Pavan Kumar						         PH: 91 - 9916344516

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Summary
Has over 4 years of experience in Manual, Automation and Performance testing.
Has extensive experience and expertise in performance testing and test automation
using various tools including LoadRunner, HP Performance Center, Visual Studio
2008 Team Suite, QTP and WinRunner. Possesses good communication and
interpersonal skills.

The last 2 years has been a key member of the Performance Initiative at SPAN and
worked on performance testing of about 6 projects using Load Runner and VSTS
2005/2008. Was also part of the key team that worked on setting up the testing
services for SPAN. 

Has experience in working with the customer at onsite (USA). Possess valid
Business Visa to USA.


Technical Skills
Language	C, C# , UNIX
Tools & Utilities	Performance Testing: 
	LoadRunner 9.10
	Mercury Performance Center 7.8
	Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite (Tester Edition)
	Beluga Performance Framework (Siebel Performance Testing Tools)
Automation Testing:
	Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite (Tester Edition) 
	HP QuickTest Pro
	Win Runner
Bug Tracking Tools: 
	Bug Tracker 
	Bugzilla
	Quality Center
	Microsoft Team Foundation Server
Manual Testing	Test Case Design – System/Integration/Unit
Test Management	Test Strategizing, Test Planning, Test Reporting with relevant
metrics





Education
Bachelor of Engineering in the year 2004

Currently working in SPAN InfoTech (I) Pvt Ltd from September 2004

PROJECTS

Client: Performance testing for 6 different applications developed at SPAN

    Title               SPAN Performance Test Center 
    Period	     10 months
    Role	               Senior Test engineer – Responsible for performance
Testing
    Tools	     LoadRunner and VSTS -2008

Performance testing of – 6 products that were developed by SPAN 

Key Challenges: 

	Involved in Setting up the test rig
	Involved in creating scripts using C# and VB script 
	Involved in application server configuration like Heap Memory,
Threads/Processes, Connection pool, etc for a Java Application and deploying the
application to the test rig
	Involved in creating the load test scenario, Work Load Modeling and
Configuring the run time settings
	Involved in Running the Load Test scenarios and analyzing the data to
arrive at key bottlenecks and provide a remediation
	Involved in Performance summary report preparation with clear
indication of possible performance bottleneck and other performance related
information like Response Time, Throughput, CPU and Memory Utilization of App and
DB severs, application specific system counter information, etc.


Client: Football Fanatics, USA

    Title               Football Fanatics (www.footballfanatics.com)
    Period	    6 months
    Role	              Senior Test engineer – Responsible for performance and
manual Testing
    Tools	     LoadRunner and VSTS -2008

Was involved in the performance and manual testing.

Worked on administrator module and web front module.

This application is based on football fanatics (FF) is an E-commerce store front
(ESF) specializing in sports merchandising. FF provides affiliate program under
which FF provides a store front for their affiliates. FF store front encapsulates
various look and feels for its affiliates under one engine. This provides FF
affiliates to keep their branding. FF store front can be divided into two major
functional categories Administrator Module: This addresses all the need for
managing the items for the web front. Web Front Module: This addresses all the
need to sell the items.

Key Challenges: 

	Conducted the performance testing for 2000 Vusers.

	Involved in identifying the test scenarios through web log analysis and
Test modeling for performance testing.
	 Involved in preparing concise test scripts for performance testing of
the application. Reporting and analyzing the test results to the closure.

Main contribution towards the project were learning the visual studio 2005 team
suite and preparing the scripts in C#.


Client: Terminix, USA

    Title               LANSA-Mission System
    Role	              Senior Test engineer – Manual Testing

    
 Was involved in Testing of invoice and Billing domain.

Worked on Contact Management, Invoice, and Billing and Payment module.

The technologies used in the project were AS400, DB2, and LANSA.

This Application is based on mission system. It is an AS/400, DB2 based business
application. Primarily an invoicing system, it is developed at Terminix using
LANSA 4GL. The system is designed to centrally manage branch, division and region
level information. It allows the branches to record and plan the Day-to-Day
operations, Termite and Pest Services and tracking all Leads and Sales Calls into
their Completion and Payment Recoveries. This project pertains to enable
multilingual and multicurrency support. It is proposed to have the tasks broken
to phases to enable smooth transition of Mission system. The first phase (1A)
called multilingual Text support involves modifying the functions to display
texts and messages in languages other than English. The next phase called 1B
called multi currency support involves Modification of the functions to enable
multi-currency support. The next phase 1C will enable Mission to provide
multilingual data support.

Key Challenges: 

	Multilingual and multi currency conversion testing for both US and
Mexico data.


	Involved in testing of Multilingual Conversion at client's place for a
period of 3 months.
	 Involved in testing of multi currency conversion and system test case
preparation. 
	Involved in Unit and Integration testing of the application both during
Multilingual and Multi currency conversion.
	Interacting with offshore development team and handing a team of 3
testers and involved in assigning tasks to them.

Main contributions:
Involving in multilingual conversion testing at client's place in order to meet
the project deadline. Also was involved in training the development team in
writing the unit test cases.


Client: Harbor Payments Inc, Atlanta, GA.

    Title               Invoice Harbor (Harbor Payments)
    Role	             Software Test engineer
   Tools	 HP Performance Center, QTP, Quality Center

Was involved maintenance and testing of payment domain.

Worked on Consumer payment Module, Admin Module and CSR Modules.

The technologies used in the project were Microsoft.Net 2.0, ASP.NET, C#, Web
services 3.***-

This Application is based on the bill service provider (BSP) component of
billing harbor is a full service electronic bill presentment and payment
solution. BSP allows your customers to view and pay their bills online, schedule
recurring or automatic payments, receive their billing data and facilitate
one-click payment via secure-delivered email. With the Billing Harbor BSP
component your customers can view billing and payment history with full sorting
capability, access online real-time customer support via chat, receive email
notifications and pre-emptive customer care messages with their bill detail.

Key Challenges: 
	Involved in testing the multiple applications in the queue, testing of
complete backend payment processing cycle 
	Coordinating the test and handling a team of 6 and meeting the project
deadlines in time and also performance testing of the application using
performance center.
	Was involved in the team from the beginning of the project and
contributed for many successful implementations that happened over the years
	Involved in preparing automation scripts for performance testing of the
application and as a team member effectively helping out the team to focus our
efforts in order to reach the goals.



Client: Cambridge Integrated Services Group Inc. (CISGI), Dallas, TX.
    Title               Amex Wizards and Master Card Wizards
    Role	               Software Test engineer
    Tools	     Manual Testing and Test Automation using QTP 

Was involved in testing of insurance domain.

Worked on payment and reports module.

The technologies used in the project were Microsoft .Net, SQL 7.0

This application is based on developing for claiming insurance. This software
deals with different screens for communicating such as vehicles information,
Driver information, cardholders, card member, rental location and company
information, determination of coverage, vehicle insurance, personal and business
insurance, collision, claimant and witness information.


Key Challenges: 

	Was responsible for preparing concise Unit and System test cases from
the requirement document and prototype. 
	Was responsible for preparing the test cases based on CR3.Functionality
testing to make sure the application is adhering to business standards and also
Bug Tracking and Reporting.

Main contributions towards the project were writing test cases for the CR's and
system testing of the entire application according to the change requests. 


Client: Cambridge Integrated Services Group Inc. (CISGI), Dallas, TX.
    Title               Billing & Enrollment
    Role	               Software Test engineer
    Tools	     Manual Testing 

Was involved in maintenance and testing of insurance domain.

Worked on invoice, payment and reports module.

The technologies used in the project were Oracle 10g, Forms 10g and Reports
10g.

The special features used in the project were: The Client had a project, Work
Flow Management System in ASP.NET. This application is designed like the whole
system is running on the data exists in the database. All the Controls related
information, roles, etc were stored in the database tables. They were inserting
data into the database by running the scripts. When the application becomes more
and more big and popular, they found some difficulties in maintaining the script.
So they wanted a configuration tool to manage all the data Related to the
existing WMS application.

This application is based on re-engineering project, which involves developing a
web-based application for car rental insurance activities. The application
provides interface to load the transaction data sent by client as well as sending
necessary information to client, maintaining all the information of the customers
who are enrolled in car rental program, raising invoices to the customer,
recording payment made against those invoices and generate various reports.

Key Challenges: 

	Responsible for testing the entire functionality of the application and
performed system and integration testing. 
	Responsible for preparing concise Unit and System test cases and also
communicating with client through mails on QA status of project on a daily basis
and interacting with the client often for status meetings. Also Bug Tracking and
Reporting.


Main contributions towards the project were training the development team in
writing the unit test cases.


Client: Nuskin (Skin Care Industry, US.)
    Title               Nuskin
    Role	               Software Test Engineer
    Tools	     LoadRunner 
Description:     Nuskin is a leading Skin care industry in US and 15 other
countries. 
The Company uses scientifically advanced ingredient technologies and Skin
beneficial formulas comprised of only the best ingredients. It is into developing
innovative products that support the health and longevity of skin and hair.

This Proof of concept is all about doing a Payment Transactions by different
users. The System facilitates users to create Sessions and start doing
Transactions using their Buyer Id and Stock Id. A search module is also provided
for the benefit Of Users. Pay mode allows him to pay for the Products he has
purchased through Credit Card, Cash and Check. Admin role is having a privilege
of creating Buyers.
The application was developed using the following 3 different architectures:
1.	A thick java/JSP client with Model-2 architecture using SQL direct to data
tables or PL/SQL   with most of the business logic in the client.
2.	A thin java/JSP client with Model-2 architecture. Data is exchanged with the
business layer using transfer objects; DAO’s will access Data Tables.
3.	3. A thin java/JSP client with Model-2 architecture. A service based
Infrastructure with XML data exchange based on NuSkin's NBO/XML schema.
Involved in scripting and execution of the test cases with load runner. The test
scripts were executed for the loads as defined in the scope. Monitored
performance of the applications for each scenario and load using Perfmon logs.
Analyzed and consolidate the test results in to Benchmark Comparison Report.



Client: Maxim/Dallas Integrated Products, Inc. CA.
    Title               UECOM
    Role	               Software Test Engineer
    Tools	     Manual testing 


Description:     The Maxim/Dallas Direct! E-commerce is mainly a shopping cart
application. The main objective of this project is to make shopping easy and
provide all the information and facilities necessary for the User before and
after buying the product. 
It mainly saves you time when you want to view current pricing and availability,
submit a quote, place an order, check status of an order, and check your credit
terms account status, or track a shipment.

The main features of this application are: Product Pricing and Availability,
Including Volume Pricing, New Order Placement, Quote History, Open Order Status,
Shipped Order Detail.
Registration is required for services such as order entry and backlog
visibility. After registering, logging in is as simple as entering your
membership name and password. Once logged in to the application the User can
search for the desired product, create quote, buy a product, check availability
of the product and it's price. The User can also avail of the Credit facility and
can keep track of his credit payments and other related information. The User can
also get samples of the product he his wanting to buy before he can actually buy
the product.
•	Responsible for preparing concise Unit and System test cases from the
requirement document and prototype.
•	Functionality testing to make sure the application is adhering to business
standards.
•	Bug Tracking and Reporting.
•	Responsible for GUI testing, System testing and Regression testing of the
entire application.


Client: Maxum Insurance Company, US.
    Title               MAXUM Agent Appointment Application Online
    Role	               Software Test Engineer
    Tools	     Manual testing 

Description:   The project was fully on the Insurance Domain.  Agent
Appointments is an e-commerce application, which will allow users to:
1.	Submit retail and general agent applications to Maxum Casualty for
           Appointment. 
2.	Verify if Maxum Casualty in a particular state appoints an agent. 
3.	Track appointment process (i.e. Application Complete, Application Submitted
To State). 
4.	Submit appointment applications electronically to the states.
5.	Brokers can associate a sub producer code to their trucking applications
(optional).

The main objective of this application is to accelerate the agent appointment
process. The Screen navigation and Link accesses were given According to the
Logged in user.

•	Responsible for preparing concise Unit test cases from the requirement
document and prototype.
•	Functionality testing to make sure the application is adhering to business
standards.
•	Bug Tracking and Reporting.
•	Responsible for GUI testing, System testing and Regression testing of the
entire application.









Client: Online Test, US.

    Title               Online Test
    Role	               Trainee Test engineer
    Tools	     Manual testing 

Project description:
The Online Test System developed by SPAN Systems Corporation is an endeavor to
make the testing process fast, accurate, reliable and totally paperless. This
application is mainly used for objective types of questions. The application has
two entry points, one for the Administrator and other for the general users who
wish to take up the test. Some of the features those are included in this
application are 

•	Fulfilling the testing needs of different departments in the organization,
thereby creating and maintaining question banks for a particular department.
•	Picking of questions ay random during the test for each candidate and display
of question depending on the level of difficulty of the questions.
•	Automation of the process of uploading a particular question bank into the
database. The base for this is an excel sheet from which the application will
upload the data into the database.
•	Download of the test result as an Excel Sheet. Preview of Question Bank.

Was involved in 
Responsible for preparing concise Unit test cases from the requirement document
and prototype. Functionality testing to make sure the application is adhering to
business standards. GUI testing, Integration testing and Regression testing of
the entire application and Bug Reporting.