SUMMARY:

• 11+ years of experience as IT professional in software development, software testing and quality assurance.
• Excellent experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and working with Feature teams, System teams.
• Expertise in managing complete projects from inception, through design and development to final implementation and testing.
• Benchmarked, analyzed, reported on and made recommendations for the improvement and growth of the IT infrastructure and systems.
• Worked closely with production support team at the time of production deployments and testing.
• Certified Scrum Master.
• Solid working experience in Agile process, ATTD and scrum and conducting test plan and test case walkthrough.
• Highly experienced in creating detailed Project Plans, Strategies while working with various teams spread with various technologies.
• Managed a team of highly skilled individuals to support model readiness for business integrations while overseeing rebuilding of the business.
• Proficient in managing on time deliverables with zero defect output.
• Worked as an Onsite coordinator in between the client and other Team Members from onshore and offshore. Managed onsite and offshore resources creating, planning and allocating duties.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, self - starter, quick learner and a team player.
• Communicated regularly with stakeholders regarding related IT activities.
• Communicated updates, service times and usage best practices throughout the organization.
• Confirmed the effectiveness of the solutions applied by interacting with users and understanding their challenges.
• Defined delivery and support plans across the team.
• Maintained staff by hiring and associates.
• Proficient in developing Test strategies, Test procedures and Test cases for both Manual and Automated Testing using tools as Load Runner, Jmeter, Hercules, Jenkins and Quality Center. Prepared defect reports, execution logs and maintaining test cases in Quality Center.
• Passionate about technology and very strong experience automation testing of Web and mobile based applications.
• Extensive experience using the automated tools Load Runner 11.0/9.5, ALM/Quality Center 10.0/ 11.0, Jmeter, AWS, QTP, Selenium, Hercules, Mountebank, Mimeo, AppDynamics and Parasoft.
• Strong experience in Github, Jenkins and Jira.
• Strong expertise in performing browser testing using Blazemeter and Selenium WebDriver.
• Strong experience in Web services scripting and testing using SOAP UI.
• Hands on experience with performance and load testing automated tools.
• Test Data preparation through the access manager scripts using Oracle.
• Certified AWS Developer with almost a perfect score.
• Experience in SQL queries to validate the data in the back end and AWS and cloud framework.
• Good understanding in spinning up windows and Linux based environments in Cloud using AWS (Amazon web services) and elastic load balancing through both AWS and Jenkins.
• Performed Load Tests using Load Runner with various protocols like Web (HTTP/HTML), Stored Procedures and Web services.
• Excellent skills in manual testing as well as in automating tests using LoadRunner, Quick Test Pro and Quality Center.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Working with senior management on the organizational goals, mentoring the teams to enable the resources to right fit with the future technology.
• Attending Planning meetings, Steering committee meetings to understand and estimate the work load per Quarter.
• Estimating and Assessing the capacity of in-house.
• Depending on the demand working with vendor teams for resourcing quotes.
• Conducting interviews and rolling the offers for the resources.
• Monitor the WIP with the teams and Sr. Leader ship.
• Pro-actively assess and estimate the future technology upscale needed for in-house resources as per the organization norms.
• Providing work-life balance for the resources.
• Strong experience testing in Performance Testing and UAT.
• PAR enabler for various teams. Strong experience in enabling teams to have Pre-Approved Releases (PAR).
• Strong experience in setting up end to end CICD pipelines for multiple teams. Setup and assist multiple team’s setup their CICD pipelines for automated releases.
• Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Jenkins.
• Extensive hands on experience with CICD enablement tools like Jenkins, Github, Eratocode, Sonar, Artemis.
• Managed GitHub repositories and permissions, including branching and tagging.
• Test automation suites design and development using AWS, Jekins, Hercules, Jmeter and Github.
• Strong experience testing in Performance Testing and UAT.
• AWS Certified Developer.
• Hands on experience with performance and load testing automated tools.
• Strong experience in Web Services load testing and data migration testing.
• Test management in both Jira and HP ALM.
• Designing the product from the requirements and leading the development team.
• Develop and Test Web pages and Coding Business logic in C#, C.
• Create and run automated test scripts using Jenkins.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and nexus.
• Maintain the automated scripts in Github repository.
• Create mock services to replicate the real services using Parasoft, Mountebank and Mimeo.
• Application monitoring using SiteScope, Grafana and App Dynamics.
• Peer review the code and consult and collaborate with technical personal in team.
• Expertise with databases (oracle) and in writing sql queries and views for data validations.
• Perform automated testing in a cloud/non-cloud based test environment.
• Work closely with Developers and Product owner to deliver high quality product.
• Strong knowledge of Database concepts and working knowledge of DB2, Oracle.
• Identify opportunities for automation and quickly find solutions using open source tools.
• Test data set up for application testing using SQL and other tools.
• Strong knowledge of Banking, Payments and credit card functionalities.

Environment: /Tools: AWS, HPALM, Loadrunner, Performance Center, Jenkins, UDeploy, Selenium Webdriver, SOAP UI, Jira, Jmeter, Hercules, App Dynamics, MounteBank, Mimeo, Postman, Parasoft, Grafana, Kibana, Eclipse .

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Technical Consultant (Functional and Performance Test Engineer)

Responsibilities:

• Act as a trusted advisor in creating and maintaining effective customer relationships so as to insure customer satisfaction.
• Maintain knowledge of leading edge technologies and industry/market domain knowledge.
• Actively contribute to HP’s solutions portfolio by providing information ranging from technical knowledge to methodologies based on experience gained from customer projects.
• Shape technical direction and technical strategies within the organization and for external customers.
• Create detailed Test Plan and test cases from the business requirements documents.
• Create scripts using Virtual users Generator, created Scenarios to conduct the load test using LoadRunner.
• Perform Load, Stress, Capacity, Endurance and Performance Testing using Load Runner.
• Create virtual users in Load Runner for Performance testing and analyzed the reports based on the different scenarios
• Involve in reporting and tracking the defects using Quality Center. Worked closely with development team to verify the bug solution and bug status.
• Coordinate with the Environment team to make sure that the configuration in performance test environment matches with that of the production.
• Create scripts using Vusers Generator, created Scenarios to conduct the load test using LoadRunner.
• Perform Parameterization for running multiple iterations of the script using different sets of data using LoadRunner.
• Use LoadRunner for Performance Testing by using the start and end Transaction Points to obtain the Response Time of the application.
• Perform auto correlation testing for checking difference in two versions in LoadRunner
• Analyze various graphs generated by Load Runner Analyzer including Database Monitors, Network Monitor graphs, User Graphs, Error Graphs, Transaction graphs and Web Server Resource Graphs using LoadRunner Analysis Tool.
• Involve in reporting and tracking the defects using Quality Center. Worked closely with development team to verify the bug solution and bug status.
• Report progress on test case execution, defect testing and closure, or test planning activities weekly and as required to the QA management.
• Create the detailed Test Completion Report once the Result Analysis is completed.

Environment: /Tools: LoadRunner 9.5 &11, ALM- Quality Center 11, Windows XP, XML, MS Office, MS-Project, MS Visio, MS Outlook, HP Sitescope, HP Diagnostics.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Technical Consultant (Functional and Performance Test Engineer)

Responsibilities:

• Environment set up for middleware testing and end to end testing
• Performed API testing for testing of Middleware components.
• Perform web services testing using SOAP UI, Loadrunner for request, response and simulation
• Performed server to server communication testing.
• Sanity Testing of Installed business applications.
• Identifying and Reporting of Defects in the Quality center.
• Quality Center management (test cases, test plans, test labs, defects, traceability)
• Preparation of Test plan and Test Cases in Quality Center and walkthrough conduction.
• Participate in Business meetings to ensure 100% coverage of test cases.
• Participate in daily scrum meetings for project update.
• Strong experience in automating manual scripts for regression and Functional Testing by using Loadrunner and Hercules.
• Test Environment set up for application testing.
• System Integration Testing(SIT), Sanity Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing and enhancement testing and support to User Acceptance Test(UAT) of new applications.
• Expertise in using SQL for data creation and for updating the data.
• Performed browser testing across all the available browsers.
• Identifying and Reporting of Defects in the Quality center.
• Quality Center management (test cases, test plans, test labs, defects, traceability)

Environment: /Tools: LoadRunner 9.5 &11, ALM- Quality Center 11, Windows XP, XML, MS Office, MS-Project, MS Visio, MS Outlook, HP Sitescope, HP Diagnostics.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Comprehensive knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC), having through understanding of various phase such as requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and testing.
• Adept at creating and transforming business requirements into functional requirements and designing business models using UML diagrams- Context, Use Case, Activity diagrams using MS Visio and MS Word document
• Used JIRA to create Epics and User Stories
• Engaged with the client to effectively participate in discussions and requirements gathering sessions with business
• Reviewed requirements for testability and usability, consulted development team with regards to system functionality.
• Participated in setting up and configuring the mapping environment.
• ed as Geo-Genius for outstanding performance and exceeding expectations.
• Responsible for coordinating the work between two teams of 26 labelers each.

Environment: /Tools: GT Atlas, Windows XP, MS Office, MS-Project, MS Visio, MS Outlook.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in discussions and requirements gathering sessions with project managers.
• Engaged with the client to gather the software requirements which included the scope, processes, risks and alternatives.
• Analyzed the client’s business requirements by conducting client interviews and workshops and documented them.
• Responsible for coordinating the work between onshore and offshore teams.
• Attended status meetings for reviewing the progress.

Environment: /Tools: Windows XP, MS Office, MS-Project, MS Visio, MS Outlook.