SUMMARY

• Over all 6+ years of experience in Performance Testing, Manual and Automation Testing of Client/Server and Web based applications with exposure to diverse business domain that includes banking, HRMS and Mutual Funds.
• Good exposure in entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle.
• Good Exposure on Performance Engineering Life Cycle.
• Good in understanding the Business Requirements, Functional Specifications and analyzing the Change requests.
• Expert using Load Runner and Performance Center for Performance Engineering.
• Experienced in performing Regression, System, User Acceptance, Reliability, Compatibility, Smoke, Load, Stress and Endurance Testing.
• Good working knowledge of automated tools like UFT/QTP and expertise in running UFT/QTP scripts for Functional, Regression and End to End Testing.
• Hands on experience in preparing Test Cases, Automated tests and Test Data and executing the same.
• Experience in Performance Testing on Java, .Net applications and Restful Web Services.
• Experience in Web (HTTP/HTML), Citrix and Ajax True Client IE Protocol using HP Load Runner.
• Experience in testing the Restful Web Services.
• Good experience in analyzing and designing the test scripts using Sniffing tools like HTTP Professional and HTTP Fox.
• Experience in designing and executing different Scenarios’ in the Controller and Performance Center.
• Experience in monitoring and collecting the server metrics in Perfmon.
• Analyzing Results using Windows Performance Analysis Tool (PAL).
• Configuring various server metrics in diagnostic tool to capture infrastructure resource utilization.
• Experience in for monitoring OS, Web server, Application server and Database servers with Wily Introscope, Team Quest.
• Ability to analyze and identify the bottlenecks of Web server, Application server and provided observations and recommendations to fine tune the system.
• Expertise in documenting defects with high level of detail, accuracy and informative recreation steps using Team Track.
• Experience in writing the SQL queries.
• Attending Kanban calls, planning & delivering the work accordingly.
• Quick learner and excellent team player having ability to meet tight deadlines and work under pressure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows 95/98/NT, 2000, XP, Unix

Tools: HP Load Runner 12/9.5, Performance Center 12/9.0, UFT

Protocols: Web (HTTP/HTML), Citrix Protocol, Ajax True Client IE

Monitoring Tool: Perfmon, PAL, HTTP Professional, HTTP Firefox, Fiddler, Wily Introscope, Team Quest, Sky Net, Exceed.

Language: Basic C

Query Language: SQL

Application Servers: IIS7.0, IBM Web Sphere

Database: Oracle 10g, SQL Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Malvern, PA

QA analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understand the Application functionality, architecture details and components metrics along with workload characterization.
• Analysis of Web applications using Http Watch. Analyzing complex technical showstoppers in the path of testing and coming out with a solution to address the problem with web - research, interactive brainstorming discussions.
• Prepare business flow documents for identified business transactions with the help of development team.
• Involved in Manual/Automated and Performance Testing of the application and prepared Test Cases.
• Developed automation test scripts with UFT/QTP, HP Load Runner.
• Written Automation test scripts using VB Script in UFT/QTP and enhancing the UFT/QTP scripts with object repository check points, and parameterization.
• Inserted various check points like Text, Text area and Regular expression check points to check the functionality of the application.
• Complex automation test scripting (with extensive usage of bitmap and text-area checkpoints) in HP UFT tool for Citrix. Use of timers to capture transaction timings. Complex test scripting for SmartCo Data Hub usage simulation. Extensive Microsoft Excel based reporting for client side timings of an application.
• Recorded and Modified the Virtual Users Scripts with Parameterization, Correlation, Error Handing and inserting transaction points to find the response times with Web(HTTP/HTML),Citrix Protocols in HP Load Runner.
• Designed and executed different scenarios as per schedule in Performance Center.
• Monitored the CPU Memory utilization of Citrix App Servers using Windows Perfmon for Windows Server and Team Quest for Unix Server while executing the scripts in Performance Center.
• Analyzing Results using Windows Performance Analysis Tool (PAL) and Load Runner Analysis.
• Extensive Microsoft Excel based reporting for client side timings of an application
• Preparing the interim reports for each round of execution.
• Reporting performance issues to the development team, and following up with them for issue resolution.
• Publishing the Analysis Report at the end of every Performance run.
• Providing recommendation based on analysis.
• Have taken the initiative of preparing documents that were useful for the project shared repository and also for the testing team.
• Regular attending the kanban meetings and updates were made to the management team of the ongoing QA process

Environment: HP QTP,HP Load Runner 12.0, Performance Center 12, Web(Http/Html),Citrix, C, Team Quest, No Machine, Sky Net, Srena Business Manager.

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in various meetings with the company executives such as business analysts, developers, managers, supervisors, and executive officers in order to understand the product and the testing phases more thoroughly.
• Understand the Application functionality, architecture details and components metrics along with workload characterization.
• Developing the Virtual User Generator scripts for all the workflows with Web (Http/HTML) and Ajax True Client IE protocol and enhancing the scripts with Start and End Transaction, Correlation, Parameterization and Error handling in Virtual Vuser Generator of Load Runner.
• Enhanced script by using Checkpoints to check if Virtual users are accessing the correct page which they are supposed to be accessing.
• Created a Manual scenario with certain amount of Vusers giving Ramp up, Ramp Down and Run time in the Performance center.
• Designing and running the performance tests with Load and Stress as per schedule in Performance Center.
• Monitoring the test using Windows Perfmon.
• Analyzing the Perfmon results using Windows Performance Analysis Tool (PAL)
• Analyzed the Load Runner reports for Response time and Transactions per minute, Hits per sec, Throughput.
• Preparing the interim reports for each round of execution.
• Reporting Performance issues to the development team, and following up with them for the issue resolution.
• Have taken the initiative of preparing documents that were useful for the project shared repository and also for the testing team.
• Regular meetings and updates were made to the management team of the ongoing QA process.

Environment: HP Load Runner 12.0, Performance Center 12, Web(Http/Html),Ajax True Client IE, C, Srena Business Manager, MS Office,.NET,IIS7.0,SQL Server 2008.

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• The primary responsibility was work with development team in order to understand File Net Rest Full Web Services, Architecture along with work load.
• Involved in various meetings with the clients to gather the performance requirement and SLAs before testing.
• Independently developed the Virtual Vuser Generator Scripts for all GET, POST and DELETE methods with Web (HTTP/HTML) Protocol.
• Enhanced the scripts by inserting the checkpoints to validate the correct response of the method by capturing the HTTP Status codes.
• Designing and executing scripts with Load tests as per schedule in Performance Center.
• Monitoring the CPU utilization, Memory utilization using Team Quest.
• Using Load Runner analyzed the response times of various business transactions times under load, developed reports and graphs to present the test results.
• Creating Dashboard for monitoring the server metrics in Exceed.
• At the end of each round of execution providing the interim report to the developer with transaction response Time, CPU and Memory Utilization of the servers.
• Maintained the defect tracking and reporting using Serena Business Manager.
• Proved constructive approach to quality assurance, issuing identification, problem resolution and the ability to work under tight deadlines and pressure situations.
• Reporting performance issues to the development team and following up with them for issue resolution with the internal Confidential defect tracking tool.

Environment: HP Load Runner 12.0, Performance Center 12, Web (Http/Html), Rest Services, C, Exceed, Team Quest, Srena Business Manager, Java 1.7, IBM Web Sphere, Oracle10g.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understand the Application functionality, architecture details and components metrics along with workload characterization.
• Preparation of Test Strategy and Test Plan.
• Prepare business flow documents for identified business transactions.
• Record and enhance the scripts using Virtual Vuser Generator to emulate the behavior of real users.
• Designing and executing the scenarios as per schedule with Performance Center.
• Using Load Runner analyzed the response times of various business transactions, modules login times under load, developed reports and graphs to present the test results
• Creating the test data from the database by Coordinating with the database team.
• Monitoring the CPU utilization, Memory utilization, JVM and methods response time in CA Wily Introscope.
• Reporting Monitoring Wily, Analyze and Preparing Wily Introscope Report.
• Reporting performance issues to the development team and following up with them for issue resolution.
• Used Load Runner for checking the performance of Various Reports and Queries under load
• Publishing the Analysis Report at the end of every Performance run.
• Providing recommendation based on analysis.
• Participate in the tuning discussions.

Environment: HP Load Runner9.5, Performance Center 9.0, Web (Http/Html), C, Wily Introscope, MS Office, .Net, IIS, Oracle10g.

Confidential

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understand the Application functionality and the architecture.
• Creating the Business Flow Documents for the identified business flows.
• Preparation of scripts using Virtual Vuser Generator.
• Creating the test data from the database.
• According to business specification enhanced the scripts with Correlation, Parameterization, and Error handling by using Virtual Vuser Generator.
• Executing various rounds of Performance test using client developed tool called AFRD.
• Involved in script execution using Performance center.
• Executed multiple rounds of Load and Soak tests on daily basis and prepared reports for tests.
• Monitoring the performance tests using SQL Queries.
• Collecting stats for each round of execution from database using Queries.
• Reporting performance issues to the development team and following up with them for issue resolution.
• Comparing the response times of reports both in Actuate to BO server and also oracle 9i and oracle 10g
• Comparing the CPU Utilization for both oracle 9i and oracle 10g
• Identified below performance bottlenecks
• Slow Page Navigation Issue.
• Used Load Runner for checking the performance of Various Reports and Queries under load
• Low Throughput
• Was successfully able to improve the performance of the application through implementation of recommendation
• Improved Page Navigation speed by enabling the caching
• Job Servers were observed to be at 100% CPU utilization during the load tests, there was much improvement in throughput after Development team changed configuration settings.
• Publishing the analysis report at the end of every performance run.
• Walkthrough the test report to the team lead.

Environment: HP Load Runner 9.5, Performance Center 9.0, Web (Http/Html), C, AFRD, MSOffice, Java, Web logic, Oracle10g.

Confidential

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understand the java Application functionality, architecture details and components metrics along with workload characterization.
• Creating the Business Flow Documents.
• Record and enhance performance test scripts using Virtual Vuser Generator with Web (HTTP/HTML) Protocol.
• Execute performance tests as per the plan using Performance Center.
• Involved in collation and analysis of test results.
• Creating the interim Reports at the end of each execution.
• Publishing the Analysis Report at the end of every Performance run.
• Identified performance bottlenecks and provided recommendations.
• HTTP status errors to be fixed.
• Client side caching to be enabled.
• Enable HTTP compression.
• Was successfully able to improve the performance of the application through implementation of recommendation.
• Response time reduction achieved for top 5 time consuming transactions.
• Resource consumption at DB level reduced below 70%.
• Business service throughput achieved for the given load condition within the SLAs.
• Analyze the reports and shared the observations to application team.
• Provided Daily Status Reports.

Environment: HP Load Runner 9.5, Controller, C, Web (Http/Html), MS Office, MS Excel, .Net, IIS, SQL Server.

Confidential

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the nonfunctional requirements for the application.
• Analyze the Performance Test Plan and Test Strategy for Performance testing.
• Assist the business application team in identification of business scenarios for performance testing.
• Recorded and enhanced the scripts with parameterization and correlation using Virtual Vuser Generator according to the requirements.
• Text checks were written in the Virtual Vuser Generator scripts for correct response.
• Using Controller executed the test scripts with Smoke and Load tests.
• Conduct Load Testing on HRMS server with 5%, 10% and20% of simultaneous users load (Max of 500).
• Collect the transaction metrics of business flows using the tool from the load generators
• Collect server side metrics (Utilization of CPU, Memory and Disk) using Perfmon utility.
• Prepare and publish the test summary reports.
• Publishing status reports for day on day basis.

Environment: HP Load Runner 9.5, Controller, C, Web (Http/Html), MS Office, MS Excel .Net, IIS, SQL. Server.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business Requirements and analysis of the application.
• Involved in Writing, Reviewing of Test Cases.
• Involved in executing the test to verify the web GUI.
• Performed extensive Smoke, Comparison, Regression and UAT testing to ensure that system is user friendly for customers.
• Executed regression cycles of the test cases in order to ensure the product quality and performance after each stage of the code changes
• Worked closely with Developers as wells as Requirement team in the resolving the issues and to ensure testing issues are resolved on timely manner
• Re-running of the Test cases after deployment of each new build in the application for identification of errors.
• Detecting defects &Classifying them based on the severity and track the defects using bug tracking tool JIRA.
• Generated Test Summary report after completion of every iteration.
• Organize the status meetings and the send the Daily/Weekly status report to the client.

Environment: Project Name: APRSIDJune 2009 - April 2010

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing and understanding all the Functional Requirements Specifications.
• Preparing and documenting the test cases
• Reviewing and Execute test cases to validate the functionality of Transactions
• Executing functional testing, regression testing and integration testing extensively.
• Highly involved in verifying test results with various manual unit, integration, smoke, and sanity testing documents
• Responsible for reporting the bugs with accurate severity.
• Involved in finding bugs and write step by step procedure to reproduce the same.
• Reporting bugs with the help of Internal bug tracking tool.
• Attend team meetings to discuss the major issues relating to the application with the development team
• Preparing and sending daily & weekly status reports.