OBJECTIVE

• To seek a challenging career as a Software Tester, Manual/Functional Tester Performance Engineer and implement SQA Principles in Software Development in areas of Client Server technology, Object Oriented Development, Web applications, ecommerce and B2B solutions

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP - Load Runner, Win Runner, Jira

Test Mgmt Tools: HP-Mercury Quality Center, ALM, Jira, Performance Centre 11.5, Wily

Web Technologies: HTML, XML

Servers: MS IIS, Apache, Web logic.\, Load Balancer

Database: MS SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle 11, Peoplesoft 8

Platforms: Windows 8/7/XP/ NT/ 2000/98, UNIX, Mac OS X, Mainframes, Pega 7.1.9

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Test Tool Analyst - Functional Tester Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked under the direction of the Functional Test Delivery Lead to support planned upgrades of Test Tool Suite.
• Analyzed upgrade impacts to determine test strategy
• Estimated level of effort, then create, review and execute test cases
• Ensured system software performs according to documented business requirements, business rules, and technical specifications.
• Analysed of a backlog of system defects to determine applicability based on impending upgrade.
• Prepared the Observation Report for the Upgrade from 11 to
• Was responsible for reporting and tracking problems by providing reproducible test cases and working with other test team members to close problem reports.
• Analysed in development and implemention of future methodology for enterprise test efforts
• Perfomed functionality testing on the customised four modules of HP ALM 11 (Test Approach/Test Case Preparation/Test Execution/Defect Process)
• Assigned testers for functional testing on Modules by creating a baseline approach on basis on HPALM customised functionality
• Monitored if the upgrade effected the functionality of automation tools/manual testing/regression testing
• Tested if the assigned roles assumptions are performing as expected
• Monitored if the upgrades effected any applications and environments
• Compared the Release Notes from HPALM 11
• Monitored if the upgrade is effecting the cross browser functionalities
• Tested if all the scripts are being accessed in the upgrade
• Monitored if there are any data refresh impacts during upgrade
• Monitored if there are any look and feel changes in the functinalities during upgrade
• Used ServiceNow to create system tickets
• Responsible for meetings with the user groups for functional testing
• Created a report based on the test scope/test plan/roles and responsibilities/validation of data/environment/system requriements/back up data information entry and exit criteria/limitation of the upgrade
• Was responsbile for doing Research for Integration between RM and HPALM
• Provided the requirement specifications for the specific configuration to integrate RM to HPALM
• Defining best practices for test cases directly from the Requirements in ALM for easy maintenance and less dependencies on other paths or tools.
• Defining the Functional Requirements to establish the capability of testing the different Requirements from Dimensions RM to HPALM
• Ensuring to maintain the synchoronization between Dimensions RM and ALM to institute the test coverage to confirm the application behaviour with the Requirements.
• Was responsbile to prepare the MOM's for Integration Meetings and reporting to the Management thereof
• Prepared Reports/Test Cases for Integration Testing
• Performed full revision of existing system documentation and updated the same

Confidential

Functional Tester /Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Documented high level requirements, assumptions, and dependencies that are with Work Order scopes schedules and quality
• Worked for all the 7 Solutions and created high level requirements
• Defined requirements basing on the structure of previous WO(Work Orders)
• Collecting and analyzing the technical requirements for all the solutions
• Assessing Confidential ’s environments and solution options
• Involved in writing functional test cases for Axway(Tumbleweed) to validate using real time digital certificates that typically reside on Smart cards like PIV PIV-I and CAC card
• Involved in writing functional test cases for Centrify (DirectControl) which
• Provides a centralized repository for managing privileged account access into servers,
• Direct Audit provides enterprise audit log management tying all activity back to individual users for improved accountability
• Involved in writing functional test cases for SOPHOS Verismic and end point agents on the management agents on Confidential devices which involves patch and security management via Cloud Management Suite
• Involved in writing functional test cases for Derived Credentials which allows greater flexibility for PIV enabled applications and operations on Mobile device
• Involved in assessing Confidential ’s public websites for compliance with OMB 15-13 and writing functional test cases with regard to HTTPS and HSTS policy in place
• Involved in creating high level requirements for AD migration of Confidential AD (upgrade of EP accounts)
• Created Functional Test cases for all the solutions
• Test cases were created based on granular examples with many scenarios
• Attended Meetings related to stakeholders, and system owners/region to deliver information regarding Questionnaires
• Involved in the technical discussions/deep dives with the system owners
• Involved in communication with the system owners and leads regarding functional test cases for PIV enablement
• Involved in daily status reports/weekly reports

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Installation of HP Software in Head Quarters
• Co-coordinating with different teams, with Installation via Remote Login
• Involved in setting up Load Generators in Local
• Involved in assuring the connections in Local
• Involved in Manual testing and logging in Defects in Pega 7.1.9
• Work with the development, network teams and other project teams to tune the test environment as necessary.
• Creating Scripts in DEV/Performance Environments
• Customized Vuser scripts in LoadRunner for parameterization, correlation queries, transaction points, rendezvous point and created scenarios using LoadRunner Controller.
• Creating Scripts in People plus Enterprise
• Worked on existing scripts with respect with headquarters
• Monitor Load testing using 3000 users
• Monitored Stress testing using 9 users 3000 users
• Performed testing in HQ extensively Measured the response time in HQ
• Performance testing conducted and DBA 's monitored the Load Balancer switch for all the locations
• Monitored Performance via the Performance Monitors
• Identified the bottlenecks and provided solutions to the development team
• Generated reports for Local/HQ/Different Locations
• Presented to the Client with the Transaction Response Times
• Suggestions and Recommendations followed
• Prepared Weekly Status Reports
• Prepared Monthly Status Reports
• Prepared Documentation for installation and Test plan

Confidential

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the design and implementation of business applications, middleware, database, operating system, and hardware components and ensure that all system components are designed and tuned to acceptable levels of performance and resource utilization
• Participated in technical architecture and design discussions to determine the most appropriate performance testing model
• Partners with the Development, Application & Infrastructure Architecture and Technical Services teams to create test data, test scripts and test scenarios
• Develops automated performance testing solutions using HP Loadrunner
• Develops, maintains, recommends, documents and supports tools and backend utilities to perform automated performance testing
• Created and presents a Performance Planning Strategy that outlines Current Production Workload distribution, Performance Requirements and Test/Production Environment Requirements and Performance Optimization results
• Performed the following Communication tasks
• Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis
• Ensure effective communication within and outside of the project team
• Report status to Resource Manager on a regular basis
• Assist Resource Manager in preparing and reporting statuses to Sr. Management and other Project Stakeholders
• Monitor Load testing using 50 users
• Monitored Stress testing using 50 users
• Monitored Performance via the Performance Monitors in Wily
• Identified the bottlenecks and provided solutions to the development team
• Generated reports for all the tests
• Presented to the Client with the Transaction Response Times
• Suggestions and Recommendations followed
• Prepared Weekly Status Reports
• Prepared Monthly Status Reports
• Prepared Documentation for installation and Test plan
• Uploaded testplan,scripts,Analysis report on Sharepoint

Confidential

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked for Peoplesoft 8 on HR Modules Employee Submitting Timesheet/ Leave Management System.
• Used Https protocol for recording the scripts
• Involved in Installation of HP Software in Head Quarters
• Involved in installation of HP Software in different locations via Remote Login
• Involved in setting up Load Generators in Local/HQ/Different Locations
• Involved in assuring the connections in Local/HQ/Different Locations
• Involved in Manual testing and logging in Defects
• Work with the development, network teams and other project teams to tune the test environment as necessary.
• Creating Scripts in DEV/Performance Environments
• Customized Vuser scripts in LoadRunner for parameterization, correlation queries, transaction points, rendezvous point and created scenarios using LoadRunner Controller.
• Creating Scripts in People plus Enterprise
• Worked on existing scripts with respect to Employee/Manager/Timekeeper
• Worked on enhanced scripts for Absence Leave Request/Manager Approval
• Monitor Load testing using 9 users/1500 users
• Monitored Stress testing using 9 users/1500 users
• Performed testing in HQ/RTP/Cincinnati locations
• Measured the response time in all these locations
• Performance testing conducted and DBA 's monitored the Load Balancer switch for all the locations
• Monitored Performance via the Performance Monitors
• Identified the bottlenecks and provided solutions to the development team
• Generated reports for Local/HQ/Different Locations
• Presented to the Client with the Transaction Response Times
• Suggestions and Recommendations followed
• Prepared Weekly Status Reports
• Prepared Monthly Status Reports
• Prepared Documentation for installation and Test plan

Confidential, Washington, DC

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparing Test Plan and Test Cases based on business requirements.
• Created test cases in Quality Center ALM on the basis of the user stories.
• Executed the test cases manually and through test scripts and logged the results in the test report to ALM.
• Used Quality Center to report and track bugs and impediments.
• Attended daily scrum meetings early morning with the developers and architects to report on what was done day before, what was to be done that day and report any impediments.
• Reported testing progress at the end of every sprint in the Sprint Review Meeting.
• Participated in the Sprint Planning Meeting before the start of a new sprint to discuss what can accomplished in it.
• Create, customize and edit LoadRunner.11.5.1, 12 scripts for identified business processes.
• Create load testing scenarios that simulate real life application usage and its business processes.
• Created scripts using LoadRunner HTTP/HTML web services, Oracle & GUI protocols, executed scripts using Virtual User Generator, Controller & Analysis.
• Tested up to 1,000 virtual users using Controller.
• Monitored analyzed server performance in various virtual users load.
• Tested the functionality of each screen to monitor proper navigation.
• Conducted daily Scrum meetings with Product Owner, Scrum Master, Business and development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status for third party applications.
• By using LoadRunner 11.5 Analysis, generated various reports for higher management.
• Work with the development, network teams and other project teams to tune the test environment as necessary.
• Extensively worked on VuGen and used Controller to perform Load Test and Stress Test.
• Defined performance test strategy, performance test cases, load scripts and documented the issues and re-tested software fixes to ensure the issues are resolved.
• Identify the bottlenecks in the application performance, conduct analysis by monitoring available graphs and provide recommendations to supervision to improve the performance.
• Involved in preparing test strategies documents for Manual & Automation testing.
• Customized Vuser scripts in LoadRunner for parameterization, correlation queries, transaction points, rendezvous point and created scenarios using LoadRunner Controller.

Confidential

SR QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led and managed a team of 3-5 QA testers onsite as well offshore globally.
• Wrote Test Plan and Test Cases according to business requirement.
• Wrote Test Cases using MS Excel.
• Creating and updating test cases based on new and/or /updated functional or interface requirements
• Performed software web testing for multi-family lending groupcommercial loanorigination packages.
• Performed manual functional and regression testing as well as automated testing in Web applications for aggregate debt, commercial data warehouse and automated appraisal and schedules of real estate owned.
• Performed requirement traceability by setting automatic alerts for tracing changes in the requirements and system maintenance
• Imported test cases from MS Excel, MS Word to HP Quality Center.
• Participated in weekly meeting with the management team and walkthroughs
• Tested applications and documented results and bugs including documentation of information useful in the debugging process
• Generated the test execution report in HP Quality Center to be reviewed by the QA Manager and development team.
• Developed automated test scripts defining scenarios and procedures to test the performance of the application using LoadRunner Tool.
• Using LoadRunner, execute multi-user performance tests, used online monitors, real-time output messages and other features of the LoadRunner Controller.
• Analyze, interpret, and summarize meaningful and relevant results in a complete Performance Test Report.
• Conducted performance testing of the application by running various VuGen scripts in order to determine the maximum number of users that can log into the application at a given time by using LoadRunner.
• Utilized LoadRunner conduct stress testing of the application in order to determine the yield point of the application by subjecting to heavy loads.
• Used Controller to Launch 100,180, 220 concurrent users to generate load.
• Analyzed LoadRunner test result involved in preparing test plan and test cases based on the analysis of the business requirements.
• Attended weekly defect report meetings and presented progress update status.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed various testing activities throughout the Software Testing Lifecycle (STLC) for multiple projects.
• Involved in implementing a uniform QA process among all the projects that I was involved in.
• Attended Change Request Meetings to ensure products and changes are fully documented for further Test changes.
• Followed Agile Methodology to emphasize on real time communication over written documentation and to minimize risk by implementing software test effort in short time sprints or iterations.
• Managed and Conducted Defect Review and Test Execution Status meetings with cross project team members.
• Managed various modules of Quality Center (i.e. Requirements, Test Plan, Test Lab, Defects) for various projects. Responsible for creating user groups and maintaining user security for various projects as QC Project Admin.
• Performed various types of testing such as Functional, Regression.
• Created Test Plans and Scenario which describes the features and functions to be tested.
• Prepared Test Cases based on Business Requirements and required documents.
• Actively participated in the weekly Project Status Meetings.
• Assigned test cases to responsible testers through by creating various Test Sets in Test Lab module.
• Produced various test reports such as Test Execution Status, Test Execution Summary/Progress, Defect Status, Defect Summary, Defect Inject Rate on daily and weekly basis and submitted
• Contributed functional and technical assistance/production support, including service requests and remedy tickets.
• Detected, reported and tracked defects using Mercury Quality Center.
• Generated and created VuGen/Vuser scripts using Vuser Generator and created scenarios in LoadRunner controller.
• Ran the scenarios & analyzed the results by monitoring the scenarios using LoadRunner.
• Analyzed the load test results including transactions by drilling down, merged graphs (overlay graphs, correlate graphs), cross result graphs and auto correlating measurements and thus focusing on behavior patterns and identifying problematic elements using the LoadRunner Analysis tool.