PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• ISTQB certified tester with 6 years of diversified Software Quality Assurance and testing experience in client/server and web based applications.
• Experience in the area of Quality Assurance, Verification and Validation in the field of Finance, Banking and Insurance domains.
• Involved in implementing QA Standards, Guidelines and Regulations in large project environments.
• Experience in writing Manual and Automated Scripts performing Functional, Regression, Integration and System Testing using Test Script Language (TSL)& VBScripts.
• Good knowledge of Automated Test Tools like QTP, LoadRunner, WinRunner and Quality Center.
• Involved in testing of database using SQL queries (select, update, Joins, Views statements).
• Proficient in Black Box Testing, QA and QC Methodologies, Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing.
• Proven multi tasking capabilities with strong ability to prioritize and manage complex products under aggressive deadlines.
• Expertise in testing complex Client - Server and Web applications.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life cycle (SDLC ) and Software Testing Life cycle (STLC)
• Used Equivalence Class Partitioning and Boundary Value Conditions for deriving Test cases.
• Discover and document defects as well as report usability issues and recommendations. Extensive use of defect tracking tools with Mercury Test Director.
• Interfacing with developers, technical support personnel, other department representatives and customers.
• Excellent written verbal communication skills. Experience in working in a team and independently to resolve technical issues of a project.
• Proven ability to support multiple projects, under tight deadlines often with competing priorities and complexities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows NT/ 95/98/2000/2003 , UNIX

Languages: JAVA, VB Script, SQL

Databases: Oracle 9i, MS SQL Server

GUI/ Web Related: HTML, JavaScript, XML, XHTML, VB Script.

Testing Tools: QTP, Quality center, WinRunner, LoadRunner, QC Rally, Team Track

Servers: Web Logic, Web Sphere, IIS, Tomcat, Siebel.

Tools: Adobe Acrobat Suite, Microsoft office Suite, Power Point.

Domain: Retail, Banking and Insurance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business needs, user requirements and specifications, formulated changes and tested changes to make sure the application was adhering to business standards.
• Involved in writing Test Plan, numerous Test Cases and Test Scripts using Mercury Quality Center. Logged defects using Team track Defect Management tool.
• Actively participated in System Testing, Monthly Patch Testing and Stress testing.
• Responsible for identifying the functional test cases for Regression Testing.
• Tested the functionality of individual module and also tested the interface between the linked modules.
• Conducted defect management tracking, verification and closure using Team Track.
• Responsible for keeping test schedule working directly with software engineers to ensure clear communications on requirements and defect reports.
• Worked actively in agile development environment.
• Facilitated and participated in weekly defect meetings with developers and managers to discuss outstanding technical issues and deadlines that had to be met.

Environment: .NET, PL/SQL, Oracle, Linux, Cobol/CICS/DB2, IBM Mainframe, MVC4/ASP.NET JQuery, SQL Server 2012, C#.

Confidential, Stamford, CT.

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and reviewed the user/business requirements and functional specs documents
• Involved in System Testing and Manual Testing.
• Developed and automated end to end manual test cases for playback module.
• Automated the application by using QTP.
• Extensively used Quick Test Pro methods to create automated scripts.
• Enhanced the test scripts by creating Actions, Reusable Actions and external Actions in Quick test Pro.
• Set the QA Environment for Manual Testing as well as for Automation.
• Effectively worked in Agile development environment.
• Created Project, Requirements, Test Plans and Tests in Quality Center.
• Developed automated test scripts from manual test cases for Regression testing based on the requirement documents using Quick Test Professional.
• Used Test Director for defect reporting and tracking,

Work Environment: QTP 8.0/8.2, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, DB2, Java, J2EE, Team Track, VBScript, Web Logic Server 8.1

Confidential, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and Analyzed System Requirement Specs (SRS), high level requirements, use cases, detailed level requirements and design documents.
• Developed test cases based on business requirements.
• Managed the interaction between team and customers.
• Generated test scenarios, executed tests cases and reported the test results.
• Documented the defects in Quality Center and assigned it to the development team.
• Documented the defects in Quality Center and assigned it to the development team.
• Using Quality Center. Documented problems found during test on the Quality Center system and communicated recorded problem to the responsible QA Manager.
• Wrote Modification Request for bugs found during test execution using Quality Center
• Created test cases, executed and recorded results of test cases using Quality Center
• Used Quality Center for tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status
• Executed SQL queries to perform database testing using SQL Plus.
• Used SQL Queries were to retrieve data from tables and to perform Back-End testing.
• Write SQL Query to extract data from various database tables for testing purpose.
• Performed functional and non-functional tests on the applications utilizing the test scripts developed in Quick Test Pro.
• Executed automation test scripts for functional and regression testing of the application using QTP.

Environment: Quality Center 9.0, UAT .NET, ASP.NET, VB, C#, SQL server, QTP, XML, HTML, DNS, PERL, Oracle 9i, HTTP, SOAP, JAVA/J2EE, UNIX, Java and MS Office.

Confidential, MA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the complete testing lifecycle spanning pre-testing phase, acceptance testing phase, testing phase and also in user acceptance testing.
• Involved in all phases of testing like Smoke, Functional, User interface, and System testing, Regression, Performance and Stress testing.
• Wrote Test Scripts for automation of Regression testing and verifying the application expected behavior at different stages by inserting various Checkpoints.
• Created GUI checkpoints to compare the behavior of GUI objects and to check for broken web links in all the modules.
• Used bitmap checking for images and compared the results with different versions of the applications in order to get any discrepancies in the images.
• Created runtime database record checkpoint to compare the information in the application with the record in the database.
• Performed Data-Driven testing to read test input data from an external source so as to test the application with different positive and negative data and wrote some reusable functions.
• Carried out Data Driven Tests to run multiple iterations with random data.
• Configured Test Director tool for automated Test planning, Execution and Defect tracking for the department.
• Developed SQL scripts for validating the data in the database.

Work Environment: Java, J2EE Architecture, JavaScript, Oracle, Toad, Quality Center, SQL, WINDOWS NT.