OBJECTIVE:

Determined quality assurance and testing professional with over all 7 years of strong research and debugging skills. Effective at providing innovative solutions for issues to ensure delivery of optimal products. Understanding of performance testing, manual and automated testing strategies. Positive, adaptable and motivated.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Excellent knowledge of Performance testing life cycle and Software test life cycle (STLC).
• Participated in Requirement Analysis with the development team and the client.
• Build and maintain performance testing strategy, test scenarios and test cases.
• Involved in developing script framework for LR using c language and in automating the use cases using WEB (HTTP/HTML) and Web Services protocols.
• Performed load, concurrent user and stress testing development, execution and publish results.
• Experience in understanding application performance requirements, developing performance engineering strategies, wide - range exposure to performance testing using protocols and performance tools.
• Experience in creating and developing strategic Test plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Data and generating Test Reports for both Manual and Automated tests.
• Used Load Runnerfor measuring system behavior and load performance.Perform capacity, scenario and endurance tests.Analyze root causes of performance issues and provide corrective actions.
• Experience in enhancing the VuGen scripts by manual correlations technique and parameterizations, also in monitoring the applications performance using Dynatrace.
• Good with debugging scripts by running it within VuGen with runtime settings to replicate a real world/Production like scenarios.
• Well versed in Functional, Integration, Regression, Smoke, Unit, Stress, Performance, Endurance, Load, Spike and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Actively interacted with the development team in resolving bugs identified from testing.
• Experience with SOAP UI, Web Service Testing, Validating request and response XML, data driven testing and Knowledge on SQL to conduct Database Testing.
• Ability to manage multiple project tasks with changing priorities and tight deadlines and worked in multiple management levels.
• Good analytical and problem solving skills by delivering quality solutions to complex problems within a limited time span.
• Self-motivated with natural leadership traits, excellent communication skills and a good team player.

TECHNICALSKILLS

Operating systems: Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.

Test/Defect Management tools: Quality Center/ALM, JIRA

Performance testing tools: Load Runner, Performance Center, Dynatrace

Databases: Oracle and MS SQL Server.

Programming languages: C, Python

Querying tools: Oracle SQL Developer and SQL Server Management Studio.

Web servers: Apache HTTP server, Apache Tomcat server, and Nginx.

Other productivity tools: Borland Silk Central, Citrix, Excel, MS Word, Power Point SharePoint, GIT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Performance Tester

Confidential, NYC, NY

Responsibilities:

• Conduct system performance testing to ensure system reliability, capacity and scalability.
• Conduct smoke testing to show that the application performs as expected under normal conditions.
• Conduct stress testing to find out how the application perform under the worst condition, helping developers determine which component are more likely to fail first.
• Designed the Performance test environment coordinating with the infrastructure teams and Installed Commercial Tools LoadRunner for Performance testing.
• Analyze test results and coordinate with development teams for bug fixes.
• Analyze root causes of performance issues and provide corrective actions.
• Designed scenarios for Performance Testing, generating scripts and handling Correlation as well as parameterization using Load runner VuGen, executed scenarios using Controller.
• Experience in using Performance Center for creating LR scenarios and executing LR scripts to simulate multiple users and transactional workload for performance testing using WEB (HTTP/HTML) and Web Services protocols.
• Used web reg save param functions to correlate the scripts manually.
• Configured Dynatrace diagnostics to capture matrices during load test.
• Attend the daily stand up meeting and provide high level update about work done in previous date and work that would be carried out in today’s date.
• Co-ordinates with other scrum team members to make sure there is no delay in requirement gathering to carry out project work.
• Used Dynatrace tool for profiling the application to find out where the performance issues are, also to measure application performance in test environment to capture performance metrics.
• Worked on JIRA which include Defects Management, Test Plan and Dashboard.
• Taking part in user story grooming session to understand the requirement better and provide the story points from testing side.

Environment: HP Load Runner 12.50, HP Performance Center 12.50, HP ALM, Apache, HTTP server, IBM Web Sphere, Oracle, SQL Developer, RESTful APIs, JIRA, SiteScope, Windows.

Performance tester

Confidential, SUNNYVALE, CA

Responsibilities:

• Gather Non-Functional requirements and prepare performance test strategy.
• Develop performance test scripts and handled critical test executions, preparation and presenting the test results to stakeholders.
• Created rendezvous point for Performance test scenarios to find deadlocks.
• Involved in performing load and stress test on the application and server by configuring Load Runner to simulate hundreds of virtual users and provided key metrics to the management.
• Conducted all tests in the Controller by creating 2000 virtual users for load, stress and steady state test respectively.
• Discussion with DEV team and business users to understand the process flow and re-design the test cases whenever required.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Summary Reports and Test Execution Metrics.
• Developed and Executed the Test cases & scripts for Smoke, Functional, System, Regression, and Performance.
• Created Load Runner scenarios and scheduled the Virtual Users to generate realistic load on the server.
• Recorded scripts using VuGen, inserted transaction points to calculate the response times.
• Created Vuser scripts using LR VU Generator for multiple protocols like, WEB (HTTP/HTML) andWeb Service.
• Involved in defect tracking, reporting and coordination with various groups from initial finding of defects to final resolution.

Environment: HP Load Runner 11.0, Java, HP ALM 11.0, Web services, Web applications,MS SQL Server, SQL, Management Studio, Bugzilla, Windows.

QA/Web Service Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed project requirements to find bugs and eliminate issues within a timely manner in Agile Software model environment.
• Created, edited, and updated project manuals and technical documentation used by the entire QA team.
• Assessed and tested codes to uncover bugs and assisted in finding resolutions.
• Promoted the company in maintaining a work environment focused on quality, communication, collaboration, integration, and teamwork.
• Chosen as the main project contact, answering questions and resolving issues from customers, vendors, development team and production team.
• Troubleshooted and resolved issues escalated from customer with a 100% success rate.
• Effective requirements analysis on ambiguous requirements to ensure the effectiveness of all test plans.
• Contributed to high reliability technology releases as a result of thorough testing that helped maintain industry leading sales ranking, market share and customer satisfaction rating.
• Groomed a team of 7 junior associates.
• Prepared test data. Executed test cases in Quality Center.
• Executed SQL queries to compare the data in database with GUI and web services.
• Involved in Web service testing using SOAP UI to validated request and response XML of WSDL files for web services.
• Data Driven Testing with valid and invalid inputs and Database Testing. Involved in functional testing, Regression testing, User Acceptance testing, Smoke testing, Integration testing. Browser compatibility testing.
• Generated reports for test case execution and defect status reports. Executed automation test scripts developed in QTP.
• Worked with different teams during integration testing phase of the application.

Environment: HP Quality Center 10.0, Java, SQL, Web services, Web applications, Borland Silk Center, Citrix client, QTP, SOAP UI.

QA Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Agile model environment, attended sprint plan meeting and daily standup meeting.
• Contributed on high reliability technology releases as a result of thorough testing that helped maintain industry leading sales ranking, market share and customer satisfaction.
• Effective requirement analysis on ambiguous requirements to ensure the effectiveness of all test plans.
• Developed and executed test cases in Quality Center.
• Involved in Unit testing, Integration testing, Functional testing and Regression testing.
• Collecting Test Metrics and Documentation.
• Tracking Changes, Defects, Selecting Test Cases for Regression Testing Preparing Reports.
• Updating Traceability Matrix Document, Test Cases and Test Data.

Environment: HP Quality Center 10.0, Java, Java servlet, Oracle, Web services, Web applications, Water fall, Borland Enterprise Server.