Experience Summary

I am a performance test engineer/analyst with 3.9 years of experience in performance testing, functional testing, software/project estimation and development. I started my career with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on 20th September, 2007 as an Assistant Systems Engineer and have worked there for 2 years 7 months. After which I have worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as a Performance Analyst for 1 year 2 months till July 1st, 2011.
My technological fortes are HP LoadRunner, HP Quality Centre, Microsoft VSTS 2010 Ultimate and HP Quick Test Professional . I have working knowledge in PL/SQL and Java as well. In my role as a performance tester I have been responsible for end-to-end performance testing by planning scenarios, performance test execution, performance analysis of test results and providing recommendations to ensure that the applications offer the desired performance goals and standards and meet the business needs of the client applications that they cater to. The below list provides a snapshot of the important testing tools, languages, methods and few other tools and technologies that I am acquainted with.

Testing Tools

• HP LoadRunner 8.1-11
• HP Quality Centre 9.0/10.0
• Microsoft VSTS Ultimate 2010
• HP Quick Test Professional 9.0/10.0

Languages

• C
• C++
• PL/SQL
• Java
• JSP
• HTML
• JavaScript

Methods

• Software Testing Methodology
• Software Estimation using Function Points/Components

Other Tools/Technologies

• Toad
• JDK 1.5
• Oracle Java Developer 10g
• MS-Office2003
• MS-Visio

Qualifications

Master of Computer Applications,

Bachelor of Science

Experience Summary

Client: Confidential,USA
Project: Assurance Aura Teamspaces US Implementation
Role: Performance Analyst
Duration: July 2010 June 2011

A new web-enabled communication and collaboration tool, Aura Teamspace, has been developed to facilitate information-sharing between engagement teams working on a common client. Aura Teamspace will replace the MyClient Communications file for multi-location engagement teams and will support interoffice communications and reporting. The objective of Performance Testing is to systematically evaluate the performance of Aura Teamspace (different versions) to identify bottlenecks and assess scalability.

In this project I was responsible for the following:

• Gathering requirements and identifying the business process for Performance Engineering Activities
• Creating Performance Test Plan and necessary documentation for facilitating future performance test cycles.
• Recording and Developing Load Runner Scripts.
• Identifying functional defects and collaborating with the development team for faster resolution of the defects/issues that have been showstoppers in continuing with performance testing.
• Designing scenarios for Performance Test Execution.
• Executing Performance tests and monitoring the application during Test Execution.
• Aiding the UK performance testing team to simulate load testing from UK and Hong Kong.
• Analyzing test results, creating summary reports and provide recommendations on performance issues
• Participating in status calls with the client and seeking clarifications in the initial phase of performance testing.

Client: Confidential,USA
Project: TAX CCH Trust US 2010 Season Release
Role: Performance Analyst
Duration: July 2010 December 2010

Confidential, is a third-party form generation solution, heavily customized to accommodate the Wealth Management Tax Services (WMTS) practice. This project is entitled to "simulate" busy season processing (i.e. between January 1 and April 15) and assess how the application performs under conditions which will be defined in the later sections.

In this project I was responsible for the following:

• Gathering requirements and identifying the business process for Performance Engineering Activities through walk-through sessions, touch-base meetings, visual demos and design documentation
• Creating Performance Test Plan and necessary documentation for facilitating future performance test cycles.
• Complete test environment set-up. Test architecture set-up (including controller, agent and coding IDE) was done in collaboration with Microsoft support for Visual Studio Team System Ultimate 2010.
• Proof-of-Concept done for developing coded-UI tests.
• Preparation of Status Reports and providing update to client team through emails/conference calls

Client: Confidential, USA
Project: PAG - Internal Partner Admissions FY11
Role: Offshore Test Team Member
Duration: May 2010 October 2010
Internal Partner Admissions System (IPA, Website & Lotus Notes database(s)) is the application used by all member firm territories, partners, partner admission candidates & related territory administrators to manage all yearly and off-cycle admissions for the Firm. The project has the following major activities:

• Deployment of a new website/application since there is only an overall cycle from a Global perspective and the application is not designed to handle overlapping fiscal years.
• Preparation of the existing FY10 website, LN Committee DB, Archive website, and Archive LN database for the following FY11 admission, July 1 (and off- cycle) Admission cycles for all territories.

In this project I was responsible for the following:

• Understanding functional requirements through Test plan analysis, requirements document review, Execution of PAG-IPA functionality Test-cases followed by regression testing on following builds.
• Designing and updating test-cases based on the acquired understanding, provided requirement documents and Change Requests.
• Efficient and effective execution, within the stipulated timelines. Ensure that execution is in sync with the build timings such that quality deliverables are handed over.
• Defect logging/tracking in accordance with the set standards in HP QC 10.0.
• Prepare daily and weekly reports, to ensure testing effort is effectively documented.
• Participating in status calls with the client and seeking clarifications in the initial phase of system testing.

Client: Confidential,
Project: Estimation Centre of Excellence
Role: Analyst
Duration: December 2008 April 2010
The Estimation Center of Excellence in TCS is a one stop center for all the estimation related needs of the organization. The project has the following major activities:

• Developing & Testing the TCS in-house estimation tool
• Providing estimation facilitation/consultation to all the clients based and internal projects
• Organizing Trainings & Certification Programs to percolate the estimation knowledge to the entire organization

In this project I was responsible for the following:

• Analysis & Development: Actively involved in the analysis & development of the TCS-in-house estimation tool, a product of the CoE.
• Performance Testing: Involved in doing performance requirement analysis, scripting, execution and result analysis for estimation tool.
• Facilitation: Facilitating Software Estimation for various projects in the organization being a member of the Estimation CoE.
• Training: Imparting training across Geographies on Software Estimation.
• Model Development: Developing Models of Estimation for various categories of projects including Production Support, Manual-Automation Testing, Performance Testing, BPO etc.
• Productivity Base lining: Have actively participated in analysis and determination of productivity.
• Artifacts Creation: Responsible for creating/working on Whitepapers, guidelines, Newsletter related to estimation.

Client: Confidential,
Project: Citi Automobiles - Performance Testing of Maverick
Role: Performance Analyst
Duration: June 2008 November 2008
Maverick is an application that enables partners and Citi dealers to process and approve car loans to individuals who intend to buy cars from the partners. It also allows the creation of new partners and dealers.

In this project she has been responsible for:

• Gathering requirements and identifying the business process for Performance Engineering Activities.
• Recording and Developing Load Runner Scripts.
• Developing the scenario for Performance Test Execution.
• Executing Performance tests and monitoring the application during Test Execution.
• Analyzing test results and provide recommendations on performance issues

Client: Confidential,
Project: Siebel Performance Testing Performance Testing of Eclipse
Role: Performance Analyst
Duration: September 2007 May 2008
Eclipse is a web-based application which is a single hub for processing of orders to buy leased lines and modems.

In this project she has been responsible for:

• Performance Requirement Analysis taking inputs from Business, Infrastructure and Development Team.
• Preparing high and low level architecture diagrams after analyzing application flow.
• Recording and enhancing load runner scripts to simulate the performance critical business use cases.
• Designing and executing production scenarios in controller.
• Monitoring various performance matrix like Response Time, CPU and Memory Utilization etc.
• Analyzing the test results and identifying performance bottleneck.
• Provide recommendations based on the analysis report to improve the performance of applications tested

Client: Confidential,
Project: Computerization of Operations Design & Implementation for Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC)
Role: Team Member (Intern)
Duration: January 2007 June 2007
This project is for the automation of the processes conducted by Kolkata Municipal Corporation. The particular module was called the Community Development Programme which was responsible for the development and testing of an application module that caters to the savings schemes (yojanas) for the very low income groups.

In this project I was been responsible for:

• Development of application screens using Java Server Pages (JSP), javascript, HTML.
• Development of middle tier business logic with servlets, JAVA Collections & JAVA Utilities Package.
• Handling of model layer classes to establish database connections, performing transactions