SUMMARY

• Experience in diversified fields of Software Quality Assurance.
• Well acquainted with all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Understanding and Analyzing the User/Business Requirements and the Software Requirement Specifications (SRS).
• Skilled in Black Box testing, Integration testing, System testing, GUI testing, Functionality testing, Backend testing, Performance testing, Data driven testing of both Client server architecture and GUI based applications on Windows, UNIX and Linux platforms.
• Extensive experience in writing advanced VB script programming and Descriptive Programming.
• Expert in manual testing and Performance Testing, using HP Quality Center, LoadRunner & Test Director.
• Solid knowledge of Software quality assurance processes and procedures that includes test planning, design, development, execution and evaluation phases, set up and execution of automated testing.
• Experience analyzing system & functional specifications, use cases, business requirements and business rules to identify test requirements, design and execute test plan, test cases and test data.
• Experienced being solely responsible for the creation and execution of functional test plans and test cases from start to finish, proactively seeking information required completing test design as well as developed and executed test cases.
• Good understanding and experience working in Waterfall, Spiral, Agile software development life cycles
• Expert in identifying use cases, writing test plans, creating and executing test cases/ test scripts, bug/defect logging and tracking.
• Expert in developing and maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to make sure customer requirements are captured successfully.
• Vast experience coordinating and communicating with various teams and stakeholders involved in the project
• Involved in Formulating Test Strategies and Test environment.
• Experience in preparing of Test Plans, Test Cases, automated Tests and executing the same.
• Reporting and prioritizing software bugs in conjunction with the Development & QA Managers and analyzing the Test Results.
• Interacted with development, team members and Users.
• Excellent communication skills, ability to learn quickly and work independently. Highly motivated and have good interpersonal skills.
• Monitor Confidential ’s internal and external websites by utilizing CA Introscope.
• Monitoring entire HP ALM PC infrastructure by using CA Introscope.
• Setup Alerts based on threshold using SiteScope to monitor ALM Servers.
• Used sitescope and CA Introscope to monitor the databases, application and web servers (at OS and application level) for performance bottlenecks while conducting load, stress, volume and memory tests.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automated Testing Tools: ALM WinRunner, LoadRunner 11.5,12

Test Management Tools: Quality Center, ALM, JIRATools & Utilities MS Office, Microsoft communicator, SnagIT

Script Languages: VBScript, TSL, CA Introscope

Programming Languages: SQL, PL - SQL, UNIX

Web Technologies: HTML, VB Script, ASP

RDBMS: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MS-Access 2000

Operating Systems: Windows NT 4.0/XP/2000/2003,Unix

Web Application Servers: IIS, Web Logic

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Performance test scripts defining scenarios and procedures to test the performance of the application using LoadRunner 11.5.
• Conducted performance testing by running various VuGen scripts in order to determine the maximum number of users that can log into the application at a given time by using LoadRunner11.5.
• Utilized LoadRunner11.5 conduct stress testing of the application in order to determine the yield point of the application by subjecting to heavy loads.
• Analyzed LoadRunner test result involved in preparing test plan and test cases based on the analysis of the business requirements.
• Customize Parameterization in DATA file using via LoadRunner VUGen to test the application with different sets of data.
• Inserted rendezvous points to create intense load on the server and thereby to measure server performance.
• Used various techniques like Ramp up, Ramp down, Transaction Point in Load Runner.
• Analyzed system requirements and developed Test plans, Test cases for Functional, GUI and Regression Testing.
• Generated test plans, test scripts, test execution and test strategy with the team.
• Involved in Performance testing of some client deliveries for performance requirements using LoadRunner 11.5.
• Developed LoadRunner 11.5 test scripts according to test specifications and requirements.
• Wrote user-define functions to validate and to run Load and Performance test successfully using Vu Gen of Load Runner 11.5.
• Involved in generating Vuser in Load Runner 11.5 for performance testing, and load testing of the application in various Loads.
• Using LoadRunner, executed multi-user performance tests, used online monitors, real-time output messages and other features of the LoadRunner Controller 11.5.
• Used LoadRunner controller to create scenarios, and analyzed the test results.
• Analyzed and created the bug tracking reporting and summary report in the QualityCenter.

Environment: Quality Center ALM, LoadRunner, QTP, Java, JSP, JavaScript, JUNIT, VBScript, XML, HTML, DHTML, EXCEL, SQL, PL/SQL, MS Access, VTS, SOA, Web Services, Putty, Winscp, Wire shark, WebSphere(WAS), IBM HTTP Server(IHS), Araxes Merge, Caliber, Wiki, Unix and Windows, Perl.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Effectively implemented different QA methodologies/policies, strategies and plans in all stages of SDLC.
• Participated in business requirement walk through, design walk through and analyzed Business requirements.
• Created Test plan, Test Design, Test scripts and responsible for implementation of Test.
• Involved in analyzing and writing test plan in accordance with business requirements.
• Formulated methods to perform Positive and Negative testing against requirements.
• Performed Manual Testing of the application Front-End and Functionality. Identified the critical test scripts to be automated.
• Performed Functional, Data Validation, Integration, System, and regression testing.
• Involved in Performance testing of some client deliveries for performance requirements using LoadRunner 12.
• Developed LoadRunner 12 test scripts according to test specifications and requirements.
• Wrote user-define functions to validate and to run Load and Performance test successfully using Vu Gen of Load Runner 12.
• Involved in generating Vuser in Load Runner 12 for performance testing, and load testing of the application in various Loads.
• Using LoadRunner, executed multi-user performance tests, used online monitors, real-time output messages and other features of the LoadRunner Controller 12.
• Used LoadRunner controller to create scenarios, and analyzed the test results.
• Analyzed and created the bug tracking reporting and summary report in the Quality Center.
• Worked on Quality Center for requirements management, planning, scheduling, running tests, defect tracking, manage the defects and executing the test cases.
• Analyzed and verified Functional Specification documents.
• Reviewed and updated Test Plans, Test Scenarios.
• Created and manually executed the Test Cases.
• Involved in Test cases review meetings and recommended enhancements in UI functions.
• Involved in different types of Black Box testing (Positive, Negative, Compatibility, Usability, Performance) GUI, Regression testing and UAT.
• Produced and submitted problem reports.
• Reported bugs using Quality Center ALM bug tracking tool.
• Tested bug fixes and coordinated with developers to resolve defect issues.
• Participated in daily and weekly meeting for testing status updates.

Environment: Quality Center, LoadRunner, QTP, Java, JSP, JavaScript, JUNIT, VBScript, XML, HTML, DHTML, EXCEL, SQL, PL/SQL, MS Access, VTS, SOA, Web Services, Putty, Winscp, Wireshark, WebSphere(WAS), IBM HTTP Server(IHS), Araxis Merge, Caliber, Wiki, Unix and Windows, Perl.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed automated test scripts defining scenarios and procedures to test the performance of the application using LoadRunner.
• Conducted performance testing of the application by running various VuGen scripts in order to determine the maximum number of users that can log into the application at a given time by using LoadRunner.
• Utilized LoadRunner conduct stress testing of the application in order to determine the yield point of the application by subjecting to heavy loads.
• Analyzed LoadRunner test result involved in preparing test plan and test cases based on the analysis of the business requirements.
• Customize Parameterization in DATA file using via LoadRunner to test the application with different sets of data.
• Inserted rendezvous points to create intense load on the server and thereby to measure server performance.
• Used various techniques like Ramp up, Ramp down, Transaction Point in Load Runner.
• Analyzed system requirements and developed Test plans, Test cases for Functional, GUI and Regression Testing.
• Generated test plans, test scripts, test execution and test strategy with the team.
• Executed Manual and Automated Test Cases and verified results with Expected results.
• Different accounts numbers, SI lines for the same business and vice versa.
• Created and Executed SQL queries to fetch data from a database to validate compare and expected results with those actually obtained.
• Involved in Documenting Issues and Risks for Every Iteration of Test.
• Involved in Regression Testing for every changes in modules.
• Performing the Onsite-Offshore Coordination for the SIT team and is a single point of contact for offshore testing team to execute the test team activities.
• Collection of queries to be posted for clarification of functional behavior of application
• Developed Test Cases bases on Functional Specifications and Design Documents.
• Involved in writing Test plans, Test cases and responsible for executing the Test Scripts.
• Interacted with Business users and Technical team in providing clear solutions to requirements.
• Involved in testing Medical claims, Hospital claims, and Dental claims.

Environment: HP Quality Center, LoadRunner, QTP, SQL, JAVA, Oracle,Clear Case, UNIX, Windows NT/2000/XP and MS-Excel.

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Preparing JAD sessions with users and development teams, create use cases, understanding business/functional requirements and create test cases.
• Created traceability matrix to ensure complete coverage of requirements through test cases.
• Analyzed business requirements and functional design documents.
• Developed Test Strategy and Test Plans to ensure that test cases reflect user needs for the functional, user-interface, performance, usability and security requirements.
• Developed manual test cases for positive, negative, functional and performance testing
• Identified testing requirements and formulated Test Cases and Test Scripts and documented them in Quality Center.
• Executed manual test cases using Quality Center.
• Extensively Worked on LoadRunner and worked on various protocols in Virtual User generator.
• Performed load and stress tests with LoadRunner and presented performance statistics to application teams.
• Used Virtual User Generator to generate VuGen Scripts for web (J2EE) and Citrix, MQ tester.

Environment: Microsoft.NET products (ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#), SQL Server 2000, Microsoft Visio 2000, VSS, ORACLE PL/SQL, Quick Test Pro, Quality Center