SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Performance Testing of Client - Server,and webbased applications.
• Detailed understanding of QA Methodologies like Waterfall, Iterative, Agile, Rational Unified Modeling (RUP).
• Involved in Business Requirement Analysis, and writing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts forweb-Based and Client/Server applications.
• Experienced in using automated Testing Tools like HP Load Runner, Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, Performance Center and Test director.
• Extensive experience in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle such as Design, Implementation, Testing, Quality Control and Deployment.
• Enhanced VUser script in Load Runner with Parameterization, Correlation, Transaction Point and Check Points.
• Extensive experience with Load, Stress, Regression and Performance testing using Load Runner and developed VUgen test scripts.
• Expertise in writing reusable modular scripts for automation testing for various Business Applications like Banking& Finance, IT, Healthcare and Insurance.
• Expertise in writing and executing SQL Queries.
• Analyzed Throughput Graph, Hits/Second graph, Transactions per second graph and Rendezvous graphs using LR Analysis tool.
• Experienced in Performance Monitoring using WilyIntroscope, HP Site Scope and HP Diagnostic.
• Comfortable with various Industry Leading Operating systems (Windows NT/ 98/ 95/ 2000/ XP/ Vista/ Windows 7 and UNIX)
• Good Knowledge on C scripting.
• At ease in high stress environments requiring superior ability to effectively handle multi-task levels of responsibility.
• Deliver the status reports like Testing status, Defect tracking status and Weekly status reports to the Test Manager.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, self-starter, quick learner, team player.
• Proven ability to work efficiently in both independent and team work environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP LoadRunner v8.x/9.x/11.x, HP Performance Center 11, HP Quality Cente, Test Director

Load Runner Protocols: Web(HTTP/HTML), Ajax TruClient, Windows Sockets, SAP Web, Web Services.

Languages: C, C++, VB Script, PHP Markup/Scripting Languages, DHTML, CSS, JQuery, JavaScript, XML, HTML.

Packages: MS-Office, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Dreamweaver, flash, Illustrator, In Design.

RDBMS: MS SQL, SQL Server, Oracle

Operating Systems: Windows 98, 2003 Server, Windows NT/2000/XP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Oklahoma City, OK

Sr. Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirement, studied the application and collected the information from Business Analysts.
• High Level Test Plans were written by incorporating User Profiles, Configurations, Environments, Risks, Test Scenarios, Schedules, Analysis and Presentation of Results
• Created LoadRunner scripts to load test high traffic end user processes for performance and reliability.
• Responsible for analyzing application and components behavior with heavier loads and optimizing server configurations.
• Enhanced the test scripts usingWeb HTTP/HTML protocol inLoad runner.
• Ramped up Virtual users in a load test to achieve a maximal transaction volume of 1200.
• Involved in generating scripts and handling Correlation, Parameterization, Transaction points, Pacing, Debugging and various other functions using LoadRunner Vugen.
• Generated customized reports for testing the performance of various transactions by developing various user-defined functions as well as LoadRunner functions.
• Developed Scenarios in Controller based on the User Load and Transaction Volume.
• Used Load Runner to execute multi-user performance tests, used online monitors, real-time output messages and of the features of theLoad RunnerController.
• Created detailed test status reports, performance capacity reports, web trend analysis reports, and graphical charts for upper management using Load Runner analysis component.
• Analyzed Throughput Graph, Hits/Second graph, Transactions per second graph and Rendezvous graphs using LR Analysis tool.
• Involved in scalability and bottleneck testing of application.
• Used WilyIntroscope and HP Sitescope for identifying response time and memory leaks during load tests.
• Attending weekly defect report meetings and presented progress updates.
• Attending conference calls with offshore team to discuss the Testing status and to assign the defects to the concerned developers.

Environment: LoadRunner, Quality Center, C Programming, Oracle, PL/SQL, HTML, UNIX.

Confidential, Battle Creek, MI

Sr. Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirements document with the business and development team to understand the architecture and functionality of the application.
• Actively involved in gathering new requirements.
• Developed Performance TestingPlan, Performance TestingStrategy Document based on the business specifications requirements.
• Performed Smoke test, Baseline, and Load tests using Load Runner
• We used Load Runner Web HTTP/HTML protocol based on the user workflows.
• Made changes to the exhisting scripts to meet the performance test requirements.
• We also explore on SAP Web and Webservicess protocols for different applications.
• Expertise in Designing scenarios for Performance Testing, Generating scripts and handling Correlation, Pacing as well as parameterization using Loadrunner Vugen.
• Responsible for performance testing (Load, Stress and Volume) using HP performance center.
• Performed load testing with 770 Vusers.
• Analyzed the results of the Load test by using LR Analysis tool, looking at the online monitors and the graphs and identified the bottlenecks in the system.
• Used Wily Introscope to monitor the servers.
• Compiled results from data validation into individual reports that summarizes pass/fail ratio and the types of failures being discovered.
• Worked close with clients Interface with developers, project managers, and management in the development.

Environment: LoadRunner, Performance Center, C Programming, Oracle, PL/SQL, HTML, UNIX.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Gathered user requirements and designed Test Plans and Test Scenarios accordingly.
• Experience in writing Test Plans, defining Test Scenarios and Test cases, developing and maintaining Test Scripts based on business and functional requirements.
• Defined transactions to measure serverPerformance under load by creating rendezvous points to simulate heavy load on the server.
• Communicated with development team to resolve defects.
• Developed Vuser scripts using Load Runner Windows Sockets protocol based on the user workflows.
• Executed Load, Stress and Endurance testing to simulate a process, which allowed using more than 1000 virtual users.
• Developed Load Test Scripts by using Load Runner for entire site and did the Parameterization, Pacing, and correlation.
• Developed VUser scripts and enhanced the basic script by adding Custom code.
• Used Performance center for performing Load Test and Analysis Module for yielding results.
• Monitored system resources such as CPU Usage, % of Memory Occupied VM Stat I/O Stat.
• Analyzed the test results TPS, Hits/second, Transaction response time, CPU utilization using LoadRunner Analysis, various monitoring tools and prepared Test Reports.
• Analyzed various graphs including Database Resource Graphs, Network Monitor Graphs, User Graphs, Error Graphs, Transaction Graphs and Web Server Resource Graphs.
• Track defect and assign and resolve high priority issues without affecting project deadlines.
• Extensively usedWily Introscope and HP Diagnostic to analyze the system resources bottlenecks like Memory Leaks, CPU and Network Bottlenecks as well as problematic application and DB components.
• Involved as a Performance Testing Analyst for establishing the Individual Benchmarks and Baselines for a number of Applications.

Environment: LoadRunner, Performance center, Quality Center, Linux, Win 2003 server, Java, Oracle.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirements document with the business and development team to understand the architecture and functionality of the application.
• Interacted with System Engineers thoroughly for collecting Requirements.
• Performed baseline, benchmark, stress, and capacity tests using Load Runner.
• Conducting the Load, Stress and Performance testing using Load Runner and developed testscripts.
• Involved in Project meetings and interacted to other team members in order to resolve the problems.
• Created Vuser scripts using Web (HTTP/HTML) and Ajax TruClient protocol.
• Experience handling loads for 4000 Vusers. Expert in developing Work load Model for performance testing.
• Planned and generated Vuser scripts with VuGen and enhanced them with correlation, parameterization and functions.
• Generated scripts in Vugen as per given SLA by giving pacing between iterations to get the desired transactions per hour.
• Involved in installation and Setup of Performance Center HP LoadRunner.
• Defined transactions to measure server performance under load by creating rendezvous points to simulate heavy load on the server.
• Scheduling the scenarios using the Load Runner's Controller and analyzing the results using Analyzer.
• Coordinated with Technical Teams to monitor Database Query, CPU Utilization and Memory.
• Analyzed results using HP Load Runner Analysis tool and analyzed sessions and log files.
• Responsible for performance monitoring and analysis of response time & memory leaks using throughput graphs.
• Have experience with different monitoring and load testing tools like Quality Center, WilyIntroscope, LoadRunner.
• Participated in defects meeting to discuss the bottlenecks and long running queries.

Environment: Load runner, Performance Center, Quality Center 9.5/10.0, Manual Testing, Agile, Linux, Win 2003 server.

Confidential, Irving, TX

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Performance TestingPlan, Performance TestingStrategy based on the business specifications requirements and user requirements and prepared Close out Document and Executive level summary.
• Testing the application with stress and load of right transaction mix to emulate real time transaction load.
• Participate inWeekly Meetings with the management team and Walkthroughs.
• Created Load Runner scripts with Web Services protocols based on the user workflow.
• Used Rendezvous point, Start and End Transaction, Parameterization, Correlation features in Virtual User Generator of Load Runner.
• Enhanced script by inserting Check points to check if Virtual users are accessing the correct page which they are supposed to be accessing.
• Created a scenario with certain amount of Vusers giving Ramp up, Ramp Down and Run time in the Controller of LoadRunner.
• Performed result analysis using online monitors and graphs using Load Runner.
• Observed for failure/errors and monitored metrics (Transaction Response Times, Running Virtual Users, Hits per Second and Windows Resources graph) in tests.
• Analyzed the server resources such as Available Bytes and Process Bytes for Memory Leaks.
• Collected and maintained PBDs metrics using Wily Introscope.
• Met with managers, team leaders and developers on LoadRunner, Scripting, Stress and Performance Testing.
• Involved in the decision making with the management for final applications releases.

Environment: LoadRunner, MS Office 2007, Oracle, C Programming, Quality center, HTTP/HTML.

Confidential, Sparta, MI

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created and analyzed relevant testing environment so that the application to be tested meets the production requirement.
• Responsible for understanding the business and educate clients for the need to performance test the applications before deploying in production and categorize different load test scenarios.
• Assisting Project Manager with deliverables, maintaining project plans and schedules.
• We used Load Runner Web HTTP/HTML protocol based on the user workflows.
• Worked on Windows Sockets and good at experimenting protocols with various technologies.
• Performed Web log analysis to deduce workload and understand the peak workload use cases and peak connected sessions with different timings involved for performance testing understand the prime need to performance test each case.
• Gathering and analyzing Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional Requirement Documents (FRD) for performance test planning.
• Adding new graphs to the Analyzer reports, comparing results with SLAs, merging two or more graphs to compare results, exporting HTML reports.
• Developed custom scripts for different workflows, user roles and business transactions such as procurement, purchase order generation, report generation and dashboards in SharePoint using Load Runner.
• Developing test case scripts, executing scripts, documenting results and summary report in details.
• Good understanding of the project life cycle, from analysis to production implementation, with emphasis on test data metric analysis, performance testing, load/stress testing, and auditable documentation of plan and results.
• Handling any other responsibility as instructed by the Management or QA lead engineers.

Environment: LoadRunner, MS Office 2007, Oracle, C Programming, Quality center, HTTP/HTML.

Confidential

QA Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Project documentation including Project charters, Business Requirements, Technical Requirements, and Functional Design Specifications.
• Met with the Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, and System Analysts to identify gaps in the requirements.
• Participated in Requirement Walk through meetings to understand the in scope requirements and utilized HPs Quality Center for capturing requirements.
• Handling escalated calls on a daily basis and resolving ongoing issues.
• Interacted with the developers and business analyst to resolve the defects.
• Wrote SQL queries to access the data from the database tables to ensure data integrity.
• Created Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and detailed Test Scripts in Quality Center for all phases of testing; Unit, Integration and System Testing.

Environment: Java, QuickTest Professional, Mercury Quality Center, Oracle, Windows 2000, MS Office 2007