OBJECTIVE:

Having IT experience and expertise in Software Performance Testing, Quality Assurance Testing, Analysis, Validation and Documentation of Web Based & GUI applications, seeking a position of Software Performance Engineer/Performance Analyst, Performance Tuning.

SUMMARY:

• 9+ years of Professional IT experience and expertise in Software Performance testing, Quality Assurance Testing, Analysis, Validation and Documentation of Web Based, GUI applications.
• Expertise in the domains of IBM WebSphere middleware software (Web Server, Application server, Portal Server, Process Server), Integrated Justice (IJ) portal, Telecommunications, Health care, and financial systems.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), STLC, Testing Methodologies, Techniques, testing documentation and implementation in all phases
• Experienced in testing applications developed using GUI and Web based applications developed in Java, .NET, SharePoint.
• Extensive working experience in GUI testing, Functionality testing, Performance and load testing, System testing, Integration testing, Backend testing and Regression Testing
• Experienced in reviewing Project Requirements(BRS), Design documents and Business documents
• Developed and Analyzed Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases and Test Results
• Experienced in preparation of Test data, preparation and execution of regression test scripts, preparation of weekly status report
• Created, Scheduled, Executed and Analyzed Test Sets
• Extensive experience in developing, implementing and validating Master Strategy Test Plan, Detailed Test Plans, Test cases, Test Execution and Defect Tracking
• Attended Project Planning, Design Review, Test Planning and Status review calls and providing the Metrics reports to the QA manager on Project Status.
• Retested the fixed defects, Conducted Regression testing and ensured the defects are properly tracked from discovery to closure
• Tested the code changes using System Test, End to End Test, IST and UAT testing
• Coordinated with the developers and Architects to design the Use cases and the Test plans for the Functional and Usability Testing
• Prepared and executed Test cases, evaluated test results and Report discrepancies to the development team using Quality Center
• Experienced in using defect reporting tools Test Director, Quality Center and internally developed defect tracking tools
• Used Quality Center for managing test execution and defect tracking of all issues.
• Provided test management actions and activities (STLC) using Quality Center
• Wrote SQL queries for backend data validation and data integrity check
• Good working experience with functional automation tools like QTP
• Created automation scripts using VBScript in QTP to fully automate the application functionality
• Experienced in Capacity Planning for load testing, Stress testing and Endurance testing various web services using HP Load Runner, ALM Performance Center and Jmeter.
• Involved in Performance, Stress and Endurance testing using Different Version of HP Loadrunner for IBM WebSphere middleware software (Web Server, Application server, Portal Server, Process Server), JBoss, Tomcat and IIS Application.
• Performance testing Experience in HTTP/HTML, Ajax Truclient IE, Ajax Truclient Firefox, webservice and multiple protocols.
• Conducted Load testing to generate the load on the server by creating Vuser scripts in LoadRunner and Jmeter.
• Good knowledge and working experience on Web Services
• Experienced in preparing Use Cases and User Training Documents using MS - Word, VISIO
• Knowledge in complete life cycle of Production Support projects
• Experienced with Object Oriented Programming design patterns, and web Technologies
• Good team player, strived to improve customer satisfaction and have ability to work independently
• Performance Load testing, Endurance testing and Stress testing using LoadRunner.
• Developing Performance scenarios and scripts for multiple iterations.
• Working with different Vuser types and groups.
• Used Rendezvous Points Load balancing and IP spoofing to load test specific transactions.
• Installing, maintaining and administering HP LoadRunner and ALM Performance Center software.
• Tracking and identifying bottlenecks and Analyzing scenario performance, graphs and reports.
• Developing /Recording/Enhancing Vuser scripts and Configuring Run-time settings for Vugen and Controller.
• Proficient in putting loops into the Load runner scripts to run scripts for multiple iterations.
• Activating / configuring monitors and adding desired performance counters into the Graphs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows Server 2008, 2000/NT, XP, Vista, Windows 7, 2003 server, UNIX and Linux

Languages: Java, XML, HTML, DHTML, UNIX Shell Scripting, SQL and PL/SQL

RDBMS: Oracle, DB2, MSAccess,MS-SQLServer, Data Stage

GUI / Front-End: Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro

Scripting Languages: VB Script, JavaScript, C++

Testing Tools: HP Load Runner, ALM Performance Center, QTP, Win Runner,Selenium, Jmeter, Microsoft Visio

Defect Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center, Clear Quest

Application Servers: Web logic, WebSpehere, JBOSS, Tomcat and IIS

Real Time Interfaces: Web Services

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall

Repositories/ Other Tools: MS-Office, TOAD.

Web Services Tools: SOAP UI, SOAP SCOPE, SOAP XML, WSDL, and XML schema.

Internet Tools: IE, Netscape, Mozilla and Google Chrome

Monitoring Tools: HP SiteScope, Dynatrace, HP Business Service Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Albany, NY

Performance Tuning Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Install & configure and validating the HP Loadrunner 11.51, 11.52 & 12.02, ALM Performance Center 12, UFT, SoapUI Pro and Apache Jmeter.
• Expertise in installing, configuring, validating, and managing Application Life Cycle Management(ALM) clients on multiple platforms (windows, Linux) / database servers (SQL, Oracle), with expertise in managing Autopass Concurrent License Servers, QTP Concurrent License server, UFT Clients.
• Responsible for Administrating Microsoft IIS, JBOSS, Windows webserver and Application Was Server for several NYS State Agency’s.
• Designed several Loadrunner scripts using VUGen with different protocols like Web (http/html), Seibel, Ajex TruClient, Webservices (SOAP/WSDL/XML web Custom Request) for load testing different Applications.
• Coordinated and Collaborated with Application Development, Project Management, Architect Team and Middleware Team in planning, Scheduling, developing, and executing performance tests.
• Developed Quality of Services, Test Strategy, Test Plans, Design, Solutions for Scalability of various applications and contributed to the success of projects going live in production.
• Experience in creating, manipulating and executing Performance Center, Load Runner and Jmeter Testing scripts, by incorporating additional attributes in Run-Time settings.Monitoring the LoadRunner scenario and performed analysis for hits/second, Vusers, memory consumption (bytes/heap), throughput, network latency, transection summery and response times investigate/troubleshoot abnormal conditions within the test scenarios and remedy in LoadRunner Analysis.
• Enhanced the script using correlation, parameterization, checkpoints, setup transaction point and rendezvous point.
• Extensively analyzed various performance Monitors to find System Bottlenecks, Network Bottlenecks, CPU & Memory Utilization and Memory Leaks.
• Identify system/application bottlenecks, Network Bottlenecks and work with Bottom line 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 Mercury Interactive Loadrunner tool to simulate activity.
• Excellent experience with motoring and analyzing CPU,Was Server,Database,Application Server and windows resources using monitoring tools Nmon, HP SiteScope, AppDynamics ,Dynatrace .
• Used AppDynamics for complete application mapping, real-time analytics and advanced alerting.
• Involved in Functional, System, Regression testing and webservice testing using Quality Center/ALM, QTP/UFT and SOAP UI.
• Used Quality Center/ALM to defined Requirement, test case, tracking defects, enhancement requests, assign work activities, and assess the real status of project throughout the life cycle
• Performed test case execution using a keyword driven framework with Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Used Data sheets in Quick Test Pro to import data from data tables for conducting the Data Driven Testing
• Involved in Web Service Integration testing using QTP and SOAP UI.
• Worked on backend testing by writing SQL Queries to verify the data
• Wrote advanced T-SQL and PL/SQL statements to verify data base Integrity testing.
• Excellent working experience with Linux Sell Scripting with System admin team.

Environment: Java, C++, VB Script, HTML, SQL Server, Oracle, UNIX/Linux, Red Hot, Web Services, IBM WebSphere, Jboss, Apache Tomcat, Criminal Justice (IJ) Portal, QTP, SOAP, ALM, ALM Performance Center, HP LoadRunner 12.01, Jmeter, SOAPUI, HP SiteScope, Dynatrace, Microsoft Visio . 2008/2012/2016 Windows Server, Appdynamics.

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

QA Performance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in all the phases of SDLC starting from requirement design development Testing and implementation phase.
• Responsible for Install & configure and validating the HP Loadrunner 9.00, 9.50, 11.00 & 11.52, QTP, Quality Center, SoapUI Pro
• Expertise in installing, configuring, validating, and managing Application Life Cycle Management(ALM) clients on multiple platforms (windows, Linux) / database servers (SQL, Oracle), with expertise in managing Autopass Concurrent License Servers, QTP Concurrent License server,
• Involved in architected and implemented QA processes (e.g., defect tracking, test case management, automated testing strategies, load testing etc.)
• Responsible for Administrating Microsoft IIS, JBOSS, Windows webserver and Application Was Server for several Health care related Project.
• Extensively worked in Web/Http, Web Services, Ajax Truclient and Oracle Protocols in Load Runner.
• Responsible for developing the performance test strategies, Test plans and Test cases.
• Involved in Performance and Stress testing using Loadrunner
• Expertise in Developing Test Script in Vuser generator based on criticality and usage of business flows and enhanced Vuser Scripts by adding Loadrunner functions Using HP version 11.00 and 11.52 TruClient and Web/HTTP and Webservices Protocol for Load test, Stress test & Endurance test.
• Responsible for Parameterization, Setup Transection point to capture the transection time,correlation in Vuser Script by capturing the dynamic values and rendezvous point for web application and troubleshooting the existing Vugen scripts.
• Configured Web Application, and Database server performance monitoring setup using Site scope and Nmon.
• Identify system/application bottlenecks and work with Bottom line 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 using LoadRunner.
• 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 supports team, Project Management folks to gather the requirements to create test scope and test plan.
• Validated of test results, proactively explain and work through variances.
• Excellent experience working with end-user clients to gather business requirements and document using Microsoft Visio.
• Involved in working with Agile methodology
• Involved in testing the Web Applications developed in ASP.NET, VB.NET, JAVA, and Ajax
• Used Quality Center/ALM to defined Requirement, test case, tracking defects, enhancement requests, assign work activities, and assess the real status of project throughout the life cycle
• Scheduled and executed Manual Test Scripts through Quality Center
• Worked on backend testing by writing SQL Queries to verify the data
• Wrote advanced T-SQL and PL/SQL statements to verify data base Integrity testing
• Attended the Test planning sessions to help understand the End to End team with the code changes for the project
• Developed VB scripts in Quick Test Pro to perform end to end testing and created a set of re-usable scripts
• Developed test scripts using Quick Test Pro to perform functional and regression testing
• Involved in Data Driven and Keyword Driven Framework using QTP
• Documented all test results, identifying and summarizing discrepancies.
• Attended daily, defect meetings with the developers and the team to clarify and discuss all the defects that are found during testing.

Environment: VB.NET, Java, VB Script,HTML, SQL Server, Oracle, UNIX, Web Services, IBM WebSpere, XML, Agile, QTP, SOAP, QC, LoadRunner, HP Business Service Management . 2008/2012 Windows Server

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated actively in Requirement gathering sessions / JAD sessions and made proposed test strategy, test cases for the application
• Understood the application under test, wrote test plan, defined test strategy, created the test matrix
• Created and executed test cases based on business testing requirements and test plans
• Worked with development, users and support groups to understand the application architecture, use and content
• Developed the Test cases to test functionality, interface of the application
• Used HP Quality center to manage the requirements and test cases
• Used Quality center to log defects and generate defect reports and graphs
• Involved in Backend testing by writing SQL Queries to verify the data in the database
• Documented and sent reports according to the standards
• Created and executed Test scripts to verify complex system requirements
• Involved in Functional, System and Regression testing using QTP
• Performed test case execution using a keyword driven framework with Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Developed VB scripts in Quick Test Pro to perform end to end testing
• Used Data sheets in Quick Test Pro to import data from data tables for conducting the Data Driven Testing
• Involved in Web Service Integration testing using QTP
• Reported the failed test cases, tracked the defects and verified the fixes in multiple environments and also tested in various web browsers like Mozilla, IE, and Opera
• Involved in using Load Runner to check the performance of the application
• Performed result analysis using online monitors and graphs to identify bottlenecks in the server resources using LoadRunner
• Performed Peer reviews for test cases and Test results prepared by other team members

Environment: Windows, JAVA, VB Script, UNIX, SQL Server, Oracle, HTTP, HP Quality Center, QTP, LoadRunner, Web Services, Microsoft Visio.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Software Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all Functional and Technical discussions with the Users, Project Management, Developers, Architects and Test Teams
• Experienced in Manual execution of test scripts and created defect reports
• Developed Comprehensive test plans based on defect and business scenarios
• Involved in testing of the online web application
• Responsible for developing test scripts and cross checking with Business Requirements
• Testing the other applications integration with the online document display application
• Created and executed test cases based on business testing requirements and test plans
• Gathered QA metrics from the team and Forwarded overall test metrics to the management using Quality Center
• Created usage scenarios and executed them in order to test a product from a user perspective
• Extensively worked on T-SQL and PL/SQL scripts for SQL and Oracle Server.
• Worked on Backend testing and had very good knowledge of writing SQL Queries to verify the data using DB2
• Involved in Functional, System, Regression, Integration and User Acceptance testing.
• Executed Test Cases in Quality Center and created Defect reports
• Managed manual and automated testing efforts for entire QA life cycle using HP Quality Center and Quick Test Pro
• Used LoadRunner to monitor Performance and Stress of the application in pick times.
• Documented all test results, identified and summarized discrepancies
• Worked as a team with other QA testers to ensure that all projects are executed accurately and completely and assisted other testers with account selection, clarification of ambiguity with test results and general questions that arise
• Generated Weekly Status Reports to the team manager & participated in weekly status meeting with Team members, Team managers, Business Analysts & Technical Team participating in Project review meetings

Environment: Java, C, VB Script, .NET, XML, HTML, SQL Server, DB2, IIS Sever, Quality Center, QTP and LoadRunner