Life Cycle Performance Testing

Rajitha Malka

Email: ************@*****.*** Phone: 770-***-****

Professional Summary

I have more than 14 years of experience doing performance testing with 5 of those years spent testing web and web service applications. I am familiar with every technique applicable to the identification of anomalies regarding software testing evolutions. Extensive experience with HP tools such as LoadRunner 12.53, Quality Center 9.0, Performance center 11, ALM 12.53 and Functional automation Eclipse IDE and manual testing in client/server, UNIX and Windows environment. I work effectively on my own and with a team. I enjoy challenges especially doing things others say cannot be done. I have experience interacting with cross-functional teams to achieve optimal business outcomes within mission-critical initiatives.

Experience Synopsis

Well-acquainted with complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and exposure of all stages of Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) and Defect Life Cycle

Mobile-device testing functions to assure the quality of mobile devices, like mobile phones, PDAs, etc.

Working experience in Agile methodology, V model, Waterfall model and spiral model

Integrate tester in an Agile Scrum development task responsible for verification, validation and functional and performance testing.

Expert in HP (Mercury) functional tools: Load runner, Quickest Pro, Performance Center, Quality Center.

Test applications and executed automated the test scripts using Selenium.

Bulks of applications testing experience at Coke with Web services, Web, Citrix, RTE, AJAX.

Test applications developed using Java, JavaScript, XML, VB, VBScript, C, C++, Siebel, and PeopleSoft.

Experience in monitoring application servers, web servers (WebSphere, WebLogic Apache), database servers (Oracle, DB2, MS SQL), middle ware tools (MQ series) Windows and UNIX operating systems

Create the scenario for baseline, rendezvous, load, volume and capacity tests, added performance counters database, WebSphere, SiteScope (load balancer, database, MQ series, Web Services, application services).

Extensive experience with Parasoft SOA Web Services testing and HP Service Test.

Defect reporting and Defect tracking using ALM, quality center, Bugzilla and Rational Clear Quest Tools

Selenium, Kariba, EMS, EPF (Kafka).

JMeter, Fiddler and Blaze meter.

Device testing with Android and Apple devices and with Device lab simulation.

Professional Experience

Accushield

Sr.QA Engineer

December 2021 – Present

Creating Sprint Release, Test Plan, Test Strategy and Test Scenarios documents.

Conducting performing volume testing based on the production volumes and cycles.

Responsible for creating the load scenarios and various runtime configurations for the individual scripts that are part of the load test.

Performed load tests on Load balancing environment. Created Automation scripts for functional testing and regression using Selenium (Eclipse IDE).

Design test cases and execute all types of testing (e.g., functional, integration, end-to-end) on all variety of platforms (e.g., mobile, web, portal frameworks)

Validate the post and get calls for the response for the given order ID.

Update weekly QA Report and share with the management.

Customer data validations and updates

Involved in integration and end to end testing with multiple teams to validate the functionality of the application.

Responsible for creating the load scenarios and various runtime configurations for the individual scripts that are part of the load test.

Fiserv

Senior QA Engineer

June 2021 – December 2021

SQL File ingestion testing for the batch files to update the credit data changes of the customers.

Validate the Oracle SQL DB through queries, insert, and update and delete data required for the non-prod related testing.

Deploy the code into the test environments before validating the code.

Verify the logs and exceptions through iAPI dashboard.

WinSCP for File ingestion to DEV/QA/UAT server

Good knowledge and skills in various protocols such as Web, Web Services, AJAX and Ajax true client.

Work closely with Business Owners, Architects, and Developers to do pro-active Capacity planning / Monitoring / Tuning to make sure the applications are scalable and available to the growing business needs

Macy’s Technology

December 2019 – December 2020

Sr. QA Automation Engineer

File ingestion testing for the batch files to update the credit data changes of the customers.

Created Automation scripts for functional testing and regression using Selenium (Eclipse IDE).

Validate updates in the Cassandra database for database validations.

Validate the BQ and Pub-sub for event reporting on GCP.

Verify the logs and exceptions through iAPI dashboard.

Validate the post and get calls for the response for the given order ID.

Customer data validations and updates

Pinpoint the bottlenecks present in different layers of the Application Performed manual correlation without relying on the auto Correlation or Correlation studio feature of Load runner.

RGI Data Assets

July 2019 – December 2019

Sr. QA Automation Engineer

Work closely with other members of the Development Team and Marketing to review the designs of systems, implement test plans, and test the quality of software products.

Developed, Assembled, and run test case builds.

Validate Encrypt sensitive information is completed to protect the database from corruption.

Developing test scripts with Azure DevOps and Test Complete.

Macy’s Technology

Sr.QA Automation Engineer

July 2018 – July 2019

File ingestion testing for the batch files to update the credit data changes of the customers.

Created Automation scripts for functional testing using Selenium.

Validate the DB (Mem SQL) through queries, insert, update and delete data required for the non-prod related testing.

Involved in integration and end to end testing with multiple teams to validate the functionality of the application.

FocalPointK12

Senior Performance Engineer

April 2017 - July 2018

Drill down the problematic pages in Analysis to find out where the performance degradation is has been occurring.

Analyzed all the various performance metrics involved in the test run like Web resources, CPU, Memory, Request Analysis, DB Connection Pool, and Thread Pool etc.

Pinpoint the bottlenecks present in different layers of the Application Performed manual correlation without relying on the auto Correlation or Correlation studio feature of Load runner.

Fiserv

Senior Performance Engineer

April 2016 - April 2017

Collected different performance metrics from various components of systems, analyzed performance data and presented Test reports to various audience from technical groups to Senior Management and Executives

Created Performance test completion reports.

Used diagnostic tools along with load runner to identify the issues in the application.

Autotrader.com

Sr. Performance Engineer

July 2014 – October 2015

Performed related requirements gathering from the project team and prepare a test strategy document.

Ran load or stress or endurance test based on the need.

Monitored testing through couple of monitoring tools using Dyna trace, Site scope, Keynote etc.

ADP

Senior Performance Engineer

September 2013 - June 2014

Performed load tests on Load balancing environment.

Created the load scenarios and various runtime configurations for the individual scripts that are part of the load test.

Performed load tests on Load balancing environment.

Fiserv

Senior Performance Engineer

April 2012 - September 2013

Involved in performing volume testing based on the production volumes and cycles.

Created the Load Distribution tables for various scripting modules involved.

ERICSSON

Senior QA Analyst

October 2011 – March 2012

Wrote test cases using Test Link and Quality Center

Logged defects in Bugzilla.

Used Putty to do backend data validation and also for validating log files.

Ingest the XML files into CMS and verify for distribution to Open stream.

Worked with Load Runner in analyzing WMTP applications performance for varying loads and stress conditions.

SITA

Senior Performance Engineer

June 2011 - September 2011

Created QTP scripts to validate all functionalities of the application.

Developed test cases and executed using Quality Center 10.

Executed PeopleSoft and LoadRunner prod validation scripts and verified the results.

Worked with Developers, Business analysts and Project managers to determine requirements (H/W specs, Test Cases, Test Data)

Performed performance tuning methodologies on middleware tools (WebSphere, MQ Series).

Tested data power web services traffic shaping using LoadRunner. During load test developers modified data power throttle rate and front side timeout settings.

Coca-Cola

Performance Test Lead

May 2010 - May 2011

Created web services/SOA script and executed.

Analyzed the xml output and used parameterization for web service input calls.

Created and executed PeopleSoft financial system 8.4 baseline scripts in INT, SBX and TST regions. Scripts are executed in different modules.

Interacted with cross-functional teams from offshore and onshore to discuss test results and to achieve optimal business outcomes within mission-critical initiatives.

Worked on the CM-5 Star testing to provide an understanding of the scope and methodology of system testing for the project team.

Georgia Department of Education

December 2007 - April 2010

QA /Analyst Lead Engineer

Developed Superfly (CapitalOne internal tool) tool using VC++ and executed API’s.

Used SiteScope to monitor the servers. Entered and tracked the defects using Rational ClearQuest.

Interacted various TS2 screens for data validation. Test cases were created by the assigned test analyst based on project requirements and design documents.

Added performance measurements before running the test in the controller for UNIX, Oracle, and WebSphere servers in LoadRunner controller and monitored online transaction response times.

Interacted with Mercury/HP support team in enhancing the performance testing.

Education

Bachelor of Science

Technical Skills

Operating Systems: MS-DOS 6.x, SCO UNIX, Windows 95/98/NT/2000.

Languages: Pascal, COBOL, C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL, and Java

Scripting Languages: VBScript, Java Script and Perl

Testing Tools: Test Director, Quality Center 9.0, LoadRunner 12.02, Performance Center 12.20, Mercury/HP service test 8.1, ClearQuest, and SOAPUI, Potman, JMeter, Test link 1.9, Bugzilla

RDBMS: Oracle 9.2.0.4, MS SQL Server 6.5 / 7.0 / 2000, MS-Access.

CRM: Siebel 7.5.3, PeopleSoft 8.8

GUI Tools: Developer/2000, Citrix7.1, Visual Basic 4.0/5.0/6.0 with COM/DCOM.

Web Technologies: ASP 2.0/3.0, HTML, DHTML, Web sphere4.06 and XML

Reporting Tools: Crystal Reports7.0/8.0, MS Data Reports, and Oracle Reports 2.5/6i.

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