Engineer Manager

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Woburn, MA, USA

Phone: (mobile) +1-781-***-****

Email:

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EDUCATION Master of Science - Software Engineering (2010)

BITS: Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India

Bachelor of Science, Physics (2006)

MCC: Madras Christian College, Chennai, India

WORK HISTORY

Skill Set:

6 years of experience in Performance Testing and Engineering using tools

like Load runner and performance center

Good Understanding of the SAAS framework with adequate exposure towards

cloud computing.

Expert in Scripting using protocols like HTTP (Web), AJAX, Siebel, Winsock

and Oracle 2-tier.

Expertise in setting up Performance test Scenarios based on Customized load

models.

Proficient in Using Performance test aided tools like Perfmon, Nmon, LPS,

HP Performance manager, Profilers and TLDB to spot and analyze

Performance bottlenecks.

Skilled in influencing design Changes to improve performance of the

application.

Expertise in Analyzing and generation of Service level Agreements (SLA) for

the critical business transactions.

Recipient of Various awards from Top management for show casing excellent

analytical and troubleshooting skills in performance testing.

Instrumental in setting up Testing Center of Excellence in offshore.

Excellent understanding of various Software life cycle models like

Waterfall and Agile Methodologies.

Good understanding of the Performance testing Life cycle and Strategy

End to end exposure in Performance testing and Engineering

Good Communication and Inter personal Skills.

Good Motivator and team player.

Good Leadership and presentation skills.

Ability to interact with stakeholders with ease and professionalism.

Proficient in German.

Senior Performance engineer, Hewlett-Packard Pvt Ltd (May 2011 to Oct 2012)

Title: Senior Performance Engineer, Direct TV - Siebel

Application Specialist

Focus: Identify and Eradicate performance issue by suggesting

improvement measure to stabilize and improve the performance of Siebel

system.

Technologies: Load Runner 11.0, Performance Center 11.0, Layered Product

Support tool (LPS), Transaction Log Database (TLDB), HP

Performance manager and NMON

Work:

Requirements Analysis based on the Application architecture and design.

Outline the Scope and Business process flows / use case documents

generation.

Drafting Test plan and Test strategy documents.

Proof Of Concept - To validate the Testing tool used against the

application and requirements.

Generation of Test scripts using Load runner in line with requirements.

Requirements traceability matrix.

Test Scenario set up and Test Execution (load test, Reliability test,

Stress and Endurance Test).

Monitoring of UNIX and LINUX nodes to gauge server side health and

statistics during the test execution.

Analyzing the NMON and Superdome to identify Performance issues /

bottlenecks.

End to End in-depth analysis using tools like LPS and TLDB.

Monitoring Data base (DB) health and analyzing superdome data.

Write SQL queries to validate test results against the data available in

DB.

Analyze AWR reports to uncover DB side bottlenecks.

Test results Report Generation

Recommend Performance engineering solutions to improve application

stability and performance.

Associate - Projects, Cognizant Technology Solutions (Jan 2011 to May 2011)

Title: Associate - Projects, MetLife Insurance

Focus: Mentoring and Monitoring Resources. Provide Expertise solution

to the stakeholders on Issues uncovered during testing.

Technologies: Load runner 9.5 and Performance Center 9.5

Work:

Team management and mentoring

Analyze the requirement and suggest appropriate work around.

Participate in triage calls to resolve Performance issues.

Provide Expertise advice and guidance to resolve production issues which

degrades performance.

Onshore -Offshore coordination.

Test plan and test strategy Review.

Defect tracking using Quality Center

Review and Improve Performance Test analysis Reports

Server Side matrix generation and Analysis.

Student - Computer Applications, Wipro Technologies (Oct 2006 to Nov2010)

Title: Student - Computer Applications, Performance Test Analyst

Focus: Understand and Involve in the Performance testing lifecycle.

Master the usage of Performance testing tools and provide expertise

solution.

Technologies: Load runner version 8.1 to 9.52, Performance center 9.52,

Quality Center9.00 and Open STA

Work:

Understanding the Performance testing Lifecycle for various Software models

like Waterfall, Agile and Scrum

Establish and Validate Requirements for a given software framework.

Understanding the concepts of Anti money Laundering (ALM) and frame test

strategy which gives 100% requirement traceability.

Has been instrumental in setting up the Testing Center of Excellence (T-

COE).

Draft Test strategy to support SAAS and cloud Computing environment.

Test Plan generation and review.

Load model generation for Performance test execution.

Execute Performance tests like Load, Stress and endurance tests.

Monitoring and Base lining Server side statistics using tools Perfmon.

Generation of Server side matrix to understand system performance.

Capacity planning based on the Server statistics and Environmental Layout

(HW only)

Recommend design changes in Application as part of Performance Engineering

activity to improve and optimize performance.

Simulation of Clustered environment by randomizing the server nodes to

ensure optimal utilization of test environment.

WAN emulation to test network and Bandwidth issues.

Analyze network and Server side traffic to narrow down and resolve

performance bottlenecks.

Final Performance Summary report Preparation

Preparation of ARM (Application reference Manual) document which outlines

all the strategies and Test results summary per application.

Specialization: Performance Testing and Engineering.

Database: Oracle and SQL

ERP Tools: BPM - PegaRULES Process Commander (PRPC) and Siebel CRM

Programming Languages: C, C++ and JAVA

Tools: Load Runner 8.1 to 11.0, Performance Center 9.5, Quality Center 9.1

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/UNIX/Linux (Monitoring)

Packages: MS Office

REWARD AND RECOGNITIONS:

Recipient of "Technical Expert Award" from Vice-President of Mc-Graw hill

companies for excellent performance testing and engineering skill.

Conferred "The Above and Beyond" award by Direct TV SQA team for Extended

Support in resolving Performance issues and suggesting customized

solutions.

Recipient of "Feather in My Cap" award from Wipro technologies for

excellent Analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Recipient of "Thanks a Zillion" award from Wipro technologies for

delivering and coordinating project tasks under tight time lines.

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