SUMMARY:

• Strategic, analytical, and results - driven Software QA engineer with over 8+ years of extensive experience in testing tools administration and test management for web-based, SaaS, mobile, web and AWS cloud based applications.
• Ability to set realistic performance testing goals and interpret performance test results for technical and non-technical audiences.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP ALM, LoadRunner, QTP, ZoomText, HP QC, SoapUI, REST Client, JIRA, RTM

Web/ App Servers: Windows IIS, Apache Tomcat, JBOSS, WebLogic, WebSphere, LDAP, WebSeal

Systems and Platforms: Windows, Linux, UNIX, J2EE, .NET, Web 2.0

Programming/ Scripting: SQL, Python, Java, VB, HTML, XML

Web Technologies: Telnet, FTP, HTTP, TCP/IP, Citrix, Ajax, Web Services, WSDL

Productivity Tools: MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, MS SharePoint

RDBMS and DB Tools: Oracle 10g, Oracle SQL Developer, Oracle BI, MS Access

Methodologies: Agile, SCRUM, Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Sr. Software Test Engineer/HP ALM Admin

• Developed project plan and schedule for HP ALM 12.05 installation.
• Verified system requirements and environment for HP ALM installation.
• Installed and configured HP ALM version 12.05 on government private cloud.
• Conducted requirements sessions with users to customize features.
• Analyzed user requirements to set up HP ALM to support PeopleSoft upgrade.
• Developed and delivered custom HP ALM training materials for new users.
• Developed plans to accommodate project requirements, resources, timelines, and milestones.
• Analyzed non-functional and functional requirements to create test scripts.
• Supported functional, integration and UAT testing.
• Reported test results and findings to appropriate team members.

Confidential, Gaithersburg, MD

Sr. Software Test Engineer/HP ALM Admin

• Developed strategic plans to accommodate project requirements, resources, timelines, and milestones.
• Analyzed non-functional and functional requirements to develop load model and test approach.
• Utilized HP Performance Center to design scenarios and execute load and long duration tests.
• Worked cohesively with developers and application owners to develop test success criteria.
• Supported HP ALM implementation and coached testers to adopt HP ALM for managing test activities.
• Reported and tracked the status of the bugs, assigning severity ratings using HP ALM.
• Managed users, projects, fields in HP ALM to support various high visibility projects.
• Consulted with HP ALM users to troubleshoot and resolve ALM issues. Interface with HP, if required
• Developed LoadRunner VuGen scripts trip booking application.
• Analyze functional and non-functional requirements to set performance testing scope.
• Designed load model based on production data for designing LoadRunner scenarios.
• Worked with solutions architects and database architects to identify and resolve performance issues.
• Developed test suits using SoapUI and converted them into LoadRunner scripts for web services testing.
• Analyzed application and determine test automations need to support regression testing.
• Configured HP UFT and setup resources such as object repositories and global testing preferences.
• Executed HP UFT tests and generate results report in HP ALM.
• Designed data driven HP UFT framework to drive tests using different data sets.
• Engaged in daily scrum meetings and sprint planning to filter user stories for test cycles.
• Collaborated with management to develop a data grid used to quantify progress of QA team.
• Utilized SQL queries in TOAD for data validation and XML to include XPath/XQuery (for SoapUI assertions).

Confidential, Springfield, VA

Performance Tester/HP ALM Support

• Developed strategic plans to accommodate project requirements, resources, timelines, and milestones.
• Analyzed system requirements to develop detailed test cases for functional testing.
• Utilized HP ALM/QC to manage functional requirements, test scenarios, test cases, and reports.
• Worked cohesively with developers and application owners to develop test success criteria.
• Analyzed and compared the test environment and the production environment to identify differences in software/hardware versions and scaling factor configuration.
• Collected past/current application response time metrics and business transactions from production support team for developing realistic test scenarios and load models.
• Engineered LoadRunner VuGen scripts to simulate real user behavior for systems under test.
• Used Oracle SQL developer to gather and load performance test data.
• Developed weekly reports by generating data from vCenter operations manager and vSphere.
• Utilized Oracle BI to develop weekly reports for CPU and Memory usage on various databases.
• Published various reports for Management, including Exadata CPU & Memory, Storage Trends, and Transactions
• Extracted, transformed, and loaded data to conform to a unified data structure for simplified data analysis.
• Conducted analysis of data anomalies and consulted SME’s to arrive Confidential consensus for the cause of each anomaly
• Tested web services through XML request and response validation.
• Validated RESTful web services (REST Client), SOAP web services (SoapUI).
• Communicated test progress, test results and other test activities to management and DevOps team.
• Engaged in daily scrum meetings and sprint planning.

Confidential, NJ

Performance Test Engineer

• Defined test strategy by analyzing application design document and functional/system requirements.
• Determined nonfunctional testing requirements, developed and reviewed scripts, test scenarios.
• Used LoadRunner VuGen to develop web services, XML over HTTP, web, and TruClient scripts.
• Designed realistic load models to execute baseline, stress, and endurance tests based on SLA.
• Used LoadRunner analysis to find failures in system performance and to measure test expectations.
• Developed and recommended monitoring profiles for underlying Windows and UNIX infrastructure.
• Designed and developed automated test suits to test web services using SoapUI.
• Validated RESTful web services using REST Client.
• Tracked defects; reported and coordinated with various groups for timely resolution of defects.

Confidential VA

QA Test Engineer

• Developed test plan from requirements and application design documents.
• Identified key business scenarios from application specialties and business analysts.
• Used HP QC for test planning, test case development, test execution and requirements mapping.
• Performed integration, functional, black box, regression, and performance tests.
• Prepared tests metrics, requirement traceability matrix documents required for quality audit.
• Wrote SQL using joins for data validation from various data sources using TOAD.
• Performed back end testing and queried the database to verify database reflect from end changes.
• Managed defect tracking, reporting, and coordination with various groups for a timely resolution of open defects.