SUMMARY

• 12 + years of Quality Assurance and Testing experience in Automation as Manual.
• 12 + years of QA Testing in wireless technologies (Zwave, Wifi, AFM - 433Mhz, 915 Mhz)
• 4 years SME in Zwave wireless technology
• 3 years of 3 rd Party Cloud based services and devices testing
• 7 years Assistant Lead experience
• 2 years of automated testing experience with entry level-Junior Selenium Webdriver experience.
• 3 years of Java programming
• 10+ years of C programming
• 5 years of QTP and LoadRunner experience
• 7 years of SoapUI experience
• 3 years of API testing
• 3 years of experience in formatting Json scripts.
• 7 years of experience with SQL Queries
• 7 years of XML
• 12 + years of experience working in a Linux and Unix environment
• 12 + years of experience in testing web based applications.
• 12 + years of experience working with Quality Center
• 7 years of Agile experience
• 5 years of experience with HTML and CSS

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: C, Java, SQL, VisualBasic, Unix Shell Scripting, MATLAB, Basic Python programming.

Applications & Operating Systems: HP ALM Quality Center 11.5, Oracle SQL Developer 3.2.20, Selenium Webdriver 3, Eclipse IDE, IntelliJ IDE, Maven, Junit, Firebug, WinSCP, SoapUI 5.2, PUTTY, Super PUTTY, HP Unified Functional Testing 11.5, Toad, SBN, Tortoise SVN,, REST API Client, Digital Life Direct, Digital Life Application, Zwave PC Controller, Sigma Zwave Sniffer, Aeon Zwave Sniffer, WirelessMon, Jmeter, LoadRunner, SoapScope, Sitescope, Rational Clear Case, Primavera, Unified Functional Testing Tool 11.5, WinRunner, Test Director, Vista, Windows XP/2000, Vista, Mac OS X, Linux, Adobe Photoshop, Simulink, Multisim Electronics Workbench Advanced Design System, Active HDL, IPERF, AccessGate, Movable Type 4.25 Wireshark, Wirelessmon, IPwave, Spirent SX/14 Data Channel Link Simulator, AccessView, Cisco AS2511-RJ Access Server, Cisco 2611XM Multiservice Router, WebEx, Redmine, Jama Contour, Clarity, Digital Life BBT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supported the Automation team by automating the device and system integration with Front end application Digital Life Direct, IBS-SBN and User interface using Selenium WebDriver written in Java and Junit.
• Designed, developed and executed Automated Rest API calls using SoapUI and verified results.
• SME for Zwave devices of Yale, Honeywell, Fibaro, Aeon and integration into Digital Life platform
• SME for 3rd party Cloud based devices such as Nest thermostat, Tado hot water heater and thermostat and integration into Digital Life platform.
• Responsible for test strategy design, review of SRD, writing test cases and their execution covering various projects on both international and domestic platforms of the home security service to various vendors.
• Hosted meetings with developers, system engineers during the project life cycle to resolve any defects, environment issues.
• Provided clear and prompt updates to the PDM and PM’s on the progress of the testing for various projects.
• Executed regression test cases covering various DLDP’s and devices after the new backend software and DLA are released to the testing environment.
• Configured systems for various testing environments and setup new DLC registrations.
• Tested the Digital Life System functionalities through the User Interface- Web-application and Mobile Application, DL Direct, Test Suite, Local UI.
• Analyzed logs from the Unix System as well as Backend Server Logs.
• Created Automated scripts for API testing using SoapUI and initialized API testing using HP UFT 11.5
• Setup and Configured Quality Center 10 and HP ALM Quality Center 11 Web interface and Explorer.
• Reported new defects through Quality Center and retested existing defects.
• Reported new defects and system vulnerabilities, server and application downtimes to the Team Lead in a timely manner.
• Achieved 100 % New Project test completion and 100% regression test completion before release due date with 0% severity 1 and severity 2 defect slippage.
• Provided assistance to the team lead by interviewing prospective employees, creating release handoff document, holding meetings on behalf of the team lead.

Confidential

Automation Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for testing Order Generator Application, Hazardous Material Shipper Declaration Forms using our Inventory Database connected to Haz-Shipper and eDGR software which checks shipment Compliance with 49-CFR, International Air and IMO regulations.
• Wrote test cases for a patient test result reporting application using QTP, LoadRunner, and SOAPUI
• Checked data returned from the server by executing XML scripts, SoapUI and LoadRunner.
• Planned and executed automation tests using Quick Test Pro 9.1, scripting using Editor View and enhanced the VBScripts by creating and storing functions, library constants, creating data sheet and importing data table with user data into Quick Test Pro for generating shipping documents.
• Developed and executed performance tests such as load and stress tests for various business critical requirements covering new lab registrations, unique accounts, and freight form submission in the production environment using LoadRunner 9.5.
• Performed regression testing after every requirement software update to check for any defects.
• Created text checkpoint to check if the shipment tracking number and pickup number is generated after completing and submitting the shipment generation form using ship manager web application.
• Analyzed the business requirements such as new customer account setup, new patient profiles, and manufacture’s product list with latest price database.
• Captured and tested nonstandard objects by using virtual object wizards to generate virtual objects
• Tested the web-application using QTP 9.1 for Account Setup, Patient Profiles
• Created scripts using web (HTTP/HTML), web (Click and Script) protocols in LoadRunner 9.5
• Created and executed recordings on HTML and URL based scripts in LoadRunner
• Completed installation and setup of Quick Test Pro 10.0 and linked it to Quality Center 9.0 by following required steps such as installing connectivity add ins and QTP add ins to establish the connection between QTP 10.0 and Quality Center 9.0
• Created shared object repositories and saved the data folder of the script following data driven framework principles. Merged shared object repository where ever necessary using Object Repository Merge Tool.
• Testing Order Setup, Processing, Tracking, Shipments Setup, Dangerous Goods Declaration and Invoice Generation by executing Quick Test Pro Scripts for using Automated Runner of Quality center or manually executing scripts and updating the results in Quality Center.
• Creating defect reports in Quality Center.
• Scripting functions using Visual Basic to calculate profit, profit percentages, Sales Agent commissions, and patient status based on test data.
• Created test summary reports Confidential the end of every testing process.

Environment: Quality Center 9.0, Quick Test Pro 9.1, Quick Test Pro 10.0, Apache HTTP Server, SoapUI, xml, MySQL, Windows Vista Business, Windows 7.

Confidential, Princeton, New Jersey

Sr. Performance Analyst/Performance Test Engineer and Automation Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary Performance Test Strategy developer, Lead Load and Performance Test designer
• Planned and executed performance tests, load and stress tests for benchmarking for various business critical scenarios and requirements covering new registrations, user activity, user article submission, user commenting on articles etc. in the production environment using LoadRunner 8.0.
• Worked with manual testing team to automate testing process using Quick Test Pro 9.1 for various business process scenarios such as new AnnArbor.com account, testing images using Bitmap Checkpoints, Page Checkpoint to check for broken Pages.
• Captured and tested objects not recognized by Quick Test Pro 9.0 by using Virtual Object Wizards
• Created scripts using Web (HTTP/HTML), Web (Click and Script) protocols in LoadRunner 8.0.
• Configured runtime settings such as pacing, iteration, HTTP Timeout, Keep Alive Settings etc. based on the requirements.
• Created different parameters by parameterization and performed correlation on recorded script for Different Topics such as News, Sports, Opinions, UM Football etc. and articles.
• Populated content using Movable Type 4.25 advanced blogging and light CMS platform.
• Monitored the client system resources such as % Processor Time, Pages/Sec, File Data Operations/Second, Threads and % Disc Time using Native LoadRunner Windows Resource Monitor and Process Explorer.
• Monitored Metrics such as Busy Servers, Idle Servers, CPU usage, Hits/second on the Apache Servers and verified if the Servers were load Balanced correctly.
• Executed failover testing on the database and the Load Balanced Servers to determine the performance of the website, the type of errors that occurred as a consequence of failover due to in­flight requests or otherwise, the error rate, the type of errors as a result of different server failovers.
• Used Linux Heartbeat to start and stop services on the Web server and Databases as part of the Failover Process
• Monitored Activity and logs on the community servers, Apache Web Servers, network in the production environment. Monitored network gateway to check for network bottlenecks during performance tests. Discovered critical bottlenecks on the network, Apache Servers and LoadBalancer which were eliminated with the Performance Tuning Process.
• Configured the LoadBalancer Round Robin Setting and created multiple IP addresses using LoadRunner 8.0 IP Wizard Program.
• Worked closely with AnnArbor.com Developers, HostMySite Server Administrators and Network Engineers, MySQL Database Administrators, the Project Manager and Advance Publications Project Sponsor.
• Designed and planned the entire Load and Performance test strategy.
• Documented test results and conducted detailed analysis for tuning and signoff.
• Worked with Conde-Nast Information services team to model the peak transaction volumes, number of concurrent users, normal transaction rates and peak transaction rates based on MLive.com volume statistics.
• Assisted the functional team in executing manual tests on AnnArbor.com and movable type 4.25, writing test cases and reporting defects in Redmine.
• Formulated a comprehensive test summary report Confidential the end of the project test cycle, which included test metrics, graphs, transaction response times etc.

Environment: LoadRunner 8.0, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, Movable Type 4.25 Enterprise, Linux, Windows Server 2003, Linux Heartbeat, Nagios

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Performance Analyst/Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Load and Performance Test designer, Analyst and Tester.
• Worked on different systems/environments for different projects that involved Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Webservices, Web Applications, and Oracle Client.
• Planned and executed performance tests, load and stress tests for search for claim numbers, claim folders, creating new claims, subrogation cases through the Confidential Pathways Application and web application portal using LoadRunner 9.0.
• Planned and executed Performance tests, load and stress tests on the webservices associated to different projects such as Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), SOA Communications Worklist Webservice, and Vehicle Identity Solution (VIS) using LoadRunner 9.0, SoapScope 6.0 and SoapUI.
• Created scripts using web (HTTP/HTML), web (click and script) and webservices protocols in LoadRunner 9.0.
• Created and executed recordings on HTML and URL based scripts.
• Configured Runtime Settings based on the requirements.
• Created different parameters by parameterization and performed correlation on recorded script.
• Conducted Load and stress tests webservices through F5 Networks BIP-IP Load Balancer.
• Monitored activity and logs on the Unix servers, Oracle 10g database for performance and errors.
• Installed SoapScope on the Virtual Machine and fixed various SoapScope Tool failures with Mindreef Support.
• Worked closely with developers, BA’s, Middleware, DBA’s, and the QA Director and designed and planned the entire Load and Performance test Strategy. Held high level meetings, created Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, set up the test environment, troubleshooting environment and server failures, analyzed database and network bottlenecks, emulating actual Business Process, Obtaining Test Results and conducted detailed analysis and created Test Reports.
• Obtained through tests and analysis the peak transaction volumes, number of concurrent users, normal transaction rates and peak transaction rates.
• Created performance test result summary report Confidential the end of every performance test execution.
• Presented status reports to the QA Director on a weekly basis.
• Monitored Network Gateway to check for network bottlenecks during performance tests.
• Formulated a comprehensive test summary report Confidential the end of the project test cycle, which included test metrics, graphs and transaction response times.

Environment: LoadRunner 9.0, SoapScope 6.0, SoapUI 2.5, Jmeter, Windows Server 2003, Oracle 10g, Primavera, Rational Clear Case.

Confidential, Framingham, Massachusetts

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Tested the portal page created using Microsoft Share Point Server and AccessGate
• Setup SiteScope to monitor Unix systems. Setup Apache, Weblogic monitors through LoadRunner Controller.
• Created Projects, Setting Socket Timeout Proxys, Test Server Properties, creating test scripts for load testing and stress testing web application and Active Server Pages (.asp) invoking requests using Send Request and Connection Send methods using Microsoft Visual Studio Application Test Center 1.0.
• Monitored Linux system resources such as % Processor time, Pages/Sec and % Disk Time.
• Tested the systems robustness and capability to recover by monitoring and analyzing parameters such as MTBF, MTTR, restart Speed, Failover Speed and Failback Speed.
• Worked with PMO regarding project plan and tasks on the performance and scalability track.
• Involved in the planning and upgrading from Test Director to Quality Center 9.0.
• Involved in the maintenance and management of application licenses for the QA Department.
• Researched website activity through Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Tested software product and its integration with the core backhaul RAN Optimizer using the serial interface and graphical user interface, created test plans and procedures, revised old test plans and procedures, designed the new command line interface, reviewed documentation of core software product, provisioning & administration
• Serial Menu and AccessView, alarm monitoring and reporting, signaling, redundancy, hardware diagnosis, installed AccessEMS on customer Sun Servers, 16 Virtual Gateways system setup, recovered failed core product and test system, AccessGate v3.2 release team, QA-Lab Manager, coordinator and responsible for QA infrastructure transition to new facility.

Environment: LoadRunner 8.0, Quality Center 9.0, Lotus Notes 7.0, Windows Server 2003, AccessGate.

Confidential, Worcester, MA

Computer Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Provided enterprise network support, Adware, Spyware removal, RAM, system and software upgrades

Confidential

Service Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Service and Maintenance of Beckman Coulter Biochemistry Laboratory Automation Systems, Al- Maidan Hospital Project Development a€“ Medical/Electrical Systems

Confidential

Technical Representative

Responsibilities:

• Service Engineer- Service and maintenance of Hematology Coulter Systems

Confidential

Intern

Responsibilities:

• Mobile SMS Based Device Automation