SUMMARY

• 8+ years of cumulative experience in the field of Software Quality Assurance and Testing.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience in User Acceptance, Manual, and Automated Testing.
• Involved extensively in System, Functional, Regression, Integration, and Performance Testing for Client - Server and Web-based Applications.
• Possess excellent professional skills as a team member and lead.
• Strong Team Player having good verbal and written communication skills.
• Experienced in Mercury Tools like Quality Center,QTP, Load Runner, and VSTS.
• Extensive hands-on experience in diversified fields of the Software Development life Cycle (SDLC), specializing in Quality Assurance Process and Methodologies.
• Experience working with software Development life cycle models (Waterfall Model, V Model, Incremental/Iteration Model and Agile Model).
• Developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases from the business, technical and functional requirements.
• Highly experienced in Integration/System, Regression, UAT, and Performance tests.
• Experienced in Design and Execution of Test criteria, Scenarios, and Scripts from requirements.
• Hands-on experience using Mercury Interactive tools QuickTestPro, LoadRunner, and Quality Center.
• Expertise in performing Manual and Automated Regression Testing using QTP.
• Manage and execute QA activities, including software quality assurance and testing.
• Understanding performance testing requirements, planning performance Suite; analyzing its ROI (Return on investment), analyzing, developing and executing performance test scripts onVSTS and Load runner, deep analyzing the Perform on counters Data and pinpointing the bottlenecks and issues affecting performance.
• In segregating the Bottlenecks of Database and web servers separately. Database by tools like DTA (Database Tuning Advisors), SQL load test and analyzing profiler traces. Web server by Perform analysis and code profiling by tools like VSTS.
• Insight of creating automation frameworks like data driven, Business process testing (BPT), Reusable Actions frameworks, customizing frameworks for automation tools including VSTS2010 and preparing QTP scripts.
• Analyzed the Load Runner results to measure the Average CPU usage, Response time, Transactions per second.
• Tested the various Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) spanning across various departments usingSOAP& WSDL usingSOAPUIPro
• Extensively analyzed various performance Monitors to find System Bottlenecks, Network Bottlenecks, CPU & Memory Utilization and Memory Leaks.
• Responsible for Parameterization and correlation in VUser Script by capturing the dynamic values using Auto correlation and Manual correlation for web application and troubleshooting the existing Vugen scripts.
• Validation of test results using SQL database querying and log file analysis.
• Experience in Testing Database Applications of RDBMS in ORACLE and MS SQL Server.
• Managing evolving test requirements throughout the product lifecycle, covering test analysis, planning, design, test data preparation and test execution.
• Accurate and concise documentation skills, used for creating detailed test plans, test reports and other documents required within the test process.
• Regression testing and maintenance of test script repositories for updates to existing software.
• Hands-on experience of product reviews and technical walkthroughs.
• Extensive knowledge of test object model, functional and regression test automation, and automation framework.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing tools: Quick Test Professional (QTP) 8.2/ 9.0/ 10.0/11.0 , HP Load Runner8.1/9.1, Test Director 8.0VSTS 2005,2008, 2010 (Performance Testing tool of Confidential ),Clear Quest, Soap UI, Stress Stimulus, NeoLoad.

Databases/DB Tools: Oracle 10G/9i/8.0 PL/SQL, SQL 2005/2008

Defect Tracking: HP ALM/ Quality Center,IBM Clear Quest, Confidential team foundation server, SharePoint.

Applications: Lotus Notes, GUI, MS Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Visio, PC anywhere, Terminal Services Client, Terminal Services Manager

IDE and Other Tools: Visual Studio.Net, Visual Studio Team Server, SQL profile, Red ant code profiler, Mobile phone simulator testing,, Database Tuning Advisor, Fiddler

Operating Systems: Windows 98/NT, Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/7, UNIX, LINUX, IBM Mainframe

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

PERFORMANCE TESTER

Responsibilities:

• End to end performance testing of Silverlight and Java application using Fiddler and Visual studio Ultimate.
• Performance stress testing of TCM and SSRS report.
• Created various Web Scripts for the Application using VSTS and Fiddler for Functional and Performance testing.
• Created Test plan and Test strategy for performance testing.
• Gathered requirement and created scenarios meeting end users directly.
• Identified Performance Issues including deadlock conditions, query scalability, indexing recommendations .
• Involved in Functional, System, Integration, Performance, Load, Stress and Regression testing during various phases of the development using Fiddler and Visual Studio Ultimate.
• Used SharePoint for defect management tool
• Responsible for Parameterization and correlation in VSTS Script by capturing the dynamic values and extracting dynamic session ids for web application and troubleshooting the scripting issues.

Confidential

SENIOR QUALITY TESTER

Responsibilities:

• Has created and reviewed the test plan for the major releases.
• Has created the test suite for the new functionality with the optimization of the regression suite.
• Provide scope, resource and time estimates for projects presented for testing and analysis.
• Mapped with test cases to follow the Traceability Matrix.
• Work closely with the development team to ensure all relevant and agreed upon aspects of the application are tested.
• Involved SQL Queries were to retrieve data from tables and to perform Back-End testing
• Write SQL Query to extract data from various database tables for testing purpose.
• Preparing the test results and involved in Go-No Go decision meetings.
• Identified Performance Issues including deadlock conditions, query scalability, indexing recommendations by using tools like DATABASE TUNING ADVISOR, SQL LOAD TEST and profiler trace analysis.
• Identified Hardware bottlenecks in the application environment by analyzing cache related counters and recommended optimum up gradation of the hardware required for the application.
• Deep diving into the code profiling using VSTS and Red Ants to analyze the slowest method calls and garbage collection data.
• Involved in Functional, System, Integration, Performance, Load, Stress and Regression testing during various phases of the development using WinRunner, LoadRunner and Quality center.
• Involved in the Stress Analysis based on the Performance Metrics
• Enhanced the automation scripts with Parameterization, Regular expression and Output Values.
• Tested SOA-based applications andSOAP-based WEB Services using either HTTP as transport protocols. Provided functional and performance testing of SOAP-based Web Services using SoapUI and LoadUI.

Confidential

QA ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Has certified 4 releases in Critsit as a single tester in the team with 0 sev1 defects passed in production which is highly crucial and thus required in the project.
• Has done the windows based mobile testing of application both in Smart phone and pocket PC.
• Involved in testing mailing functionality by integrating the SMTP host server with the application mailing web services.
• Rearranged the entire regression suite as per required priority of the test cases.
• Was timely appreciated by the Client for minimized bugs’ passé in production as the project was very critical from the business point of view.
• Involved in gathering test data fortestingpositive and negative scenarios.
• Has created and reviewed the test plan for the major releases.
• Used Product Studio to store alltestingresults, metrics, created Test Cases, and Reporting.
• Reporting and tracking of defects till closure using the Product Studio tool.
• PreparingTestSummary andTestAnalysis reports and submitted in Product Studio.
• Attend everyday defect meeting and discuss defect.
• Participated in aggressivetestingin the final stage and production releases.
• Involved in testing the Web Services security using SOAP and network security of the applications.

Confidential

QA ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Manual and Performance testing of Web application and project timeline Application.
• Developed automation Scripts using QTP 9.5 and leading automation effort.
• Played a key role in understanding the Business requirements document and creating test plan and test cases for the web portal.
• Have done performance testing on the timeline application and find the loop holes of memory leaks in the application.
• Was involved in regression testing of the application after every build.
• Initiate, coordinate and implement the QA Process and Methodologies.
• Created Load Runner scenarios to run the workload mix as defined in the performance test plan (Load/Stress, Endurance, Scalability and Interference performance test runs).
• Created various Web Scripts for the Application using Load Runner for Functional and Performance testing.
• Conducted stress testing to expose performance bottlenecks and determine system behavior under peak activity when user load exceeds anticipated levels, verify that applications recover from overload conditions as expected.
• Involved in analyzing, interpreting and summarizing meaningful and relevant results in a complete Performance Test Report.
• Responsible for Parameterization and correlation in Vuser Script by capturing the dynamic values using Auto correlation and Manual correlation for web application and troubleshooting the existing Vugen scripts.
• Performed the Back-End integration testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL Queries on the database
• Enhanced the automation scripts with Parameterization, Regular expression and Output Values.
• Involved in running the Scenarios for the generated Vuser Scripts in LoadRunner Controller.

Confidential

QA ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Writing the functional test cases in quality center for an existing application
• Actively Involved in Onsite calls with the client manager and dev team to understand the functionality of the complete application without existence of proper FSD.
• Tested the complete Release, reported the bugs in Quality center, also recommended many CR’s which were later implemented and highly appreciated by the client.
• Involved in role based testing of the application.
• Used Quality Center for repository, reporting bugs, tracking bugs and updates on resolved bugs.
• Used Quality Center for Version Control. Each version of the application is stored in QC and necessary modifications, updates and analysis had been done.
• Regression Testing is performed and the additional scripts are generated for each version.
• Testingthe functionalities of each field present in application.
• Testingthe integration of various modules within the application.
• Provided Test status and reports and kept track of overall testing progress
• Attended weekly defect report meetings and presented progress updates.
• Used Quality Center to store alltestingresults, metrics, created Test Cases, and Reporting.

Confidential

QA ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Was involved in undergo FDD's Walkthrough for better understanding for the developer’s.
• Worked on mainframe to port the model on different environment of developer's and to do promote testing and compare the results with developers.
• Taken the KT from the client and initiated the testing of the project at offshore for the first time.
• Write SQL Query to extract data from various database tables for testing purpose.
• Used SQL Queries were to retrieve data from tables and to perform Back-End testing
• Initiate, coordinate and implement the QA Process and Methodologies.
• Involved in database testing by writing and executing SQL queries to validate that data is being populated in appropriate tables. Extensively used SQL queries to perform back end testing to check data integrity.