SUMMARY:

• Over 6 years of diverse experience as a Performance Engineer/ Tester in both distributed Client/Server and web applications.
• Hands on experience in implementing LoadRunner, Developing Load Test Conditions and Test Scenarios.
• Solid Experience with installing LoadRunner Controller, Analysis and Generator on Windows platform.
• Experience in the Entire SDLC life cycle from requirements gathering to releasing into production.
• Expertise in using performance testing tools such as HP LoadRunner,JMeterand Performance Center.
• Ability to work in tight schedules and on different applications concurrently.
• Excellent in communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Executed the test Performance scripts using LoadRunner and analyzed the results.
• Installed, configured and maintained LoadRunner.
• Extensively Worked in Web, and Web services in LoadRunner.
• Conducted performance testing, stress testing using LoadRunner.
• Responsible for setting runtime settings in LoadRunner.
• Performed IP Spoofing using LoadRunner.
• Trouble shooting LoadRunner controller.
• Plotting and implementing scenarios.
• Extensively Worked in Web, Citrix, Click and Script, Oracle Protocol, Ajax, web services, and SAP Web.
• Created Performance scenarios and scripts for doing multiple iterations.
• Analyzed LoadRunner scenario results.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: LoadRunner,, Performance Center, Dynatrace, App Dynamics, Sitescope, CAIntroscope, NMON, Quality Center

Languages: C, JAVA/J2EE, VB Scripts, C#.Net, XML, UNIX - Shell Scripting

Databases: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MS-ACCESS, My SQL

GUI: VB, JSP, Java Applets, ASP, HTML.

Web Related: DHTML, XML, VB Script, JavaScript, Java, Weblogic, WebSphere, IIS.

Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, SOLARIS, Windows and Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Identify, understand and plan for organizational and human impacts of planned systems, and ensure that new technical requirements are properly integrated with existing processes and skill sets.
• Plan to test a system flow with various load conditions using tools like HP LoadRunner, HP SiteScope and HP Performance Center.
• Identified performance bottlenecks using App Dynamics.
• Interact with internal users and customers to learn and document requirements that are then used to produce business requirements documents.
• Write technical requirements from a critical phase.
• Interact with designers to understand software limitations.
• Help programmers during system development, ex: provide use cases, flowcharts or even database design.
• Developed and deployed test automation scripts to do end to end performance testing using Load Runner.
• Used c functions for string manipulations
• Wrote custom C functions to enhance load runner Vugen.
• Perform end to end performance testing.
• Deploy the completed system.
• Document requirements or contribute to user manuals.

Environment: LoadRunner, Performance Center, App Dynamics, Splunk, SiteScope, Excel, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Web logic, Load Balancer, JAVA, AJAX, J2EE Diagnostic Tool, web, Windows, HP-UX, AIX, Custom C function.

Confidential, PA

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering and analyzing requirements for performance testing.
• Gathered technical requirements to evaluate performance Impacts on different systems
• Created Performance test plan according to the requirements.
• Identify performance test data and responsible for loading of the data in the performance environment
• Created and enhanced LoadRunner scripts using different LoadRunner protocol.
• Carried out performance testing for Middleware application
• Worked on calculating and creating thevarious types of scenarios
• Carried out various types of performance testslike load, stress,capacity and duration tests
• Gathered and analyzed results and submitted the Performance test report and recommendation.
• Ran various SQL queries to check end to end processing time of documents
• Analyzed the results using Database AWR report and CPU utilization report.
• Performance testing carried out on different EDI transactions
• Knowledge on EDI transactions
• Uploaded scripts and ran LoadTestonBlaze Meter with 1000 users to check the error rate, logs, timeline report, load report, aggregate report and prepare an overall report for the test.
• Extensively used DynaTrace for monitoring servers and identifying bottleneck

Environment: Load Runner, ALM, Performance Center, Unix, SQL, Oracle, Dynatrace.

Confidential, Florida

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing detailed Performance Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases based on requirements.
• Responsible for the scripts and reserve testing resources using HP Suite including LoadRunner and Performance Center.
• Coordinated with business team to get the performance requirements for the load, stress and endurance testing.
• Interacted with project team including business and technical to gather requirements and developed performance test plans.
• Responsible for setting up and maintaining SiteScope monitors.
• Expert in server-side monitoring and test result analysis using SiteScope and CA IntroScope for application server to identify performance bottlenecks.
• Worked on using Fiddler as a proxy enabler to record traffic in Jmeter.
• Configured UNIX, database resources for performance monitoring on Performance Center.
• Performed the Endurance test by executing the test for longer hours in order to find out any Memory Leaks, slow resource consumption problem.
• Creation of project plan, test plans, estimations, development and tracking projects at every phase.
• Worked closely with Software Developers to isolate, track, debugging and troubleshoot defects.
• Developed scripts using Web (Http/html), and Web Services protocols
• Plan to test a system flow with various load conditions using tools like HP LoadRunner, HP SiteScope and HP Performance Center.
• Identified performance bottlenecks using App Dynamics.
• Interact with internal users and customers to learn and document requirements that are then used to produce business requirements documents.
• Write technical requirements from a critical phase.
• Interact with designers to understand software limitations.
• Help programmers during system development, ex: provide use cases, flowcharts or even database design.
• Developed and deployed test automation scripts to do end to end performance testing using Load Runner.
• Used c functions for string manipulations
• Wrote custom C functions to enhance load runner Vugen.
• Perform end to end performance testing.
• Deploy the completed system.
• Document requirements or contribute to user manuals.

Environment: LoadRunner, Performance Center, App Dynamics, Splunk,WilyIntroscope,SiteScope, Excel, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Web logic, Load Balancer, JAVA, AJAX, J2EE Diagnostic Tool, web, Windows, HP-UX, AIX, Custom C function.

Confidential, WI

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Performance Testing - Load testing, stress testing and soak testing of the application using LoadRunner.
• Ensure that quality issues are appropriately identified, analyzed, documented, tracked and resolved in Quality Center.
• Developed and deployed test automation scripts to do end to end performance testing using Load Runner.
• Used c functions for string manipulations
• Wrote custom C functions to enhance load runner Vugen.
• Independently developedLoadRunner test scripts according to test specifications/requirements.
• Tagged LoadRunner’svugen scripts with DynaTrace headers for monitoring web tagged requests in confidential.
• Monitored purepaths, hotshots, server and heap metrics using copnfidential.
• Monitored load balancer, JDBC connection pool, Garbage Collector, DB based on which performance tuning was performed.
• Performance tested the Java applications using JMeter for various protocols.
• Monitored the tests using confidential, Customized Dashboards, API Distribution, Run time Diagnostics, Pure Path tree, Error Analysis, Incidents & Alerts.
• Introduced agile methodology for the performance testing cycles.
• Developed Load Runner Scripts in Web, Web services, SAP-Web and Database protocols.
• Independently develop LoadRunner test scripts Involved in reviewing the Business Requirement document and design documents.
• Analyzed the requirement and design documents.
• Involved in preparing the status reports and defect status reports.

Environment: , LoadRunner, Performance Center,NMON,DynaTrace, Excel, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Web logic, Load Balancer, JAVA, AJAX, Quality Center, Crystal Reports, J2EE Diagnostic Tool, web, Windows, HP-UX, AIX, Custom C function.

Confidential, TX

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Defining the performance goals and objectives based on the client requirements and inputs.
• Extensively Worked in Web, Citrix, Click and Script, Oracle Protocol in LoadRunner.
• Responsible for developing and executing performance and volume tests.
• Developed and deployed test Load scripts to do end to end performance testing using Load Runner.
• Wrote custom C functions to enhance load runner Vugen.
• Executed scenarios using Controller and analysis of results using LoadRunner Analyzer.
• Identified bottlenecks in Network, Database and Application Servers using LoadRunner monitors.
• Used Keynote for cloud based load testing.
• Validated web services and made using SOAPUI.

Environment: Load Runner, Performance Center, LDAP, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Web logic, Web Sphere, Load Balancer, JAVA, Test Director J2EE Diagnostic Tool, web, Windows, Solaris, AIX, IE, Firefox.