C Patel

Email: ac7bk5@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 331-***-****

Executive Summary:

QA testing professional with over 4.6 years of experience, with a solid educational background consisting Bachelors in Computer Science and Postgraduation in Computer Applications also expertised in all phase of the software lifecycle, Developing test cases, Automation test scrips, Perfomance testing, WebServices testing and have a great understanding and functional knowledge in Healthcare, Financial Services and Telecom domains.

Expertise

Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and the importance of QA in Development / Enhancement and Maintenance of software applications.

Manual and Automated Testing in testing methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, Waterfall etc.

Performance, Load and Stress Testing with HP LoadRunner.

Software Testing Lifecycle (STLC).

Test Cases for Functional and Regression testing.

Structured Query Language (SQL), Joins, PL/SQL stored procedures & Triggers.

Hands on Experience

Handling custom objects, exception handling/Recovery Scenarios in QTP and familiar with String functions, Date functions, Math functions and other related QTP functions.

Maintaining Test data in Excel files and Importing Excel files from Resources module in Quality center to QTP data table and read the values based on the functional requirement.

VUGen scripts in Load Runner for Performance, Load and Stress Testing using Controller in Load Runner and generated reports using the Analysis tool in Load Runner.

Experience in Web services testing using standards like XML, WSDL, SOAPUI and Restful.

Hands-on experience in Black Box Testing, White box testing, Unit Testing, User acceptance testing, Functional, Integration, System, Usability, Regression, Performance, Security and Stress Testing.

Very good working experience in UNIX.

Tested performance of Web Services, providing required input data to request XML and get the required data from response XML and use the response data from another request XML.

Worked on Protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, TCP/IP, FTP, SOAP, DNS and knowledge on web methods and Web services.

Good Analytical, Interpersonal and communication skills. Result oriented, committed and hard working with a quest to learn new technologies and undertake challenging tasks.

Education:

Post Graduate in Computer Application [PGDCA] Jun 2010 – Apr 2011

Bachelor’s in Computer Science [B.Sc Computer Science] Jun 2006 – Apr 2009

Certificates and Training:

HTML5 Introduction – Issued by W3Cx (World Wide Web Consortium), 2015.

Manual and Automation Testing with different Tools – 2015.

Introduction to HTML, CSS and JavaScript Web Development – Issued by Microsoft Corporation, 2016.

HTML5 Coding Essentials and Best Practices – Issued by W3Cx (World Wide Web Consortium), 2016.

Technical Skills:

Operating Systems

Windows 95/98/00/XP, MS-DOS and UNIX (HP-UX, Sun Solaris)

Testing Tools

Quick Test Professional (QTP/UFT), Load Runner, Quality Center, Toad Data Point, Jira

Databases

Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access, MySQL, RDBMS

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite, Eclipse, NetBeans, Notepad++

App/Web Servers

HTML, XML, SoapUI, Restful Webservices

Languages Known

C, C++, Java, J2EE, Visual Basic (VB), SQL, HTML5, XML, Java Script, JSP, JSON, CSS, CSS3, VB Script, VB.net

Professional Experience

Role: Test Analyst II (Client : Albany Medical Center [AMC]) Albany, NY Jul 2017 – Present

Hands-on in Performance, Load and Stress testing using HPE Load Runner 12.53, 12.55, patch 12.56, 12.60 with all it’s 3 components – VUGen, Controller, Analysis.

Plan, design, execute and evaluate performance test of applications and services to ensure optimal application performance.

Responsible for generating the key Virtual User scripts using LR VUGen utility for single/multiple - Web (HTP/HTML) and Citrix protocols.

Made many enhancements to the recorded scripts by correlating, parameterizing, bitmap synchronization, transactions, comments during and after recording and any other script enhancements as and when needed.

Working on Rendezvous points in Vuser scripts to emulate heavy user load on the server and monitor the load handled by server.

Created quantifiable load with test-scenarios for various applications (both standalone and integration) using LoadRunner’s Controller.

Responsible for running the LoadRunner Scenarios for the Vuser using Controller and monitoring the server response time, throughput, Hits/sec, Trans/sec, Transaction Response under load, Web server monitors, App server monitors.

Monitoring Performance(Perfmon) of both application and web server under load of VUsers.

Generating reports and graphs using LR’s third component Analysis and analyze results for different load of VUsers.

Involve in different inhouse Healthcare applications like AllScripts PM, Soarian Clinicals, Soarian Financials and AMC Web.

Checking McAfee DAT file on production and testing servers for virus scan on daily basis.

Installing updates on server as a part of monthly maintenance of testing server.

Also checking Package functionality created by different group before it is release in production.

Performing various testing and analysis tasks on the hardware, software and networking systems.

Develop, implement and maintain test plans and procedures for system integration.

Perform usability testing for overall system performance, reliability, scalability and security.

Maintaining record of test progress and communicate test results with management team.

Attending sprint plan meetings every week to review the user stories.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP 11.5, HP Load Runner 12.5, MS Office, VB Script, Citrix.

Role: Quality Assurance Tester (Client : Glasses2Home) UK Aug 2015 – Jan 2017

Write Test cases, create scripts and execute the test cases and documentation relating to the Functional and Performance testing based on the user stories.

Plan, design, execute and evaluate performance tests of web and services to ensure optimal application performance.

Worked on HP LoadRunner to develop Performance scripts using VUGen, create and execute test scenarios in Controller, and analyze results using Analysis component of LoadRunner.

Actively involved in Functional Testing in Agile methodology.

Detected Defects, communicated to the developers using Bug Reporting Tool and Tracking the Defects using Quality Center.

Utilizing objects in QTP, maintaining Test data in Excel files and Importing Excel files from resources module in Quality center to QTP data table and read the values based on the functional requirement.

Developed reusable functional libraries, created custom objects, exception handling/Recovery Scenarios in QTP and used String Function, Date Function, Math Function etc in QTP.

Tested Web Services performance using XML and WSDL files for SoapUI providing request XML and received the response XML.

Prepared test scripts using Quick Test Professional with checkpoints using regular expressions for handling windows with different names.

Reported the bugs to the developers using Quality Center.

Involved in Regression testing, month-to-month maintenance of the website.

Environment: Quality Center 9, QTP 11.5, HP Load Runner 12.5, MS Office, Unix, SoapUI, Web Services, XML, VB Script.

Role: QA Manual Tester (Client: APTEGRA Solutions) July 2011 – Aug 2013

Involved in Software Testing Lifecycle (STLC).

Created Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Test Cases based on user stories using Mercury Quality Center and Test Data from Functional Specification Document created by BA for Financial Services.

Worked on Account activity module of Banking Domain.

Actively involved in functional, unit and integration testing in Agile methodology.

Also used waterfall methodology for some part of project.

Attending sprint plan meetings every two to four weeks to review the user stories.

Detected Defects, communicated to the developers using Bug Reporting Tool and Tracking the Defects using Quality Center.

Extensively used Quality Center for test planning, bug tracking and reporting.

Worked with VB scripting and Descriptive programming by using UFT QuickTestProfessional (QTP).

Tested Webservices using testing standards like validating XML, WSDL and SoapUI.

Prepared Test Cases for GUI application. Developed test scripts for Data driven testing using parameterization in QTP by using Excel sheet for test data and Database Queries based on the functionality.

Converted manual test scripts to automated test scripts in QTP, enhanced the scripts by adding user-defined functions. Automated test scenarios for GUI, Functionality, Database, Boundary, Security and Regression Testing using Quick Test Professional.

Created different functions to make the scripts reusable in Quick Test Professional (QTP/UFT).

Participated in RTM, Walkthroughs and defect report meetings periodically.

Reported the bugs, Emailed notifications to the developers using the Quality Center.

Wrote SQL Queries, Inner and Outer Joins using Toad Data Point tool to connect with the database and retrieve the data.

Help the developer in writing various JAVA classes which involves variables, methods, constructors, interfaces, etc using J2EE concept in Eclipse.

Also include the JAR files in the project, deployed and run to check and resolve Errors.

Environment: Quality Center 9, QTP 11.5, Toad Data Point 3.4, MS Office, Unix, Oracle, Web Services, SoapUI, XML, Java, J2EE, VB Script.

References will be provided upon request.

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