SUMMARY

• Customer centric IT professional with diverse experience in functions for small client server applications to complex multi - tier systems, hands-on experience of planning, analysis, and implementation of solutions to fit the business goals.
• Worked in dynamic environments and provided significant contributions to assure high quality results are achieved ahead of deadlines.
• Able to work across platform and collaborate with other IT groups to ensure the success of a project through strong leadership, technical and communication capabilities.
• Possess skills in both manual and automation testing using tools like Mercury LoadRunner, and WinRunner.
• Experienced scripting and testing several types of loadrunner protocols such as Web HTTP/HTML, Ajax click and script, Citrix, Webservices/Soap and Java protocols.
• Responsible for managing performance initiatives, methodology and setting expected performance results for the enterprise.
• Strong Experience in Variety of Industries like Retail, Insurance, Banking, Finance and Telecom Clients
• Involved in gathering business requirements, studying the application and collecting the information from developers and writing the test plan.
• Excellent working knowledge of designing and implementation of all QA test strategy plans and automated test solutions for client/server and Web applications with Mercury Interactive Test Suite (LoadRunner, WinRunner, QuickTest Pro, Test Director and Quality Center)
• Worked extensively with LoadRunner. Created Scenarios, Ran tests with IP Spoofing with process and multithreaded environments, analyzed and generated performance reports
• Expertise in monitoring Application servers using Wily Introscope, Site Scope and HP Diagnostics Tools.
• Responsible for the creation and execution of both manual and automation test cases.
• Designed and developed test cases for automated testing of the application using WinRunner and Quick Test Pro
• Worked extensively with Optimal Application Expert for identifying application performance Confidential every detailed instance like calls to Web, App and Database levels.
• Extensive knowledge of QA methodology, standards and procedures such as creating and executing test plans and test scripts generation.
• Proficient in automated testing for Client / Server, Internet, Intranet and web applications using automated tools.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Domain knowledge: Retail, Banking, Insurance, Finance and Telecom.

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, XHTML.

Languages: SQL, C, C++, Java.

RDBMS: Oracle 9i, DB2, MS SQL Server, MySQL.

Operating Systems: Windows XP/NT/2000, UNIX, Linux.

Networking: HTTP, CITRIX, FTP, UDP.

Client Server Applications: Citrix.

Automation Tools: Load Runner, Performance Center, Quick Test Pro, Win Runner, Test Director.

Monitoring Tools: Wily Introscope, Site Scope and HP Diagnostics.

Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

Sr Performance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing application and components behavior with heavier loads and optimizing server configurations.
• Interacted with the Business community and the end users to gather requirements and developing User Requirement Specification URS documents.
• Extensively used LoadRunner/Performance Center 9.52 for performance and stress testing.
• Written LoadRunner 9.52 Scripts, enhanced scripts with C++ functions, Parameterized cookies, stored dynamic content in LoadRunner functions, used client side secure certificates. Text checks were written, Created scenarios for Concurrent (Rendezvous) and Sequential users. Run time settings were configured for HTTP, iterations. Simulated Modem speeds to bring the testing scenario to real world. CPU, Memory, ASP Requests, Network, Web connections and through put were monitored while running Baseline, Performance, Load, Stress and Soak testing.
• Written high level LoadRunner scripts by using Virtual User generator for Single User, Base Line, Soak (Endurance test) scenarios by storing dynamically varying object IDs in parameters and validating correct downloads of HTML pages by validating content in sources. Parameterized unique IDS and stored dynamic content in variables and pared the values to Web submits under Http protocols. Cookies were properly handled and used proxy servers and need based headers info was recorded into the scripts.
• Measured Response times Confidential sub transaction levels Confidential web, App servers and database server levels by using Optimal Application expert. Highly concentrated on Transactions per sec during testing.
• Oracle Database performance was monitored for Indexes, Sessions, Connections, poorly written SQL queries and dead locks for each component of WSJ application.
• Optimized SQL queries.
• Monitored database during logins and registrations through SQL queries Using Toad.
• Entered defects in Quality Center and written test cases in QC.
• Configured UNIX boxes as Injectors for LoadRunner
• Memory leaks Confidential each component level were identified and analyzed

Environment: Web Logic, Web Sphere, Linux, Oracle Database, LoadRunner 9.52,Performance Center, Wily Introsopce

Confidential, CT

Sr.Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all performance testing for Confidential .
• Responsible for managing performance initiatives and setting expected performance results across the Confidential -Unigy Application.
• Evaluates and recommends test strategies and performance guidelines.
• Analyzed the requirement and design documents.
• Involved in construction and integration of Load Testing Lab. This included establishing a performance-testing infrastructure consisting of 12 Load Generating Servers with points of presence Confidential 2 internal Confidential locations
• Involved in writing Test Plans for the above applications by incorporating Performance Testing Objectives, Testing Environment, Workflows to be tested, Risks, Test Scenarios, Explanation about the Tools used, Schedules and Analysis, Monitors and Presentation of results.
• Written LoadRunner 9.52 Scripts using RTE and Web HTTP/HTML protocols, enhanced scripts with C++ functions, Parameterized cookies, stored dynamic content in LoadRunner functions, used client side secure certificates. Text checks were written, Created scenarios for Concurrent (Rendezvous) and Sequential users. Run time settings were configured for HTTP, iterations. Simulated Modem speeds to bring the testing scenario to real world.
• CPU, Memory, ASP Requests, Network, Web connections and through put were monitored while running Baseline, Performance, Load, Stress and Soak testing.
• Scenarios and applies them in the execution of different types of performance tests including Load Testing, Isolation Testing, Reliability Testing, Availability Testing, Scalability Testing, Stress Testing, Fault-Tolerance, Integration, Fail Over and Performance Regression Testing.
• Documents test plans and results according to corporate guidelines
• Responsible for preparing the data for performance testing.
• Responsible for running the same tests on different database versions as well as Web Sphere versions in upgraded environment and comparing the Response Times.
• Worked closely with Project Managers, Development team to schedule the execution of performance tests.
• Monitored performance measurements for UNIX, WebSphere, Oracle in LoadRunner Controller.
• Interacted with developers during testing for identifying memory leaks, fixing bugs and for optimizing server settings Confidential web, app and database levels.
• Analyzed Database Server’s DB connections, table Indexes, Deadlock issues by applying proper Indexes.
• Responsible for creating the graphs for Web Server, Application Server and Database Server using Analysis and then generating the HTML Reports from those Analysis.

Environment: Web Sphere, SiteScope, Citrix, LoadRunner, Quality Center, Windows, Liunx.

Confidential, NY

Sr.Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• The tests were run by creating 300, 500, 700 virtual users for load, volume and performance test respectively and Performance Monitor was used to monitor and analyze the performance of the server by generating various reports for CPU utilization, Memory Usage etc.
• Created Parameters and Correlations for dynamic values created by Blue Martini server in Load Runner scripts
• Also analyzed the LoadRunner reports to calculate Response time and Transactions per Second (TPS).
• Written LoadRunner 8.1Scripts, enhanced scripts with C++ functions, Parameterized cookies, stored dynamic content in LoadRunner functions, used client side secure certificates. Text checks were written, Created scenarios for Concurrent (Rendezvous) and Sequential users. Run time settings were configured for HTTP, iterations. Simulated Modem speeds to bring the testing scenario to real world.
• CPU, Memory, ASP Requests, Network, Web connections and through put were monitored while running Baseline, Performance, Load, Stress and Soak testing.
• Initiate, coordinate and implement the system testing Process.Worked closely with Production Managers, Technical Managers and Business Managers in planning, scheduling, developing, and executing performance tests.
• Diagnosed performance bottlenecks in Java code using HP Diagnostics.
• Performance of the application was analyzed by changing Bandwidth in Load Runner and analyzed the effect of Bandwidth on CPU utilization.
• Memory leaks Confidential each component level were identified and analyzed
• Interacted with developers during testing for identifying memory leaks, fixing bugs and for optimizing server settings Confidential web, app and database levels.
• Interacted with developers for analysis of the application.
• Tracing Errors and finding the bottlenecks in Web, App, Database Servers.
• Used Test Director for bug tracking,reporting and analysis

Environment: J2EE platform technologies comprising of Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), WebSphere,Java Server Pages, Servlets,DB2, LoadRunner, HP Diagnostics, Test Director, Windows NT/2000.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system requirements and the Mockups, and developed detailed Test case for System Testing.
• Conducted meetings and walkthroughs with users, developers and Business Analysts to gather information about business process.
• Maintained Traceability Matrix to ensure all conditions are covered in the Test Cases.
• Wrote test cases for GUI and Functionality testing.
• Interacted with the Business community and the end users to gather requirements and developing User Requirement Specification URS documents.
• Reported the bugs in Problem Tracker and traced them until they are fixed.
• Helped developers to resolve the bugs.
• Automated the Regression Test Cases using WinRunner.
• Conducted Functionality, System, Navigation Testing and Smoke Testing during the various phases of the application.
• Analyzed graphs and generated reports using LoadRunner.
• Used QuickTest Pro to auto mate the Functionality Testing and Regression Testing for pre-release process certification.
• Provided training to the users and helped them to perform UAT (User Acceptance Testing) for SNAP.
• Attended Empower training session and provided training to the QA team.

Environment: Java, JSP, DB2,Mainframes, Windows 2000, WinRunner, LoadRunner, Test Director.