PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science and more than 15+ years of professional experience.
• Overall experience in Performance Testing, QA Architect, Project Management and Software Testing, including brief exposure to Application Development. An effective leader with proven capabilities in Project Management including project feasibility study, resource scheduling, task management, change management and resolution of all client concerns.
• Expertise in large - scale Data Warehouse (ETL), Performance Testing (Siebel, Ajax, Web/HTTP, Tuxedo protocol, RTE), SpringBatch applications, Web Portal, ERP applications, Mainframe & SOA (Web Services) Software Testing including creation of test plans, test plan reviews, test scripts, test cases, status reporting to the client and bug tracking & various kinds of testing using Software Tools. An effective communicator with excellent relationship management, analytical, team management, co-ordination and problem-solving skills. A good mentor and trainer to the team members on the business functionality, Performance engineering, technologies, performance testing tools and monitoring tools.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows Vista/NT 4.0/XP/2000, UNIX, LINUX, Solaris, IBM Mainframes (3270), AS/400

Environment: Client/Server,Mainframe(Legacy), Midrange Systems (AS/400),Web-based, MiddlewareAWS Servers

Database: Exadata, Netezza, Teradata, DB2, Oracle10g, SQL Server, MS-Access, Sybase,My-Sql

Internet Tools: HTML, DHTML, CSS, XML, Perl, VBScript, JavaScript, JavaBeans, Adobe Flex

Languages: COBOL, C, C++, J2EE, Spring, .Net

DWH / ETL: Informatica (Workflow Manager, Workflow Monitor, Source Analyzer), SSIS, Control-M

Testing Tools: Test Director / Quality center, Quick Testpro, Load Runner 9.5, WinRunner,Performance Center, SoapUI, Parasoft, SOAtest, IBM Rational Performance tester with SOA, Clear QuestClearCase, Test Manager, CA Wily Introscope, Sitescope, NewRelic

Test Scripting: Ruby, TSL

Other Tools: Bugzilla, Atlassian JIRA, VSS, EDR

Reporting Tools: Microstrategy, Cognos Reporting tool, Siebel Reporting/BI tool

App Servers: WebSphere Application Server, WebLogic, Jboss, IBM HTTP web server, WebSphere Portal Server, Web Seal servers, Siebel Enterprise Server, WebSphere MQ Series, Websphere ILOG Jrule, TIBCO, WebLogic, Tomcat

Requirement Tools: Doors 8.1, ALM Quality Center and Test Director

Other: Data Modeling, UML, SOX compliances, Agile Methodology, Rational Unified Process

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Performance Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed a Performance Test strategy & Plan for multiple Performance projects
• Developed project plans to meet engagement objectives, managing service deliverables throughout the life cycle of the project engagement
• Involved and lead the full performance test activity; Planning, Design, execution and monitoring; Tracking and reporting of the test execution; Analyzing the results and communicating status with the client.
• Coordinated and lead meeting project discovery, client review test plans, and review final test results
• Worked collaboratively with infrastructure team, development team, Business owners, Product Managers, Project Leaders and Management
• Coordinated and managed testing effort between 3rd party vendors, Internal IT teams and business partners
• Participated and lead the full performance test activity; Planning, Design, execution and monitoring; Tracking and reporting of the test execution; Analyzing the results and communicating status with the client
• Worked on the AWS RDS migration from Oracle Exadata database. Also performed performance testing on the AWS servers/applications during the migration Release.
• Developed large scale performance test data to run the Spring batch performance testing by using VuGen, Java code.
• Worked on AWS, EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), ELB (Elastic Load Balancing) & MySql of EDGE application
• Extensively worked on Data loading / Data tuning, Server Optimization, JVM garbage collection tuning and app server tuning.
• Developed Performance test scripts, scenarios and executed; monitoring; Tracking and reporting of the test execution; Analyzing the results and communicating status with the client.
• Designed high volume test scenarios to test batch applications in distributed systems.
• Design Vuser scripts that meet best practice and industry standards for easy maintenance and extensibility
• Wrote effective test scripts within the framework of approved testing tools (HP - Performance Center) using documented requirements and technical specifications provided by the project team.
• Responsible to create Vugen test scripts for transactions, batch oriented, single and combined application / components testing of very large scale Integration Architecture.
• Recorded Virtual User scripts (Web HTTP/HTML) using Load Runner, Upgrade and maintains Load Runner library scripts.
• Developed test cases for 508 Compliance testing.
• Developed insert sql statements scripts to generate the higher volume test data
• Analyze & Diagnostics the Newrelic performance metrics reports and provided the recommendations
• Develop Vugen scripts for various external interfaces that interacted with Jboss Server, RSA Server and Database systems.
• Monitored systems transactions, batch processing, CPU usage, memory, file storage capacity by using Newrelic, SAR, vmstat, iostat., etc.
• Load testing of systems/components and end to end business process testing with/without stubs.
• Tracked the defects / issues by using ALM Quality Center and generated defect summary reports

Confidential

Test Manager / Performance Test Lead / Sr Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Leading the onsite & offsite team members and handling multiple projects.
• Developed a test strategy for Web Portal / Web Services / ETL - Dataware house / Siebel / Mainframe application Performance Testing project and walk-throughs for detailed Test plan of Performance testing, Load testing, Stress testing and Failover testing and test scripts with the IT team, external party vendors and Business partners
• Developed project plans to meet engagement objectives, managing service deliverables throughout the life cycle of the project engagement
• Worked with the Stakeholders to define the performance requirements / criteria for applications Design automated test framework and automated scripts and execute tests to identify integration and end-to-end issues. Mentor team to develop automation scripts and test coverage.
• Involved and lead the full performance test activity; Planning, Design, execution and monitoring; Tracking and reporting of the test execution; Analyzing the results and communicating status with the client.
• Coordinated and lead meeting project discovery, client review test plans, and review final test results
• Collaborate with engineers, and business stakeholders on design of test scenarios.
• Coordinate testing with offshore and other test teams and integration of test environments.
• Coordinated testing schedule and communication
• Worked collaboratively with infrastructure team, development team, Business owners, Product Managers, Project Leaders and Management
• Designed, developed, and executed customized LoadRunner scripts and scenarios
• Extensively designed & developed test scripts, scenarios for Business Rules, Policies, Workflow Testing, Events Testing, Security Testing, Interoperability Testing, Service-App Integration Testing, Reuse Testing (Consumability and Composability), Service Data Testing.
• Extensively used the Load Runner VuGen for Middleware testing and automated the certification scripts for code deployed and regressions testing.
• Created various Web/HTTP,RTE VUser scripts basing on the Batched trasactions,Process single transactions, Message transformation, using MQseries (xml request's), volume throughputs used by the real time users using VuGen of Load Runner
• Attended meetings, report progress, and coordinate with technical team to troubleshoot and fix defects
• Investigated and collected information to resolve process or performance issues found
• Executed performance test and coordinated system and infrastructure monitoring
• Executed performance and infrastructure testing to ensure all development deliverables are production ready
• Coordinated with the infrastructure and development team on the environment setup
• Executed performance and infrastructure testing to ensure all development deliverables are production ready
• Developed key metrics for measuring and monitoring performance and capacity
• Created and executed LoadRunner scenarios and prepare result analysis includes various metrics for CPU utilization, Memory usage, Disc space utilization, request executions, hits/sec and through put
• Provided training and mentoring support to the team members on the new technologies and business process
• Tracked the defects / issues by using Quality Center and ClearQuest and generated defect summary reports

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed a Performance Test strategy for Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence
• Participated in project engagement meetings
• Mentored the offshore QA team on the new functionality / workflow of the application and on Performance & Automation best practices and methodologies also.
• Good understanding of FX, Employee Stock Option, Deposits systems, Credit default swap(CDS), Credit & Equity Derivatives, OPRA (Options pricing reporting authority) etc.,
• Involved in preparing a Data Warehouse/Data mart Intelligence test strategy
• Involved in finding GAP analysis from source systems to HUB/BDW databases
• Developed load and performance test plan and designed v-user scripts that met best practice and industry standards for easy maintenance and extensibility
• Participated and lead the full performance test activity; Planning, Design, execution and monitoring; Tracking and reporting of the test execution; Analyzing the results and communicating status with the client
• Designed VuGen scripts for Microstrategy reports while loading the data from Legacy and other DB systems.
• Developed performance / stress / volume testing scenarios for highly integrated Websphere, Web server, Middleware component, Mainframe and other Database systems.
• Correlation, Parameterized, text checks and correlation the vuser scripts and setting up the run-time settings
• Worked with the customer to derive acceptance criteria and testing standards
• Maintained the performance test automation environment
• Designed, developed, and executed customized LoadRunner scripts and scenarios
• Wrote effective test scripts within the framework of approved testing tools (HP LoadRunner) using documented requirements and technical specifications provided by the project team
• Set up and configured stress servers, the definition of performance metrics, executed detailed stress runs and collected/analyzed stress results
• Developed key metrics for measuring and monitoring performance and capacity
• Created and executed LoadRunner scenarios and prepared result analysis including various metrics for CPU utilization, Memory usage, Disc space utilization, I/O activity, TCP connections, System calls, Paging activity, Cache hits, request executions, Avg. disk que length, hits/sec and through put
• Defined and implemented entire QA lifecycle during product development
• Interacted with developers and discussed technical problems
• Extensively worked on ETL Data load’s from various systems between Sources to Stage to TDH, TDH to EDW
• Worked with other systems to ensure all logical and physical designs and implementations conformed to defined standards
• Tracked the defects / issues by using Atlassian JIRA, HP Quality Center and generated defect summary reports

Confidential

Test Manager / Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team offshore and onsite (18 testers) to ensure complete test cycles and on time delivery of product
• Coordinated and managed testing effort between 3rd party vendors, Internal IT teams and business partners
• Worked as a member of Center of Excellence Team and responsible to design the Enterprise Testing process documents
• Responsible for entire QA process including test management, Strategy document preparation, Test estimation, test case review, test execution and defect management
• Identified test requirements by reviewing SOR mapping documents and extensively worked on ETL mappings between Old GID to New GID, New GID to EW and EW to GID
• Performed the action of validating WSDL using the feature available in QTP
• Used Web Services Wizard feature of Quick Test Professional, the WSDL file/URL and web service objects of GID Admin are been tested
• Executed web services for new products, Online Trading and Fund station details
• Developed load and performance test plan and design Vuser scripts that meet best practice and industry standards for easy maintenance and extensibility
• Wrote test scripts for Purchase, Exchange, Transfer, SWIP's, and Other transactions for online line and batch processing on an IBM Mainframe.
• Develop Vugen scripts for various external interfaces that interacted with Legacy, Database systems.
• Monitored systems’ CICS transactions, batch processing, CPU usage, memory, file storage capacity using ITCAM tool.
• Load testing of systems/components and end to end business process testing with/without stubs.
• Responsible to create Vugen test scripts for transactions, batch oriented, single and combined application / components testing of very large scale Integration Architecture.
• Recorded Virtual User scripts ( HTTP, RTE) using Load Runner, Upgrade and maintain Load Runner library scripts
• Wrote effective test scripts within the framework of approved testing tools (Mercury Interactive - LoadRunner, WinRunner) using documented requirements and technical specifications provided by the project team
• Constructed Test case and Test scripts, sets up and configures stress servers, the definition of performance metrics, execution of detailed stress runs and collection/analysis of stress results
• Created and executed LoadRunner scenarios and prepare result analysis including various metrics for CPU utilization, RAM usage, Disc space utilization, I/O activity, TCP connections, System calls, Paging activity, Cache hits, Request executions, Avg. disk queue length, hits/sec and through put
• Developed a Load and performance test plan and create a Vuser scripts and custom coding and implementing them in Vuser protocols: SMTP, Web/HTTP
• Performed online monitoring while running scenarios on different servers using LoadRunner monitors
• During insourcing, the Investar code performed Performance, Load test, Reliability and Scalability test on the application using LoadRunner
• Created dynamic data pool for passing input data to the applications under load and emulated real time business operations
• Monitored and analyzed activity Report and Performance Report created using LoadRunner Analysis tool, looking at the online/monitors and the graphs and identified the bottlenecks in the system
• Defined requirements for large-scale LoadRunner performance tests of the Mainframe Applications
• Created Load/Stress scenarios for performance testing using the LoadRunner Controller
• Tested Middleware XML schemas and DTDs to verify that these were prepared according to the business requirements
• Generated and modified XML requests according to the business requirements / XML Schemas
• Developed automation regression test suites for regression test build by using Web Services add-ins of QTP
• Performed the action of validating WSDL using the feature available in Quick Test Pro
• Tested Middleware XML schemas and DTDs to verify that these were prepared according to the business requirements
• Developed automation SOA XML messages regression test suites for regression test build by using Web Services add-ins of Quick Test Pro
• Prepared a POC of Middleware automation framework and walkthrough with the stakeholders / Business units
• Used Test Director / Quality Center to store test plans, test cases, Quick Test Pro scripts and for issue tracking
• Tracked the defects / issues by using Bugzilla, Atlassian JIRA, Quality Center and generated defect summary reports
• Documented the design of scripts and train others to use/maintain them
• Assisted and worked closely with the Project Manager in designing and prioritizing test automation

Confidential

Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed GUI Tests, Regression Tests, Database Tests, Stress Tests, Functionality Testing using WinRunner
• Performed detailed analysis of user requirements
• Manually ran the test cases to check if Test cases/ Application are ready for automation
• Created automation scripts using TSL (WinRunner)
• Executed the test scripts in Test Director and monitor the results
• Reported the defects in the Bugzilla application

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed the Software using Java
• Responsible for documenting my part of programs
• Prepared unit test cases as per the functional specifications
• Executed unit test cases and reporting bugs in to the Bugzilla application
• Performed GUI Unit Tests, regression tests, Database tests, stress tests, Functionality testing
• Executed System and Integration test cases and reporting bugs in to the Bugzilla application