SUMMARY

• Having 11+ years of experience in software industry in the area of performance testing with strong process orientation, manual testing skills, and very good experience on Automation testing. Have sound knowledge of all the testing concepts and methodologies with excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Extensive experience in preparing Performance Test strategies and test plans for testing of various protocols and Testing of Web Based Applications.
• Good experience in Load Runner using VuGen for generating the performance scripts and scheduling the scenarios using controller, performance center and test analysis using the analysis tool.
• Good experience in JMETER using different samplers for various protocols and developing scripts, designing scenarios, executing tests and analyzing results for bottlenecks if any using various types of listeners, Web logic server logs and AWR reports.
• Expertise in NFR scope identification and creating Workload Model and setting up performance goals
• Good experience in preparing test cases to verify application functionality against business requirements and functional specification and involved in preparation of Test Plan.
• Conversant with all phases of Project Life Cycle including Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Implementation of Quality Software using different methodologies like Waterfall model, Iterative model and V - model.
• Good experience in end-to-end system testing of complex business systems, which involve integration of multiple applications.
• Ensuring that the non-functional requirements are studied, understood and captured for different releases.
• Good Experience with Introscope, JProbe, JConsole, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Perfmon, Dynatrace, App Dynamics and Keynote performance monitoring tools.
• Experience in monitoring and analyzing performance metrics of Load Balancing servers, Web Servers and Application Servers such as Microsoft IIS, Web logic and Database Servers Such as SQL and Oracle Servers, Windows, UNIX/Linux & Solaris Servers during Performance Testing.
• Performance testing experience includes Benchmark, Load, Regression, Stress, Capacity, Endurance, Failover, and Breakpoint Testing.
• Good experience working with Amazon AWS.
• Experience in Heap Dump, Thread Dump Analysis and GC analysis.
• Expertise in using Unix/Linux & Solaris Utility tools in collecting various stats like iostat, vmstat, netstat, SAR, etc.,
• Distribution of test effort, supervising the progress and evaluating team members and responsible for weekly & daily status update reports presented to the stakeholders.
• Versatile Team player as well as independent contributor with good problem-solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

OPERATING SYSTEMS: MS-DOS, Windows 98 / NT /XP, UNIX, Linux

LANGUAGES: C, JAVA, SQL

Database: SQL SERVER 2005, Oracle 11g

Performance Testing Tools: Load Runner 12.52, JMETER 5.x, HP ALM 12.20, Keynote Device Anywhere

Application servers: WebLogic, JBoss, Apache

Monitoring tools: HP sitescope, Dynatrace APM & UEM, Keynote, AppDynamics, CA Introscope, Perfmon, Eclipse MAT, Splunk, Grafana, Wireshark

Defect Tracking & Test Management Tool: HP ALM 12.20, Bugzilla

Protocols: Web (HTTP/HTML), Web services, Ajax (Click and Script), Ajax True Client, Oracle 2-tier

Cloud: AWS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Performance test lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering functional requirements by attending various demo s arranged by dev teams.
• Responsible for the full life cycle of performance testing.
• Involving in business discussions with clients/business heads, technical discussions with designers and developers to gather the performance requirements.
• Creating Workload model based on scaled down volumes of production in terms of transactions/page views and infrastructure
• Ensuring the new business scenarios are mapped to test cases.
• Set standards and technique in scripting, data preparation and test reports and preparing checklists
• Creating complex Business process performance test scripts with Load runner and JMeter tool using Web (HTTP/HTML), Ajax (Click & Script) and Ajax (true client) protocols.
• Enhancing the scripts by employing Manual/Automatic correlation, Parameterization Techniques, transactions and runtime settings for call flows and LR specific functions using Load Runner VuGen.
• Capturing the updated volumetric information from the business for the performance business scenarios and mapping it to the scenarios in HP-Controller which induces the virtual users on application.
• Creating Oracle-SQL & PL/SQL scripts to automate the bulk data sets creation, results collation from backend systems and other database dependent activities.
• Responsible to monitor the web, application, data base server’s performance during and after the performance test execution using AWS Cloud Watch.
• Preparation of Test Summary Reports and Final Test Completion Report
• Reporting the performance issues (if any) to the concerned stake holders and tracking the defects through HP Quality Center.
• Preparing the performance test reports and giving a Go/No Go for the performance of the application in stake holder meetings before go-live.
• Contribute to reviews and audits of project and program management to ensure conformance to standards.

Environment: Jenkins, HP Load Runner 12.52, Storm Runner, JMeter, HP ALM 12.2, Java, JSP, Web Logic, Oracle 11g, Incapsula, AWS, Dynatrace, App Dynamics, JConsole, Grafana, Docker.

Confidential

Lead Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the full life cycle of performance testing.
• Involving in business discussions with clients/business heads, technical discussions with designers and developers to gather the performance requirements.
• Creating Workload model based on scaled down volumes of production in terms of transactions/page views and infrastructure
• Ensuring the new business scenarios are mapped to test cases.
• Set standards and technique in scripting, data preparation and test reports and also preparing checklists
• Creating complex Business process performance test scripts with Load runner and Jmeter tool using Web (HTTP/HTML), Ajax (Click & Script) and Ajax (true client) protocols.
• Enhancing the scripts by employing Manual/Automatic correlation, Parameterization Techniques, transactions and runtime settings for call flows and LR specific functions using Load Runner VuGen.
• Capturing the updated volumetric information from the business people for the performance business scenarios and mapping it to the scenarios in HP-Controller which induces the virtual users on application.
• Creating Oracle-SQL & PL/SQL scripts to automate the bulk data sets creation, results collation from backend systems and other database dependent activities.
• Responsible to monitor the web, application, data base server’s performance during and after the performance test execution.
• Analyzing the app server performance through dynatrace tool and data base server performance through Oracle-AWR reports.
• Preparation of Test Summary Reports and Final Test Completion Report
• Reporting the performance issues (if any) to the concerned stake holders and tracking the defects through HP Quality Centre & JIRA.
• Preparing the performance test reports and giving a Go/No Go for the performance of the application in stake holder meetings before go-live.
• Contribute to reviews and audits of project and program management to ensure conformance to standards.

Environment: HP Load Runner 11.5, JMeter, HP ALM 11.00, Java, JSP, Web Logic, Unix/Linux & Sun Solaris, Oracle 11g, Akamai, CSI, Dynatrace, JConsole, Keynote.

Confidential

Sr. Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Identified business specific test conditions based on the test requirements.
• Responsible for Load Testing & Performance testing independently.
• Prepared Test strategy document and signoff with various stakeholders.
• Involved in comparing the DB initialization parameters of live and test env databases.
• Responsible for developing the Load Test Plan from the user and business requirements.
• Responsible for developing JDBC test scripts using JDBC request sampler in Jmeter and execution.
• Test data preparation for the parameters used in the scripts.
• Analyzed graphs and collated reports to determine system performance.
• Participated in walkthrough and knowledge transfer sessions, meetings periodically.

Environment: HP Load Runner 11.5, HP ALM 11.00, Java, JSP, Web Logic, Unix/Linux & Sun Solaris, Oracle 11g, Dynatrace, UCPS, JConsole.

Confidential

Sr. Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Closed interaction with application designers and business analysts to understand application functionality and navigational flow.
• Involved in Preparation and Execution of Test cases.
• Developed Automation scripts using Load Runner.
• Designed performance test suites by creating VU test scripts, workload scenarios, setting transactions, rendezvous points and inserting them into suites using Load Runner.
• Debug the test scripts and run the tests.
• Analyzed graphs and reports using Load Runner analysis tool to determine system performance using various monitors.
• Identified business specific test conditions from statistical data provided like Task Distribution Diagrams and User Transaction Profiles
• Used Load Runner monitors to measure the Transaction response time, network delay, and throughput.
• Defined and provided key metrics to management from the Load Runner Analysis tool.
• Identified performance bottlenecks, data errors and integration problems and revised application to enhance performance before application launch.

Environment: HP Load Runner 9.5, Java, Web Logic, Linux, Oracle 11g, HP Sitescope, JConsole.