SUMMARY

• 5+ years of experience in developing and Testing Windows based applications and Web applications implementing n - Tier architecture.
• Proficient in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle using Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Extensive experience in various Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Phases and Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC) including Requirement Gathering, Business Analysis, System, Object Oriented Design and Testing.
• Experience in test execution - Integration, Functional, System, Regression, Compatible testing and Database Testing using SQL and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Experience in testing Financial, Web-based Insurance applications on different environments.
• Knowledge in Business Process Testing using HP Quality Center.
• Expertise in manual testing
• Extensive experience in Test Life Cycle.
• In-depth knowledge of all QA Phases that include Manual, Functional, System, Integration, End-to-End testing.
• Excellent understanding of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts, and good experience in writing SQL queries, stored procedures and user defined functions.
• Expert in usage of Defect tracking and reporting using Quality Center.
• In depth training in MS SQL Server 2008 R2/2005/2000 database development and administration in enterprise production environment including server installation, configuration, upgrade, maintenance, performance tuning, optimization, backup/restore, recovery, migration, monitoring, security planning and trouble-shooting

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: C#, VB.Net, C, C++, SQL, T-SQL.

Technologies: ASP.NET 3.5/4.0, ADO.NET, WCF, LINQ, CSS, AJAX, HTML, XML.

Web Servers: IIS 7.0/ 7.5

RDBMS: SQL Server, MS Access 2007, MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 Enterprise Edition, MS SQL OLAP / Analysis.

Operating Systems: Windows Vista/XP/2000 Professional, Linux

Application Development Tools: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008/2010.

Configuration Management: Team Foundation Server.

Tools: NUnit, AJAX Control Tool Kit, Microsoft Visio, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Analyst/Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Attended walkthroughs and inspections with the Project Manager, Business Personnel, Business analyst and developers to decide the Scope of testing and Testability of Requirements.
• Used the Agile environment effectively to get the maximum output for the QA efforts.
• Tested the Functionality, Compatibility, Usability and Security scenarios for the E-commerce website.
• During test execution of SIT and UAT test cases, worked effectively with the BA and Developers to accommodate the frequently changing requirements and sorted out the ambiguities and make sure that maximum testing was done.
• Submitted the daily EOD test status report to the project team to communicate the progress of testing.
• Involved in GUI, Functional, Integration and Regression testing to test each individual function/feature
• Performed both manual and automated testing of the application.
• Documentation of Scripts, Analysis of results and Defect Tracking are managed in Quality Center.
• Performed on Agile to emphasize face-to-face communication over written documents.
• Extensively done Backend Manual testing using SQL and constraint validations.
• Used to develop Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases, and executed them in test lab (QC) and excel sheets.
• Conducted Functionality testing during various phases of the application.
• Created Test cases, Manual Test Scripts.
• Developed automated test scripts from manual test cases for regression testing based on the requirement documents using Quick Test Professional.
• Used SCRUM (Agile) methodology for testing.
• Thoroughly analyzed the functional requirements documented in the Software Requirements Specifications to develop the corresponding test cases in Mercury/HP QC.
• Experience in managing services, adding calls and Validating XML.
• Prepared Test Report and Summary for the applications.
• Performed functional testing and regression testing using HP QTP
• Developed automated scripts using Quick Test Professional

Environment: QualityCenter 11.0, QTP 11.0, MS Office, MS Visio, AgileSOAP UI, Windows 8.0, XML, SQL.

Confidential

QA Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in different phases of SDLC.
• Interacted with Business Analysts to designed detailed test plan document for application testing.
• Worked under different iterative and modular SDLC methodologies like Agile Scrum and actively conducted and participated in various meetings.
• Extensively used Quality Center to upload requirements, write test cases.
• Used Quality Center to Report, track and, monitor defects.
• Wrote and Executed SQL queries on database for transactions on Oracle10g database.
• Performed Integration testing, Build Verification testing, System testing manually.
• Imported and exported data from and to Excel to and from QTP.
• Performed Database Backend Testing by writing SQL scripts for data validation.
• Provided Efforts Estimate and coordinated the test schedule using Agile testing methodology in UAT phase
• Created test and tested Web based and consumer applications, using manual and automation tools like HP QC/ALM and QTP
• Validated XML extract to ensure data integrity when loaded into New Business Accelerator
• Validated data for the Sybase version of the application with the SQL version in order to check the data integrity of the new version with the older version.

Environment: Quick Test Professional 8.2, Quality Center 8.2, XML, VB scriptHTML, Web Services, MS-Visio, MS-Word, Ms-Excel, MS-Project.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business, Functional and Technical Specification document.
• Prepared Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases based on requirements.
• Prepared Test Scenarios and Test Cases for both positive and negative testing.
• Provide Production Support. Running automated scripts and maintaining them.
• Generating reports to ensure data integrity and validate business rules.
• Performed Positive/Negative Testing.
• Defects were tracked and reported using Quality Center.
• Assist in variances and defect identification and analysis.
• Participated in test meetings to ensure all issues are addressed and resolved.
• Updated test results in Quality Center and involved in team meetings to review those.
• Performed user acceptance testing (UAT) with development, testing teams for production signoff.
• Wrote and Executed SQL queries on database for transactions on Oracle10g database.
• Database integrity testing by executing SQL statements on Oracle database.

Environment: C#.net, VB.net, Jquery, HTML, CSS, IIS, ADO.Net, MS SQL Server 2008, Oracle, .Net 4.0, T-SQL, Visual Studio 2010, TFS, XML, HTML, Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, QTP 8.2, Quality Center 8.2,VB Script, Clear Quest, UAT, MS Office, MS Visio, Oracle, XML.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business, Functional and Technical Specification document.
• Prepared Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases based on requirements.
• Prepared Test Scenarios and Test Cases for both positive and negative testing.
• Developed Test Cases in Excel and exported to ALM.
• Executed test cases manually in ALM and verified the actual results against expected results.
• Analyzed the application and performed Smoke, Regression, Retesting, Functional and Adhoc testing.
• Used ALM for tracing Requirement, Testing and Defect Coverage.
• Executed various SQL Queries to perform the backend testing
• Participated in walkthroughs, inspections with the Business analyst and developers to decide the Scope of testing and Testability of Requirements.

Environment: Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, UNIX, VBScript, J2EE, Jquery, HTML,MS SQL Server 2008, Oracle.

Confidential

.Net Developer

Responsibilities:

• Unemployment Insurance Modernization (UIMOD) continued Claims Redesign (CCR) project.
• The System is designed to improve customer service so that Confidential can continue to delivery timely benefits to eligible workers.
• Actively Participated in Requirements Analysis & Definition, Database & User Interface Design, Coding, Troubleshooting, Testing, Debugging, Technical Documentation.

Environment: C#.net, ASP.net, WCF, LINQ, HTML, CSS, IIS, ADO.Net, MS SQL Server 2008, .Net 4.0, T-SQL, Visual Studio 2010, TFS

Confidential

.Net Developer

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in interacting with business users to record user requirements.
• Responsible for the UML Diagrams like Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams to represent the functional specification documents.
• Developed master pages, cascading style sheets for user interface uniformity throughout the application.
• Developed user interface using ASP.NET controls and HTML.
• Developed client side validations using JavaScript.
• Extensively worked on Grid View, List View controls for displaying the data in a clear format.
• Worked on State Management.
• Developed partial update components using AJAX.
• Implemented data access layer using Entity Framework in class library.
• Good understanding on SQL and extensively worked on SQL Server for Database operations.
• Developed Stored Procedures and Views using SQL Server2008.
• Involved in the code review of the application and identified the performance of the application.
• Performed Unit Testing for ensuring the reliability of the application.
• Created deployment packages, installation manual and user manual.