Performance Testing Lead
Primary Skills: Performance Testing.

Objective
Performance Testing, with 10 + years of experience implementing and improving the quality validation process for Web Based, Client Server and Standalone Software. Have strong skills in writing and executing test plans and test cases in highly structured and loosely structured development environments and performing all types of testing (Load, Stress, Performance, and Volume), 4+ years of experience in managing large projects. Extensive experience in writing and executing load testing scripts using vugen.

Areas Of Expertise

• Over 10 years of expertise in writing and executing Load, Stress, and Performance automated tests with LoadRunner from version 5.0 to 9.5. Have strong analytical skills in identifying client and server side bottlenecks.
• Monitoring firewalls, load balancers, webservers, app servers, db servers using load runner tools, and sitescope, introscope, perfmon etc.
• Advised clients on Performance tuning and capacity planning on multi tier architecture.
• Project Management skills with over 4+ years of experience.
• Have excellent communication, verbal and interpersonal skills.
• Have working knowledge with various Bug Tracking Systems.
• Strong ability to interpreter log files and associate them with code defects, in Unix, Linux and windows operating systems and weblogic, websphere, Apache, Iplanet, Oracle and SQL, etc.
• Compliant with ISO-9000 process planning, implementation, compliance and audit.
• Performance Tuning, Capacity Planning, application (Hardware and Software) architecting.
• Updating clients on tech refresh.
• Business Domains - Finance, Banking, Telecom, Retails, Accounts, Inventory, Payroll and Production.

Education

• M.B.A, Business Administration
• PGDP in Computers

Certifications
CCNA
Unix admin

Testing expertise

• Operating Systems:UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX, Tru-64, Linux, AIX.Redhat) Windows X, DOS.
• Products/Tools:Citrix, Weblogic, Websphere, Apache, iPlanet, Terminal server client, SQl*Plus, Autosys, TOAD, MS Office, MS Outlook, MS Project, MS Visio.
• Languages:JAVA, C, C++, XML, J2EE, HTML, VB, .NET and DHTML.
• RDBMS: ORACLE, SQL.
• Testing Tools: HP/Mercury’s Performance Center, LoadRunner, WinRunner.
• ERP: PeopleSoft(HRMS, Financials), Oracle applications.

Achievements

• Commerce One UCCNET Team Award, March 2001.
• Digex- Customer Care Excellence Award Third Quarter 2002.
• Digex Customer Care Quarterly Leadership Award 4th Quarter 2002.
• Customer Appreciation letter from Novatis, 2004.
• Customer Appreciation letter from ISI-Mars, 2005.
• Verizon Ovation in Feb 2007.
• Verizon Ovation in June 2009.
  

Professional Experience

Confidential,Columbia, MD March 2011 to date

Working as Performance Testing Lead, for Arbitron’s Performance Testing team. Responsible for reviewing Product Requirements and Functional Specification documents for various new projects in order to write Test Estimates, Test Outline, and Test Design documentation. Responsible for writing, maintaining and executing Performance Test Suites for Load, stress, and performance areas for capacity planning etc. Responsible for writing, maintaining, running and analyzing results received from Load, Stress and Performance tests.

• Designed approach and developed visual scripts for Load, Stress, and Performance tests in order to test client and server side performance under various conditions.
• Found many bottlenecks on client and server sides with use of HP/Mercury suite. Effectively communicated found problems to the appropriate departments in written form through test report documentation. All reports were stating clearly each bottleneck with graphical presentation. All bottlenecks were found and fixed prior to Production site releases.
• Managing onshore and offshore teams.

Confidential,Beltsville, MD 2001 to Feb 2011

Performance Testing Lead/ Architect

Currently working as Performance Testing Lead, leading multiple new projects. Responsible for reviewing Product Requirements and Functional Specification documents for various new projects in order to write Test Estimates, Test Outline, and Test Design documentation. Responsible for writing, maintaining and executing Performance Test Suites for Load, stress, and performance areas for capacity planning etc. Responsible for writing, maintaining, running and analyzing results received from Load, Stress and Performance tests.

• Performed research on Rational Suite, Segue Silk test, Radview, Compuware’s test suite.
• Introduced to the company HP/Mercury automation tools that become major part of Performance testing process and company culture.
• Developed, ran, and maintained more than 100 automation test suites for various clients like ISI-Mars, Kraft Foods, Novartis, Lancome, L’Oreal, Gevalia Coffee, Standard & Poor, etc.
• Designed approach and developed visual scripts for Load, Stress, and Performance tests in order to test client and server side performance under various conditions.
• Found many bottlenecks on client and server sides with use of HP/Mercury suite. Effectively communicated found problems to the appropriate departments in written form through test report documentation. All reports were stating clearly each bottleneck with graphical presentation. All bottlenecks were found and fixed prior to Production site releases.
• For all assign testing areas achieved a high level of service quality where percent of user-exceptions were zero or very minimal <=0.01%. Most of the errors were found with use of automation test suite that was highly customized to search for various bugs in the application. All bugs were effectively submitted to the Bug Tracking System and fixed prior to Production release.
• Proved to be very fast and efficient in bugs verifications when I was getting assign over 40% of bugs filed by the entire QA team. This was critical skill during major product releases when time is very limited.
• Run compatibility test for each major product release by using compatibility matrix for browser, resolution and cross platform testing.
• Trained the entire testing team on how to use HP/Mercury Suite products, so whole team can automate regression areas. As result of this training every Performance engineer were capable of scripting, testing, monitoring, and generating reports.
• Leading teams in performance tuning, capacity planning, and tech refresh.
• Achieved all of the goals set for each quarter and exceeded expectations by completing more goals then were initially defined by the management. Each quarter received very high performance scores.
• Hired and trained new employees for various areas, including use of HP Performance testing. Managed a group of 15 professionals.
• Our Group called HPS (Hosting Professional Service) is an ISO-9000 process planning, implementation, compliance and audit.

Confidential, MD 2000 to 2001
Performance Tester

• Ran testing for e-commerce web application using Rational Suite.
• Analyzed UCCNET (Application Requirements Document) and Functional Specifications documents in order to write detailed test plan and test cases for performance testing.
• Designed and run performance, scalability, and integrity testing by using Rational Team Test. Analyzed results and generated reports.

Confidential, Texas June 2000 to Oct 2000
Performance Tester

• Ran testing for the client on various web sites using Mercury Loadrunner.
• Executed conversion and regression tests for system upgrade in production.
• Attend functional specification review meetings.
• Ran test for stored procedures that contained a lot of the business logic about the application, including security levels, error handling, valid and invalid data.
  

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia Feb 2000 to June 2000
Software Quality Assurance Engineer

• Ran testing for the client on various web sites using Rational Suite.
• Executed conversion and regression tests for system upgrade in production.
• Attended functional specification review meetings.
• Ran tests for stored procedures that contained a lot of the business logic about the application, including security levels, error handling, valid and invalid data.

Confidential,Visakhapatnam, 1996 to 2000
India Software Quality Assurance Engineer

• Worked as a QA Tester on projects in various projects. Analysis of specifications and development of test plans. Develop test scripts for performance and data driven tests using SQA, and scripting with Rational Robo. Responsible for performing various tests including function test, regression test and user interface test. Work included N-tier networking, security, TCP/IP, DNS, Solaris, NT, Windows 2000, RDBMS, SDLC waterfall, and Quality Assurance.