SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of experience with End to End Performance Testing.
• Involved in gathering business requirements, studying the application and collecting the information from developers and writing the test plan.
• Strong experience in development of performance test strategies.
• Extensively used Loadrunner to develop Vuser Scripts
• Extensively worked in HTTP , Winsock and Oracle, Citrix Protocols in Loadrunner
• Responsible for application and components behavior with heavier loads and optimizing server configurations.
• Good understanding of Java Programming.
• Strong C, C++ Programming Skills.
• Extensively worked in development of Loadrunner scripts in Web, Webservices, Citrix and Oracle NCA Protocols.
• Worked extensively with LoadRunner. Created Scenarios, Ran tests with IP Spoofing with process and multithreaded environments, analyzed and generated performance reports
• Extensively involved in performance tuning of application servers such as Weblogic and Tuxedo
• Extensively involved in Performance tuning of Web servers such as web sphere.
• Involved in Performance tuning of database Servers.
• Generated load in the system using multiple controllers, Thin and Thick client at the same time.
• Worked extensively with XML.
• Designed and developed test cases for putting the application on automated testing using Quick Test Pro
• Designed and developedUNIXshell scripts
• Held regular status meetings with project team
• Excellent knowledge of shell scripting, written numerous batch jobs.
• Scheduling, Interacting, invoking the Quick Test Pro Scripts are done using Test Director.
• Experience includes working with various tools like Rational Clear Case, Clear Quest, Visual Intercept, and Test Director to perform various activities of Quality Assurance life cycle.
• Executed SEGUE SILK test automation script.
• Used Rational Software Architect (RSA) and Silk Performers Java explorer to interact with the API provided by IBM for the performance testing (Step and Load) of Clear Case Remote Client (CCRC).
• Analyzed the results from the Regression test cases executed in Silk Test 7.1.

Technical Skills

Operating Systems:

AIX, HP-UX, Solaris , Windows XP, 2003, 2000, Vista, Windows NT and Linux , MS Project 2003 , MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)

Languages:

C, JAVA/J2EE, VB Scripts, XML, UNIX - Shell Scripting

Databases:

Oracle 9i/10G/11i, DB2, SQL Server, MS-ACCESS ,MySQL

GUI:

VB 6.0/5.0, JSP, Java Applets, ASP, HTML

Web Related:

DHTML, XML, VBScript, JavaScript, Applets, JAVA, JDBC, Servlets and JSP

Testing Tools:

Loadrunner, Compuware and Quick Test Pro Mercury Suite (Test Director, WinRunner)

Web / Application Servers:

Apache 2.x, Tomcat 5.x, Weblogic 8.x,9.x, WebSphere 5.x, IIS5.x, 6.x

Other:

Testing tools, SiteScope, Quality Center, and Performance Center

Loadrunner Expertise

• Proficient in writing functions to emulate real time environment for load runner scripts..
• Setup Performance Environment.
• In-depth knowledge of Planning, scripting, Execution and Analysis using LoadRunner, Performance Center, Tuning Module, J2EE Deep Diagnostic, BAC ,PeopleSoft and QTP, Quality Center.
• MQ Series Performance testing.
• Responsible for monitoring using Loadrunner Controller and SiteScope.
• Monitored database for sessions, connection pool and memory issues.
• Monitored Net Statistics , Load Balance and network traffic in each of the JVM\'s
• Experience monitoring and diagnosing application performance and/or configuration issues.
• Knowledge of Java Virtual Machine internals including class loading, threads, synchronization, and garbage collection
• 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
• Created different scenarios to isolate bottlenecks like Smoke Test, Scalability testing, Reliability testing, Stress testing, fault tolerance testing, Performance regression testing etc.
• Extensively Worked in Web, Citrix, Click and Script, Oracle Protocol, Seibel, Winsock, Soap protocols, web services, RTE, SAP GUI..
• Involved in analyzing, interpreting and summarizing meaningful and relevant results in a complete Performance Test Report.
• Strong understanding and experience of Object Repository.
• Responsible for the installation and configuration of LoadRunner.
• Responsible for the analysis of all test results and the tracing and troubleshooting of performance bottlenecks.
• Identify any additional processing that needs to be handled in each business process and manually implement the custom logic. (For example: looping, condition branching, logging etc,)
• Excellent Knowledge of programming languages like C, C++, Java, SQL to debug and execute Load runner scripts.
• Proficient at identifying and fixing script editing errors.
• Exposure to various load runner functions used by Vuser generator for scripting.
• Proficient in putting loops into the Load runner scripts to run scripts for multiple iterations.
• Well versed with the behavior of online monitors and the techniques to fix the monitoring issues and monitoring Vuser status.
• Analysis of cross results, cross scenarios, overlay graphs and merging different graphs.

Professional Experience

Confidential,NE June2011 to Present
[Performance Analyst]

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Performance, Stress & Regression testing of SunTrust partners mortgage origination tool.
• Developed test plans for various modules in the mortgage origination process covering broad

aspects of Freddie/Fannie underwriting systems.

• Worked on various modules ranging from Loan Application, Pipeline management, Borrower characteristics, Property management.
• Worked on Record/Edit/Playback functionalities for the various underlying modules using the Silk Performance tool.
• Used Performance Center to execute tests, and maintain scripts.
• Used Wily Introscope for monitoring during test execution.
• Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks during the development lifecycle.
• Conducted Baseline test, load test, stress test and endurance test.
• Extensively used correlation, parameterization techniques, goal oriented & manual scenarios and created multiple Vusers in the test scripts for testing the System.
• Parameterized actions and created files for different parameters using random, sequential, unique and correlated options in VuGen.
• Parameterized various loan attributes in the custom scripts like closing date, borrower’s assets and liabilities.
• Analyzed Silk Performance reporting metrics and other performance related reports and charts to see response times of individual transactions with respect to whole applications.
• Monitored diagnostics related to performance for various sub functions using Timers and Think Time functionalities.

Environment: Performance Center, Wily Introscope, SilkPerformer, WorkBench 2010 R2, Oracle 11i, 10g, Linux, Citrix, WebSphere

Confidential,MA July 2008 to May 2011
[Sr. Performance Engineer]

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Performance, Stress & Regression Testing enterprise wide Web applications.
• Worked on Performance testing Plan, Strategy and Deliverables documents for any project before and after performance testing of ERP application go-live.
• Developed LoadRunner Scripts in multi-protocols. Parameterized, correlated and trouble shooted Loadrunner Scripts in VuGen.
• Captured the entire business process of applications into LoadRunner Scripts and executed test scripts for performance.
• Analyze online and batch transactions to test and measure the response times and other performance units.
• Created Automation scripts using HP Quick Test Pro (QTP) tool and executed the scripts in Regression phase.
• Entered the defects in Quality Center Defect log and assigned the severity levels.
• Performed functionality testing, GUI testing, Security testing manually and using QTP.
• Conducted Baseline and Benchmark Tests.
• Launched and monitored various load tests ranging from 50 to 500 user concurrency.
• Working Experience of onsite – offshore model of functioning.
• Identified stress test \'boiling points\' and \'Threshold levels\' in a process to scale production systems.
• Coordinated with Architectural teams, Database Teams to identify bottlenecks, bandwidth problems.
• Generate and document the HTML and Word format test reports using LR analyzer and Test observations.
• Add needed graphs, performance measurements, filter out think time etc while generating results.
• Performed different type of tests like Load Testing, Stress Testing, Performance Testing, Endurance Testing, Smoke Testing, etc., depending upon the application performance requirements.
• Familiar in working with both client – server and web based applications.
• DevelopedShell Scripts to facilitate batch testing inUNIXenvironment.
• Extensively usedUNIXcommands for fetching and checking the Log files
• Monitored the system performance, the hardware server (web/app/database) resources, connections, CPU, Memory, Queues, spikes etc while testing for performance analysis.
• Coordinated with DBA and Server team(s) for changing the server side cpu\'s, counts, configuration changes etc., in an effort to analyze and tune the system architecture.
• Measured performance units like response times, throughput etc for PeopleSoft systems optimization. Built servers based on the system performance cycle and metrics.
• Worked in good co-ordination with functional/PMO teams, business units, users & project owners.
• Gave Recommendations to the server/infrastructure team, managers about the performance bottlenecks and supported ongoing PeopleSoft performance issues and initiatives.
• Cross-browser testing was performed on Operating systems under test include Windows Vista/XP/2000/98/NT,Linux, and Mac.
• Contributed to the process of system tuning to improve its performance based on performance test results.

Environment: PeopleSoft Financials, .Net, LoadRunner, Performance Center, RedHat EnterpriseLinux5,MS Project 2003 , Test Director, Quality Center, QTP, Oracle, Weblogic, Web sphere, Tuxedo, IIS, SiteScope, Windows and Unix Shell.

Confidential,Chicago (Downtown) IL April 2005 to June 2008
[Performance Analyst]

Responsibilities:

• Developed Performance test plan and test scripts for web-based applications.
• Constructed benchmarks for the applications that include J2EE, COTS and Oracle 11i products.
• Extensively used the the follow Loadrunner protocols, Web HTTP, J2EE, .Net, Citrix and Oracle.
• Captured data from Vugen scripts by using ANSI- C functions, correlation, transaction timings, verification checkpoints and parameterization.
• Creating Performance scenarios and scripts for doing multiple iterations.
• Identified functionality and performance issues, including: deadlock conditions, database connectivity problems, and system crashes under load.
• Responsible for editing, updating, and maintaining load testing of existing scripts.
• 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
• Regression testing for every modification in the application & new builds using QTP.
• Involved as part of automation team using QTP, developed test scripts.
• Responsible for analyzing results, reports and charts to see response times of individual transactions with respect to whole applications.
• Monitored diagnostics on multi-tiered architecture using Foglight and Grid Control
• Identified gaps in the performance testing capability, capacity planning, and production monitoring and developed a plan to fill gaps.

Environment: HP Loadrunner, QTP, Oracle, Foglight, Linux, Grid Control, Wiley, J2EE, .Net, Citrix, Websphere

Education Details

Bachelors of Science