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Testing Engineer

Location:
Hollis, NY
Posted:
April 28, 2013

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Resume:

Sohel Ahmed

Address: **** ***** ******, ****** *******, NY 11428

E mail: *********@*****.*** Cell: 917-***-****

US CITIZEN

OBJECTIVE:

To obtain a challenging position as a Performance Test Engineer/Analyst, who is creative in identifying

problems, expert in analyzing & Performance Test and effective in implementing solution that meets the

current and future expectations of business?

Professional Summary:

6+ years of professional experience as a Performance Engineer with extensive experience in performing

Software Quality Assurance and Software testing.

Extensively experienced in testing of Banking, Financial Services, Logistics, Health Care and

Telecommunication business domain applications.

Extensively experienced in Software testing including creation of Test scripts / cases, execution of Tests,

Defect tracking and Reporting by working with development team to ensure QA testing requirements are

appropriately identified and included in the requirements.

Experienced in Software testing automation including creation of Test scripts / cases, Test data

designing, development of Automation framework, Regression runs and scripts maintenance and updating

the automation suites for new functionality.

Experienced with full Project/QA Life cycle (SDLC) from Requirement analysis to User acceptance

Testing (UAT).

Expertise in SQA practice and QA methodologies, Test strategy, Software Development Life Cycle

(SDLC) and Defect life cycle.

Good Exposure in implementing Agile/Scrum and Waterfall Methodologies in Testing

Project.

● Experienced in working both Front end and Back end testing like GUI testing, Functional testing,

System testing, Integration testing, User Acceptance testing (UAT), Regression testing,

Smoke testing, Sanity testing, Database testing and Automated testing using both Manual

Testing and Automation Tool Load Runner, QTP

● Experienced in creating Virtual User Scripts, defined User Behavior, ran Load Test

Scenario, monitored the Performance and Analyzed Result using Load Runner.

Experienced in performance measurements for UNIX, Oracle, Web Logic, Web sphere

servers in Load Runner controller and monitored online Transaction response times, Web

hits, TCP IP Connections, Throughput, CPU, Memory, Various Http requests etc.

Experienced in Performance testing using Jmeter.

Experienced in using Jmeter for Database Backend Testing with JDBC & ODBC Connection.

Experienced in creating of load test scenarios for various load levels in Load Runner; executed

Load test, performance test and stress test using Load Runner; generated and analyzed the

reports post the performance test execution.

Experienced in identifying and isolating performance bottlenecks, defects and problems and

providing recommendations / assistance to rectify issues.

Experienced in HP Site Scope and MS SCOM to monitor UAT and Production Infrastructure &

CA Wily Introscope to monitor JAVA applications when performing load testing.

Experienced in using RDP, Putty, SQL Developer, Process explorer, File Mon, Process Mon,

Pool Mon and Fiddler.

Experienced in different Virtualization Technology like Cloud Computing, Microsoft Hyper V,

Oracle Virtual box and VMware Workstation.

Experienced in preparing Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure Requirements

coverage using HP Quality center/Test Director.

Used Quality Center and Test Director for Defect Tracking and Reporting. Involved in Defect

Management/Problem Solving; attended bug triage meetings.

Experienced in testing RDBMS database applications and proficient in writing SQL queries for backend

testing.

Knowledge in generating VBScripts to automate the tests using QTP and used Descriptive programming

to reduce time maintaining object repositories.

Knowledge of developing Data Driven Framework, Keyword Driven Framework and Hybrid

Framework using VB Script in QTP.

Experienced in working in teams as well as solo responsibility projects.

Expertise in managing test beds and setting up test environment to perform QA activities.

Excellent communication skills enabling effective interaction with Business Managers, QA Managers,

Testing Team and Developers.

Technical Skills:

Testing Tools Load Runner 9.50 11.51, Performance Center, Jmeter, Quality center and Quick

Test Pro,

Operating Systems Windows, UNIX and MS DOS

Databases MS Access, Oracle, SQL Server

Front End GUI Visual Basic, Developer, Power Builder, Power Point, MS Project

Web Technologies JDBC, EJB, MTS, JSP, Web Logic, Apache HTTP,Web Sphere, IIS and JWS

Bug Reporting Tools Test Director and Quality Center

Professional Experience:

Department of Energy, Washington, DC

Nov, 2011 – April, 2013

Performance Engineer

Job responsibilities:

Analyzed Functional Requirements and Business Requirements documents and developed effective Test

plans.

Created Test cases; interacted with various departments to formulate and report tests results.

Created Test Scenarios from use cases and requirements to perform Verification and Validation Testing.

Performed GUI, Smoke, Functional, Regression, System, User Acceptance, Performance Load and

Stress testing.

Created Traceability matrix and for viewing the effects caused by a requirement change and measuring the

task completion progress across different functionalities using Quality Center.

Used Quality Center to plan tests, manage test assets, create and run manual and external scripts to check

GUI and functional features.

Used Quality Center to track bugs and report bugs to the developers.

Performed Database integrity tests to create DB scripts with SQL commands to extract the actual results.

Worked with Users and Business Analysts to define and design Load test scenarios and Test data.

Knowledge of subject matter expert (SME) level testing .

Created Test Script for Performance testing using Load Runner.

Created scenarios using Ramp Up and Ramp Down in Load Runner.

Created Virtual User Scripts, defined User Behavior, ran Load Test Scenario, monitored the

Performance, and analyzed Results using Load Runner.

Used Load Runner 9.50 for performance and stress testing of the application to improve its efficiency

and scalability, measured hits per second and response time.

Performed Sanity tests on the daily build. Integrated build with other releases/builds.

Used Jmeter for Database Backend Testing with JDBC & ODBC Connection.

Extensively used Monitoring Tools: Monitor the whole infrastructure under the Load using HP Site

scope. Performance Monitor, Resource Monitor, Task Manager, Process Explorer, Data Ware House

Monitor in Windows system and System Monitor and Topas in UNIX system, Jconsole to Monitor Java

based application.

Built procedures and handled multiple and frequent releases as part of testing life to visualize the Risks,

issues and proactively plan for mitigation as part of release management.

Handled End to End system testing.

Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancements and Modification Request issues.

Environment: C, XML, VB Script, HTML, SOAP, Web services, Windows, Quality Center,

MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, Load Runner,Jmeter

T Mobile, Atlanta, GA

Aug, 2009 Oct, 2011

Performance Analyst

Job responsibilities:

Involved in analyzing requirements; organized and supervised formal reviews of development

documentation like requirements and design documents and system test plans.

Involved in developing test plans, test strategy and test cases.

Responsible for identifying of problems, risk rating, problem reporting and referral to appropriate person or

team.

Performed Manual Testing, Black Box and Grey Box Testing.

Involved in performing GUI testing, Ad hoc testing, Smoke testing, Functional testing, Regression

testing, System testing, Performance testing, Load/Stress testing and Back end testing.

Involved in managing workflows, user setup, roles, project creation, schema creation, implementation

with Quality Center.

Tracked and reported the errors discovered using HP Quality Center.

Wrote SQL Queries for performing Back end testing on Oracle data bases.

Involved in Localization testing and Performance testing of web based modules; handled Load testing

using Load Runner.

Created Performance benchmark for the product and compared test results of new build with benchmark

results using Load Runner.

Monitored resources to identify Performance Bottlenecks, Analyzed test results along with development

team and database team and report the findings to the clients using Load Runner.

Used Windows Typeperf & Perfmon Utility to create custom config file and collect windows resources

statistics remotely and generate report with PAL.

Extensively used Topas Utility, Vmstat, Sar, & System Monitor in UNIX System to measure Unix system

Performance under load.

Updated Daily and Weekly Status reports to the Team Lead, Test Groups and Test Managers to co

ordinate test cycles.

Documented Summary and Closure reports for each test execution.

Participated in walkthrough, presentations & status tracking calls.

Environment: QTP, LoadRunner,TOAD, Quality Center, Java, HTML, UNIX, Oracle, SQL,

PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, Unix shell scripts, Windows, VB script, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual

Basic, Load runner,Jmeter.

American Express, Salt Lake City, UT

Jan, 2007 Jul, 2009

Test Automation Analyst

Job responsibilities:

Involved in the review of requirements specification with functional manager and technical specialists of the

application.

Involved in gathering system requirement and functional requirement from different sources such as

development team, user or vendor.

Developed Test cases and Test scripts based on the requirement documents.

Maintained test scripts for different builds and releases.

Performed various black box testing methodologies such as System Testing, Regression Testing.

Written Positive and Negative test cases.

Used Test Director for defect reporting, tracking, storing the client requirements, and managing test plans.

Wrote SQL Queries to perform Back End testing on Oracle and MySQL database.

Performed functional and regression testing using QTP: recorded scripts; enhanced tests with standard,

image, table, text and data checkpoints; parameterized tests; executed tests and analyzed the results.

Participated in designing Automation architecture using QTP as automation tool.

Developed Data Driven Tests with QTP to test the application with different data values.

Worked on concepts like Synchronization timeout and Recovery Scenario Manager in QTP.

Designed scripts using descriptive programming in QTP.

Prepared the data for initial setup and performance acceptance test.

Installed and configured Load Runner, performed stress testing of the application for various scenarios

and analyze the results to improve its efficiency and scalability.

Utilized Performance /Load testing methodologies to identify potential bottlenecks and system

performance problems.

Created Virtual User Scripts, defined User Behavior, ran Load Test Scenario, monitored the

Performance, analyzing Results using Load Runner.

Analyzed test results reports and test cases results and determined causes, and created detailed and

comprehensive defects reports.

Generated and automated various Daily status, weekly reports, and Monthly and Quarterly reports. Also

generated Defect status report, QA status reports, Risk Analysis documents, Requirements Traceability

reports, Test Execution and test results summary reports.

Environment: Windows, UNIX, Oracle, J2EE, JUnit, JBuilder, QTP, Test Director, PL/SQL,

ASP, and XML/DHTML

Education:

Bachelors in Social Science

National University, Bangladesh



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