PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 17 years of diverse experience in the field of Information Technology with emphasis on performance testing and test automation.
• Over 6 years of experience in Performance Testing of Web - based, Client-Server and Middleware Applications.
• A diverse experience in Quality Assurance testing with expertise in Test Planning, Test Design, Test Environment Setup, Test Data Setup, Test Execution, Defect Management and Configuration Management.
• Certified test professional with software testing s (CSTE and CMST) from Quality Assurance Institute (QAI).
• Well experienced in performance testing tools: HP LoadRunner and HP Performance Manager.
• Skilled in HP’s automation test tool: Quick Test Professional (QTP) and HP’s test management tool: Quality Center/ALM 12.55.
• Experience in performance testing of very large and complex state government owned web application system using LoadRunner.
• Created performance test scripts and performance test scenarios using LoadRunner for load and stress testing of very large web based applications.
• Executed performance tests using LoadRunner Controller. Performed IP Spoofing using LoadRunner for the load balancing issues.
• Analyzed the test results using LoadRunner Analyzer and created performance test reports for the team and project management reviews.
• Worked closely with business analysts, software developers and testers to determine the performance test requirements and the test criteria. Identified the test environment, and created performance test plans and test designs.
• Worked closely with Application Architects, Developers, Testers, Database Administrators, System Administrators and Network Administrators on performance tuning activities.
• Worked with various performance monitoring tools such as HP SiteScope, Wily Introscope and Perfmon.
• Experience in using Application Server log files, Oracle Enterprise Manager-Grid Control (Cloud Control 12c), Oracle SQL Developer, Microsoft SQL Management Studio, HP Performance Manager and CA Infrastructure Management tools to analyze and debug the test failures and performance issues during performance test executions.
• In-depth knowledge of functional, regression, system integration and user acceptance testing of highly large and complex state government owned Web, Client/Server and Mainframe based application systems.
• Development of HP’s Quick Test Professional (QTP) test scripts for automation of regression testing highly complex and large state government owned application systems using the data-driven test automation framework.
• Strong exposure of Performance and Functional testing of projects using Waterfall, Agile and Iteration based development methodologies.
• Excellent communication, troubleshooting and problem solving skills.
• Strong experience of working with US state government entities for Child Support (Title IV-D), Child Welfare (Title IV-B & IV-E), State Public Retirement, Taxation and Criminal Justice.

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Languages: C, Java, Python, PL/SQL, Assembly, COBOL, JCL and UML

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, SOAP, Web services, VBScript and JavaScript, Java Servlets, Java Beans, J2EE, JMS, JDBC, RMI

Databases: MS Access, DB2, Oracle, MS SQL Server, IMS, SQL Developer, Oracle Enterprise Manager-Grid Control/Cloud Control 12c, Microsoft SQL Management Studio

OS: Windows, Linux, HP-UX, IBM MVS, Intel’s Real Time Operating System

Testing Tools: Load Runner, HP Performance Center, QA Run, QTP/UFT, Test Director, Junit, Selenium (IDE/WebDriver/Selenium Grid), TestNG, Eclipse IDE for Java Developers, Eclipse MAT

Web/Application Servers: Weblogic, Apache Tomcat, SOA, VB.NET Report Server, Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Control, Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control

User Management: CA Identity Suite, F5 APM (User Authentication), OIM, OAM (Oracle Access Manager) 10g

Load Balancing: F5

Monitoring Tools: CA Unified Infrastructure Management, HP Sitescope, Wily, Perfmon

Defect tracking tool: HP Quality Center 9.5, ALM 12.55

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in various meetings with customers/clients to gather the performance requirements and SLAs before testing.
• Created and executed performance test plan and test cases.
• Worked on production logs to determine the current and projected user volume and transaction density.
• Developed Load Runner test scripts for Web Applications according to test specifications/ requirements.
• Using LoadRunner, executed multi-user performance tests to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks during the development Lifecycle.
• Conducted Endurance tests to find the System Stability and any memory leaks.
• Developed and executed load and stress test scenarios with LoadRunner. Presented performance statistics to application teams. Provided recommendations on how and where the system performance can be improved.
• Used HP Performance Manager and Wily to gather stats and performance data for various application and database servers.
• Accurately produced performance test reports for the key stakeholders to show that the new or upgraded applications met the specified performance requirements.
• Identified the queries that were taking too long and optimized those queries to improve performance. Used Oracle Enterprise Manager (Grid Control) to identify and suggest query optimizations.
• Identified Disk, CPU and Memory usage for Application and Database servers.
• Worked closely with Application Architects, Developers, Testers, Database Administrators, System Administrators and Network Administrators on performance tuning activities.
• Monitored and administered hardware capacity to ensure that the necessary resources are available for the application functions during the peak times.
• Prepared and executed test scripts using LoadRunner and SOAP UI tool to perform Web Services testing to Mobile Parole Application.
• Prepared and executed test scripts using Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grid, Java and Eclipse IDE for Java Developers for performance testing of Captiva module that performs scanning of offender documents to the Electronic Record Management System (ERMS).
• Performed in-depth analysis to isolate points of failure in the application.
• Assist in production testing and capacity reports.
• Investigated and troubleshot the performance problems in a lab as well as production environment.
• Developed and executed SQL queries in validating test results using Oracle SQL Developer and Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio.
• Compared and analyzed actual to expected results and reported all deviations as defects in HP Quality Center (HP QC).
• Developed and deployed test automation scripts to do end to end performance testing using LoadRunner.
• Used Site Scope Performance monitors and LoadRunner graphs to analyze the results.

Environment: Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Database, SQL Server Management Studio, HTTP/HTML, JavaScript, SOAP UI, LoadRunner, Selenium, Java, Eclipse IDE for Java Developers, Eclipse MAT, JConsole, HP JMeter, HP Performance Manager, Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c, Wily, Window 7, Linux Servers, Window 2008 Servers, SOA, LoadRunner Vugen for Sitescope Monitoring, VB.NET Report Server and EMC’s Documentum, Captiva (scanning) and Adobe LiveCycle applications.

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Functional/Automation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing the scope documents and designing the testing strategy for every release.
• Designed Test Plans and other testing documentation as per IEEE standards.
• Testing responsibilities included GUI, Functional, Regression and the Installation testing.
• Provided support for the User Acceptance Testing.
• Used Quality Center for Defect Reporting and Tracking, Requirements Management, Test Case Design and Test Execution, and Generation of test status reports.
• Used Data Driven Testing methodology to test the application with multiple sets of data.
• Performed Database Testing using SQL in order to check the Data Validation and Data Integrity.
• Created automated functional regression test scripts using QTP and scheduled, organized and executed the test scripts in QC-QTP integrate environment.
• Performed defect reporting, tracking and generation of reports and graphs for management.

Environment: Oracle’s Enterprise Taxation Management (ETM), Oracle Database, Oracle PL/SQL, SQL, Java, XML, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Quick Test Professional (QTP)/UFT and HP Quality Center.

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Functional/Automation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Tested the User Interface (UI), Database and Application functionality for various releases.
• Reviewed and Analyzed Business Requirement Document and created detailed test scenarios to validate the application functionality.
• Created the detailed Test Plan to drive the entire testing process. Designed detailed test cases to validate the application functionality.
• Tested the entire application and performed various tests like Positive & Negative, Business Functionality, Integration, Regression and End to End. Also, supported User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Used Quality Center for Defect Reporting and Tracking, Test Case Designing, Test Execution & Generation of the required reports.
• Participated in weekly status meetings and interacted with the developer team to discuss technical issues.
• Attended and organized various meeting such as, Requirement Reviews, Defects Triage, Go no Go meetings and effectively contributed for successful application delivery within the deadlines.
• Created automated functional regression test scripts using QARun and later QTP. Scheduled, organized and executed the test scripts in HP Quality Center-QTP integrated environment and documented the test results.
• Tested the applications for external interfaces to other state agencies systems such as Title IV-A (Public Assistance), Title IV-E (Child Foster Care) and Ohio State Taxation systems.
• Tested the applications for external interfaces to various Federal Systems and Federal Locate Databases to locate the absent parents and to intercept their IRS tax refunds for the child support payments.
• Used Data Driven Testing methodology to test the application with multiple sets of data.

Environment: IBM Mainframe (MVS/COBOL/IMS), QARun 32bit, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Quick Test Professional (QTP)/UFT and HP Quality Center, Microfocus Cobol Workbench/Microfocus Mainframe Express, CA Telon, PVCS Dimensions.