SUMMARY:

• Over 16 years of IT experience in Analysis, design, Development, QA Testing and Maintenance of various Business applications.
• 9 years as a QA Manager/technical lead, managing teams spread across the globe.
• Experienced people manager of on - shore and off-shore teams, including hiring, mentoring, and performance appraisals
• Over 9 years of hands on experience with automation and Performance test tools like Loadrunner, Performance Center, ALM, QTP, Quality Center.
• Expertise in Test strategies over different protocols(Http/s, SOAP, AJAX), Creating test artifacts like Performance Test plan, Strategy, analyzing performance metrics to create Test findings reports, coordinating with the development and Business teams.
• Ability to lead QA effort over a full quality life cycle, Supporting/coordinating QA supported activities like UAT, Integration testing.
• Experience in leveraging onshore/offshore delivery centers and proven delivery experience with remote development teams.
• Experience in defining clear roles and responsibilities within onshore/offshore teams and demonstrated leadership in delivering complex technology initiatives.
• Ability to generate creative and innovative solutions for QA challenges and constraints.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Good understanding of technology and industry trends, able to visualize existing systems.
• Extensive hands-on experience with various types Performance related Tests like Load, Stress, soak, component.
• Demonstrated rapid technical advancement and growth. Analytical, skilled at troubleshooting, working under pressure and working in cooperation with varied technical specialists.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Market Segment: Payment Systems, E-Commerce

Job Function Performance: Test Lead, Programming, Project Management

Test Tools: HP ALM, Load Runner, QC, Diagnostics, Performance Center, QTP, Quality Center, Clear Quest.

Monitoring Tools: Riverbed Suite (OpNet Appinternals, ARX, Dashboard), DynaTrace, Prognosis, Wily, HP Diagnostics, BMC Patrol

BI / ETL: AB INITIO (GDE 1.13, Co>Operating System 2.13), Data warehouse concepts

DBMS: DB2, MS SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access

Internet Technology: Java, SOAP, Java Script, C, Cold Fusion script, .Net, XML, COM+, .Net Concepts, VB script

Language: VUGen scripts, PL/SQL, T-SQL, Unix Shell Scripting, PERL

OS/Environment: UNIX, AIX, Linux, Windows

Tools: Heap Analyzer, MS VISIO, Clear Quest, Clear Case, MS-Project, Visual Source Safe, MS Share Point Portal, Toad, Cold Fusion

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Performance Test Architect/ Lead

Responsibilities:

• To lead and manage all Performance Test activities like effort estimation, resource planning, Allocate & prioritize tasks, Timesheet and Defect Management.
• Capture test requirements and define success criteria.
• Create and maintain test artifacts like Performance Test Plans, Test Suite (scenarios, scripts, data), schedules, reports on activities related to the project.
• Interpret collected metrics, Glean valid information present in a format that makes sense to the target audience. Co-ordinate with test, development and support teams spread across 5 different time zones, highlight and resolve identified issues.
• Publish test reports/results, ensure all reported discrepancies are resolved, and ensure all QA best practices for the organization were followed.
• Analyze the performance test results to identify bottlenecks, provide inputs to capacity planning and validate capacity models.
• Mentoring onsite and offshore team members to accomplish project goals, provide training on tools.

Confidential

Environment: Linux, TC Server, vfabric on Vblock. AIX, Apache web server, Websphere application server, Actuate and Cognos Reports, DB2, J2EE on HP Blade servers.

Software/Tools: SQL, ALM, Load Runner, Diagnostics, Op Net, Wily, VB scripting, Hibernate, Rational clear case, Rational Requisite-Pro. WSI, MQ ESI, Message Broker, Siteminder, LDAP

Responsibilities:

• F5 Loadbalancer vs Mod Proxy
• Rules engines - Ilog to Drools
• Cache - Terracotta Ehcache to Coherence (Server & near)
• Application Servers - WAS to TC Server
• Web Servers - IHS to Vfabric
• Hardware - Blade Servers to VBlocks
• OS - AIX to Linux
• Major DB2 version upgrades
• Configure and Tune monitoring tools like Riverbed AppInternals, ARX, Dashboard, DynaTrace, and Prognosis.

Confidential

Environment: Linux, Siteminder, LDAP, ASP.net, Windows.

Lead QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Plans (Performance Test, Automation Test, Integration Test), schedules, task allocation, monitors, and reports on activities related to the project.
• Evolve test strategy for validating Data migration, translation. Design and document different test scenario simulating real time user actions.
• Design and help Implement Database trigger based Audit functionality.
• Create Scenarios on Loadrunner, Analyze the performance test results to identify bottlenecks, highlight problem areas and work with the respective team to rectify issues.
• Co-Ordinate with System Administrators, DBA to tune Database and blade servers for optimal performance.

Confidential

Lead Performance Tester/QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• I worked on multiple Confidential projects as Performance Tester and QA consultant wherein I was responsible for Test Plans, monitor schedule, Develop Test scripts (VUGen), Create Test data, Test case, Functional testing.
• Execute performance tests on Load Runner and report results.
• Analyze the performance test results to identify bottlenecks, highlight problem areas.
• Assist with Integration test and UAT.

Confidential, Denver

Responsibilities:

• Confidential Prepaid platform is a suite of applications catering to various Prepaid card programs that extend the ability to conduct commerce anytime, anywhere, anyway and by anyone.
• The applications are built using .Net architecture with Tandem as the backbone and Web services exposing Business data to Application layer.

Environment: Windows, Tandem, Arrow point Load balancer, MS SQL Server, IIS Software/Tools: Load Runner, ASP.net, VB scripting, T-SQL, QTP.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As Business Analyst my responsibility was to Gather and document system requirements, functional flows for Accounts receivables component.

Confidential

Programmer/System Analyst

Environment: Windows Software/Tools: Winrunner, T-SQL, VC-COM, ASP, Install Script, Clear Quest

Responsibilities:

• Validate existing system design and evaluate the impact for proposed enhancements
• Implement Business Logic changes in VC COM objects and T-SQL stored procedures
• Raise and track Defect records using Clear Quest
• Unit and integrated testing using automated Winrunner scripts

Confidential

Environment: Windows Software/Tools: T-SQL, Delphi6.0, Load runner

Responsibilities:

• Validate system design and prepare scenario diagrams.
• Development of User interface screens.
• Review Test plan and test case preparation.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in feasibility analysis to justify the requirement specification
• Utilized Business knowledge from the previous project and contributed to all the phases in software development life cycle of this project
• Built the data-mining architecture to allow further enhancements byway of object oriented constructs
• Developed the custom made OLAP report tool that is capable of multidimensional processing