SUMMARY:

• Dynamic professional with 9+ years of overall experience in performance testing
• Currently working as Tech Lead for the Blackflag performance testing project
• Expertise in Performance test tools like HP Load Runner, Neoload, Jmeter, Performance Center, SOAP - UI
• Experience in Web (HTTP/HTML), Web Services, Oracle 2-Tier, SAP GUI and Citrix ICA protocols
• Holds good knowledge in service virtualization with SOAP-UI & ITKO LISA tool
• Experience in scheduling and running batch jobs in SAS DI
• Experienced in different kinds of performance tests like standalone tests, capacity test, platform regression test, soak test (endurance test) and breakpoint test (Stress test)
• Familiarization in accessing and monitoring UNIX systems through custom scripts & monitors with significant UNIX skills
• Designed the implementation plan and support for performance test stubs and harnesses required to facilitate all performance test activities
• Involved in performance test plan preparation and prepared test strategy documents
• Preparing performance test final reports
• Participating in daily status calls, review meetings and design calls
• Designing the test scripts, test scenarios and test data based upon the non functional requirements and executing them with respect to standards and methods
• Good Programming skills across a range of scripting languages to make Load Runner script development easier
• Expertise on high-level Java and JVM tuning using GC analysis and Queuing analysis
• Monitoring the web logic and data base servers and performing pre and post health checks during each test run
• Analyzing the server utilizations, performance stats like jstats and awr report after each test run
• Tracking the performance issues and logging defects in HP Quality Centre& defect ownership
• Flexible, versatile to adapt to any new environment and work on any project having good communication and interpersonal skills
• Knowledge of introspection, transaction tracing and diagnostic techniques
• Expertise in implementing performance engineering best practices
• Excellent communication skills with strong technical expertise, good interpersonal skills, excellent team mentor and team player
• Experience in Quality Management Group activities to have quality included delivery of projects

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Performance tools: Load runner, Performance Centre, Jmeter, Neoload, SOAPUI, SAS, ITKO LISA

Protocols: Web services, Web HTTP/HTML, Oracle 2 tier, AMF, Citrix, Seibel

Monitoring tools: Unix monitoring, nmon, JMelody, Jconsole, JProfiler, Introscope, DynaTrace

Bug Tracking Tool: Quality Centre

Operating systems: UNIX and Windows

Database: Oracle, SQL server

Application Servers: Weblogic,Apache

Languages: C, C++, XML, perl, core Java, C#.NET

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Study and understand the non-functional requirements, workload / volumetric analysis of different sub-systems.
• Participates in requirements/ design calls, project team meetings
• Understand the performance impact scenarios for the release and scoping/de-scoping of the scenarios.
• Requirements gathering and impact analysis by interacting with subject matter experts, developers, system integrators, environment team and business & systems analysts
• Understand the application and identify key business processes in the application
• Coordinating with the component teams to get the environment ready or fixed in case of any issues
• Preparation of call flows for the scoped scenarios.
• Gathering of latest volumes and extrapolating the same to our environment.
• Co-ordinate and delegate various activities with test team at offshore and assist the team in resolving various scripting issues.
• Sanity testing of the application and in case of discrepancies, reporting to the team
• Preparing test scenarios and test data based on the non-functional requirements.
• Preparation of performance test report and walk through the results to stake holders
• Sharing reports with monitoring reports and providing value feedbacks.

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understand the performance impact scenarios for the release and scoping/de-scoping of the scenarios.
• Requirements gathering and impact analysis by interacting with subject matter experts, developers, system integrators, environment team and business & systems analysts
• Understand the application and identify key business processes in the application
• Coordinating with the component teams to get the environment ready or fixed in case of any issues
• Ensuring the new business scenarios mapped to test cases
• Preparation of call flows for the scoped scenarios.
• Gathering of latest volumes and extrapolating the same to our environment.
• Sanity testing of the application and in case of discrepancies, reporting to the team
• Developed Neoload scripts for required business scenarios and verifying the scripts.
• Preparing test scenarios and bulk test data based on the non-functional requirements.
• Responsible to monitor and to collect the CPU & memory utilizations of Web, Application and database servers during and after test execution
• Analyzing performance stats like jstats after the test run.
• Preparation of performance test report and walk through the results to stake holders

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Study and understand the non-functional requirements, workload / volumetric analysis of different sub-systems
• Participates in requirements/ design calls, project team meetings
• Requirements gathering and impact analysis by interacting with subject matter experts, developers, system integrators, environment team and business & systems analysts
• Understand the application and identify key business processes in the application
• Responsible for preparing test strategy and Test plan documents
• Coordinating with the component teams to get the environment ready or fixed in case of any issues
• Responsible for prepare the Test scripts as per the requirement
• Perform load test execution, performance monitoring and analysis
• Resolve outstanding issues and queries for performance testing
• Identifying high time taken queries during the migration and suggesting for tuning
• Monitoring the DB server and providing valuable suggestions like index creation on table
• Lead technical calls, defect calls & defect management
• Preparation of performance test report and walk through the results to stake holders

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gather non-functional requirements from concerned stake-holders such as designers, technical architects
• Gather the volumes of various activities from production and changing the regression scope based on the volumes to replicate the real time scenarios
• Prepare call flows on the requirements received, prepare test strategy report and design non-functional test scenarios
• Develop/design scripts for the scenarios using the performance testing tool in AMF, Web (HTTP/HTML), Oracle-2-tier and Citrix ICA protocols based on the scenario
• Conduct stand-alone load test, mixed scenarios load test as per the requirements and report preparation
• Verify the regression scripts and implement required enhancements for the regression scenarios
• Monitor the AUT by checking the resource utilizations of the database server and application server using OEM
• Perform web logic server monitoring to analyze various configuration parameters like heap memory usage, thread count and garbage collection etc.
• Collection of required logs from environment team to identify the performance issues
• Raise defects through HP QC and after appropriate tuning is been made, re-test and close the defects after approval from concerned stake-holders
• Prepare a performance sign-off report for every major release
• Lead a team of 4 members, grooming them to understand and implement development skills required
• Participation in project review meetings and audits
• Assign and monitor day to day work of the Performance test team
• Co-ordinate and delegate various activities with test team at offshore and assist the team in resolving various scripting issues
• Prioritize, schedule and complete work on time for multiple capabilities with overlapping schedules
• Resolve outstanding issues and queries for performance testing
• Mentor and train the new associates on the LR tool on AMF, Citrix ICA protocol
• Review deliverables in time to improve the quality/completeness of deliverable

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the overall end to end test cycle of a release - understanding of non-functional test requirements to sign-off of deliverable (performance test reports)
• Participation in understanding of customer needs and overall business process
• Working closely with designers and technical architects to finalize the performance scope and requirements
• Preparing the strategy for selecting the suitable performance tools based on the requirement
• Reviewing the E2E Test scenarios and arranging walkthrough call on it to get sign off from all the stakeholders
• Setting up the monitoring counters on all the servers
• Prepare the performance test scripts in VuGen Handle various scripting challenges like correlation, customized C functions etc
• Assist test teams in creating Load Runner scripts for business transactions
• Analyzing nmon, AWR reports and GC logs for the test duration
• Running the jobs for ETL process & identifying the high time taken jobs
• Verifying the data which is loaded into target database
• Verified Data mapping and data lost between source and target systems
• Design and configuration of load-runner scenarios for BI application
• Defect management activities involving co-ordination with component teams to progress on the defects raised during testing and flag any high priority issue to upper management for resolution

Confidential

Performance Tester

Environment: Java, Web logic

Responsibilities:

• Capturing the Requirements and understanding new CR's coming as part of the release by going through HLD, RDD etc
• Preparing the Test Strategy plan
• Creating Load Runner scripts for identified functionalities
• Designing Load Runner scenarios in Performance Center based on the Load Test proposed
• Executing Different types of Performance Tests with derived loads from Live Stats (Site Catalyst which is a customized portal for BT.COM production stats)
• Types of performance tests include Standalone Testing, Functional Regression Testing, platform Regression Testing, Volume Testing, Soak Testing and other support tests
• Analyzing the Application logs and Backend calls captured during testing by accessing UNIX Systems
• Monitoring Performance Parameters (like CPU, Memory, Throughput, Queue length, Thread Count, Connection pools etc.) during testing
• Monitoring the JVM for GC logs and heap size for the analysis of transaction response times
• Creating test report from test results and lists any issues observed
• Generating a final test report after the completion of analysis
• Tracking the performance issues and defects through HP Quality Centre
• Interacting with the design/development team during nonfunctional issues
• Attending customer calls and Daily Standup calls
• Ensure that all identified performance parameters are thoroughly monitored as per the Test Strategy and Test Scenarios

Confidential

Performance Tester

Environment: Oracle 10g, Oracle 2 Tier (LR protocol), OEM and Weblogic

Responsibilities:

• Creating Load Runner scripts for identified functionalities
• Designing load scenarios in Performance Center based on the load test proposed
• Performance tests include Standalone Testing, Volume Testing, Soak Testing & other support tests
• Monitoring Performance Parameters (like CPU, Memory, Throughput, Queue length, Thread Count, Connection pools, Hits per sec etc) during testing
• Arranging daily and weekly calls and interacting with other teams / customer
• Distributing the daily and weekly status reports
• Involving in creation of Work Load Synthesis Scripts reviewing and enhancements
• Preparation of final summary report which includes Performance test result analysis and all servers related performance parameters
• Suggesting with value additions based on Performance test results

Confidential

Performance Tester

• Gather the performance testing requirements by talking to the client and stake holders
• Preparation of the performance test methodology document
• Creating the automation script framework that will execute all the use cases as per the requirements.
• Executing smoke tests to validate the scripts, and test environment.
• Executing the load tests to find out the scalability of the application and a soak test to find out memory leaks
• Analyzing the performance test results from and preparing a detailed performance test report