SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of Quality Assurance experience with strong expertise in Performance/Load & Stress Testing using HP Performance Center/LoadRunner.
• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Performance Test Life Cycle, Scrum and Agile having thorough understanding of various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.
• Experience in developing Test Cases by understanding and working with Use Cases.
• Strong technical knowledge of QA process including system, functional, performance, regression and integration testing.
• Strong skills using, installing, and configuring all components of Load Runner including VUGen, Controller, Analysis, and Load Generators.
• Proficient with using Web, Web Services, Citrix, Winsock, SAP GUI, SAP Web and Database protocols in LoadRunner
• Developed and deployed test Load scripts to do end to end Performance testing using Load Runner.
• Analyzed the test results (TPS, Hits/second, Transaction response time, CPU utilization etc) using Loadrunner Analysis, various monitor tools and prepare Test Reports
• Checked for Network Bottlenecks using Network Delay Time and Vuser Graphs
• Performed Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Usability Testing, Stress Testing, Performance Testing, using Automated tools using LoadRunner, Test Director, Quick Test Pro and Oracle data manipulation using SQL.
• Extensively used of Quality Center and Clear Quest for Change Management and Defect Tracking.
• Experience in monitoring servers using tools like SiteScope, Wily, TeamQuest and Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Excellent Documentation, Management and Presentation skills for the QA Project Team including Test Plan, Test Case Specs, Test Requirement, Test Case Matrix and Defect Reports.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: SEI - CMM, CMMI, ISO 9001, RUP, RAD

CASE Tools: UML, MS-Visio

Tracking Tools: TestDirector, MS-VSS, Quality Center. Jira

Workflow Tools: MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-PowerPoint, Sharepoint, Confluence

SQA Tools: PerformanceCenter, Quick Test Pro, LoadRunner, WinRunner

Languages: Visual Studio.NET(VB.NET, VC++.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET), HTML, XML, J2EE (Java, Servlets,, JDBC), C(Turbo C), VBScript, TSL, XSD, WSDL, XSS, SOAP, Web Services

Databases: SQL Server,Oracle, MS-Access, BD2

Web Servers: MS-IIS (5.0/6.0), WebLogic, WebSphere, Apache Tomcat.

Operating Systems: Windows (2000,NT,XP), Unix (AIX, Solaris, HP) Linux (Red Hat, Fedora Core)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Sr. Performance test engineer

Environment: PerformanceCenter, JMeter, Site scope, Quality Center, SoapUI, Linux, Unix, Oracle, SQL Server, and Web Logic, Loadrunner.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated withoffshore teamon developing test planning, scripts, scenarios, execution, and results analysis.
• Worked with App team and developer to select Use Cases to gatherperformancetests requirements and SLA for verities ofjavabased financial applications.
• Gathered, consolidated requirements for generatingperformancegoalsand test plans.
• Used HP'sLoad Runner to develop the automation scripts for verities of authentication/security applications.
• Developed test scripts in VuGen usingWeb/http, Web Service, and Ajax protocols. Enhanced the scripts by adding checkpoints, functions in C Language, transactions, created parameters, and performed manual correlation to develop robust scripts.
• ImplementedIP Spoofingtechniques to simulate unique users' requests while running the tests.
• UsedPerformanceCenter to manage and execute the performancetest.
• RanLoad, Stress, Soak, and Fail overtest for verities of security applications.
• Ranbreak point teststo measure server threshold andendurance teststo determine the presence ofmemory leaks.
• UsedSoapUIProto perform Web Service test.
• UsedJMeterto simulate java request load on a backend Application.
• Worked with DBA, Sys Admin, and development team totunedatabase and applicationperformance.
• UsedHP Quality Center to track anyperformance defects.
• Did diagnosisthe bottlenecks andrecommended probable solutionsfor themanagement and development team.
• Gathered server monitoring stats and database usages to analyze the overallperformanceof the application.
• Prepared and published detailTestReport for app team and upper management.
• Attendedstrategy and planningmeeting with management and Application team on regular basis.
• Discussed current test status or over all progress and suggested the strategy to finish the test on time.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Sr. Performance Testing Analyst

Environment: Load Runner, UNIX,Performance Center, Site scope, SQL, Java, J2EE Diagnostics, XML and Oracle

Responsibilities:

• Participated in writingPerformanceTest Plan and TestScripts (HTTP&HTML // Click & Script Protocol), software documentation from business, technical and functional requirement.
• Creation ofPerformanceTest Data and scenarios based on the real user experience
• Monitoring of Web Server//Application server & Database Server
• Reportingof issues found during the loadtesting
• Bench Marktestingfor the application based onperformancetestingresults
• Prediction of expected results in Loadtestingand analysis of final output
• Regeneration of old Load runner script written in the differentprotocol
• Defining generic Correlation rules & manual correlation
• Scheduling of all the Load Tests,Analysis of results &monitoring of all the middleware and network components usingPerformanceCenter
• Created and documented thePerformanceTest Designsfor each functional area mentioned in Test Plans.
• 24/7 Support for theVolumeTesting
• Performednetwork and security designand the implemented in theperformancetest environments
• Monitoring of Java classes//Garbage collector//System Matrics//J2EE Diagnosticsserverusing J2EE Diagnostics
• PerformedVolume,Performance, Load and StresstestingusingLoad Runner.
• Reviewed thePerformanceTest Designs with QA team members and technical analysts.
• DevelopedPerformancetest cases and verified actual resultswith expected results.
• Performed Integration, System, and FunctionaltestingUnder Peak Loadas per requirements.
• Designing thePerformanceTest Architectureand the Scenarios
• Utilized process-basedPerformancetest management systemPerformanceCenterfor organizing test requirement's documents and test plans.

Confidential, Hartford, MA

Sr. Performance Engineer

Environment: LoadRunner,PerformanceCenter, Site scope, Peoplesoft, Web HTTP/HTML, ASP.NET, MS SQL Server, Web Sphere.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the requirement and design documentsforPerformanceTesting.
• Gathered business requirements,studied the application, and collected information from developers andarchitects.
• Worked closely with Production Managers, Technical Managers and Business Managers in planning, scheduling, developing, and executing performancetests.
• Interacted with developers duringtestingfor identifying memory leaks, fixing bugs and for optimizing server settings at web, app and database levels.
• WrittenLoadRunnerScripts,andenhanced scripts withCfunctions.
• Developed Vuser Scripts usingLoadRunner Web (HTTP/HTML)protocols based on user workflows.
• Developed and maintainedstress as well as load testscripts along withbusiness cases for PeopleSoft Timesheets and Labor, Financials, HRMS and eRecruit.
• Validated the scripts to make sure they have been executed correctly and meets the scenario description.
• Analyzed results usingLoadRunnerAnalysistool
• Responsible for analyzing application and components behavior with heavier loads.
• Monitored test execution,host machines, databaseservers, web servers using LoadRunner monitors
• Involved in defect tracking, reporting and coordination with various groups from initial finding of defects to final resolution.
• Involved in planning and task assigning to offshore resourcesto meet project timelines

Confidential

Test Engineer

Environment: WinRunner, Test Director, Load Runner HTML, Visual Basic, PVCS Tracker, Netscape, Cobol, UNIX/Windows, VB.NET, Oracle, .Net Framework.

Responsibilities:

• Understand the enhancement requirements of the customer. Involved in complete Customization, Enhancement and Defect Fixing.
• Interaction with Customer for Enhancement of different modules, converting requirements into FDD (Functional Design Document).
• Have worked on protocols like Ethernet and IP.
• Written scripts using Load Runner to generate virtual users.
• Involved in analyzing System specifications, design, development and execution of test plans and test cases for manual testing and Automated testing.
• Created criteria for data conditioning needed for Automated and manual testing.
• Reviewed the Business Requirements document with the business and development teams to understand the architecture and functionality of the application.
• Derived Test Cases using Use Cases.
• Created defects and documented in Test Director and assigned the signed to Developers.
• Created test scripts for all online leasing testing and classified sections for manual and automated testing.
• Developed and wrote a suite of Test Scripts that included Acceptance, Functional and Regression test cases using WinRunner.
• Executed the test scripts on different releases and validated the actual results against the expected results.
• Wrote SQL queries access the data from the database tables and crosscheck the results, also been used for Automation Regression Testing.