Senior QA Automation Engineer Resume

Title
Senior QA Automation Engineer

Primary Skills
Automation Testing using Tools like Silk Test,Silk Performer,QuickTestPro & Microsoft Visual Team Test edition

Location
US-IL-Chicago

Posted
Sep-28-09

OBJECTIVE
Seeking a position in the field of quality assurance

SUMMARY
• 10+ years of experience in quality assurance and Automation testing with strong working knowledge in testing tools such as Borland Silk Performer, Borland Silk Test, Microsoft Visual Load Test, QTP, Clear Quest and Visual Studio Team System defect tracking tool.
• BS -- Computer Science from Coimbatore Institute of Technology, India
• Superior knowledge in result correlation, Software Performance Analysis and Optimization
• Expertise in Testing at all stages : unit, integration, system, functional, load/longevity, Scalability/performance, boundary, compatibility, cross-platform / cross-browser, acceptance and usability
• Expertise in documentation including preparation of Test Plan, Test Specification and Test Procedure, Test matrices, Test Data.
• Segue Certified Silk Performer Engineer from Segue Inc, USA.
• Excellent communications skills. Trained peers on testing methodologies and new techniques

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Automation Engineer
CorpTAX LLC (Previously Deloitte and Touche Tax technologies)
February 2004 -- August 2009
• Lead automation tester for corporate tax software.
• Developed performance scripts in Silk Performer to test various business processes
• Developed functional and regression Silk Test scripts for Java and .NET/C# versions of product
• Created Proof of Concept Automation scripts using QuickTestPro.
• Manage and coordinate offshore functional test effort for E-Filing product
• Developed scripts to test scalability, optimization analysis and Hardware sizing.
• Analyze ASH and AWR logs from oracle database.
• SQL server trace analysis to find query optimization opportunities and deadlock errors
• Monitor server during Load testing to report call volume, mean, minimum, and maximum response time of all the method calls to server components using Silk Performer Server Analysis Module.
• Implemented a Silk Test QA automation test suite including the creation of a completely data-driven test harness for a corporate tax analysis and reporting application.
• Certified Product on various DB Patches / DB Releases and operating system combinations
• Involved in Memory Leakage testing of COM+ Components on Application Server
• Performed Load Testing with Microsoft Visual Studio Load Test tool against CORPTAX .NET application using the Rig setup. Published the Load Test results using an email plug-in.
• Analyzed Load Test results and presented results through VSTS Custom Reporting tool.

Senior Automation Test Consultant
Intellisys Technology LLC
Sept 2000 -- February 2004
• Provide QA consulting services to major clients.
• Specialize in Silk Test, Silk Performer, Radview's Web-Load
• Major Clients ?
o Deloitte and Touche Tax Technologies (as a consultant) (July 2003 -- January 2004)
Silk test to perform functional testing of corporate tax software
Silk performer for performance testing
o Northwestern University IL (December 2002 -- March 2003)
Stress testing for web based Time and Attendance reporting system using Silk Performer.
o MERCK (Nov 2002 -- December 2002)
Performance testing for web-based HR self-service and Corporate Intranet using Silk Performer
o Yahoo CA (August 2002 -- October 2002)
Performance & Scalability Testing for Yahoo Portal for BEST BUY using TIBCO's portal builder application
Statistical analysis to correlate data and system response times for a particular user type. Generate reports to establish clients' compliance to service level agreements.
o Exodus (Month of October 2002)
Perform IDAR Installation, Configuration and tuning. Installed, Configured and tuned LDAP for production environment for BEST BUY.
o State farm Insurance (May 2002 -- August 2002)
Performance testing on internal asset management tool
o Workscape (January 2002 -- April 2002)
Performance & Load Testing for Employee Portal that combines HR self-service,
Monitored a collection of Web Servers, Application Server and Database Server to locate bottlenecks on the server using Server analysis module
o Kmart (September 2001 -- December 2001)
Performance testing on “EDIFY” a web-based HR self service product that interfaces with People Soft HRM.
Use Server Analysis Module to collect statistics from Web-logic server through SNMP and REXEC
o ADM, Decatur (Month of August 2001)
Involved in Test Planning and Design, Performance testing of Workscape's HR self service product using silk performer
o General Dynamics Connecticut (July 2001 -- August 2001)
Performance and Load Testing against Employee Self Service Module and Manager Self Service Module using Silk Performer
Scripting and execution of Load Tests
Analyzed results collected through PerfMON and Server Analysis Module
o Bank one (May 2001 -- June 2001)
Led a team of 5 people to perform end-to-end testing of the Manager self service application using Web Load
o Fleet Boston (Month of April 2001)
Performance and Stress Testing using Silk Performer & Radview's WebLoad
Worked with GL, HR modules of PeopleSoft 7.5 during performance testing
o Workscape CA (January 2001 -- February 2001)
Performance Testing for Workscape's Executive Reporter
Test plans and test cases for testing PeopleSoft applications-HR, GL, AP modules

Software Engineer
BAAN INFOSYSTEMS India
November 1998 -- April 1999
• Finance and distribution modules of ERP solution
• Implementation of a custom installation for Komatsu Corporation.

EDUCATION
• BS Computer Science and Engineering Bharathiar University, India 1998

CERTIFICATIONS & TRAININGS
• Segue Certified Silk Performer Engineer from Segue Inc, USA.

Certifications
CERTIFICATIONS & TRAININGS
? Segue Certified Silk Performer Engineer from Segue Inc, USA.



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