CAREER SUMMARY:

• Over four years of Experience in IT with emphasis in Software Quality Assurance involving manual and automated testing of Data warehouse applications, web applications, legacy systems and client/server applications.
• Strong experience in creation of test plan, test cases, test scripts, test procedures based on business requirements.
• Adept at using tools like Mercury Quality Center, SharePoint, QTP, Clear Quest, Clear Case, MS Excel, MS Access, Visio, TOAD and DB2 Mainframes.
• Very Strong in writing SQL queries for Backend Testing, Data Validation and Report Validation. Good Knowledge of UNIX and Autosys.
• Performed and Coordinated User Acceptance Test according (UAT), Integration testing, functional testing, back end, regression as per the requirements.
• Participated in Walkthroughs and meetings

SOFTWARE SKILLS:

Operating System: MS Windows XP/2000/NT, UNIX.

App Platforms: J2EE, C, ASP .net, SQL

Testing Tools: QTP 8.2,Test Director 7.2/8.0, Informatica8.6

Bug Tracking Tool: PVCS, Rational Clear Quest, Web Defect Manager, Quality Center

Design Tools: Unified Modeling Language(UML) 1.0, Rational Rose, Oracle Designer 6.0

Databases: Oracle7.x/8i, MS: SQL Server 6.5/7.0/2000 , DB2 and MS - Access.

GUI: Visual Basic 6.0/5.0.

Reporting Tools: Crystal Reports 7.0, Business Objects

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Testing Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Front end and back end testing of different interfaces of the application.
• Wrote SQL Queries using TOAD and mainframes DB2, for data analysis and to ensure data integrity.
• Analysis of Business requirements and making use cases and Testing of tool profiler module
• Documented test scenarios and test cases for system testing and maintained Test Plans, Test Cases and logged defects using Quality Center.
• Performed Browser Compatibility Testing.
• Used DOORS to track requirements
• Used Altova XMLspy to format and validate files, which are used between different interfaces in testing the application.
• Close Interaction with Business Objects developers in creating Report requirements, defining Universe and creating adhoc reporting structure
• Used Share Point to maintain Project related documents.
• Created mock data for system testing covering various business scenarios and test events.
• Performed UAT, functional testing for conducting real time scenarios
• Prepared SQL scripts to generate various test metrics using Quality Center Dashboard to be presented to upper management.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Core responsibility involved manually testing the application under test (AUT).
• Developed, implemented and executed test methodologies and plans to ensure software product quality.
• Analyzed user requirements and documented test requirements using TestDirector using the requirements module.
• Prepared detailed test plan and test cases by understanding the business logic and user requirements for manual and automated testing.
• Defining and performing the Test strategies and associated scripts for the verification and validation of the application and ensuring that it meets all defined business requirements and associated functionality.
• Extensive Involvement, in End-to-End UAT Testing, Back-end Database Testing.
• Created Mock Up Production Like Data For UAT
• Created the strategy document that defines the test environment, phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria into different phases of testing and resources required conducting the effort.
• Keep track of the Daily Defects Status with the help of QA Metrics.
• Worked with Users on the User Acceptance Testing(UAT) for different modules of the test applications
• User Interface testing was done to validate so that the navigation of the application
• Properly reflects business functions and requirements, including window-to-window, screen- to-screen, image-to-image, field-to-field and use of access methods.
• Performed Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing to check the application is error prone according the requirement specifications.
• Performed Installation Testing to check whether the application is viable on different systems like Desktop, Laptops.
• Data and Database integrity testing was done to ensure contents of data files/database are accurate for testing purposes and free from data corruption or omissions.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business and System Requirements of the Application.
• Involved in preparing Test Plan, Test scripts for the Application.
• Involved in the Manual/Automated Testing.
• Generated Test Scripts for functional testing.
• Extensively used Test Director for reporting.
• Browser compatibility testing for JAVA SCRIPT, HTML.
• Enhanced and modified the scripts according to the test case scenarios.
• Parameterized the scripts and enhanced them according to the use case.
• Performed regression testing for the application.
• Generated Data Driven scripts that access the backend database.
• Used Test Director to invoke the scripts and initially performed the baseline testing and organized all the scripts systematically and generated reports.
• Responsible for performing Load Test and Stress Test.
• Different Loads at the increments of 10 starting from 5Virtual Users 20 Iterations to 250 Virtual Users were ramped until it reached 80% CPU.
• Also analyzed the Load Runner reports to calculate Response time and Transactions per Second (TPS).
• Interacted with developers for analysis of the application.