SUMMARY

• Performance Test Lead with over 8+ years of experience in Performance testing and engineering of Applications in Banking & Capital Market domain.
• Looking for a career that is both challenging and rewarding.
• Client interaction, interaction with business to prepare WLM, test plans, scripts, data setup for test scenarios mapping to real - life scenarios.
• Sound knowledge in Effort Estimation, developing and validating scripts for complex scenarios and enhancing the scripts using HP Load runner
• Involved in Scripting with different protocols (Siebel-Web, Web/HTTP, Web Services)
• Expertise in monitoring the system using monitoring tools like Wily Introscope, Perfmon and Dynatrace.
• Analysis and reporting of results using HP Load Runner Analysis, Skynet and report preparation.
• Performed test executions using Performance Center and HP controller
• Efficient in debugging the performance issues by working through the server and unix logs. Along with experience using log analysis tools like Splunk.
• Have worked with AWR reports to study the DB performance health
• Track record for looking into various metrics with respect to the web servers, application servers, middleware and backend servers and providing suggestions for Performance Tuning & Engineering activities.
• Managing & planning activities for the offshore performance team..
• Ability to drive from concept to completion, ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously in a fast paced environment.
• Engaged the business team along with then key project stakeholders to identify the testing scope to design the effective test strategy.
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal team abilities

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Load Runner, Performance Center, VSTSBug Reporting Tools Quality Center, JIRA, Test Director

Debugging: SM Analysis Tools, IIS Log Parser, Splunk

Application Servers: IBM Web Sphere, Windows 2008, IIS

Analysis & Reporting: SKYNET, AWR Reports, MS Excel

Test Management Tools: TFS, Team Track

Monitoring Tools: Wily Introscope, Fiddler, dynatrace APM dynatrace AJAX Edition

Methodologies: Agile - Kanban

Databases: MS SQL Server 2000, DB2, Oracle

Operating Systems: Windows 2003/NT/ME/XP/7, Unix, Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

QA Performance Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead the project team throughout the whole performance testing process starting from developing a formal performance testing effort estimation and requirement gathering
• Collect performance test requirements and functional test requirements from the Solution Architects.
• Calculate load modeling (Indentifying Critical Business Flows) based on production data & provide estimates based on complexity of project and inturn create Work Load Modeling (WLM) document.
• Develop Real World Scenarios in HP Performance Center based on the User Load and Transaction Volume.
• Use VSTS/LR tools to create performance scripts after set up of test data based on the requirement.
• Use VSTS/Performance Test Center to execute various types of test which include Load, Stability & Stress testing & capture standard counters.
• Analyze and provide high level results using dynatrace APM, splunk and VSTS.
• Prepare & Share final results with observations/ recommendations.
• Coordinated daily status call for technical and non-technical audiences on test progress.
• Accurately produce regular project status reports and provide interpretations to the senior management to ensure on-time project launch

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Performance Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gather performance test requirements from the application team based on the performance test request submitted.
• Work closely with the development team to identify the performance test needs and its deliverables.
• Design performance test strategies and performance test plans considering the performance test requirements.
• Design performance test scripts in Loadrunner Vugen, enhance the script to meet the test scenarios, troubleshoot any run time errors and set run time settings as required.
• Create correlations for the dynamic values in the script based on the response from the server to enhance the Script.
• Parameterize the test with multiple users to simulate real time multiple vusers logging into the system.
• Organize the test cases and test plans in HP ALM
• Schedule and execute the test scripts for performance testing assigning multiple Load generators to meet the test needs through Performance Center.
• Design and execute performance test scenarios in Performance Center.
• Collate the execution results and analyze it in Loadrunner Analysis.
• Perform the monitoring performance of the application and database servers during the test run using tools like dynatrace.
• Drill down on the failed transactions, HTTP errors, memory spikes, jvm memory, CPU usage, web requests, pure paths, application processes and database.
• Analyzing the metrics after running Skynet Report.
• Sharing the report to all the stake holders.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

QA Performance Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis, Create Test Strategy and test plans.
• Develop and validating test scripts for complex scenarios
• Identify test data requirements based on business process and setting up the same
• Coordinate with support and development team for any bottleneck analysis
• For monitoring Used tools WILY and AWR reports for DB analysis
• Log defects and ambiguities and track them to closure
• Track project progress and share status report to all stake holders
• Coordination with the client

Confidential

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Gathering & Analysis
• Project Planning, scheduling and monitoring.
• Leading the project in its entirety from estimation until Sign-off and closure.
• Responsible for Test Strategy, Test Planning and Execution and reporting Test Metrics.
• Responsible for Daily & Weekly status tracking and reporting directly to stake holders including the client.
• Performance Scripts Creation, Execution and result Analysis.