SUMMARY

• Skilled in planning and implementing new processes, procedures and tools for quality assurance testing, defect tracking, status reporting and problem resolution within Agile and Non - Agile: Waterfall and Iterative development environments to reduce operating costs and increasing efficiency.
• More than 6 years of experience as a QA Test Engineer for technology intensive companies.
• Involved in the complete software testing lifecycle owning the test deliverables from start to end through the entire SDLC and experienced in methodologies like Waterfall, Iterative and Agile (SCRUM).
• Extensive and diversified experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Quality Assurance, GUI, Automation Testing, Web, and Client/Server based Commercial Applications.
• Expertise includes Test Plan formulation, writing Test Cases for Functional, and Performance testing, automating manual scripts by using Automation tools such as Load Runner 11,12,Quality Center ALM and Test Director.
• Ability to interact with all levels of personnel from technical to high level executive management, Excellent interpersonal, communication & writing skills.
• Proven ability to Assure Quality Project/Product in on time and on budget.
• Strong knowledge of Performance Testing and best practices in QA Process.
• Extensive experience in functional, unit, integration, regression testing, Load/ performance testing,
• Experience in creating and executing very large and complex End to End Test Scripts across different application Interfaces Automated, Performance, 508 and Manual.
• Strength in guiding the design and execution of automated and manual testing strategies to identify risks and issues, design effective mitigation solution, and enhance the on-time delivery of quality systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automated Testing Tools: Load Runner 9,11.5,12 ALM, Quick Test Professional 11,12, UFT

Protocol: HTTP,HTML

Defect Tracking Tool: Foot Print, Clear Quest, Quality Center ALM, JIRA,, Bug Tracker, SharePoint

Operating Systems: Windows 2k/03, XP, Vista,07,08

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle 10g, toad

Languages: C++, XML, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Software: MS Project, Visual Source Safe, MS Office Suite

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Performance Engineer

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Test Documents in coordination with client, development team and other complex matrix teams and stakeholders including functional teams and business analysts.
• Developed automated test scripts defining scenarios and procedures to test the performance of the application using LoadRunner 12.
• 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.
• Install and configuration load runner and load agent set up different agent to different Computer.
• Utilized LoadRunner conduct stress testing of the application in order to determine the yield point of the application by subjecting to heavy loads.
• Analyzed LoadRunner test result involved in preparing test plan and test cases based on the analysis of the business requirements.
• Customize Parameterization in DATA file using via LoadRunner to test the application with different sets of data.
• Inserted rendezvous points to create intense load on the server and thereby to measure server performance.
• Used various techniques like Ramp up, Ramp down, Transaction Point in Load Runner.
• Involved in developing the test cases, test data and test scripts.
• Planned, designed, developed and executed Test Cases with Quality Center ALM.
• Used Quality Center ALM for requirements management, planning, scheduling, running tests, defect tracking and manage the defects and executing the test cases.
• Prepared reports on bugs and defects generated during test execution daily.

Performance Engineer

Confidential, Tyson Corner, VA

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Test Documents in coordination with client, development team and other complex matrix teams and stakeholders including functional teams and business analysts.
• Analyzed the Functional and Performance requirements and prepared test cases /scripts and test data strategy document.
• Involved in preparing test Strategies documents for Manual and Performance testing.
• Used Quality Center to attach screenshots, and associated the defect with the proper severity and priority, and linked the related Test Script, from which the Defects were generated.
• Used Quality Center ALM to open tickets for the Defects.
• Tracked, reviewed, and analyzed Defects and compared using Quality Center.
• Used LoadRunner 11, created Vugen scripts and scenarios for Load and Performance testing with different host systems and also configured the test environment. Generated graphs and studied them to monitor the software performance.
• Created Vugen Scripts and used Correlation to parameterize dynamically changing parameters like Session ID’s in LoadRunner.
• Analyzed throughput graph, Hits per second graph, Transactions per second graph and Rendezvous graph using the LoadRunner Analysis tool.
• Prepared reports on bugs and defects generated during test execution daily.

Performance Engineer

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Responsibilities:

• Performed and coordinated the execution and completion of manual and automated test scripts, utilizing, Load Runner, Delivered risk assessments, test case coverage, and defect metrics of leadership and business teams.
• Created VuGen scripts, used manual and automatic correlation, parameterization techniques in generating the test scripts for LoadRunner.
• Executed LoadRunner Scenarios using LoadRunner to perform performance, Stress and scalability tests.
• Worked with LoadRunner 11 Controller for configuring and execution of performance test scenarios with multiple virtual users and virtual user scripts, managed and collected metrics for the various system monitors.
• Defined Rendezvous point to create peak load on the server and thereby measure the server performance under load.
• Defined the scope of the project gathering business requirements and documents them textually or within models.
• Defined input requirements to document the Business Requirements Specifications and developed the Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Worked on the improvement of QA Process by reviewing and evaluating existing practices with standard testing guidelines.
• Created the strategy document that defines the test environment, phases of testing, time lines of different phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria into different phases of testing and resources required to conduct the effort.
• Created Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Performed GUI, Functional, and Positive, Negative, System, Regression and Adhoc testing.
• Maintained Traceability matrix to keep track of the Project's Status.
• Maintained a standardized QA process to ensure that production risk is properly evaluated and reduced.
• Used Rational Quality Center for managing and updating the various test documents.
• Extensively used Quality Center, for Test planning, Bug tracking and Reporting.
• Used Quality Center for bug tracking and followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status of third party application.
• Conducted weekly meetings with Project Head, Business and development teams.
• Provided management and vendor with analysis, reports and recommendations, which resulted tuning of the application.

Test Engineer

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Participated in analyzing the user/business requirements, functional specifications and use case documents to create the Test Plans and Test cases for System testing.
• Converted the user requirements into functional requirements for Integration, System, User Acceptance testing.
• Wrote Manually Functional Test cases for Legacy modules.
• Executed the transactions manually and verify the back end functionalities and data exploitation.
• Involved in Business Process Testing as per customer perspective, and had interaction with Clients.
• Worked as Quality Center Administrator to maintain users, groups, domain, projects, and policies.
• Set up test cases, test sets, and defects in Quality Center.
• Written Manual Test cases in Quality Center and executed the test cases.
• Scheduled the script execution, published results and reported defects as required in Quality Center.
• Generated Vuser in LoadRunner for performance testing, and load testing of the application in various Loads.
• Involved in Performance testing of some client deliveries for performance requirements using LoadRunner.
• Generated, analyzed, and published LoadRunner test results and document the testing process.
• Performed Stress Testing, Load Testing, and Stability Testing using LoadRunner.
• Conducted functional tests and executed test cases to validate the ad hoc reporting/ Querying features.