SUMMARY:

• Seasoned, dynamic and result oriented professional with extensive experience in full life cycle Performance Engineering (workload modeling, requirement gathering, scripting, testing, analysis, reporting and production monitoring)
• 9 years of experience in performance testing & engineering with 6 years of experience in leading and managing teams.
• Currently managing a onshore and offshore team for Charter performance testing
• Experience in variety of testing tools like HP LoadRunner 11.52, HP ALM Performance Centre 11.52, IBM RPT 8.2, Jmeter, jConsole, CA Wily Introscope, HP Openview, HP ALM Quality Center 11.0, Witbe, Stormtest.
• Have hands on knowledge in working for variety of customers and domains like, Cable and communication industry, Retail, BFSI, telecommunications and manufacturing
• Successfully cleared LoadRunner HPO - M18 and HPO-M19
• Successfully cleared ITIL v3.
• Expertise in analyzing results and pointing out performance bottlenecks at different tiers and provide tuning recommendations to improve performance and quality.
• Very good experience in capturing nonfunctional requirements, identifying performance testing requirements.
• Expertise in preparing Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Data, Bug report, determining schedule estimation and maintaining Defect tracking Tool.
• Expertise in using HP LoadRunner and IBM RPT using various protocols like Web(http/html), Web services, Ajax Truclient, Oracle NCA.
• Experience in performance monitoring using various tools like CA Wily Introscope, HP Openview, JConsole, UCPS, Perfmon, Omegamon and Weblogic console.
• Good experience in conducting performance testing for SOA services and Order Management Systems (OMS)
• Played offshore lead for performance testing of Daytona ATT telecom project which included testing, analysis at application and database server level with the help of JMX results, thread dumps, garbage collections, heap dump, transaction traces and AWR report.
• Played key role at onsite in performance testing of core banking program that included various applications like Flexcube (Core banking and direct banking), IBM Message Broker (Online middleware), Informatica (batch middleware) and SAP Business Objects (Reporting).
• Good experience of Agile practices, ITIL and CMM level processes.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills with ability to interact with individuals/teams/client at all levels.
• Sound Knowledge in implementing QA process in testing and improvements in the existing projects and processes
• Good experience in working in logistics, telecom, retail and banking domain.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Denver, CO

Performance Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Creating detailed test strategy and plan
• Coordinating the work of test teams and monitoring their performance.
• Reviewing the test scripts prepared through Witbe and Meteo
• Designing the Load test scenarios and monitor the number of active set top sessions
• Managing the gathering of results.
• Compiling test metrics for management.
• Identify test approaches that optimise the delivery schedule for eg. Create various shell, python scripts and macros to reduce manual effort

Confidential, Framingham, Massachusetts

Performance Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Creating detailed test strategy and plan
• Coordinating the work of test teams and monitoring their performance.
• Performance testing the RPAS and RMS application through LoadRunner
• Reviewing LoadRunner test scripts
• Monitoring the application through NMON and providing recommendtions to develpment team

Confidential, Portland, Oregon

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Building the team and ramping up team members at offshore.
• Gathering the NFRs for various applications.
• Preparing detailed test strategy and test plan.
• Designing the Load test scenarios for load, stress and break point tests.
• Monitoring the application servers using HP Loadrunner monitors and CA Wily Introscope.
• Monitoring Transaction traces using Wily Introscope.
• Test Report preparation with detailed analysis.

Confidential

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of 8(offshore) for performance test execution.
• Gathering the NFRs for various applications.
• Designing the Load test scenarios for Break point testing, Peak/Optimal point testing.
• Monitoring the application servers using CA Wily Introscope, Jconsole, and UNIX.
• Monitoring various performance parameters like GC Cycles, JVM Heap Utilization, JMX Monitoring, and CPU & Memory Utilization.
• Analyzed thread dumps, and monitored the JDBC and EJB pool connections
• Analyzed AWR report to understand the database behavior during load
• Monitoring Transaction traces using Wily Introscope.
• Test Report preparation with detailed analysis of breaking point, optimal point and endurance testing.
• Understand and analyze the requirements for performance testing from the RFP
• Discuss with the business analyst to gather the technical inputs.
• Provide consultancy on tools required/hardware for tools to perform performance testing.
• Providing technical solution to clients according to their requirement.
• Singlehandedly responded to 5 RFPs across various domains and geographies.

Confidential

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading the team for Confidential Core Banking Performance Testing
• Capture non-functional requirements for the system under test.
• Prepare hardware and software requirement document
• Prepare the test strategy and test plan design for performance testing.
• Work with client and the test team to set up the performance test environment.
• Performance testing the core banking applications - FCUBS, Direct Banking, Online Middleware, Batch Middleware, EOD, SAP BO reports and ATM/POS
• Review the test scripts prepared.
• Perform different load tests to understand the performance of the system under test.
• Monitor the application and database servers using HP Openview and find out bottlenecks (if any) in the system
• Prepare a report mentioning about the entire performance of the applications and highlight the bottlenecks and recommendations.

Confidential

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of 4 for Performance Testing of CotPlus applications
• Capture the functional and Non Functional requirements
• Prepare the test strategy and test plan document.
• Prepare the scenarios for load testing using Performance Center.
• Monitor the application and database servers and find out bottlenecks (if any) in the system.

Confidential

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of 4 for Performance Modeling of UKBS applications
• Check the performance test environment configurations and data volumes and if required synchronize the configuration with production
• Scripting using AJAX truclient protocol in LoadRunner 11.0
• Monitor the application and database servers using perfmon and find out bottlenecks (if any) in the system.
• Preparing model using mBrace tool.

Confidential

Performance Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the data from production database and provided a detailed analysis of 190 odd reports.
• Identifying the Reports that are having performance issues from the requested historical and current data from production
• Try and replicate similar performance issues on performance test environment (will be helpful for fine tuning at a later stage)
• Understand the performance issues in relation with existing core database schemas, tables, SQLs, volume of data and the conflicts with night chain if any
• Prepare a tailored performance improvement plan and inputs (including architectural changes if required) towards better performance of each of the reports.

Confidential

Consultant P2

Responsibilities:

• Involved in interacting with Client for requirement gathering, analysis and studies
• Load testing various modules of the application using EPC (Load runner) 8.1
• Created the Performance Test Scenarios Developed virtual user scripts using HP Load runner VUGen for various business processes and enhanced the scripts
• Analysis of Business scenarios with BA’s
• Independently created Load/Stress scenarios for performance testing using the Performance Center
• Used Performance monitor to analyze the % CPU Usage, Memory and Requests per sec for each scenario
• Documented the defects and their trailing history in the defects module of Quality Center
• Extracting the reports from Analysis Tool and consolidating them for preparation of final summary report
• Involved in interacting with Client & Business Analysts for requirement gathering, analysis and studies
• Effectively coordinating with Front office, client and 3rd party vendors
• Responsible for designing, building, testing, deploying enhancements in production.
• Involved in the review of test cases and bug reports.
• Involved in PQL activities.