SUMMARY

• Around 9 years of experience in Performance Testing & Monitoring, development of software products and solutions
• Working as Non Functional Testing Lead at Confidential from .
• Senior Performance Lead at Polaris Financial Technologies from .
• Experience in Performance engineering functionalities (Testing & Monitoring)
• Expert skills in HP LoadRunner 9.1, Performance center 9.5 and Jmeter testing tools
• Expert skills in HP BAC, BSM and Sitescope monitoring tools
• Expertise in developing Performance Test scripts using VuGen
• Developed in - house monitoring tool for BMO called as “BAM” wif very low development and maintenance cost
• Experience in network(WAN) emulating tools like Shunra
• Onsite-offshore co-ordination
• Capable of estimating project size and resource requirements for individual performance engineering projects
• Training and mentoring of team members
• Planning, structuring, and organizing work efficiently
• Determining work priorities in accordance wif project planning, time sensitivity, changing work demands, and policies and practices
• Making reasoned decisions after assessing customer's circumstances
• Identifying and investigating customer problems, issues, and circumstances and provides Recommendations, alternatives, risks, and benefits
• Demonstrates sensitivity to customer satisfaction
• Hands on experience in setting up end to end monitoring for various types of application environments using HP Application Performance Monitoring tools
• Expertise in managing and supporting Application Performance Monitoring operations
• Expertise in executing Performance Tests for various types of Java/J2EE, Citrix, Web services and Siebel applications using Load runner, Diagnostics and Sitescope
• Good knowledge in Banking and Financial domains
• Experience in SQL and PL/SQL

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: UNIX and Windows

RDBMS: Oracle 9i, MS SQL and PL/SQL

Testing Tools: HP Load Runner 9.5, Jmeter 2.x and Citrix ESLT 3.6

LR Protocol: WEB (HTTP\HTML), Ajax, Web Click and script, RDP, Web services, Citrix and Siebel

Monitoring Tools: HP BSM 9.01, HP BAC 8.02 and HP Sitescope 11.10

Implementation: HP- BAC/BSM, BPM, Sitescope

Integration: BSM - Sitescope, BSM-SM, BSM-UCMDB

Network Emulator: Shunra

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Tools: Used: ALM Performance Center 11.0, Vugen 9.5, Sitescope 10.11, SOA 9.1, HP - Quality Center

Non Functional Testing Lead

Responsibilities:

• Defining Non-Functional Test Strategy, Test Requirements, Test Plan, Test Scripts and Test Data.
• Involving non-functional requirements for testability and participates in teh review of teh technical acceptance criteria.
• Discussing wif solution architect to identify teh Performance Test scenarios and volumes for all teh DCTS applications.
• Creating teh Workload Analysis for teh Performance Testing.
• Supporting for BUV testing to execute of operability tests.
• Involving Test Case creation and execution in teh Pre-PAT environment.
• Involving NFT outlines teh common components for each release to identify early environment/infrastructure issues, testing strategies and early performance testing opportunities.
• Reviewing PCoE logs and reports for Performance test executions in teh PAT environment.
• Providing recommendations to improve teh environment after teh PCOE test execution done in teh PAT environment.

Confidential

Tools: Used: ALM Performance Center 11.0, Vugen 9.5, Sitescope 10.11 and Wily Introscope

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Ensure teh performance aspects of Online Banking for business (OLBB) application on teh continuous improvement and enhancements
• Ensure OLBB services remains competitive and working optimally for every release.
• Managed and led end-end Performance testing from planning to reporting
• Participate in planning and implementation of teh testing/quality strategy for new and existing modules.
• Define Performance estimates and scope for performance testing
• Prepare workload analysis, performance test strategy and performance test reports
• Work closely wif teh test team members and co-ordinate day to day tasks across other groups like BA, Application development team, PM and Operations Team
• Implemented Infrastructure monitoring through Sitescope 10.x
• Responsible for collecting AWR reports from databases and analyzed teh reports for performance issues
• Designing and executing teh scenarios as per teh schedule
• Publishing teh Analysis Report at teh end of every Performance run
• Analyze teh reports and shared teh observations to application team
• Responsible for monitoring JVM, servlets and web servies from Introscope for teh executions completed and generate teh reports
• Ensure teh testing goals for teh project are met
• Coordinate Track variances, and provide status reports to management
• Reporting Experience - Communication wif all teh stakeholders from teh various teams on regular progress & results
• Initiatives worked on include reuse of test artifacts through modularization of scripts
• Suggested enhancements to best practices around automation of performance tests & standards

Confidential

Tools: Used: ALM Performance Center 11.0, Vugen 9.5, BAM 1.0, Sitescope 10.11, WireShark, HTTP Watch, Ping plotter and QC

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed and led end-end Performance testing and monitoring from planning to reporting
• Establish Performance Baseline for teh Salesforce CRM system, under specific Performance test conditions
• Implemented BAM tool for monitoring teh Capital Markets Salesforce applications
• Business Day monitoring for EP, me&CB, PCG and DB applications using BAM
• Implemented Infrastructure monitoring through Sitescope 10.x
• Gathering performance requirements for teh Salesforce cloud application requiring certification
• Responsible for developing and executing Performance test plans in HP ALM
• Define teh plan & suggest teh appropriate performance testing and monitoring tools and protocols
• Workload Modeling - Define performance workload based on current production statistics / extrapolation models
• Automation of teh test cases & scenarios identified during teh planning phase
• Creating teh Vuser scripts using Load Runner tool wif Siebel and Citrix protocols
• Designing and executing teh scenarios as per teh schedule
• Performed Network testing assessing teh performance delay due to latency & bandwidth
• Monitoring teh network route by using WireShark and analyzing teh results
• Profiling teh business flows on selected end users machines using HTTP watch
• Publishing teh Analysis Report at teh end of every Performance run
• Analyze teh reports and shared teh observations to application team
• Reporting Experience - Communication wif all teh stakeholders from teh various applications, monitoring teams on regular progress & results
• Initiatives worked on include reuse of test artifacts through modularization of scripts
• Suggested enhancements to best practices around automation of performance tests & standards

Confidential

Tools: Used: Performance Center 9.5, Vugen 9.5, Sitescope 10.11 and QC

Performance Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathering performance requirements for applications requiring certification
• Identifying teh various stakeholders who directly or indirectly involved wif application testing
• Analyze teh architecture of teh target application environment
• Define teh plan & suggest teh appropriate performance testing tools and protocols
• Prepare business flow documents for identified transactions
• Workload Modeling - Define performance workload based on current production statistics / extrapolation models
• Automation of teh test cases & scenarios identified during teh planning phase
• Creating teh Vuser scripts using Load Runner tool
• Designing and executing teh scenarios as per teh schedule
• Monitoring teh application server and database server parameters
• Publishing teh Analysis Report at teh end of every Performance run
• Analyze teh reports and shared teh observations to application team
• Reporting Experience - Communication wif all teh stakeholders from teh various applications, monitoring teams on regular progress & results
• Initiatives worked on include reuse of test artifacts through modularization of scripts
• Suggested enhancements to best practices around automation of performance tests & standards

Confidential

Tools: Used: Load Runner 9.5 and Sitescope 10.11

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding teh Load testing objectives
• Preparation of Test Strategy, schedule and effort Estimate and approach to load Testing
• Understand teh Application functionality, architecture details and components metrics along wif workload characterization
• Prepare business flow documents for identified application transactions
• Coordinate wif teh application team to resolve teh application issues
• Creating teh Vuser scripts using Load Runner tool wif RDP protocol
• Designing and executing teh scenarios wif 600 peak users in teh controller
• Configure teh windows resource monitors on Sitescope to determine teh memory and CPU utilization
• Monitoring teh application server and database server parameters
• Publishing teh Analysis Report at teh end of every Performance run.
• Analyze teh reports and shared teh observations to application team

Confidential

Tools: Used: HP Load Runner 8.1 and Sitescope 10.12

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Creating dedicated testing environment
• Actively participate in teh requirements gathering/analysis for Performance Testing requests
• Identifying teh key business transactions.
• Recorded teh scripts for given business transactions using Load Runner.
• Execution of script for multiple iterations and multiple users.
• Preparing Test plans and test reports.
• Creating teh test scenarios
• Simulate Performance Tests under peak load

Confidential

Tools: Used: BAC 8.03, BPM 7.5, Sitescope 10.12, BSM 9.0 and Load Runner 8.1

Project Management Officer

Responsibilities:

• Mentoring teh monitoring objectives to teh team and work distribution for team
• Lead teh team of L1 engineers for handling APM operations sectioned for NBC Business group
• Project Management Officer for teh GAPC projects along wif operations team
• Administrated and Maintained 4 BAC Instances and 64 Sitescope servers for dis project.
• Executed production monitoring environment upgrade activities to upgrade teh environment from BAC version 6.4 to 7.02 & further to 8.02
• Planned and executed teh project of upgrading Sitescope servers from version
• Planned and executed teh project of migrating around 7000 monitors set in Hobbit’s Watcher tool to Sitescope for system level monitoring
• Handling teh work assignment of Kintana and ITG tickets for Monitoring along wif Project Management activities.
• Assigning teh tickets to teh team members after Initial checkup.
• Understand teh application functionality, architecture details, component metrics & deliver teh business impact presentations to teh new business lines.
• Deployed BSM 9 in stage environment and carried out pre-upgrade evaluation for validating teh production monitoring on new version
• Maintaining teh workflow and ticket closure of BAC & Sitescope tickets
• Assigning and handling outage calls and resolving teh issues
• Upgraded Sitescope servers from version.
• Integrated Sitescope servers to BAC and created dashboards for teh views in BAC.
• Prepare / update teh Vuser scripts (LoadRunner) used for Business Process Monitoring profiles
• Configure teh BPM profiles in BAC for 450+ applications
• Configure SLAs in BAC for application and system monitoring metrics
• Coordinate wif teh application team, Business users & GAPC team for resolving teh application issues & Monitoring issues.
• Continuous Improvement Program: Assess teh applications’ architecture and deployment topology and define/ refine monitoring strategy to introduce additional monitoring capabilities
• Handled outages pertaining to monitoring / application environments and coordinate for early resolution of teh issues.
• Daily, Weekly & monthly metrics collection for teh team & reporting to higher management.
• Preparing teh Pitches for teh Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly business calls

Confidential

Tools: Used: Load Runner 8.1 and MS office

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding teh Load testing objectives
• Understand teh Application functionality, architecture details and components metrics along wif workload characterization
• Prepare business flow documents for identified transactions
• Creating teh Vuser scripts using Load Runner tool wif Web HTTP/HTML protocol
• Designing and executing teh scenarios wif1000 peak users in teh controller
• Publishing teh Analysis Report at teh end of every Performance run.
• Analyze teh reports and shared teh observations to application team

Confidential

Tools: Win 2000, Java 1.2, Java Swings, Eclipse

Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed teh prototype for Confidential & Confidential systems using JAVA SWINGS