SUMMARY

• Extensive experience in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle, such as Requirements Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Quality Control and Deployment.
• Experienced in Regression Testing, User acceptance testing(UAT), Performance, Load, and Stress Testing.
• Involved in Business Requirement Analysis, and writing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts forweb - Based and Client/Server applications.
• Experienced in using automated Testing Tools likeHP Load Runner, Quality Center, IBM Rational Performance Testing tool, Performance Center.
• Performance testing using Load Runner and developed VUgen test scripts using web (HTTP/HTML), AJAX Tru Client, Web Services, Winsock, PeopleSoft Protocols.
• Enhanced VUser script in Load Runner withParameterization, Correlation, Transaction point, check points.
• Expertise in writing reusable modular scripts for automation testing for various Business Applications like Banking& Finance, Healthcare and Insurance.
• Experience in using monitoring tools such as Sitescope, Wily Introscope, SPlunk and Dynatrace.
• Expertise in writing and executing SQL Queries.
• Strong in performance testing debugging, executing, analyzing Complex applications.
• Analyzed Throughput Graph, Hits/Second graph, Transactions per secondgraphandRendezvous graphs using LR Analysis tool.
• Thorough understanding of QA Methodologies like Waterfall, Iterative, Agile, Rational Unified Modeling (RUP).
• Good Knowledge on C scripting.
• Comfortable with various Industry leading operating systems Windows NT/98/95/2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 and UNIX.
• At ease in high stress environments requiring superior ability to effectively handle multi-task levels of responsibility.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, self-starter, quick learner, team player.
• Proven ability to work efficiently in both independent and team work environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP LoadRunner v8.x/9.x/11.x/12, HP Performance Center 11.0/12.0,HP Quality Center, IBM RPT8.5/8.7, SOAP UI5.0,LOAD UI,JIRA Bug Tracking Tool.

Load Runner Protocols: Web(HTTP/HTML),AJAX Tru Client, PeopleSoft, Windows Sockets, Java, Web Services,C-Vuser.

Languages: Microsoft C#, C, C++, PHP Markup/Scripting Languages DHTML, XML, HTML, CSS,JQuery, JavaScript, VB Script.

Web Technologies: HTML, CSS,JQuery, wordpress.

Packages: MS-Office, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Dreamweaver, flash, Illustrator, In Design.

RDBMS: MS SQL, Microsoft Access, SQL Server.

Operating Systems: Windows NT/98/95/2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 and UNIX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SQA Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in gathering and analyzing of bsiness requirements along with developing testing strategy BTS Supported applications and project implementations.
• Tested functionality of applications,notifing defects and changes to the developer teams. And also the changes in the new features and their impact on existing functionality before each release.
• Experience in Writing Test Plans,defining Test scenarios and Test Cases, developing and maintaining Test Scripts based on business requirements.
• Used HP Load Runner, IBM RPT, Soap UI Pro, Load UI NG Pro to execute multi user Performance Tests.
• Worked on web(HTTP/HTML) protocol and Web Services.
• Generated scripts/test and handled Dynamic, Datapool values through Correlation and Parameterization.
• Prepared Load test plan based on business requirement document and created test schedules.
• Ramped up virtual users in a load test to achieve a maximum transaction volume of 10,000.
• Experience in preparing the Test Plan and Test Scenarios document.
• Hands on in Record Scenario,developed test Scripts and load Tests Schedules.
• Inolved in Script modifications, transaction points and debugging.
• Performed Load, stress and performace tests with Load Runner, IBM RPT and also experienced in datadriven tests with SOAP UI, webservicesperformace and load tests with Load UI.
• Enhanced the Load Runner scripts by keeping Rendezvous points, check points and adding Custom code.
• Executed different Scenarios in Controller by adjusting Runtime settings, Pacing and think timebased on the test specifications.
• Conducting the baseline,Load Test, Stress Test, Capacity Test and Performance Tests.
• Skilled in debugging, adding delays, loops and modified tests and created rules files in RPT.
• Used LR Analysis tool to view Load test results and drill down to identify possible bottlenecks
• Observed different Measures like transaction response times and page response times for the system/application and also verified whether the performance requirements have been achieved during normal projected user loads.
• Studied application Performance and maximum Scalability,Critical Parameters such as number of users,Response Times.
• Analyzed Throughput Graph, Hits/Second graph, Transactions per secondgraph and Rendezvous graphs using LR Analysis tool.
• Responsible for monitoring CPU utilization, Thread count, Response time, session count, GC heap analysis.
• Working with Developer DBA’s, server team and architects,monitoring Key Components during test.
• Performance monitoring using App Dynamics.
• Performed Tool upgrades on Servers, Studied in deep and understanding the benefits of new released versions and made suggestions for Installation, Upgrades and migrations.
• HP LR12, Involved in RPT 9.0.1 upgrade, Soap Ui Pro5.1.2 installation and Ready API 1.5.2 Migration.
• Proven ability as a good team player and interact with managers and technical teams.

Environment: LoadRunner, Performance Center, IBM RPT, SOAP UI and LOAD UI, PL/SQL, HTML.

Confidential

Sr Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirement, studied the application and collected the information from Business Analysts.
• Developed Performance Test Plan, Test cases and Test strategy.
• Responsible foranalyzing application and components behavior with heavier loads and optimizing server configurations.
• Enhanced the test scripts usingWeb HTTP/HTML protocol inLoad runner.
• Ramped up Virtual users in a load test to achieve a maximal transaction volume of 1200.
• Involved in generating scripts and handling Correlation, parameterization, transactionpoints, debugging and various other functions using LoadRunnerVugen.
• Generated customized reports for testing the performance of various transactions by developing various user-defined functions as well as LoadRunner functions.
• Developed Scenarios in Controller based on the User Load and Transaction Volume.
• Used Load Runner to execute multi-user performance tests, used online monitors, real-time output messages and of the features of theLoad RunnerController.
• Created detailed test status reports, performance capacity reports, web trend analysisreports, and graphical charts for upper management using Load Runner analysis component.
• Analyzed Throughput Graph, Hits/Second graph, Transactions per second graph and Rendezvous graphs using LR Analysis tool.
• Involved in scalability and bottleneck testing of application.
• Used WilyIntroscope,DynaTrace for identifying response time and memory leaks during load tests.
• Attending weekly defect report meetings and presented progress updates.
• Attending conference calls with offshore team to discuss the Testing status and to assign the defects to the concerned developers.

Environment: LoadRunner, Quality Center, C Programming, Oracle, PL/SQL, HTML, UNIX.

Confidential

Sr. Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirements document with the business and development team to understand the architecture and functionality of the application.
• Actively involved in gathering new requirements.
• Developed Performance TestingPlan, Performance TestingStrategy Document based on the business specifications requirements.
• Performed Smoke test, Baseline, and Load tests using Load Runner
• We used Load Runner Web HTTP/HTML protocol based on the user workflows.
• Made changes to the exhisting scripts to meet the performance test requirements.
• We also explore on MobileHTTP/HTML and Webservicessprotocols for different applications.
• Expertise in Designing scenarios for Performance Testing, Generating scripts and handling Correlation as well as parameterization using LoadrunnerVugen, executing scenarios using Performance Center and analysis of results using Loadrunner Analyzer
• Analyzed Throughput Graph, Hits/Second graph, Transactions per second graph using LR Analysis tool
• Performed load testing with 770 Vusers
• Used Wily Introscope to monitor the servers.
• Prepared load Test analysis reports (%disk, CPU Utilization, Throughput, %page breakdowns, Response Times, Network Monitors, Web Server Monitor Counters, Captures, System Performance Counters and Database Performance Counters)

Environment: LoadRunner, Performance Center, C Programming, Oracle, PL/SQL, HTML, UNIX.

Confidential

Sr Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Gathered user requirements and designed Test Plans andTest Scenarios accordingly.
• Experience inwritingTest Plans, definingTest Scenariosand Test cases, developing and maintaining Test Scripts based on business and functional requirements.
• Defined transactions to measure serverPerformance under load by creating rendezvous points to simulate heavy load on the server.
• Communicated with development team to resolve defects.
• Developed Vuser scripts using Load Runner Windows Sockets protocol based on the user workflows.
• Executed Load, Stress and Endurance testing to simulate a process, which allowed using more than 1000 virtual users.
• Developed Load Test Scripts by using Load Runner for entire site and did the Parameterization, Pacing, and correlation.
• Developed VUser scripts and enhanced the basic script by adding Custom code.
• UsedPerformance center for performing Load Test and Analysis Module for yielding results.
• Monitored system resources such as CPU Usage % of Memory Occupied VM Stat I/O Stat.
• Analyzed the test results TPS, Hits/second, Transaction response time, CPU utilization using LoadRunner Analysis, various monitoring tools and prepared Test Reports.
• Analyzed various graphs including Database Resource Graphs, Network Monitor Graphs, User Graphs, Error Graphs, Transaction Graphs and Web Server Resource Graphs.
• Track defect and assign and resolve high priority issues without affecting project deadlines.
• Extensively usedWily Introscope and Dynatrace to analyze the system resources bottlenecks like Memory Leaks, CPU and Network Bottlenecks as well as problematic application and DB components.
• Worked close with clients Interface with developers, project managers, and management in the development.

Environmen:Quality Center, Linux, Win 2003 server, Java, Performance center, Oracle.

Confidential

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirements document with the business and development team to understand the architecture and functionality of the application.
• Interacted with System Engineers thoroughly for collecting Requirements.
• Performed baseline, benchmark, stress, and capacitytests using Load Runner.
• Conducting the Load, Stress and Performance testing using Load Runner and developed testscripts.
• Involved in Project meetings and interacted to other team members in order to resolve the problems.
• Created Vuser scripts usingWeb (HTTP/HTML), Windows Sockets protocol.
• Experience handling loads for 4000Vusers. Expert in developing Work load Model for performance testing.
• Planned and generated Vuser scripts with VuGen and enhanced them with correlation, parameterization and functions.
• Generated scripts in Vugen as per given SLA by giving pacing between iterations to get the desired transactions per hour.
• Scheduling the scenarios using the Load Runner'sController and analyzing the results using Analyzer.
• Coordinated with Technical Teams to monitorDatabase Query, CPU Utilization and Memory.
• Analyzed results using HP Load Runner Analysis tool and analyzed sessions and log files.
• Responsible for performance monitoring and analysis of response time&memory leaks using throughput graphs.
• Have experience with different monitoring and load testing tools like Quality Center, WilyIntroscope,LoadRunner,SiteScope.
• Participated in defects meeting to discuss the bottlenecks and long running queries.

Environment: QC, Load runner, Manual Testing, Agile, Linux, Win 2003 server.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed Performance TestingPlan, Performance TestingStrategy based on the business specifications requirements and user requirements and prepared Close out Document and Executive level summary.
• Testing the application with stress and load of right transaction mix to emulate real time transaction load.
• Participate inWeekly Meetings with the management team and Walkthroughs.
• Created Load Runner scripts with Web Services protocols based on the user workflow.
• Used Rendezvous point, Start and End Transaction, Parameterization, Correlation features in Virtual User Generator of Load Runner.
• Enhanced script by inserting Check points to check if Virtual users are accessing the correct page which they are supposed to be accessing.
• Created a scenario with certain amount of Vusers giving Ramp up, Ramp Down and Run time in the Controller of LoadRunner.
• Performed resultanalysis using online monitors and graphs using Load Runner.
• Observed for failure/errors and monitored metrics (Transaction Response Times, Running Virtual Users, Hits per Second and Windows Resources graph) in tests.
• Analyzed the server resources such as Available Bytes and Process Bytes for Memory Leaks.
• Collected and maintained PBDs metrics using Wily Introscope.
• Met with managers, team leaders and developers on LoadRunner, Scripting, Stress and Performance Testing.

Environment: LoadRunner, MS Office 2007, Oracle, C Programming, Quality center, HTTP/HTML.

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Project documentation including Project charters, Business Requirements, Technical Requirements, and Functional Design Specifications.
• Met with the Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, and System Analysts to identify gaps in the requirements.
• Participated in Requirement Walk through meetings to understand the in scope requirements and utilized HPs Quality Center for capturing requirements.
• Handling escalated calls on a daily basis and resolving ongoing issues.
• Wrote SQL queries to access the data from the database tables to ensure data integrity.
• Interacted with the developers and business analyst to resolve the defects.
• Created Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and detailed Test Scripts in Quality Center for all phases of testing; Unit, Integration and System Testing.

Environment: Java, QuickTest Professional, Mercury Quality Center, Oracle, Windows 2000, MS Office 2007