SUMMARY:

Performance Test Architect having 12 plus years of experience in managing and delivering Performance Testing solutions for SAP, JAVA, .NET, C#, Citrix and Siebel applications using HP/Micro Focus Performance Center, HP/Micro Focus Load Runner 12.53 & Storm Runner in Health Care, Telecom, Retail, Manufacturing, Insurance, Energy & Utilities domains

COMPETENCIES:

• Excellent working knowledge in HP/Microfocus Performance Center 12x, HP/MicroFocus Load Runner 12x and MicroFocus Storm Runner.
• Drive NFR meetings with Business, Application Architects/Developers, DevOps, Infra - DBA and other Project stakeholders to understand Performance Goals and develop Comprehensive Performance Testing Strategies.
• Solid Loadrunner scripting experience in multiple HP/MicroFocus Vugen protocols like Web (Http/Html), SAPGUI, SAPWeb, TrueClient, Webservices, REST, Siebel-Web & Citrix
• Strong experience in monitoring tools like Dynatrace 6x, Splunk, Wily Introscope, HP Site Scope to diagnose performance bottlenecks and track them till resolution.
• Hands on experience in jvm monitoring, thread dump analysis, heap memory analysis, Oracle AWR reports analysis, Unix/Red Hat Linux server monitoring using Unix/Linux Commands & PerfMon Windows monitoring.
• Had very good hands on experience in Performance Testing of SAP application on various modules like OTC, PP, WMS and PTP & good at monitoring SAP servers using ST02, ST06, ST07, SM37, SM36, SM50, SMQ1 and SMQ2.
• Good experience in Open Source tools like jMeter, Grafana, Kibana, SOAP UI, PostMan, JvisualVM & TOAD.
• Solid experience in handling end to end Performance Testing phases, Application Benchmarking, Scalability Testing, Stress Testing, Capacity planning, MS Azure cloud application performance testing, Workload Modelling, Failover Testing and Production log analysis.
• Strong Leadership experience managing onshore-offshore teams & delivering multiple large-scale enterprise projects.
• Have experience in Waterfall and Agile methodology - Sprint planning, Scrum calls, Work plan creation and tracking using TFS/Rally & Project Effort estimation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows XP, Windows Server 2008,Windows 7, IBM AIX UNIX, Sun Solaris

Load Testing Tool: HP/MicroFocus Performance Center/Load Runner 12.53/11x, HPE Storm Runner, J-meter

Monitoring Tools: Dynatrace 6x, Grafana, Splunk, Wily Introscope, HP Sitescope, Perfmon, JvisualVm

Protocols: Web (HTTP/HTML), SAPGUI, SAPWEB, Microsoft Silverlight, Siebel, Citrix & Web services, TrueClient, REST

Web Server: IIS, Apache, Http Server

Application Server/Middleware: Jboss, Web Logic, ActiveDirectory, AppFabric, ASP,IBM WebSphere, MQ

Database: Oracle 11g/10g/9i, IBM DB2, SQL server

ERP: SAP ECC 6.0, Oracle EBS, JDA

Tools: /Open Source: SOAP UI, Postman,XML, WSDL, TOAD, Citrix, SAPGUI

Programming/ Scripting Languages: C, Unix Shell script, Perl Script, Basics Java

Test/Project Management Tools: HP ALM 12x, Quality Center 9x/10x/11x, TFS, Rally

PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MN

Technology: HP/Micro Focus Performance Center 12.53 / Load Runner 12.53 - Web (Http/Html), WebServices, REST, TrueClient, Dynatrace 6.3, Grafana, SOAP/XML, Java, Oracle, .NET, Red Hat Linux and SQL server.

Performance Test Architect

Responsibilities:

• Drive NFR meetings with Business, Architects, Developers, DBA and project stakeholders, assess application architecture, strategize performance test approach and analyze production logs for workload modelling.
• Create/ enhance performance test scripts with HP/MicroFoucs Vugen 12.53 Web, Trueclient & Web service protocols for Web applications, SOAP and REST services.
• Build test scenarios, Execute peak load tests, stress tests, endurance tests using Performance Center / Load Runner 12.53 for Web, Web services and MS Azure cloud applications.
• Diagnose application performance bottlenecks using Dynatrace and host monitoring, jvm, GC, heap and thread monitoring using Grafana, Sysdig and HP OV monitoring tools.
• Review test results with project stakeholders, work closely with developers, middleware/devops team in reproducing and fixing the performance defects.
• Lead Onshore-Offshore resources and handle multiple project performance testing deliverables.

Confidential, Maryland

Technology: HP Performance Center 12.53 - Web (Http/Html), Dynatrace 6.3, Splunk, Java, Oracle and SQL server.

Performance Test Architect

Responsibilities:

• Gathering non-functional requirements, define work-load model, create/ debug performance test scripts using HP Vugen 12.53, setup and execute load test scenario using HP Performance Center 12.53
• Engage in Batch testing of IBM MQ, Baseline Tests, Peak Hour load tests and Soak Testing for java based applications.
• Monitor application health, diagnose performance problems / identify performance bottlenecks of the application using Dynatrace dashboards, analyze and report client-side performance metrics using HP Analyzer 12.53, compare baseline test results with target test results, analyze & document overall system performance, create defect for performance issues and engage in performance defect triage.
• Create user stories and tasks in TFS and track performance testing progress.

Confidential, Arizona

Technology: HP Load Runner 12.01 - SAPGUI, SAPWEB, Linux, Oracle, SAP ECC.

Performance Test Architect

Responsibilities:

• Co-ordinate with Business Process team to collect non-functional requirements, understand architectural design, identify critical performance business flows, identify performance intensive batch jobs, define work load models and create detailed performance test plan.
• Create efficient Vugen performance test scripts using HP Load Runner, generate test data for batch jobs, create and execute batch jobs using SM36 and SM37, and monitor the performance of the SAP system during batch job execution.
• Execute smoke test, baseline test, integration test, and iterative load test with various load factors, create defect and perform defect triage, analyze & document overall system performance.

Confidential, Michigan

Technology: HP Performance Center 11.00, HP Load Runner 12.01 - SAPGUI, SAPWEB, Windows7, SQL server.

Performance Test Architect

Responsibilities:

• Co-ordinate with Business Process team to collect non-functional requirements, create performance test strategy and liaise the technical gap between PMO and Business Process team, understand architectural design, identify critical performance business flows, define work load models & user distribution and create detailed performance test plan.
• Create project work plan & driven a team of 3 resources, create efficient Vugen performance test scripts using HP Vugen, participate in landscape meetings and seek resolution for environment issues, engage in performance test environment setup, execute smoke/sanity tests, Load test, Stress Test etc., baseline application performance, monitor server performance metrics.
• Create defect and perform defect triage, analyze & document overall system reliability, endurance, scalability and performance during end-to-end load tests, publish Test Summary reports to PMO.
• Functional testing of standard and customized SAP t-codes- VA01, VL10G, VL01N, ZPK CO11, ZPK CUBE BUILD

Confidential, New Jersey

Technology: HP Performance Center 11.52 - SAPGUI, Silverlight, WEB HTTP/HTML, J-meter, Windows7, Windows 2008, NWS server (IIS), ASP,SQL Server, AppFabric, JWS Server (Tomcat), Sun Solaris, Oracle 11g

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Performance Test Lead managing 2-3 resources at offshore, manage and deliver load testing solutions, prepare performance proposals and generate business, project planning &execution, mentoring team
• Co-ordinate with HP support team to resolve technical challenges faced during testing cycle.
• Gather non-requirements such as architectural design, perform tool feasibility, and Estimate efforts for the project.
• Identify critical business flows, defining work load models and create detailed performance test plan.
• Create efficient VuGen performance test scripts, performance test environment setup, configuring HP Sitescope monitors, execute smoke tests, Load tests, Stress tests etc., baseline application performance and monitor server performance.
• Identify critical performance bottlenecks, create performance defects and track till closure, publish Test Summary reports.

Confidential

Technology: HP Performance Center 11.5 - Silverlight, Windows7, Windows 2008, .NET, IIS, ASP, SQL server, Wily Introscope.

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Identify non-functional requirements, prepare proof of concept, identify critical business flows, define work load models & user distribution, and create detailed performance test plan
• Create efficient Silverlight protocol performance test scripts with LR Vugen, setup test in LR controller, configure monitors, execute smoke test, load test, stress test, analyze test results & identify performance bottle necks, publish Test reports.
• Present performance proposals and generate business, project planning &execution, manage offshore team (2).