Reni

RENI MATHEW

Email : **********@*******.***

Phone : 630-***-****

Summary:

• 7 yrs experience in the information technology industry as QA automation and performance consultant and Lead with extensive knowledge of testing methodologies, specializing in Mercury tools Quick Test Pro(QTP), LoadRunner and Mercury Quality Center/TestDirector and specialization in BMC Patrol and VISTA IM.

• Strong expertise in all phases of software testing and management, defining requirements, planning testing process, test automation & execution, analyzing and reporting results, tracking and managing defect with special focus on agile methodologies.

• Working as a Consultant for Aperture Technologies, an Emerson group company in St Louis, MO on functional testing, performance testing and automation of VISTA Infrastructure monitoring.

• Worked as a Consultant for Sapient Corporation US, for the client British Petroleum in Chicago, IL on data migration automation, integration testing automation, performance testing and implementation of Physops solution for BP which involved integration of Aspen IMOS with around 17 different applications including SAP and NextGen.

• Worked as Sr. Associate QA, L1 for Sapient Corporation, for the Clients Sony Electronics Limited and New Market International. Worked on Performance Testing and functional testing/Automation of B2B/B2C application SONY Athena, B2B application BBSC Sonex Nextgen 2.0 and as Testing coordinator and involved in coordination of testing activities of MeetingBroker application for NewMarket International.

• Worked as Associate Systems Engineer at the Client site of BMC Software in Houston, Texas. Worked on Infrastructure management/Remote monitoring tool BMC Patrol.

• Worked as software testing -consultant for DCS Infoway and developer in Deautsche Software.

Specific Expertise:

• Exclusive experience in manual and automated software testing of client-server, e-business solutions, ERP and web applications and web services.

• Extensive work experience on scripting and automation using QTP.

• Exclusive experience in data migration automation and integration automation of Aspen IMOS with SAP and NextGen.

• Extensive work experience on Performance Testing, Load Testing, Stress Testing, Soak Testing using LoadRunner and Jmeter.

• Exclusive experience on VISTA Infrastructure monitoring tool.

• Extensive work experience on GUI Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Blackbox Testing, Integration testing and I18N.

• Proficient in Mercury Interactive Tools like QTP, LoadRunner, Winrunner, TestDirector, and MQC.

• Experienced in SRS Analysis, Developing, Reviewing and Execution of Test cases, Test scripts and expected results and worked throughout the QA lifecycle.

• Experienced in coordinating with multiple vendors as an independent consultant for performance testing and coordination of testing activities from a different geography.

• Experienced in Estimation, Preparing Test Plan and details, Preparing Automation plan, Capacity planning, creating performance strategy document, generating reports.

• Experienced in the use of black box and agile methodologies and approaches.

• Efficient at defect reporting, tracking and verifying using tools like ClearQuest,Clarify CRM.

• Involved in Installation, Configuration and Testing of an e-business solutions software, BMC Patrol for internet services.

• Installation and Configuration of BMC Patrol Agent and Knowledge Modules.

• Worked on UNIX, WIN XP, WIN NT and WIN 2K platforms and On Web Servers like Netscape, Microsoft IIS servers and Apache Server.

• Involved in Testing of Financial accounting package and medical software for DCS Infoway

• Extensive work experience and business knowledge of financial trading, derivatives and futures and options.

• Dynamic IT Professional with superior problem solving and analytical skills.

• Website and software development using Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop

• Exposure to : C, C++, Lotus Notes, VB 5.0, VC++,MS Access, MS Excel, Sybase, CorelDraw 7,MS Office, Orcad , Java, JSP, HTML and VJ++

Technical Skills:

Testing tools QTP, LoadRunner, Mercury Quality Center (MQC), Test Director, Jmeter,

WinRunner, IBM Rational ClearQuest, Vantive client, Webstress tool, Clarify

CRM, WinCVS, Homer tool, vbscript

Programming language C, C++, VB 5.0,Lotus Notes.

RDBMS Sybase, MS Access 97/2000

Operating System Win XP, Win NT, Win 2k, UNIX (all flavors)

Applications Aspen IMOS, NextGen, SAP, BMC Patrol

Education:

Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Kerala, India.

Technical Certification:

Professional Diploma in Network centered computing (2 yrs) from NIIT.

Professional Experience:

Aperture Technologies, an Emerson Group Company, US, Nov 2008 – Till Date

Consultant QA – VISTA Infrastructure Monitoring

Aperture VISTA is the leading data Center planning and management system for space, power and cooling challenges. VISTA Infrastructure Monitoring is an enterprise level device monitoring, control and inventory web application that provides insight into infrastructure resources and energy efficiency with unprecedented accuracy. Key technologies behind VISTA IM is dot Net, SQL Server and BMC Appsight. It adds value to the business by allowing equipment from different vendors to be monitored in real time from a single console and thus saving time, effort, software integration and maintenance costs.

Project Name : VISTA IM

Environment : Win XP, Win 2003

Skill/Tools : VISTA IM, TRAC System, MS Excel, QTP 9.2, MQC 9.2

Client : Aperture Technologies, St Louis, MO

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead the efforts of the team in functional testing, black box testing, regression testing, device testing and automation.

• Involved in preparation of plan, functional, regression and performance testing of VISTA IM.

• Performed device testing monitored and certified devices.

• Involved in Performance testing of the application using simulators and emulators.

• Test plan preparation and creation and management of test cases for manual and automated testing and updating on a day to day basis and preparation of dash boards.

• Executing test cases, documenting test results, identifying defects and communicating to developers.

• Validating data by writing and executing SQL queries and navigating databases.

• Involved in estimation and preparation of automation plan for VISTA IM.

• Involved in tools evaluation and preparation of plan for functional and performance testing using QTP and Loadrunner.

Sapient Corporation, US, Aug 2007 – Oct 2008

Consultant Automation – BP Physops Project for British Petroleum

British Petroleum is one of the 3 largest energy companies in the world, operating in 100 countries across 6 continents. The Physical Operations project was created to identify global business processes and applications that support the operations in managing physical oil supply and trading of BP.Project objective is to design and implement a set of standard global business processes, integrating heritage supply and trading and aligning with IST business partners. It adds value by creating and deploying a best in class planning, scheduling and operations tool by integrating Java based Aspen IMOS with 17 different applications including NextGen and SAP. Key technologies behind Aspen IMOS and Physops integration project is Java J2EE,Apache Server, Weblogic Server, ODM Server, DB Server and integration layer TIBCO.

Project Name : BP Physops

Environment : Win XP

Skill/Tools : QTP 9.0, Mercury Quality Center 9.2, Aspen IMOS, NextGen, SAP, IBM, Loadrunner 8.1

Rational ClearQuest, Tortoise CVS, JMeter, GHTester , MS Excel, OpsPortal.

Client : British Petroleum, Chicago, IL

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Designed and created the data migration automation suite using QTP and was involved in Data migration, cutover and implementation of PhysOps solution for integrated oil supply and trading for BP.

• Involved in scripting and integration automation of different systems Aspen IMOS, NextGen and SAP using QTP 9.0 , vbscripting and add ons for Java and SAP.

• Involved in estimation and preparation of automation plan and framework for integration scripts.

• Leading the efforts of the team in data migration automation and loading data throughout the UAT, CutOver and GO-LIVE phases. Created tool and script execution documents and trained the team.

• Involved in Performance and Technical testing of the application.

• Involved in integration testing of Aspen IMOS, NextGen and SAP. Executed the integration scripts and involved in web services testing and troubleshooting the XML, CSL message flows between various systems GOIL and TIBCO.

• Involved in tools evaluation and preparation of plan for technical and performance testing.

• Designing and Creation of reusable automation scripts, parameterization and execution of the scripts for UAT, CutOver and GO-LIVE were done.

• Configured and executed the scripts on the various environments like integration environment, tech environment, UAT , CutOver and Production.

• Created and managed test plans and test lab in Quality center.

• Implemented an agile client delivery process, including automation testing.

• Performed parameterization and data driven testing(DDT) using excel sheets and database in QTP as well as connected to external databases.

• Validating data by writing and executing SQL queries, navigating databases using OpsPortal, data analysis and statistical modeling using Excel were performed.

• Installed and customized QTP on 13 machines, troubleshoot issues encountered and performed data migration execution simultaneously on all 13 machines and monitored them.

• Performance Testing – Load testing, stress testing and soak testing of the application using Loadrunner and JMeter was done with both screen based and integration based scenarios.

• Worked on GHTester to publish and monitor messages for integration and performance testing. Identifying and resolving issues by analyzing, modifying and republishing JMS, XML and CSL messages.

Sapient Corporation, Jan 2007 – July 2007

Sr. Associate L1 - Ecommerce Project , Athena for SONY

The Sony Athena system consists of a complex multi-tier web application with IBM Web Sphere Commerce (WCS) as the key technology behind it. It adds value to the business by upgrading the configuration, improving speed and attracting more users to the site.

Project Name : Sony Athena

Environment : Win XP

Skill/Tools : LoadRunner 8.1,Mercury Quality Center, Win CVS,QTP , MS Excel.

Client : Sony Electronics Limited, San Diego, US

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Involved in LR scripting and performance testing along with teams from IBM and SAIC creating a complete platform for performance testing.

• Worked as an independent consultant for performance testing and coordinated with multiple vendors.

• Involved in preparation of estimation, capacity matrix, testing plan and details, capacity plan and performance strategy docs and conducted assessments and data modeling using excel.

• Recording, scripting, introducing dynamic navigation, parameterization and execution of the scripts were done.

• Extensive advanced programming of LoadRunner VuGen scripts for dynamic navigation.

• Creating the Test Scenarios, executing and generating reports using MQC and LoadRunner 8.1.

• Performance Testing – Load testing, stress testing and soak testing of the application using LoadRunner.

• Worked on agile methodology for automation and performance.

• Installed, customized and administered Quality Center, LoadRunner and QTP. Troubleshoot issues encountered, evaluate and perform upgrades of the tools in the Mercury suite.

• Leveraging my experience in functional testing using QTP and building automation solutions using Quality center.

• Involved in preparation of Automation plan and framework and lead the effort to enhance and extend automation framework to products tested manually.

Sapient Corporation, Jul 2006 - Dec 2006

Associate QA ,L2 – MeetingBroker project for NewMarket International

NewMarket International is a privately held company in the hospitality industry and helps thousands of hotels manage their function space for group meetings. MeetingBroker was created to provide its customers with an automated means of communicating with Meeting planners. .Net, SQL server and Biztalk are the key technologies behind MeetingBroker. It adds value to the business by helping in online negotiations by creating RFP’s and proposals and integrating with Sales and catering system Delphi in their respective locations.

Project Name : Meeting Broker

Environment : Win XP

Skill/Tools : Resultspace, Clarify CRM, Win CVS, Loadrunner 8.1, MS Excel

Client : NewMarket International, US

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Been part of a team of 36 members as testing coordinator and involved in coordination of testing activities with the team in Delhi.

• Involved in preparation of test cases and docs and execution of the test cases.

• Involved in functional testing, freeform testing and sniff testing.

• Validated the data entered by raising SQL Queries against the database

• Involved in back-end testing using SQL queries and sub queries

• Involved in performance testing, load testing and stress testing of the application.

• Recording and tracking of defects using clarify.

Sapient Corporation, March 2006 -Jul 2006

Associate QA, L2 – Ecommerce Project, BBSC Sonex NextGen 2.0 for SONY

The NextGen platform targets to build integrated front end solutions for different areas including ecommerce, customer service, sales and marketing for Sony Electronics B2B and B2C .IBM Web Sphere Commerce (WCS) and SAP are the key technologies behind NextGen. It adds value to the business by extending the reach of relationships with reseller customers via the internet for commerce and order management capability. Increases the operational efficiency and effectiveness of customer service activities by allowing online, self-service capability for resellers to enter orders, re-orders, look up order status and delivery information. Increase sales related revenue by improving reseller self-service management.

Project Name : BBSC Sonex NextGen 2.0

Environment : Win XP

Skill/Tools : LoadRunner 8.0, Mercury Quality Center, Win CVS , MS Excel

Client : Sony Electronics Limited, San Diego, US

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Involved in Performance Testing – Load testing, stress testing and soak testing of the application using LoadRunner.

• Involved in preparation of capacity plan and performance strategy docs.

• Introduced agile methodology for the performance testing cycles.

• Recording, scripting, parameterization and execution of the scripts were done.

• Created the Test Scenarios, executed and generated the reports and created performance test reports using MQC and LoadRunner.

• Monitor resources to identify performance bottlenecks, analyze test results and report findings and metrics to the client.

• Studied application performance and maximum scalability, critical parameters such as number of users, response times, hits per seconds, number of transactions processed and throuput.

• Involved in functional testing of the application, free form testing, sniff testing, regression testing.

• Involved in reviewing the Business Requirement document and design documents.

• Involved in preparing the status reports and defect status reports.

DCS Infoway, Jan 2003 to Feb 2006

Consultant – InventoryBiz, Medibiz

Involved in development and testing of web sites and testing of financial accounting software, InventoryBiz and medical software.

Project Name : InventoryBiz, MediBiz

Environment : Win XP & Win NT

Skill/Tools : WinRunner, Test Director, LoadRunner, Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Test plan preparation and creation and management of test cases for manual and automated testing and updating on a day to day basis.

• Executing tests, documenting test results, identifying bugs and communicating to developers.

• Automating tests using Winrunner.

• Development and testing of websites.

• Defined and executed test cases and test scenarios for different types of testing like function testing, load testing, stress testing and regression testing as per the functionalities

• Set up and maintained the testing environment for multiple releases of the

software.

• Experience working on Financial Equity trading and business knowledge on derivatives and futures and options.

• Worked on large scale web based financial derivatives and securities trading portal, icicidirect.com, placing quotes and buying and selling stocks.

Mphasis India for BMC Software Houston, May 2000 to Oct 2001

Associate Systems Engineer – Ebusiness solutions, BMC Patrol

Been part of a Testing group of 20 members, to test the e-business solutions software, Patrol for Internet Services, developed by BMC Software and communicate discrepancies to developers. I was involved in testing of various components of Patrol for Internet Services like Internet Server Manager KM, I18N and Site Monitor KM and use of Jarta and STM for Site monitor as part of PFIS QA project Team during this period.

Project Name : PFIS QA

Environment : UNIX (All Flavors), Windows NT and WIN 2K.

Skills/Tools : VantiveClient, TestDirector, FTPTool, HomerTool, LoadRunner

Client : BMC Software Inc, Houston, Texas

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of BMC Patrol Agent and Knowledge modules.

• Test cases preparation, Executing tests, Documenting Test Results, Identifying discrepancies and communicating to development team by raising vantives.

• Installation and configuration of various servers like Netscape, Microsoft IIS Web Servers, apache server, POP, chat server and Imail Servers, creation of SSL Web Servers ECT.

• Creation of Test Plans and Test Cases and updating the same on a day- to-day basis using Test Director.

• Used Vantive client for reporting the bugs, writing modification requests for bugs in the product and help developers to track the problem and resolve the issues.

• Defined and executed test cases and test scenarios for different types of testing like function testing, load testing, stress testing and regression testing as per the functionalities and used Microsoft Web Application stress tool (Homer tool) and Loadrunner.

• In addition, I have gained some administrative level of experience with applications on NT 4.0 and WIN 2K Systems.

• The testing experience involved Manual and using automated tools of both Client/Server and Internet Applications in different types of Testing (Functional, Regression etc.)

• Testing was also done on I18N version of the software and thus on Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

Deautsche Software, Mar 2000 to May 2000

Trainee – LNIP

Been part of a development team of 10 members, to develop Lotus Notes internal projects. These include HR, Library and Leave up gradation projects for use among the employees of the above company.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Studying and modifying the existing software for the HR, Library and Leave up gradation respectively and add new features to it.

• Coding of the above software using Lotus Notes and tested the same.

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