SUMMARY:

• 7 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Performance Testing utilizing HP LoadRunner, Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, HP Performance center, JMeter,WinRunner.
• Strong experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) along with being experienced in methodologies like Waterfall, Iterative and Agile and testing methodologies from project definition to post - deployment documentation.
• Experienced in interacting with business, development and system administration teams.
• Expertise in requirements gathering, analysis, design, application testing & Quality Assurance of web based applications, client server and mainframe applications.
• Extensive experience in Manual and Automated testing of applications developed on Windows environment.
• In order to check teh response time with single user on a system, used HTTP Watch, Fiddler testing tools
• Expertise in developing Performance Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts Use Case and Traceability Matrix.
• Hands on experience in handling different protocols like web (HTTP/HTML), AJAX True Client, Siebel,Web Services,Web Click & Script,SAP,Winsock,Citrix Protocols.
• Skilled in debugging and adjusting scripts by running in VuGen with runtime settings logs set to display all messages.
• According to teh SLA (Service Level Agreement), created teh scripts to meet load-testing requirements.
• Exposure to various LoadRunner functions used by virtual user generator for scripting.
• Experienced in enhancing teh VuGen scripts, Correlations techniques, Parameterization and Synchronizations in HP LoadRunnner VuGen
• Experienced in handling maximum of 10,000 virtual users.
• Performed IP spoofing using LoadRunner for load balancing issues.
• Proficient in plotting and implementing scenarios and loading Load Runner scripts into a HP Load Runner Controller.
• Extensively involved in Performance testing, Functional testing,Load testing,Endurance testing,Stress testing,Integration testing,System testing,Regression testing and User Acceptance testing in HP LoadRunner Analysis.
• Experienced in using Open Source tool Windows Perfmon Utility,teh techniques to fix monitoring issues and monitoring Vuser status using monitoring tools such as Sitescope,Wily Introscope,Splunk,HP Open View,OEM.
• Testing teh application with stress and load of right transaction mix to emulate real time transaction load.
• Measured response times at sub transaction levels at web, app servers and database server levels by using optimal application expert, highly concentrated on transactions per sec during testing.
• Checked for network bottlenecks using network delay time and Vuser graphs.
• Analyzed teh test results TPS, Hits/second, Transaction response time, CPU utilization using HP LoadRunner Analysis tool, various monitoring tools, prepared Test Reports and analyzed Oracle database connections, Sessions, Log files
• Working and Testing Service Oriented Architecture SOA using SOAP UI.
• Performed backend testing creating SQL queries in Oracle, SQL Server.
• Delivering teh status reports like testing status, defect - tracking status, and weekly status reports to teh test manager.
• Solid presentation skills including experience with Power Point,Word,Excel.
• Excellent verbal, written and analytical skills with ability to work in a team as well as individually in fast paced, dynamic team environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows XP, 2003, 2000, Vista, Windows NT and Linux.

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Dot Net, XML,Unix shell scripting.

Testing Tools: HP LoadRunner 9.5/11.0/11.5/12.02, HP Performance center 9.5/11.0/11.5/12/ALM, HP Quality Center 9.0/9.2, QTP, JMeter 2.7, SOAP UI.

Monitoring Tools: HP Sitescope,Wily Introscope, HP Diagnostics, PerfMon, Splunk.

Web/Application: IBM Web Sphere, Web Logic 7.x/8.x/10.x, Tomcat 5.0/5.5, Apache.

Database: Oracle 9i/10G, SQL Server, MS-ACCESS, MySQL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TN

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed teh business requirements document with teh business and developmentteam to understand teh architecture and functionality of teh application.
• Gathering teh non-functional requirements by involving in meetings with businessteams, application teams and preparation of Performance Test Plan.
• Experience in writing test plans, defining Test Scenarios and Test cases, developingand maintaining Test Scripts based on business and functional requirements.
• Executed manual testing using fiddler to check and understand teh functionality.
• LoadRunneris used to generate Vuser script to simulate multiple client interactions and emulate teh behavior of hundreds of real users between teh browser and teh web server.
• Developed Vuser Scripts in Web(HTML/HTTP),Citrix ICA multiple protocols using HP LoadRunner Vugen.
• Recorded Vuser Scripts as per teh business transactions identified using Virtual User Generator (Vugen), inserted transaction points to calculate teh transaction response times and employed rendezvous points to simulate real world scenario.
• Implemented Correlation on dynamic values within teh script generated by Load Runner.Enhanced teh LoadRunner scripts by parameterization, check points and by keeping rendezvous points.
• Changed teh runtime settings and performed load rate calculation that includes setting up think time, pacing, selecting number of Vuser, number of iterations and number of transactions.
• Developed comprehensive test conditions and system performance test scenarios for highly complex information systems and/or software programs.
• Running teh Load Test Scenarios and monitoring teh performance using HP Load Runner Controller.
• Conducting Bottleneck testing, Load testing, Stress testing & Endurance testing and executed single user, medium & full load to analyze systems response.
• Worked with Load Runner in analyzing application performance for varying loads and stress conditions to simulate a process, which allowed using more TEMPthan 9,000 virtual users.
• Created Load Runner Analysis reports and graphs using HP Load Runner Analysis.
• Analyzed various graphs including Database Resource Graphs, Network MonitorGraphs, User Graphs, Error Graphs, Transaction Graphs and Web Server ResourceGraphs.
• Extensively usedWily Introscope to analyze teh system resources bottlenecks like Memory Leaks, CPU utilization,Response time,TPS as well as problematic application and DB components.
• Found memory issues in applications by analyzing GC logs and also analyzed applicationlogs for evaluating application errors.
• Providing detailed reports on heap memory and non-heap memory usage and on GC counters
• Report and track issues/defects using Quality Center, provide management with various test metrics and generate Quality Center reports and graphs.
• Preparing teh Analysis Reports and circulating them to teh corresponding Service Managers and Development teams.
• Scheduled Test results review meetings with project teams to walk through Test reports and discuss about Performance Bottlenecks Identified.
• Preparing teh Weekly Efforts sheet for teh team and circulating them to teh stakeholders.

Environment: HP LoadRunner 12.53,Jmeter,Wily Intrascope, Application Servers, Web Servers, SQL Developer,C, C++,HP ALM(Quality Center) 11.00,Linux.

Confidential, Dallas,Texas

Performance Tester

Responsibilities

• Working with project teams, development teams and business analysts on a daily basis to understand business needs and relate them in terms of performance testing.
• Followed Agile Methodologies and used HP LoadRunner basic architecture to perform testing.
• Developing test case scripts, executing scripts, documenting results and summary report in detail.Thus executedformal test plansto ensure teh delivery of quality software applications.
• Worked with manual and automation testers and conducted testing using HTTP Watch,Selenium tools.
• Enhanced teh test scripts usingWeb HTTP/HTML, True Client protocol inLoad runner.
• Worked on HTTP/HTML work flows, data conversion rules and change rules.
• Extensively used LoadRunner using Virtual User Generator to script and customizeperformance test harness Web Protocol.
• Test scripts development in HP LoadRunner VuGen and modifying scripts with required Correlations, Parameterization, run logic, think time, iterations, pacing, logging options and preferences.
• Used various correlations (Manual and Automatic) to parameterize dynamically changing fields.Data preparation for Parameterized values in scripts for multiple scenarios.
• HP LoadRunner is used to execute multi-user performance tests, used online monitors, real-time output messages and of teh features of theLoad RunnerController.
• Developed scenarios in Controller based on teh User Load and Transaction Volume and thus averageCPU usage, Response time, TPS are analyzed for each scenario.
• Used various techniques likeRamp up, Ramp down, Transaction PointinLoad Runner with 5000 virtual users.
• Found performance degradation issues like “Out of Memory” problems and improvedThread pool utilization, Memory Leaks.
• Protocol to protocol response times, web page break downs, components sizes were analyzed and reported.UsedPerformance Centerto define performance requirement likeSLAin test.
• PerformedPerformance testing, Functional testing,Endurance testing, Load testing and stress testing during teh testing life cycle of teh product release.
• Observed for failure/errors and monitored metrics (transaction response times,running virtual users, hits per second and windows resources graph) in tests.
• Identified bottle necks, performance issues using multiple user test results, online monitors, real-time output messages and LoadRunner Analyzer.
• Analyzed results to understand various performance counters like Java Heap memoryusage, CPU Utilization, Free Physical memory and etc by using metrics/report
• Monitored teh servers using SiteScope and by running Unix commands in servers whentest is running.
• Used to identify teh queries which is taking too long and optimize those queries to improve performance by performing backend testing on Oracle, executed variousDDLandDMLstatement.
• Total test management for teh project and tracking activities to completion and managing issues and risk that occur during teh pre and post upgrade testing.
• Maintained defects in Rally and participated in defect triage meetings and decide on meetings.
• Accurately produce regular project status reports to senior management to ensure on-time project launch.
• Participate inweekly meetings with teh management team and walkthroughs.
• Interface with developers, project managers, and management in teh development,execution and reporting of test automation results and day-to- day activities and updates in daily standup meetings.

Environment:HP LoadRunner 12.00,HP ALM - Performance Center 11.52, SQL Servers,Web Center, Remote Desktop, Web Log, Agile Methodologies,HP Sitescope, Rally.

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering business requirements, studying teh application and collectingthe information from developers, and business to proceed with Test strategy and Testplan creation.
• Wrote Performance Test Plan and Test Case design document with teh inputs from developers and functional testers.
• Performed manual HTTPWatch testing in order to understand teh functionality and response time of teh application for single user.
• Recorded Vuser test scripts in Virtual User generator using web (HTTP/HTML) protocol.
• Correlated teh dynamic values present in vuser test scripts besides dynamic parameterization is done on teh hard coded values in teh script which helps in reducing teh script size and avoid cache effect.
• In order to emulate teh user, running teh scripts by setting teh run logic,pacing,think time,log,proxy settings,preference deals with check point,performance graph & advanced settings.
• To know teh stability and performance characteristics over an extended period of time,soak test & load test are performed using certain 500 virtual users.
• Created teh load test scenarios and run teh scenarios in order to monitor teh performance using LoadRunner Controller.
• LoadRunner Analyzer gathers teh graphs generated from scenario results which are important for analysis of teh results are Running Vusers, Hit per second, Throughput, Transaction Summary, Average Transaction Response Time, Error per second, etc.
• Usedsplunk to analyze bottlenecks like memory leaks, CPU and network bottlenecks as well as problematic application and DB components.
• Monitors and captures system metrics to indicate trends in performance growth & recurring problems.Worked with bug report generation and defect tracking.
• Worked onperformance testing report and made recommendation for system/application performanceimprovement.
• Reported teh bugs, Email notifications to teh developers using QC.

Environment:HP LoadRunner 11.50,Splunk,C,Quality Center,Agile, HP LoadRunner, HPPerformanceCenter, HP Quality Center, Apache, Web Sphere, Oracle, MS Office, Wily Introscope, Windows.

Confidential

Performance tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and identified teh test scenarios based on requirements and involved in preparation of templates for test cases.
• Responsible for developing performance testing strategy, performance testing plan based on teh business specifications requirements and user requirements.
• Worked on web (HTTP/HTML) protocol.Developed VUser scripts and enhanced teh basic script by adding Custom code.
• Prepared data for manual correlation and parameterization of teh values in teh scripts for multiple scenarios by querying teh Oracle data.
• Introduced rendezvous points in teh script for stressing teh application for specific transactions.
• Executed in Load, Stress and Endurance testing to simulate a process, which allowed using 500 virtual users.
• Responsible for developing baseline scenarios and load testing harnesses for load/performance testing of teh application.
• Performed testing for No load, Medium Load and Full Load and analyzed teh system response.
• Responsible for performance monitoring and analysis of response time,memory leaks using throughput graphs.
• Analyzed teh LoadRunner reports to calculate response time and transactions per Second.
• Monitored system resources such as CPU Usage % of Memory Occupied VM Stat me/O Stat.
• Captured Java threads and Exceptions in teh application logs for analysis.
• Collected and maintained PBDs metrics using Wily Introscope.
• Responsible for monitoring CPU utilization, Thread count, Response time, session count, GC heap analysis.
• Developed weekly reports of performance data and metrics.Created performance narrative documents.
• Participated in defects meeting to discuss teh bottlenecks and long running queries.
• Involved in walkthroughs and meetings with Performance team to discuss related issues.

Environment:HP LoadRunner 9.51, Performance Center, Quality Center, HTML, Web Logic, XML, SQL, Windows XP/Vista, Sun Solaris 10.x, CA Wily Introscope, AIX.

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering requirements from business analysts, users and responsible in 0preparing test plans.
• Created test cases and test scripts for testing teh application to meet teh requirements.
• Developed scripts using Web (HTTP/HTML), Web services. Used HTML and URL based recording to capture teh communication between teh client and teh server using LoadRunner
• Involved in generating scripts and handling Correlation, Parameterization, Transaction points, Pacing, Debugging and various other functions using HP LoadRunner Vugen.
• Created Load Runner test scenarios and scheduled teh Virtual Users to generate realistic load on teh server. Preparation of sufficient test data for all teh performance tests.
• Design scenarios for Smoke Test, Load Test, Stress Tests, and Endurance Tests in Controller using 200 virtual users.
• Analyzing teh test results and circulating initial report to teh Stake holders.
• Preparation of detailed Performance Analysis Report with all observations and recommendations to teh application and development teams.
• Executing teh Performance tests and monitoring teh results using Sitescope by involving Application team and DB teams for capturing teh logs.
• Used VisualVM to Monitor teh JVM metrics like Heap Memory, non-heap memory and GC logs, Thread behavior and me/O Stat using UNIX commands like top, Vmstat, Nmon and Netstat while system under test.
• Setting up environment for new joiners for all teh required tools used in teh project.
• Logging defects for teh failed web service in Quality Center,performing Quality Center cleanup activities.
• Preparing teh Analysis Reports and circulating them to teh corresponding Service Managers and Development teams.
• Scheduled Test results review meetings with project teams to walk through Test reports and discuss about Performance Bottlenecks Identified.
• Preparing teh Weekly Efforts sheet for teh team and circulating them to teh stake holders.

Environment:HP LoadRunner 9.10, Sitescope,UNIX,HTML,MS Excel,C,IIS,Oracle 9i,Java,JVM,PL/SQL, Quality Center 8.2, Windows 2003/XP.