PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Professional with more than 13 years IT experience in IT experience in Performance Engineering of applications using Performance Testing, Application Monitoring, and tuning.
• Gather nonfunctional requirements, understand functional specification document for application development, enhancements and prepare test plan document for performance engineering.
• Responsible for performance testing project activities including requirements gathering, planning, designing scripts and creating test data, executing load tests, and reporting observations & recommendations.
• Responsible for E2E Performance Testing lifecycle, monitoring, Performance Analysis, Performance tuning and route cause analysis of Bottle necks.
• Coordinate and Collaborate with other developers and testers to develop, test, and implement application features or requirements.
• Onsite & Offshore performance engineering team co - ordination.
• Perform Proof of Concept using LoadRunner and JMeter. Responsible in development of performance test frameworks.
• Complete Performance Engineering by using test scripting/execution skills utilizing Performance Center, LoadRunner, StromRunner & JMeter using various protocols.
• Enhancing the scripts with transactions, verification checks and implement code for error handling.
• Creating different scenarios based on the load patterns. Upload JMeter scripts in Bitbucket and execute jobs in Jenkins.
• Improve performance of Web Applications by identifying potential bottlenecks and system performance.
• Monitoring server Utilizations, Heap Memory, Garbage collections and problems using Dynatrace One Agent.
• Responsible for performing Memory and Heap dump analysis. Monitor databases like Oracle and SQL Server and provide query tuning using execution plans.
• Monitoring and analyzing Application servers like Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere using Sysdig, Kibana Tools.
• Monitor Web, Application and Database servers using HP Open view, Performance manager and Grafana.
• Tuning the JVMs and provide recommendations for optimal performance.
• Responsible for providing detailed Dynatrace analysis report and tuning recommendations.
• Responsible for providing performance issue logs from Kibana using Elastic search and Logstash.
• Monitor Production volumes, response times and logs using Splunk.
• Monitor and execute tests for Microsoft Azure cloud applications using AppInsights.
• Responsible in using the Azure DevOps, activities such as creating stories, tasks, templates, managing the sprints & Schedules, defining points for each story.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Load Testing tools: Load Runner, StromRunner, JMeter (Blazemeter), Performance Center, Soap UI, Oracle SQL Developer, Putty, Postman, Jira, WinScp, SQL Query analyzer, Azure DevOps, Grafana, ELA, Kibana, Splunk, Jenkins, Bitbucket

Protocols: Web, RTE, Web services, Oracle NCA, Java Vuser, Siebel Web, SAP GUI, RDP

Languages: C, Java, .Net,SQL

Databases: Oracle 11g, SQL Server and Cassandra

Performance monitoring tools: SiteScope 11, Perfmon, UCPS, Performance Manager, Wily Introscope, Dynatrace Appmon, Dynatrace One agent, Grafana, Splunk, Elastic Serach, Logstash, Appinsights

Operating Systems: Windows series, Unix and Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Discussing and identifying with business team for Non-functional requirements.
• Review and finalize the critical business processes with business, project and support team.
• Create test strategy and review the test strategy with business and all the teams.
• Coordination with global teams (offshore teams) for project deliverables.
• Review and finalize the critical business processes with business, project and support team.
• Create test strategy and review the test strategy with business and all the teams.
• Configure the performance monitoring metrics for load and peak test execution.
• Performance test scripting using HP Vugen, Jmeter, enhance load runner scripts with technical code for proper exceptions and business validation.
• Complete Performance Engineering by using test scripting/execution skills utilizing HP Performance Center and Load Runner in various protocols. Review the LoadRunner scripts and share the comments to offshore team.
• Execute the Load and peak tests and share the test results to business and project team.
• Configure dynatrace with application and Web servers to monitor utilizations.
• Set up monitoring in dynatrace, Grafana for Confidential applications. Analyze purepaths and provide deep dive analysis for high response times.
• Responsible for performing Memory & heap dump analysis. Working with databases like Oracle, SQL Server, Tomcat. Monitoring and analyzing application severs like Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere using Kibana Tool.
• Monitoring pure paths, application metrics, etc. in Dynatrace.
• Review the test results shared by offshore team and provide recommendations if there are any performance issues.
• Provide tuning recommendations and retest once it is fixed to check the performance improvement.
• Arrange meetings with project team and business team if there are any performance issues.
• Prepare final test closure memo document and seek the sign-off before the code moves to production.

Environment: LoadRunner, Dynatrace OneAgent, JBoss, Performance Manager, Oracle, SQL Server, Grafana, Microsoft Azure, Splunk, Oracle DevOps, Kibana, Jmeter, Blazemeter.

Confidential, Wisconsin

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gathering user stories and non-functional requirements for performance testing.
• Monitored dyanTrace for high response times, CPU, GC, methods in dynaTrace.
• Monitored QPASA, App Watch, application and Integration servers.
• Created JMeter web service scripts and executed tests.
• Monitored Oracle Enterprise Manager to identify DB contention and long running queries causing high response times.
• Shared test reports and recommendations with Client.
• Raised defects and discussed with development for fixing performance bottlenecks.

Environment: JMeter, dynaTrace, Cassandra, Oracle Enterprise Manager, QPASA, Web Logic 11g, QPASA, App Watch

Confidential, USA

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• The goal is to conduct the performance evaluation in an environment that mirrors production.
• Responsible for test design and execution for Performance systems and is accountable for the following responsibilities:
• Knowledge Transition for the applications in Performance testing scope.
• Meet QA Environment Stakeholders and identify applications and owner.
• Meet with application owners and collect application data. Participating in the performance design review with the implementation team and providing review comments, as and when required.
• Scheduling, identifying and tracking progress of project milestones.
• Offshore co-ordination and delivery/execution as per agreed SLA's.
• Creating weekly project status reports and delivers to customer.
• Manage project risk and escalate issues to appropriate level of leadership for resolution.
• Manage the full execution of the quality assessment process including but not limited to test case execution, progress of test cycles, status and details of testing for Performance, Network &Firewall Testing.
• Developing performance Quality consulting plan& implementation. Analyzing the requirements & outlining best possible test options to the customers.
• Develop/maintain accurate scripts and scenarios to support Performance Test execution needs.
• Environment Setup & verify infrastructure upgrade using scripts developed.
• Providing Support and guidance in different phases of the project by measuring the output Quality Criteria artifacts across all different work streams.
• Preparation of risk assessment and capacity management and advice management regarding the application performance under various load capacities.
• Create detailed test scenarios for identifying Performance bottlenecks and implement the same using HP Load Runner/Performance Center.
• Design and execute different types of performance workload scenarios for enterprise applications.
• Collecting and compiling various usage reports from multiple sources and preparing the final performance analysis report.
• Monitoring load balancer to analyze the load sharing between servers and optimize them to handle bulk requests to avoid bottlenecks in the network.

Environment: HP Application Life Cycle Management - HP Quality Center, CA Wily Intra scope

Confidential, USA

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with Client for gathering requirements, Volumes, Application configuration, etc..
• Created Test Strategy/Plan and approach as per Non-functional requirements.
• Created Work-Load Model using the production volumes.
• Discussing with functional, data migration team, SME’s for data set up and data creation.
• Creating SAP GUI scripts using Load Runner and validating the scripts in ALM PC.
• Reviewing the Load Runner scripts based on scripting standards.
• Monitoring the SAP system components and resource utilizations during test execution.
• Creating the monitoring set up and identifying key metrics for SAP web/application servers.
• Monitored ST03, STAD, ST04, SM12, SM66, SDF MON.
• Preparing & finalizing the test analysis report.
• Extract the Automatic Work Load Repository (AWR) report and analyze the database performance.
• Tuning the SAP application/web servers if there is any response time’s deviation.
• Involved in creating Performance project sign-off document.

Environment: SAP Oracle, SAP HANA, OTC, PTP, STP, PME, Performance Center 11.52, QC 11.52HP Open View, ST03, STAD, ST04, SM12, SM66, SDF MON

Confidential

Senior Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering requirement for Episys, store line and Bizerba applications using transactional volume model and discussing with business team.
• Preparation of test strategy, test plan and approach as per Non-functional requirements.
• Discussed with business team and finalized the business critical scenarios.
• Successfully tested Oracle Fusion Middleware’s like oracle data integrator(ODI),service oriented architecture(SOA), Store line service bus(SSB), Retail integration Bus(RIB) during end to end testing.
• Created data management plan and involved in test plan creation.
• Created and reviewed integration end to end test cases Episys, Bizerba and Store line and uploaded in quality center.
• Discussed with development, integration and database teams and resolved critical defects.
• Created LR scripts using Oracle web applications 11i, Web services and RDP Protocols.
• Reviewed the Virtual Generator scripts based on Morrisons scripting standards
• Analyzed AWR report and provided Recommendations.
• Analyzed Episys, Bizerba and Store line applications and created proof of concept document.

Environment: Episys, Bizerba, RIB, Store line, Oracle Fusion Middleware, SOA, ODI, SSB, Performance Center 9.52,Quality Center 9.2, Site Scope 11, Oracle SQL Developer, HP Performance Manager, WebLogic

Confidential

Senior Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering requirement for Oracle Retail Warehouse Management system(ORWMS) using transactional volume model and discussing with business team.
• Preparation of test strategy, test plan and approach as per Non-functional requirements.
• Discussed with business team and finalized the business critical scenarios.
• Successfully tested Oracle Fusion Middleware’s like oracle data integrator(ODI),service oriented architecture(SOA), Oracle service bus(OSB), Retail integration Bus(RIB) during end to end testing.
• Created data management plan and involved in test plan creation.
• Created and reviewed integration end to end test cases for Retail Merchandizing System (ORMS), Oracle Retail Invoice Matching (OReIM) and Oracle Retail Warehouse Management (ORWMS) and uploaded in quality center.
• Discussed with development, integration and database teams and resolved critical defects.
• Created LR scripts using Oracle web applications 11i and RTE Protocols
• Reviewed the loadrunner scripts based on morrisons scripting standards
• Monitored all the components and resource utilizations during test execution.
• Prepared & finalized the test analysis report.
• Created Performance Test completion report after project signoff.
• Created Project Hand Over document after project signoff.
• Involved in creating Performance Test Quality Gate document.
• Analyzed RMS and WMS applications and created proof of concept document.

Confidential

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Gathering Performance requirement and prepared the Proof of concept.
• Preparation of test strategy, test plan and approach as per Non-functional requirements.
• Assistance in validating the volumetric requirements based on transaction volume model.
• Tested ASDA application with JMeter performance testing tool and prepared proof of concept report.
• Involved in end to end Monitoring setup.
• Create Load Runner scripts for required business Scenarios using web (html/http) protocol.
• Reviewed the loadrunner scripts based on Wal-Mart scripting standards and provided review comments.
• Built Performance test scenarios to reflect expected live usage of the system, using the pre-defined sets of business transactions to uncover and fix performance and scalability issues.
• Tuning the software elements in collaboration with the development teams as appropriate.
• Monitoring the web, app and database layers with Perfmon Counters.
• Analyze graphs for web, App and DB server system parameters.
• Created Performance Test completion report after project signoff.
• Created Project Hand Over document after project signoff.
• Involved in creating Performance Test Quality Gate document.

Environment: Apache Tomcat 2.26, Oracle 10g, Jboss 4.0.5, windows XP, Vugen 9.52, Performance Center 9.52, JMeter, Bad Boy

Confidential

Senior Technical Associate

Responsibilities:

• Performance and Resilience testing for Application server, Middlewares, and Database.
• Create realistic workload scenarios for Load, Resilience, Operations Readiness, Platform regression, performance regression tests and executed using Load runner.
• Involved in the preparation of the test data and test environment for prior to starting tests.
• Monitor the application statistics using UCPS.
• Analyze the performance test results, document preliminary and summary reports, identify bottlenecks
• Analyzed Backend call responses.
• Interact with the clients and other teams, attending the Conference calls.
• Prepared the Test track report, Risk & Issue register.
• Extracted the StacksPack or AWR report and analyzed the database performance.
• Provide measurements for future releases and Assure the Application meets Non Functional Requirements on performance.
• Participated in project review meetings & discussions

Environment: WEBLOGIC 8.1, Cyclone, HUB, STAA, Zeus LB, SUN V890, IBM MQ, Load Runner and Java Scripts, Quality Center, UCPS.

Confidential

Senior Technical Associate.

Responsibilities:

• Did the pretest test activities and post test activities for all the tests.
• Monitored the Weblogic console, CPU, Memory, space utilisations and TPS, response time & different graphs, etc... in LR Online monitors.
• Analyzed the graphs & reports based on the target requirements.
• Executed different types of tests like Sanity, Load, Stress and benchmark tests.
• Identified the bottlenecks, provided the recommendations and tuned the application.
• Prepared & finalized the test analysis report.

Confidential

Technical Associate

Responsibilities:

• Overall coordination and monitoring of the performance related activities for CCM Perf Testing.
• Resolving outstanding issues and queries if any.
• Liaising with designers during issues encountered while pumping XML’s
• Review deliverables, Conduct team meetings.
• Discussed with technical team to conform the rate to pump the messages in different queues.
• Configured the harness tool with different order ids, queue names...etc
• Identified the bottlenecks, provided the recommendations and tuned the application.
• Prepared & finalized the test analysis report.

Environment: CCM Harness Tool, UCPS, Weblogic console

Confidential

Technical Associate

Responsibilities:

• Understanding of application architecture.
• Did the pretest test activities and post test activities for all the tests.
• Monitored the Weblogic console, CPU, Memory, space utilizations and TPS, response time & different graphs, etc... in LR Online monitors.
• Creation of performance test scripts through load runner.
• Involved in creation of Work Load Synthesis.
• Analyzed the graphs & reports based on the target requirements.

Environment: IBM MQ, WEBLOGIC 8.1, Cyclone, Zeus LB, SUN V890, Stubs and Java Scripts, LoadRunner8.0

Confidential

Technical Associate

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the Analysis of volumetric during Environment Preparation and Setup phase to derive and build the Test Cases/Scripts/Test Data required & the provision of Test Data, the Test Environment and Test Harnesses procured / built and configured during this stage.
• Built Performance scripts for Seibel web protocol and configured the dlls for the auto correlation.
• Built Performance scenarios (Load, Stress, Soak) to reflect expected live usage of the system, using the pre-defined sets of business transactions.
• Performed Informal Test Execution to prove the readiness of the test environment and the performance test tool scripts.
• Measure the solution/application under test performance and report against pre-determined Performance Test requirements.
• Determine whether or not the solution/application under test can reliably achieve the predicted transaction throughput levels whilst maintaining an acceptable level of performance.
• Involved in the preparation of Test plan and Specification based on the volumetric information.
• Undertaken Performance tuning exercise by running baseline tests to identify areas that are bottlenecking or under performing, Analyzed the Loading profile, Server statistics and identifying the bottle necks.
• Monitoring and Verification of test results - including collection and analysis of test results, response times and business transaction throughputs, server statistics.
• Identified the bottle necks in the Seibel application servers end.
• Reporting of test results - including reporting against objectives and requirements.

Environment: WEBLOGIC 8.1, Cyclone, Zeus LB,CSM, SUN V890, Siebel

Confidential

Technical Associate

Responsibilities:

• Understanding of application architecture.
• Generated and enhanced the scripts through Load runner.
• Created Load Test scenarios based on Scheduling pattern(Ramp Up, Duration, Ramp down)
• Created the Click Stream Workflows for performance scenarios.
• Monitored all the components and resource utilizations during test execution.
• Prepared & finalized the test analysis report.

Environment: Siebel 7.7, Oracle 10i, Web Logic