SUMMARY

• 7+ years of experience in Performance Testing, Stress Testing, Load Testing.
• 5+ years of experience in Functionality Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing.
• Adept in using Mercury Interactive testing tools like HP Load Runner, Performance Center, Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, Win Runner, Test Director to write and maintain automated Test scripts.
• Experienced in Test Case Design, Test Planning, Test Tool Usage, Test Case Execution, Defect Management, Risk Analysis and building Test Environment.
• UsingLoad Runner, execute multi - user performance tests, used online monitors, real-time output messages and other features of the Load RunnerController.
• Experienced in defining Testing methodologies, Designing Test Plans and test Cases, Verifying and Validating web based application and documentation based on standards for Software
• Development and effective QA implementation in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Good knowledge in backend testing on different relational databases such as MS SQL Server
• Worked on different Methodologies like Water Fall, Agile, and scrum.
• Good knowledge in all the UNIX flavors like AIX, Solaris, Red Hat Linux SUSE Linux, HP-UNIX, etc
• Hands on experience in writing QA test plans and test cases and executing them. Comprehensive understanding of QA standards, flows, methodologies, procedures, and QA documentation
• Professional experience in designing, developing and maintaining Test Cases and Test Scripts for Windows, Java and UNIX environments.
• Exceptional ability to interact with customers and developers, communicating changes in requirements, resolving conflicts and assuring project delivery on time.
• Good with debugging and adjusting scripts by running it within VuGen with Runtime Settings logs set to display all messages.
• Conducted Load Testing with Thin and Thick Clients Simultaneously, Scripted Thick Clients in Win runner and Thin Clients in Web and Citrix Protocols of Load Runner.
• Experience on Defining User Behavior, Running Load Test Scenarios, Monitoring the Performance Metrics, identifying the Bottlenecks and Analyzing Performance test Results.
• Hands on Experience in Performance Test Results Analysis and Performance Tuning.
• Working experience with Banking Industries, Telecom, Health Care and Web services.
• Experience in testing applications developed in C, C#, Java, VB.Net, ASP, ASP.NET, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL and SQL Server.
• Skilled in using defect tracking and reporting tools like Test Director, Quality Center, Team Foundation Server, QA director, Optimal Trace, Track Record, Test Partner.
• Excellent communication and verbal skills & problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Win 95, 98, 2000, XP, NT, MS-DOS, UNIX.

Languages: C, C++, HTML, DHTML, XML, ASP.NET.

Testing Tools: Load Runner8.0, 9.1, 9.5, Rational Clear Quest, Selenium, Junit, Nunit, QTP.

Test Management Tools: HP Quality Center, Rational Test Manager, PVCS Tracker.

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, PL/SQL, MS Access.

Web/App Servers: Apache, Web Logic, Web Sphere and IIS.

GUI: Java, J2EE, Microsoft. NET, Power Builder, Delphi.

HP-UX Tools: for performance analysis GlancePlus Monitor, tusc, top, sar.

Others: Shell Scripts, MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, SAS, Crystal Reports, BO, TOAD, RapidSQL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Performance Lead

Responsibilities:

• Created Load/Stress scenarios for performance testing using the Load Runner.
• Involved in all aspects of SDLC.
• Responsible for designing scenarios and monitoring them using Load Runner.
• Involved in Correlation and Parameterization for the script, to ensure the script runs successfully during replay .Monitored the activities through Load Runner Controller.
• Recorded and enhanced Vuser Scripts by inserting Transaction points, Rendezvous
• Points in to Vuser Script in Load Runner.
• Created various scenarios in LoadRunner controller for performing baseline, benchmark, stress tests and endurance tests.
• Performed both automatic and manual correlation using the options in load Runner.
• Responsible for back-end testing/database testing, which was done using SQL queries.
• Used Test Director for bug tracking and investigated software bugs.
• Executed performance and endurance testing of project to compare Transaction
• Response Time for business critical transactions on different builds of web based applications.
• Responsible for identifying bottlenecks in the system using Load Runner Controller.
• Activating / configuring monitors and adding desired performance counters into the Graphs
• Tracked software bugs using Quality Center and communicated the same to developers to resolve technical issues.

Confidential, Columbia, SC

Performance Lead

Responsibilities:

• Have defined requirements for large-scale Load Runner performance tests of the Web based applications.
• Created Load/Stress scenarios for performance testing using the Load Runner.
• Executed Endurance Test along with regular peak, off-peak and latency tests.
• Conducted various latency tests by having different latencies to test the behavior of the application from different parts of the world.
• Involved in all aspects of SDLC.
• Responsible for designing scenarios and monitoring them using Load Runner.
• Involved in Correlation and Parameterization for the script, to ensure the script runs successfully during replay .Monitored the activities through Performance Center 11.0.
• Recorded and enhanced Vuser Scripts by inserting Transaction points, Rendezvous
• Points in to Vuser Script in Load Runner.
• Created various scenarios in LoadRunner controller for performing baseline, benchmark, stress tests, load tests, latency tests and endurance tests.
• Performed both automatic and manual correlation using the options in load Runner.
• Executed performance and endurance testing of project to compare Transaction Response Time for business critical transactions on different builds of web based applications.
• Responsible for identifying bottlenecks in the system.
• Activating / configuring monitors and adding desired performance counters into the Graphs
• Tracked software bugs using Quality Center and communicated the same to developers to resolve technical issues.

Environment: Performance Testing, Load runner 9.5, Performance Center 11.0, ASP.NET, Silverlight, SQL Server, Linux, HTML, MS Windows NT/2000, MS Office Suite.

Confidential, Plainsboro, NJ

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Defined requirements for large-scale Load Runner performance tests of the Web based and Database server Applications.
• Created Load/Stress scenarios for performance testing using the Load Runner.
• Involved in all aspects of SDLC.
• Responsible for designing scenarios and monitoring them using Load Runner.
• Involved in Correlation and Parameterization for the script, to ensure the script runs successfully during replay .Monitored the activities through Load Runner Controller.
• Recorded and enhanced Vuser Scripts by inserting Transaction points, Rendezvous
• Points in to Vuser Script in Load Runner.
• Created various scenarios in LoadRunner controller for performing baseline, benchmark, stress tests and endurance tests.
• Performed both automatic and manual correlation using the options in load Runner.
• Responsible for back-end testing/database testing, which was done using SQL queries.
• Used Test Director for bug tracking and investigated software bugs.
• Executed performance and endurance testing of project to compare Transaction
• Response Time for business critical transactions on different builds of web based applications.
• Responsible for identifying bottlenecks in the system using Load Runner Controller.
• Activating / configuring monitors and adding desired performance counters into the Graphs
• Tracked software bugs using Quality Center and communicated the same to developers to resolve technical issues.

Environment: Manual Testing, Test Director, Performance Testing, Load runner 9.5 ASP.NET, SQL Server, UNIX,HTML, MS Office Suite.

Confidential, North Brunswick, NJ

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Defined requirements for large-scale Load Runner performance tests of the Web based and Database server Applications.
• Created Load/Stress scenarios for performance testing using the Load Runner.
• Involved in all aspects of SDLC.
• Responsible for designing scenarios and monitoring them using Load Runner.
• Involved in Correlation and Parameterization for the script, to ensure the script runs successfully during replay .Monitored the activities through Load Runner Controller.
• Recorded and enhanced Vuser Scripts by inserting Transaction points, Rendezvous
• Points in to Vuser Script in Load Runner.
• Created various scenarios in LoadRunner controller for performing baseline, benchmark, stress tests and endurance tests.
• Performed both automatic and manual correlation using the options in load Runner.
• Responsible for back-end testing/database testing, which was done using SQL queries.
• Used Test Director for bug tracking and investigated software bugs.
• Executed performance and endurance testing of project to compare Transaction
• Response Time for business critical transactions on different builds of web based applications.
• Responsible for identifying bottlenecks in the system using Load Runner Controller.
• Activating / configuring monitors and adding desired performance counters into the Graphs
• Tracked software bugs using Quality Center and communicated the same to developers to resolve technical issues.

Environment: Manual Testing, Test Director, Performance Testing, Load runner 9.5 ASP.NET, SQL Server, Linux, HTML, MS Office Suite.

Confidential, Red Bank, NJ

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyze existing production environment and come up with Performance testing plan for test data, application workflows, performance testing scenarios.Involved in both the activities monitoring and production support.
• Customize application code to create Loadrunner script for flex based application.
• Create Loadrunner script, correlation, parametrization, design scenario for performance, reliability and stress testing.
• Setup test environment to configure test database, Apache Tomcat configuration, Cisco Loadbalancer configuration, setting up Yourkit Profiler and HP diagnostics configuration.
• Monitor the test execution including web, application and DB level for any potential bottleneck.
• Analyze JVM Garbage collection, Thread dump, Thread, JDBC sessions.
• Generate Oracle awr/addm reports and analyze them for potential DB issues, like top consuming sql, check sql plan and index usage, gather stats etc.
• Experienced in Agile Software Development methodology.
• Profile application using YourKit and isolate the performance issues.
• Soap UI to web services Load testing.

Environment: Loadrunner 9.1, Hp Diagnostics, SOAP UI, GC and HeapAnalyzer, YourKit, Oracle 11g, J2EE, Tomcat, Apache, Linux, Cisco Loadbalancer, Flex