tools: Toad, DbVisualizer

Source Code Management: GIT HUB

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Performance Test Manager

• Pick performance user stories from VersionOne / Jira (Agile Methodology).
• Initiate requirement meeting and come up with performance test goals.
• Coordinating with environment team for bring in the latest build to performance environment and validating the stability of the environment.
• Create data-setup for performance testing, if external calls are involved then create mocks for those calls using HP Service Virtualization tool.
• Deploy mocks in the mock server and validate, update the application with mock URL’s.
• Creating/updating performance scripts in Load Runner (HTTP/HTML, Ajax TrueClient, Web-Service protocols) and JMeter tools.
• Executing performance tests (Load, Stress, Endurance and Failover), analysis and reporting.
• Application/Test monitoring using New Relic, Dynatrace, JConsole, Java VisualVM.
• Share the results and recommendation (if any) with product owner and application team. Work with them for resolving any performance issues.

Confidential,Chicago,IL

Performance Test Lead

• Performance Test Engineer for SMCE applications.
• Initiate requirement meeting for each application/release and prepare performance test approach document.
• Coordinating with various teams for bring in the latest build to Allstate test environment and validating the stability of the environment.
• Coordination with Infrastructure, mid-tier, app-tier, deployment teams to identify and fix the server related performance issues.
• Creating/updating performance scripts in Load Runner (HTTP/HTML, Ajax TrueClient, Web-Service protocols).
• Executing performance tests and comparing them with previous releases. Creating performance baselines for new applications.
• Application/Test monitoring using DynaTrace.
• Coordination and communication with various teams (development, functional testing teams, SOA team, project managers & business teams) to identify the performance impact and resolve the performance issues
• Defect management using HP Quality Center 11.0.

Confidential,Chicago, IL

Performance Test Lead

• Worked on Performance Testing of Sears & Kmart eCommerce and mobile applications.
• Coordinating with project teams for pushing the latest build to Stress environment and validating the stability of the environment.
• Coordination with Infrastructure, mid-tier, app-tier, deployment teams to identify and fix the server related issues.
• Creating/updating performance scripts in Load Runner (HTTP/HTML & Web-Service protocols) & SOASTA tools.
• Executing performance tests and comparing them with previous releases.
• Day to day performance monitoring of production live website and mobile application using Catchpoint tool.
• Application/Test monitoring using DynaTrace.
• Coordination and communication with various stakeholders (business, deployment, DB, dev, checkout and post order teams) to identify the performance impact and resolve the performance issues
• Defect management using Jira.

Confidential,Plano,Dallas, TX

Performance Test Analyst

• Responsible for Performance testing & delivery of Non-Functional (Performance) deliverables for eCommerce & Purchase order projects.
• Worked on project proposal, estimation, planning, execution & customer interaction.
• Interaction with project teams on understanding requirements.
• Worked on Performance Test Plan, Work-Load Modelling, and Performance Test scripting (Using Load Runner 9.52), Execution (Performance Center), Analysis and Reporting.
• Created Performance POC, Performance baseline results, executed load test, stress test, endurance test and volume test.
• Analyzing test results and identifying & isolating the performance bottlenecks.
• Monitoring the system performance using Sitescope, NMON and Perfmon.
• Defect management using QC.

Confidential,Atlanta,GA

Test Analyst

• Worked on performance testing of various applications eg: Edgenet (eCom content management application), Salesforce (Customer Feedback site), Volume Based Pricing, API testing.
• Involved in Analysis of Non-functional requirement, Workload modeling, performance test planning & Estimation.
• Coordination with various stake holders (vendors, development teams, DBAs, project managers, maintenance & support teams and business teams).
• Performance script creation (VUGen), Test execution (Performance Center), Analysis & results reporting.
• Executed various types of performance tests (load test, stress test, endurance test and volume test).
• Analyzing test results and identifying & isolating the performance bottlenecks
• Analyzing the system performance using Sitescope, NMON and Perfmon.
• Defect management using QC.

Confidential,SFO

Senior Software Engineer

• Responsible for functional testing and delivery of QA deliverables for multiple releases.
• Performed extensive System, Regression & Performance testing.
• Interaction with project/business teams on understanding requirements.
• Created Functional Test cases & Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) for functional testing.
• Worked on Functional Test case executions and test exit report preparations.
• Involved in Performance testing (created Work-load modelling, Performance Test plan).
• Performance Test Script creation & test execution using Load Runner (Controller) and Resource monitoring using NMON.
• Defect management using QC.

Confidential

Software Engineer

• Responsible for functional testing & delivery of QA deliverables for continuous releases.
• Performed extensive System and Regression testing.
• Defect management using QC
• Created test cases & Requirement Traceability matrix.
• Worked on Functional Test case executions and test exit report preparations.
• Backend DB Verification of created bundles, assigned SIM and IMEA numbers.
• Analysing and testing of Change Requests (CR).