SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of extensive and diversified experience in Information Technology with emphasis in Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Web Services and API testing.
• Strong knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) with test methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall.
• Proficient in creating traceability matrix, creating and uploading and executing Test Cases/Test Scripts in different testing tools
• Extensive experience in Manual testing such as Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, Functional Testing, Black box Testing, White Box testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, End to End Testing.
• Experience in using automation tools like QTP/UFT, Selenium IDE and Selenium Web Driver
• Good working knowledge in various test management tools like various IBM Rational tools, HP Quality Center, Team Foundation Server and bug tracking tools like Bugzilla, JIRA
• Expert in RDBMS Database querying, data manipulation and data population using SQL in Oracle and SQL Server databases.
• Strong working Knowledge in writing and executing SQL Queries, Stored Procedures, Functions and good understanding of Tables, Views, Constraints, Sequences, Joins
• Experience working on ETL Methodology and Tools.
• Experience working in Web service testing using SOAP UI and REST API
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and working independently as well as in a team.
• Focused, Proactive, energetic, professional self - starter with excellent organizational, communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Rational Quality Manager, Rational Team Concert, HP ALM(Quality Center/ Test Director), Quick Test Professional (UFT/QTP), JIRA, Selenium IDE, ClearQuest, Bugzilla, VMware, LoadRunner, Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Cognos

RDBMS: Oracle, MS SQL Server and MS-Access.

Languages: C, C++, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, .net technologies

Operating System: Windows, Unix/Linux

Data Migration/Data Warehouse: Informatica, SSIS

Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, VB-Script, Java Script, SOAP, REST, XML, JSON

SQL Tools: TOAD, SQL Developer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Quality Assurance Analyst

• Analyzed application functionality in Business Requirement documents and System Requirement documents.
• Participated in Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions with the SMEs, Developers and Test Leads to review Business Requirements and Change Requests
• Created/modified use cases and detail system designs for creating high-level scenarios and test scripts/cases.
• Involved in traceability activities for System requirement, Test scenario and Test cases.
• Worked extensively in Rational Quality Management(RQM) and Rational Team Concert (RTC) for Executing test scripts and for Defect logging
• Created and executed test scripts in time travel dependent scenarios
• Extensively worked in Interface testing, Web service testing by mocking up services and also worked with real time agencies using SOUP UI and REST API using POSTMAN
• Extensively worked in Juice Box- Java Runtime Environment to execute Batches for Daily, Monthly and Yearly file processing
• Performed Backend Testing using SQL queries, validation of Triggers, also created and executed SQL queries to ensure data integrity for inserted and updated data.
• Created and Executed Scripts in Selenium IDE And Selenium Web Driver for Smoke Testing and Regression testing of the weekly Builds
• Extensively worked in End to End testing and Performed Integration testing, System testing and regression testing manually and automatically using and Selenium Web driver.
• Attended walk through meeting for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) team to provide overview of new system and provided full support during their testing.
• Extensively worked in Batch Exception validations, Audit history validations and converted data testing.
• Worked in Legacy system/Mainframe system for Parallel testing to compare and verify results with newly developed web-based application
• Involved in creating daily testing status report
• Daily Interaction with the Client/product owner/offshore team for Defect Triage meetings
• Consistently recognized for excellent problem-solving and analytical skills by programmers, project managers and supervisors

Development Environment: HTML, XML, JSON, Java, Advanced Java, JSP, JavaScript, CSS, Juice box, Windows WebSphere, Mainframes, Oracle, Informatica and Cognos.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Software Tester/ Agile Tester

• Attended Daily Scrum/Stand up meetings, to discuss the daily status and updates.
• Involved in the Sprint Planning and Retrospective Meetings before the Sprint cycle.
• Utilized Agile Management tool Team Foundation Server for Documenting, Tracking stories, Maintain Backlog and Logging defects.
• Participated in Backlog grooming meeting with the Product Owner to review and prioritize the stories.
• Constantly interacted with Development teams regarding the defects and followed up efficiently to minimize waste of resource and time.
• Executed SQL Queries for performing Backend testing for validation of data
• Involved in Pre-Release meeting, to discuss about the release date/time for deployment and list of stories that are going as part of release.
• Extensively involved in meeting with the Stake Holders for the Product Demo.
• Coordinated with the project team in the resolution and validation of the defects/issues successfully and generated test metric reports for the management to facilitate a decision on the Go/No-Go to production.
• Created diagrams and flow charts using MS Visio
• Worked with Data Warehousing developers who extensively used ETL tools to design mappings to move data from source to target database-using stages to understand the functionality.
• Extensively worked in TFS to for quickly plan, manage and track work, creating the new product backlog, sprint backlog and task boards to track the flow of work during the course of an iteration
• Participated in status meetings to report issues. Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution using Team Foundation Server

Environment: .net technologies, SQL Server Team Foundation Server 2012, ASP.Net, Windows, VMware, MS SQL Server - SSIS, MS Office 2010

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Quality Engineer

• Involved in reviewing Business Requirements and Use Cases to manage requirements.
• Involved in the creation of comprehensive test plan, methodologies, test process, and test procedures from requirement documents and design documents.
• Involved in Regression testing, Functional testing, Sanity testing, System testing and backend testing.
• Performed Back end testing by writing SQL Queries using TOAD.
• Extensively worked with Join Statements, Constraints, Procedures, and Functions.
• Extensively worked on handling the application for Positive and Negative scenarios and test Cases.
• Created Traceability between Requirements and Test Cases.
• Participated in review meetings and took the initiative to meet the QA testing targets.
• Reported software bugs to the development team using Quality Center.
• Utilized QTP to execute Regression testing script. Created various Checkpoints and Actions to test functional aspect using automation by QTP
• Bug reporting and tracking them to completion, which involved coordinating with the developers.
• Conducted load and performance testing using Load Runner to simulate heavy user load
• Daily Status reporting to the Business Unit Heads and Project Leads involving all the stakeholders.

Environment: Oracle, Quality Center, QTP/ UFT, VB Script, TOAD, Windows, LoadRunner

Confidential

Software Tester

• Analyzed the requirements and critical areas of the application to setup and execute tests.
• Documented Test Summary Reports for submission to management.
• Addressed, diagnosed and resolved bugs/issues that arise on a day-to-day basis by working with business users, developers and business analysts.
• Designed Test cases and Test scenarios after studying detailed Business requirements documents (BRD).
• Established operating requirements and conducted tests to assure software is operating correctly under normal and worst case scenarios.
• Executed the test and monitoring the server resources to test load and to identify any abnormalities during the load test.
• Analyzed the results to identify the bottlenecks and drill down to the root cause of the bottlenecks.
• Prepared SQL scripts for backend testing to check the database records.
• Executed the scripts and tracked the defects using Bugzilla.
• Participated in software walkthrough sessions.

Environment: Oracle9i, Windows, UNIX, Bugzilla