SUMMARY:

• Over 14 years of experience in diverse areas of IT / MIS and, performance engineering, system development and product quality assurance. 10 years of performance engineering experience in financial IT sector as an Architect - Performance Testing.
• Highly analytical, detail-oriented, strategic and tactical thinker, quantitative problem solver, team player and hands on individual contributor with a unique ability to work cross-functionally, entrepreneurially, independently and proactively in geographically dispersed and deadline-driven environments. I can look at the holistic view, decompose it into individual components and align them with the overall strategy supported by a detailed execution plan.
• Enriched expertise in planning, coordinating, executing, monitoring and controlling infrastructure technology programs and projects with the ability to support multiple complex projects and deliver them within budget, on time and with high quality at the enterprise level.
• Worked on tactical / strategic planning, business process re-engineering, vendor/account management and consolidation.
• Provided leadership, direction, expertise, and hands-on help to large test teams responsible for certifying quality of business application and its features.
• Experienced in working with stakeholders at all levels of an enterprise from executive management to development and operational support teams.
• Strong Functional Experience on domains like Salesforce CRM, PEGA, Mulesoft, Flexcube 11.4 - Core banking MS CRM2011 Corporate/Financial/ and Insurance.
• Involved in all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle, interacting with the client and the business user’s right from the requirement gathering till implementation phase.
• Good exposure of different technology like Java, Webservices, API, Websphere and SOAP.
• Explicit usage of Loadrunner with different protocols like Web (HTTP/HTML), WebServices, Oracle NCA and Mainframe (RTE).
• Used performance counters within Load Runner for monitoring windows resources, UNIX/Sun Solaris resources using CA Willy Introscope, Network monitors, Web Servers (Apache), and WebSphere 6.1.
• Experience in coordination with clients and different vendors independently and efficiently throughout the project.
• Involved in documentation of the performance test/Recommendations at various level of testing and report the impact of performance issues within the system to the clients
• Ability to interpret, analyzes, identify bottlenecks and tune the Web server, Application Server, database server after the performance test and provide recommendations of the tuning parameter within the system to the clients.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Performance Tools: HP Load Runner9.x/12.x, OpenSTA, JMeter AWR, NMON, Wily introscope and Performance center

Testing Tools: ALM 12, Bugzilla 3.4.2, Quality Center 9.0

Operating Systems: AIX, Windows- 95/98/NT/2000/03/XP and Unix/Linux

Middle tier: IBM WebSphere 6.1, Weblogic 10.3.5

Web Server: IIS

CRM & Service: MS CRM 2011, Salesforce, Mulesoft Services and PEGA APplications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,New York

Test Lead - Performance Testing

Environment: LoadRunner 12.56, ALM, Performance Center, Salesforce, Pega, Mulesoft, AWR Reports and Web Service

• Understand the Application functionality, architecture details and components metrics along with workload characterization and Analysis the production volume and preparing the operation profile
• Developed and customized scripting for salesforce CRM and Pega application using LoadRunner.
• Created Performance strategy, Business Operational profiles and analysis for the senior management to gauge the improvement.
• Improved and established testing processes for further regression cycles during upgrades.
• Identified major architectural and configuration issues during testing and advised vendor to either fix or mitigate the issues.
• Improved application performance by more than 150% and system stability under heavy work load.
• Implemented the Test strategy, Test Plans and Test Scripts.
• Helped in identifying poorly performing SQLs and Views to tune further by DBAs
• Published the regressive performance reports and performance impact to the team.
• Managed a small team of 3 Performance testers by leading daily scrum calls and guiding them through the testing strategy between regression cycles.

Confidential

Test Lead - Performance Testing

Environment: LoadRunner 12.0, ALM, Performance Center, WebSphere, AWR Reports and CA Wily Introscope, Oracle 11G

• Understand the Application functionality, architecture details and components metrics along with workload characterization
• Managed global team of performance resources to execute the strategy and deliver results for application quarterly releases, monthly business patches and infrastructure projects
• Provided senior and executive management regular updates and keeping them abreast with risk assessment at various levels of release cycles.
• Bottomed-up across application tracks for any gaps or insufficiencies to improve performance testing in areas of potential core code impact to the functionality of the application
• Increased the application testing coverage by 300% in less than two months.
• Planned, architected and executed Performance Engineering strategy which resulted in application performance improvement from 55 - 350% for various business processes.
• Provided hands on guidance to the team in advance level scripting, scenarios and business operational profile creation.
• Managed support teams to ensure that environment stability is ensured during windows of testing cycles and test executions.
• Monitoring Wily, Analyze and Preparing Wily Report and Providing recommendation based on analysis

Confidential

Test Lead - Performance Testing

Environment: LoadRunner 11.5, Weblogic Server 10.3.5, Oracle 11g, AIX 6.1, Oracle AWR Reports and NMon

• Identified Business scenarios for Performance Test based on the production volume.
• Understand the scope of the performance testing and building the business scenario.
• Created and maintaining 22 Load Test Scripts using HTTP/HTTPS protocols.
• Created LR scenarios as per workload composition.
• Executing LR Scripts as per the scenarios designed on Production like environment.
• Monitoring Web server, Application and Database servers using Weblogic Administrative Console
• Monitor the resource utilization using Nmon
• Analyzing the results and identified bottlenecks.
• Participating Client Calls/ Meetings and communicating the status of the Project to Client.

Confidential

Tech Lead - Performance Testing

Environment: LoadRunner 11, Test Director 8.0, Informatica ETL, Analytics, SQL server 2008 and Wily introscope.

• Identified Business scenarios for Performance Test based on the production volume.
• Understand the scope of the performance testing and building the business scenario.
• Created and maintaining 42 Load Test Scripts using HTTP/HTTPS protocols.
• Prepared Test Data for Load test, Stress Test and Soak Tests
• Created LR scenarios as per workload composition.
• Executing Performance Test Scripts as per the scenarios designed on SIT environment.
• Monitoring Web, Application and Database servers using CA Wily Introscope.
• Analyzing the results and identified bottlenecks.
• Participating Client Calls/ Meetings and communicating the status of the Project to Client.
• Documented all the performance testing activities and create and setup a process.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Test Lead - Performance Testing and Functional Testing

Environment: JMeter, TTP, SQL server 2008 and SSRS (ETL)

• Understand the scope of the performance testing and building the business scenario.
• Test Strategy and test plan for performance testing
• Identify the critical scenario for Load testing
• Involve in preparing scripts using JMeter
• Participated in Test Script reviews and execution
• Involved in preparing test scenarios using Controller
• Identify bottleneck and record the recommendations and performance tuning
• Prepared DAR for performance checklist
• Test strategy and Plan Preparation for Manual testing
• Monitoring and controlling the Test Activities of the team
• Interacting with stakeholders for the clarifications / issue resolution
• Designing Test Scenarios based on FRD
• Involved ETL testing for data transformation from SkillPort to SURE

Confidential,Beverly, MA

Performance testing and Database Test Lead

Environment: LoadRunner 8.5, Mainframe and Microsoft SQL Server 2005, PHP, Adobe PDF Writer

• Understand the scope of the performance testing and building the business scenario.
• Test Strategy and test plan for performance testing
• Identify the critical scenario for Load testing
• Involve in preparing scripts using VuGen
• Participated in Test Script reviews and execution
• Involved in preparing test scenarios using Controller
• Identify bottleneck and record the recommendations and performance tuning
• Prepared DAR for performance checklist

Confidential, Chicago

Performance testing consultant

Environment: LoadRunner 8.5, Quality Centre, Oracle 10, Web Methods, Web Sphere, Java, JSP

• Involved in preparing the test strategy and test plan documents.
• Identified Business scenarios for Performance Test.
• Created and maintained nearly 50 LR scripts using different protocol’s like HTTP, Web Services and Oracle NCA protocols.
• Preparation of LR script and debug the script with predefined and user defined function and enhances the script using exception handling, correlation and parameterization to run for multiple iterations and with different set of data.
• Executed Performance Test Scripts as per the scenarios designed on SIT environment to estimate Performance of the Application.
• Complete Test Analysis was done using CA Willy introscope to monitor all Middleware and the database component and recommendations was provided with tuning parameter to the application.
• Identified bottlenecks in Webserver, IBM Websphere, and oracle recommendations were provided with tuning parameters to the application.
• Conducting meeting and updating Status of the Project to Client on a daily basis.