SUMMARY

• Senior IT QA Engineer / Leading QA initiatives on a variety of different development initiatives and determining appropriate process, methodology, and techniques test tools and test automation/performance to apply to testing projects including managing QA team( On/offshore) and contributing to the testing effort in a hands - on role
• Create the design of deliverables, including test strategy, test plan, creating test scripts, and test data, perform all kind of testing activities, UAT Coordinator; requirement traceability matrix; test estimates; progress report for test execution; and defect management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP ALM (QC), Load Runner, Performance Test Center, QTP/UFT, JMeter, VSTS, Cucumber, SOAP UI, TFS, MS Test Manager, Watir, Cucumber, Selenium, IBM Rational Tools, SOA test Tool, Caliber, JIRA and Bugzilla.

Monitoring Tools: DynaTrace, Site Scope

OS: Windows, UNIX, Linux, Solaris and AIX.

Database: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MS-Access, Sybase, MSSQL.

Reports: Crystal Reports, BO.

Methodology: Agile, Extreme Programming, Waterfall, SDLC

Scripting and Mark-up languages: UNIX shell scripts, JavaScript, VBScript, TSL and HTML/DHTML, XML.

Java/.Net Technologies: JAVA, J2EE, WSDL, Web services, ASP. Net Framework, SharePoint.

Languages: C, C#, Ruby, SQL, PL-SQL .

Network: TCP/IP, MPLS, HTTP, FTP SMTP and Telnet

Version Control: PVCS, CVS, VSS, SVN.

Planning &Design: MS Office, Project, Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dublin, OH

Sr. Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a Performance Test Engineer, Interact with Northwoods Technical Team and Develop the Test Plan, Develop test schedules, Collect and quantify the performance requirements. Determine and document the workload model(s) along with the business team.
• Create the load plan, Performs Analysis of Performance Test metrics (application performance), Work with the developers as part of the collaborative testing and tuning team. Identify goals and objectives for this performance validation.
• Identify critical business processes and document the same as input feed for LR scripting. Prepare a work load matrix for identified business processes with mutual discussion with end users to identify the types of tests to be performed.
• Define controller scenarios. Create LR scripts and customize them based on business process requirements.
• Perform Baseline, Load, Stress, Endurance Testing and collect metrics as input feed for performance engineering (Capacity Planning and Modeling)
• Analyze the test results, determine bottlenecks or potential bottlenecks, and reported observed future scalability limitations involved in the proposed architecture.
• Applied various Virtual User loads on the application and Performance Monitor was used to monitor and analyze the performance of the server by generating various reports for Memory usage, CPU Utilization, Paging size.
• Performs in-depth analysis to isolate points of failure in the application.
• Interface with developers, project managers, and management in the development, execution and reporting of test automation results.

Confidential, Groveport, OH

Senior IT Analyst / Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Solution Architect, Technical Manager and PDM, to understand and Create/Develop and Implement Automation frame work.
• Worked on analyzing use cases and designing test scenarios to validate functionality.
• Designs test cases, scenarios and matrices for assigned story cards, designs automated testing, and performs story/requirements based testing.
• Determine functional areas and test cases which are for automation/ performance testing.
• Design, write, execute and maintain Ruby automated test scripts for APIs and UI.
• Performed data validation by executing queries and manipulating data in database.
• Work closely with cross-functional team members and developers.
• Develops test strategy document and provides relevant updates throughout project.
• Performed Load/Performance/Stress using Load Runner with Web (HTTP/HTML) protocol.
• Involved in analyzing the problems using Transaction Breakdown, Network Monitoring and Resource Monitoring.
• Develops risk mitigation & contingency plans as they relate to the test strategy.
• Daily reconciliation of test errors in test environments.

Confidential, New Albany, OH

Senior QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed all facets of QA/UAT, including authoring, and executing test cases, tracking defects, and all associated communications and interaction with internal department staff and Business Technology resources.
• Defined all system level requirements and support documentation resulting from new development.
• Design, develop and execute automation test scripts using Ruby/Ruby-Mine/Cucumber/watir/Gherkin.
• Perform extensive Backend Testing using SQL scripts to pin point the breakage in the Data Flow against Teradata and Oracle Database.
• Involved in Web service testing using SOAP UI.
• Develop the Test Plan, Develop test schedules, Collect and quantify the performance requirements.
• Determine and document the workload model(s) along with the business team, Create the load plan, Performs Analysis of Performance Test metrics (application performance), Work with the developers as part of the collaborative testing and tuning team.
• Identify critical business processes and document the same as input feed for LoadRunner scripting.
• Identify goals and objectives for this performance validation.
• Worked with the Business Team to review UAT validation scenarios and execute the UAT test cases.
• Conduct Test Status meetings with the Business Team, QA Manager, and Development team to review Test Progress and discuss business critical issues identified during application validation.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

QA Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manage and work closely with product, BA, development, and QA teams in reviewing and clarifying business requirements, creative designs, annotated wireframes and success criteria.
• Develop test plans and test strategy to verify software functionality and adherence to business requirements and ensure complete coverage of and traceability to requirements.
• Design, develop and execute test cases and scripts which include both functionality and regression testing.
• Develop automation test scripts using the BPT automation framework of QTP.
• Performed Web Application and Web Services testing in the Banking and Financial Domain.
• Performed Smoke test, System test, Functional, Integration, End to End, User Acceptance testing and Regression testing activities in Test environment and Production support environment.
• Performed back-end data base testing by writing SQL, PL/SQL scripts to verify the data validation and data integrity.
• Developed performance strategy and approach, designed and executed performance test cases that include load, Volume and stress for the key products using HP Load Runner.
• Facilitate UAT execution phases and worked with business leads, project managers to obtain user acceptance test signoff.
• Drive the tracking, communication, and resolution of application defects.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Software IT QA Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Develop and establish software quality assurance(SQA) measures and testing standards for VOE application, and/or enhancements to existing applications throughout their development/product lifecycles.
• Participate in Requirements estimation, Requirements Review meetings with the Business.
• Develop test design specifications, and test scripts for various test scenarios.
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Integration, End to End and User Acceptance Testing.
• Write SQL queries to perform Data Verification and Performed Back End Testing/Data base Testing for Data Validation.
• Create QTP scripts using VBScript for automation functional and regression testing.
• Executing Load Test scripts for different QA Environments and identifying memory leakages.
• Enhanced and debugged the scripts using HP Load Runner component VuGen and performed Parameterization and Correlation to meet the requirements.
• Participate in daily scrum to triage the defect tracking process.
• Coordinate User Acceptance testing.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Sr. QA Analyst/Acting Lead

Responsibilities:

• Liaison with client/stakeholders to understand project requirements; disseminate information and instruction across the team, held Team meetings and KT sessions.
• Prepare Test Strategy & Test Plan.
• Leads the ST and ensures test operation is well-maintained and that facilitation of procedure is in accordance to client standards.
• Performed backend testing by querying(SQL) the database
• Performed Integration testing after testing the different modules separately.
• Perform the Performance/Load Testing using the Load Runner.
• Responsible for reporting and tracking defects/Bugs.
• Facilitating User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and making sure that user request are met.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Sr.QA Test Analyst/ Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Master Test Strategy Document.
• Forecast / Estimated the Testing Estimation.
• Analyzed the Story Cards.
• Extensively performed Manual testing, Requirements Verification testing, GUI, Recovery, Functional, Regression and user acceptance testing (UAT) on different versions of the application.
• Verified the data stored in the database with the help of SQL queries for data validation and data verification
• Perform regression testing and automate new functionalities using Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Analyzed defect data, test results, track and retested fixes.
• Facilitating User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and making sure that user request are met.
• Utilized Quality Center to execute test scripts and defect tracking systems and generates bug reports.

Confidential, Louisville KY

Sr.QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed business requirements and create/maintain functional specifications/Use Cases to ensure all user paths are covered. Keep track the new requirements.
• Involved in design, develop, maintain, and execute test scripts and scenarios using Quality Center.
• Performed Functional, Integration, System, End- End, Performance, Acceptance and Regression testing.
• Backend testing was done using SQL queries to ensure that correct reports are delivered to the client.
• Participated in UAT sessions to support client.

Confidential, Dayton OH

Sr.QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed regression testing on the Confidential application that is being moved to a new data center.
• Ensured all functions before Standard Register can go live at the new data center.
• Involved in develop automated test scripts using QTP.
• Validated data content at the backend using SQL Queries.

Confidential, Washington DC

Sr.QA Analyst III

Responsibilities:

• Performed Functional, Integration, and System, End to End, Performance and Regression testing.
• ETL Testing was done to ensure correct and transformed data was exported from Old Chari Application to WCHARI Application.
• Involved in Backend Database testing in Oracle using SQL.
• Ensured the execution of UAT test cases and documentation of test results.