SUMMARY

• 10 years of Experience in the IT industry with emphasis on Quality Assurance.
• Excellent skills in Manual Testing, Automated Testing & Performance Testing.
• Generating and implementing templates for Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Business Analysis, Gap Analysis, Test Defect Log, Test Case Checklist etc.
• Experienced in Automation of software testing process using Mercury Interactive Test suite (Win Runner, Load Runner9.2 9.0, 9.2, Quick Test Pro 8.2 8.2, 9.2, 9.5, Quality Centre and Test Director) Excellent skills in testing web - based applications.
• Performance Testing Tools: Administration and installation experience with Performance Center, Quality center, Sitescope and Test Director. Highly skilled in using Load Runner9.2, JMeter and customized UNIX/Linux Load Generator in PERL.
• Monitoring Tools: Sitescope, HP Diagnostics. Self developed monitoring & log analysis tool in PHP & PERL.
• Experience in Designing Test plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Procedures.
• Strong skills in performing System, Acceptance, Regression, Stress, Performance, Load, Functionality, Front End and Back End Testing.
• Experience in Backend Testing of the applications by executing SQL commands.
• Expertise in testing Performance, Load and Stress for Web and Client/Server Applications.
• Experience with Web and Application Servers.
• Knowledge of Object Oriented Software Development Methodology.
• Experience in writing System test plans, defining test cases, developing and maintaining test scripts and Documenting all phases of QA process.
• Participated in requirements analysis reviews and working sessions to understand the requirements and system design.
• Experience in testing database applications of RDBMS in ORACLE and SQL Server
• Experience in estimation of test effort and coordinate test schedule with overall project schedule.
• Experience in developing business based functional test scenarios.
• Expertise in Problem solving and Bug Tracking Reports using Bug tracking Tools.
• Excellent understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and role of QA
• Experience in Front-end testing, System testing, Unit testing, Integration testing, Performance testing, Stress testing, Backend testing and Regression Testing of Web based and Client/Server applications.
• Excellent in communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Contributed to the completion of all projects on time.
• Ability to work in tight schedules and on different applications concurrently.
• Solid analytical and trouble shooting skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows family.

Web/Application Server: IIS, Web Sphere, Tomcat & Web logic servers

Database: MS SQL Server, Oracle, LDAP, Access, Sybase, DB2

Performance Testing Tools: Micro Focus Loadrunner Edition 12.55, 12.60, Apache Jmeter.

Performance Monitoring/Profiling Tools and Utilities: Dynatrace, JvisualVM, PerfMon.

Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. QA Analyst / Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development of test cases from functional requirements, technical specification and use cases.
• Worked with Business Analyst regularly for developing test cases from the Business Requirements.
• As a member of the team involved in manual testing of the project.
• Monitoring and testing when the user updating the details via offline and the same data is properly synchronizing and updating when the same user connected online.
• Working with technical team for resolving the issues if we found any discrepancies or any mismatches while auto update of data online.
• Documentation of all test cases for future reference and for error handling.
• Worked closely with business analysts and developers to create test cases/scenarios, test steps, expected results.
• Thorough understanding in implementation of V Model and Water Fall methodology.
• Developed Manual Test Cases for different test scenarios covering all aspects of project functionality
• Performed Negative and Positive Testing Manually.
• Create, maintain and manage project documentation including project plans, user guides, reference manuals and training materials as appropriate
• Attended meeting with stakeholders and communicate TEMPeffectively with clients and all Confidential of management, peer and organizations within the Federal Reserve System.
• Create and Execute SQL scripts used for test validation.
• Validating in Production Environment after the successful implementation of the product.
• Provided Product Training and ticket support to Clients
• Strong Analytical background with demonstrated analytical and problem-solving silks to troubleshoot quality assurance testing issues
• Involved in Complete SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).
• Created and executed SQL queries to fetch data from an ORACLE database server to validate and compare expected results with those actually obtained
• Experience in developing Shell scripts in UNIX.
• Performed backend testing using SQL queries and analyzed the server performance on UNIX OS.
• Used Test Director to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning tests, executing tests, and tracking defects.
• Involved and responsible for creating weekly status reports regarding the progress of testing process

Confidential

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• I was involved in manual testing for different modules of the smartclient application.
• I was involved in raising defects for the smartclient application in Quality Center.
• Notified the bugs in the application to the development team from time to time
• Generated scripts in Virtual User Generater using web (http/html) protocol
• Enhanced each vugen script by performing manual correlation and incorporating check points
• Parameterized the data values used in vugen scripts so that each script execution can have different values.
• Involved in performing manual testing on Guiding and Rating module, billing, sub-module for Billing of Confidential Ensemble Recorded the Test cases using Automation tool Quick Test Pro for web based application and checked the functionality of the application
• Used Quick Test checkpoints to automatically capture and verify properties such as the number of links.
• Configured UNIX, database resources for performance monitoring in Performance Center.
• Create test scripts based on the test cases in Performance Center (Web version of Load runner).
• Carry out script enhancement by setting up rendezvous point, implementing parameterization and correlation to capture dynamic data returned from servers.
• Set up multiple load test scenario based on the test strategy in Performance Center.
• Carry out performance, stress and load testing in Performance Center.
• Identify bottlenecks in the system by analyzing various graphs generated in Performance Center for the Apache, Web logic, Web sphere and Oracle servers and other underlying infrastructure.
• Plan, design, Implement, Execute and Co-ordinate Stress/Load/Performance Testing Efforts. Create java Virtual Users in VuGen and configure Scenarios to meet the load testing requirements in Performance Center.
• Used Sitescope as a monitoring tool to collect the performance metrics like CPU usage, Memory Availability, and Disk I/O
• Created and configured non-standard objects to standard objects mapping them to Object Repository of Quick Test Pro.
• Used Quick Test Pro to validate links, objects, images and text on Web pages continue to function properly.
• Performed Manual Testing for testing functionality and GUI.
• Involved in development of test cases from functional requirements, technical specification and use cases.
• Performed Regression Testing with halp of scripts written in Quick Test Pro.
• Created the Load test plan, which demonstrated the load/performance, requirements of the application, extensively used Load Runner for performing Load, volume, stress and Longevity testing and to develop, execute and maintain performance scripts based on data model.
• Created various Web Scripts for the Application Using Load Runner
• Performed the stress testing on the application to verify the application behavior under extraordinary operating conditions
• Conducted the performance tests whenever required and monitored various metrics like transaction response times, running vuser load, CPU utilization of servers
• Created html reports of the results of performance test and submitted to the manager

Performance Tester

Confidential, Champaign, IL

Responsibilities:

• Created and developed test cases for the basic sanity testing of CSM (Customer service Management) module of the application
• Conducted regression testing of the application to verify all the modules of the application
• Notified the bugs in the application to the development team from time to time
• Generated vugen scripts using web (http/html) protocol
• Enhanced each vugen script by performing manual correlation and incorporating check points
• Parameterized the data values used in vugen scripts so that each script execution can have different values.
• Plan, design, Implement, Execute and Co-ordinate Stress/Load/Performance Testing Efforts. Create java Virtual Users in VuGen and configure Scenarios to meet the load testing requirements in Performance Center.
• Set up Performance monitors in Performance Center for different scenarios.
• Used Sitescope as a monitoring tool to collect the performance metrics like CPU usage, Memory Availability, and Disk I/O
• Uploaded the scripts in Performance Center and set up the scenarios specifying the Controllers to execute the scenarios, Load generators to generate load, the number of Vusers to run on each script, pacing between iterations, and duration of the load test.
• Performed Baseline tests, Load tests and Endurance test as per the test plan.
• Created scripts for the running of various metrics using load runner for performance testing
• Performed the stress testing on the application to verify the application behavior under extraordinary operating conditions
• Conducted data-refresh before the execution of the performance test
• Conducted the performance tests whenever required and monitored various metrics like transaction response times, running vuser load, CPU utilization of servers
• Created html reports of the results of performance test and submitted to the manager

Performance Tester

Confidential, Broomfield, CO

Responsibilities:

• Executing the scripts with the given settings
• Giving assistance to my senior peer by halping in preparation of test data
• Attended all company trainings on performance testing
• Capturing of dynamic values using correlation feature
• Parameterization for the existing scripts
• Create a test report, which documents test results and lists any discrepancies.
• Analyzing performance test results and Final Analysis report, which includes detailed Observations and Recommendations at tier Confidential .
• Setting up calls with development and design teams to identify the root causes of performance issues and get them resolved Generating a final test report at the completion of Performance testing

Performance Tester

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Created and developed test cases basing on requirements for the Siebel analytics application
• Conducted manual testing on the Siebel analytics application to verify the functionality on the user interface
• Notified the bugs in the application to the design team from time to time
• Involved in the development of vugen scripts by recording using Load Runner
• Enhanced each vugen script by performing correlation, incorporating check points and rendezvous points
• Parameterized the data values used in vugen scripts so that each script execution can have different values.
• Created scripts for the running of various metrics using Load Runner for performance testing
• Created load/stress scenarios for script execution using Load Runner controller
• Used Load Runner monitor to analyze the performance of the application
• Performed the stress testing on the application to verify the application behavior under extraordinary operating conditions
• Monitored and analyzed activity report and performance report created using Load Runner
• Performed load testing by generating vusers using Load Runner
• Involved in creating weekly status reports regarding my testing progress
• Created the Load test plan, which demonstrated the load/performance, requirements of the application, extensively used Load Runner for performing Load, volume, stress and Longevity testing and to develop, execute and maintain performance scripts based on data model.
• Created various Web Scripts for the Application Using Load Runner
• Performed the stress testing on the application to verify the application behavior under extraordinary operating conditions
• Conducted the performance tests whenever required and monitored various metrics like transaction response times, running vuser load, CPU utilization of servers
• Created html reports of the results of performance test and submitted to the manager