SUMMARY:

• Around 8 years of IT experience in Performance testing and Automated testing.
• Strong knowledge of entire SDLC - Requirement Gathering & Analysis, Planning, Design, Development, Testing and Implementation.
• Extensive expertise on Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Defect Life Cycle.
• Expertise in understanding Business Requirement Specification, Functional Specifications and Design documentation and converting it into comprehensive Test cases, Test Scenarios, Test Strategies and Test plan.
• Experience in Performance testing tools such as Performance Center, Load Runner and Quality Center.
• Experience with Virtual User Generator, Controller, Analysis components of LoadRunner.
• Expertise in Test Plan creation, Test Case Design, Test case Review, Test Case Execution, Execution of Test scripts, Testing tool Usage, Defect management, Prepare Test reports, Collect and analyze test metrics.
• Experience with conducting performance testing in Client Server environment.
• Expertise in creating, modifying and executing of test scripts in Client Server environement.
• Expertise in testing Web/J2EE technologies,, middleware, Web services, Customer facing applications.
• Expertise in the development of test plans, test cases, executing the test cases, test strategies, variety of test levels, methodologies, test designs and testing techniques.
• Experienced in performing GUI, functional and database testing, focusing on production support in UNIX and Windows environments.
• Experience in conducting performance tests in support of database tuning.
• Experience in Performance Monitoring and Tuning.
• Experience in Scripting using VuGen.
• Experience with Parameterization, Correlation using both manual and automatic correlation techniques and Enhancements of the scripts.
• Excellent Capacity planning experience to perform Reliability/Performance/Capacity assessment.
• Expertise in Manual testing, Automated testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, Performance Testing, Negative testing, Operations Testing, Network Testing, Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, Load testing, MAT testing, UAT testing, configuration testing, DB testing, Hard Ware Testing, Shakedown testing, Sanity testing, Smoke testing.
• Experience with setting up, executing and analyzing reports obtained from server-side monitoring tools.
• Ability to thoroughly analyze systems functional requirements and break them down into test requirements/test objectives and test conditions using techniques like state transition diagrams, decision tables, functional analyses etc.
• Experience in Monitoring performance metrics using various tools along with LoadRunner’s own monitoring capabilities.
• Participated in Defect management and Bug Reporting using bug-tracking tools Quality Center, for business software’s.
• Implemented QA methodology.
• Worked on verticals of Banking, Financial, Web Portal, Web content Web interface applications.
• Good interpersonal skills, commitment, result oriented, hard working with a quest and zeal to learn new technologies and undertake challenging tasks

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: LoadRunner, Quality Center, HP Quick Test Pro8.0 -10.0, Test Director, Winrunner

Workflow Tools: MS-Project 2000, MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Visio

Languages: C, C++, Java 2.0, VBScript, SQL, Java Script

Databases: SQL Server 2000, MS-Access 2.0, My SQL, Oracle (8.x/9.x), DB2

Operating Systems: Windows (98, 2000, 2003, NT,XP), Unix

Web Technologies: J2EE, ASP .NET, JAVA,XML,HTML,DHTML

Web/App Servers: Tomcat, IPlanet 6.1, Web Logic, Web Sphere

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Newyork

Sr. Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Design, script and execute performance tests and analyzed test results
• Developed templates to standardize application performance testing.
• Extensively worked on Virtual User generator and Performance Center.
• Finding bottlenecks in the systems under high load and any potential memory leaks and following regular releases and fix-pack releases.
• Discuss various testing activities and results during the daily status meetings
• Tested Performance of Web Application and Generated Automation Test scripts using Load Runner.
• Extensively used Performance Center to run the performance tests.
• Created scenarios in performance center.
• Analyzed the business process of the district and developed the performance test plan and process.
• Ramped up Virtual users in a load test to achieve a maximal transaction volume of 3000 concurrent users in a two hour time limit.
• Extensively used Performance Monitors to analyze the System Bottlenecks like Memory Leaks.
• Developed test plans, test cases, test scripts and procedures, and test result reports for manual and automated testing.
• Monitored Servers using HP Diagnostics, and Wily Introscope.
• Installed and configured Mercury Site Scope to monitor system resources under load like Database, Web/App Server, Firewall, Load Generator etc.
• Interacted with Developers and other Teams for Data requirements and Resolving performance issues.

Environment: Load Runner 9.52, HP Load runner 9.52/11, Site scope, XML, Java, Flex, HP Diagnostic 7.5, HP Performance Center, Wily Introscope 7.2, 8.1, UNIX, Oracle, HTML

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in reviewing Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specification.
• I managed 5 members in my team, giving suggestion on their concern works.
• Analyzed the system requirements and wrote test cases, test scripts for testing the application.
• Performed Manual Testing prior to automation testing on the application.
• Involved in Compiling Aggressive Regression Tests for every new build.
• Identified the severity of the bugs and reported to developers.
• Analyzed load and Stress test results of the application for maximum performance using LoadRunner 9.5.
• Created Scripts for the Application using LoadRunner 9.5.
• Involved in Creating Load Testing Plans and Scripting checklists.
• Extensively worked on Virtual User generator and Controller.
• Parameterized the scripts and enhanced them according to the test cases.
• Used Performance monitor and LoadRunner graphs to analyze the results.
• Used Controller to Perform Load Tests and Stress Tests.
• Uploaded Scripts, Created Timeslots, Created Scenarios and Ran Load Tests in Performance Center.
• The Average Response time, TPS, Throughput, Web Page Breakdown graphs were analyzed for each scenario.
• Generate, analyze, and publish LoadRunner test results and document the testing process.
• Interacted with developers to solve Performance issues.
• Communicated regularly with the Developers as well as the Business Analysts to resolve any open issues.
• Prepared Test Data for the application as per the specifications of the Requirements Document.
• Used HP Quality Center 10.0 to house all test documentation and report/track all issues and defects.
• Worked individually, as well as in team environment, to achieve project quality goals.
• Worked with various teams to fix problems and duplicate issues.

Environment: Quality Center 10.0, LoadRunner 9.5, Oracle10g, VBScript, HTML, XML, MS-Office, Windows XP/2000/NT.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Performance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Review and analysis of requirements and design documentation
• Developed Test plan for testing process.
• Created the Test cases using Business requirements documents, Functional requirements, Use cases and Mockups.
• Created Test Scenarios that found the most difficult defects to be detected.
• Identified the Data requirements for the test cases.
• Participated in Project External meetings, and Internal meetings (Test case review and Status meetings)
• Performed System testing and Integration testing.
• Extensively used Quality Center 9.0 to Add Requirements, Write Test Cases, Execute the test cases, Defect logging and Defect Tracking.
• Performed Regression testing for Branch 3.3 application, CTM and Configurator.
• Used LoadRunner 9.2 to conduct performance testing.
• Used Performance Center 9.2 to create scenarios and run load tests.
• Extensively used VuGen (virtual user generator) to create and debug scripts.
• Parameterized the scripts to perform data driven testing.
• Performed Load and Stress tests with LoadRunner and submitted performance statistics to application teams
• Performed Integration and Regression Testing.
• Interacted with Business Analysts and Developers for the Bug Fixes, Problem resolution and gathered the data for the test cases.
• Used SQL to perform data integrity test.
• Tested the application on different Versions of Internet Explorer.

Environment: Windows NT, XML, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, .Net, Load Runner 8.1, Quality Center 8.0

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with software developers and users to understand functionality and navigational flow of the application.
• Reviewed business requirements documents, functional requirements documents and technical specifications of the application.
• Involved in validating software change requests for existing customers and participated in new implementations as a Quality Analyst Tester.
• As a Software Tester, analyzed system issues as defined by the clients related to system functionality, evaluated issues to verify the corrective action to the system functionality implemented by the development team.
• Involved in the development of test plan using business and system requirement documents.
• Performed manual testing for the test cases execution.
• Developed and conducted system and user acceptance test plans on completion of system testing before installation of the application on user environment.
• Performed functional testing, GUI testing, regression testing.
• Preparation of Test Report.
• Reporting the issues/defects by using mantis Bug/issue tracking tool.

Environment: J2EE, MySQL, Web sphere, RDBMS, Macromedia dream-weaver, Apache Tomcat server 4.0, Test Director.