SUMMARY:

• Over 5+ years of experience in the IT Industry as a SQA Engineer
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Test Methodologies from project definition to post - deployment documentation
• Expertise in designing and developing strategic Test plans, Test Cases, and Test Reports for manual tests.
• Preparing test cases for the system covering SRS document, design document, reviewing them with the developers and finalizing the test cases.
• Extensive experience in Manual Testing like Quality Center
• Extensive work experience on Functionality Testing, GUI Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Black Box Testing, Ad-Hoc and End to End testing.
• Expertise in creating test cases from requirements document, use cases and from a prototype or an existing application
• Experience in using Mercury Quality Center for writing the test cases, executing the test cases and defect reporting.
• Experience in S oftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Agile Methodology .
• Proficient in SDLC including test strategy preparation, test plan development, test case creation, test execution and bug tracking.
• Ability to develop and present test plans, testing summaries, defect reports, and defect trend data throughout the project test cycle.
• Used Quality Center to manage, coordinate and report defects.
• Interacted actively with the team in identifying bugs.
• Quick learner, Self-motivated and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent technical & analytical skills as well as logical & reporting skills.
• Good team player with an ability to work independently in a time sensitive environment
• Excellent analytical skills to troubleshoot problems and communicate those issues to the responsible parties
• Strong Communication and Documentation Skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: UFT12.5, Test Director/Quality Center 9.0

Operating Systems: Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/10

Databases: MS Access, SQL Server

Microsoft Tools: MS Office, MS Project, MS Access

Languages: C++, Java, .Net, HTML

RDBMS: Oracle 10g/9i, SQL Server, MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential -Suisse, NJ

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Conducted manual testing using the Standards, guidelines and structured methodology in testing the application.
• Documented and executed Test plans, Test cases and Test scripts based on business requirement document.
• Prepared test cases for the system covering SRS document, design document, reviewing them with the developers and finalized the test cases.
• Involved in developing Test plan and Test scripts using the business documents in Test Director.
• Performed f unctional testing manually and constructed positive and negative test scenarios as per requirements.
• Tested extensive backend testing using SQL Queries to retrieve the data from the database and checked data integrity.
• Performed End-to-End testing manually and was associated with User Acceptance Testing.
• Submitted testing reports for discovering software bugs & reporting bugs and verifying bug fixes.
• Maintained detailed test logs and reported test results in Test Director
• Participated in test plan and test cases review meetings.
• Documented the successful or unsuccessful completion of each test condition in the Test Director script repository and verified actual results against expected results for discrepancies
• Attended review meetings with Business Analysts, Developers and end users to understand and test according to their requirements.
• Closely interacted with the developers in fixing the bugs.
• Involved in defect log, defect tracking and resolution.
• Involved in writing test summary reports, defect summary report, and final report.
• Used the Quality Center as a repository for all of the testing efforts to record and keep track of the defects.

Environment: Quality Center 9.0, Oracle 10g, MS Office, Java

Confidential, RI

QA Analyst / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with the System Developers and the Business Analyst people regarding the workflow architecture and the working of selected modules of CIBER
• Working closely with the development team in making the detailed QA test plan regarding the scope and focus of the testing.
• Creation and implementation of a viable testing routine with the Test Plans created in TestDirector and then associated them with specific requirements utilizing the Tests Coverage feature of TestDirector.
• Responsibilities included setting up the test environment, defining detailed test requirements, write test plans/cases and developing test matrices.
• Performed extensive Database Testing by writing complex PL/SQL Queries in TOAD to test the different scenarios in the application, inserting Database Checkpoints to query data.
• Developing and reviewing Dynamic TSL Scripts using WinRunner for regression testing of the various releases of the application and performed regression testing by executing the baseline scripts, identified functional errors and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Inserted GUI and Synchronization Checkpoints on the GUI components of the application so as to check their current state matches with the desired specifications.
• Developed automated scripts using UFT.
• Performed Load and Stress Testing using LoadRunner.
• Used Test Director to maintain test cases and test scripts.
• Performed different types of load tests viz., Increasing, Steady state, Queuing, Dynamic, All Day and Verification
• Generated load test script for applications which use variety of protocols like HTTP, FTP and other custom TCP/IP based protocols
• Designed load tests (Stability, Stress and isolation tests) in different ways to measure the application performance.
• Recorded LoadRunner Scripts for web applications, with different types of browser level emulations, such as Page based, Browser level and TCP/IP level
• Developed Test Harness using WinRunner that will assist the testers use the commonly used functions and Test Scenarios and reduce the redundancy of Automation Scripts.
• Involved in creating Recovery Scenarios to make the application return to a working state if there is any unexpected error by writing raise and re-raise event handlers.
• Used PVCS version manager for the version control and was involved in doing the Check-in and Check-out of the TSL scripts from it.
• Analyzed the test results and graphs by generating different reports reflecting the stability of the application with the QA, development and business team.

Environment: Oracle Apps, Oracle Forms/Reports 6i, Java, HTML, JSP, Unix, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, MS Project, Visual Source Safe, Visual Intercept, OBIEE, SQL Navigator, QTPro, WinRunner, LoadRunner,TestDirector.

Confidential, Northbrook, IL

QA Analyst

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Written test cases and performed Manual Testing like Positive Testing and Negative Testing.
• Mapped all the Requirements with the Test Cases using Requirement traceability matrix
• Performed Black Box Testing, UAT Testing and extensively used UFT for Regression Testing.
• Performed data driven testing using excel file in UFT.
• Performed the application compatibility in the Versions of Mozilla fire fox and Internet Explorer browsers using Quick Test professional.
• Involved in testing all back end processes using SQL. Executed SQL queries to verify the data in the database
• Developed test scripts using UFT to perform Smoke, Functional and Regression testing.
• Created checkpoints and synchronization points in the application to deal with timing problems.
• Performed Database/Back-end testing by using SQL query.
• Developed and implemented Test Scripts by using UFT to automate business processes for test reusability and managed tests by using Test Director.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using HP Quality Center.
• Used SOAP UI for Web Services Testing and XML validation by creating test case suite.

Environment: UFT12.5,Test Director, Microsoft Visual Studio 2000, Java, JSP, EJB Toad, ASP.NET, Microsoft Windows Server 2000, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Mainframes, DB2

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Co-ordinate and Control testing quality cycle from test planning through execution to defect management.
• Monitoring all phases of the testing process, communicating project information, test schedules and their execution
• Analyzed the Requirements to make sure they are accurate, testable and complete. Responsible in preparing the Requirements Verification Checklist.
• Worked parallel with the Enterprise Test Data Management Team (ETDM) for acquiring the test data to be used during the Testing.
• Prepared Test Cases and approach document for Functional and Performance Testing.
• Defining and performing the Test strategies and associated scripts for the verification and validation of the application and ensuring that it meets all defined business requirements and associated functionality.
• Prepared Detailed Test Conditions (positive and negative) for Functional and Regression Testing.
• Automation of regression testing using Silk Test and dynamic 4Test scripts for testing functional, acceptance and limit validations.
• Parameterized the 4Test scripts to avoid code redundancy and avoid hard coding of frequently changing values.
• Created automated scripts in SilkTest for data driven testing, data was stored in a Access Database.
• Written generic functions for reusability in the 4Test scripts to get and set the property values so as to minimize the redundancy
• Responsible for entering, Tracking bugs in ClearQuest until bugs are resolved.

Environment: UFT, ClearQuest, Windows NT, Oracle, Visual Source Safe, C++.