Engineer Test

SUMMARY

About *+ years of experience in QA as Performance Engineer gained experience working in Retail, Healthcare,

Banking, Financial, and Aviation domains

Expertise in scripting Web (HTTP/HTML), Web Services, True Client, and SAP -GUI protocols.

Experienced in testing both On-Premises and Cloud [AWS]

Experienced in analyzing the business requirement documents and developing test scripts.

Managed around 3 to 5 multiple projects by prioritizing tasks effectively based on timelines.

Experienced working with SAP [FI/CO] and BPC modules.

Experienced in using monitoring tools like Newrelic, Dynatrace, App Dynamics for performance testing and engineering.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Walgreens, Deerfield, IL [June 2019 – Present]

Sr. Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

Experienced in managing multiple projects

Experienced in planning and designing performance test.

Experienced in performing failover and autoscaling activity on cloud [Azure].

Developed performance test plan and identified test scenarios based on the test scope

Coordinated with the offshore resources during planning and execution.

Results were analyzed after each the test execution

United Airlines, Chicago, IL [Jan 2019 – March 2019]

QA Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

Experienced in creation of performance test strategy, planning, and load modeling.

Actively involved in load and stress testing across On-Prem and Cloud [AWS] infrastructure.

Captured metrics using cloudwatch for Autoscaling and Failover testing are conducted on Amazon AWS

Conduct system performance testing to ensure system reliability, capacity and scalability.

Managed around 4 to 6 multiple projects at various phases of software development lifecycle.

Gathered and analyzed non-functional requirements like throughput, hits per seconds, transactions per second, CPU utilization for business-critical application.

Designed and executed Load, Stress, Endurance, and Capacity tests using HP Performance Center 12.53 to evaluate the system and infrastructure readiness.

Work with cross-functional teams involving business analyst, developers for each engagement

APP Dynamics monitoring tool is used to capture the End-to-End performance engineering across all tiers.

Zebra, Minneapolis, MN [March 2018 – Dec 2018]

QA Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

Develop the test plan after coordinating with both the product owner and development team understanding the QA needs.

Design and implement the test processes for web, desktop, and mobile applications.

Gathering the requirements by coordinating with the product team.

Capturing the business-critical scenarios that are identified for test activity.

Execution of test procedures and automated test suites and scripts.

Developed automation scripts based on the scenarios identified for testing.

Execute various test activities such as Smoke, Functional, Regression, and Performance Testing

Postman is used extensively for testing API’s.

Defects were tracked and monitored on the JIRA board

DELTA Airlines Inc, Minneapolis, MN [March 2017 – Jan 2018]

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

Managed multiple projects and coordinated with the offshore teams effectively.

Prepared test strategy and test plan documents based on the project scope.

Developed automated scripts for business-critical applications using Load Runner.

Designed performance test scenarios for the baseline, load, stress, and endurance test.

Analyzed test results and coordinated with the development teams to fix defects.

Dynatrace monitoring tool is used for analyzing the utilization from the load test

OPTUM, Minneapolis, MN [March 2016 – Jan 2017]

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

Coordinated with the cross functional team gathering inputs on critical test scenarios.

Designed and executed load, performance, stress, and endurance test.

New Relic monitoring tool is used for analyzing the server utilizations.

Test results were analyzed and coordinate with the development teams.

Defects are created in Quality Center for tracking, retested once fixed.

Ditech, St Paul, MN [Oct 2015 – March 2016]

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

Developed performance testing plan based on business and technical requirements.

Gathered performance test requirements from business and created the workload model.

Scripts were executed with normal and peak loads to observe the system characteristics.

Used JIRA for effectively managing the test cases and track defects.

Results were analyzed and shared with the business team.

Wells Fargo, Minneapolis [March 2015 –Oct 2015]

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

Developed performance testing plan based on business and technical requirements.

Created automated scripts using web (HTTP/HTML), Web Services, and True-client protocols.

Performed baseline, load, stress, and endurance tests for the identified business critical scenarios

Day in the Life Scenario was executed simulating the real user load.

Results were analyzed and shared with the business team.

United Health Group, Minneapolis [Aug2014 –March 2015]

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

Developed and enhanced scripts in HP Load Runner using http and web-services protocol.

Monitored system and resource utilization for the application using New Relic.

Gathered user behavior patterns and analyzed the data during open enrollment period.

Designed and executed load, stress, and endurance performance testing scenarios in Performance Center.

Results were analyzed, shared, and discussed with team about application responses during test executions.

HDR Engineering, Minneapolis [Oct2012-Jun2014]

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

Involved in gathering business requirements and identified Performance Test Scenarios.

Test strategy and test plan documents are created based on the scope of the application.

Designed performance test scenarios and executed using HP Load Runner

Defects identified are logged for tracking process in quality center.

Target Corporation, Minneapolis [Feb 2011- Oct2012]

Performance Test Engineer

Project: Release 12.2(Oracle 11g Upgrade) / GTO II / TGT$100 SAP BPC Upgrade / TGT$100 Release 2.0

Responsibilities

Involved in documenting, gathering requirements, and capturing key metrics for the application under test.

Designed smoke, baseline, load, stress, Day-in-the-Life, and endurance test for the application.

Reviewed test plans and procedures to ensure adequate coverage of system requirements.

Coordinated with offshore and onshore teams to work effectively and meet the deadlines.

Used Shunra to emulate latency to observe the behavior of the application

Defects were tracked and monitored using HP Quality Center.

Prepared a final test report summarizing the test results, defect raised during testing, and defect resolution

CIENA, Linthicum Heights, MD [Jul 2010 – Jan2011]

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

Documented test cases, gathered requirements, and captured key metrics for the application under test.

Involved in the preparation of test plan and estimation of timelines for test execution.

Developed scripts in web (HTML/HTTP) & web-services protocol using LoadRunner.

Customized scripts by handling correlation and adding error handling practices.

Executed Load, Stress, and Endurance testing using Load Runner for Day in Life scenario.

Analyzed Load Runner results and graphs to identify bottlenecks in the application.

Defects were tracked and monitored using HP Quality Center.

Education

Master’s in engineering [South Dakota School of Mines and Technology], Rapid City, SD.

Bachelor’s in engineering [Andhra University, India]

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