SUMMARY

• QA Analyst / Test Engineer with 5 years of experience in all phases of testing lifecycle and 1 - 2 years of Automation using UFT 12.02, familiar with all phases of software lifecycle, including Requirement analysis, Test Plan and Test Cases development in Client/Server, Web Services and Web applications under Windows, and UNIX/Linux environments.
• Retail, Insurance and Telecom Billing Industry knowledge with focus on Business and Functional operations.
• Excellent understanding of Software Development life Cycle (SDLC) and importance of QA in Development / Enhancement and Maintenance of software applications.
• Manual testing under different development methodologies like Agile Scrum and Waterfall.
• Involved in developing and executing Test plans and Test Cases for Functional and Regression testing.
• Working knowledge in using the Unified Functional Testing tool (UFT) to automate test cases for Regression testing.
• Good working experience using bug tracking tools like Quality Center, Bugzilla and knowledge of JIRA
• Hands-on experience in Functional, Regression, Black box, Boundary, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Good working knowledge in Structured Query Language (SQL), UNIX and Windows Commands. Familiar with XML, HTML,
• Experience in preparing Test data by retrieving data from Relational Databases like Teradata, Oracle, MS-SQL, and MySQL.
• Good Analytical, Interpersonal, documentation, reporting, presentation and communication skills.
• Result oriented, committed and hard working with a quest to learn and apply new technologies and undertake challenging tasks.
• Highly motivated, self-starter, able to work independently and collaboratively within a diverse and global technical team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/00/NT/XP, MS-DOS and UNIX (Linux, HP-UX, Sun Solaris).

Testing Tools: UFT 12.02, HPQC 12.01, JIRA, Bugzilla.

Languages: SQL, HTML, XML, Java Script, VB Script.

Databases: Teradata SQL assistant 15.0, Oracle 9, 10, 11, SQL Server 2005, 2008.

Tools: SQL assistant 15.0, SQL-Studio, Toad, Microsoft Office Suite.

App/Web servers and other tools: JBoss 4.2.3, WebLogic 10.x

Work Status: Green-Card holder

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is a project that facilitates, authentication, authorization and session-management for business clients based on their profile.
• It is a Web-based application used by management and Vendors, to view the sales and manage inventory.
• Reports include sales, on hand, on order, replenishments, markdowns by location and chain basis.
• Participated in requirement review meetings.
• Analyzed requirements and developed Test Plans and Test Cases
• Analyzed Requirement Traceability Matrix, Defect management, Reporting and tracking
• Lead off shore team by giving them the Knowledge Transfer (KT) of the project, educating them the scenarios to write the test cases and reviewed the test cases before the testing.
• Executed prepared Test Cases.
• Lead the test case execution efforts by offshore by tracking the daily work progress and resloving any questions or concerns offshore testers had to meet the dead lines.
• Lead the daily defect meeting during the System Integration Testing (SIT) phase with Business Analyst (BA) and Developers to resolve any issues with the requirements and/or with the defects in the product
• Lead the User Acceptance Test (UAT) Kick off.
• Compiled results and opened defects as per the business/system requirements.
• Moderate knowledge of working on Mainframes.
• Working knowledge with the IBM Cognos 10.2.1, to test our reports.
• Good experience in Backend testing to validate data from Teradata to the reports by writing the SQL in Teradata SQL assistant 15.0
• Gathered calculations for some of the measures from BA and wrote my own query against Teradata to get the output value and checked that against the developers staging table to test developer’s calculations that was picked up in the reports, to perform end to end testing.
• Using UFT, automated the Reports to do regression testing when the reports were enhanced.
• Involved in initial analysis of the IBM tool Motio CI for testing purposes.

Environment: IBM Cognos 10.2.1, VB, .NET, Teradata SQL-Assistant 15.0, UFT 12.02, HPQC 12.01, LDAP.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Attended Business and System Requirement meetings.
• Analyzed requirements and developed Test Cases and Test Plans.
• Executed prepared Test Cases for Company on-boarding, Adding Users and subscribed features.
• Compiled results and opened defects as per the business/system requirements.
• SOAP-UI tool was used to test the Web-Service methods such as validate, getApplications, setApplications, etc. by sending XML
• Requests and validating the XML responses. Have done testing through data sources using Excel, Xml and validated the response by adding assertion.
• Familiar with generating random test data using groovy scripting.

Environment: Java 6.x, Shell-Scripts, IPlanet Web-Server 7.x, Weblogic 10.x, LDAP v3, ATG Dynamo 9.x, Oracle 10.x, 11.x, Solaris/SunOS 5.10,, Visio, soapUI 4.5.1

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Health Insurance Web application to enroll, Bill, and fulfill a prospective customer. Auto Bill and Send Eligibility Benefits to providers monthly and provide customer care for the enrolled member.
• Attended Business and System Requirement meetings.
• Analyzed requirements and developed Test Cases and Test Plans.
• Executed prepared Test Cases for Customer enrollment, Billing, Fulfillment, Eligibility Benefits and Customer-Care.
• Compiled results and opened defects as per the business/system requirements.

Environment: Linux, Java 6.x, JBoss 4.2.3, SQL Server 2005, Bugzilla 3.4.1, CVS, Agile Development Practices.