SUMMARY:

• 7 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Performance testing.
• Hands on experience and exposure in all phases of project development lifecycle and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) right from Inception, Transformation to Execution which include Design, Development, and Implementation.
• Experience in Insurance, Financial, Trading, Retail and Pharmaceutical industries.
• Performance testing Experience in .Net, Java, PeopleSoft, Oracle applications by using HTTP/HTML, Web Click &Script, Web Services, SAP Web, Oracle NCA and multiple protocols.
• Extensive experience developing Virtual User Generated (VuGen) scripts for Performance Testing.
• Strong skills in performing Load Testing, Performance, Integration, Functionality, Smoke, Stress and Usability testing for web and Client/Server application.
• Expert in writing, executing test cases, usage of bug tracking tools such as Jira and Hp quality center.
• Strong noledge in database/SQL (DB2, Oracle, SQL Server) queries.
• Experience in server side monitoring and test result analysis using Site scope and Wily Introscope for application server to identify performance bottlenecks.
• Experience with UNIX servers OS and variety of commands, ability to write and test UNIX shell scripts.
• Experience in analyzing performance bottlenecks such as very high CPU usage, memory leaks
• Created Web Services scripts using Load Runner by scanning WSDL files and recording teh Client.
• Expertise in Manual and Automated Correlations to Parameterize Dynamically changing Parameters values.
• Administration of HP Performance Center for developing virtual user scripts, scenarios, scheduling, resource monitoring and analysis.
• Monitoring system resources such as CPU Usage, % of Memory Occupied, VM Stat, I/O Stat.
• Collecting teh frequency of JVM Heap and Garbage Collection in Web sphere during test.
• Experience in performing Smoke, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Backend, Ad - hoc and User acceptance testing.
• Experience with SOAP UI protocol to verify teh Request and response in WSDL. Transport, Messaging and Description protocols.
• Experience in conducting JAD Sessions for requirement analysis, risk analysis, adaptability and feasibility studies with executives, developers, QA and end-users.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Load Runner 12,11.5, 11, 9.5. QTP, Performance Center 12, 9.5. SOA Test, Rational Clear Quest, Quality Center

Workflow Tools: MS-Project 2000, MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-PowerPoint

Environment: Web and App Servers- Web Logic, Web Sphere, Apache, MQ Series, MTX, IIS, LDAP, SNA server, SQL Servers, AS 400, IBM 6000, MQ Series (IBM and MS), AIX

Languages: C, C++, Java, VBScript, SQL,TSL, Java Script

Databases: SQL Server 2000/2005, Pl/SQL, DB2, MS-Access 2.0, MySQL.

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, UNIX, Solaris

Tools: Wily Introscope, BMC Patrol,HP Diagnostics, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business, Functional Requirements and Design Review Documents to develop Test Plan.
• Designed performance test suites by creating VU test scripts, workload scenarios, setting transactions, rendezvous points and inserting them into suites using Load Runner.
• Created Load Runner scenarios and scheduled teh Virtual Users to generate realistic load on teh server using Load Runner.
• Developed Vuser scripts and enhanced teh basic script by parameterizing teh constant values using Load Runner.
• Used Load Runner monitors to measure teh Transaction Response time, Network delay and Throughput.
• Tracked Defects using Jira and generated defect summary reports.
• Created test strategies and conditions for load, stress, concurrent users and network bandwidth scenarios.
• Developed Scenarios in Controller based on teh User Load and Transaction Volume.
• Involved in Running Web Services in SOAP UI for load and performance testing.
• Created time slots, monitor profiles, performance test design, performance test execution and run time settings configurations using HP Performance Center 12.
• Develop and implement load and stress tests with Performance Center, and present performance statistics to application teams, and provide recommendations of how and where performance can be improved.
• Knowledge of HP Performance Center using online J2EE, Web Diagnostic, Unix Graphs in tune application.
• Monitored teh Server’s CPU Utilization and teh used Heap memory status by using HP Site Scope and BMC Patrol.
• Configured Web, Application, and Database server performance monitoring setup using Load Runner Controller and monitoring tools.
• Analyzed Heap behavior, throughputs and pauses in Garbage collections as well as tracking down memory leaks while executing teh duration tests.

Environment: Load Runner 11.5, Performance Center 12, HP Site scope, BMC Patrol, MQ, Quality Center, Soap UI 4.1, Java, HTML, XML, Java Script, Web Sphere, DB2.

Confidential

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Project Manager, Development Lead, Developers, and QA Lead to gather requirements in order to formulate teh test plan.
• Responsible for Performance Testing using Loadrunner and IBM Rational Performance Tester.
• Written several shell scripts using UNIX Korn shell for file transfers, error log creations and log file cleanup process.
• Used Load Runner to execute multi-user performance tests, used online monitors, real-time output messages and other features of teh Load Runner Controller.
• Developed test scripts using Web (http/html), Web Services and .Net protocols.
• Experience using test management and defect tracking systems such as HP Quality Center and Jira.
• Designed Scripts using Ajax Tru client protocol to get system DB purged after every run.
• Extraction of test data from tables and loading of data into SQL tables.
• Created Vuser scripts that contain tasks performed by each Vuser, tasks performed by Vuser’s as a whole, and tasks measured as transactions.
• Created customized LoadRunner VuGen scripts at API level with manual correlation, user defined functions, development libraries (classes and methods), and error handling.
• Enhanced Vuser scripts by adding correlations, parameters, condition controls, and checking/validation functions.
• Provided recommendation and scalability solution comprised of teh test findings and system behavior observed under conditions of load, stress.
• Identified Performance issues in MySQL DB, by evaluating queries and tuned accordingly for better performance.
• Used AJAX Tru Client to get API + GUI response time.
• Created Scripts in VuGen 11.0 using Web Http/Flex Protocol.

Environment: Load Runner 11, HP Performance Center 9.5, Web Sphere, IBM Rational Performance Tester, DB2, Portal Applications, Quality Center, Wily, SiteScope, C, Soap UI .net, Windows, HTML, XML, MS SQL.

Confidential - NC

QA/Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test plan and Test specifications based on Functional Requirement Specifications and System Design Specifications for ecommerce application.
• Developed load test scripts using LoadRunner VUGen to make them flexible and useful for Regression testing.
• Parameterized actions and created files using random, sequential and unique options in LoadRunner VUGen.
• Developed VUser Scripts using protocols like Web (http/html), Web Services, .Net, Citrix and Oracle NCA.
• Used Correlation to handle teh Dynamic returns values and scheduled teh test under workload compositions.
• Enhanced Vuser scripts with transactions, rendezvous points, functions, parameterization and correlation.
• Tested several UNIX shell scripting for File validation and also PL/SQL scenarios.
• Executed LoadRunner scenarios using LoadRunner Controller - performance Center and analyzed teh results through LoadRunner Analysis to find teh bottlenecks in networks and server resources including deadlock conditions, database connectivity problems and system crashes under load.
• Configured Load Runner monitors to monitor performance of individual Hosts behavior on load.
• Extensively worked on UNIX and executed various programs on C Shell.
• Used Hp Diagnostics to identify Heap Size and GC Collection.
• Analyzed teh results and Created Analysis Report through LoadRunner Analysis, prepared and submitted Exit Report with Recommendations.
• Extensively worked LoadRunner in analyzing Content Distribution Services application performance for varying Loads and Stress conditions.
• Measured teh response time at different points in teh application using Site Scope monitoring tool.
• Analyzed teh system resource graphs, network monitor graphs and error graphs to identify transaction performance, network problems and scenario results respectively.
• Build and execute SQL queries to verify teh data updates to various tables and ensure data quality and integrity.
• Tested C#. Net, ASP.Net and VB.Net applications.

Environment: Load Runner 9.5, Quality Center, Jira, JAVA, Wily Introscope, Apache Tomcat, C, C++, Agile Methodologies, Citrix, Oracle.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements, Business Rules and created Test Plan, Test Cases for projects.
• Designed and developed performance testing automation artifacts (scripts, functions, scenarios, processes) for simple to complex testing situations using HP Load Runner.
• Executed UNIX shell scripts that invoked SQL loader to load data into tables.
• Conducted Ramp ups and Ramp downs in Load Runner as required.
• Identified teh Memory leakage or Garbage collection on HP Diagnostic and worked with middleware team on heap size.
• Implemented whole life cycle of QA Methodologies starting from Planning, Capturing, Creating, and Executing, Reporting and Tracking teh defects.
• Linking teh requirements and defects to test cases in Bugzilla.
• Executed Test Cases and participated actively in System Testing and Regression Testing for teh Web based application as well as teh Windows based application.
• Identified performance problems or bottlenecks and recommended possible steps for remediating using HP Diagnostics.
• Reporting and tracking teh bugs using Bugzilla.
• Regression testing on different sources like Oracle, SQL, DB2 and AS400 and on different OS Windows, UNIX, AIX, HP UNIX and Sun Solaris.
• Performed Backend Testing by Executing SQL Queries against Oracle and SQL database.

Environment: Load Runner 9.5,J2EE, Swing, JDBC, Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g, SQL Server 2008, Bugzilla, Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris, AIX, HP Unix, .Net.