SUMMARY:

• Over 11 Years of professional experience in Information Technology of which 8+ years as Performance Testing experience with expertise in requirements gathering, analysis, design, application testing & Quality Assurance of Web based applications.
• Well experienced in Performance testing of Web and COTS applications using tools like HP tools: {LoadRunner (VuGen and Analysis)}, HP ALM Performance Center and Rational Performance Tester.
• Worked on various Load Runner Protocols like Web (HTTP/HTML), Web Services, Citrix, SOAP, Java Vuser, Remote Terminal Emulator. Ajax Tru client, Oacle NCA etc.
• Expertise in Non - functional testing, collecting NFR, Performance Test Planning, workload distribution, Scripting, Scenario configuration, analysis and running performance tests
• Experienced in conducting performance test executions and analyzing the performance test results, identifying the bottlenecks and reporting issues.
• Strong experience to work on HP Load Runner, Performance Center, Soasta Cloud Test and Rational Performance tester
• Strong skills in designing and developing Performance and System Test Plan, Identifying Test Scenario, test cases, test data and execute test run.
• Experience in understanding application performance requirements, developing performance engineering strategies, wide-ranging exposure to complete performance testing using the protocols and usage of performance monitoring tools.
• Experience in monitoring servers using tools like Dynatrace, SiteScope, CA Wily Introscope and analyze the CPU Utilization, Memory usage, Garbage Collection and DB connections to verify the performance of the applications.
• Monitor application logs to determine system behavior. Address all technical issues, facilitate the resolution and necessary follow up with PM, IS/IT, Development, and other cross-functional departments.
• Work with other technical team members (Architects, Dev team, BAs and DBA) to support the test execution to ensure correct environment configuration just prior to execution.
• Ability to identify root causes and derive corrective actions to meet short and long term business requirements using resourceful approaches.
• Solid experience with Unit testing, Integration testing, System testing, User Acceptance testing, Regression testing, Sanity testing, Usability testing, Browser Compatibility testing and Performance testing.
• Strong experience in Rational Tools administration and HP ALM for designing Dashboard, Test and Defect management.
• Worked on TIBCO EMS, ESB and MQ Bridge messaging services.
• Experience in end to end testing under Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and iterative methodologies
• Experienced in administrating and maintaining HP ALM for test management
• Knowledge of databases, networks, 3-tier architectures and working experience in DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, Citrix, WebSphere, WebLogic, VMWare, Cloud computing.
• Well versed with test planning, effort estimation, defect and test management, resource allocation, communication to clients, reporting.
• Worked on insurance Domain, Telecommunication, E-Commerce, Retails, Client Relationship Management, Oracle e business system etc
• Experience in Functional, Integration and Regression, Database Testing, Web Services, User Acceptance Testing and Bug tracking & reporting system.
• Excellent Soft Skills, leadership qualities, team player, enthusiastic initiator, and ability to learn the fundamental concepts effectively and efficiently

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Performance Testing Tools: HP Performance Center, HP Performance VuGen, Load Runner, HP Sitescope, Rational Performance Tester, JMeter, Soasta Cloud Test.

Automation Testing Tools: Rational Functional Tester 7.x,8.x, HP Quality Center, HP ALM, Bugzilla, Clear Quest Test Manager, MTM 2012, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Manual Tester, Rational Integration Tester, Jira, soapUI, Firebug, Toad Ant.

Configuration Management: Rational Clear Case, Universal Verification and Test System, Visual Source Safe, SharePoint.

Operating System: Windows 7/2000/XP/ME/Vista/ Mac OS, UNIX, Mainframe.

Data Base: Oracle, MySQL, DB2, MS Access 2000, Toad, Aqua Studio.

Languages/Scripting: PL/SQL, Java, VB Scrip, UNIX, XML, HTML, JSON

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington DC

Performance Tester

• Responsible for understanding the Architecture and preparing the requirements for performance testing applications in a domain.
• Prepared performance test plan, work load distribution and identified test scenario for performance testing for various application.
• Test Data identification, Test case designing and reviewed the test cases prepared by other team member.
• Developed performance test script using the HP Load Runner to perform the Load testing of Web application.
• Developed Load Runner test scripts using Web service protocol for Integration layer functionalities and Web protocol for COTS UI product according to test specifications/ requirements.
• Added custom transactions response times, Custom functions and text verification check points to confirm retrieval of the correct page.
• Extensively used Correlation and Parameterization for VuGen scripts created.
• Created Test data - SOAP envelopes with number of loans (Fund request, Loan update and Loan certify) as per the requirement which is input to the COTS product.
• Conducted Performance testing of Integration layer and COTS UI applications using ALM Performance Center during the various phases of the applications.
• Experience in monitoring servers using APM Dynatrace and analyze the CPU Utilization, Memory usage, Garbage Collection and DB connections to verify the performance of the applications.
• Logged Performance related defects in ALM Quality Center and communicated to project stack holders.
• Created comprehensive test results and summary reports to be shared with the project team and management and pointed out the areas which exceeded SLA.
• Participated in status, review meetings and served as an integral member of the Performance test team, including testing other features/products whenever necessary.
• Analyzed the test results, identified bottlenecks and reported issues using monitoring tools.
• Manage all tracks issues, their status reporting, planning and present to the business stakeholders.
• Defects were tracked and prioritized using ALM and analyzed the variation between expected result and actual result.
• Ensuring that the team follows all the processes and procedures while delivering project.
• Effective Knowledge transfer about all technical and non technical deliverables wherever required.

Environment: LoadRunner: 12.53, HP ALM Performance Center 12.53, Dynatrace 6.1, Site Scope, ALM QC 12.0, TIBCO EMS (Enterprise Messaging Service), ESB, MQ Bridge, ProMerit UI, .Net, Java, SOAP, XML, Web Service, Windows Servers 2012, Sybase, MS SQL Servers 2012, Agile Methodology, Rally

Confidential

Performance Test Lead

• Responsible for understanding the Architecture and preparing the requirements for performance testing applications in a domain.
• Prepared performance test plan, work load distribution and identified test scenario for performance testing for various application.
• Performance test scripts generation using Virtual User Generator (VuGen) with protocols Http/Html, Citrix .
• Developed the Load Test scripts using the Load Runner Virtual User Generator and enhanced the scripts by including transactions, parameterizations and correlations
• Enhanced Vuser scripts by creating transactions, Parameterized Vuser scripts with different sets of data and Correlated the Vuser Scripts.
• Changed the runtime settings such as pacing, think time, Log settings, browser emulation and timeout settings in Vugen and Performance Center to simulate the real scenario.
• Analyzed different metrics for end user Transactions Response time, Transaction under load, Transaction Summary by Vusers, Hit per Second and Throughput to understand the application behavior under full load.
• Created comprehensive test results and summary reports to be shared with the project team and management and pointed out the areas which exceeded SLA.
• Developed performance test script using the SOASTA Cloud Test to perform the mobile performance testing.
• Supported troubleshooting of Production related issues by targeting the problem areas.
• Involved in defect tracking, reporting and coordination with various groups from initial finding of defects to final resolution using application life cycle management.
• Worked closely with Development and Business team to get an understanding of the system architecture, system component interactions, application load pattern and the Performance SLA.
• Coordination with Development team for getting environment ready.
• Designed and developed test scenarios based on functional requirement and use case document.
• Performing the test case execution, troubleshooting & validation in Regression testing phase.

Environment: Oracle ERP application, Load Runner, Performance Center, soasta cloud test, ALM, Microsoft.net, java script, sitescope, html, xml, IIS, sql server 2000. windows server 2012.

Confidential, Portland, OR

Performance Tester

• Analysis of the functional and non functional business requirement and involve in estimating the testing effort with test manager.
• Reviewed the Architecture and non functional performance Requirements of the system with the Business Users.
• Played a major role in helping the business understand the load, stress criteria and helped them identify the critical scenarios on an application from an end user view.
• Extensively used HP Performance Center to test web HTTP/HTTPS and Web services protocol for testing multiple applications.
• Developed the Performance Test Plan & Scope documents and Performance Test Cases.
• Created the scripts using Virtual User Generator to simulate the function of the services being tested.
• Enhanced the scripts by parameterization, manual and automated correlating dynamic data etc.
• Used HP Performance Center 9.52 to create scenarios and run test for base, peak and stress load.
• Performed Load and Stress tests with Load Runner and presented performance statistics to application teams and provided recommendations of how and where performance can be improved.
• Analyzed the results by using Load Runner Analysis and prepared the result report by customizing the graphs.
• Identified and analyzed memory leaks at each component level.
• Coordinated with offshore performance testers and assigned them day to day tasks.
• Handled multiple projects and lead to successful completion on time by successful coordination.
• Reported and tracked defects using Quality Center.
• Moderated Daily Defect Review meetings with Development Team to review the defects raised by QA team and status of the existing / open defects.
• Documenting the records, procedures followed while testing and troubleshooting the environment and the services. Valuable points while debugging are documented for future reference as 'Lessons Learnt'.
• Reviewed and published the Final Consolidated Performance Test Report.

Environment: Portal, Data Base: Oracle, Java, Html, Sql Server, Web Services, Selenium, ALM, Hp Perfromance Canter, Qtp, .Net, Windows, Sharepoint, Unix.

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Performance Tester

• Worked on different applications within Confidential and perform functional and non functional testing for several Projects.
• Responsible for gathering business requirement, studying the application and collecting the information from developers, and business.
• Designed test script using Virtual User Generator for HTML/HTTP Web Protocols.
• Involved in creating and maintaining of the projects using HP Performance Center 9.52/11.52
• Responsible for creating the performance test plan, managing performance test scheduling.
• Executed Load Runner scenarios based on complex business scenarios with different monitors for Stress testing, Scalability testing, and Load testing.
• Responsible for giving feedback to the development team with possible improvements and discovered Performance issues/bottlenecks.
• Responsible for reviewing and verifying that performance requirements are documented and stated in measurable terms, Includes reviewing Architecture design, software design, and non functional requirements documents.
• Analyzed the load test results using the Load Runner Analysis tool and HP SiteScope.
• Used Quality Center/ALM to raise defects and track defects.
• Analyzed Load Test Runs & resource utilization (Processor, Network, Disk I/O, and Memory)
• Involved in communicating the performance testing process and status to project team members and the test manager to ensure timelines and quality are met.
• Responsible for performance measurement strategies to observe application and infrastructure performance across diverse hardware, operating systems, application servers, and databases, includes Client Experience.
• Created Performance test report at the end of each release and provided it to the management.
• Checked the client side and server side verification, tested the functionality of the application.
• Performed UNIX Shell scripting with SQL statements.
• Performed end-to-end test manually for System testing, Positive, Negative and Web testing.
• Validated test results through the UI and through the analysis of various system/ application error logs as well as database queries.
• Traced the bugs and reported to the developers using the ALM
• Worked very closely with developers to recreate defects found and also to verify fixes.
• Performed manual testing of the applications using designated tools in UAT Department.
• Analyze the CPU, Memory stats on Web servers, Application servers and DB servers using Wily.
• Monitor the Garbage collections, JDBC connections and Timeouts during the Test Execution.
• Analyzed the Load Runner reports to calculate Response time and Transactions Per Second

Environment: Mainframe (System Os 390),Ims Db/Dc And Db2 Java,Jsp,Javascript,J2ee,Jdbc, Weblogic8.1, Servlets, Xml, Html, Oracle9i, Sql, Pl/Sql, Quick Test Pro9.0, Quality Center9.0, Vb Script, Win Nt/2000, Unix.

Confidential, GA

Performance Tester

• Review and understand the business requirement and use cases document and prepare the test case scenario on the basis of use case document and business rule.
• Worked as Performance Test Engineer and executed various performance test conditions using Rational Performance Tester.
• Reviewed the Architecture and Requirements of the system.
• Reviewed the Performance requirements with the Business Users.
• Played a major role in helping the business understand the load, stress criteria and helped them identify the
• Extensively used Rational Performance Tester to HTTP/HTTPS and Web services protocol for testing Client server applications.
• Developed the Performance Test Plan & Scope documents and Performance Test Cases.
• Enhanced the scripts by parameterizing data, correlating dynamic data etc.
• Reported and tracked defects using Quality Center.
• Automate the System test case using Rational Functional Tester for regression testing.
• Performing the test case execution, troubleshooting & validation in Regression testing phase.
• Developing Traceability Matrix to map test cases with use cases and Business Rule.
• Defect logging, reporting and tracking in Rational Clear quest.
• Regression testing for all change requests and an overall regression for each release.
• Preparing Status reports of test execution, defect status for each release of application.
• Attend formal & informal meetings and coordinating with team members.
• Responsible for creating the performance test plan, managing performance test scheduling.

Environment: Mainframe, Java, AIX, Unisys 2200, Oracle, Windows XP, Rational Performance Tester.

Confidential

Performance Tester

• Analysis of the non functional requirement and design the test script in Vu Gen.
• Regression testing for all change requests and an overall regression for each release.
• Preparing Status reports of test execution, defect status for each release of application.
• Created scripts using Rational Performance Tester for HTTP/ HTML Web Services protocol and executed schedule to test base, average and peak load.
• Ability to identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Performed smoke testing, system integration testing, regression testing, acceptance testing and usability testing.
• Executed stress, load and rendezvous scenarios for various applications and performed detailed test analysis reports using rational performance tester.
• Prepared a detail test schedule and Test Metrics on a weekly basis for the project members to know the status of the QA Process.
• Worked with the implementation team to identify critical business processes and key application transactions to define performance requirements
• Monitored different graphs like Transaction Response Time and Analyzed Server Performance Status, Hits per Second, and Throughput.
• Supported the Development teams in evaluating the issue with data point scripts.
• Research in design methods to create scenarios for adequate test coverage.

Environment: Java, J2ee, JSP, DB2, Web Services, Window XP, Rational Performance Tester