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 ReportsBO, 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, 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