SUMMARY

• He has over 20 years of experience in the Information Technology Industry as a Performance Test Architect and Lead, Performance Testing Consultant and Analyst, QA Specialist, and Programmer / Analyst.
• He has performed in all phases of the System Development Life Cycle with emphasis in performance and automated testing. He has proven experience applying leadership skills in project management abilities, delivering projects on - time, within budget, and with high quality of work.
• Performance Testing - Involved in Performance Testing phase of the projects from planning to closure. Managed, scoped, estimated, and lead performance test engagements. Conducted evaluation of performance testing and monitoring tools. Developed test strategies, approaches and plans. Created application performance models / load distribution diagrams. Developed test cases, scripts, scenarios, and data. Executed performance, load, and stress tests of WEB, Client/Server and Legacy applications.
• Automated Functional Testing - Involved in different phases of the System Development Life Cycle. Managed and conducted automated functional and performance testing engagements. Developed test plans, cases, scripts, and data. Conducted, integration, system, and regression tests of software applications.
• Quality Assurance / Software Testing - Ensured that software products / applications met standards, business, system, and user requirements. Analyzed testing processes, procedures, lessons learned, and made recommendations.
• Leadership and Training - Mentored QA team members and clients in the best practices and techniques of implementation of performance, automated and system monitoring tools.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Test Strategy and Plan Development
• Test Case Design and Execution
• Functional System Testing
• Automated Functional Testing
• Performance / Stress Testing
• Performance Monitoring / Tuning
• System Capacity Planning
• Software / Script Development
• Test Analysis / Reporting
• Coding and Debugging
• Team Leadership / Mentoring
• HP-PC ALM / Loadrunner
• Compuware / QALoad
• IBM-Rational / Robot VU
• HP-Mercury Quality Center
• Compuware QA Center Portal
• IBM-Rational / Test Manager
• HP-Mercury / QuickTest Pro
• Compuware / TestPartner
• CA Willy Introscope
• MS Office / Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• MS Windows XP, 7, 8, and 10
• UNIX, HP, AIX, Solaris

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Performance Center Specialist

Environment: PC, LAN, WAN, Windows 10, z/OS

Tools: HP/MF PC ALM / Loadrunner 12.55, C/C++, MS Office

Responsibilities:

• Provided migrations of performance / load testing assets from standalone Loadrunner to ALM Performance Center.
• Supported the installation, troubleshooting, and system administration of Microfocus Performance Center products.
• Created and conducted professional training of QA software testers and application developers.
• Lead performance testing team for performance test planning, test scenario design and testing.
• Evaluated performance test protocols and monitoring tools, QA testing metrics and processes.
• Conducted performance, load, stress, and regression tests.

Confidential

Performance Testing Consultant

Environment: PC, LAN, WAN, Windows 2008, Windows 7, Windows 10, Sun Solaris

Tools: HP/MF PC ALM / Loadrunner 12.5, HP-SiteScope, StormRunner Load, C, MS Office

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to Confidential Services for Election Management and Information System 2018.
• Created performance test plans for Election Management applications on Premise, Public Election Results in AWS Cloud Front application, and Election Support applications hosted by the vendor.
• Created performance testing scenarios, test data and scripts. Conducted baseline, performance, load, stress, endurance, and regression tests with system /application monitoring.
• Supported application / system performance tuning and troubleshooting of performance issues and functional defects under the loads.
• Conducted performance test results reviews, and presentations of performance test plans.

Confidential

Principal Performance Tester

Environment: PC, LAN, WAN, Windows 2008, Windows 7, Windows 10

Tools: HP-PC ALM / Loadrunner 12.x, HP-Diagnostics, Dynatrace, StormRunner Load, C, MS Office

Responsibilities:

• Worked for Web Revitalization and Integrated Web Services Program. Lead and conducted multiple performance and stress testing engagements for Web Portal (toronto.ca) and Integrated Web Service Delivery Channels, including Web Content Management and Delivery of WEM OpenText, Drupal, WordPress, SearchBlox, and Amanda applications.
• Evaluated modern SaaS performance / load testing tools. Implemented StormRunner Load in performance testing processes.
• Created performance testing approaches, test plans, scenarios, and scripts.
• Developed and conducted around 600 StormRunner Load tests in the Cloud with scripts in HTTP/HTML protocol, including performance / load, stress, failover, configuration and regression tests in AWS Cloud Front and ELB. Completed system / application performance tuning and troubleshooting, test results reviews and presentations.
• Implemented regression performance testing approach into the release management process.
• Assigned to SAP HR and Payroll Program at Confidential for large scale performance testing of SAP Portal, HR and Payroll applications. Created performance test scenarios, scripts, and data using SAP Web Protocol for testing of SAPUI5 technology.
• Created performance testing plans and details, scenarios, test data and scripts. Conducted performance / stress tests, system / application monitoring and diagnostics. Lead application performance tuning and troubleshooting of performance issues.
• Completed a number of performance testing engagements for various projects at Confidential.
• Lead application performance tuning and troubleshooting of performance bottlenecks and issues.
• Conducted performance test results reviews, and presentations of performance test strategies and plans.

Confidential

Performance Testing Consultant

Environment: PC, LAN, WAN, Windows 2008, Windows XP, Linux

Tools: HP-PC ALM / Loadrunner 11.x, HP-QTP 11, HP-SiteScope, CA Wily Introscope, C/C++, MS Office

Responsibilities:

• Had a hand in BB10. Worked for performance testing of WEB Enterprise Portals, E-Commerce SAP applications, Web Services and HP Services Virtualization.
• Conducted performance and automated test planning and coordination with project teams.
• Created performance test plans and scenarios, scripts and data.
• Conducted performance, baseline, load, volume, stress, failover, sustainability testing and monitoring.
• Reviewed results with the teams, identified application / system performance issues.
• Lead performance test tuning and troubleshooting of production issues.

Confidential

Performance Test Architect

Environment: PC, LAN, WAN, Windows XP, Windows 7, Linux, Sun Solaris

Tools: HP-PC / Loadrunner 11, SOAP UI, LOAD UI, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint

Responsibilities:

• Assigned on short term engagement for ESB Program, which includes SAP and TIBCO ESB application integration Worked with QA and Solution Architects to provide non-functional testing requirements and testing solutions for high availability, sustainability, and performance characteristics.
• Audited performance test plans, tests scenarios and results completed by the project team in previous SAP projects using HP-PC. Managed POC, tuning and troubleshooting of SOA applications using SOAP UI.
• Provided risk analysis and recommendations on QA process improvement.

Confidential

Senior Performance Tester

Environment: PC, LAN, WAN, Windows 2008, Windows XP, Windows 7, Linux

Tools: HP-PC / Loadrunner 11, SOAP UI, LOAD UI, HP-SiteScope, C/C++, MS Office, MS Visio

Responsibilities:

• Completed performance testing of CDMS Web and SOA based applications.
• Created performance test plans, scripts, data and scenarios, Conducted performance testing and monitoring.
• Evaluated SOAP UI with LOAD UI and HP-PC Web Services for the client’s projects.
• Completed POC of performance testing of Linux based applications using HP-PC RTE protocol, which allowed to engage new performance testing projects.
• Reviewed test results. Identified application/system bottlenecks and suggested improvements.
• Assigned on short term engagements for ESB Program, which includes SAP and TIBCO application integration Worked with QA and Solution Architects to provide non-functional testing requirements and testing solutions for high availability, sustainability, and improved performance characteristics.
• Audited performance test plans, tests scenarios and results completed by the other project teams.
• Mentored QA / performance testers for efficient Loadrunner tools usage. Managed POC, tuning and troubleshooting.

Confidential

Lead Performance Test Engineer

Environment: PC, LAN, WAN, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows 7, Linux, z/OS

Tools: HP-PC/ Loadrunner 9.5, HP-QTP 9.5, HP-QC, SOAP UI, CA Wily Introscope, C/C++, VB, Java

Responsibilities:

• Assigned on performance testing of legacy systems and real-time processing applications in using RTE protocol.
• Lead performance testing team for performance testing engagements of WEB, CMOD, DW, MDM, WAS, Message Broker and SOAP / XML based applications (WEB Services).
• Evaluated performance testing and monitoring tools, QA testing metrics and processes. Provided strategic performance testing recommendations and mitigated the business risks.
• Created Performance test strategy and plans. Run performance testing and monitoring activities. Reviewed and analyzed test results, created test reports.
• Lead application / system performance tuning in various test environments.