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Engineer Quality

Location:
Columbia, MD, 21044
Posted:
November 08, 2010

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Resume:

NADEEM AHMAD STFL AIS ASE

***** ***** **** **, ***** Falls, VA 22066

Home: 703-***-**** abh7s6@r.postjobfree.com Cellular

443-***-****

CAREER PROFILE

• Over 5+ years of total experience in Software Quality Assurance & 1+ years in Development

• 5 years expert level experience in automation and test management tools HP’s Mercury Suite –

LoadRunner, Quality Center, Performance Center, Borland’s Silk Suite - SilkPerformer

• Performance Tools Experience: 5 years of HP LoadRunner, HP Performance Center and

Borland SilkPerformer

• Regression Tools Experience: HP Quick Test Professional

• Test management and Bug Tracking : 5+ of administrative experience in HP Quality Center

• Certified Tester - Foundation Level (CTFL) ASTQB (American Software Testing Qualification

Board) -2010

• HP Accredited Systems Engineer(ASE) – Performance Center – 2008

• HP Accredited Integration Specialist(AIS) – Performance Center – 2008

• Expert level experience in Performance, Functional, Regression, System, Integration, Unit and UAT

testing

• Experience in Microsoft-Windows, Sun/HP – UNIX and IBM-Mainframe environments

• 1+ years of development experience in C.

• Hands on experience in SQL, PL/SQL and MS SharePoint

• Performance & Regression testing experience on distributed application environments like WEB,

Java-J2EE, ASP.NET, Web Service (WSDL), CORBA, Mainframe and AS400

• Performance testing experience with SilkPerformer & LoadRunner tools, Applications has different

protocols like Web Click and Script, HTTP/HTML, Citrix ICA, Ajax, Oracle NCA and People Soft

Enterprise

• Familiar with SDLC, V-Models and Iterative-Incremental Development Model.

Key Strength includes:

Leadership.

Strong knowledge of functional and non function testing approach.

Strong knowledge of Performance Testing using HP LoadRunner and Borland SilkPerformer.

HP Quality Center Administration.

Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.

Excellent customer service skills.

Excellent communication skills.

SKILLS:

OS: UNIX (HP), Windows 95/98/XP/NT/2000, Windows 2003/2008 Server, Mainframe, AS/400

Languages: C, C++, C#, VC++, COBOL, HTML, XML, PL/SQL, and Visual Basic

6.0/5.0

RDBMS: Oracle 9i/8i/7.x/9/10g, Oracle XE, DB2, MS Access 97, SQL Server 7.0/6.5

Database Tools: TOAD, Oracle Developer

GUI/Tools: Dream Weaver, Adobe Photoshop

Automation/Testing Tools: HP QTP 9.5/10, HP QC 9.2/10, LoadRunner 8.7/9.0/9.2/9.5/10/11 Silk

Performer

Bug Tracking Tools: HP/Mercury Quality Center

Scripting Languages: VBScript, BDL, Action Script

Web/App Servers: Websphere, JBoss

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS & IMMIGRATION STATUS:

Degree: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Certifications: CTFL- ASTQB (American Software Testing Qualification Board) -2010

HP Accredited Systems Engineer (AIS) – Performance

Center/LoadRunner – 2008

HP Accredited Integration Specialist (ASE) – Performance

Center/LoadRunner – 2008

Immigration Status: US Permanent Residency (Green Card)

CAREER HISTORY:

Certified Performance Engineer / Quality Center Administrator

TCT Computing Group, Inc. Columbia, MD 2008 – Present

TCT Computing Group is providing consulting and training on HP/Mercury tools for the last 10 years and

have 4 training locations. TCT Computing group is partner of HP, Borland and Automated QA.

I am part of Performance & Quality Center team. So far worked on 14 projects; of which 12 are Performance

and 2 are functional. These applications have distributed environments, like WEB, Java J2EE, .Net, C#,

Client Server, Main Frame, Web Services (WSDL), XML, and Stand-alone Systems and with different

protocols HTTP/HTML, Oracle NCA, Web Services, Ajax and Citrix

Performance Projects: IBM Maximo R0, IBM Maximo R1, IBM Maximo R2, ADERANT

Expert 7.5, OPM, Accounts Payable, eTime, Fatigue Management, CMS, WMS, NASAFCU,

Functional & QC Projects: Oracle Customer Care and Billing (CC&B), QC Upgrade from 9.2 to 10.0

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the project documentation, data, requirement specifications, and production data.

• Created planning documents, Installed LoadRunner Controller and LoadRunner load generators,

Configured load generators and monitors.

• Designed complex scenarios in LR Controller and Performance Center.

• Developed detailed transaction reports for analysis.

• Responsible for creating, implementing and managing overall QA strategies

• Written and maintained the test case scripts and executed, documented detailed results and summary

report

• Responsible for creating & executing performance and functional scripts

• Multi tasked between current & new releases, install activities, regression testing and prioritized task for

next release

• Coordinated to offshore team to onshore project team for document on functional and performance

requirements

• Developed the scripts for performance testing executions in LoadRunner, SilkPerformer load testing

tools

• Developed the scripts in LoadRunner-Virtual User Generator-VuGen component

• Configured DB, UNIX, Windows box CPU & Memory, Agents in LoadRunner-Controller component

• Analyzed the execution/load test results, CPU & Memory graphs, Errors in LoadRunner-Analysis

component

• Implemented the Mercury Business Process Testing (BPT) for automated and manual test design

maintenance and execution

• Developed & Maintained the regression automation scripts in QTP for functional testing applications

• Developed the regression and performance scripts for legacy systems like Mainframe & AS400

applications in QTP, LoadRunner & SilkPerformer

• Maintained the QTP, VBScript for QC, and fixed the issues in running in new release environments

• Performed the different activities with automation tools like, data extraction, data load, data modeling,

parsing and correlation skills using LoadRunner and SilkPerformer

• Identified and resolved the testing issues from our end

• Maintained & Communicated performance testing, functional issue, project documentation, test cases,

test plans in Quality Center (QC)

• Performed the performance and regression testing on distributed environments like mainframe, java

J2EE, .NET Web Services based on HTTP, SOAP, TCP/IP, Client Server network protocols running on

Windows and Unix platforms

• Wrote complex SQL queries and executed on different DBs like SQL 2005, Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g

• Performed the data driven testing for few Web Services calls

• Isolated and pinpointed degradation and crash point for projects based on reports, Log files and

monitoring Servers real time

• Managed full scale enterprise QC environment for more than 300 users, Customized HP Quality Center

as per project’s requirement, Created and maintained project users group, Setup user group permissions

as per their roles. Customized QC filed in all modules, transition rules, lookup list, user list, defect flow

and work flow.

• Uploaded 3595+ Requirements and 2700+ Test cases into Quality Center, Train/Mentor users how to use

QC features and how to take best advantage of QC.

• Successfully upgraded HP Quality Center 9.2 to HP Quality Center 10.0 with 134 projects, Setup JBoss

App Server, Set up Quality Center Repository, Restored projects, Verified, Repaired and Updated

projects with no data loss.

• Build custom reports using SQL in Quality Center

• Worked with network team to modify WAN Emulator settings.

• Used LoadRunner Virtual Table Server (VTS) for data prep.

• Worked with TIBCO team members to gather processing times for new TIBCO web services

Environment and Tools: LoadRunner 8.7/9.0/9.2/9.5/10.0/11, QC 9.0/9.2/10, LR-VTS, SilkPerformer 7.5,

SiteScope, HTTP, TCP/IP, WinSock, Oracle 9i, TOAD, SQL Plus, Web Services (WSDL),SOAP, XML,

Visual Basic, MS-SQL, AJAX, ASP .NET, C, C#, Visio, WebLogic, Apache, Oracle 11i, SQL, UNIX,

LINUX, IBM Mainframe, AS400, MS Windows 2000/XP

Performance Test Analyst

Verizon Communications (Data Services), Tampa, FL 2005 – 2008

Verizon is one of the largest telecom Industry in the USA. I was part of performance certification group at

Verizon Data Services. Worked on different projects. These applications have different kinds of

environments, like WEB, Java J2EE, Client Server, Stand-alone, Citrix, Operating System and with different

protocols SOAP (Web Services), HTTP, TCP/IP

Performance Projects: SNM, COMS, NetPro, F&E, EOM/OrderPro, IPSM, EODB Voice iConsole,

Peg@s, BEA WebLogic (COEP), MRRS, vBuild (FTTP), AAIS_DS, NetWay &

NetGate (FTTP), ADNT, CRE, STORC, DCWeb and CTI Gateway

Regression Projects: AAIS Design Services

Responsibilities:

• Performed analysis of development and QA practices, review of design documents

• Responsible for creating, implementing and managing overall QA Strategies

• Designed scenario in LoadRunner and SilkPerformer

• Developed testing process that included test objectives, test plans, test case and test procedure

development, and test execution

• Developed code for many applications using BDL for SilkPerformer 6.01/6.5/7.0

• Executed numerous applications using LoadRunner & SilkPerformer

• Created planning documents, Installed LoadRunner Controller and LoadRunner load generators,

Configured load generators and monitors.

• Developed code for Web, Java, Mainframe and Citrix based applications using QTP for regression

testing

• Executed performance & functional testing applications to measure response time against the production

statistics

• Executed Web Services(WSDL) applications in a distributed network environments

• Isolate and pinpoint degradation and crash point for projects based on reports, Log files and monitoring

Servers real time

• Created Transaction summary, Throughput, Hit per second, Average transaction response time, Running

VUsers, Transaction per second, Connection per second, Unix CPU utilization, Web page breakdown,

Page component breakdown, Transaction per second and other graph using LoadRunner Analysis tool.

Environment and Tools : QTP, LoadRunner, LR-VTS, SilkPerformer, HTTP, TCP/IP, IBM Mainframe,

WinSock, Shell, PERL, SQL, Visual Basic, Oracle 9i, TOAD, Java, SQL Server, Web Services (WSDL),

SOAP, XML, Visio, UNIX, AS400, Windows 2000/XP

General Manager

Best Western Tampa, Tampa, FL 33609 2003 -2005

The Best Western Tampa is ideally situated in Tampa, Florida. This hotel offers convenient access to

Tampa

International Airport and the Port of Tampa. Sports fans staying at this hotel will also enjoy many local

sporting

events including the Outback Bowl, Tampa Bay Buccaneers games and New York Yankees baseball

spring training.

Business travelers will be only minutes from Westshore Business District, IBM, MacDill Air force Base

and Time Inc.

Responsibilities

Responsible for overall operation of 54 unit boutique hotel including Revenue Management,

Sale & Marketing, Maintenance Management, Front Desk and Housekeeping.

Responsible for the advertising and marketing strategies employed to enhance hotel’s image.

Responsible for the sourcing and purchase of new products.

Responsible for the recruitment of new employees.

Responsible for account receivable and payroll.

Responsible for the maintaining and updating property management system and networking.

Software Developer

Lakhotia Computer Centre, Barakar, Burdawan, Kolkata, India

Responsibilities

Developed and implemented payroll system for McNally Privet Ltd. India for its 200+

employees.

Developed and implemented Inventory control system and tracking record of incoming and

outgoing materials for Jugal and Sons Privet Ltd. India.

Worked in C environment, Responsible for development and maintenance of the project

Environment and Tools: C, C++, Visual Basic, SQL, UNIX, Windows

Data Processing specialist

Electronic Date Processing Center (EDP), BCCL, Dhunbad, India

Responsibilities

Team was responsible for processing 15000+ employees monthly payroll.

Team was responsible for in and out inventory, requisition preparation

Environment and Tools: C, Oracle, SQL, HP-UX 11.0, UNIX Shell Script, Windows



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