SUMMARY

• Over 4 years of experience in the field of Performance Testing and Engineering using professional Performance tools like HP LoadRunner and HP Performance Center.
• Analyzing and understanding current production system to analyze the system's future growth and needs of stakeholders in order to come up with optimal Performance Engineering plans.
• Strategic and innovative thinking in Performance Testing and engineering across various technologies like Web, Integration, Database and Java - based applications.
• Collaboration with stakeholders, BAs, application and infrastructure team to strategize optimum performance testing approach.
• Performance Tuning and Bottleneck analysis on various applications
• Root cause analysis on the identified performance bottlenecks for various server architecture.
• Provided a detailed Non-Functional analysis report which helped in fixing the memory leaks, time consuming methods, web service calls, CPU utilization and other performance aspects.
• Effectively managing the Risk, Issues and decisions on application Go-Live.
• Guiding the business team to arrive at the numbers of workload distribution and SLAs.
• Knowledge on tools like AppDynamics, WILY Introscope, Splunk, etc.
• End to end managing the server performance testing engagement starting from Requirements, Planning, Design, Execution and detailed analysis.
• Involved in workload analysis (using Production logs and inputs from different teams) and modelling for different and complex Architecture projects.
• Involved in creating Performance Monitoring and Post-production monitoring dashboards for easier access and user-friendly statistics.
• Well experienced in different type of performance tests like Load, Stress, Endurance, Regression testing of both thin-client and thick-client applications.
• Recorded and developed HP LoadRunner scripts by using the concepts of Parameterization and Correlation on various complex protocols like JAVA over HTTP, FLEX, Web HTTP/HTML, Web Services, SAP GUI and JAVA protocols.
• Prepared Test Metrics and Test Effort estimations for various projects across different technologies.
• Identifying critical business flows and creating performance test scenarios accordingly.
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Test methodologies from project definition to post deployment documentation such as planning, creating, executing, reporting and tracking the defects.
• Have knowledge of SQL queries using tools like Toad, Oracle SQL developer or Microsoft SQL Server Studio.
• As a Performance Test Lead, have been gaining experience in Strong project & people management capabilities, analytical skills, evaluation and high degree of initiative.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• H P Performance Center 12.53
• HP LoadRunner 12.53
• NeoLoad C
• C++
• Core JAVA
• SQL
• VB Macros HTML
• XML
• TOAD
• Oracle SQL Developer
• MS Server Management Studio AppDynamics
• Splunk
• Wily Introscope
• HP Sitescope
• Oracle OEM
• Wireshark
• Fiddler
• N-mon
• Perfmon
• ITCAM
• Windows 7
• Windows Server 2008/2012 R2
• LINUX
• UNIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Marlborough, MA

Performance Test Lead

Tools: used: HP Performance Center 12.53, HP LoadRunner 12.53, AppDynamics, Splunk, ITCAM, Oracle SQL Developer, MS SQL Server Studio, IBM Datastage, N-mon

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Performance Effort estimations.
• Gathering and validating non-functional requirements.
• Analyzing production logs and creating workload model for performance testing scenarios.
• Designing Performance Test scenarios as per business scenarios and identified workloads.
• Creating and generating Performance Test Plan and Strategy documents.
• Load, Stress, Endurance testing of applications as per workload model.
• Analyzing logs at various levels (Application/ integration/ Database) and identifying & troubleshooting performance issues.
• Coordinating with offshore team from onsite and providing status and updates to stakeholders proactively.
• Reviewing Performance scripts and test data developed by offshore team.
• Identifying performance bottlenecks in server & application and working closely with other teams to fix bottlenecks by providing recommendations and conducting troubleshooting sessions.

Environment: .Net (Application), Oracle Exadata, RMS, WAS, IBM MQs

Confidential

Performance Test Engineer

Tools: used: HP Performance Center 12.53, HP LoadRunner 12.53, AppDynamics, Splunk, Oracle SQL Developer, TOAD, Oracle OEM, Wily Introscope, HP Sitescope, Perfmon

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is a workforce management application used for tracking associates' information like attendance, leaves, payrolls etc.
• Supply Chain Management System is used for keeping a track of all the Purchase Orders and related shipments. It is mainly responsible for letting users see the current status of an item and synchronizing various systems and bringing them all on the same page.
• SAP Business Objects Planning & Consolidation is used as a front end for managing the organization level data since it provides planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial consolidation capabilities in a single application.
• GMI (Global Merchandising initiative) Europe project involves migration of TJX applications from the traditional mainframe systems to RMS v16 across Europe. Involved in E2E Performance Testing and Engineering.
• Preparation of Performance Effort estimations.
• Gathering and validating non-functional requirements.
• Analyzing production logs and creating workload model for performance testing scenarios.
• Designing Performance Test scenarios as per business scenarios and identified workloads.
• Creating and generating Performance Test Plan and Strategy documents.
• Load, Stress, Endurance, scalability testing of applications as per workload model.
• Analyzing logs at various levels (Application/ integration/ Database) and identifying & troubleshooting performance issues.
• Coordinating with onsite team from offshore and providing updates/status on daily and weekly level.
• Recording and developing Performance scripts (LoadRunner) and test data for performance test executions.
• Executing various tests and doing live and offline monitoring using various monitoring / APM tools.
• Identifying performance bottlenecks in server & application and working closely with other teams to fix bottlenecks by providing recommendations and conducting troubleshooting sessions.

Environment: .Net (Application), Oracle Exadata, RMS, WAS, IBM MQs, Purchase Order Entry Management