SUMMARY

• A dedicated professional with an excellent education in Bachelor of Engineering and having 19+ years’ experience in computer applications. A self - starter with a solid technical grounding in current industry practices
• To utilize my technical and management skills for achieving the target and delivering the best performance in the esteemed organization. I would like to implement my innovative ideas, progressive experience, skills and creativity for accomplishing the projects
• Performance Testing, Automation Testing, QA best practices, Functional & Regression testing, Troubleshooting, Team player, Program Developer, Programming Skills, Interpersonal Skills, Organizational Skills, Planning/Coordinating, Observation Skills, Team Mentor, Agile Methodology

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• QA Team Management
• Testing Center of Excellence
• Load Runner 12.5
• Performance Center 12.6
• Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Quality Center 11 Administration
• Smart Bear Test Complete
• Manual Testing Process
• ERP Testing
• CRM Testing
• Web Services Testing
• Electronic Data Interchange

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Win98, Win2k, Win 2003 Server, Win XP, Unix

Web Servers: IIS, Web logic, ColdFusion, Web Sphere

Programming Languages: Java/J2EE, C, C++, Visual Basic, PL/SQL, COBOL, ASP, EDI, .NET

Databases: Oracle 11i, SQL Server, MS-Access

Testing Tools: Performance Center 12.62, ALM 12.5, QTP 11, Load Runner 11, Quality Center 11 /Test Director

CRM/ERP: Salesforce, Siebel 7.0, Lawson 8.0/9.0,Clarify

Scripting: VB Script, Java Script

Repots: Crystal Reports, Business Objects

Web Technologies: XML, HTML, DHTML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Performance Test Lead

Environnent: HP Performance Center12.62, HTTP/HTML, Tru Client Protocol, Sitescope, CatchPoint, C, Salesforce, AngularJS, Node JS, JIRA

Responsibilities:

• Managing Performance testing team/activities for Enterprise and Digital teams.
• Led effort to develop and execute strategy to purchase load testing tool HP Performance Center 12.62. Presented options to the management for tool selection, pricing options, cost of ownership including training and purchase strategy.
• Installed and maintenance of HP Performance Center 12.62, Sitescope from the scratch.
• Created and distributed the performance testing requirements questionnaire.
• Responsibility of delivering performance testing deliverables on time for Enterprise and Digital.
• Assisting on-site and off-shore teams on the technical issues on the tool, scripting, environment and applications.
• Managing performance testing for multi applications on different protocols Web HTTP/HTML, TruClient, SOA etc.. for EP and Digital domains.
• Implement the right pacing for the test to achieve the exact no of transactions per hr to meet the SLA.
• Responsible for gathering the Performance testing requirements and setting up the SLAs.
• Implemented Baseline, Benchmark, Load and Performance testing, Stress Testing as a part of performance testing activities
• Enhance the Loadrunner VUGen script for the page validations, Correlations for the successful execution with maximum number of users.
• Design the multiple load testing scenarios on different load levels(500VUs, 1000VUs, 1500VUs, 2000VUs,2500VUs,3000VUs) to know the best performance and the performance degradation.
• Monitor the performance matrices through Sitescope and generating the customized reports from Load Runner Analysis component.
• Installed SiteScope with the help of the installation and configured monitors for analysis and used to get metrics from servers.
• Managing & mentoring teams in On-site and Offshore.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

QA Consultant

Environnent: HP Loadrunner, Sitescope, C#, Selenium Web driver, Fitnesse, VSTS 2012, JMeter, AngularJS, Node JS, Rally, Firepath, Team City, JIRA

Responsibilities:

• Managing Manual, Automation and Performance testing for Confidential Marketplace application.
• Created annual performance goals for QA team resources. Collaborated with team members to ensure that individual development plans align with IT organization and QA department goals.
• Performed midyear performance reviews for the team.
• Participating in planning meetings, daily scrum meetings, and retrospective meetings for all the projects with the team to track the QA Status and the process.
• Providing weekly reports on QA activities and achievements to the management.
• Responsible for gathering the Performance testing requirements and setting up the SLA.
• Implemented Baseline, Benchmark, Load and Performance testing, Stress Testing as a part of performance testing activities
• Enhance the Loadrunner VUGen script for the page validations, Correlations for the successful execution with maximum number of users.
• Design the multiple load testing scenarios on different load levels to know the best performance and the performance degradation.
• Monitor the performance matrices through Sitescope and generating the customized reports from Load Runner Analysis component.
• Reviewing the manual test cases written by the team and responsible on delivering the QA Automation tasks. Responsible for creating the automation test scripts and maintain them in the repository.
• Used Keyword Driven Automation Framework with the combination of Fitnesse, Selenium Web Driver and C#
• Written C# fixtures in Visual Studio and used the frame work which is underlying of Selenium Web Driver.
• All Actions, Tasks, Object identifications are writing into excel sheet and passing to Fitnesse.
• Identifying the Xpaths, Id’s, CSS selectors to recognize the objects and incorporate into excel sheet.
• Responsible for providing the time estimates for Manual & Automation testing effort.
• Responsible for sign-offs the QA activities to send the application to the UAT.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Automation & Performance test manager

Environment: Load Runner 11, Quality Center 11 ALM, Windows 2008, Cognos 8.4.1

Responsibilities:

• Managed Manual Testing Team, Automation team and Performance testing teams as part of TCoE.
• Responsible for QA Manual, Automation, Performance deliverables and also RE(Resource Exchange), RR (Resource Release) according to the project’s requirements.
• Provide the goals, Project Deliverables and priorities to the teams in Onsite and Offshore.
• Responsible for work estimations and Resource allocation within the Testing Center of Excellence team for various projects
• Responsible to provide the automation, performance testing tools and environment available to all the project teams.
• Establishing the testing methodologies and mentor the team to follow the same standards across all the projects.
• Mentor and given training for on-site QA teams on QTP Automation tool, performance testing tool Load Runner, QC features and QA Best Practices.
• As a QC administrator, creating the Domains, projects, customizations and giving the user access for the team members as per their role and maintenance of QC servers.
• Responsible for installations of QA Automation tools, QC and its upgrades.
• Responsible of automation tool evaluations & POCs for different automation tools.
• Participated in walkthroughs of requirements, specifications and JAD Sessions.
• Hands on experience in managing off-shore and On-site Model.
• Implemented BPT frame work for the QTP automation for PAS.
• Provide the goals, Project Deliverables and priorities to the teams in Onsite and Offshore.
• Responsible for work estimations and Resource allocation with in the team for various projects.
• Created different Application Areas and assigned Function Libraries and Shared Object Repositories with it.
• Written many user defined functions to make the script more robust.
• Created large test plans in Quality Center with all the automated components as per the Business Scenarios.
• Followed Agile Methodology-SCRUM guidelines for Hybrid Software Development Life Cycle.
• Performed Quality Center Administration and responsible for the QC11 ALM migration from QC 9.2.
• Moved all the projects from QC 9.2 to ALM QC11 and played as a point of contact for HP to trouble shoot the migration issues in our organization.
• Responsible for project customization for Requirements, Test plan, Test Lab and Defects modules in Quality Center 11 as per the project management requests.
• Responsible for maintaining the Test Lab to provide the access for the team on Cross Browser/Cross OS testing.
• Responsible for QTP, LoadRunner, QC installations for the team members and providing the licenses.
• Worked as a SME for Automation & Performance testing and responsible for Proof Of Concepts and its implementations.
• Involved in writing Test Plans by incorporating Performance Testing Objectives, Test Environment, User Profiles, Risks, Test Scenarios, Explanation about the Tools used, Schedules and Analysis, Monitors and Presentation of results.
• Finalize the no. of users (user load), mission critical transactions from the Task Distribution Diagram and Transaction Profile.
• Used HTTP/HTML, Ajax True Client, Web services protocols for the load & performance testing.
• Created the performance testing questionnaire to get the performance testing requirements from the clients.
• Created Benchmark test, Stability test, Stress test and Load test scenarios.
• Calculated the correct pacing, the test to achieve the exact no. of transactions per hour.
• Create and Enhance the Load Runner Scripts with C functions, Parameterized Users, stored dynamic content for validations, Text checks were implemented.
• Created scenarios for Concurrent (Rendezvous) users hitting the same functionality.
• Executed the load testing scenarios at different load levels to bench mark the performances at different levels.
• CPU, Memory, Network, Web connections and throughput were monitored while running the various scenarios in the Load Runner.
• Performed Baseline Testing, Benchmark testing, Failover testing and Stress testing.
• Identified Memory leaks & Load Balancer issues and provided the recommendation profile to the customers.
• Responsible and involved in Executing the scenarios, Monitoring the server response timings, Monitoring the Throughput, Hits/Sec, Trans/Sec
• Responsible to provide the customized reports and verify the Key Performance Indicators.
• Created Lessons Learned Document for the team by documenting all the issues and solutions went through for current release.
• Responsible for maintaining/administering the Load Runner controller and Load Generators and given the access to