SUMMARY

• Over Eight years of diverse experience in the field of SDLC (Software development Life Cycle) and STLC (Software Testing life cycle) on Stand alone, client/server and web based applications.
• Conversant with all phases of Project Life Cycle including Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Implementation of Quality Software.
• Experience with Mercury Tools such as Win Runner, QTP, Load Runner and Quality Center.
• Strong skills using, installing, and configuring all components of Load Runner including
• Proficient with using web, click and script, web services and citrix in Load Runner.
• Testing of GUI and Web based applications on Windows and UNIX platforms using automated tools.
• Experience in Developing, maintaining and Analyzing Requirements, Test Plans, Technical Specifications, Test Strategy, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, System Specifications, Use Cases, Test Summary Reports, Bug Reports, Track Report and Traceability Matrix based on business requirements.
• Well versed in defect tracking & reporting using tools such as Test Director, HP Quality Centre, Clear Quest and Lotus Notes Database.
• Experience in monitoring servers using tools like site Scope, Team Quest and Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Analyze the CPU Utilization, Memory Usage, Memory - Leak
• Develop the Test Recommendations for each test pass and Test Results.
• Load test execution and work with Product Management and Development determining the number of virtual users to be used during the performance test.
• Coordinate web application performance testing pre tasks: Ensure performance test requirements received. and develop product specific performance test plans.
• Supervise script recording, ensuring correctness and quality with an understanding of monitoring requirements based on test objectives, test execution tasks. Coordinate test window and lab utilization.
• Secure technical support form on it oring of infrastructure and to qualify observations.
• Work with other technical team members (Architects, DBA) to support the test execution to ensure correct environment configuration just prior to execution.
• Execute performance/load/stress and other non functional tests. Monitor application logs to determine system behavior.
• Generate performance graphs, session reports and other related documentation required for validation and analysis. Publish results and receive appropriate sign off. Prepare detail status reports, and monitoring of all defects and issues.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows, Android, Linux, iOS

Domain knowledge: Insurance, Mortgage, Banking, Education, Accounting

Web Technologies: HTML, Java Script, XML, Web-Services

Languages: C, C++, Java, Visual Basic .Net, C#, Shell

RDBMS: Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2

Methodologies: SDLC, STLC

Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, FTP, HTTP

Automation Tools: Load Runner, Performance Center, QTP, VSTS

Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center, Test Director, JIRA

Monitoring Tools: Perfmon, Netmon, Event viewer, Site Scope, Wily, Fiddler

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cleveland - OH

IT System Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performing Load Testing on Quoting platform with applications facing Agent-services, Client Side and Progressive Home Page (Progressive.com).
• Working in stress environment for Regression Testing and other ongoing projects.
• Highly involved in End-to-End regression testing process from elevating the build to stress environment to support the post-production issues.
• Analyzing production data and verifying system behaves as per the expectations or not.
• Responsible for preparing all performance related documents like Test Plan, Test Result Document, Test Reports, Change management documents etc.
• Involved in risk assessment process for assigned project and determining the strategy whether to conduct performance test or not.
• Analyzed production data and based upon that, designed test strategy and test approach for upcoming releases.
• Conducted client-side and server-side testing for response time.
• Performed in-depth regression testing for latest build and compared with previous tests.
• Investigate and trouble-shoot performance problems in stress environment. This will also include analysis of performance problems in a production environment.
• Purely involved in regression testing, fail-over testing, volume testing, stress testing and other kinds of testing.
• Performed back-end testing with SQL queries.
• Validate the data being generated through SQL.
• Monitored Metrics on Application server, Web server and Database server.
• Working on very high priority based projects with tight deadlines.

Environment: Load Runner, Event Viewer, Oracle, Perfmon, Fiddler, MQ, Quality Center.

Confidential, Minneapolis-MN

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed load testing on ALIP (Accenture Life Insurance Platform) with different protocols with HP Load Runner.
• Involved in gathering requirements related to performance testing efforts.
• Conducted meetings on daily basis with different stake holders like developers, DBA s, Capability team, Business people for achieving the goal for the performance of the application.
• Worked with Capability team on achieving the SLA (Service Level Agreements) for the application.
• Performed manual testing on applications being tested before designing load runner scripts.
• Developed Load Runner scripts with different protocols like HTTP/HTML, Web Click and Script.
• Developed and customized load runner scripts with C Language.
• Added different transactions to make the script more understandable and user friendly.
• Performed manual co-relation for hard-coded (Dynamic) values in the script.
• Added parameterization, think-time, pacing, rendezvous points in the script.
• Added user defined functions in the script.
• Created scenarios with peak load of users specifying ramp-up and ramp-down time and other important settings.
• Performed different tests like regular load test, duration test, and stress test.
• Analyzed the results and reported defects in Quality Centre.
• Monitored different graphs such as transaction response time and analyze server performance status, hits per second, throughput, Windows resources, DB Server, App server resources.
• Performed root cause analysis for those transactions not meeting SLA s.
• Took follow up on the defects found with respective team members.
• Prepared different test related documents like Performance Test Plan, Test Result document, Performance Test Results with detailed analysis of various graphs generated during the test.
• Performed data-base testing with SQL queries.

Environment: Load Runner, Site Scope, Oracle, Oracle AWR Reports, MQ, Quality Center.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Sr. Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the Business Analyst and application teams to discuss the performance requirements and load test strategy.
• Developed the performance Test Plans and Load Test Strategies.
• Developed Vuser scripts using RTE, Web (HTTP/HTML), Web Services.
• Created customized Load Runner Vu-Gen script sat 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.
• Developed Complex Performance Test scripts for main frame based application.
• Developed Real world Test Case Performance Simulation for SOA based application.
• Used Site Scope and monitored the data bases, application and web servers (at OS & Application level) for performance bottle necks while conducting Load, Stress, volume, and Memory tests.
• Monitored different graphs like transaction response time and analyzed server performance status, hits per second, through put, windows resources and data base server resources etc.
• Found performance degradation issues like “Out of Memory” problems and improved Memory Leaks, JDBC connection Pool Size, & Transaction Roll backs.
• Analyzed Load pattern and created test scenarios to emulate the real life stress conditions.
• Created Test Metrics, Bug Database and generated weekly reports for senior management.
• Conducted meetings with developers, application team, business team to analyze the defects and Evaluate the test executions.

Environment: HP Load Runner, VSTS, HP Site Scope, Java, J-meter, IIS, DB2, Net-Mon.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Summary Reports and Test Execution Metrics.
• Developed and Executed the Test cases & scripts for Smoke, Functional, System, Regression, and Performance.
• Involved in Business functionality review meetings and Use Case Analysis and developing the Templates for User/Customer Training and documentation.
• Extensively used HP Load runner for Developing Vuser Scripts .
• Gathered Performance requirements for the application and designed performance tests for the multiple clients within the organization.
• Customized Load runner scripts in C language like String manipulation.
• Consumed Web Service V-user scripts for a Web Service Call using Soap-UI.
• Checked Cognos reports for performance issues.
• Analyzed results for bottlenecks and made recommendations for the bottlenecks.
• Monitored Metrics on Application server, Web server and database server with Site-scope.
• Created rendezvous point for Performance test scenarios to find deadlocks.

Environment: HP Load Runner, VSTS, Site Scope, Quality Center, Web-Services, IIS, SQL Server, Windows

Confidential - New York City, NY

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assisted QA Manager in coordinating/leading the testing efforts.
• Gathered business requirement, studied the application and collected the information from Analysts.
• Created Load Runner Scenarios and Scheduled the Virtual user to generate realistic load on the server using Load Runner.
• Created and implemented Performance tests using Mercury Interactive Load Runner.
• Involved in developing the Test Plan Strategy, build the test client and test environment.
• Enhancing the scripts using Generator and performed Parameterization and Correlation to meet the requirements.
• Written Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Test Scripts.
• As an Automation Engineer carried out testing, to check whether the application is functioning as per the design documentation and functional requirements.
• Involved in performing load and stress test on the application and server by configuring Load Runner to simulate hundreds of virtual users and provided key metrics to the management.
• Conducted all tests in the Controller by creating 100, 200, 400 virtual users for load, stress sand steady state test respectively.
• Involved in defect tracking, reporting and coordination with various groups from initial finding of defects to final resolution.

Environment: Windows, SQL Server, Web Logic, IIS, C#, Load Runner, Site-Scope and Test Director.

Confidential, Newark - NJ

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an independent consultant for performance testing and coordinated with multiple vendors.
• Involved in preparation of estimation, capacity matrix, testing plan and details, capacity plan and performance strategy docs and conducted assessments and data modeling using excel.
• Recording, scripting, introducing dynamic navigation, parameterization and execution of the scripts were done.
• Responsible for testing messages from MQ by checking the depth of Queues and pending messages.
• Responsible for testing both Asynchronous and Synchronous batch jobs in an enterprise wide environment.
• Creating the Test Scenarios, executing and generating reports using Load Runner 9.5.
• Performance Testing - Load testing, stress testing and soak testing of the application.
• Involved in preparation of Automation plan and frame work and lead the effort to enhance and extend automation frame work to products tested manually.
• Configured Application Performance Analyzer for monitoring system resources and activity.
• Used Site Scope to monitor server metrics.
• Work closely with software developers and take an active role in ensuring that the software components meet the highest quality standards.
• Provide support to the development team in identifying real world use cases and appropriate workflows.
• Performed in depth analysis is to isolate points of failure in the application.
• Assist in production of testing and capacity certification reports.
• Interface with developers, project managers, and management in the development, execution and reporting of test performance results.

Environment: Load-Runner, Site-Scope, MQ Server, Oracle, Visual Studios, Application Performance Analyzer.

Confidential

Developer/ QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a developer for newly introduced systems.
• Designed front-end GUI, established data-base connections to fetch data from data-base.
• Designed E-R diagrams, Use- Case diagrams and accordingly generated out-line for database.
• Designed data-base (Created tables, established primary key/foreign key constraints).
• Performed back-end database testing with SQL.
• Used indexes, views, stored procedures etc for better retrieval of data from back-end.
• Designed report-layouts with crystal reports and generated different reports through coding.
• Performed all kind of testing including manual, black-box, white box, regression, functional, cross browser, GUI testing, Unit Testing, User Acceptance Testing etc.
• Prepared all documentation like user manual as well as other reports for future reference.
• Provided training & support to end users.

Environment: ASP.NET with VB, Oracle, WindowsNT/2000, Crystal Reports.