SUMMARY

• Setup Performance test lab and configure Load Generators, Site Scope Monitor inside and behind the firewall.
• Developed and enhanced HP Load Runner scripts by using Web/HTML, Web Services, Ajax True client, Citrix, Oracle 2Tier, RTE, and Windows Socket protocols.
• Prepare Test Strategy, Test plans and present the Performance Test Summary Reports to Higher management and clients.
• Adept at using Automated and Test Management tools like Mercury/HP suite (QTP, WinRunner, LoadRunner, Quality Center, TestDirector ), Rational Test Suite (Clear Quest, Requisite Pro Manager), Borland (Silk Performer, Caliber), SharePoint and PVCS Bug Tracker.
• Above 15 years of diverged IT experience in the field of Quality Assurance Testing, Maintenance and support for Web, SOA, .NET, JAVA, Security, Mainframe and Client/Server applications.
• Led andthe performance and functional test activities wif onsite and offshore teams.
• Monitored Server resources using BMC, Tivoli, Site Scope, J2EE Deep Diagnostics, Dynatrace and Web Logic Console to identify performance bottle necks.
• Assisted the development team to fine - tune the applications to meet the SLA’s.
• Expertise in QA Methodologies, Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC), Defect Management Life Cycle, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Good knowledge and working experience wif Software Methodology like CMM, Agile, Six Sigma, and Waterfall.
• Excellent knowledge in testing COTS products.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• HP Load Runner 11.52(Protocols: Web/HTML, Ajax True client, Web Services, Citrix, Oracle 2Tier, RTE, and Windows Socket), Quality Center 11.0, C, Unix.
• QTP.11.x
• Performance Center 11.x
• Fitnesse, Jmeter, Etheiral/ WireShark, Fiddler, FireFox Fire Bug, SPLUNK
• SQL, Oracle, Subversion/Star Team/Visual Source Safe/Clear Quest/Sharepoint
• People Soft 8.4 (HRMS/Financials)
• Dynatrace 5.5/J2EE Deep Diagnostics/Tivoli/BMC/SiteScope
• Toad/SQL Developer/soapUI
• Relevant Project Expertise
• Water Fall Methodology
• Agile Methodology
• Defect Management
• QA Methodologies
• Requirements Gap Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential,

Lead Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage all aspects of the performance testing effort, coordinate testing activities and maintain test schedules.
• Create key Performance Engineering artifacts and communicate them to key stakeholders.
• Analyze current production metrics (user, usage, server configuration, system utilizations) to create capacity baseline, add additional usage due to new release and make capacity planning sizing recommendations.
• Install and configure Dynatrace tool for .Net applications on .Net windows servers.
• Profile .Net and Java applications using Dynatrace to identify slow methods, memory leaks, slowest queries, exceptions and configuration issues.
• Utilize Splunk tool to troubleshoot application issues during performance testing, monitor network devices, examine services, and analyze the virtual and physical server environment.
• Responsible for analyzing the requirements, designing test plans, designing and debugging, test scripts, execution and generating reports for projects.
• Conduct performance test process reviews wif in the team.
• Participate in Agile Iteration planning, definition of tasks in Rally and maintenance of Rally status for all Performance activities.
• Responsible for providing performance, capacity assessment and deployment risks using Key Performance Indicator.
• Responsible for providing application team wif performance test sign off.
• Monitor application performance after go live for potential performance issues.

Environment: HP ALM Performance Center 11.5, Load Runner 11.5, ALM Quality Center11.5,SPLUNK, Dynatrace 6.0, SiteScope 11.5,WireShark,.Net, iSeries, AS400, Fiddler, SharePoint, soapUI, Java, ASP.NET, SOA, Oracle 11g, IIS, PEGA, WebSphere, Infosphere, Linux, SQL Server, Rally.

Confidential

Performance Architect

Responsibilities:

• Procurement of Performance test hardware and Performance Test Tools.
• Supervised and/or participated in the design and implementation of performance testing tools and scripts.
• Planning, defining, executing, and analyzing high-level performance testing strategies and solutions through business, functional and technical expertise.
• Supervised the maintenance and tuning of applications, directing user support activities managing preventive maintenance activities.
• Scripting, Executing, and Analyzing performance tests and solutions through business, functional and technical expertise
• Analyze and trend performance and reliability of enterprise applications in production like configuration and articulate test result impacts wif stakeholders.
• Implement all actions required to deploy an application performance test, including test environment configuration, test tool setup and configuration, and test data management.

Environment: HP Load Runner 11.5, ALM Quality Center11.5, Wily Introscope, SharePoint, soapUI, Java, SOA, Oracle 11g, Weblogic, Exalogic, Exadata and MDM

Confidential

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Individually responsible for handling performance test projects end to end and advise the Appdev teams wif performance tuning recommendations.
• Analyze current production metrics (user, usage, server configuration, system utilizations) to create capacity baseline, add additional usage due to new release and make capacity planning sizing recommendations.
• Responsible for maintaining performance test environment.
• Install and configure J2EE Diagnostics tool for .Net applications on .Net windows servers.
• Extensively used J2EE diagnostics tool for .Net and Java applications to trouble shoot the application issues and find the root cause by analyzing Garbage Collection Analysis, Heap Analysis, Thread dump, JVM tuning and risk analysis.
• Involved in testing several applications in Sales Force cloud and recommended the sales force team tuning the apex thread pools.
• Responsible for analyzing the requirements, designing test plans, designing and debugging test scripts, execution and generating reports for projects.
• Conduct performance test process reviews wif in the team.
• Responsible for providing performance, capacity assessment and deployment risks using Key Performance Indicator.
• Responsible for providing application team wif performance test sign off.

Environment: HP ALM Performance Center 11.x, Load Runner 11.x, ALM Quality Center11.x, J2EE Diagnostics 9.x, SiteScope 11.x, Sales Force, Sales Force Apex Dataloader, .Net, iSeries, AS400,Fiddler, SharePoint, soapUI, ASP.NET, SOA, Oracle 11g, IIS, WebSphere.

Confidential

Sr. Performance Test Engineer/QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Conducted high level requirements analysis, wrote proposals for performance test requirements, and Statements of Work for various client engagements.
• Setup Performance test lab (Controller, MI Listner, Load Generators and Site Scope) on multiple domains wifin the firewall and behind the firewall.
• Review Performance test scripts and provide feedback to the team wif required changes to the scripts.
• Build the Test scenarios, adjust the pacing based on work load profile, configure runtime settings in Load Runner Controller and Performance Center
• Generate performance test scripts and execute scenarios using HP Load Runner protocols Web/HTML, Click and Script, .NET, Citrix, Web Services and Winsock.
• Created and enhanced scripts in VUGen using Citrix protocol.
• Configure Unix, Windows, Oracle, Web Logic and Apache monitors in Site Scope
• Performed Load testing for Web Services using JMeter and soapUI.
• Monitored Web Servers, Application Servers and Database Servers using Web Logic Console, BMC, Site Scope, J2EE Deep Diagnostics, VMSTAT, Rstatd and Perfmon.
• Analyzed the Test Results by Overlaying and Correlating the various Resource Graphs to identify the performance bottle necks.
• Provided wif tuning recommendations to improve the application performance.
• Present the Final test repots to the client in Power Point Presentation.
• Developed Test Strategies and Test Plans for Iterative Incremental Development Process.
• Performed Test Lead Duties on several projects which involved in agile development methodologies for Performance and Functional testing.
• Led the Testing activities on OnStar for Verizon API for activation, deactivation, Change Mobile Number, and ESN Swap.
• Supported Test Coordination efforts between UAT, SIT, Performance and offshore (China, India and Brazil) teams
• Generated daily defect metrics reports and presented them to the OnStar customer
• Created the test data in TOAD/SQL Developer using SQL queries to support the testing activities.

Environment: HP Quality Center 10.0, Load Runner 11.0, Performance Center 9.X, QTP 9.X, PVCS bug Tracker, SharePoint, Caliber, Subversion, JMeter, soapUI, Fitnesse, ASP.NET, Java, J2EE, AJAX, SOA, TOAD, Eclipse, Oracle 11g/10g/9i, DB2, UNIX (AIX 4.3), LINUX and WebLogic 10.0/8.0.

Confidential

Sr. Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performance Tested PeopleSoft Financials 8.4. (Billing, Account Reconciliation, Account Payable and General Ledger), PeopleSoft HRMS 8.3 (Time and Labor and Benefit Enrollment) using WEB/HTML protocol.
• Created RTE VUser script to execute a PERL script, which generates Ops orders and feeds to the STORMS application and the script resides on the UNIX box.
• Monitored WebServer, Application Server and Database Server operating systems using LoadRunner Rstad and Performon.
• Monitored Oracle Database V$SESSTAT, V$SYSSTAT. V$VIEW, V$INSTANCE tables and suggested wif tuning recommendations.
• Monitored Weblogic queues and Threads in weblogic console and UNIX logs.
• Analyzed results and present the Analysis Report to Users in user specified format.

Confidential

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Gatheird Load test requirements from Subject Matter Experts (SME) and Application Developers.
• Designed and developed the load test framework for the WAS 4 to WAS 5 and Oracle8i to Oracle9i migration in ADS porting center using LoadRunner 8.0.
• Created and enhanced LoadRunner scripts wif C functions.
• Maintained LoadRunner scripts and Scenarios in PVCS Tracker.
• Created WinRinner scripts for client / server applications and executed them from LoadRunner Controller.
• Created Test scripts in VUgen using Oracle (2-Tier) protocol for Oracle database migration.
• Analyzed Load testing results for System Resources, Application Server Resources and Web Server Resources.
• Analyzed Network bottlenecks using enhanced utilities like Web Page Breakdown graphs and First Buffer.
• Monitored the Memory leaks for Websphere applications using IBM’s Tivoli Performance Monitor.
• Used SAR / RSTAT and PERMON remote monitoring utility to monitor respective Unix/ Linux and windows operating systems.