SUMMARY:

• Around 6+ years of diversified experience in Software Design, Development and Testing.
• Expertise in Designing and Developing Test plan, Test cases and Generating Test Scripts.
• Hands on experience in MANUAL and AUTOMATED testing using QUICK TEST PROFESSIONAL, WINRUNNER, TEST DIRECTOR, Performance Center, Quality Center and LOADRUNNER. Involved in Integration testing, Unit testing, GUI testing, Regression testing, Stress testing, Load, Performance, Volume, Functional, System testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing tools: Quick Test Professional 8.0/8.2/9.0/9.2/9.5/9.10, Load Runner, Quality Center 8.2/9.0/9.2/10.0, ALM, Test Director 7.6/8.0

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/2003/NT/XP Unix, Linux

Languages: C++, SQL, VB Script

Database: MS Access 97, SQL Server 2000/2005, Oracle 10G

MS Office: Microsoft (Word, Excel, Power - point, Visio), XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Wayne, NJ

Sr. Testing Associate

Responsibilities:

• Working on Toys R US proprietary Point of Sale (POS) system, which processes Credit, Debit, EMV, and Gift Cards payment transactions routed via multiple merchant services.
• Extensively work on Credit card, Debit card transactions to see if all the transactions are going through correctly to avoid financial risk and prevent fraudulent activities.
• Proficient in executing stress testing scenarios involving large number of items and multiple payment options, in various transactions types to avoid potential breakdown of system.
• Expertise in designing, reviewing and documenting system test plans, defining test procedures and creating test cases on the basis of Business requirements and product release features.
• Consistently recognized for excellent problem-solving and analytical skills by programmers, project managers and supervisor.
• Extensively worked on UNIX environment and Managed Various Point of sale system related projects such as Global promotion (Different promotions Single Item, Multi Buy), Gift card solution (Authorizer change from Base 24 to First data with different Limitations on Activation, Redemption and Reload, New bank Regulation).
• Understand the functional requirements of the projects and performed the functional testing using Manual Testing.
• Involved in working on retail charge back, for all the credit card transactions just to see that, if the credit card transactions are going through correctly.
• Worked with link-saves and promotions to make sure that, promotions are getting applied on the Receipt.
• Worked on negative scenarios like, ringing the promotional items and also regular times and see whether the promotions are working with non- promotional items.
• Performing End to End testing for, Pricing team, back- store room and users.
• Have created test data for contests and sweepstakes for each interaction and also for regression testing and performed regression testing after closing the defects or new build after fix.
• Worked with different teams to check the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries, to extract the data from the database.
• Involved in Requirement Assessments to see if new requirements impacted existing business functionality.
• Changing the configuration on the controller, and then make sure that the configuration changes reflect on the POS registers refreshing the terminal with Action codes.
• Making sure that New build packages are applied for the right Test boxes with a test, build verification process and then test media need to be maintained as close to production as possible to ensure successful testing.
• Extensively worked on proprietary tool Issue Tracker to log issues and keep track of fixed issues.
• Actively involved in creating the test requirements, test scenarios and test cases.
• Hands on experience working with Business users, Store users and giving them a live demonstration.
• Validate successful configuration of the application, test valid and invalid data and responses XML

Environment: Java/J2EE Web Application, Agile, IBM 4690, HP- QC 10.00, HP-ALM 11.00, Db2 & Tera Data, Admin Transaction viewer (First data) Web Form/Admin Tool, QTP 11.00, MSOffice, XML, SQL, Internet Explorer 8.0, Visio 2000, Linux, VSTS 2005, Unix and Windows 2000, AS400.

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirement document and Business Use Cases in development of Test Plans
• Participated in the work-scope meetings and peer review meetings to evaluate Use Cases with Business and Design team
• Created Test Cases, Test Scenarios in Quality Center ensured traceability to Business Use Cases and according to application.
• Used automated test case scripts in QTP for the Front-end-applications.
• Stepped in when requirements were not moving forward and mentored analysts on documentation, facilitation and agile processes.
• Job operated within a very agile environment, employing 2-4 week sprints, daily scrum meetings, burn-down charts, task weighting, pair programming, refactoring, presentations and review.
• Involved in writing and implementation of the test plan, and various test cases for UAT.
• Initiated, proposed and implemented critical analytical and technical turnkey solutions extensively increasing the quantitative and qualitative value of the application.
• Involved in project planning, coordination and implemented QA methodology.
• Provided overall project management to multiple projects successfully completing them on-schedule and on-budget. Used the Business Workflow in MS-Visio with input, output, Pre and Post conditions for better understanding of to be processes.
• Enhanced test cases and scripts by adding the required functionality as per the new business requirements.
• Performed manual testing on different modules of the application. Developed Test Matrix to give a better view of testing effort.
• Performed Positive and Negative testing to test response of the application under test by creating Data Driven tests.
• Reported Defects in Defect tracking tool of Quality Center (Mercury & HP) by assigning Defects to development that are encountered during testing phase based on application teams.
• Coordinate with Operations team to make sure that new platform has robust testing processes.
• Make sure to trace test cases to operations use cases.
• Recommend and implement naming convention for Test Cases, Test Sets and Defects.
• Used SQL to ensure updates were being made in backend, as and when records were being entered in the new POS application.
• Reviewed extensive SQL Queries with complex multi-table joins and nested queries.
• Retrieved records from multiple tables from Oracle Database by using joins such as Inner Joins, Outer Joins, and Self Joins.
• Wrote extensive SQL queries for data validation, analysis and manipulation, and maintaining the integrity of the database.
• Use Firebug for the web based application testing with selenium for the commands and locator application.
• Coordinate with Test Coordination Center to set up and follow up on daily, weekly and monthly reports.
• Attended Weekly status meeting in reporting and provided a weekly report that includes test metrics consisting of status reports.

Environment: POS, E-Commerce, Agile, SQL, Oracle, HP Quality Center, SharePoint, Windows XP, MS Office, Agile.

Senior QA Tester/POS Application

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business requirements and the site specifications.
• Generated reports and metrics to provide project status to higher management personnel.
• Involved in review meetings with Developers, BA’s and Tech Lead, using Agile Methodology.
• Worked closely with developers, business analysts and user representatives and participate in the product design process including specification and other document reviews.
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to track requirements using Quality Center.
• Configured test environment for specific test cases, create test data, and execute manual tests, document results and update defect tracking systems.
• Defect tracking and change management using Quality Center.
• Regression testing for interim modifications and production bug fixes.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing, GUI testing, Smoke testing etc.
• Developed automated scripts using QTP to perform functional and regression testing.
• Developed test plan and test cases for and performed Integration testing.
• Involved in Database Testing.
• Checked the data flow from the frontend through backend and used SQL queries, to extract the data from the database.
• Contributed to the development of improved implementation methodologies.
• Performed individual assigned tasks based on the project deadlines and finished the deliverables within deadlines.
• Used ADA to Enterprise Solutions with its Business Process Driven Design and Model Driven Architecture supported by Component Based Software Engineering using the Software Factory approach.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, SQL, SQL Server, MS Office, Beanstore, JAVA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed detailed test cases using the company standards.
• Implemented the testing life cycle by following the standard processes which were comparable to the ISO standards.
• Conducted the Functional, System, Integration and Regression tests of the Web application.
• Escalated critical problems/issues during testing and reported them in the Test Director.
• Conducted weekly status meetings with team members and coordinated with teams (Development, Business, and QA) for the progress of the work done on the application.
• Reviewed documents like test cases which were written by junior QA team members.
• Developed test cases for the front end, which communicated with the middle tier for tracking of day to day financial transactions.
• Tested the application for the online banking system and checked to see if the application retrieved the data of the customer to find the relevant transactions.
• Conducted Performance/Stress tests.
• Performed Functionality and Security tests for the User authentication module. This included resetting of passwords.

Environment: C++, Java, Oracle, HTML, Windows NT, Win Runner, Test Director