PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 6 + years of IT experience in Quality Assurance and Software testing.
• Manual and Automated Testing of applications on Windows and UNIX Environments.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life cycle, Testing Methodologies and Techniques.
• Strong experience in developing Test Plans and Test cases using requirements and design documents.
• Extensive knowledge of different kinds of testing like Black box testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing, Performance testing, Stress testing, Positive/Negative testing, User Acceptance testing and Regression testing.
• Documented Test Documents Using MS Office Tools - Word, Excel, and Power Point.
• Adept in using Automation Tools including Quick Test Pro (QTP), Load runner, Win Runner, Test Director(Quality Center) and methodologies like water fall methodology, Agile and Rational Unified Process.
• Developed Shell Scripts to execute SQL queries to retrieve/update database tables.
• Good Knowledge in SQL Good understanding of Relational Database Management Systems (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2).
• Extensive working knowledge on UNIX and Windows platforms.
• Involved in extensive testing of Client-Server, web and Data warehouse Applications.
• Involved in writing and enhancing script such as TSL, VBScript.
• Used Test Director and Quality Center to track and analyze defects.
• Adaptable to work both as a team member as well as independently.
• Excellent oral, verbal and written communication skills
• Strong attitude towards learning new technologies/sharing ideas.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quality Center 10.0, Load Runner 9.0, Win Runner 6.x/7.x, Rational Test Manager, Test Director 8.0/7.0, Rational Clear QuestRational Robot, Rational Clear Case, Quick Test Pro (QTP) 10.0

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server 7.0, DB2 and MS Access

Languages: C/C++, Java, Java Script, VB Scripts

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, Java Script, VBScript, ASP, .NET, JSP

Application Servers: BEA Web logic 7.0/8.1, IBM Web sphere, JBoss

Browsers: Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer (IE), AOL

Operating Systems: Windows NT, Windows 95/98/00/XP, UNIX, and DOS

MS-Suite: MS-Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QS Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirement documents with the business and development team to understand the architecture and functionality of the application.
• Participated in Team meetings on a regular basis and involved in active discussion in order to improve the testing quality by better strategies and testing approach.
• Have followed Agile methodology throughout the Process of application.
• Involved in onsite / offsite engagement model on a daily basis.
• Involved in the development of test plan and test strategy, performed functional and structural analysis for the same.
• Participated in preparing the test data for test execution.
• Involved in writing and executing test cases based on the requirements.
• Performed Sanity testing, smoke testing, System testing, Integrated System testing, Regression testing, Positive Testing, Negative testing and overall functional testing.
• Involved in performing Regression testing for every new build.
• Performed End-to-End testing of full functionality.
• Managed individual test cycles, reported bugs and worked with analysts and developers to resolve problems.
• Experienced in using Mercury Quality Center as a defect tracking tool and Involved in bug review meetings.

Environment: Quality Center 10.0, Oracle, SQL, Windows, ASP.NET, VB.NET, Empower, Unifi.

Confidential

EDI QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements, Functional specifications and wrote a Test Plan.
• Have followed Agile methodology throughout the Process of application.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases as per the business requirements and executed them
• Involved in Manual testing and using Mercury Suite.
• Experienced in Black Box Testing.
• Involved in Integration, System, functional, GUI, Regression and User acceptance Testing.
• Tested the add/update/delete of members, providers, groups, facilities and hospitals in Facets.
• Validated the HIPPA/EDI transactions.
• Tested the claims processing and Adjudication (EDI 837I, 837P, 837D& EDI 835).
• Interacted with developers, Business & Management Teams and End Users.
• Interacted with programmers to identify and resolve technical issues.
• Participated in Walkthrough and defect report meetings periodically.
• Developed SQL queries to extract data from the source tables.
• Extensively worked on Quality Center for bug reporting/tracking.
• Involved in bug review meetings.

Environment: Diamond, Facets, ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, SQL SERVER, IIS, XML,TSO, JCL, DB2, Cobol, CICS,MQ Series, Lotus Notes, UNIX, Windows, Quality Center.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in understand business issues, process flows and critical factors.
• Responsible for Validate the XML file based on the XSD.
• Participated prepare the XSD on each version, Updated the XML file based on the XSD.
• Involved in prepare the Test data to meet the clients Requirements.
• Performed Sanity testing, System testing, Integrated System testing, Regression testing and overall functional testing.
• Ensure entire end user experience (i.e. Provision, Activation, usage, Billing, Care processes) meets Expectations.
• Performed Positive and Negative testing.
• Participated in preparing the test data for test execution.
• Done regression testing on High level functionality of Previous Releases to ensure new code/Configuration has not adversely impacted code already in the production.
• Participated in Environmental Issues and supported the development team.
• Actively participating in Daily Defect Calls to resolve the defects in efficient and timely Manner.
• Tracking Defects and reporting the bugs and Email notifications to the developers using the Jack Track, Clear Quest Tools.
• Executed Test cases using Test Director, Used test director to generate the Test Matrics.
• Validate the XML file Using XML SPY.
• Used WINCVS as version control System and Documented the Enhancements in the WINCVS.
• Analyzing the test results and graphs by generating different reports reflecting the stability of the application with the QA and development team.
• Performed End to End testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with clients to meet their requirements.
• Responsible for weekly status, attend the bridge meetings showing progress and future testing efforts.
• Involved in Progression Testing for Monthly Release and also Regression Testing too.

Environment: Java, XML, HTML, Web logic, Applets, EJB, Tibco, Serve lets, Oracle, LDAP, Unix, Quality Center 9.0, Jack Track, Clear Quest, J unit, Putty, XMLSPY, SOAP, CARE Client, Telegence Client, Win CVS, Win SCP.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirement documents with the business and development team to understand the architecture and functionality of the application.
• Participated and Initiated Team meetings on a regular basis and involved in active discussion in order to improve the testing quality by better strategies and testing approach
• Managed individual test cycles, reported bugs and worked with analysts and developers to resolve problems.
• Involved in the development of test plan and test strategy; performed functional and structural analysis for the same.
• Involved in writing and executing test cases based on the requirements.
• Performed End-to-End testing of full functionality
• Experienced in using Mercury Quality Center as a defect tracking tool.
• Involved in Component Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing.
• Involved in performing Regression testing manually for every new build.
• Involved in testing the database (backend Testing) using SQL statements
• Participated in the team meetings to discuss the issues arising out of testing.

Environment: Test Director (Quality Center8.2), Oracle, SQL, Windows, Java, Java Script, XML, HTML

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved development of test plans, test schedules, test cases based on high-level and detailed specifications, requirements and designs.
• Developed custom procedures to validate the functionality of the application by using Quick Test Professional.
• Developed automated test scripts and enhanced them by introducing checkpoints, using regular expressions, by parameterization and correlation of the test scripts using QTP.
• Inserted standard, database, table, text and bitmap checkpoints in test scripts and executed the test scripts and analyzed the results.
• Enhanced test scripts to perform Data-driven testing by defining and adding parameters values to the Data Table and modifying the steps affected by parameterization, creating output values and by correlation.
• Used SQL queries for testing the backend databases and performed data-validation.
• Performed multi-user testing, cross browser testing and ad-hoc testing on the management system.
• Performed navigational testing of the hyperlinks provided in the web pages in various browsers as a part of GUI testing and cross browser testing.
• Involved in System Testing, Regression Testing, data-driven testing and smoke testing.
• Mapped Test Scripts/Test Cases to Requirements in the Test Plan module of Test Director, to create a requirement traceability matrix.
• Identified, logged and tracked defects using the bug-tracking tool - Test Director.
• Participated in project meetings, process improvement meetings, review meetings and triage meetings.

Environment: Test Director 8.0, Quick Test Professional 9.0, Windows XP, Oracle, SQL, UNIX

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing & analyzing of Business requirements & technical specifications Confidential stage of Project Planning of SDLC.
• Development of Test Strategies, Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Test Scripts and executing it as per technical specifications and Business rules.
• Setting up test environment & traceability matrix to accomplish testing efforts.
• Executing all phases of testing i.e. Sanity, Integration, GUI, Functional, System and Regression testing.
• Written Manual Test cases and executed test cases and documenting test results.
• Performed web site security testing i.e., single sign-on, cookies, session expiration and Password Reset functionality.
• Logging, Reporting Issues/Bugs and Tracking against successive iterations using test director.
• Tracking defects and assigning bugs to developers to fix using Test Director.
• Testing the User Interface of the application.
• Attending daily status call and reporting testing status on a day-to-day basis.
• Monitoring test results and performing root-cause analysis of the issues working closely with developers.
• Maintaining test results documents throughout testing life cycle.

Environment: Test director6.0, HTML, DHTML, Java Script, MS SQL Server, MS Word, Excel.