Senior Performance Tester Resume
CA
SUMMARY
- Over 10 years of professional experience in Information Technology with extensive experience in performing Manual and Performance Testing.
- Experience in testing Web - based and Client-Server applications on different environments.
- Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), QA Methodologies like CMM and RUP.
- Strong experience in developing Test Plans and Test cases using requirements and design documents while specifying Testing Overview, Approach, Strategy, Scope, Roles and Responsibilities.
- Expertise in manual and automated testing.
- Ability to write test plans, test cases, test procedures and test scripts from Requirements and Use Cases.
- 8 years experience working with LoadRunner as a Performance Tester.
- Experience in Root Cause analysis of performance issues/bottlenecks.
- Experience in application Architecture Reviews, Giving Recommendations for the configurations
- Expertise in setting up Performance testing environment using Loadrunner.
- Experience in developing VUScripts for performance testing.
- Experience in setting up performance monitoring over the multitier components using Load runner, Site scope, Perlman.
- Experience in Analyzing performance test metrics, results, graphs.
- Actively participated in Performance tuning.
- Experience in working with Test Harness for performance testing.
- Experienced in software analysis, Requirements Management, Quality Assurance, Modeling, Configuration Management and Change Management.
- Experience in conducting automation testing using Mercury Interactive Tools and Rational Suite.
- Expertise in performing different types of Testing: Black box, Module, Integration, Stress, Load, System, Performance, Regression.
- Good understanding of Relational Database Management Systems.
- Extensive working knowledge in UNIX and Windows platforms.
- Proficient in SQL and PL/SQL Programming for testing database integrity
- Excellent interpersonal and customer relational Skills. Proven communication, presentation Skills and Leadership Qualities.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems: MS-DOS, UNIX, MVS, Sun Solaris, Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP
RDBMS: Oracle 9.x, MS SQL Server.
Web Technologies: HTML, ASP, Java Script, FrontPage, Web logicMainframes and IIS, .NET, VB Script.
Packages: MS-Office, MS-Access, and MS-Excel
Testing Tools: QTP, Winrunner, Quality Center, Loadrunner, Test Director
Test Strategies: Integration, System, Regression, User-Acceptance, White BoxBlack Box
Version Control: Visual Source safe, PVCSMonitoring tools Loadrunner, Sitescope, Perfmon
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, CA
Senior Performance Tester
Environment: HP suite (Load Runner 11.5), Oracle, MS Excel, Java, SAP Bobj, SAP HR, Mobile/Android, SSO, ALM 11.5
Responsibilities:
- Involved in developing Performance Test Plans and Test Cases.
- Created the performance test scripts for the SAP BobJ, Access Management SSO applications in Loadrunner.
- Executed the performance test scenarios in controller module of Loadrunner
- Executed the performance test scenarios in controller module/performance center of ALM.
- Conducted Performance, Load, Stress, Endurance tests using ALM.
- Worked and resolved the issues in setting up Performance test environment using web (http/http).
- Involved in comparing the performance of applications for basic authentication and Kerberos enabled authentication.
- Found Performance issue “Connection limit” and helped the Admin team in resolving the issue
- Analyzed performance metrics that helps finding the root cause of performance issues.
Confidential, Plano, TX
Senior Performance Tester
Environment: Rational Performance Tester, Java, JMS, Web(http), Oracle.
Responsibilities:
- Involved in developing Performance Test Plans and Test Cases in Rational Performance Tester.
- Created VU Scripts for the Point Of Sale application with HTTP protocol and RDP protocol using Rational Performance Tester.
- Worked with TOP, VMstat to capture and analyze metrics over the Linux environment.
- Worked and resolved the issues in setting up Performance test environment.
- Developed the Workload Distribution Test model for Performance test Execution in Rational Performance Tester.
- .Validated the JMS messages going to Tibco layer (middleware).
- Created the custom requests in Rational Performance Tester. for hermes captured Messages.
- Captured the payloads going from user application/GUI to Tibco.
- Monitored the performance metrics on middleware nodes where Tibco and other application related processes are running.
- Worked with SOAPUI in sending the SOAP requests to middleware and validated the SOAP response.
- Configured the SOAPUI to test the destination webservice.
- Conducted Manual and performance tests using SOAPUI.
- Identified the Validation Parameters from SOAPUI Response messages.
- Analyzed the JVM Heap settings and Recommended Optimal Configuration.
- Monitored JVM Heap and Garbage Collection as part of Endurance testing.
Confidential, Vacaville, CA
Performance Test Lead
Environment: HP suite (Load Runner 11), Oracle, MS Excel, UNIX, AIX, Java, J2EE, Websphere, IIS), Tibco. SOAPUI, ALM
Responsibilities:
- Involved in developing Performance Test Plans and Test Cases.
- Involved in setting up the Performance test environment.
- Benchmarked the existing Staging test environment.
- Created the performance test scripts for OLS/SFO Functionality using ALM.
- Created VU Scripts with HTTP protocol in Loadrunner/ALM
- Validated the JMS messages going to Tibco layer (middleware).
- Captured the payloads going from user application/GUI to Tibco using SOAPUI.
- Validated the Payload requests and responses in SOAPUI.
- Imported the SOAPUI requests into Loadrunner.
- Created the VU Scripts for the WSDL files.
- Monitored the performance metrics on middleware nodes where Tibco and other application related processes are running.
- Conducted Ramp-up and Ramp-down Tests using Performance Center.
- Monitored JVM Heap and Garbage Collection as part of Endurance testing.
- Conducted the Capacity Planning Tests using Performance Center.
- Maintained the Performance Results and Analysis documents.
- Developed the Performance Scripts using VuGen.
- Actively participated in Root cause analysis to find out performance issues / bottlenecks and also in performance optimization / tuning processes.
Confidential, West Lake Village, CA
Performance Tester
Environment: HP suite (Load Runner9.51, Performance Center 10.0), Oracle, MS Excel, UNIX, AIX, Java, J2EE, TOMCAT, IIS, Web Services), IBM Tivoli, SOAPUI, ALM
Responsibilities:
- Involved in developing Performance Test Plans and Test Cases.
- Developed the Workload Distribution Test model for Performance test Execution in Loadrunner.
- Created the performance scripts for the applications BMS Nemo/ WellQuote, MUWS, POIT, Sales Tool (eHP), IAS, IES, SECA, Eportal in Loadrunner
- Monitored the Performance resources over Weblogic, Oracle, TomCat, AIX layers.
- Performance tested large scale internet website of customer facing application.
- Created VU Scripts with HTTP and web services protocols.
- Monitored the app layers with Sitescope.
- Validated the Requests and Responses in SOAPUI.
- Analyzed SOAPUI Response logs for authentication information and time taken for the authenticatioin.
- Conducted Ramp-up and Ramp-down Tests using Loadrunner
- Conducted the Performance, Load, Endurance and Capacity Planning Tests using Performance Center/Loadrunner.
- Maintained the Performance Results and Analysis documents.
- Developed the Performance Scripts using VuGen.
- Worked with and Coordinated Offshore team for performance test execution purposes
- Identified functionality and performance issues, including: database connectivity problems, and system crashes under load.
- Extensively used Wily introscope for finding out memory leak pattern (root cause analysis).
- Monitored and Analyzed Garbage collection using Wily introscope and also participated in tuning/optimization of performance.
Confidential, Irvine, CA
Performance Engineer
Environment: HPy suite (Quality Center9.0, QTP9.5, Load Runner9.51, Performance Center 9.50), Oracle, MS Excel, FLEX, SAP, UNIX, AIX, Java, J2EE, TOMCAT, IIS, Web Services), Weblogic, SiteScopeProjects Worked: Echo, OMS, Clear Case/Clear Clear Quest, Remedy, Wisdom, SOAPUI
Responsibilities:
- Involved in developing Performance Test Plans and Test Cases.
- Test Conditions were developed based on Use-Cases and Requirements in Quality Center
- Developed the Performance Testing Plan.
- Developed the Workload Distribution Test model for Performance test Execution.
- Conducted the Capacity Planning Tests using Performance Center.
- Created the performance scripts for the applications Echo, OMS, Remedy, Wisdom that are in web services, FLEX, Web, Siebel Environments.
- Validated SOAP requests and responses using SOAPUI.
- Created Performance test scripts in combination of Loadrunner and SOAPUI.
- Performance tested large scale internet systems of internal and external user applications.
- Created VU Scripts with HTTP protocol, webservices, Flex, Siebel.
- Monitored the Performance resources over Weblogic, Oracle, TomCat, AIX layers.
- Conducted Ramp-up and Ramp-down Tests using Performance Center
- Identified functionality and performance issues, including: database connectivity problems, and system crashes under load.
Confidential, Pleasanton, CA
Senior Performance Tester
Environment: Mercury suite (Quality Center9.0, QTP9.0, Load Runner9.51, Performance Center), Oracle, MS Excel, UNIX, Java, J2EE, TOMCAT, IIS, Peoplesoft), Weblogic, SiteScope, PeopleSoft.
Responsibilities:
- Developed the Performance Testing Plan.
- Created the test data required for PeopleSoft performance scenarios.
- Developed the Workload Distribution Test model for Performance test Execution
- Worked on setting up the data for Pharma Business units.
- Worked with SQL queries to validate the data in Oracle database.
- Defect tracking using Bugzilla.
- Imported the
- Created and Maintained Performance Test scripts and Test Suites.
- Created Virtual User scripts using loadrunner
- Conducted Ramp-up and Ramp-down Tests using loadrunner
- Extensively Monitored Application Server resources, Database resources against Virtual User Load using Loadrunner monitors and SiteScope.
- Analyzed Performance, Response Vs. time, CPU Utilization, Memory, I/O, and Throughput graphs.
Confidential, Miami, Fl
Senior Performance Tester
Environment: Mercury suite (Quality Center9.5, LoadRunner9.5, Performance Center), Oracle, MS Excel, UNIX, Java, ASP.net, VB.NET C#, SOAP, SoapUI, XML, WSDL, IIS, SiteScope, PeopleSoft, WebServices
Responsibilities:
- Developed the Performance Testing Plan
- Involved in setting up the Stand alone, Networked machines (Load Balanced), Image server configurations to reproduce the real user environment.
- Extensively worked with performance testing using Load Runner.
- Developed the VU scripts using Loadrunner “Web Services” protocol.
- Developed the Performance scripts for SOAP messages (XML messages).
- Validated the SOAP messages using SOAPUI.
- Developed the Performance VU scripts Using SoapUI and VU Gen for SOAP messages.
- Developed the VU Scripts for WSDL files
- Extensively worked with SOAP requests and Web Custom Requests while creating VU Scripts in loadrunner and using SOAPUI.
- Extensively Monitored Application Server resources, Database resources against Virtual User Load using Loadrunner monitors and SiteScope.
- Analyzed Performance, Response Vs. time, CPU Utilization, Memory, I/O, and Throughput graphs.
Confidential, Sacramento, CA
Senior Performance Engineer
Environment: Mercury suite (Quality Center9.0, QTP9.0, Load Runner9.5, Performance Center), Oracle, MS Excel, UNIX, Java, J2EE, TOMCAT, IIS, PeopleSoft), SiteScope, PeopleSoft, jprofiler
Responsibilities:
- Developed the Performance Testing Plan.
- Involved in setting up the Stand alone, Networked machines (Load Balanced), Image server configurations to reproduce the real user environment
- Involved in Performance tuning Oracle Database.
- Involved in giving Recommendations for optimal performance of the machine configurations.
- Extensively worked with performance testing using Load Runner.
- Created and Maintained Performance Test scripts and Test Suites.
- Created Virtual User scripts using Vuser Generator
- Installed Loadrunner, Load generator, Controller.
- Conducted Ramp-up and Ramp-down Tests using Load Runner
- Identified functionality and performance issues, including: database connectivity problems, and system crashes under load.
- Configured Loadrunner Performance Counters and SiteScope counters to the Controller.
- Extensively Monitored Application Server resources, Database resources against Virtual User Load using Loadrunner monitors and SiteScope.
- Analyzed Performance, Response Vs. time, CPU Utilization, Memory, I/O, and Throughput graphs.
- Worked in finding out the Performance Bottlenecks, Memory leaks of the application.
- Also Conducted Load, Stress, Endurance, Capacity planning tests using Load Runner.
Confidential, Oakland, CA
Senior Performance Tester
Environment: Mercury suite (Test Director9.0, QTP9.0, Load Runner9.0, Filenet, Performance Center), Websphere, Oracle, MS Excel, UNIX, Java, J2EE, CVS Tracker, VBScriptEAMS: (Electronic Adjudication Management System): EAMS is an application that helps DWC (WCIS) to automate the tasks between their district offices and other DWC related offices.
Responsibilities:
- Involved in developing Test Plans and Test Cases.
- Test Conditions were developed based on Use-Cases and Requirements in Quality Center
- Tested the GUI of the application.
- Set up the Batch environment for QA Team
- Extensively tested the Filenet Integration and Batch Process involved in submitting eforms and updating ORACLE database.
- Extensively analyzed Batch logs.
- Extensively Validated the database records after the Batch is run
- Worked with SQL queries to validate the data in Oracle database.
- Defect tracking using Quality Center.
- Extensively worked with Data Creation with a tool called GoldLoad (Benthic Software).
- Extensively worked with performance testing using Load Runner.
- Developed the Performance Testing Plan.
- Created and Maintained Performance Test scripts and Test Suites.
- Created Virtual User scripts using Vuser Generator
- Installed Loadrunner, Load generator, Controller.
- Conducted Ramp-up and Ramp-down Tests using Load Runner
- Monitored the performance of WEBLOGIC machine using Loadrunner monitors
- Analyzed the metrics CPU utilization, Memory of WEBLOGIC machine.
- Identified functionality and performance issues, including: database connectivity problems, and system crashes under load.
- Configured Loadrunner Performance Counters and SiteScope counters to the Controller.
- Extensively Monitored Application Server resources, Database resources against Virtual User Load using Loadrunner monitors and SiteScope.
- Analyzed Performance, Response Vs. time, CPU Utilization, Memory, I/O, and Throughput graphs.
- Worked in finding out the Performance Bottlenecks of the application.
- Also Conducted Load, Stress, Endurance, Capacity planning tests using Load Runner.
- Extensively used Performance Center to pinpoint root cause of bottlenecks and memory leaks.
- Worked in close interaction with Business Analysts, Development team, Functional team to gather Performance Requirements and to resolve the performance related issues
Confidential, Atlanta
Senior Performance Tester/Senior QA Tester
Environment: Mercury suite (Quality Center, QTP, Load Runner), BEA Weblogic HTML, Oracle, MS Excel, UNIX, Java, J2EE, CVSTrackerPEMS is a Web-based application developed for CDC Agencies and employees. PEMS is a reporting application that will also help in maintaining funds allocated to the agencies and enter the Client’ data enrolled for HIV Test.
Responsibilities:
- Involved in developing Test Plans and Test Cases.
- Worked with development team in resolving the defects.
- Defect tracking using Quality Center.
- Extensively worked with performance testing using Load Runner.
- Involved in giving Recommendations for optimal performance of the machine configurations.
- Created and Maintained Performance Test scripts and Test Suites.
- Created Virtual User scripts using Vuser Generator
- Installed Loadrunner, Load generator, Controller.
- Conducted Ramp-up and Ramp-down Tests using Load Runner
- Performance tested the ETL processes that are extracting data from Mainframe legacy system.
- Developed the Performance Testing Plan.
- Worked with and Coordinated Offshore team for performance test execution purposes
- Created and Maintained Performance Test scripts and Test Suites.
- Conducted Ramp-up and Ramp-down Tests using Load Runner
- Extensively used Load Runner to Performance Monitor Application Server resources, Database resources against Virtual User Load.
Confidential, Iowa
QA Tester
Environment: Mercury Suite (QTP, Test Director, Winrunner, Load Runner), HTML, VB, ASP, IIS, SQL Server, MS Excel, ANSI C, VB.NET, VBScript, SOAP, XML, WSDL, Windows NT 4.0.and Unix, White Box.
Responsibilities:
- Wrote and Executed Test Plans and Test Cases using the Test Director as Test Management tool
- Test Cases were designed based on Use-Cases and Requirements in Test Director
- Tests were planned and managed using Test Director.
- Used Test Director to store all testing results and metrics
- Conducted functional, Regression testing using Winrunner.
- Designed and administered Load/Performance benchmarks with Load Runner.
- Responsible in providing regular test reports to the management.
- Used SQL to perform data integrity test.
- Verified the "fixes" for the reported bugs.
- Logged the traced defects in Test Director and created Test Metrics to analyze the defects
- Tracked and Reported Defects using Test Director
Confidential, MA
QA Tester
Environment: Rational suite (Requisite Pro, Test Manager, Robot, Clear Case, Clear Quest), UNIX, Java, IIS, SQL Server 2000, MS Excel, UNIX and Windows NT 4.0.
Responsibilities:
- Writing and executing software System test plans and Test cases. These Scripts were developed after reviewing the business requirements document, and technical specifications document
- Documented Test cases corresponding to business rules and other operating condition in TestManager.
- Tested the backend database using SQL queries.
- Involved in Developing Test Plans, Test Cases & Test Scripts.
- Tested the browsers under specific conditions, such as with Java script enabled and disabled.
- Involved in the functional testing of web pages using Robot.
- Performed Data pool tests using Robot.
- Conducted Performance test for web applications using Robot.
- Designed and administered Load/Performance benchmarks with Rational Robot.
- Conducted performance test, Load Test, Stress Test using Rational Robot.
- Performed End-to-End testing manually.
- Extensively used UNIX shell scripts.
- Responsible for GUI Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing and Acceptance Testing using Robot.
- Prepared status summary reports with details of executed, passed and failed test cases.
- Made extensive use of MS Office tools to create and maintain documents such as test plans, test execution and test results documents.
- Responsible in providing regular test reports to the management.
- Conducted browser compatibility test of application