SUMMARY:

• Lead QA professional with extensive experience development of test scripts, test plans, gathering business requirements and developing functional and technical specifications and managing diverse aspects of testing approaches
• Quality Assurance
• Process Improvement
• Strategic Planning
• Agile Process
• Project Management
• Vendor Management
• Appdynamics, Gomez UEM, Salesforce, HP Tools (Loadrunner 8.0 - 11.5, QTP, Test Director, Quality Center/ALM), Cavisson Netstorm, Selenium, jmeter, Jira,Github,Slack Greenhopper, Graphite, Jenkins/Hudson, Gomez, SharePoint, Github, VMware, Foglight, Splunk, BI Tools, ETL scripts, MySQL, Oracle, Salesforce CRM, Microsoft Dynamics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Wooddale, IL

Performance Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for application performance metric visibility - with self-service access to product SLAs, test cases, performance results and trends using Jenkins, Sharepoint, Internal/external client wiki sites.
• Lead performance testing of complex multiple tier applications using different flavor of technologies: IIS, Thin and Thick clients, Vendor based application.
• Implemented APM tools such as AppDynamics, Gomez UEM and HP OEM to isolate performance issues within Test Environment and post deployment to production
• Responsible for Project Plans, Test plans, test cases. Scenarios and Scripts, based on areas of concerns in Production and captured transaction flow using Adobe Omniture.
• Responsible for creating daily reports of results and status of project to key stakeholders and senior leadership to ensure transparency of work being conducted.
• Responsible for version control and deployment for Developers and Release Management team using Github to reduce costs.
• Lead the team for Continuous Integration Testing and expanded to in corporate Organic testing resulting in steady decline in number of Defects and implemented Crowd Sourcing/UAT Testing to ensure Business SLA’s and Customer Experience are in-line with Project Requirements.
• Manage and coordinate functional activities of performance testers participating on cross-functional teams for specific product deployment efforts using scripts developed in VUGen within ALM and consolidating test cases and projects for better version control.

Confidential, Elk Grove Village, IL

Lead Performance Engineer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented load runner scripts and QTP scripts and responsible for creating daily status reports for individual projects including APM results from Salesforce, Gomez UEM reporting and analysis.
• Responsible for the SWAT team effort to transform monitoring and deep dive analysis strategies, resulted in creation of monitoring strategies referencing direct correlation of Test Results to Production.
• Responsible for troubleshooting issues for IP Spoofing, configuring monitors over firewall
• Performed complex automated testing tasks requiring planning, scheduling, and testing to ensure that developed application meets design specifications and adhere to predefined quality expectations

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

Lead Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented optimization test scripts for ETL and BI environment on SQL and noSQL DB environment and assist with team projects, focusing on an increase in process efficiencies resulting in accurate, reliable and consistent performance data.
• Developed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for standardize testing, data collection, and reporting.
• Led the QA team for end to end testing process and procedures for ETL, BI environments and Real Browser User (RBU) testing using Cavisson Netstorm for enhancement of end user browser performance experience.
• Developed scripts for cross validation of Performance Test results to Production by comparing data against APM Tools such as Gomez UEM, Foglight, and Graphite to ensure test result integrity.
• Led monitoring of production deployment for business applications and customer facing application for process optimization for web domain application and end user experience
• Worked with teams to isolate key business metrics to consider and in corporate for performance testing needs during peak holiday season readiness whereby stressing specific areas of the architecture to it's max and identify performance concerns and regressing testing of critical business applications.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Performance Engineer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented Test Plans, Test Cases & Test Scripts by reviewing the business requirements document, and technical specifications document.
• Responsible for functional and performance testing plan and enhancements using HP Loadrunner 11.5, Selenium, SQL Server, QTP, Quality Center platform for B2B and B2C
• Lead developer for performance testing solutions and scripts for the kiosk and mobile applications
• Responsible for optimization; advising on overall Testing infrastructure, ETL and Testing (front-end) tools; performing Test data archiving strategy and approach and train QA team members

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Performance Test Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for development of functional and performance testing plan, Updating Plan based on requirement timeline using HP Loadrunner, Selenium, SQLServer, Quality Center platform.
• Developed performance testing using Loadrunner in conjunction with QTP Scripts for end user experience.
• Led designing test automation strategies, created test scripts in Vugen using Web Http,Web Services and Ajax protocol, Scenarios, test plans and performed inspection of test scripts.
• Manage QA Team for successful implementation of end to end testing largest revenue generating project.
• Implemented strategy and project plan for setting up Focal point, Share Point for all performance testing estimates, performance requirements analysis and engagement process implementation.
• Responsible for onsite delivery of QA before and after results for existing projects and new projects for Onshore and Offshore delivery team
• Develop agile and scrum methodology optimization plan and test scripts for before and after results for ETL and Applications as per the business requirements for CoE
• Develop scripts using Vugen multiple protocol Web Http,Web Services, Citrix, SAP GUI for Performance Functional; System ; Regression ; End-to-End ; Acceptance; Compatibility; Migration; Usability; Performance, Stress Testing and Production Monitoring

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led the requirements gathering sessions for both functional and technical specifications and developed use cases for the end customers for MS dynamics implementation for B2B.
• Led the QA and Developer Team for end to end testing and development and implementation of QA scripts and QA automation process using load runner and win runner.
• Develop project plans for the onshore and offshore team for development lifecycle and QA and implementation of the MS dynamics CRM for POS applications.
• Develop and implement Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, ETL Test Scripts on MySQL DB for all B2B.
• Analyze performance test results to identify performance impacts such as bottlenecks, hardware capacity reductions, latency root cause and develop enhancements for ETL processes.
• Provide guidance to the PMs on creation and execution of performance tests such as load, capacity, and duration tests for requested functionality and implemented JIRA for project tracking for development, enhancements.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Lead Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead and coordinate QA process and procedures for onsite and offshore team across US, India and Argentina.
• Implemented Agile process to ensure quick and effective methodologies for QA test scripts, and implementation of new product features for all domains. For example, Development of automated test scripts, optimization of queries.
• Responsible for requirements gathering for enhancement for future product release for B2C and B2B customers and working closely Project Managers, Developers, DBA’s, Network Engineers, and System Engineers.
• Developed, implement, document and provide on Test Plans, Test Cases & Test Scripts to global technical teams and business analysts team members
• Implement win runner and load runner and open source solution for Performance Testing using JMeter for host level testing and train team members to automate QA process using Jenkins/Hudson
• Develop test plans and test scripts for external agencies such as South West Airlines, American Airlines, and American Express for internal and external environments and mobile apps for iOS and Android.
• Implemented test plan and scripts for DBA’s to conduct stress/stability tests for Oracle and Big Data

Confidential, Elk Grove, IL

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop QA plans, test scripts, debugging scripts and setting up process for end to end testing for payroll system
• Gather functional and technical requirements and develop automated test scripts for UAT on Java and .NET based payroll and human resource applications for system and regression testing for all end users and provide to end users and business users.