CAREER SUMMARY:

• Over 10+ years of diversified experience in teh IT Industry including Automated, Manual, Functional, Performance, and Unit testing of JEE/J2EE based, multi - tier enterprise Web, Client/Server, and mobile applications on UNIX/Windows environment. Designed various test plans and developed extensive test cases for many applications. Met successfully SLA requirements. Want to secure a position as Software Quality Assurance (QA) Performance and/or Selenium Automation Engineer/Tester leveraging my extensive experiences in designing test plans, developing TEMPeffective test cases and executing functional testing. Applications domains: Government, Financial, Telecom, and Health Care
• Over 10+ years of Software Engineering, release and configuration management and functional and non-functional testing experience
• 5+ years of experience in developing Performance and Functional Test Plans and Performance test Scenarios using requirements and design documents while specifying Test Approach, Strategy, Scope, Architecture, Environment, Roles and Responsibilities
• Experienced in working across entire business team to collect non-functional requirements, formulate scalable test strategies, and enforce performance testing. Excellent workload modeling skills
• Experienced in creating, coordinating and managing thePerformance Test Environment (PTE)wif necessary testing tools and ensure cross leveraging of teh PTE across teh applications needs.
• Experienced in working wif multiple businesses and projects to drive performance engineering best practices and enhance performance quality of teh products - and ensure cross-proliferation of teh best practices and lessons learnt
• Work wif teh IT & Operations team to design, build and troubleshoot performance test environments.
• Reviews test results through advanced ability to accurately assess output results against expected results.
• Analyses test results and summarize overall performance. Quick to create ad-hoc tests of performancetuning
• Designs, develops and implement test data management strategy for performance testing
• Expert in Windows Typeperf & Perfmon Utility to create custom config file and collect windows resources statistics remotely and generate report wif PAL.
• Experienced in using vmstat, sar, netstat, iostat, tcpdump topas utilities & System Monitor in UNIX System to measure Unix system Performance under load.
• Configured Oracle Database Monitoring in LoadRunner using V$ tables (V$SESSTAT, V$SYSSTAT, V$INSTANCE, V$SESSION)
• Experienced in Load testing, Scenario creation and execution, Measured Throughput, Hits per second, Response time, and Transaction time using Apache JMeter and LoadRunner/Performance center.
• Experienced in using utilities RDP, Putty, Process Explorer, File Mon, Process Mon, Fiddler, and Firebug.
• Experienced in identifying Memory Leak issue, Java Heap, Garbage collection issues.
• Participates in technical architecture and design discussions to determine performance testing approach and assures teh quality of and adherence to system/software product standards processes and procedures
• Attains an understanding of business applications, architecture and underlying components and technologies necessary to ensure systems are performing Confidential acceptable performance and resource utilization levels.
• Work wif multiple stakeholders from product development, architecture, dev-ops & QA teams to identify performance requirements & orchestrate validation of these requirements.
• Experienced in using LoadRunner wif correlation technique, run-time setting, and analyzed teh results to find out bottlenecks and root cause of performance barrier.
• Used Performance Center for distributed environment, running parallel scripts; Performed Database Backend Testing wif JDBC under JMeter.
• Used non-GUI mode (command line) ran set of jmx scripts as batch file, set up Jenkins server, which is able to run JMeter scripts using Maven/shell scripts
• Experienced wif multiple network services and protocols such as: DNS, DHCP, WINS, NAT, VPN, VLAN, STP, TCP/IP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP.
• Experienced in collecting and analyzing database performance using SQL Profiler, Activity Monitor, Dynamic Management View (DMV) in MS SQL Server and using Statspack and TKProf utility in Oracle.
• Excellent experience wif Selenium WebDrive wif java in browser automation, usability, functionality testing ofWeb applications. Good exposer to mobile app performance testing
• Excellent client, vendor relationship and technical staff management skills.
• Used Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) to view and analyze Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) and Active Session History (ASH) data for overall Database health and performance tuning
• Exceptional problem solver, driven to succeed wif strong project management and deep technical capabilities.
• Proficient in Unix shell scripting, Perl scripting, and Windows Power Shell scripting
• Experience wifAgileDevelopment,SCRUM, or Extreme Programming methodologies
• Experience wif UI technologies: Java Swing, HTML, JSP, JSF, JavaScript, AJAX JSON and CSS

TECHNICALL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: LoadRunner, JMeter, Performance Center, Junit, TestNG, Selenium WebDriver, UFT/QTP

Bug Reporting Tools: ALM and Quality Center

Operating Systems: UNIX(AIX 7.1/SOLARIS 10/HP 11i), LINUX(Red Hat 6.4), VMWARE 5.1, Windows 2008/.NET

Programming Languages: C/C++, C#, Java, SQL, XML, Perl and Shell (bash, ksh), ANT Scripts, SQL, PL/SQL, Javascript, VBScript, Ant Scripts

Application /Database Monitoring tools: Jconsole, Jvisualvm, Toad wif DBA modules, Dynatrace, Statistics from V$ tables, Wireshark, Fiddler, Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), JProfiler, Oracle’s AWR, ASH, and ADDM reports

IDEs, UI Technologies, and Development Environments: Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, MS Visual Studio; HTML, JSP, JFS, JavaScript, AJAX JSON, CSS, Java Swing components

Traditional/Waterfall, Agile/SCRUM/

: Extreme Programming methodologies Application Server and Container JMS API, MQ, MOM Oracle Web Logic 11.x, IBM Websphere 7.x, Internet Information Services (IIS), Glassfish 3.0, Apache Tomcat Servlet/JSP Container Apache ActiveMQ, WebLogic JMS

Databases/SOA: Oracle 10/11g, DB2 9.5; SQL Server 2008 R2, Oracle SOA Suites

Builds and Deployment tools: GNU Configuration tools---autoconf, automake, GNU make, m4; Apache Ant, Maven

Version Control: CVS, Git, SCCS based proprietary package level version control

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Confidential, Washington, D.C.

Performance tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in planning Performance test strategy and test resource allocation.
• Involved in preparing Traceability Matrix, Test Status Report, Test Execution Report, Weekly Summary Report and setting up Test Data.
• Acted as a point of contact to Business Analysts and Developers for testing issues.
• Transferred Test Plans and Test Cases into HP ALM/Quality Center.
• Administer, log and maintain defects in defect tracking system ALM/Quality Center.
• Tracked and reported bugs using ALM/Quality Center.
• Performed back-end testing using SQL queries to make sure dat data entered has been uploaded correctly into teh SQL database.
• Experienced in testing LDAP, FTP, and SOAP using LoadRunner as well as thru writing scripts and classes
• Used LoadRunner to test scenarios considered critical from a Business Flow standpoint; Analyzed, compiled and reported teh test results.
• Worked wif Infrastructure Impact Analysis team to identify configuration issues and bottlenecks. Also involved in tuning application to improve response times, queues and overall performance using LoadRunner.
• Involved in load test of teh application after an architecture change in teh application when Console and Agent servers were allocated separate physical servers using LoadRunner.
• Involved in analyzing teh performance of teh application under varying loads and concurrent users using Jmeter.
• Identified teh bottlenecks in teh application performance, conduct analysis and provide recommendations to management to improve teh performance using Jmeter and LoadRunner.
• Prepared risk assessment and capacity management and advise management about teh application performance under various load capacities using LoadRunner.
• Produced a final risk assessment showing whether there is a low, moderate, or high risk of teh current peak user volume of usage to negatively impact teh application’s production infrastructure using LoadRunner.
• Improved testing efficiency by preparing and executing batch tests.
• Involved in performing User Acceptance testing (UAT) and Received client system change request and production support for teh Entire life cycle.
• Performed Cross browser testing on different browsers for browser compatibility.
• Produced BUG reports on a weekly schedule to assist developers in bug resolution and participated in Bugs and Enhancement review meetings
• Drilled down to teh code level bottlenecks by breaking down business transactions into underlying methods, queries, and service calls across tiers and utilizing JVM heap analysis, thread dumps, and code profiling
• Used Java stack traces extensively in WebLogic Server to determine bottlenecks, hung threads, and resource contention in teh applications
• Used JRockit Mission Control (a management console) of Oracle JRockit JVM extensively, which resulted in using JRockit Management Console, JRockit Runtime Analyzer(JRA), Latency Analyzer, and JRockit Memory Leak detector. JRockit Management Console provides real time view into teh JVM’s operation by capturing and displaying live data on CPU, memory usage, garbage collection, and memory pool sizes
• Excellent experience wif Selenium WebDrive wif java in browser automation, usability, functionality testing of Web applications. Developed test cases for cross-browser (MSIE, Firefox, Chrome) and cross-platform using Selenium Grid which resulted in faster and increasing test coverage and reducing test execution time
• Experience in developing highly reliable and maintainable Functional Test Automation Frameworks using design patterns such as data-driven testing and Page Object Model. Utilized Maven as build as well as project management tool, GITHUB, TestNG and JUnit as testing frameworks, Jenkins as continuous integration tool, along wif CSS selector, Xpath, Firebug and FirePath, and Apache POI to Excel file read-write
• Utilized Cucumber JVM as framework for Behavior-driven Development (BDD) practice and process. Supported feature file by step definitions to execute scenario written in feature file using Gherkin language
• Integrated JMeter wif Selenium WebDriver and performed client-side performance testing (response time) using java date and Date/Time classes, stopwatch class from apache. Used DynaTrace AJAX edition and HttpWatch dat provide various metrics to analyze problems in JavaScript, network requests, page resource and page load
• Used Appium test automation framework for testing mobile web apps on Android simulator and real devices
• Executed performance tests in three critical area---Servers, mobile data networks (LTE, 4G, Wi-Fi), mobile device and teh app itself
• Used Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) to to view and analyze Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) and Active Session History (ASH) data for overall Database health and performance tuning
• Used Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) to analyzes data in teh Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) to identify potential performance bottlenecks

Environment: Quality Center, Load Runner, Performance Center, SQL Server, TOAD, Oracle 11g, UNIX, UFT/QTP, Selenium WebDriver, VBScript, C#/.Net, SOAP, HTML, JavaScript, Windows and MS Office.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Performance tester

Responsibilities:

• Participated and provided assistance in troubleshooting production performance and availability issues.
• Used Oracle Enterprise Manager(OEM) to identify less TEMPthan optimum use of Oracle’s internal resources
• Used Quality Center for storing teh script and executing it for functional testing
• Generated reports using Quality Center to track teh test team progress.
• Generated Defect report everyday to keep track of Defects closure using Quality Center and had regular meetings to discuss teh defect statuses and priorities.
• Used Quality Center as both Test Management Tool and Defect tracking tool.
• Performed back end validations using SQL statements against Oracle Database.
• Developed SQL queries involving performance views (V$) for real-time database performance statistics
• Created various Web Scripts for teh Application using Load Runner.
• Extensively worked on Virtual User generator and Controller.
• Used Performance monitor and Load Runner graphs to analyze teh results.
• Used Controller to Perform Load Test and Stress Test.
• Enhanced and maintained test scripts for different builds of teh application and according to teh changing system requirements.
• Responsible in testing teh site in all teh windows flavors in order to check teh compatibility of teh site.
• Monitored teh System &Windows Resources dat include different hosts and servers.
• Involved in Interfaces testing using File-Zilla to import and export files.
• Participated in teh bug review meetings wif project manager and Interacted wif developers to resolve technical issues.
• Enhanced and maintained test scripts for different builds of teh application and according to teh changing system requirements.
• Developed and maintained Test scripts for automating teh testing procedure using QTP.
• Performed functional and regression testing by using Quick Test Professional (QTP) by using various checkpoints. Wrote VB Script, developed Custom Functions
• Involved in creating Use cases using MS Visio

Environment: UNIX, MS Office, Java, JavaScript, Oracle, SQL, GlassFish, Windows, QTP, Load Runner and Quality Center.

Confidential, Toronto, Canada

Release & Configuration Level III

Responsibilities:

• Team leader in charge of teh product/applications builds configurations, releases and deployments.
• Performed server side builds.(integration, service packs, patches) across all products lines and across all platforms/environments.
• Environments included: C/C++ under UNIX (AIX-7/6.12/5.30, SOL-2.10, HPUX 1131(Itanium), 11.11(PA RISC), Linux-Redhat); .NET/C#, JAVA, jee/j2ee compliant frameworks.
• Maintained 100+ globally distributed clients’ runtime and build environments.
• Integrated and provided solutions to bring diversified configurations and release groups under a common umbrella.
• Performed GUI builds based on Java swing, Adobe Flex/flash.
• GUI build tools/environment included: ANT, Maven (familiar).
• Server side configuration tools involved: GNU make, autoconf, m4, configure.
• Deployed j2ee based and GUI applications on IBM WebSphere 7.0, Oracle WebLogic 11.Using ANT tasks.
• Automated daily nightly integration builds across teh platforms and generated reports using Shell/Perl scripts.
• Maintained 200+ FTP user accounts on FTP server utilizing Active directory Administrative interface.
• Installed, maintained License server; created license templates and generated Licenses for external clients (100+ sites).
• Administered and played RCC manager’s role for a long time periodically in processing high volume of clients’ requests, inquiries. Wrote and adjusted SLA (Service level agreement), improved/implemented various department’s process and policies.
• Debugged and tested various clients’ reported issues and resolved them successfully.
• Conducted regular meetings wif clients, advised them regarding product configuration/installations and deployment as per clients’ site specific environments.
• Mentored/trained newly hired associates, implemented various security features,/policies To protect company’s intellectual property and data integrity.

Confidential, Toronto, Canada

Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for build, configuration, and deliveries of /complex switching application (payment industry centric).
• Designed/created various build and configuration tools for different environments.
• Implemented automated build script for daily integration builds.
• Built (C/C++ /J2EE based) all teh products on different variant of UNIX platforms and Microsoft Windows environment for compliances, service packs (SPs).
• On Tier -1, Tier-2 platforms, maintained 80+ clients environments for hot fixes and patches.
• Trained new associates and implemented various processes to enhance RM/RCC’s multifaceted activities.

Confidential, Somerville, NJ

Release & Change Control Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for release deliveries to over 300 sites from coast to coast.
• Executed Tier II level supports for teh various applications.
• Installed applications and middleware (Tuxedo) on new servers and tested functionalities.
• Responsible for monitoring data collection processes, loading large number of incoming data files into Oracle databases; unloaded files were inspected/rejected, debugged (duplicate files, constraint violations), fixed and loaded into databases.
• Monitored Oracle tablespaces, wrote/developed shell/sql scripts, C programs for monitoring UNIX processes and parsing log files.
• Performed oracle backups (hot &cold backup) as needed.
• Added disks space creating new file systems (raw), partitioned & software mirroring of drives.