SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of experience as QA Tester and Performance Tester in testing Web Based and client/server applications.
• Involved in all stages of QA Life cycle. Extensively followed Waterfall and Agile Methodologies for Quality Analysis
• Good knowledge of Apache JMeter HTTP Request and App Insight
• Involved in gathering nonfunctional requirements such as critical business scenarios, response time SLA’s, volumetric, type of tests, server architecture details etc.,
• Extensively used LoadRunner, VuGen to develop Vuser Scripts
• Performed types of tests like Load test, Scalability test, Endurance test, Benchmark test, Baseline test etc. using LoadRunner, on Web, Application and Database servers at different levels and loads.
• Responsible for testing application and components behavior with heavier loads and optimizing server configurations working knowledge on using various protocols of LoadRunner (Web/HTTP, TruClient, RTE), JMeter and SoapUI using Groovy.
• Experience in AWS firewall, Cloud security, and Azure firewall.
• Expertise in Using AWS services including EC2, Auto Scaling in launching EC2 instances, Security Groups, ELB, Elastic Beanstalk, S3,
• Excellent working knowledge of designing and implementation of all QA Test Strategy plans and Automated test solutions for client/server Applications
• Worked extensively on developing Test Scenarios to simulate the Real Load.
• Execute the tests in LoadRunner with process and multithreaded environments, analyzed and generated performance reports
• Worked extensively with LoadRunner Monitoring to validate hardware defects.
• Highly motivated, good communicator, self - starter, quick learner, adapter of new technologies, able to work independently and collaboratively within a diverse technical Team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing tools: HP/ Micro Focus Load Runner, HP / Micro Focus Performance Center, HP ALM, Jmeter

Operating Systems: Linux, Unix, Windows

Monitoring Tools: Splunk, AppDynamics

Protocols: Web (HTTP/HTML), Web Services

Servers: HTTP Server, Tomcat, IIS, WebSphere, Oracle

Web Browsers: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari, Edge

Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS

Programming Languages: C, Java, HTML, WSDL, XML, SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, OH

Sr Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Gather Non-functional requirements such as critical business scenarios, response time SLAs, volumetric, architecture and environment details.
• Create Performance Test strategy, Performance Test Approach, Test Scenario design/development/review, workload model.
• Preparing test scripts in LR format using Virtual User Generator (VuGen) of Load runner.
• Creating Scenarios for Test run in performance center.
• Created and executed performance suite utilizing JMeter to determine page response time and database error rate under heavy load.
• Worked with AWS services like Glacier, ELB (Elastic Load Balancer), RDS, SNS, SWF, Lambda, IAM and hands on experience with Amazon Web Services provision.
• Executing the various types of tests like Baseline, Scalability and Endurance test.
• Gained exposure in performance testing through JMeter.
• Monitoring the identified metrics to observe their behavior during test runs.
• Attend daily scrum and update the status of user stories. Involved in sprint demos
• Used Splunk to validate volume and to identify any warnings, exceptions etc.,
• Extensively used correlation, parameterization techniques, and manual scenarios and created multiple threads in the test scripts for testing the System.
• Worked on Splunk platform to manage the AWS instances and monitor the generic data on S3buckets
• Skilled in performing load, stress and performance testing using Apache JMeter.
• Create, schedule, and run the scenarios usingLoadRunnerand generate necessary graphs
• Analyze log results with HTTP Status code for pass/fail transactions.
• Work with Infrastructure team and monitored KPI (Key Performance Indictor) like CPU Utilization, Memory, Disk Queue Length and Network Latency to collect metrics during tests to determine the impact of load/stress/endurance testing on the infrastructure.
• Create Baseline and Benchmark test to test new features for every release.
• Generate HTML reports and share it with stakeholders
• Used AWS Lambda Functions to trigger the code and managed custom performance.
• Prepare reports dat include Load metrics like 90th, 95thpercentile Response times, Standard deviation, and Throughput.
• Analyze test results, submit the Performance test report, and suggested tuning recommendation.

Confidential, TX

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Software Requirements and Business Requirements.
• Working closely with QA team in order to understand the application and the Testing phases more thoroughly.
• Worked close to lead in preparing Test Plan and Test Cases by going through the Design, Functional Requirements and user requirements Documentation.
• Provided support to the development team in identifying real-world use cases and appropriate Workflows
• Analyze the App and DB servers resource utilization for any bottlenecks.
• Developed and implemented load and stress tests with MicroFocus LoadRunner and present performance statistics to application teams and provided recommendations of how and where performance can be improved
• Involved in testing of application using the Scrum (Agile) methodology.
• Added various monitoring parameters (CPU, Memory) to the LoadRunner controller for monitoring.
• Used Performance Center to create the scenarios for Users Ramp up, Ramp down and assigned Vusers group to different Load Generators and prepared production like scenario.
• Developed test scripts in Virtual user Generator also enhanced the scripts by adding checkpoints, functions in C Language, Transactions, Rendezvous points, created parameters and performed a Manual correlation to enhance recorded scripts.
• Created and executed Load, Stress, and Capacity test using MicroFocus Performance Center.
• Executed Performance and analyzed the bottlenecks in the application by using LoadRunner Analyzer.
• Used Splunk to validate volumes and identify any warnings, exceptions.
• Used defect reporting tools like Jira.
• Involved in client interactions whenever feedback is needed to improve the testing process and attended weekly project Meetings and discussed the issues raised according to their priority level.

Confidential, TN

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Kanban meeting for daily status update also involved in standup meetings to getthe update on performance testing required information.
• Followed Agile Methodologies.
• Designed and developed LoadRunner scripts using VuGen with different protocols like Web Http/Html, Oracle, Web services.
• Developed scripts and scenarios for automated testing new and enhanced web based products using Load Runner.
• Extensively used correlation, parameterization techniques, goal oriented manual scenarios and created Vusers in the test scripts for testing the system.
• Created customized LoadRunner Vugen scripts at API level with manual correlation, user defined functions, and error handling.
• Conducted performance testing using Load Runner for the entire applications using various scenarios specifically dat are designed for testing real world scenarios.
• Worked extensively with XML data and SOAP protocols in Non UI Web Services SOA Testing.
• Identified system/application bottlenecks and worked with web/app server administrators to facilitate the tuning of the application/environment in order to optimize capacity and improve performance of the application in order to handle peak workloads generated via LoadRunner tool to simulate activity.
• Conducted baseline test, load, stress and endurance tests.
• Monitored different graphs like transaction response time and analyzed server performance Status, hits per second, throughput, windows resources and database server resources etc.
• Worked with solutions architects and DBA’s to identify and resolve bottlenecks.
• Created detailed test status reports, performance capacity reports, web trend analysis reports,and graphical charts for upper management using Load Runner analysis component.
• Coordinated and collaborated with Developers, Production support team, Project Management to gather the requirements.

Confidential

Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyze Business Requirement Documents and Technical Specification Documents.
• Prepared Test Plans, Test Procedures and Test Cases for Manual Testing.
• Executed tests and participated actively in system test cycles.
• Tracked and logged defects in Quality Center and coordinated meetings with developers and business analysts to prioritize the bugs.
• Planned and executed Backend testing using numerous SQL Queries to verify the dataflow from the database.
• Maintained detailed test logs, and reported test results.
• Met the Time bound schedules and helped in delivering the product on time.
• Performed different types of testing - Functional, Integration, Regression, Smoke, Positive and Negative testing.
• Verified the bug fixes and performed Regression testing for each release of the application.
• Involved in database testing by writing numerous SQL queries to check the dataflow from the front end to back end.
• Prepared Requirements Traceability matrix.
• Worked extensively on User Acceptance testing by coordinating with business users.
• Interacted with users of the system on a regular basis for better understanding of the application and TEMPeffective testing.
• Assisted the team lead with daily QA tasks and progress on test case execution.
• Attended project meetings, release meetings, interacted with business users, IT groups and QA status meetings.