PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Around 3 Years of IT experience with emphasis and expertise in Quality Assurance, Testing, Analysis, Documentation of both Web - Based and client server Applications.
• Expertise in Designing and Developing Test plans, Test cases and Generating Test Scripts.
• Strong knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Test Life Cycle (STLC).
• Extensive knowledge of QA Standards methodology.
• Strong analytical and QA/testing skills, capacity for work and diagnostic ability, gathering different kind of project requirements.
• Experience with QA Methodology and QA Validations to ensure Quality Assurance and Control.
• Excellent Knowledge in Agile and Waterfall models of SDLC.
• Strong Experience in Testing Client Server applications, Web application using both Manual and Automated testing tools.
• Experience using various automated testing tools like Quick Test Professional (QTP)/UFT, Quality Center (QC)/ALM.
• Developed automated framework for QTP/UFT from scratch
• Expertise in automating Application by writing VB Script in QTP/UFT from scratch.
• Well versed with defect tracking tools Quality Center/ALM, Clear Quest, and Bugzilla.
• Extensive experience in Building and Executing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases according to Business, Functional and User Requirement Specifications and Writing Test Scripts and Reports.
• Experienced on working with Excel sheets, like loading data in and out.
• Experience in testing database applications of RDBMS in ORACLE, PL/SQL and SQL Server.
• Expertise in writing and executing SQL Queries and querying the database using SQL to check out for successful transactions, reporting and prioritizing software bugs according to the severity.
• Participated in bug meetings with developers to validate the severity of the bug.
• Experience in Black box, smoke, regression testing.
• Experienced in software testing which involved development of test cases and test scripts and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Strong skills in Back-End testing using SQL queries generating reports to ensure data integrity.
• Experience in Back end testing in Unix/Linux Environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing tools: HP ALM 11, Quality Center (QC) 11/10/9.2, HP Quick Test Professional (QTP) 9.1/9.2/10.0 , Test Director, Load Runner

Other tools: Bugzilla, Rational Clear Quest, VSS, Rational Clear Case, Toad, SQL Developer, and Crystal Reports

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, VB Script

Web Applications: HTML, DHTML, XML

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows XP/2000/Vista/7

Database: MS Access, SQL Server 2005/2008/2010 , Oracle 9i/10g/11g

PROFESSIONAL EXPERINCE:

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathering specifications and requirements from development personnel prior to testing.
• Performed Automated (UFT/QTP) and Manual Testing, reported bugs and was responsible to keep track of them.
• Analyzed the system requirements and developed test plans using technical specifications.
• Involved in developing the test cases for manual testing using HP Tools (Quality Center/ALM).
• Created Customized checkpoints in QTP to perform checks of each and every action performed by QTP script.
• Performed manual and Automated Back-End testing
• Executed automated test scripts using QTP to perform thorough testing.
• Performed parameterization of automated test scripts in QTP to check how the application performs against multiple sets of data.
• Extensively executed SQL queries on Oracle and SQL tables In order to view successful transactions of data and for validating data and backed testing
• Developed User-Acceptance Test scripts and assisted users in conducting UAT.
• Created reports and defects tracking Using Quality Center/ALM.
• Actively participated in a group of 10 Agile group. Agile development consisted of several sprints.
• Used QC/ALM for overall test management - Requirements, Test Cases, Execution, and Analysis.

Environment: UFT/QTP, Quality Center/ALM, JAVA, J2EE, PL/SQL, Visio, Windows, SOAPUI

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed software requirements and Functional requirements documents (FRD) to get better understanding of the application.
• Created and executed test cases and scripts to verify functionality and adherence to business requirements.
• Followed up with standard software testing life cycle (STLC) to perform different types of testing for the projects.
• Participated in meetings and walkthroughs.
• Documented test cases and conducted manual testing using Quality Center.
• Tested formulas for various loan, interest calculations, and currency conversions required for reporting purposes.
• Performed backend testing of database files using SQL queries.
• Involved in Functional, Regression Testing and Integration Testing
• Conducted Integration testing by coordinating with different teams.
• Defects were tracked, captured, managed and communicated through defect reports, changes and project issues using QC.
• Worked with the environment support team to establish testing environments and resolve issues with the environments during the entire testing process.
• Used QC for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.
• Documented the test results and reported the status of assigned test tasks and issues to team lead
• Performed regression testing using QTP and reduced execution time.
• Performed parameterization of automated test scripts in QTP to check how the application performs against multiple sets of data.
• Prepared Test summary by reporting number of test cycles executed, which can also be represented in graphical form.

Environment: HP Quality Center 10, QTP 9.2, SQL, .NET, SQL SERVER 2008, Wilds Plus, Windows 7 and SOAPUI.