SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of Software Quality Assurance experience with expertise in Performance Testing
• Experience in Project Life Cycle Management with knowledge of all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Effectively led and managed multiple Quality Assurance teams including onsite - offshore coordination
• Implemented Agile methodologies and conducted daily Scrum, regular SPRINT planning and sprint retrospective
• Established objectives, identified and allocated necessary resources and supervised proper course of action to achieve set objectives
• Involved in release planning, estimation, resource allocation and defining quality gates to ensure product readiness
• Experience in HP ALM 12 for Requirements, Test cases and Defect Management
• Constructed and Maintained Project, Execution and Defects Dashboards boards to generate visible analytical reports for in depth planning and estimation
• Requirement Export from ALM, Test Cases uploading and requirement linkage to maintaining Requirement Traceability in ALM
• Designed and Implemented User Acceptance Testing strategy for market readiness
• Organized Bug Triage meetings for defects discussion and effective issue resolution
• Leveraged Perfecto mobile solution to test Mobile applications
• Extensive experience in various Performance Testing tools - HP Load Runner/Performance Center, Neotys Neoload, JMeter, VSTS, WAPT Pro etc.
• Expertise in various Performance Monitoring and Diagnostic tools - Dynatrace, WireShark, SQL Profiler, HP Sitescope, Perfmon, ANTS Memory Profiler, Feddler, WinDbg, DebugDiag etc.
• Extensive experience in executing Smoke test, Baseline test, Load Test, Endurance Test, Stress Test and Volume Tests
• Involved in client discussion to identify the critical scenarios and outline SLAs to create work load model
• Proficient in generating deliverables like Performance Test Plan, Traversal document, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Run Reports and Closure Report
• Excellence in Configuring Monitoring Counters at all application tiers, gathering metrics and creating reports
• Experience in scripting for Multiple protocols with large focus on Web (HTTP/HTML) protocol including Winsock, REST and SOAP services
• Experience with Batch testing - Standalone as well as in parallel with Web Testing
• Strong abilities of monitoring, collating and analyzing performance metrics to identify potential bottlenecks and work with development team to resolve the issue
• Expertise in viewing and analyzing traces using SQL Server Profiler to detect SQL server related issues
• Experience in Diagnosing Application Performance problems like Memory leak, System Crash etc.
• Strong analytical skills to correlate client side and server side metrics to pin point the right issue
• Exposure in Load Runner IP Spoofing and Shunra Network Virtualization

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Load Testing Tools: Load Runner, HP ALM (Performance Center), Neoload, JMeter, VSTS, WAPT Pro

Monitoring Tools: Perfmon, Dynatrace, HP Sitescope, ANTS Memory Profiler, Wily Introscope, HP Diagnostics, WinDbg, Debug Diagnostics, CloudWatch

Defect Tracking Tools: HP ALM (Quality Center), TFS, JIRA

Other tools: Selenium, Test Complete, Tricentis TOSCA, Shunra, Fiddler, Wireshark, Jenkins, Webload2.0

Languages: C, C#, Java, JavaScript, PL/SQL, VB Script

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Ohio

Sr. Performance Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Business teams and Product Owners to identify and understand non-functional requirements, define project objectives, timelines and develop test plan
• Ensuring testing best practices are implemented and all client QA policies are followed properly
• Collaboration between various teams including development, architecture, data base administrators for proper test execution
• Collating and generating various reports including daily execution status and defects status to keep stakeholders informed on the daily project progress and raise concerns as required
• Performed Proof of Concept to identify best fit tool for client’s need based on pre-defined
• Scripting Performance scenarios using JMETER, configuring load agents and generating load from different Geo-Locations using JMETER Master-Slave architecture
• Executing Smoke, Baseline, Load and Stress test on the Veeva Vault Application (SaaS platform)
• Collaborated with Veeva Application Health and Performance Monitoring team to monitor system performance post-deployment and improving workload model and tests in pre-production

Environment: HP ALM, JMeter, Test Complete, .Net, Veeva Vault

Confidential, New Jersey

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Study and analysis of functional and non-functional specifications by interacting with architects and developers
• Published test strategy documents, test plans, test cases and entry & exit criteria during testing phase
• Established traceability matrix by proper linkage between test cases and requirements
• Leading functional, automation and performance testing for multi-tenant SaaS platform
• Utilized TFS for Sprint Planning and Execution under agile methodology for multiple teams
• Roadmap planning and release meetings in collaboration with development teams and key stakeholders
• Designed user acceptance testing strategy for market readiness and reviewing final product documentations
• Organize bug triage meetings for client’s use cases and support development team in issue replication
• Implemented Neoload Enterprise solution for Performance testing of the application
• Creating and Reviewing of Neoload scripts and upgrading scripts with version upgrade
• Performance testing of application built on Salesforce Platform as well as Internal Web application
• Coordination with various teams Product Owners, Business Users and Scrum teams to outline the SLAs and develop a performance testing strategy
• Gathered non-functional requirements, analyzing production traffic and create workload model
• Prepared Performance Test Plan, Traversal Document and Performance Scripts
• Creating load mix and simulation of load to adequately replicate production traffic
• Responsible for data verification and modification using SQL database
• Setting up and maintaining Performance rig (Controller & Agents)
• Configuring Dynatrace Business Transactions for Application in production and utilize the metrics to refine pre-production test workload model
• Designing and Execution of Baseline, Load, Endurance, Spike and Scalability Tests, monitoring the test in run-time to ensure application reliability, capacity and stability
• Collation and analysis of Performance Metrics and identifying any potential bottlenecks
• Monitoring web request, transaction flows, purepaths and server resources in Dynatrace
• Creating Dynatrace Dashboard to monitor system health and identify any issues during test
• Identifying potential database issues by running SQL profiler in SQL database
• Coordinating with various teams (e.g. Dev, DB, SCM, Functional Testing, etc.) for successful execution of tests
• Identifying issue, raising performance bug using TFS and working with development team to resolve the issue
• Execution of various batch tests standalone as well as parallel to web tests
• Conducted fail-over testing to test load balancer and MSMQ services
• Implemented Continuous Integration using Jenkins
• Following Agile methodologies, attending daily SCRUM, Sprint planning and retrospective meetings

Environment: Neoload, VSTS, Salesforce, .Net, C#, Dynatrace, Fiddler, SQL Profiler, IIS, MS SQL, MSMQ, TFS

Confidential

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Utilized Load Runner to perform End to End Performance Testing of Alfa-Forex Trading System
• Responsible for defining performance goals and objectives to meet client’s vision
• Preparing Test Plan, Traversal Document and Creating Scripts for Winsock protocol using Load Runner VuGen
• Used custom code using C to handle the trading system heartbeat issue
• Executed Baseline test, Load test and Stress test using Load Runner Controller
• Analyzed the results post run, identified bottlenecks and worked with development team to resolve the issue

Environment: LoadRunner, Perfmon, .Net, C#, Dynatrace, Fiddler, SQL Profiler, IIS, MS SQL

Confidential

Software Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in initial discussions to find out Performance needs of the organization and outline an engagement plan along with effort estimation and proposal preparation
• Identified critical scenarios, prepared workload model, generated scripts and executed Baseline, Load and Endurance tests for Client’s inward tracking system, Helios
• Utilized JMeter distributed testing to generate user load across geographic locations

Environment: JMeter, Perfmon, .Net, IIS, SQL Server, SQL Profiler, Quality Center

Confidentia

Performance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• System Study and Outlining Test Strategy and Planning of Client’s Healthcare Application built on Drupal
• Defining SLAs, Scripting and Execution using Load testing tool - WAPT Pro
• Configuring monitors using Perfmon and collating and generating test reports

Environment: WAPT Pro, Perfmon, Drupal, IIS, .Net, Fiddler, SQL Profiler, MS SQL

Confidential

Performance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Gathering, Outlining SLAs, Scripting and Execution using HP Performance Center (Load Runner)
• Configuring and Monitoring application tiers using HP Sitescope
• Requirement Gathering and outlining SLAs for the identified business critical scenarios
• Load Modelling and setting up Controller and Agents at various geo-locations
• Smoke, Baseline, Load, Endurance and Stress Testing of the application

Environment: HP LoadRunner, HP Sitescope, HP ALM (Performance Center), .Net, SQL Profiler, IIS, MS SQL

Confidential

Performance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Utilized iTKO LISA (CA LISA) service virtualization capabilities to create web service requests and generate load
• Monitored and analyzed servers using Vmstat and LISA metrics

Environment: iTKO LISA, Unix, VMStat

Confidential - TJX Companies

Performance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• End to End Performance Testing of SCMS application utilizing HP ALM
• Configuring and Monitoring of Application Tiers using HP Sitescope
• Prepared Test Plan, Traversal Document and Generated Scripts for the identified

Environment: HP ALM, HP Sitescope, Log Parser, .Net, Fiddler, SQL Profiler, IIS, MS SQL, Quality Center

Confidential

Performance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Functional Testing - Test Case Design, Execution and Defect management using Quality Center
• Performance Testing - System Study, Performance Test Planning, Scripting, Execution, Monitoring of Target RedRock Pharmacy Application