PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of experience in IT industry that involved software development engineer and Software Quality Assurance and testing in the areas of Client - Server and Web Applications.
• Extensive working experience in Agile and Waterfall Methodologies.
• Significant experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) that included Requirement Gathering, Analysis/Design, Documentation, Development and Testing.
• Experience in using Test Director and Quality Center that were used for test management, tracking defects.
• Strong experience in Manual testing with emphasis on Integration Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Database Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing.
• Solid experience in writing Test scenarios, Test Conditions, Defining Test Cases, Developing and maintaining Test Scripts, Test plans, Defects and Status Reports.
• Familiar in designing and developing automation test scripts using Quick Test Professional
• Automation experience in using QTP and Win runner tools. Coded, Organized scripts as per the framework and Executed test scripts across various releases.
• Experienced in Database Testing by executing queries in SQL Server, Oracle database and DB2 environments.
• Outstanding organizational, communication & interpersonal skills.
• Ability to see tasks through to completion with minimal guidance.
• Can analyze client requirements and ascertain needs beyond requests.
• Have knowledge of Banking, Insurance and Fixed Income investment domain.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 98/NT/2000/XP,MS DOS and UNIX

Languages: UML 2.0, SQL, PL/SQ, C, C++, VB 6.0, Java, C#.NET, VB.NET,ASP.NET,HTML, RPG/400

Databases: Oracle 9x/10g, SQL Server 2005/2008 and MS-AccessDB2

Testing Tools: QTP, Test Director, Mercury Quality Center

Database Tools: SQL*PLUS, Toad, Informatica, SQL Navigator

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall

Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center, Test Director

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participate in all phases of the QA Life Cycle and SDLC, with timely delivery against aggressive deadlines with QA methodologies
• Understand the requirement and prepare the test cases
• Participate in BRD sign off and CFT (Cross Functional Training) meetings
• Prepare and execute functional and regression testing
• Participate in performance testing
• Execute and track testing process using Quality Center
• Work with developers to resolve defects
• Involved in peer reviews within the team to review test plans and test cases
• Involved in interface testing for vendor Choice Point
• Determined Test Environment requirements.
• Developed Base line scripts for testing the future releases of the application using QTP
• Responsible for Data mapping and testing of back-end stored procedures for parsing the response back from the vendor Choice-Point.
• Reviewed existing test Scripts and made alterations to the current testing environment.
• Performed Regression testing for every new build and enhancements
• Executed SQL Queries to check table updates and data retrieval and performed database testing
• Analyzed the test results and logged the defects in Quality center

Environment: Quality Center, Unix, C#.NET, Oracle

Confidential, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Agile/Scrum environment and familiarized with the AGILE terminology such as Backlog(User Stories), Sprint Backlog, Product increment, Retrospective, Impediments.
• Analyzed the Business Requirements (BRD) related to Credit Worx online and Confidential .
• Actively participated in daily bug triage meetings and interacted with developers diplomatically to ensure high quality.
• Prepared test plan and test strategy documents.
• Authored Test cases and Test scenarios based on the Requirement Documents.
• Created and executed test scripts for Smoke/Sanity, Integration and System Testing phases of the software test cycle.
• Involved in preparing Traceability matrix and Test plan templates.
• Also performed User interface testing, Database testing.
• Continuously Enhanced test scripts as per requirements.
• Involved in Functional testing and Regression cycles for the entire application.
• Responsible for Reviewing Test Cases for other modules.
• Worked closely with users and program developers to ensure that the application development met the user expectations during the User Acceptance Testing phase.
• Logged defects using Quality Center.

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, InternetExplorer6.5, Netscape Navigator 6x/7x, Windows XP/2000, UNIX shell script, QTP 9.0, .NET, Adobe 5.0/6.0/7.0,VISIO

Confidential, CA

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of the QA Life Cycle and SDLC, with timely delivery against aggressive deadlines with QA methodologies
• Prepare and execute functional and regression testing
• Participate in performance testing
• Execute and track testing process using Quality Center
• Work with developers to resolve defects
• Involved in peer reviews within the team to review test plans and test cases
• Involved in interface testing for vendor Choice Point
• Determined Test Environment requirements.
• Developed Base line scripts for testing the future releases of the application using QTP
• Responsible for Data mapping and testing of back-end stored procedures for parsing the response back from the vendor Choice-Point.
• Reviewed existing test Scripts and made alterations to the current testing environment.
• Performed Regression testing for every new build and enhancements
• Executed SQL Queries to check table updates and data retrieval and performed database testing
• Analyzed the test results and logged the defects in Quality center

Environment: Mozilla Firefox, IE 7.0, DB2, Quality Center, Unix, C#.NET, RPG/400

Confidential, CA

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated BRD review meetings along with Dev and BA
• Prepared the test scripts based on the functional requirement
• Created and executed test scripts for Smoke/Sanity, Integration and System Testing phases of the software test cycle
• Prepared the test scripts for the interface testing
• Involved in developing Test Complete Metrics and participated in Defect Review meetings
• Worked closely with users and program developers to ensure that the application development met the user expectations during the User Acceptance Testing phase
• Continuously Enhanced test scripts as per requirements.
• Reviewed existing test Scripts and made alterations to the current testing Environment
• Performed Regression testing for every new build and enhancements
• Participated in production shakeouts scheduled during production releases
• Executed SQL Queries to check table updates and data retrieval and performed database testing
• Log and track the defect status in Quality Center

Environment: Mozilla Firefox, IE 7.0, DB2, Quality Center, Unix, C#.NET, RPG/400

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in daily bug triage meetings and interacted with developers diplomatically to ensure high quality
• Created and executed test scripts for Smoke/Sanity, Integration and System Testing phases of the software test cycle
• Performed Data validation to ensure accuracy and quality of data
• Involved in developing Test Complete Metrics and participated in Defect Review meetings
• Worked closely with users and program developers to ensure that the application development met the user expectations during the User Acceptance Testing phase
• Determined Test Environment requirements.
• Continuously Enhanced test scripts as per requirements.
• Reviewed existing test Scripts and made alterations to the current testing Environment
• Performed Regression testing for every new build and enhancements
• Participated in production shakeouts scheduled during production releases
• Executed SQL Queries to check table updates and data retrieval and performed database testing
• Conducted Multi browser testing on IE and Netscape
• Log and track the defect status in Quality Center

Environment: Mozilla Firefox, IE 7.0, Oracle 10g, SQL Navigator, Quality Center, Unix, C#.NET

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understand the BRD and prepare the test cases
• Performed smoke testing and integration testing
• Work with developers to resolve defects
• Testing the Stored procedures in SQL-Server
• Modify the test scripts and test scenarios as per the changing requirements
• Prepare Traceability matrix to efficiently track the test cases
• Provide timely status updates to the lead

Environment: C, C++, Oracle, Apache web server, Win excel, QTP 9.0, Test director

Confidential

Associate Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and prepared test cases and test scenarios.
• Updated test cases through excel plug-in into test director.
• Participated in reviews, inspections and walkthroughs.
• Was actively involved in training new joiners on new requirements. Expert in making presentations on behalf of the team.
• Performed Sanity Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Automated testing, and Regression testing across various releases.
• Developed Base line scripts for testing future releases of the application using QTP 9.0.
• Executed the Automated test scripts across various releases and analyzed the results.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Oracle, Apache web server, Win excel, QTP 9.0, Test director.