SUMMARY:

• 7 years of IT experience in Software Testing (Automation and Manual).
• Proficient in managing Software Testing Lifecycle (STLC) phases - functional & business requirements analysis, test planning & documentation, test execution, defect management & reporting, and production deployment testing.
• Experience of working closely with the Development Team, Business Analyst, and Marketing/Business to review the design of systems, develop test plans, and test the quality of software products.
• Extensive experience in software development and/or product testing within a SDLC process
• Worked with Agile and Scrum model of SDLC process.
• Working knowledge in C, C++, SQL, VBScript, HTML and proficient in SQL Validation Scripts and UNIX Shell Scripting.
• Extensively handled Functional, Integration, System, Regression, User Acceptance, and Load Testing.
• Experience in preparing and maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix document.
• Preparing and managing the project testing schedule & quality of deliverables
• Experience on developing TestPlan, Test Strategy and Estimations for Large scale projects
• Preparing Status Report, Test Plan and Traceability Matrix.
• Performed functional testing, regression testing using QTP record and playback
• Good knowledge in Preparation of Automated Test Scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP/UFT)
• Hands on experience in Quality Center
• Good knowledge in writing SQL queries on databases like Oracle and MS SQL to validate the data on front end applications
• Good Knowledge of Unix commands and worked under Unix environment.
• In-depth understanding of application testing with emphasis on web-based and client server applications.
• Impressive communication and interpersonal skills with clear understanding of business rules.
• Good interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills with proven abilities in team management, planning, and vendor/customer relationship management. Fast learner, and have ability to grasp emerging technologies.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Manual testing: Writing and executing test cases, Test planning, SDLC, STLC, Defect Tracking and ReportingSQL, PL/SQL, Unix, Shell Scripts, VB Script, C, C++, Java, J2EE, .Net, Visual Basic, MS Visio, MS Excel

Testing tools & utilities: HP Quality Center 9.2, QTP, UFT 5, LoadRunner 11.5 Toad, Test Director, IBM Rational Clearquest SoapUI, Putty, Remedy System, WinSCP, XMLSpy, EditPlus, VSS, DbVisualizer6, WinRunner, Bugzilla

Operating System platforms: Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP, MAC INTOSH OSX Unix, Sun Solaris

Application Servers: BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere

Documentation: Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Approach, Test Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Production Test plan & Checklist, Best Practices, Test execution Report, Defect Report, Daily/Weekly Status Report

AREA OF EXPERTISE:

• Software Testing Life Cycle
• Manual Testing and Automation Testing
• Shell Scripting.
• Enterprise SOA services testing
• Message/Event Driven Architecture testing
• All form of SDLC including Agile, Scrum Model
• SQL & PL/SQL

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Executing test cases/test plans against test environments. Analyzing and documenting test results.
• Analysis of the technical requirements, and overall impact of each Release/CR.
• Writing sql queries, and procedures for data extraction, and validation on Oracle database
• Coordinating with team members and business analysts for resolving customers issues.
• Validating functionality in QA and production servers in UNIX environment.
• Validating API for current customer data.
• Replicating production issues in QA environment and assisting QA.
• Developed and executed various end-to-end scripts using QTP for automated testing of each individual Functionality & Regression Testing of the applications.
• Responsible for GUI Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing and Acceptance Testing using QTP.
• Prepared status summary reports with details of executed, passed and failed test cases.
• Responsible in providing regular test reports to the management.
• Developed Test scripts in QTP.
• Executed the Automated and Manual Test Cases and reviewed the defects.
• Reported the Defects through Quality Center.

Environment: Quality Center, Test Director, LoadRunner, UFT, Oracle 10g/11g, MS SQL Server 2007, Manual Testing

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Business Requirements, Functional Specification and Design Documents.
• Involved in Preparing Test Scenarios, Test Conditions and Test Cases based on the Functional specifications, Design Documents and Use Cases.
• Involved in Reviewing and Finalizing the Test Cases for the Execution.
• Involved in Functional Testing and Regression Testing by using Mercury Automation tool QTP.
• Conducted GUI Testing, Navigation Testing and Smoke Testing and Compatibility Testing.
• Creating and configuring the standard and custom objects using Virtual Object wizard.
• Executed scripts with different sets of data using Data Driven Wizard in QTP.
• Creating, executing, coding and enhancing the Automation test scripts using QTP
• Uploading the Manual and Automated Functional Test Cases into Test Plan Tab in the Quality Center.
• Mapping the Test Cases from Test Plan Tab to Test Lab Tab under Quality Center for Execution.
• Executed the Automated and Manual Test Cases and reviewed the defects.
• Preparation of Defect Summary report and Daily Status reports.
• Performed Regression testing for the various modules of the application.
• Developed scripts for the applications as required.
• Coordinated with support team in providing the inputs to resolve the QTP issues.
• Made every effort to accommodate all testing requests and deliver a quality product to meet the expectations of the customer.
• Reported defects through Quality Center.
• Always worked with strong sense of responsibility, not only took the ownership of the task assigned but was also accountable for the task performed.
• As a coordinator to execute the test cases interacted with customers and team members in accomplishing the tasks of executing the smoke tests, updating the progress of the process,
• Advocated ideas those were productive both for the project and the company as a whole.
• Also suggested and implemented to record and log the issues encountered with QTP freezing issues to effectively use them in resolving the issues.

Environment: Quality Center, Test Director, LoadRunner, QTP, Java, J2EE, HTML, MS SQL Server, Manual Testing

Confidential, New York, NY

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Approach, Test Conditions and Test Data Characteristics document as project deliverables.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing
• Analyzed data warehouse requirements
• Reviewed test strategy and used it for test design
• Identified and prepared test data.
• Prepared Defect Status report using Quality Center during the UAT phase of the project.
• Scheduled daily test status calls with the business partners.
• Worked with business partners to understand requirements and prepare Business Requirement Document.
• Draft use cases and scenarios based on Business Requirement Document.
• Design & Execution of Test Cases/Scripts.
• Analysis of Test results and logging defects in Quality Center.

Environment: WinRunner, Test Director, Quick Test Professional, C++, HTML, MS SQL Server, Unix/Linux

Confidential a

QA programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Test Plan Review. Worked closely with multiple teams: Development, Support, Admin and Business Analysts.
• Test Management: Assigning Test Cases to the team. Compliance activities.
• Daily status report & issues communication to Onsite team and client.
• Writing sql queries, and procedures for data extraction, and validation on Oracle database
• Coordinating with team members and business analysts for resolving customers issues.
• Conducted Security testing by Checking restricted privileges and roles to the users.
• Validating functionality in QA and production servers in UNIX environment.
• Validating API for current customer data.
• Replicating production issues in QA environment and assisting QA.
• Induction of new team members, and project ramp-up.

Environment: J2ee, Oracle 9i, XML, Web logic 8.1, Quick Test Professional 8.2, Clear quest, Toad, Win cvs

Confidential

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Functional Tester and Test Analyst.
• Requirement study and identification of business scenarios.
• Preparation of Test Plans, Test cases and test data’s.
• Involved in Automation Test Plan preparation.
• Execution of test cases and logging the test results
• Responsible for Regression Test Plan and Test Execution.
• Involved in Sanity, GUI, Functional and Regression Testing.
• Track the test data and test environment on daily and weekly basis
• Traceability Matrix developed to map Requirements with Test cases.
• Reviewing the business requirements document, and technical specifications document and created Test Scenarios
• Coordinated testing with onsite team to review and publish the test results to the clients
• Preparation of Low Level Design Documents.
• Design & Execution of Test Cases/Scripts.
• Analysis of Test results and logging defects in QC.
• Maintenance of test cases as per changing business needs/requirements.

Environment: WinRunner, Test Director, Quick Test Professional, Visual Basic 6.0, .NET, HTML, MS SQL Server, Windows XP