PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 19 ye ars of experience in Information Technology worked in Development/Quality Assurance/ Validation and E2E Testing. My area of expertise is Testing (ISTQB certified) of web - based applications with three tier architecture with Oracle database.
• Strong skills in all phases of testing: test planning, documentation, test data set-up, execution and defect analysis and tracking. Worked extensively on creating and executing test cases and writing test scripts using manual/automated methods.
• Possess a good understanding about Testing Methodologies and worked with Waterfall models in projects.
• Experienced working with tools like JIRA, Bugzilla,HPQC, QTP and ALM.
• Create SQL queries to validate updates to database
• Executed SQL queries to verify data integrity
• Knowledge of Bootstrap UI framework, supporting the responsive web design, mobile first and cross browser development.
• Hands on experience in Smoke testing, Sanity testing, Black box testing, Regression testing, Ad hoc testing, Integration testing, System testing.
• Extensive experience in creating Test Plans, developing Test Scenarios and Strategies.
• Well versed in Web based application testing, Front-end Testing, Functional Testing, WAI testing.
• Experienced in cross browser testing and executed same test cases on -IE-6.0, Firefox, Chrome, Mozilla.
• Experience in migration testing and validated functionality of the same application in Window XP and Windows 7.
• Experience in data validation, Database Testing and Reports testing using queries and PLSQL tools like Toad, SQL+, Rapidsql.
• Involved in backend testing and sound knowledge of writing and modifying UNIX scripts using commands and as per the UNIX requirements.
• Experience in interaction with team members in fixing errors and worked as a coordinator for projects tested offshore.
• Involved in defects triage with development and business teams.
• Sound knowledge of creating requirement traceability matrix.
• In depth knowledge Use Cases, Business requirement understanding, LLDs and HLDs.
• Proficient in analyzing and reporting test results, develop and implement Quality Assurance Metrics.
• Participated in implementation, Code Reviews and support as well as Software Testing Life Cycle.
• Good exposure to HP Quality Center, Risk Management, CMMi Level5 quality procedures and knowledge on complete Software Development Life Cycle.
• Possesses good analytical, client relationship and leadership skills.
• Good communication and inter-personal skills, accustomed to working in a team environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Area: System Requirement Analysis, GUI, functional, Integration, System, White box testing, Block box techniques and Manual Test

Operating Systems: Windows 98/NT/2000/2003/XP Professional /7/10.

Test Mgmt tools: HP Quality Center

Testing tools: Mercury QTP, Test Center

DB Tools: Toad, PLSQL developer, RapidSQL

Defect tracking tools: Quality Center, JIRA, Bugzilla, HP ALM tools, GIMS, SVN

Languages: Pascal,C, C++, VB, SQL, PL/SQL., HTML,XML,CSS, Javascript

Scripting Languages: JavaScript

Programming Tools: TurboC,Edit+,Notepad++

Databases: Oracle 10G, Sybase, DB2, MySQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Analyst/Testing Professional

Responsibilities:

• Created dashboard to track progress of testing efforts for separate workflows
• Analyzed business requirements and functional documents, created test strategy documents that define the test environment, phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria into different phases of testing and resources required to conduct the effort.
• Designed and developed Page Object using Page Object Design Pattern and Selenium WebDriver.
• Performed functional testing, integration testing and validation testing on various applications with manual testing process.
• Reviewed and updated Requirement Traceability Matrices (RTM) that satisfy all required project’s test conditions.
• Created automation framework in Selenium WebDriver Cucumber using behavior driven approach for built acceptance testing and smoke testing.
• Reported software defects in Quality Center and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Analyzed test results, tracked the defects and generated reports using Quality Center.
• Prepared the data to cover various scenarios and wrote SQL scripts to verify the database updates, inserts and deletion of the records.
• Participated in QA weekly meetings and various other meetings.

Environment: HP ALM Quality Center, SQL, MS Office tool, Selenium

Confidential, McLean, DC

QA Analyst/Testing Professional

Responsibilities:

• Created dashboard to track progress of testing efforts for various streams affected by Single Securitization updates
• Involved in understanding Business Level Requirements
• Prepared Test plans having test strategies, test deliverables, etc.
• Reviewed and created Test cases to verify message exchange between different subsystems
• Performed initial manual testing of the application as part of sanity testing
• Performed various tests such as positive, negative to check business functionality manually
• Performed Black Box testing and conducted Functionality and Regression testing
• Created RTM (requirement traceability matrix) to map requirements to test cases
• Communicated with SMEs and Business to understand black boxes in the application flow

Environment - HP ALM Quality Center, SQL, MS Office tool, Windows 7, Regression testing

Confidential, DC

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed requirements and reviewed the BRD to understand the existing workflow.
• Identified requirements to transferred the same to upgraded technology as part of application development requirement.
• Reviewed test plan and test specification for business requirements, mapped requirements to the test cases to identify any gaps.
• Attended client meetings to fill gaps in understanding.

Environment: JIRA, MS Office tools, PEGA

Confidential, McLean, DC

QA Analyst/Testing Professional

Responsibilities:

• Involved in understanding Business Level Requirements
• Prepared Test plans having test strategies, test deliverables, etc.
• Created Test cases to cover basic flow for regression testing purpose
• Performed initial manual testing of the application as part of sanity testing
• Created sql scripts to retrieve records from database
• Executed queries to verify data integrity and redundancy
• Created and executed sql join queries to validate data consistency
• Performed various tests such as positive, negative to check business functionality manually
• Performed Black Box testing and conducted Functionality and Regression testing
• Performed security testing to check user access and authorization
• Involved in SOX compliance testing
• Created RTM (requirement traceability matrix) to map requirements to test cases
• Created automation and executed script for the regression scenarios using
• Verified that the application ran smoothly both on Windows XP and Windows 7
• Performed ETL testing by validating reports, sort order, comparing source to target,
• Verified the table schema as per requirements
• Validated Facts and attributes in a Microstrategy report against the requirements.

Environment - HP ALM Quality Center, QTP, VB Script, SQL, MS Office tool, BeyondCompare, RapidSQL, Toad, Unix, Windows XP, Windows 7, Regression testing

Confidential

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as testing lead for coordinating and performing functional and system testing.
• Initiated the setup of testing activities by creating a shared location to store and share testing artifacts amongst the team, this shared space was accessible to both offshore and onsite teams.
• Involved in reviewing and verifying SOW and map the functional test cases to the statement of work guidelines.
• Inducted new team members to the project and developed knowledge sharing documents to be shared by the team.
• Tracked testing progress and conducted weekly team meetings amongst the team.
• Involved in daily status calls and information sharing sessions for the onsite offshore model.
• Consolidated and reviewed the test case and test specifications.
• Executed test cases and logged, tracked and reported defects.
• Developed queries in toad from requirements to validate against the reports generated.
• Analyzed functional requirements documents for multiple projects and manually Conducted Positive and Negative testing.
• Wrote the detail test cases for Functional and Regression testing and updated in QC/ALM
• Participated in organization level audit activities.
• Verified user accesses for different users

Environment: HP-QC,Windows, SharePoint, Citrix,Siebel 8.1, Oracle 10G, MS Office tools.

Confidential

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as testing lead for coordinating and performing functional and system testing.
• Initiated the setup of testing activities by creating a shared location to store and share testing artifacts amongst the team, this shared space was accessible to both offshore and onsite teams.
• Tracked testing progress and conducted weekly team meetings amongst the team.
• Involved in daily status calls and information sharing sessions for the onsite offshore model.
• Consolidated and reviewed the test case and test specifications.
• Executed test cases and logged, tracked and reported defects.
• Analyzed functional requirements documents for multiple projects and manually conducted positive and negative testing.
• Executed regression testing and updated in QC/ALM
• Participated in organization level audit activities.
• Verified user accesses for different users

Environment: HP-QC, Windows, Oracle10G, MS Office tools, Citrix

• ISTQB
• OCP