Preethi Santhalingam Performance Test Engineer

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OBJECTIVE:

A Self-Starting, Innovative, Constructive, and Results Oriented Professional Seeking Opportunity to Work as Performance Test Engineer that will offer an opportunity for utilization of Technical Knowledge, Growth and Future Advancement.

SUMMARY OF SKILLS:

7+ years of experience as a Performance Tester on validating various Applications performance.

Extensive experience in performance testing using tools like HP Load Runner 12.55(Web and Tru Client Protocol), NeoLoad 6.5 and Jmeter 5.3.

Experience in testing Client/Server, Web Based applications, Web Services and SOAP Web services.

Worked on HTTP/HTTPS, Web Services, and Mobile testing using Load runner.

Expertise in performance testing applications hosted on cloud and planning different test scenarios for Cloud applications like Pivotal Cloud Foundry applications.

Experience in preparing Test plans, strategizing performance test projects, developing workload models, defining test cases, developing and maintaining test scripts as per the business specifications, test execution and analysis, report publishing and providing high level tuning recommendations.

Expertise in tools HP Performance Center, Load runner versions 12.55 and above, SOAP UI, Quality center/ALM.

Hands on experience with designing, developing, and executing different type of Load tests for Web

applications and Mobile iOS/Android Applications.

Executed various performance tests on Load, Stress and Endurance.

Experience in monitoring tools like AppDynamics, Splunk.

Possess problem-solving skills, ability to follow industry standards and procedures. Ability to quickly master new concepts, applications and a team player.

Experience in interacting with different teams (client/Application, Front end monitoring, DB monitoring) to understand project architecture and get the scope of the project and articulating the scope and requirements into the meaningful presentations to demonstrate to higher management.

Expert in analyzing performance bottlenecks such as high CPU usage, memory leaks, connections, Thread Usage, SQL Queries usage.

Areas of expertise include performance testing of various web-based applications developed using Java, Dot Net and People soft technologies.

Involved in various Performance Testing activities like gathering Nonfunctional Requirements, Script Development, Test Execution, Analysis and Delivery activities.

Good exposure to performance concepts and possesses sound knowledge of scripting for Web based applications and exposure to load, stress and endurance testing of applications.

Have executed performance testing projects on Onsite/Offshore models and thoroughly understands the process & functions performed at Onsite/Offshore.

Analyze the performance report and client/server statistics, discuss with clients to overcome the performance bottleneck if any.

Played a key role in preparing test cases, test scripts, execution and maintain the test scenarios and delivering the results/report on time.

Possess good leadership skills having demonstrated the same in guiding team to a number of successful releases.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Performance Automation/Testing tools - Load Runner (HTTP/HTML) 12.55, AJAX Protocol 12.55(Tru

Client), Neo Load 6.5, Jmeter 5.3

Test Management Tool - Performance Center 12.20, Quality Center 12.20,SOAP UI, JIRA.

Monitoring Tools - App Dynamics, Splunk, Fiddler, Dynatrace

Operating System - Windows, Linux

Databases - MySQL, Oracle

Programming and Scripting Languages - C, C++, .NET, HTML, Javascript

Methodologies - Agile and Waterfall

WORK EXPERIENCE:

1.Client - Boeing Inc

Role - Sr Performance Tester

Period - Aug 2018 to Present

Gathered the requirements and compiled them into Test Plan

Conducted performance testing using HP Load Runner and Performance Center tools.

Load Runner was used to generate vuser script to simulate multiple client interactions and emulate the behavior of hundreds of real users between the browser and the web server.

Developed Scenarios in Controller based on the User Load and Transaction Volume.

Inserted rendezvous points to create intense load on the server and thereby to measure server performance.

Performed sanity and smoke testing on the application.

Conducted Regression testing on different versions of the application

Prepare detailed performance engineering strategy and plan documents and facilitate the walkthroughs.

Prepare the test scenarios and create the performance test script and execute the performance tests according to the test plan.

Develop scripts by using Load Runner 12.55

Prepared Test Cases, Vugen scripts, Load Test, Test Data, Execute test, validate results, Manage defects and report results

Post execution analysis of test results, including report development and delivery.

Worked closely with both the system management and software development teams to identity root causes of issues and performance improvements.

Identified functionality and performance bottlenecks, including deadlock conditions and system crashes under load.

Monitor and troubleshoot the application issues using Dynatrace.

Tools: HP LoadRunner 12.55(HTTP/HTML), Tru Client 12.55(AJAX Protocol), AppDynamics, TDH, Performance Center 12.20, Fiddler, DynaTrace, Splunk Dashboard, My SQL

Client - Zurich Insurance

Role - Performance Tester

Period - Feb 2017 to Jun 2018

Understand and explore of the application transactions for performance testing and set up the performance test environment.

Create the performance test schedule and ensure the testability as soon as the application available.

Prepare detailed performance engineering strategy and plan documents and facilitate the walkthroughs.

Prepare the test scenarios and create the performance test script and execute the performance tests according to the test plan.

Develop scripts by using NeoLoad 6.5

Review analysis/results and participate in defining performance test goals.

Monitor the applications by using Appdynamics.

Monitor the application resources JDBC Connection Pool Usage, JVM heap Memory and GC.

Executed Load Runner scenarios based on complex business scenarios with different monitors for Stress testing, Endurance testing, Load testing and Failover testing.

Monitored the Average Response time, failed transactions and Error Count during the execution.

Tracked the defects using Quality Center and communicated with the developers.

Coordinated with Application team to understand the business process & identified the test data for load testing process.

Created the SOAP xml scripts by using the SOAP UI tool for various services in webservice

Enhanced the scripts with text checks, correlations, parameterization, transaction names & C functions.

Tools: NeoLoad 6.5, App Dynamics, TDH, Performance Center 12.20, Fiddler, DynaTrace, Splunk Dashboard.

Client - Amgen OpServ Healthcare

Role - Performance Tester

Period - May 2015 to Jan 2017

Performance business Requirement Analysis based on the client requirements and inputs.

Developed & designed performance test plan, workload model according to the client’s requirement.

Coordinated with Application team to understand the business process & identified the test data for load testing process.

Created the SOAP Xml scripts by using the SOAP UI tool for various services in web service

Enhanced the scripts with text checks, correlations, parameterization, transaction names & C functions.

Designing and executing the scenarios as per schedule on performance center.

Monitoring the test behavior by using App Dynamics for all the different servers

Coordinated with Application, server & DB teams during and after the load test.

Developed Analysis results document & efficiently communicated the performance bottlenecks with all the concerned teams, management & project manager.

Creating and executing Load Test, Performance Test and provide adequate supporting information for bottleneck analysis.

Understanding of the Application and the Business flow’s walkthrough given by the Client and application Architecture Team.

Preparation and development of the test scripts using Jmeter 5.3.

Executed test to validate the scripts, test data creation and validation.

Performed Adhoc test execution as per the client requirement.

Identifying issues to be intimated to the concerned team and plan to validate the performance fixes in the application

Executing test runs to validate that the performance of the application under various loads and benchmark the response time Numbers.

Analysing the test results and provide the recommendations.

Tools: HP Load Runner 12.55(Web Protocol), Dynatrace, Performance Center 12.20, Jmeter 5.3(Web and Web services API).

Client - Hanover PMS

Role - Performance Tester

Period - Dec 2013 to Apr 2015

Gathering and analyzing the performance requirements.

Created the performance test scripts as per the requirements using HTTP & Web Services Protocols & AJAX based applications (Tru Client)

Attending the KT Sessions for various applications

Preparation for the Business flow documents and test scripts for the identified business transactions

Executing the test scripts with various load patterns and monitoring during the test run

Identified key performance bottlenecks in the Web Servers, App Servers and Database Servers by using HP Diagnostics and also performed end-to-end root cause analysis on these bottlenecks to pin point the reasons.

Involved in preparing the test reports along with the observations which needs to be shared with the client

Prepared Performance test plan based on the in-scope requirements.

Prepared Test Design documents and Test Executive Summary Report for the project.

Individual scalability test to test the scalability factor of the application with increasing load &Work load Mix tests to validate the application responsiveness under peak load mix.

Tools: HP Load Runner 12.55 Web (HTTP/HTML), Tru Client 12.55(AJAX Protocol), AppDynamics, TDH, Performance Center 12.20, Fiddler, DynaTrace, Splunk Dashboard.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science (8.9 CGPA) – Anna University, Chennai 2013

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