Gurminder Singh
Indianapolis,IN
Summary
To continuously strive for higher achievement in life and establish myself as a perfect and accept challenging work and contribute forward the success of esteem organization by hard work and acquired skills in performance testing, monitoring and tuning.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Performance Engineer
Pearson Education
05.2007 - Current
- Participated in application and technology requirements, designed performance test strategies, executed tests, and communicated findings to management.
Lead Performance Engineer
Pearson Education
Boston Metro Area
05.2004 - Current
- Responsible for ensuring process improvement and adherence in multiple projects, participating in testing and quality improvements for scalable web-based applications.
Sr. Performance Engineer
Oak Group Inc
Wellesley, MA
04.2001 - 10.2003
- Analyzed system requirements, wrote test plans, executed test cases, and developed automated scripts for various projects.
QA Engineer
EMC 2
Westborough, MA
05.2000 - 04.2001
- Responsible for writing QA documents, defining test strategies, and performing automated performance testing for the Catalyst Project.
Education
Post Graduate Diploma In Computer Science - Programming
Trintack Institute of Computer Science
Ludhiana Punjab India 01.1998
Bachelors of Science - Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics
Jiwaji University Gwalior
01.1989
Skills
- Well acquainted with Software Development Life Cycle and processes
- Working knowledge in Performance testing tools LoadRunner, NeoLoad & J-Meter
- Good exposure to Shunra WAN Emulation tool and network analysis
- Extensive knowledge in server metrics analysis for different layers of the application
- Working knowledge on Web, Web services, client-server, SAP, Siebel & Oracle applications
- Working knowledge on utilities like WINDIFF, BEYONDCOMPARE, SQUID & Fiddler
- Involved in managing team and gained Leadership qualities
- Comfortable working as an individual as well with Team
- Knowledge of Oracle massaging system and ADT feed systems, SOA and BPMS
Summary Of Experience
Over 15 years’ experience working in Software Quality Assurance and Performance testing in the Higher Education and Health care Information Technology. As part of assignments, I have been involved in Performance test Requirement Gathering, Performance Application Maintenance, Testing and experience in performance test development and monitoring of software and Interface application using powerful tools like Load Runner and App Dynamics and in-depth domain knowledge of Higher Education and healthcare operations /processes. Assist with building a successful performance engineering team from scratch. Assist with building a successful performance best practice, improving the process, and continue to learn from talented colleagues. Expand my current expertise to include systems analysis and performance tuning and troubleshooting within my current role. Develop technical management skills. Maintain my own skill set with performance engineering practices, expertise, and technical knowledge.
Professionalandtechnicalskills
HP Load Runner (8.1 to 11.5), NeoLoad, J-Meter, Web, Web Services, Oracle NCA, Oracle 2-tier (client/server), SAP, Siebel, Ajax, RTE, Shunra VE Desktop, SQUID, Fiddler, TeamQuest, HP Quality Center, Windows, Linux, SQL Server 2000, Oracle, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, VBScript, .Net, C, C
Associateid
525578
Designation
Sr. Associate
Currentjobtitle
Sr. Associate/ Tech Lead
Professional Highlights
- Project #1, Pearson Education, Lead Performance Engineer, 05/01/04, Present, Boston, MA, As a Performance lead in the Pearson Learning Technologies Group, I am responsible for ensuring the process is always being improved and followed in multiple ongoing projects, colleagues are empowered and successful, and customers are happy with the service we provide.
- Project 1 – Higher Education Applications, Pearson Education, Lead Performance Engineer, 05/01/07, Present, I participate in upfront application and technology requirements, design and functionality reviews, design and implement performance test strategies / plans based upon performance specifications, and execute performance baseline, stress and load tests, analyze results and prepared test result reports.
- Project 2 – Course Compass, Pearson Education, Lead Performance Engineer, 05/01/04, 04/30/07, CourseCompass is a web-based course delivery system that includes course announcements, instructor information, an electronic version of your textbook, your grades, etc.
- Project #2, Sr. Performance Engineer, Oak Group Inc, Wellesley, MA, 04/01/01, 10/31/03, The Oak Group is an industry leader in the development of medical management criteria and software.
- Project #3, QA Engineer, EMC 2, Westborough, MA, 05/01/00, 04/30/01, EMC2 is a Global leader in information storage.
Timeline
Lead Performance Engineer
Pearson Education
05.2007 - Current
Lead Performance Engineer
Pearson Education
05.2004 - Current
Sr. Performance Engineer
Oak Group Inc
04.2001 - 10.2003
QA Engineer
EMC 2
05.2000 - 04.2001
Bachelors of Science - Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics
Jiwaji University Gwalior
Post Graduate Diploma In Computer Science - Programming
Trintack Institute of Computer Science