PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• QA Load Tester experienced in Information Technology with emphasis on QA Analysis on Client/Server, Web - based applications using manual and automated testing tools.
• Experience in Software Quality Assurance and Software Testing on various system platforms and operating system Windows 95/98/2000/XP and 7.
• Full Life Cycle experience, involved in requirement analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, support in an Agile Methodology environment.
• Strong knowledge of manual and automated web testing methodologies, including writing test plans, writing test cases, executing test cases, finding defects, defect tracking, automated test script development, automated test tool/utility development, and participation in the establishment of an automated testing framework.
• Experienced in performing Black-Box, Sanity, Smoke, Functional, Positive, Negative, GUI, Backend, Integration testing, End-to-End, Regressions, Usability, UAT, Performance, Stress, Load Testing.
• Strong Manual Testing experience and Solid experience in HP LoadRunner 11.5,12.1 performance center, Quality Center, Test Director, SiteScope (Monitoring Tool) and Selenium.
• Excellent programming skills and experience with SQL, PL/SQL.
• Possess a positive attitude and high levels of professionalism to meet the expectations of the corporate culture.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Performance and Monitoring Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Going through requirements and creating the Performance Test Plan for BSM script per requirements.
• Design and implement Vugen scripts using multiple protocols for the Business Flows.
• Standardize Transaction Names, script names, parameters and application name.
• Troubleshoot and correct any potential related issues with script migration and execution.
• Exclusive Experience on BPM’s and BSM monitoring.
• Add/Remove/Maintain BPM’s as needed and performs root cause analysis on BSM’s transaction failures.
• Analyzes daily BPMPerformance over Time Reports and increase/decreases application thresholds accordingly.
• Involved in design and implementing various BPM and BPM Load Balancing projects.
• Monitor Boeing’s internal and external websites by utilizingSitescope.
• Created Requirements Traceability Matrix by integrating the requirements with test scripts in Test Plan and integrating defects with test-cases by customizing Traceability Rules and Convert Test options in Quality Center/ALM.
• Setup Alerts based on threshold usingSiteScopeto monitor ALM Servers.

Performance Engineer

Confidential . Petersburg, FL

Responsibilities:

• Using Performance Center, created 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.
• Getting complete performance testing requirements from the client. Interfacing with client to freeze the same.
• Estimation of Performance Testing Effort.
• Experience in writing VUGen Scripts with Web http/html, Oracle ODBC, Oracle NCA, Sybase CTLib, AJAX TruClient IE, FireFox, and WebClickandScript protocols.
• Formation of appropriate Test Load Mixes and execution of tests in form of Ramp-up Tests, SOAK Tests, Stress Tests.
• Created Vugen Scripts in C and used related functions to update the baseline script.
• Analyzed LoadRunner/Performance Center test results Involved in Preparing Test Plan and Test Cases based on the analysis of the business requirements.
• Extensive Parameterization and correlation of the VuGen scripts to ensure the real time load conditions.
• Used Rendezvous points to load test specific transactions.
• Experience in monitoring servers using SiteScope.
• Analyses the CPU Utilization, Memory usage, and Garbage Collection and DB connections to verify the performance of the applications.
• Work closely with developers and take an active role in ensuring that the application components meet the highest quality standards.

Performance Engineer

Confidential, FL

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Software Development Lifecycle activities such as process improvements, requirements and code review design reviews, feasibility assessments, process reviews.
• Create Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scripts based on business requirement documents.
• Write test cases in Microsoft Excel, and upload in Quality Center.
• Execute manual test cases manually and verify the actual results with expected results.
• Identify significant component's functionality to perform Regression Test ensuring business priority.
• Designed Performance test scenarios and Vaughan Scripts using LoadRunner 11, ran Stress test, analyzed the results.
• Developed Virtual user scripts using VuGen for various applications; performed Correlation, Data Parameterization and Customization of scripts using LoadRuner 11.
• Executed performance testing using LoadRunner Controller and created LoadRunner graphs to analyze the results.
• The used Rendezvous concept of LoadRunner 11 to generate peak load onto the server, thereby stressing it, and measuring its performance and performed dynamic Parameterization and Correlation testing.
• Created Vuser scripts for Load and Performance testing to verify the Throughput Capacity, to ensure that performance meets or exceeds previous performance benchmarks, using LoadRunner 11.
• Log defects into defect tracking tool Quality Center (QC ALM) after analyzing the root cause of the issue, consult with team lead before generating defect tickets.
• Identifying defects and managing their lifecycle using defect management tool Mercury Quality Center.
• Involved in preparing traceability matrix in Quality Center to ensure all requirements mapped.
• Perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT) at the Client site.
• Perform Unit, Functional, Regression, Ad-hoc, Black Box, User Acceptance, Positive and Negative Tests for the application under test (AUT).
• Attend and lead weekly QA Status meetings. Participate in Quality Assurance (QA) Test Document review.
• Work closely with Developers and Business Analysis to resolve defects and testability issues.

QA Analyst

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Developed test deliverables as related to the five areas of Quality Control ALM (Test Planning, Test Preparation, Test Execution, Defect Management, and Test Reporting), including building definitions, specification/requirement decomposition, and requirement matrices
• Executed written test case scenarios, including manual, automated, and data-driven regression.
• Performed Quality Assurance activities for a wide range of application products using Quality Center ALM.
• Created functional automation scripts using open source tools selenium (selenium IDE, RC)
• Developed and executed automated scripts under automation framework using Selenium
• Worked with deployment team to create a nightly automation regression execution builds.
• Involved in creation of automation framework usingseleniumand testing.
• Developed test cases and test scripts for Functionality and Regression Testing using Selenium.
• Examined system behavior and performance using Load Runner.
• Prepared Test Plan, Test Cases, developed multiple user Scenarios for Load and Performance Testing.
• 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 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.
• Used LoadRunner to analyze the response times of business transactions under load, developed reports and graphs to present the stress test results to the management.
• Defend Rendezvous points to create peak load on the server and thereby measure the server performance under load.
• Analyzed Throughput graph, Hits per second graph, Transactions per second graph and Rendezvous graph using the LoadRunner Analysis tool.
• Performed Load and Performance testing by using Load balancer to test the Web Application.
• Designed and developed complex set of SQL queries and sub queries for database testing.
• Responsible for providing information as requested in a timely manner.
• Attended team meeting and project meeting.

QA Analyst

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with project team to ensure testing required documentation was provided at the right time.
• Managed STLC processes by using Quality center, requirements, test plan, test lab, defects, and other test management activities.
• Participated as a member of a team developing and maintaining enterprise and Internet application test cycle using object oriented architecture in a Windows environment.
• Ensured that testing needs of the team were met and that team members understand what documents must exist to facilitate an efficient testing process.
• Defined test objectives, created test plans, and developed manual and automated test cases and procedures.
• Executed software applications tests generating test data and metrics, communicating test status, and analyzing test results.
• Recorded defects (using bug tracking software QC), including documenting information useful in the debugging process, evaluating test data, problem discovery, tracking and resolution.
• Wrote test documentation, automated testing, and executed testing of software applications developed using various technologies.
• Developed Virtual user scripts using Mercury Load Runner VuGen for various business processes; performed correlation, data parameterization.
• Monitored application server, web-server and database server resources using Load Runner.
• Worked with engineering, search and technical teams to develop enterprise-level performance test scripts using Load Runner Web Performance Test & Load Test.
• Responsible for developing test cases in HP Quality Center and executing tests according to software test processes and procedures.
• Involved in generating Vusers in Load Runner for performance testing, and load testing of the application.
• Prepared and maintained test data required for Performance /Load/Stress and Regression test suites.
• Measured Throughput, Hits per second, Response time using Load Runner Analysis tools.
• Performed other related functions, including special projects, as required and requested

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Management Tools: Performance Center 11.52, LoadRunner 9.5, 11.5, SiteScope, Quality Center ALM 11.520, Test Director.

Technologies: NET, SOAP, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XMLDatabases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySql, MS Access

Tools/Applications: MS Office, UML, Adobe Acrobat, MS Visio, MS Project, VSS

Browsers & Servers: Internet Explorer, FireFox, Opera, Apache Tomcat, Web Logic

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/NT/XP/Vista/7

Protocol: Web HTTP/HTML, AJAX TruClint and Script AJAX TruClient /Firefox /AJAX TruClient/IE