Professional Summary:

• Around 5 Years of experience in Performance Testing, Stress Testing, Load Testing, Functionality Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing.
• Adept in using Mercury Interactive testing tools like HP Load Runner, Performance Center, Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, Win Runner, Test Director to write and maintain automated Test scripts.
• Experienced in Test Case Design, Test Planning, Test Tool Usage, Test Case Execution, Defect Management, Risk Analysis and building Test Environment.
• UsingLoad Runner, execute multi-user performance tests, used online monitors, real-time output messages and other features of the Load RunnerController.
• Experienced in defining Testing methodologies, Designing Test Plans and test Cases, Verifying and Validating web based application and documentation based on standards for Software Development and effective QA implementation in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Good knowledge in backend testing on different relational databases such as DB2, Oracle and MS SQL Server, Hibernate, MS SharePoint Server2007, MS PowerPoint. Adobe products like Flex and Dream Weaver.
• Worked on different Methodologies like Water Fall, Agile, and scrum.
• Good working experience in all the UNIX flavors like AIX, Solaris, Red Hat Linux SUSE Linux, HP-UNIX, etc
• Hands on experience in writing QA test plans and test cases and executing them. Comprehensive understanding of QA standards, flows, methodologies, procedures, and QA documentation
• Professional experience in designing Test Cases and Test Scripts for Windows, Java and UNIX environments.
• Developing and Maintaining Test Scripts, analyzing bugs and interacting with development team members in fixing the defects.
• Exceptional ability to interact with customers and developers, communicating changes in requirements, resolving conflicts and assuring project delivery on time.
• Good with debugging and adjusting scripts by running it within VuGen with Runtime Settings logs set to display all messages.
• Conducted Load Testing with Thin and Thick Clients Simultaneously, Scripted Thick Clients in Win runner and Thin Clients in Web and Citrix Protocols of Load Runner.
• Experience on Defining User Behavior, Running Load Test Scenarios, Monitoring the Performance Metrics, identifying the Bottlenecks and Analyzing Performance test Results.
• Hands on Experience in Performance Test Results Analysis and Performance Tuning.
• Working experience with Banking Industries, Telecom, Health Care and Web services.
• Experience in testing applications developed in C, C++, C#, Java, VB.Net, ASP, ASP.NET, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL and SQL Server.
• Skilled in using defect tracking and reporting tools like Test Director, Quality Center, PVCS Tracker, Team Foundation Server, QA director, Optimal Trace, Track Record, Test Partner.
• Excellent communication and verbal skills & problem solving skills.

Technical Skills

Operating Systems: Win 95, 98, 2000, XP, NT, Sun Solaris, AS 400, VSAM,MS-DOS,UNIX.
Languages: C, C++, HTML, DHTML, XML , ASP.NET.
Testing Tools: Load Runner7.8, 8.0, 9.1, 9.5, Rational Clear Quest, Selenium, Junit, Nunit, QTP.
Test Management Tools: HP Quality Center, Rational Test Manager, PVCS Tracker.
Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, DB2UDB, PL/SQL, Oracle 8.x,9.x,10.x, Ms Access.
Mainframes: CICS, JCL, SPUFI, VSAM, AS 400, COBOL.
Web/App Servers: Apache, Web Logic, Web Sphere and IIS.
GUI: Java, J2EE, Microsoft. NET, Power Builder, Delphi. 
HP-UX Tools for performance analysis: GlancePlus Monitor, tusc, top, sar.
Others: Shell Scripts, MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, SAS, Crystal Reports, BO, TOAD, RapidSQL.

Professional Experience

Client: Confidential Jan 11 – Mar 12
Location: North Carolina
Role: Sr. Performance Engineer
Description: Confidential is a financial services company, the largest bank holding company in the United States. Online Banking is an online application that enables the firm’s customers to access their various accounts through their Web Site. The application enables the credit cards account holders to enter ‘Access ID’ to access and perform financial calculations on their various personal and institutional accounts. 
Customers can track charges and payments before they receive their statements, Pay their bills, Review past statements, Check Membership Rewards points balance.
Responsibilities:

• Defined requirements for large-scale Load Runner performance tests of the Web based
• and Database server Applications.
• Created Load/Stress scenarios for performance testing using the Load Runner.
• Involved in all aspects of SDLC.
• Responsible for designing scenarios and monitoring them using Load Runner.
• Involved in Correlation and Parameterization for the script, to ensure the script
• runs successfully during replay .Monitored the activities through Load Runner Controller.
• Recorded and enhanced Vuser Scripts by inserting Transaction points, Rendezvous
• Points in to Vuser Script in Load Runner.
• Created various scenarios in LoadRunner controller for performing baseline, benchmark, stress tests and endurance tests.
• Performed both automatic and manual correlation using the options in load Runner.
• Responsible for back-end testing/database testing, which was done using SQL queries.
• Used Test Director for bug tracking and investigated software bugs.
• Executed performance and endurance testing of project to compare Transaction
• Response Time for business critical transactions on different builds of web based applications.
• Responsible for identifying bottlenecks in the system using Load Runner Controller.
• Activating / configuring monitors and adding desired performance counters into the
• Graphs
• Tracked software bugs using Quality Center and communicated the same to developers to resolve technical issues.

Environment: Manual Testing, Test Director, Performance Testing, Load runner 9.5 ASP.NET, SQL Server, UNIX,HTML, MS Windows NT/2000, MS Office Suite.

Client : Confidential Jun 09 – Dec 10
Location: Chicago
Role: Sr. Performance Engineer
Description: Confidential is the nation\'s fourth largest broad line retailer with over 4,000 full-line and specialty retail stores in the United States and Canada. Sears Holdings is the leading home appliance retailer as well as a leader in tools, lawn and garden, consumer electronics and automotive repair and maintenance.
Responsibilities:

• Analyze existing production environment and come up with Performance testing plan for test data, application workflows, performance testing scenarios.Involved in both the activities monitoring and production support.
• Customize application code to create Loadrunner script for flex based application.
• Create Loadrunner script, correlation, parametrization, design scenario for performance, reliability and stress testing.
• Setup test environment to configure test database, Apache Tomcat configuration, Cisco Loadbalancer configuration, setting up Yourkit Profiler and HP diagnostics configuration.
• Monitor the test execution including web, application and DB level for any potential bottleneck.
• Analyze JVM Garbage collection, Thread dump, Thread, JDBC sessions.
• Generate Oracle awr/addm reports and analyze them for potential DB issues, like top consuming sql, check sql plan and index usage, gather stats etc.
• Experienced in Agile Software Development methodology.
• Profile application using YourKit and isolate the performance issues.
• Soap UI to web services Load testing.

Environment: Loadrunner 9.1, Hp Diagnostics, SOAP UI, GC and HeapAnalyzer, YourKit, Oracle 11g, J2EE, Tomcat, Apache, Linux, Cisco Loadbalancer, Flex

Client: Confidential Feb 08 – May 09
Location: Chicago
Role: Performance Engineer
Description: Confidential autos and homes in the U.S and is one of the leading life insurances. The Confidential family of companies is also expanding its services to offer a wide range of financial and banking services, from savings and checking accounts to retirement planning. The online application was created using ASP, HTML, and VBScript, JavaScript and Oracle backend. I was involved with the Functional testing, performance testing and load testing of
the Home-Link application using QTP.
Responsibilities:

• Responsible for decomposition of the requirements based on the functional specifications, design, development, coding, testing, debugging and documentation of applications to satisfy requirements.
• Involved in Development Test cases and Test plan.
• Select, design, and prioritize test scenarios and test cases that will provide efficient coverage of requirements consistent with acceptable level of risk.
• Responsible for creating and execution of automated test scripts using Quick Test Pro.
• Ran the scripts on multiple environments (QA, UAT and Production) to ensure that requirements were still met.
• Created Scenarios using Vusers in Load Runner.
• Executed the Performance & Load Testing Using Load Runner
• Developed tests to simulate various Virtual Users, with varying user data for load testing using Load Runner.
• Carried out GUI, Functionality, Integration and Regression testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Performed Data Driven Testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Analyzed Load Runner scenario results.
• Online monitoring of Graphs/monitors in Load Runner.
• Analysis of cross results, merged graphs in Load Runner.
• Analyzing scenario performance, graphs and reports in Load Runner.
• Developing /Recording/Enhancing Vuser scripts.
• Filtering and sorting information in Load Runner.
• Strong object oriented application development experience using C#.
• Identified, analyzed, and documented defects, errors, and inconsistencies in the application using Quality Center.
• Reported defects according to Defect Life Cycle.
• Created and Maintained Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix.
• Coordinated with the developers on Defects Status on a regular basis.
• Participate in various meeting and discussed Enhancement and Modification request.

Environment: Oracle, Windows 2000/XP, IIS, Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, C#, Load Runner 9.0.

Client: Confidential Apr 07 – Jan 08
Location: Los angeles, CA
Role: Performance Engineer
Description: Confidential Corporation is the largest cable operator, home internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadbandInternet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in many states. 
Responsibilities:

• Development of performance testing tool using Java Core to test TCP/IP client Server performance for payments of electronic transactions like Credit Card, Debit Card and Checks.
• Design performance test scenarios for Scalability, Endurance testing for Data centre movement.
• Develop, execute, and analyze performance test using Load runner.
• Monitoring and analyze result, Thread sump, Memory dump, GC logs, Oracle awr reports.
• Develop Shell scripts to parse the application logs and Response time logs.
• Experienced in Agile Software Development methodology.
• Linux Server monitoring using vmstat, ps, top, iostat, netstat and application and Web Server session, Application server session, threads, and db pool connection values.
• Performance lab environment setup and preparation of test database.
• Finding performance bottleneck at system level and code level and tuning.

Environment: Load runner 8.1, Silk Performer, Java, GC Viewer, Oracle awr, Oracle 10g, JAVA, Tomcat, Jboss, Apache, Linux.