SUMMARY:

• 9+ Years of extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), QA Life Cycle, Software Quality Assurance (SQA) and implementation of various Client/Server and Web based applications using Agile, Waterfall methodologies.
• Solid expertise in Performance Testing with an excellent working experience on HPLoadRunner.
• Excellent experience on Requirements Gathering, Load Modeling and Report Analyzing for Performance Testing.
• Train and setup HP Loadrunner (performance /Load / Volume) test environment
• Excellent experience in developing complex performance test scripts for various protocols.
• Excellent knowledge and experience on creating Test Plans Test Strategy and Test Case documents and their execution - manual as well as automated process.
• Extensive working experience on Servers Monitoring with the help of Sitescope, Mercury Diagnostic, Perfmon and BMC.
• Wide knowledge of Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, System testing, and UAT with Black Box testing methods.
• Experienced in automated testing tools like Load Runner, Quick Test Pro, Test Director, Quality Center, Clear Case, and Clear Quest.
• Strong working experience and knowledge on applying HP Tools like ALM, Load Runner, QTP and Quality Centre.
• Strong skills and working experience in different types of Performance and Reliability testing (Load, Stress, Endurance, Capacity, Volume, Scalability, Reliability etc) by using Load Runner.
• Excellent working experience in a fast-paced environment using agile methodologies.
• Knowledge on Performance Tuning Activities.
• Managed performance across the application lifecycle by using Application Performance Management tool suite.
• Extensive knowledge of SOAP REST html http and external data source testing and deep understanding of web services creation development design and functionality testing
• Used APM for monitoring purpose of web application on JAVA and .NET platform.
• Used Wily introscope to monitor the health of various applications.
• Defects and Bugs tracking experience with the help of various Defect Tracking Tools such as Test Director, Quality Center and Rational Clear Quest.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills as well as a good team player, self starter and quick learner.
• Ability to work on tight schedules and on different projects concurrently.
• Proficient in writing functions to emulate real time environment for load runner scripts.
• Expert in BMC tool, worked in BMC patrol, analysis, collection, predict, installing agents on the servers for monitoring.
• Worked on capacity planning using Hyperformix.
• Setup Performance Environment and lab.
• In-depth knowledge of Planning, scripting, Execution and Analysis using LoadRunner, Performance Center, Tuning Module, and QTP, Quality Center.
• Monitored database for sessions, connection pool and memory issues.
• Experience in monitoring and diagnosing application performance and/or configuration issues.
• Utilized various performance tools such as Oracle Enterprise Manager, pmon, nmon, top and Weblogic console for monitoring database cluster contention, I/O, User, CPU activities and overall server(s) performance
• Utilized Database, Network, Application server and WebLogic Monitors during the execution to identify bottlenecks, bandwidth problems, infrastructure problems, and scalability and reliability benchmarks
• Configured and used Sitescope Performance Monitor to monitor and analyze the performance of the server by generating various reports from CPU utilization, Memory Usage to load average etc.
• Analyzed LoadRunner Metrics and other performance monitoring tools results during and after performance testing on Application server database and generated various Graphs and Reports.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Load Testing tool: LoadRunner 9.x, 11.x, HP Performance Center, HP ALM Performance Center, Quality Center 9.0/9.2, HP QuickTest Professional and Jmeter

Loadrunner Protocols: HTTP, Citrix, SAP, PeopleSoft, Tru Client, API Rest Client, Webservices, JAVA-RMI, Flex

Web/Application Servers: New Relic, Sitescope, Perfmon, Wily Introscope, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Dyna traces, HP Diagnostics, Team Quest and WebLogic console, Wireshark IBM Web Sphere, BEA Web Logic 7.x/8.x/10.x, Tomcat 5.0/5.5

Operating system: Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 R2, Windows NT, AIX, UNIX, Solaris

Languages: Java, JSP, Html, Visual Basic, Oracle, C, SQL, XML, C #

Databases: MS SQL Server 7.0/2000/2005/2008, DB2, Oracle 9i/10G/11i, SQL, PL SQL, TOAD

Methodologies: Performance Testing, Quality Assurance, Agile and Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Sr. Performance and Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared the performance & Monitoring Plan and work with the team to evaluate & fine-tune system response time to establish benchmarks & ongoing monitoring processes.
• Developed a comprehensive Performance Test Plan and executed all aspects of the plan. Ensured that the implementation, key user types, locations, and scenarios are assessed as part of the overall plan.
• Worked with the implementation team to identify critical business processes and key application transactions to define performance requirements.
• Coordinated all aspects of test design, planning, and execution with product vendor and service providers
• Created Scripts for Web Services and Executed from Performance Center
• Worked on Rest API, Created Scripts for Rest API and Executed From Performance Center
• Closely worked on SOAP UI and conducted Functional Testing
• Conducted Analysis of Testing Results and recommended solutions for software and infrastructure tuning.
• Used New Relic to troubleshoot application bottlenecks to dig-out which modules are consuming excessive resources.
• Worked with the business team to set expectations and establish key performance benchmarks to use in end user communications as well as QA/Performance Team.
• Set up processes to monitor application performance on a regular basis and take remedial actions.
• Ensured all Performance Work stream deliverables are delivered on time and on budget.
• Developed status reports and communicates appropriate level of detail on Testing, Results, and Issues to team members and senior management.
• Identifying the critical transactions to be load tested and base lining the performance using ALM Performance Center.
• Produce performance test execution summary reports and presentations using LoadRunner Analysis, PowerPoint to the management.
• Expert in Working different kind of Automation Frameworks (Data Driven, Keyword Driven and Hybrid Frame works)
• Used HP ALM/Quality Center for test management and defect reports.
• Performed data driven testing and Keyword- driven Regression testing using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Analyze business requirements and system specifications to understand the application.
• Created process for Test scripts using VUGen to provide the individual steps or actions that would be taken by an actual user of the application and played back without errors with parameterization and correlation for replacing of the values that were captured during the recording of the script with different values.
• Validated Performance and Automation test scripts to ensure that Scripts are functioning properly

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in different meetings to gather specifications and requirements (Load Metrics, Performance Requirements, SLA, Workflows, etc) prior to testing.
• Participated and implemented agile testing practices for widely distributed teams.
• Wrote and executed Performance Test Plan and Test Cases with a standard format.
• Prepared LoadRunner automation scripts and validated with appropriate data inputs.
• Prepared the test data accurately with the help of additional sub-scripts.
• A concrete Load Model was prepared so that it would apply the exact load as per production metrics.
• Analyzed performance, transaction, and server resource monitors for meaningful results for the entire test run using Performance Center 12.20
• Recorded and enhanced test scripts of Web Application in Multi-Protocol that includes Web (HTTP/HTML) and FLEX in Load Runner 12.02
• Creation of performance scripts in Jmeter, VSTS and VUGen
• Prepared different LoadRunner scenarios as per test plan.
• Executed different performance tests (Smoke Test, Baseline Test, Load test, Stress Test, Capacity Test, Endurance Test and Tuning Tests).
• System resource utilization (CPU, Memory, Threads,etc) were monitored with the help of wily Introscope, Sitescope and Perfmon.
• Monitored and managed performance across the application lifecycle by using APM tool suite.
• Worked closely with the Performance Engineers to determine if the proposed architecture can handle current and anticipated production volume.
• Conducted Load testing on web applications using LOADUI and JMeter
• Analyzed the report and validate that the forecasted load levels can be reached with acceptable response times of Open Pages for given functionalities.
• Found out the breakpoint for the Product (number of users, the application can support without degrading the performance) using Stress test
• Moved the enterprise e-Time v8.0 Application In-house from Kronos
• Found out the stability of the application (if the system is away from the memory leaks), using the Endurance test (the test would run for the longer duration).
• Verify that the performance of the Web Servers and Application Servers are within the acceptable limits and offer results that meet the requirements set forth.
• Identified the specific system component response times in order to troubleshoot performance bottlenecks.
• Organized and presented the performance test result analysis and documented in appropriate location.

Performance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering business requirements, studying the application and collecting the information from developers, BA’s and writing the test plan for WebLogic and WebSphere Portal applications.
• Analyzed System Usage by reviewing the user profile, transaction profile, system resource usage diagrams and designed performance, stress, Endurance tests.
• Hands on experience in using LoadRunner, HP Performance Center, Quality Center and Team Track.
• Worked with communication technology vendors such as Akamai & British Telecom to identify issues & implement fixes.
• Worked closely with Network Support Team British Telecommunications to diagnose and fix network and application performance problems.
• Performance testing Experience in J2EE applications by using HTTP/HTML, Web Click &Script Protocols.
• Involved in writing Test Plans for the above applications by incorporating Performance Testing Objectives, Testing Environment, Workflows to be tested, Risks, Test Scenarios, Explanation about the Tools used, Schedules and Analysis, Monitors and Presentation of results.
• Work with Clients’ business test leads, network engineers, system administrators to properly create a test environment to suit their various applications and environments.
• Train and setup HP Loadrunner (performance /Load / Volume) test environment.
• Used J2EE based application servers, such as WebSphere and WebLogic.
• For monitoring used HP Sitescope and wily introscopeat the serer level.
• Experience in profiling software to identify performance improvements.
• Involved in troubleshooting errors and contention related issues with J2EE based applications.
• Expert in supporting performance analysis initiatives.
• Expert in Middleware appliances.
• Extensively used various protocols like Web, Citrix, Java, Web Services and Winsock protocols.

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plan/test cases, high level scenarios for load testing.
• Implemented test practices, standards and process.
• Developed Load Runner scripting using web-http, Web Services protocols.
• Developed script using VuGen to design scenarios and prepare valid data for testing.
• Worked with SQL and data querying through TOAD with KPI Table.
• Develop backend Simulators.
• Setup & configured Site scope with ALM PC.
• Experience working with open source testing tools like SoapUI , LoadUI , JMeter to perform web application testing and load testing
• Conducted Load testing on web applications using LOAD UI and JMeter
• Setup, gathered and evaluated statistics from all other monitors.
• Conducted performance/load/stress testing with ALM performance center.
• Communicated with PMs, architects, development team and business people.
• Worked for performance tuning, optimization and capacity planning.

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Executed performance testing on e-commerce business web site using LoadRunner
• Develop performance testing scripts in HTTP/HTML protocol.
• Execute performance test scripts from LoadRunner Controller and logged defects in QC.
• Performed web service performance testing using Soap UI Pro.
• Extensive experience in agile methodologies from Sprint Analysis meeting to Sprint Retrospective.
• Performed performance testing in User Acceptance Testing environment to identify system bottleneck.
• Experience working with open source testing tools like SoapUI, LoadUI, JMeter to perform web application testing and load testing
• Used Quality Center to prepare Test Cases with the complete description of requirements
• Executed Performance test using loadrunner.
• Reported and managed software performance defects using Quality Center and interacted with the developers to resolve technical performance issues.
• Actively involved in QA reviews, walk through and audits during various software development life cycle phases.
• Involved in Integration and System and Database tuning.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the user/business requirements and functional specification documents.
• Actively interacting with Team Members, Developers, Business Analysts and Project Management team to analyze the business process and requirements.
• Involved in Sprint Meeting and actively estimated the time required for testing in the Sprint.
• Updating Weekly Status in Confluence and meeting the deadlines.
• Involve in Stand up meetings and gave day to day progress.
• Performed Regression Testing, UI Testing, Integration Testing, Backend Testing, End To End Testing to make sure the requirements are met.
• Documenting Test Cases based on the Issues logged in JIRA.
• Executing Test Cases to verify the actual results against expected results.
• Performing defect tracking by logging defects and submitting changes requested to JIRA.
• Working closely with the developers in fixing the defects.
• Executing SQL queries to retrieve data from database for Backend Validation.
• Pro Actively Involving in Testing for any Escalation Release.
• Importing the Test Cases once the Sprint is completed in the Quality Center.