SUMMARY:

• Around 12 years experience in Performance Testing spanning across different technologies, tools, domain and platforms
• Creative, analytical, results - driven Performance Testing &Engineering professional with notable success in Architect and Lead, including leading and hands-on execution of a broad scope of Performance Testing &Engineering initiatives and projects specifically participating in Requirement Gathering, Planning, Document Preparation (Test Plan, Test Report, Test Summary Report, Daily Report, Weekly Report, RTM, etc), Script / Scenario Creation, Test Data Preparations, Test Model Designing, Test Executions, Monitoring, Result Analysis, Performance Engineering (Diagnostic Performance Monitoring, Root Cause Analysis, Observations, Tuning Recommendations etc) and Report Preparations.
• 1+yrs experience in Mobile Application Performance Testing.
• Took many initiatives, Created and Implemented customer specific accelerators/tools as Value Add
• Hands-on experience in managing Agile, Waterfall model programs & Shift Left from requirements through implementation.
• Provide Technical leadership and Strategic direction to Program and Application team to improve System/Application Performance.
• Provided technical solutions for the issues faced across projects.
• Leadership - Lead and Support the team in all performance testing perspective.
• Trained around 20+ resources in Performance Testing and placed in the Project.
• Developed Capability on other technologies/tools for PTCoE.
• Presales - Extensively supported on various RFP / RFQ, Demo, Client Visit and POC.
• Support - In-house tool development like PerfGen, CAC, PTF & Report Analyzer based on client need.
• Brought new logo’s for the organization and added resources for existing customers
• Educated customer on different concepts and converted as requirement/proposals
• Strong communicational, analytical, problem solving, negotiating, organizational, decision making skills with ability to interact with individuals at all levels.
• Reliable success in the project management, with an ability to recognize business objectives, foresee the solutions, develop approaches, estimate resource need, manage governance and execute projects on a time and within a budget.
• Exceptional ability in leading and mentoring large teams across multiple project
• Experience in Functional and Automation Testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Load Runner, ALM (Performance Center), RPT, JMeter, NeoLoad, BlazeMeter, AppPerfect, MSVSTS, DevTest, LoadUI, ITKO Lisa, OATS & Open STA.

Monitoring Tools: CA Wily Introscope, Splunk, HP SiteScope, HP AES, HP Performance Manager, HP BAC, ITCAM, VCenter & Perfmon.

Diagnostics Tools: App Dynamics, Dynatrace & Zabbix

Databases: SQL

Automation Tools: Win Runner & QTP.

Other Tools: WebLog expert lite, Http Watch, Fiddler, Firebug, SOAP UI, Tortoise CVS, Toad, Cute FTPProfessional, Rest Client, Putty, Device Anywhere & IBM Data Studio.

Bug Tracking Tools / TestManagement Tools: SQuID, VersionOne, Quality Center, Clear Quest, Test Director & Bugzilla.

Testing: Baseline, Simultaneous, Capacity, Concurrent, Reliability, Endurance SOAK, WAN, Load, Functionality, Integration, Regression, Performance, System, Unit, Smoke, Sanity, Documentation, Negative/Positive, Compatibility and Database testing.

Operating Systems: Windows & MAC.

Languages: C, C++ and .Net.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Norfolk, VA

Performance Test Lead

Technologies/Skills UsedPerformance Testing/Engineering, LoadRunner, Splunk, Wily Introscope and Confluence

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Gather & understand requirement, Prepared Release based/Sprint level Performance Testing Strategy/approach for Solution Central, presented to leadership and take over project from other team
• Prepared Release based Performance Testing Strategy / approach for Tabbed Navigation/Compass
• Brought Industry standard approach/documents/process to the team and Created awareness of importance of Performance testing to the entire team
• Key liaison with the client team stake holder, tracking deliverable and handling client escalations
• Working with multiple IT Managers/Scrum teams/Scrum Master on every release and provide strategy based on requirements & timeline
• Identification of critical business process scenarios through requirement analysis.
• Collects non-functional requirements and convert them into performance test plans.
• Effort Estimation and Designing Performance Test Load Model.
• Creation/Customization of Test Script and Test Data Preparation.
• Executed test scenario's under various conditions.
• Monitor & Measure the client/server side performance metrics.
• Collate the Performance data & analyzes the data gathered towards application performance, availability and capacity with the goals of ensuring the optimal user experience and reducing hardware costs.
• Preparation of preliminary Test Report, Trend Report and Status report
• Publish the Results to the Project Team along with Observations & tuning Recommendations.
• Active Participation in the Tuning Exercises to improve the Application Performance.
• Handling three member’s team.
• Educated customer on different initiatives, ideas, new strategy and Implemented
• Onshore POC for NFT Transformation in Health Care across North America and working with 10+ accounts.
• Gave training to other project team on required basis.

Performance Test Lead

Technologies/Skills UsedPerformance Testing/Engineering, LoadRunner, SQuID, VersionOne andDynatrace

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Managing the Non Functional aspects in Digital/Clinical/Enterprise portfolio
• Key liaison with the client team stake holder, tracking deliverable and handling client escalations
• Working with multiple IT Managers on every release and monthly customer connects with enterprise performance testing manager
• Managing onshore/offshore and makes sure on-time delivery without any escalations.
• Conducted formal and informal non-functional requirements reviews early in the software development lifecycle to provide input on test cases and test approach.
• Identification of critical business process scenarios through requirement analysis.
• Collects non-functional requirements and convert them into performance test plans.
• Effort Estimation and Designing Performance Test Load Model.
• Creation/Customization of Test Script and Test Data Preparation.
• Executed test scenario's under various conditions.
• Monitor & Measure the client/server side performance metrics.
• Collate the Performance data & analyzes the data gathered towards application performance, availability and capacity with the goals of ensuring the optimal user experience and reducing hardware costs.
• Preparation of preliminary Test Report, Trend Report and Status report
• Publish the Results to the Project Team along with Observations & tuning Recommendations.
• Active Participation in the Tuning Exercises to improve the Application Performance.
• Implemented new thoughts/ideas and customer specific accelerators as Value Add like Automated Trend Report
• Resource loading, estimation and effort tracking
• Logged defects in SQuID, Create stories in Version One and tracking tasks & hours in Version One
• Provide technical assistance/guidance to other portfolio teams for performing nonfunctional testing and application tuning for improving performance of the application.
• Handling five member’s team.
• Educated customer on different initiatives, ideas, new strategy and Implemented
• Onshore POC for NFT Transformation in Health Care across North America and working with 10+ accounts.
• Gave training to other project team on required basis.

Performance Test Lead

Technologies/Skills UsedPerformance Testing, LoadRunner, ALM, HP Sitescope, Perfmon and Quality Center

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Leading and supporting offshore team in all Performance Testing Perspective.
• Conducted formal and informal non-functional requirements reviews early in the software development lifecycle to provide input on test cases and test approach.
• Identification of critical business process scenarios through requirement analysis.
• Interaction with Clients.
• Collects non-functional requirements and convert them into performance test plans.
• Effort Estimation and Designing Performance Test Load Model.
• Creation/Customization of Test Script and Test Data Preparation.
• Executed test scenario's under various conditions.
• Monitor & Measure the client/server side performance metrics.
• Collate the Performance data & analyzes the data gathered towards application performance, availability and capacity with the goals of ensuring the optimal user experience and reducing hardware costs.
• Preparation of preliminary Test Report, Status report, Closure Report and Final Performance Test Summary Report.
• Publish the Results to the Project Team along with Observations & tuning Recommendations.
• Active Participation in the Tuning Exercises to improve the Application Performance.
• Supported for developing new tool based on requirement.
• Logged defects in QC.
• Participated in various meetings & discussions.
• Handled five member team.
• Creation of New Tool is In Progress for migrating scripts.

Performance Test Lead

Technologies/Skills UsedPerformance Testing, LoadRunner, ALM, HP Sitescope and Quality Center

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Leaded and supported the team in all Performance Testing perspective.
• Identified critical business process scenarios through requirement analysis.
• Client Interaction.
• Collects non-functional requirements and convert them into performance test plans.
• Design Performance test model.
• Created/Customized test scripts and test data preparation.
• Test execution under various conditions
• Monitored & Measured the client/server side performance metrics
• Collate the Performance data & analyzes the data gathered towards application performance, availability and capacity with the goals of ensuring the optimal user experience and reducing hardware costs.
• Prepared preliminary test report, status report and final Performance test summary report
• Published the results to the project team along with observations & tuning recommendations.
• Actively participated in the tuning exercises for improvising the application performance.
• Logged defects in QC.
• Participated in various meetings & discussions.
• Handled three members team.

Performance Test Lead

Technologies/Skills UsedPerformance Testing, Rational Performance Tester, CA Wily Introscope, Perfmon and Clear Quest

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Leading and supporting the team in all Performance Testing Perspective.
• Identification of performance testing scenarios through requirement analysis.
• Interaction with Clients.
• Effort Estimation.
• Preparation of Performance Test Plan.
• Deriving Performance Transaction Scenarios.
• Script Creation and Test Data Preparation.
• Executed test scenario's under various conditions.
• Monitor, measure, collate and analyze the results.
• Prepared Test Report, Status report and Final Performance Test Report.
• Publish the Results to the Project Team - With detailed Analysis on the Errors and Response Time Deviations across the tests.
• Active Participation in the Tuning Exercises to improve the Application Performance.
• Defects are logged in Clear Quest.
• Participated in various meetings & discussions.
• Handled three team members.

Performance Test Lead

Technologies/Skills UsedPerformance Testing, Load Runner,HP BAC, ITCAM, Dynatrace and Quality Center

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Leading and supporting the team in all Performance Testing Perspective.
• Identification of performance testing scenarios through requirement analysis.
• Interaction with Clients.
• Effort Estimation.
• Preparation of Performance Test Plan.
• Deriving Performance Transaction Scenarios.
• Script Creation and Test Data Preparation.
• Executed the Scenario's with various users.
• Monitored, Collate and analyze the results.
• Prepared Test Report, Status report and Final Performance Test Report.
• Publish the Results to the Project Team - With detailed Analysis on the Errors and Response Time Deviations across the tests.
• Active Participation in the Tuning Exercises to improve the Application Performance.
• Defects are logged in Quality Center.
• Participated in various meetings & discussions.
• Handled two members team.

Senior Software Test Engineer

Technologies/Skills UsedPerformance Testing, Load Runner and Quality Center

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Leading and supporting the team in all Performance Testing Perspective.
• Creating Performance Test Strategy
• Determining the Load required for Performance Tests
• Interaction with Clients.
• Effort Estimation.
• Preparation of Performance Test Plan.
• Deriving Performance Scenarios.
• Interaction with the Development and Functional Team.
• Script Creation and Test Data Preparation.
• Executed the Scenario's with various users.
• Monitored, Collate and analyze the results.
• Prepared Test Report, Status report and Final Performance Test Report.
• Active Participation in the Tuning Exercises to improve the Application Performance.
• Defects are logged in Quality Center.
• Handled team of two members.

Senior Software Test Engineer

Technologies/Skills UsedPerformance Testing, Load Runner and Excel

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Creating Performance Test Strategy
• Involved in Preparation of Performance Test Plan.
• Deriving Performance Transaction Scenarios.
• Interaction with the Development and Functional Team.
• Script Creation and Test Data Preparation.
• Executed the Scenario's with various users.
• Monitored and analyzed the test report
• Prepared Test Report and Final Performance Test Report.

Software Test Engineer

Technologies/Skills UsedFunctional Testing, Automation Testing, QTP and Bugzilla

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Understood the SRS and requirement documents.
• Involved in Preparing Test Plan.
• Wrote Test Cases based on SRS and detailed documents.
• Prepared test data for positive and negative test cases
• Executed Test Cases to validate the functionality of Transactions.
• Involved in Front end validation and UI Test.
• Performed Documentation, Sanity, Positive, Negative, Functional, Integration, Regression, Unit and Database testing.
• Interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Version Control using CVS.
• Participated in the design walkthroughs and meetings.
• Logged the errors and track them using Bugzilla and coordinated efforts with the development team to solve the problems.
• Maintained defect tracking and reporting using Bugzilla.