THANUJA BIRUDAVOLU abn240@r.postjobfree.com

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Senior Performance Engineer / QA Analyst

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SUMMARY

. Over all 8 years of experience in Quality Assurance providing

extensive support in test planning, test development and test

execution of projects both manually and using automation tools like

LoadRunner 11.0, Performance Center 11.0, Defect tracking tool Quality

Center 9.2, Monitoring tool like Analysis component of Load Runner,

CA Willy Introscope 8.2, Site scope, HP diagnostics tool, Dynatrace

Ajax .

. Proficient in both Manual and Automated Testing using HP interactive

products like - HP LoadRunner, HP Quality Center (QC), HP Quick Test

Professional and Test Director.

. Expertise in System Requirement Analysis, GUI Testing, functionality

testing, Integration Testing, Stress/Load testing, Regression

Testing, User Acceptance testing, Compatibility testing, Integration

testing, Smoke testing and System testing.

. Good Experience in preparing Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases

from the business, technical and functional requirements.

. Good Experience in preparing Work Flow Model according to the scaling

of production with testing environment.

. Worked on the complete Test Life Cycle, performing functional tests,

regression, Load for web and Client Server applications.

. Extensive experience in various Performance Testing methodologies like

Shake out Testing, Baseline Testing, Peak Testing, Stress Testing,

Duration Testing, Breaking Point Testing, Fail Over/ Fallback Testing,

Negative testing and Regression Testing.

. Experience working with SAPGUI, Web services & Https or Http and Html

Protocols.

. Experience with exhaustive Components of Load Runner

. Virtual User Generator: Parameterized, correlation, the scripts and

enhanced them according to the test cases.

. Controller/ Performance Center: Create Scenarios for different Tests

for testing purpose.

. Analysis: LoadRunner Analysis graphs to analyze the results

. Experienced in developing SQL Queries for Backend testing.

. Experience working with Defect Tracking tool HP ALM Quality Center

11.0

. Ability to understand Business and Functional requirements and

transform them into test cases, test scripts and ability to assess

whether deliverables meet requirements

. Strong understanding of software Test Methodologies and knowledge of

modern software development processes, including Issue/Bug Tacking,

Release management, Requirements etc

. Self-Starter and comfortable in high intensity and challenging work

environment

. Coordinated testing efforts and effectively managed Off-Shore teams.

. Excellent verbal and communication skills, Analytical and Technical

attitude with the ability to solve complex problems; Can work very

well in a team as well as independently under minimum supervision

EDUCATION / CERTIFICATION:

. Master of Computer Applications(MCA), India

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Load Runner 8.0/9.0/9.5/11.0, Performance Center 9.0/11.0., HP Quick Test

Pro 10/11., CA Willy Introscope 9.2, Site Scope, HP Diagnostics tool,

Dynatrace Ajax, HP Quality Center 9.0/9.2,11.0, MS SQL Server 2008, C, C++,

SQL., SAP ABAP, HTML, XML., MS Windows 98/2000/NT/XP, MS-DOS, UNIX, UC4,

Mainframes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) Fort Worth TX

Dec 2012 - Present

Application Services / QA Analyst

Project Description: Trading Process

It is a Trading Application which will maintain internal, external

trades, stocks maintenance.

. Interact with customers for understanding the system, test objectives,

questionnaire, test scenarios, SLAs, production metrics and engagement

time lines.

. Attend monthly stakeholder and customer meetings and discuss about the

current and future performance test engagements.

. Identifying the Infrastructure inadequacies to conduct performance

tests and address them with the assistance of project and Network

engineering teams. Which typically include, ensuring proper scaling of

the environment?

. Good understanding of Systems from functional, technical and business

standpoint.

. Writing Test Plans ensuring proper coverage of areas of application

risks and tasks. Create performance test plan and review it with the

application team.

. Create Vuser Scripts for all identified workflows and incorporate

proper error handling using standard Vugen functions and C functions.

Expertise in correlation and parameterization in Vugen Scripts.

. Run UNIX jobs for Environment set (cleanup, Restore, Prep drive) using

UC4.

. Execute simple/complex Sql queries related to particular environment

in Text pad, IBM DB2.

. Execute UNIX commands using Putty/Winscp.

. Used HP Quality Center 11.0 for Requirements management, Defect

tracking and Test Management.

Create test cases in test plan; manually execute test runs in text

lab.

. Deleting release files from mainframes.

. Deleting MQ messages using IR360.

. Taking production data backups / restores for initial integrated

releases using MYDBA.

. Identifying the front end performance issues by Dynatrace Ajax

Environment: HP ALM Quality Center 11.0, Load Runner 11.0, HP ALM

Performance Center 11.0, HTML, XML, MS-Office, Windows XP/2000/NT, UNIX,

SQL, Cute FTP, UC4, SQL, IBM DB2, Text Pad, Winscp, IR360, Dynatrace Ajax,

PuTTy, Open Text Exceed 14 X64 .

The Guardian Life Insurance, New York, NY

Sep 2012 - Nov 2012

Senior Performance Tester / QA Analyst

Projects Description: ACT (Agency Compensation Transformation)

The ACT 3.2 Vendor Package Implementation project is one of multiple

projects to be completed as part of the Agency Compensation Transformation

(ACT) initiative. The primary purpose of the ACT initiative is to replace

legacy compensation systems (FAS, Clubs & Awards, Agent EAP, and GA

Admin/GA Statement), automate compensation and Clubs & Awards calculations

and processes currently done in Excel and MS Access.

Responsibilities

. Involved in reviewing Business Requirement Documents and the Technical

Specification.

. Analyzed the system requirements and wrote test cases, test scripts

for testing the application.

. Performed Manual Testing prior to automation testing on the

application.

. Identified the severity of the bugs and reported to developers.

. Analyzed load and Stress test results of the application for maximum

performance using LoadRunner 11.0

. Created Scripts for the Application using LoadRunner 11.0.

. Involved in Creating Load Testing Plans and Scripting checklists.

. Extensively worked on Virtual User generator and Controller.

. Parameterized the scripts and enhanced them according to the test

cases.

. Used Performance monitor and LoadRunner graphs to analyze the results.

. Used Controller to Perform Load Tests and Stress Tests.

. Uploaded Scripts, Created Timeslots, Created Scenarios and Ran Load

Tests in Controller.

. The Average Response time, TPS, Throughput, Web Page Breakdown graphs

were analyzed for each scenario.

. Generate, analyze, and publish LoadRunner test results and document

the testing process.

. Communicated regularly with the Developers as well as the Business

Analysts to resolve any open issues.

. Prepared Test Data for the application as per the specifications of

the Requirements Document.

. Used IBM Rational ClearQuest to report/track all issues and defects.

. Worked individually, as well as in team environment, to achieve

project quality goals.

. Worked with various teams to fix problems and duplicate issues.

Environment: IBM Rational ClearQuest, Load Runner 11.0, Controller, CA

Willy Introscope 8.2, Dynatrace Ajax, HTML, MS-Office, Windows XP/2000,Web

Sphere, MS SQL Server 2008.

BANK OF AMERICA, Charlotte, NC

Jan 2012 - August 2012

Senior Performance & Resiliency Engineering

Projects Description:

Strata: is a middleware component which retrieves fraud duplication and

image retrieval from downstream component. It receives Web-Service request

from upstream and retrieve response from downstream.

Offers management: Enterprise Offers Management (EOM) provides the ability

to sell products and services across all available Bank channels. By

taking an enterprise approach and managing the interactions at the Customer

level, Bank of America is able to deepen the relationship with the Customer

while increasing wallet-share and ensures the "Right Interaction" at the

"Right Time" delivered the "Right Way".

RESPONSIBILITIES:

. Ownership of performance test tasks and deliverables well as

responsible for a team of 3 performance testers.

. Interact with customers for understanding the system, test objectives,

questionnaire, test scenarios, SLAs, production metrics and engagement

time lines.

. Attend monthly stakeholder and customer meetings and discuss about the

current and future performance test engagements.

. Used HP Quality Center 9.2 for Requirements management, Defect

tracking and Test Management.

. Good understanding of Systems from functional, technical and business

standpoint.

. Writing Test Plans ensuring proper coverage of areas of application

risks and tasks

. Conduct All Hands meetings with the customers and support groups for

any issues.

. Daily status reporting to the PM, Business Owner, IT Owner and all

concerned parties.

. Send Performance test questionnaire document to the application team

and conduct test questionnaire document review meeting.

. Create performance test plan and review it with the application team.

. Create Vuser Scripts for all identified workflows and incorporate

proper error handling using standard Vugen functions and C functions.

. Expertise in correlation and parameterization in Vugen Scripts.

. Validating Vuser Scripts with the application SMEs and obtaining the

Sign-Off on the same.

. Scheduling of tests and trouble shooting of controller or generator

issues.

. In some cases, work on Proof of concept whether an application can be

testing using LoadRunner.

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, Load Runner 11.0, Performance Center 11.0,

CA Willy Introscope 8.2, HTML, XML, MS-Office, Windows XP/2000/NT, Java,

Tomcat Application Server, Oracle 10.

IT Info Group, India

August 2007 - June 2011

Senior Performance Analyst

Project Description:

IT Info Group provides a web-based application for various mortgage modules

offered by them. The application was an enhancement of an existing

application which provides IT Info Group customers to apply for the loan

and check the status, while the employees could accept the mortgage

applications, process the loans etc. The customers can also logon to their

accounts via Internet to check the balance, make the payment or refinance

the loan.

. Created Scripts for the Application using Load Runner9.0 Parameterized

the scripts and enhanced those scripts according to the requirement

. Used Performance monitor and LoadRunner graphs to analyze the results.

. Created Scenarios and Ran Various Tests (Shake out, Baseline, Peak

Hour, Duration, Breaking point, Fail Over/Fall Back) in Performance

Center 9.0.

. The Average Response time, TPS, Throughput, were analyzed for each

Test.

. Identified the severity of the bugs according to the priority and

reported to developers.

. Interacted with developers to solve Performance issues.

. Communicated regularly with the Developers as well as the Business

Analysts to resolve any open issues.

. Used HP Quality Center 9.2 for all test documentation and report/track

all issues and defects.

. Worked individually, as well as in team environment, to achieve

project quality goals.

. Worked with various teams to troubleshooting problems and duplicate

issues.

. Analyzed the CPU, Memory, Backend Matrix using CA Wily Introscope.

. Coordinating (near shore & Offshore) team members, giving suggestion

on their concern works.

. Involved in reviewing Business Requirement Documents, Technical

Specification.

. Analyzed the system requirements and wrote test cases, test plan, test

scripts, scenarios for testing the application.

. Involved in Regression Tests for every new build.

Environment: Windows NT, XML, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, .Net, Load Runner 9.0,

Quality Center 9.2

Client: Standard Chartered Bank, India Duration:

July'04 - May' 07

Performance Tester

Project Description:

Standard Chartered offers various online products to its customers like

Checking and Savings accounts, life insurance, property and casualty

insurance, mutual funds, annuities products, mortgage and access to their

account and policy information, as well as, other content.

Responsibilities:

> Analyzed the Business and System Requirements.

> Developed Test Strategy to ensure the Quality of the application.

> Extensively used Test Director for defect tracking and reporting.

> Created various Web Scripts for the Application using LoadRunner

7.5/7.6.

> Enhanced and modified the scripts according to the test case

scenarios.

> Used Test Director to invoke the scripts and initially performed the

baseline testing and organized all the scripts systematically and

generated reports.

> Used Controller to Perform Load Test and Stress Test.

> The Average Response time, TPS, Throughput, Web Page Breakdown graphs

were analyzed for each scenario.

> Interacted with developers for analysis of the application.

Environment: Java, Oracle, Load Runner 7.5, Test Director

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