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CAREER SUMMARY:

Around 8+ years of experience in the IT Industry & 6+ years of testing experience with Masters degree in Computer Science and diversified experience in Automated, Manual, Functional, Performance testing of Web and Client/Server applications on UNIX/Windows environment to secure a position of Software Test Engineer/ Quality Assurance Tester.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

6+ years of experience in developing Performance Test Plans and Performance test Scenarios using requirements and design documents while specifying Test Approach, Strategy, Scope, Architecture, Environment, Roles and Responsibilities.

Experienced in working across entire business team to collect non-functional requirements, formulate scalable test strategies and enforce performance testing.

Experienced in creating, coordinating and managing the Performance Test Environment (PTE) with necessary testing tools and ensure cross leveraging of the PTE across the applications needs.

Experienced in working with multiple businesses and projects to drive performance engineering best practices and enhance performance quality of the products – and ensure cross-proliferation of the best practices and lessons learnt .

Work with the IT & Operations team to design, build and troubleshoot performance test environments.

Experienced in creating script with Vugen of Load Runner & Bad boy for JMeter.

Experienced in Back end, Performance, Load, Stress, and User Acceptance Testing.

Analyze test results and summarize overall performance. Designs, develops and implement test data management strategy for performance testing.

Experienced in analyzing functional requirement specifications and wrote detailed Test Set Design, Test plans, and Test Cases.

Experienced in using automation tools such as, HP LoadRunner, HP Performance center, HP Quality Center, ALM and Jmeter.

Experienced in working with Infrastructure Impact Analysis team to identify configuration issues and bottlenecks using LoadRunner.

Experienced in tuning application to improve response times, queues and overall performance using LoadRunner.

Experienced in developing Load test scenarios using LoadRunner to load the server with virtual user requests and tests the performance under load/stress conditions.

Expert in Windows Typeperf & Perfmon Utility to create custom config file and collect windows resources statistics remotely and generate report with PAL.

Experienced in using Vmstat, Sar, Top as Utility & System Monitor in UNIX System to measure Unix system Performance under load.

Experienced in HP Diagnostics, Site Scope, & Wily interscope and Microsoft SCOM to monitor the whole infrastructure.

Experienced in Load testing Scenario creation and execution, Measured Throughput, Hits per second, Response time, and Transaction time using HP LoadRunner Jmeter and Performance center.

Experienced in using utilities RDP, Putty, Process Explorer, File Mon, Process Mon, PoolMon, Fiddler, Confluence Wiki, Perforce, Ethereal, and Firebug.

Experienced in identifying Memory Leak issue, Java Heap, Garbage collection issues.

Experienced in Database Testing using SQL queries on RDBMS databases like SQL Server and Oracle.

Experienced in creating Triggers, Joins, Stored Procedures, DML, DDL, write Complex SQL Queries for Back-end testing.

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

Experienced in testing LDAP,FTP, SOAP using Jmeter.

Experienced in using Performance Center to execute step, load and stress tests to measure and report response times, server resource utilization to the Infrastructure team.

Strongly experienced in using ALM/Quality Center for Requirement Management, Test Planning, Test Case development, Test Case execution and Defect Tracking.

Extensively experienced to create and execute Windows Batch File & Unix Shell Script.

Expert scheduling job in both Windows (through Task Scheduler) & Unix System (through Cron Tab).

Experienced in using Virtualization Technology like Microsoft Hyper V, Oracle Virtual Box and VMware Workstation.

Participates in technical architecture and design discussions to determine performance testing approach and assures the quality of and adherence to system/software product standards processes and procedures

Expertise in QA methodology and all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as well as Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).

Work with multiple stakeholders from product development, architecture, dev-ops & QA teams to identify performance requirements & orchestrate validation of these requirements.

Experienced on Installation, configure and support of Windows & Linux O/S & Application software.

Self-starter with the ability to supervise and allocate tasks and responsibilities, define and establish procedures and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Good understanding of Technical Trends, Architectures and highly motivated to know more about current events, new software and products within the market.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems

UNIX, LINUX, Sun Solaris v8/9/10, IBM AIX v6.1/7.1, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012, MS-DOS

Testing tools

LoadRunner, Jmeter, HP ALM, HP Quality Center, HP Performance Center, Microsoft Visual Studio Load Test Tools, QTP

Monitoring Tools

HP Sitescope, Hp Diagnostics, MS SCOM, CA Wily, System Monitor, Process Explorer, Perfmon,Wireshark, Jconsole, JVisualVM, Typeperf.

Programming Languages

C, C++, Java, JavaScript, VB, VB Script, HTML, SQL, PL/SQL, Shell Scripts, MS Power Shell

Database

Oracle 9i/10g/11i, MS SQL Server 2005/2008/2012, MS Access

Web Server

MS IIS, Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere

Other Tools

MS PAL, MS LogParser, Web LogExperts, Toad

Reporting Tools

MS Access, Excel, MS SQL Server Reporting Services, Crystal reports

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

MetLife, New York, NY

Performance Engineer

Oct, 13 – Till Date

Responsibilities:

Create Performance Test Scenarios from Use cases and Requirements.

Create Test Scripts by using Vugen & Badboy.

Create & execute Test cases and interacted with various departments to formulate and report tests results.

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

Create Traceability matrix and for viewing the effects cause by a requirement change and measuring the task completion progress across different functionalities using ALM.

Use ALM to plan tests, manage test assets, create and run manual and external scripts to check GUI and functional features.

Use ALM to track bugs and report bugs to the developers.

Perform Database integrity tests to create db scripts with SQL commands to extract the actual results.

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

Create Test Script for Performance testing using LoadRunner.

Create scenarios using Ramp Up and Ramp Down in LoadRunner.

Use LoadRunner to check the source of Performance delay, Network or client delays, CPU performance, and Input and output delays.

Perform endurance and competence characteristics testing with Jmeter.

Use Jmeter for stress testing of the application to improve its efficiency and scalability, measure, hits per second and response time.

Parameterize scripts to handle user input data and correlate scripts to process server return data via LoadRunner.

Develop Base line scripts for Performance testing of the application using LoadRunner.

Involve in troubleshooting Errors by enhancing the Vuser scripts to handle errors with LoadRunner.

Create Performance Frameworks using LoadRunner.

HP Diagnostics & Hp Sitescope to integrate with LR to monitor more details of the application in different layers to find out root cause of any bottlenecks

Update Daily and Weekly Status reports to the Team Lead, Test Groups and Test Managers to co-ordinate test cycles.

Involve in maintaining Share point portal server with MS Office, Web applications and MS Access, attending reviews and ensuring all documentation.

Participate in daily status calls to communicate with the team members and discuss about known issues, defects and schedule.

Environment: ALM, MS SQL Server, VB Script, J2EE, JAVA, XML, HTML, MS-office, Windows, Unix, Oracle, Load Runner, Wire shark, Performance Center, Jmeter, VB.NET, Hp Diagnostics, Hp Sitescope, Toad.

CapitalOne, Richmond, VA

Performance Tester

Jun, 11 – Sep, 13

Responsibilities:

Involved in Creating Performance Test Plan and Test Cases based on Requirements.

Analyzed and identified problems with the existing QA process and continuously made the process improvements to improve the test coverage and reduce the test cycles.

Involved in developing test strategy, test plans, test scripts, test summary and exit reports.

Performed black box, regression, functional, performance, load, security, network, high availability, failover and other testing methods.

Planned & executed System, Integration, End To End(ETE) and UTA Testing.

Creating Performance test script with Vugen.

Worked closely with the Release Management team for all the upcoming releases.

Worked actively in Agile methodology, and contributed in regular sprints.

Used HP Quality Center for issue management and tracking for all the related projects.

Developed and documented requirements traceability matrix, defect reporting and tracking and analyzed the entire system based on the design specifications using Quality Center.

Used SQL queries extensively for Back end testing.

Provided automation, load and endurance test tool maintenance and support to QA groups; tested GUI and used APIs to develop test sequences.

Developed Load Testing scenarios and Load Carrying out various type of performance testing like Benchmarking, scalability testing, load testing and soaks testing.

Worked on Web Interfaces functionality and Load Testing them.

Performed Load Testing by creating Virtual Users, using VuGen using LoadRunner.

Used LoadRunner to do performance testing to measure different metrics.

Recorded and enhanced Vuser Scripts by inserting Transaction points, Rendezvous points into Vuser Script in LoadRunner.

Analyzed the results using Online Monitors and graphs to identify bottlenecks in the server resources using LoadRunner, Hp Diagnostics & Sitescope.

Performed testing extensively for integration and unit testing of standalone and distributed GUI-based applications.

Documented all problems / issues to be resolved and reported progress on problem resolution to QA Lead.

Involved in regular discussions with developers regarding defects.

Mentored, guided and provided hands-on training sessions to team members, new hires and teams across organization.

Environment: Quality Center, LoadRunner, Windows, MS SQL Server, Oracle, J2EE, HTML, SQL, Java Script, UNIX, Hp Diagnostics, Hp Sitescope.

Oracle Corporation, Oracle Way, Reston, VA

Performance Tester

Jan, 09 – May, 11

Responsibilities:

Involved and revised Automated Performance test scripts and test documentation for a variety of applications, working with other performance engineers, business analysts, product managers and developers to ensure adequate coverage for upcoming production releases.

Review & analyze the Business Requirements and Functional Specifications.

Prepared Test cases based on Use case scenarios.

Involved in Functional testing and executing test cases manually.

Creating performance test script with Vugen.

Involved in different phases of testing such as System Integration, Negative testing, End-to-End, Back end, Performance, Load and Stress testing.

Responsible for design of the Schema and finalization of naming and coding standards.

Prepared Test Cases and Test Plan for the different modules of the application using Quality Center.

Managed defect detection, defect reporting and tracking using Quality Center.

Executed test cases and reported the bugs using Quality Center.

Performed Backend database testing using SQL Quires.

Reported performance issues to the development team and worked with them to re-test the issues and tested applications both in QA and Production environment.

Installed various LoadRunner components like Load Generator, Agent, Controller and Analysis components.

Used LoadRunner Analysis to create graphs and reports, and evaluated the performance.

Participated in test reviews and defect report meetings periodically.

Updated the Test scenarios according to new business rules and specifications.

Maintained the function library scripts to cover all the new functionality for each release.

Email notifications are tested thoroughly.

Environment: Quality Center, LoadRunner, UNIX, Windows, XML, VB Script, J2EE, HTML, SQL, Java Script, Toad, MS SQL Server, Hp Diagnostics, Hp Sitescope.

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