PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 6+ years of experience in Manual Testing and Automated Testing of Client/Server and Web - Based applications.
• An energetic, team-oriented, and process-focused professional with excellent communication skills in Software Quality Assurance field
• Proficient in Automation Testing with HPQuick Test Professional
• Experienced in using SQL for querying Databases by writing Joins and Aggregate Functions.
• Expertise in Testing levels like Sanity, System, Inter-System and Regression Testing.
• Experienced in preparingTest strategy, Test Plan, Test Design, Traceability, Test Summary and Status Reports.
• Currently a part of an Agile Scrum team.
• Extensive knowledge about Software Testing life cycle (STLC).
• Good understanding of Web service components like WSDL, XML and TIBCO Rendezvous Bus.
• Experienced in automation of Web service basedapplications using SOA test tool
• Regular Interaction with Business users, System Analysts, Development team for delivering quality software.
• Experienced in working in important phases of Testing Life Cycle like GUI Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing/Black box Testing, System Testing, Acceptance Testing, Performance and Load/Stress Testing.
• Experienced in structuring test requirements, test methodologies, test planning, test case design, test procedures, testscenarios, and test scripts in black box testing.
• Experienced in developing test plans, test cases and test scripts to ensure proper business compliance using HP Quality Center.
• Extensively experienced in using HP Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting the modification requests
• Experienced in working closely with users and business analysts, project managers, developers to understand requirements, business processes for testing and attending walkthroughs.
• Experienced in defect tracking and test management tools like HP Quality Center &, Clear Quest
• Experience in developing and executing queries for SQL server and Oracle databases for back end testing.
• Experienced in creating Requirement Traceability Matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements
• Extensive knowledge in gathering and understanding BRDs (Business Requirements Document), FRDs (Functional Requirements Document), SRS (System Requirement Specifications) and Used cases
• Excellent Analytical andCommunication skills.
• Remarkable ability to quickly learnto use new software and get accustomed to a team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows XP Professional, Windows 7, Unix

Languages: SQL

RDBMS: Oracle 9i, 10

Software Expertise: Rational Requisite Pro, Caliber RM, Netcool, Toad, Putty, SOA Test,Bus Tester

Test Management Tools: HP Quality center or ALM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hartford, CT

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement analysis meetings with business users and system analysts
• Develop test plans, test cases, test scripts and test reports
• Review functional specification and design documents to ensure that requirements are testable and to create test plans
• Validation of data on web portal and through SQLs
• Preparation and Execution of testcases in HP Application Life cycle management
• Ensure that defect/bug reports are recorded and reported in a timely manner, including giving input on priority and severity and closing resolved issues.
• Identify and communicate business risks relative to testing and implementation for evaluation by project teams
• Provide estimates and feedback to the Project Manager for project scheduling purposes
• Ensure that defects uncovered in the test are recorded, summarized and utilized in post project reviews in an effort to improve the development and test processes.
• Continuously look for ways to improve the internal Quality Assurance process

Tools: and Software: HP ALM,Microsoft SQL server 2008

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the team to bring ourselves up to speed with Agile Software Development and Scrum Methodology.
• Participated in Backlog grooming to improve the details of the user stories.
• Interacted with Scrum masters, Product owners, Developers and Architects to identify new user stories and to implement the identified stories.
• Constant communication and Knowledge transfer to all team mates about the overall project objectives and scope of releases.
• Automation of validating the data using Quick test Professional
• Creation of Views and tables to validate data through SQL queries
• Performed extensive manual testing on critical functionalities of the application.
• Created and tested scenarios using positive and negative test data.
• Utilized HP Quality Center for test management and defect tracking purposes.
• Identified gaps in the end to end feature functionality and discussed the same with Project managers and scrum masters to add them to the back log.
• Involved in conducting the System testing, Integration testing of the application.
• Prioritized and reported defects, presented documents and reports in daily scrum meetings.
• Identified testing tool needs and conducted sessions on them to the team about using them efficiently.
• Hosted Test case review meetings to walk through the functional test cases with business and developers.
• Identifying environment and test data to be tested in each run cycle
• Estimating the required work for the Project
• Hosted several meetings with business and development team to discuss requirements and change requests.
• Reviewed test cases written by the team
• Coordinating and updating the clients and offshore team
• Preparation of test summary and status reports.
• Responsible for hosting weekly defect review calls with program managers and developers to discuss the new and open defects, ETAs and root causes for the same.
• Responsible for hosting meetings with business users to discuss gating issues before deployment.
• Interaction with the business users during UAT and providing support for the same.
• Involved in sanity testing in Production during deployment

Tools: and Software: HP ALM, QTP, Notepad ++, Toad

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

QA lead

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Business and IT Requirements through Requirements management Tool, Caliber
• Preparation of LOE and resource planning
• Preparation of test plan, schedule, test cases and traceability
• Hosted meetings for test plan review, test case review
• Attend weekly status calls with clients
• Coordinated Testing Tasks with Off-Shore team
• Preparation of status reports using Roll up Metrics GUI and SQA portal GUI
• Reporting test execution status by creating dashboards in quality center, Roll up Metrics, SQA portal
• Interaction and co-ordination with development team for new functionalities and bug fixes
• Interacted with business users and proactively provided support for UAT
• Preparation of test summary and review records.
• Develop and execute functional/system test cases to ensure product meets functional and design specifications.
• Tested the Tibco bus services using Bus tester.
• Worked with SQL queries to test database functionality.
• Automation of regression suite
• Provided support for Intersystem testing with upstream and downstream applications

Tools: and Software: HP ALM, HP Quick Test Professional, Caliber RM, Oracle, Toad, Netcool, Bus tester, Chronique, PuTTY,SOA test tool

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

QA lead

Responsibilities:

• Study of functional requirements in caliber and creating stories in Requisite pro for projects.
• Test Plan Preparation for system Test and Inter system test and uploading in Quality Centre
• Test case reviews and Walk through
• Involved in setting up testing Environment using putty prior to each release.
• Designing and documentation of the test cases in QC
• Creation of functional test cases and regression suite.
• Execution of test cases for system testing and Regression testing in Quality Center
• GUI testing on Integrator application and validation of orders by executing SQL queries
• Co ordination with the Configuration team to setup the Build and Batches on time.
• Involved in Intersystem activities for test case and test data identification
• Reporting Defects in QC and reworking on them
• Have Documented the Testing procedures
• Have Documented the Environment details
• Refining regression testing process using Automation Tool - Winrunner
• Tested the Tibco bus services using Bus tester.
• Verifying the execution of SQL scripts.
• Have contributed ideas to automate Integrator application
• Have documented a number of test cases to make testing process people-independent and to supplement regression testing
• Have ensured bug-free delivery to the customer
• Have received appreciation from client for Test case reviews and testing
• Have mentored six new joiners about application, testing methodologies, processes and functionality and have shared the responsibilities.
• Calculation of test effectiveness after each release
• Performing root cause analysis on Sev 1 and Sev 2 defects
• Executing automation test cases using Winrunner
• Co-ordinating and updating the clients and onshore team.
• Prepared weekly and monthly status reports to clients for Metrics.
• Delivered presentations on the application to the directors.
• Data support and knowledge transfer on the application to members of the interacting applications.
• Peer review of Test cases and test results
• Provided support for Inter-System Testing and UAT and interacting applications as and when required
• Interacting with the client on weekly basis to provide them the current status of Project.
• Automatedthe Integrator GUI using Test Mentor tool and execution of Winrunner scripts

Software and Tools:HP Quality Center, Winrunner, Bus Tester,TOAD, Caliber, Requisite Pro, SOA test tool, PuTTY,WinSCP, Qwest developed tools - Test Mentor and XPlanner.