SUMMARY

• 6+ years of experience in Software Quality assurance, Testing Client - Server and web applications on various platforms.
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Test Methodologies from project definition to post-deployment documentation.
• Extensive experience in Manual and Automated testing of various applications on different environments.
• Followed Agile Software Development methodology, Waterfall Model in different projects.
• Expertise in designing and developing Test plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios, and Test Reports for both manual and automated testing.
• Experience with SOAP UI for web services testing.
• Experience in test management tools such as HP Quality Center and IBM Rational ClearQuest.
• Experience in writing test plans, defining test cases, developing and maintaining test scripts.
• Extensive experience in Functional, Unit, Integration, Load, GUI, Backend, Regression, User Acceptance, and System Testing.
• Experience in version tracking tools such as StarTeam, CVS, PVCS and VSS, IBM Clear Case.
• Experience with using tools like TOAD, SQL Developer and PowerBuilder.
• Manually performed Back-End testing by writing SQL queries and stored procedures
• Wrote and executed Shell Scripts
• Interacted diplomatically with developers and other team members to ensure high quality software. Played a key role in timely delivery of the product.
• Proven ability to work effectively in both independent and team situations with positive results.
• Ability to interact with developers and product analysts regarding testing status and maintain detail QA documentation.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Win 98/ NT/2K/XP, MS DOS, Sun Solaris, UNIX.

Testing Tools: SOAP UI, HP Quality Center 9.2/10, HP Quick Test Professional 8/11, IBM Rational Clear Quest, DynaTrace, WinRunner.

Tools: & Utilities: CVS, PVCS, VSS, IBM Clear Case, TOAD, SQL Developer, PowerBuilder.

Languages: C, C++, UNIX Shell Script, SQL, PL/SQL, XML, HTML

Databases/RDBMS: Oracle 11g/10g/9i/8i/7.x, Sybase, SQL Server 2008/5/3, Teradata V2R6, V2R5.

Application Servers: Web Sphere Server 6/7, Apache Tomcat, Web Logic Server 8/9.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing formal test plans and implement the testing processes
• Handle responsibilities of defining and interpreting test plans and procedures
• Perform the tasks of developing complex testing procedures for testing the application and functionalities of complex systems
• Developed test scripts and validated requirements using HP Quality Center.
• Imported Test scripts to HP Quality Center from Excel.
• Interacted with Business Analysts for constant upgrade of the Functional Requirements.
• Performed functional testing, batch testing, Regression and End-to-End Testing.
• Performed testing on different functionalities of the application.
• Used HP Quality Center for defect tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update the defect status.
• Performed testing support to Business users in UAT environment and involved in re-testing all the defects in UAT.
• Performed the Back-End integration testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL queries on the Oracle database for ETL logics.
• Tested the application security by modifying the executable permissions.
• Worked closely with all the team leads and developers in solving Issues.
• Maintained Defect reports and actual results for internal evaluation/audit.
• Executed Shell Scripts to load the data files (Source files) into the database in SIT and UAT environments.
• Tested Web services using SOAP UI.
• Created SOAP UI projects using WSDL file and created Test Suites.
• Created SOAP requests with various combinations of data and analyzed the SOAP responses.
• Reported the error SOAP responses to development team.

Environment: HP Quality Center, SOAP UI, StraTeam, Oracle Database, Java (J2EE), Web Services, XML, UNIX, SQL, Weblogic Application Server.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test plans, Test Cases, and Test Scenarios.
• Involved in Regression Testing using Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Imported Test scripts to HP Quality Center from Excel.
• Used HP Quality Center for defect tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update the defect status.
• Analyzed Functional Specification and Business Requirements for developing Integration
• Involved in testing all the platforms like Account Management, Card Processing, Contact Center and 3 rd Party vendors.
• Involved in testing the Finance charges, Different kinds of fees, Promotional Transactions, Payments and Rewards for the Balance Segment scenario.
• Involved in testing the Balance Transfer rates, Promotional Balance Transfer offers and fees in the Balance Transfer Scenario.
• Involved in testing the Access Checks Scenario which involves the seeing the Transactions of accounts and also the fraud analysis of the accounts.
• Tested all the three scenarios with different requirements for Consumer (U.S and Canadian Accounts) and Business cards.
• For each feature positive and negative test cases were written.
• Wrote SQL Statements to extract Data from Tables and to verify the output Data of the reports.
• Performed the Back-End integration testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL queries on the Oracle database.
• Tested the backend database using SQL queries.
• Coordinated With Platform Leads To Resolve Integration Issues.

Environment: QTP, HP Quality Center, Oracle 10g, VSS, SQL, XML, XML Spy, TOAD, SQL, UNIX, Java, Weblogic Application Server.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements and Use Cases and Reviewed the Designs throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Actively participated in all phases of testing lifecycle (Design, Planning, Development and Results).
• Performed Integration Test, Business Function test, User Acceptance test (UAT), Load, Performance and Stress test that were performed on the application under test.
• Developed Test Cases and Test Scripts from use cases.
• Imported Test scripts to HP Quality Center from Excel.
• Logged and tracked defects status using HP Quality Center and generated defect reports.
• Used Quick Test Pro to modify the scripts according to requirements and developed the test scripts for automated testing.
• Extensively involved in Writing the Test cases and Test scripts to perform Manual and Automation testing in UAT environment.
• Tested Web services using SOAP UI.
• Created SOAP UI projects using WSDL file and created Test Suites.
• Created SOAP requests with various combinations of data and analyzed the SOAP responses.
• Reported the error SOAP responses to development team.
• Involved in Documentation of whole testing process.
• Interacted with different Development Teams, Analysts and Project Managers.

Environment: QTP, HP Quality Center, SOAP UI, Websphere Application Server, SQL Server 2008, CVS, SQL, TOAD, UNIX, Java.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in both Manual and Automated testing.
• Prepare and execute Test Cases for Business/Functional requirements.
• Developed test scripts for GUI and functionality testing
• Involved in Running, Generating and Execution of various Test Scripts.
• Used QTP to conduct functional testing and GUI testing.
• Performed Positive and Negative testing and tested for boundary cases.
• Plan, Design, Analyze, Execute the test cases from HP Quality Center
• Used HP Quality Center for defect tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update the defect status.
• Manually executed test cases for the functionality testing and security testing.
• Performed Back-End testing of SQL queries to fetch the data from the database for validating the output and also executed the stored procedures.
• Verified UNIX batch scripts which will provide Verification Reports

Environment: QTP, UNIX, HP Quality Center, Websphere Application Server, J2EE, Oracle 9i, HTML, Java Script.

Confidential, Ann Arbor, MI

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specification. Developed test plans, test cases based on functional specifications and design documents.
• Participated and coordinated in Test Case Walkthroughs.
• Participated in test case execution; Created, maintained test scripts in HP Quality Center .
• Maintained requirements and created Traceability between Requirements and Test Cases.
• Performed System, Integration, Functional, and Regression testing of new/revised applications using Quick Test Pro.
• Used QTP to conduct functional testing and GUI testing.
• Imported Test scripts to HP Quality Center from Excel.
• Logged and tracked defects status using HP Quality Center and generated defect reports.

Environment: Quick Test Pro 8.2, UNIX, HP Quality Center, Java, XML, SQL, Windows NT/2000, Weblogic Application Server..