PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of diverse experience in QA Tester with Windows and Web - based applications in Automation testing using HP/ Mercury Interactive Test Suite.
• Good understanding of Quality assurance testing methodology relative to Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in the areas of business analysis, development, testing, deployment and documentation and worked on different SDLC models.
• Extensive experience in Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC) aspects such as developing Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Cases (Manual/Automated), Defect Reports and developing Test Scripts, Requirement Traceability Matrices and Test Environments.
• Skilled in understanding the business processes, analyzing the processes, defining scope of the project and User Requirements and converting User Requirements into Business Requirements and Technical Specification.
• Hands on experience in writing SQL queries for database testing and experience in Defect management, including Defect creation, modification, tracking, reporting using industry standard tools like Quality Center.
• Experience in working with automated testing tools like Quality Center and HP LoadRunner and experience in writing automated test scripts in Win Runner and Load Runner.
• Extensive knowledge on Performance life cycle and involved in the execution of complete Performance test life cycle and worked on different versions of LoadRunner (8 - 11.52).
• Having good exposure to the test strategy for meeting the goals for the Performance testing.
• Involved in Performance testing project activities including requirements gathering, planning, designing scripts and creating test data and executing load tests
• Performing the Performance testing life cycle i.e. Scripting, Design of Scenarios, execution, Performance Monitoring and Performance Analysis.
• Develop Performance test scripts to simulate user actions, Performance test runs, analyze the test execution.
• Experienced in GUI testing, validating different types of boxes (check, option, combo, drop down etc.), Usability conditions, navigation condition and appearance of GUI.
• Excellent communication, coordination and interpersonal skills and worked as self-starter and performed well under little or no supervision.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases and conducted User acceptance Testing.
• Comprehensive knowledge of SDLC methodologies Agile and Waterfall Methods.
• Meeting with developers, business analysts, Data admins, Network admins and user representatives in application design and document reviews.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and documenting skills with a strong technical background, high performing and eager to take on challenges while working collaboratively to contribute to organizational vision
• Ability to learn new technologies and challenging concepts quickly and implement them.

TECHNICAL TOOLS:

QA/ Testing Tools: LoadRunner 9.0/9.5/11.0/11.52 , Performance center 9.5/11.0

Languages: C, SQL

Scripting: HTML, DHTML, XML, Javascript

Databases: Oracle10g/9i/8i, DB2, MS SQL Server 2008, MS Access 2000

Monitoring Tools: HP Sitescope, Perfmon

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/XP, UNIX, MS-DOS and Linux

Defect Management Tools: Quality Center 11.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, PHOENIX, AZ

PERFORMANCE TESTER

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with developers and users to analyze the user requirements, Technical Specifications
• Analyzed Business Requirements, Use Cases, Screen shots and developed Test Plan, and Test cases for complete end-to-end testing.
• Coordinated with developers to understand the flow of the application
• Configured LR components (VuGen, Controller, Load Generators, Analysis)
• Generated scripts for Performance testing using Virtual User Generator
• Parameterized the scripts and enhanced them according to test cases.
• Created and executed Performance Tests and resolved issues.
• Developed Test Scripts for providers and prepared data for execution of test cases.
• Data validation from end to end
• Used Performance monitor and LoadRunner graphs to analyze the results.
• Used Controller to perform Load Tests and Stress Tests.
• Uploaded Scripts, Created Timeslots, Created Scenarios and Ran Various Tests (Baseline, Peak Hour, Stress, Duration, Shakeout and Load) in Performance Center 11.52.
• Analyzed Average Response time, TPS, Throughput for each scenario.
• Generate, analyze, and publish LoadRunner test results and document the testing process.
• Interacted with developers to resolve Performance issues
• Performed Baseline testing, Integration testing, Smoke, Scalability testing, and Re-testing once issues are closed.
• Performed Sanity testing before signoff.
• Used test summary report to track defects and report the test summary in weekly meetings.
• Hold weekly meeting with business people and developers on open defects.

Environment: HP LoadRunner 11.52, Performance Monitor, Oracle Forms, Web HTTP/HTML, MS Office 2007, Windows XP, Citrix, Remote Terminal Emulator(RTE), Oracle NCA.

Confidential, TROY, MI

PERFORMANCE TESTER

Responsibilities:

• Involved in reviewing Business Requirement Documents, Technical Specification.
• Analyzed the system requirements and wrote test cases, test scripts for testing the application.
• Performed Regression testing using automation tools on the application for every build.
• Identified and reported the severity of the defects to developers.
• Analyzed load and stress test results of the application for maximum Performance using LoadRunner 9.5.
• Created scripts for the application using HP LoadRunner 9.5.
• Involved in creating Performance Test plans and scripting checklist.
• Worked on (VuGen) Virtual User Generator, Controller and Load Generator extensively.
• Parameterized the scripts and enhanced them according to test cases.
• Used Performance monitor and LoadRunner graphs to analyze the results.
• Used Controller to perform Load Tests and Stress Tests.
• Uploaded Scripts, Created Timeslots, Created Scenarios and Ran Various Tests (Baseline, Peak Hour, Stress, Duration, Shakeout and Load) in Performance Center 9.5.
• Analyzed Average Response time, TPS, Throughput
• Generate, analyze, and publish LoadRunner test results and document the testing process.
• Interacted with developers to resolve Performance issues.
• Communicated regularly with developers as well as Business analysts to resolve any open issues.
• Prepared Test Data for the application as per the specifications of the Requirements Document.
• Involved in regression testing with QTP.
• Used HP Quality Center 11.0 to store test documentation and record/track all issues and defects.
• Developed and analyzed Test Scripts, Requirement Traceability Matrices.
• Worked individually and in team environment, to achieve project quality goals.
• Worked with various teams to fix problems and duplicate issues.
• Analyzed the CPU, memory matrix using CA Wily Introscope Work Station 9.0.

Environment: HP LoadRunner 9.5, HP Performance Center 9.5, CA Wily Introscope 9.0, QTP 9.0, Quality Center 11.0, HTTP/HTML, Web Services, HTML, XML, Javascript, MS Office, Windows XP.

Confidential, RALEIGH, NC

SR. PERFORMANCE TEST ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Involved in reviewing Business Requirements and Technical Specification.
• Analyzed the system requirements and wrote test cases, test scripts for testing the application.
• Performed manual testing on the application prior to Performance testing.
• Involved in regression tests on every build and identified the severity of the bugs and reported them to developers.
• Involved in regression testing using QTP.
• Analyzed load and stress test results for maximum Performance using HP LoadRunner 9.5.
• Worked with VuGen, Controller and Load generator extensively.
• Created Test plans for Load testing and scripting checklists.
• Parameterized the scripts and enhanced them according to the test cases.
• Used Performance monitors and LoadRunner graphs to analyze the results and check bottleneck issues in the application.
• Used controller to perform Load tests and Stress tests.
• Uploaded scripts, Created time sheets, Created Scenarios and Ran Load Tests in Performance Center.
• Average Response time, TPS, Throughput, Web Page Breakdown graphs were analyzed for each scenario.
• Generate, analyze and publish LoadRunner results and document the testing process.
• Interacted with developers to solve Performance issues.
• Communicated with Developers and Business analysts regularly to resolve any open issues.
• Prepared Test Date for the application as per the specifications of the Requirements Document.
• Used HP Quality Center 11.0 to house the documentation and track/report all the defects and issues.
• Developed and analyzed Test Scripts, Requirement Traceability Matrices.
• Worked individually, as well as in team environment, to achieve project quality goals.
• Worked in various teams to fix problems and duplicate issues.

Environment: LoadRunner 9.5, Quality Center 11.0, QTP 9.0, Oracle 10g, VB Script, HP ALM, HTML, XML, MS Office, Windows XP.

Confidential, TX

TEST AUTOMATION AND PERFORMANCE ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Performance testing and tuning of multiple applications.
• Reviewed Business, Systems, Design and Technical specification and identified gaps and ambiguous points, coordinated with respective team to fix the gaps.
• Defined testing activities for three major releases with concurrent monthly maintenance releases.
• Created Test data requirements.
• Created test plan, test cases, test scripts and test steps for every release and stored in Quality Center 9.2.
• Created Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) for test coverage analysis and test completeness
• Reviewed Use cases and Flow charts to analyze and test critical areas of application, organized several brains storming session with Business Analyst and Clients the process
• Utilized Virtual User Generator (VuGen) to generate the scripts and executed the test with specified number of Vusers.
• Worked closely with software developers and take an active role in ensuring that the software components meet the highest quality standards.
• Ability to develop LoadRunner test scripts independently based on test specifications/requirements.
• Used script enhancement techniques like Correlation, Parameterization & Run-time settings.
• Involved in creating and debugging the scenario in Controller.
• Setting up the schedule, scenario configuration and running the scenario and identified Root cause and bottlenecks.
• Used to identify the queries which taking too long and optimize those queries to improve Performance.
• Created XML test files based on XML schema.
• Tested the SOA applications (Web Services, SOAP, WSDL)
• Tested and Validated SOAP Request and SOAP Response messages.
• Automated the web services using SOAP UI.
• Involved in Root Cause Analysis for the problems in proposed architecture and monitored the Resources metrics to find the Performance bottlenecks.
• Duration Test was conducted to find the System Stability and memory leaks.
• Developed Automation Test Plans and Test Cases for Regression Testing.
• Performs in-depth analysis to isolate points of failure in the application.
• Assist in production of testing and capacity certification reports.

Environment: Load Runner 8, Quality Center, Performance center, HTML/HTTP Protocol, HTML, DHTML, XML/ SOAP, MS VISIO, DB2, MS Office, UNIX, SOAP UI.

Confidential

QA TESTER

Responsibilities:

• Performed manual testing for the entire application.
• Used the Test Director as bug-tracking tool to centralize the bugs and also to follow up the bug status.
• Participate in test plan creation and review
• Wrote T-SQL queries to verify the database tables for the data inserted from the GUI.
• Involved in developing detailed test plan, test cases and test scripts using Test Director for functional, security and regression testing.
• Co-ordinate with developers to fix the problems in the application.
• Responsible for filing bugs and scheduling running of automation scripts in Test Director.
• Involved in creating users, test plans and test cases in Test Director.
• Monitored the Resources metrics to find the Performance bottlenecks.
• Interacted with the UAT team to solve issues related to the defects.
• Compare and analyze actual to expected results and report all deviations
• Preparing test report and status reports (Daily, Weekly).
• Performed volume, component, load, and stress tests for the application checking for memory leaks and system recovery.

Environment: Manual testing, Test Director 7.0, VB6.0, GUI, Quality Center, TOAD, SQL Server 2000, Windows 2000.