PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 9 years of extensive experience in Software Quality Assurance and in Analysis, Design of Manual and automated testing of various applications for Client Server, Web - based application & data warehousing applications.
• Good understanding of object oriented methodologies, software development life cycle (SDLC) and software testing methodologies.
• Extensive experience in designing the test cases based on BTRD.
• Experience includes the testing of Client/Server and WEB based applications using automated testing tools like Quality Center, Selenium, Quick Test Pro and Test Director.
• Developed Execution & maintained test plans and test scenarios.
• Worked at Onsite Client Place and have a Good Experience in Client interaction, Team Coordination, been responsible for Test Deliverables, Onsite Offshore Coordination.
• Testing skills include Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, Smoke Testing, White Box Testing and Black Box Testing & User Acceptance Testing.
• Strong knowledge of agile methodology.
• Expertise in tracking defects using tracking tools such as JIRA, HP Quality Center/ALM BPT (Application Lifecycle Management), and Clear Quest.
• Having excellent analytical, communication and Project Management skills.
• Experience in performance testing Web-based and Middleware applications on different environments.
• Excellent ability to understand complex scenarios and business problems, and transfer the knowledge to other users/developers in the most comprehensible manner.
• Quick learner by respect to latest technology, most excellent put into practice and system.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: ALM 12, Microsoft Test Manager, TestDirector8.0, Quality Center 10,9, QTP 11.5 Team Tracker, Rational Clear Quest, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, SOAP UI, IBM Rational Functional Checker, Informatica Power Center 8/7.1.2/5.1.1/5.0 ., Ab initio Co operating system (2.14/2.15), SAS 9.3

Defect Tracking Tools: HP ALM BPT/Quality Center/Test Director, Bugzilla, JIRA, Clear Quest, Team Foundation Server.

Monitoring Tool: Wily Introscope, HP SiteScope and Windows Resources

Languages: SQL, C, C++,C#, Visual Studio, Shell Script, Java, JavaScript, ASP.Net, VBScript, Perl

Productivity Tools: MS Office Suite 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003, 2000

Web Server: WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat

Databases: Oracle 10g/11g, DB2, MS SQL Server, MS Access

Operating Systems: Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/VISTA /Win7/Server 2003, UNIX, LINUX, SOLARIS

Browsers: MS Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, Chrome

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, RUP, CMM, TQM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, McLean, VA

QA Engineer/ Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing requirements; organized and supervised formal reviews of development documentation like requirements and design documents and system test plans.
• Involved in developing test plans, test strategy and test cases.
• Responsible for identifying of problems, risk rating, problem reporting and referral to appropriate person or team.
• Worked with MA State-based insurance marketplace.
• Worked several modules like CCA & MassHealth Program Determination, UI/UX, Notices (Provisional and Full Approval), Plan Management, Enrollment & Billing, Premium billing and Admin closing in state based health insurance application.
• QA lead for the project responsible in planning and mentoring the Onshore and Offshore QA team.
• Worked on hCentive application for UIUX, Verification modules like eligibility and enrollment into Qualified Health Plans (QHPs) and Qualified Dental Plans (QHPs).
• Performed Manual Testing, Black Box and Smoke Testing.
• Created ETL test data for all ETL mapping rules to test the functionality of the Informatica graphs.
• Tested the ETL Informatica mappings and other ETL Processes (Data Warehouse Testing).
• Involved in performing Adhoc testing, Smoke testing, User Interface testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, System testing, Back end testing, Browser testing, System Compatibility Testing, End to End Testing, Performance Testing, User Acceptance Testing & QA Test Metrics.
• Involved in managing workflows, user setup, roles, project creation, schema creation, implementation with SharePoint.
• Involved in software delivered meets all requirements and expectations of final UAT test plan.
• Expertise in tracking defects using tracking tools such as JIRA & ALM.
• Involved in Testing XML, WSDL Web Services using SOAP UI.
• Wrote PL SQL Queries for performing Back end testing on SQL Server using Visual Basic .net as front end tools.
• Extensively used SQL queries to check storage and accuracy of data in database table.
• Updated Daily and Weekly Status reports to the Team Lead, Test Groups and Test Managers to co-ordinate test cycles.
• Documented Summary and Closure reports for each test execution.

Environment: Quality Center10, QTP 11.5, JIRA, ALM 12, SOAP UI, PL SQL, Oracle 11g, SharePoint, .net, Java, Java script, TCP/IP, Apache, Visual Studio, HTTP, HTML, XML.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing requirements; organized and supervised formal reviews of development documentation like requirements and design documents and system test plans.
• Involved in developing test plans, test strategy and test cases.
• Responsible for identifying of problems, risk rating, problem reporting and referral to appropriate person or team.
• Involved in performing Adhoc testing, Smoke testing, User Interface testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, System testing, Back end testing, Browser testing, System Compatibility Testing, End to End Testing, Performance Testing, User Acceptance Testing & QA Test Metrics.
• Involved in managing workflows, user setup, roles, project creation, schema creation, implementation with Team Foundation Server.
• Involved in software delivered meets all requirements and expectations of final UAT test plan.
• Performed Manual Testing, Black Box and Smoke Testing.
• Expertise in tracking defects using tracking tools such as JIRA & Microsoft Test Manager.
• Prepared UAT test cases and testing estimates.
• Tested the ETL Informatica mappings and other ETL Processes (Data Warehouse Testing).
• Participated in designing Automation architecture using QTP as automation tool.
• Developed Data Driven Tests with QTP to test the application with different data values.
• Worked on concepts like Synchronization timeout and Recovery Scenario Manager in QTP.
• Designed scripts using descriptive programming in QTP.
• Experience in Testing Web Services using SOAP UI.
• Prepared the data for initial setup and performance acceptance test.
• Updated Daily and Weekly Status reports to the Team Lead, Test Groups and Test Managers to co-ordinate test cycles.
• Wrote SQL Queries for performing Back end testing on Oracle 11g Server.
• Documented Summary and Closure reports for each test execution.
• Participated in walkthrough, presentations & status tracking calls.

Environment: Quality Center10, QTP 11.5, ALM BPT, Microsoft Test Manager, Test Foundation Server, PL SQL, Oracle 11g, JIRA, MicroStrategy, Visual Studio, Selenium WebDriver, IDE, SOAP UI, MS SQL Server, C #, C++, Perl, .net, Java, Java script, TCP/IP, Apache, HTTP, HTML, XML

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the review of requirements specification with functional manager and technical specialists of the application.
• Involved in gathering system requirement and functional requirement from different sources such as development team, user or vendor.
• Developed Test cases and Test scripts based on the requirement documents.
• Well versed with various Test Methodologies and Testing Techniques and Automation using Rational Functional Tester.
• Maintained test scripts for different builds and releases.
• Performed various black box testing methodologies such as System Testing, Regression Testing.
• Written Positive and Negative test cases.
• Used TestDirector for defect reporting, tracking, storing the client requirements, and managing test plans.
• Wrote SQL Queries to perform Back-End testing on Oracle and MySQL database.
• Performed Functional, Regression & User Acceptance Testing using QTP: recorded scripts; enhanced tests with standard, image, table, text and data checkpoints; parameterized tests; executed tests and analyzed the results.
• Involved in Automation Testing using Selenium IDE and QTP .
• Involved in Testing Web Services using SOAP UI.
• Wrote SQL Queries for performing Back end testing on SQL Server.
• Extensively used SQL queries to check storage and accuracy of data in database table.
• Extensively used T-SQL to verify and validate the data loaded to the SQL Server.
• Analyzed test results reports and test cases results and determined causes, and created detailed and comprehensive defects reports.
• Generated and automated various Daily status, weekly reports, and Monthly and Quarterly reports. Also generated Defect status report, QA status reports, Risk Analysis documents, Requirements Traceability reports, Test Execution and test results summary reports.

Environment: QTP/UFT 11.5, Quality Center 9, ALM, IBM Rational Functional Checker, TestDirector, Selenium IDE, Bugzilla, JIRA, C, C#, Visual Studio, Java, .net, Windows, UNIX, Oracle SQL Developer, MySQL, J2EE, Java Script, VB Script, Excel Macro, SOAP UI, Pearl, PL/SQL, ASP, XML/DHTML, TCP/IP, HTTP.

Confidential, NJ

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Defining the performance goals and objectives based on the client requirements and inputs.
• Ensure the compatibility of all application platform components, configurations and their upgrade levels in production and make necessary changes to the lab environment to match production.
• Responsible for developing and executing performance and volume tests.
• Partner with the Software development organization to analyze system components and performance to identify needed changes in the application design.
• Followed Agile process, the performance validation process goes by the ‘Work Done & Ready to Go’ approach from time to time, sprint by sprint.
• Involved in analyzing, interpreting and summarizing meaningful and relevant results in a complete Performance Test Report.
• Used Virtual User Generator to generate VuGen Scripts for web protocol, Ensure that quality issues are appropriately identified, analyzed, documented, tracked and resolved in Quality Center.
• Developed and deployed test Load scripts to do end to end performance testing using Load Runner.
• Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks during the development life cycle.
• Accurately produce regular project status reports to senior management to ensure on-time project launch.
• Verify that new or upgraded applications meet specified performance requirements.
• Used Controller to Launch 300, 500, 700 concurrent users to generate load.
• Used to identify the queries which were taking too long and optimize those queries to improve performance.
• Performs in-depth analysis to isolate points of failure in the application.
• Investigate and troubleshoot performance problems in a lab environment. This will also include analysis of performance problems in a production environment.
• Interface with developers, project managers, and management in the development.
• Execution and reporting of test performance results.

Environment: QTP/UFT 11.5, Quality Center 9, Oracle, LoadRunner, VU Gen 11.50, Test Director, JIRA, MS SQL Server, Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Bugzilla, IIS, C#, ASP.NET, VB Script, PL/SQL, Windows 2000 / XP, IE, Netscape, Firefox, Chrome.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Manual QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing system requirements and developed detailed Test Plan.
• Tested websites by performing content Validation and Compatibility testing.
• Performed Black box testing methodologies on the application developed under Windows and UNIX.
• Designed, developed and maintained Test Cases, Test Scenarios, and Test reports using Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center for managing and updating the various test documents.
• Extensively used Quality Center, for Test planning, Bug tracking and Reporting.
• Performed Data Validation of the data flow from the front-end to the back-end using SQL.
• Performed Backend testing to test the validity of the data in the reports using SQL queries on the database.
• Interacted with developers to report software bugs and re-tested the fixed issues.
• Involved in extensive User acceptance testing of the final product. Documented user responses in various test scenarios.

Environment: HP Quality Center, XML, HTML, ANSI C, JSP, SOA, VB Script, JavaScript, C#, Wily Introscope, PL/SQL, HTTP, Windows, UNIX and MS Office.

Confidential, Salt Lake City, UT

QA Engineer (Manual and Automation)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the review of requirements specification with functional manager and technical specialists of the application.
• Involved in gathering system requirement and functional requirement from different sources such as development team, user or vendor.
• Developed Test cases and Test scripts based on the requirement documents.
• Maintained test scripts for different builds and releases.
• Performed various black box testing methodologies such as System Testing, Regression Testing.
• Written Positive and Negative test cases.
• Used TestDirector for defect reporting, tracking, storing the client requirements, and managing test plans.
• Wrote SQL Queries to perform Back-End testing on Oracle and MySQL database.
• Performed functional and regression testing using QTP: recorded scripts; enhanced tests with standard, image, table, text and data checkpoints; parameterized tests; executed tests and analyzed the results.
• Participated in designing Automation architecture using QTP as automation tool.
• Developed Data Driven Tests with QTP to test the application with different data values.
• Worked on concepts like Synchronization timeout and Recovery Scenario Manager in QTP.
• Designed scripts using descriptive programming in QTP.
• Prepared the data for initial setup and performance acceptance test.
• Analyzed test results reports and test cases results and determined causes, and created detailed and comprehensive defects reports.
• Generated and automated various Daily status, weekly reports, and Monthly and Quarterly reports. Also generated Defect status report, QA status reports, Risk Analysis documents, Requirements Traceability reports, Test Execution and test results summary reports.

Environment: QTP, TestDirector, Bugzilla, Windows, UNIX, Oracle, J2EE, Junit, JBuilder, PL/SQL, ASP, XML/DHTML, TCP/IP, HTTP.

Confidential

Manual Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements and Use Cases and Reviewed High Level and Low Level Designs throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Wrote Test Scripts in Excel based on the Functional Specifications, Technical Specifications and Business Requirement Document.
• Performed Unit test, Integration Test, Business Function test, User Interface test that were performed on the application under test.
• Conduct reviews, walk throws, inspections and meetings to improve the quality of the product.
• Involved in Test Plan development and Test Case generation, test administration and defect tracking using QC.
• Submitted Issue reporting and tracking, including management reporting on test progress, Test reports and Test metrics with QA recommendations.
• Developed test scripts for GUI, functionality and regression testing using QTP.
• Created data driven tests in QTP to validate the same scenario with different sets of test data.
• Actively participated in team meetings to discuss issues arising out of testing.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, JAVA, Agile Methodologies, Oracle, LAMP, HTML, Weblogic, UNIX, Windows.