SUMMARY

• Over 10 years of diverse experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Performance and Quality Assurance working in Diverse Industries like financial and Electronics.
• Proficient Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycles (SDLC) like Waterfall, AGILE and SCRUM. Played important roles as software programmer/developer in different areas SDLC.
• Worked with varied Project individuals as Performance Test Lead and Test Analyst involving Estimating, Requirements review, Design reviews and Test Case/scripts construction, Performance Testing, Integration testing, User Acceptance Testing and Production support testing for the projects.
• Excellent Team Leading abilities like Adaptability, Maturity, Estimating, Innovation and Negotiation.
• Proficient in Testing Methodologies and tools like Load Runner v11, Quality Center, QTP and Defect Tracking System.
• Excellent knowledge and experience in Test Management using Quality Center.
• Prior development Experience of small Projects, Debugging and Test Bed Generation. Experience in using various software development tools, source code control environment, debuggers and flow charting.
• Expertise in performing different types of Performance testing like Stress, volume, Endurance, Regression and User Acceptance Testing.
• Proficient in automated testing for client/server, Internet, Intranet and web applications using automation tools.
• Expertise in different types of testing including Functional, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Manual Testing, Feature Testing, Regression testing. Performance testing, Network Performance Testing and Security testing.
• Involved in user acceptance testing with users along with providing training to end - users.
• Strong in Analyzing Business specifications and Developing Test Plans, and Test Cases/Scripts and executing them.
• Reporting Issues and risks to Upper Management and involve in Mitigation of the same.
• Preparing Test status reports with quality metrics reporting and analysis.
• High level of motivation, prioritizing tasks, Team spirit, Effective Communication skills, Quick learner, & above all a Positive attitude to shoulder successfully.
• Ability to work efficiently in both independent and team environment.
• Business Knowledge of Check Systems processing, Automated Clearing House (ACH) Processing and other Bank technologies.
• Industry knowledge on Set top Boxes, High Speed Communication Modems.
• Significant experience with Oracle, SQL Server and MS-Access.
• Solid foundation in computer science fundamentals including data structures, programming languages, algorithms, software engineering and operating systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP Load Runner 9.52/11, Quick Test Pro 10/11, Quality Center 10/11, Selenium and Rational Clear Quest/Defect Tracking System.

Development Tools: VuGen, Load Runner Controller & Analysis, Metrowerks CodeWarrior, Visual DSP 3, Dynamic C, IAR C Compiler, Cygwin, Ethereal, Clarify and Source Insight, Hyper Terminal, MS Visual Studio 2008, Eclipse Programming

Languages: TSL, C, Visual C++, x86/DSP Assembly, PL/SQL, UNIX Shell Scripting, Abel, XML, JavaScript

LR Protocols: Http, Java, Web services, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft 8, Terminal Emulation

Debugging Tools: Emulators, Probes, Debuggers

Electronic: Oscilloscope, Network Data Analyzers, Digital multi-meters.

Web Technologies: VBScript, PHP

Tools: /Packages: Visual Studio 2008, TOAD, MS-OFFICE

Version Control: Clear Case, MS Visual Source Safe, Subversion

Operating Systems: Windows and Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minneapolis

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked with varied Project individuals as Test Lead and Test Analyst involving Estimating, Requirements review, Design reviews, Test Case/Script construction, Performance Testing, Integration testing, User Acceptance Testing and Production support testing for the projects.
• Prepared documentation to ensure consistent and comprehensive testing deliverables are produced for all projects.
• Prepared Performance Questionnaire and Test Plans for each project that encompasses key project requirements, timing, and determines optimal balance between complexity of project, quality desired, and cost/schedule and effectively communicating the scope of project with the team members with clear roles, and responsibilities and expectations.
• Adhere to change management processes
• Build test team, providing cross training and mentoring as needed to ensure sufficient skill, knowledge and effectiveness in the test process; develop quality deliverables
• Consistently conform to all audit, regulatory and technology standards
• Ensured Technical resources and test Environment are organized for effective support of carrying out the testing.
• Prepared Test Cases, Test Data and executed them as part of Functional Testing, Performance Testing, End-to End Testing, Endurance Testing, Usability Testing, Reliability Testing and Regression Testing.
• Created various Web Scripts for the Application Using Load Runner v11 for performance Testing.
• Enhanced and modified the scripts according to the test case scenarios.
• Developed the automation scripts in QTP for functional Testing.
• Worked extensively on Virtual User generator and Controller.
• Parameterized the scripts for multiple users and enhanced them according to the test cases.
• Used Performance monitor and Load Runner graphs to analyze the results.
• Did Correlation to scripts for multiple users and enhanced them according to the Workflow.
• Worked closely with Developers and System Engineers to nail down the technical problems.
• Worked extensively with Load runner controller to Create Scenarios for different Load Tests like Average, Peak, Double Peak and Endurance tests
• Monitored different Graphs like Transaction Response time and Analyzed Server performance Status, Hits per Second, Throughput, Windows Resources and Database Server Resources etc.
• Analyze the System Bottlenecks like Memory Leaks, CPU Utilization and Network Bottlenecks etc.
• Analyzed the Load Runner results to measure the Average CPU usage, Response time and Transactions per second.
• Coordinated regular meetings between Developers, Business users and Performance team of the on-going process.
• Developed automated test scripts using VBScript language to perform Functional and Regression Testing in Quick Test Pro.
• Writing and Executing the automated Scripts using QTP for Functionality of all the various modules involved in the whole application
• Performed data drive testing to validate the same set of operation with different set of data
• Enhanced QTP script using recovery scenarios for error handling.
• Designed Functions Library, Functions, Subroutine's, Common functions, Utilities functions, Regular Expressions and Environmental variables using QTP in VB scripts
• Used Mercury Quality Center for updating the status of all the Test Cases that are executed during testing process.
• Identifying and Logging issues and defects to communicating with Project team during Defect Meetings.
• Prepared Test Finding Reports, Test Status Reports, Defect Reports and other deliverables for all the projects to Project Manager.
• Regular interaction with the Development team helped us in fixing the defects in less time.
• Evaluated testing results for each potential release build using HP Quality Center 10 reports, listing summarized bug information in priority sequence, recommended viability of release for production.
• Involved in preparing Requirements Validation Matrix to design test cases traced to Business Requirements.
• Prepared Findings Report outlining the results of the testing and reporting if any open and unresolved issues and defects for the project.
• Updated Test Metrics during the testing phase for all the projects during in Clear Quest.
• Support post production validation testing efforts, results and defect resolution
• Participate in Post Project Evaluation
• Participate in Post Project Stakeholder Satisfaction Survey

Environment: HP Load Runner 11, Http, Java, C, PeopleSoft, Web Services, Terminal Emulation, HP Quality Center 10, Defect Tracking System and Clear Quest (Bug Tracker) and Check Processing Applications Vector Image Exchange software and IBM Payments Director. Test File generators I-tools and X9Assist, CA7, SAR Reports, Windows, MS Office, SharePoint, Linux. Check Solutions Hardware and Software solutions. Web Sphere (WAS), IBM HTTP Server (IHS).

Confidential, Signal Hill, CA

Senior Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Testing of Software Upgrade using USB Software as per the architecture and specifications for the module.
• Worked with varied Project individuals as Test Lead, involved in design, Integration testing, Scheduling, Training, and support throughout life of the project.
• Preparing, Verifying and Validating Test Plan, Scope Plan, Master Test Plan, Initial engagement document.
• Gathering test requirements, Test scripts, Test reports, Test summaries
• Analyzed System Usage by reviewing the user profile, transaction profile, system resource usage diagrams and designed performance, stress, Endurance tests.
• Analyzed client/server communication by reviewing the source code of the client application and familiarized with application library files.
• Prepared test plan, workflow and Load Model for Performance testing for the application with agile methodology.
• Design, Implement, Execute and Co-ordinate Stress/Load/Performance Testing Efforts. Create java Virtual Users in VuGen and configure Scenarios to meet the load testing requirements in Performance Center (Web version of Controller).
• Added the enhanced logic to implement critical functionalities, task distribution statistics, and to generate application oriented logs.
• Wrote PHP scripts to fetch upgrade data with remote Apache and Database servers to auto upgrade the module if an update is available.
• Designed the manual goal oriented tests as per load distribution diagram (Un-even distribution of load) for each of normal, heavy, average volume load tests.
• Performed the Endurance test by executing the test for longer hours in order to find out any Memory Leaks, slow resource consumption problem.
• Configured UNIX, database resources for performance monitoring on Performance Center (Web Version of Controller).
• Developed VC++ programs to generate input data, database table statistics, csv format database resource statistics (which is imported to LR Analysis) for each test.
• Monitor and Analyze Transaction, Web and System Resources; Web Server, Application Server and various other graphs to identify performance bottlenecks and provide recommendation for performance tuning of applications.
• Coordinated regular meeting between developer, Business users and Performance team of the ongoing Process.
• Developed Custom Analysis templates to generate Web and Word reports.
• Gathered and analyzed results and submitted the Performance test report and recommendation.
• Developed automated test scripts using VBScript language to perform Functional and Regression Testing in Quick Test Pro.
• Designed Functions Library, Functions, Subroutine's, Common functions, Utilities functions, Regular Expressions and Environmental variables using QTP in VB scripts
• Extensively involved in writing UNIX shell Scripting
• Executed test scenarios, scripts and review of product functionality with co-ordination between development, networking, DBA, Admin and testing team
• Participated in meetings with developers to discuss enhancements and modifications.
• Used SVN as the source version control and ClearQuest for test metrics and Defect repository.
• Prepared Project status reports and communicated to the Project Manager.
• Prepared Test signoff reports.

Environment: HP Load Runner v9.52, Visual C++, C, Visual Studio 2008, C Compiler, Debugger, PHP. Http, Java, Web services, Oracle, HP QTP, Quality Center, SharePoint, C, SVN, VBScript, TSL, XML, HTML, MS Office, SQL, PL/SQL, Crystal Reports, Web Services, Unix and Windows.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and analyzed the requirements.
• Prepared test plan, workflow and Load Model for Performance testing for PeopleSoft application with agile methodology.
• Developed Automation Test Strategy and Test Scripts.
• Scripts were developed using web protocol. Enhanced the scripts with parameterization, Correlation points, and web check points.
• Designed various Scenarios as per Load-Model (like 50, 100 Vusers test)
• Executed Stress tests on application with Load Runner Machine.
• Monitored Web-Application server Web Sphere Counters like Pending Requests and CPU during the test.
• Encountered the High CPU on Application server caused high response times for some of the transactions.
• Escalated the issues to the Development team with required logs (Thread Dump), screenshots and results.
• Reported the final results, observations and conclusions of the performance test to the Project Manager.

Environment: Load Runner, PeopleSoft, Web Sphere, SQL Server 2005, Mainframe, UNIX and Windows.

Confidential

Consultant Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Create Performance/Load/Stress Test Plans by gathering and reviewing System Usage Information such as User Profile, Transaction Profile and Task Distribution Diagrams with agile methodology.
• Create web Virtual Users in VuGen and design Scenarios to meet the load testing requirements in Controller machine.
• Enhance Vuser Scripts by writing Custom C Functions, insert various Transactions and Rendezvous points, Parameterize and Correlate dynamic data, create Image and Text Verification check points.
• Plan and execute Failover Test strategy to check to see if Seamless Failover is implemented appropriately.
• Worked with development and Business Analyst team to understand assigned modules/new product features for the purpose of developing test cases.
• Worked in Verifying Premiums, limits and deductibles, tax /surcharge, co-surety percentages in policy maintenance module.
• Responsible for validating account and premium summary reports whether they are pulling correct data in SQL generated report.
• Communicated inconsistencies between system specifications and test results to development team through Test Director.
• Logged defects in Quality Center and reported to Project Management.
• Performed regression testing of application for every new build released.
• Validated the mapping and integrity of data populated in the database.

Environment: Windows XP, UNIX, Load Runner, Test Director, Java, JSP, Apache, WebLogic, PL/SQL, and Oracle 9i.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the specifications provided by the Client.
• Designed various processes according to the specifications defined by the Business requirements and prepared the design documents considering the frequency by loading the data and impact on the process.
• Coordinated with Business Analysts and Team Members on application testing status on an on-going basis.
• Analyzed user Requirements, prepared test strategies and Test Scenarios.
• Used Mercury Quality Center for Defect Tracking, Managed test plans, test scripts and test results.
• Reported Defects through Quality Center. Developed automated scripts using QTP.
• Adopted the Descriptive Techniques of QTP for maintainability of the Scripts
• Developed and enhanced test scripts by using VB and VBScript in Quick Test Pro.
• Conducted Regression Testing and interacted with developers to resolve the issues.
• Performed tests on multiple platforms and environments, which includes system testing, functionality testing.
• Executed test Scenarios and verified actual results against expected results.
• Responsible for creating a baseline and executing performance and endurance testing of project to compare two versions of the web based applications for Transaction Response Time for business critical transactions.
• Responsible for creating automated for GUI Testing and Functional Testing using Quick Test Pro. Developed detailed Documentation for the Automated Scripts.
• Developed required SQL scripts for database testing and Performed Backend Testing, by executing the SQL queries using Toad.
• Executed all kinds of Scenarios for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Environment: Test Director, Dynamic C, Debugger, TCP/IP, Dynamic C IDE, Oscilloscope, Digital Multi meter and Visual Source Safe, Network Data Analyzer. QTP, Quality center, Java, EXCEL, SQL, PL/SQL, Web Services, UNIX and Windows.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis Creating Test plans & Test scripts using Test Director.
• Edited the Test procedures according to the execution requirements
• Involved in conversion of manual tests into automated test scripts
• Performed System, Functional and User Acceptance Testing.
• Involved in Manual Testing to check the applets.
• Conducted Security by Checking restricted privileges and roles to the users.
• Involved in checking the proper client server functionality.
• Performed GUI testing.
• Reported tracked defects with reference to severity and types.
• Interfacing with developers and reporting the software bugs through Test Director.

Environment: C, Assembly C compiler, Oscilloscope, Visual Source Safe. Perforce, Manual Testing, Test Director, HTML and Windows NT