SUMMARY

• Over 6+ years of IT experience in the Analysis, design, development, testing and Implementation of Business Intelligence solutions using Data Warehouse/Data Mart Design, ETL, OLAP, Client/Server applications.
• Proficient experience in Manual and Automation Testing of GUI and functional aspects of the Client - Server and Web/e-commerce Applications on multiple levels of the SDLC and STLC.
• Thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (designing, coding, debugging, testing, documentation, maintenance and enhancement).
• Tested applications in Waterfall and Agile development processes.
• Experience in HP/Mercury Testing tools (QTP) Quick Test Pro/ Win runner and Quality Center/Test Director.
• Good experience in Data Modeling using Star Schema and Snow Flake Schema and well versed with UNIX shell wrappers, KSH and Oracle PL/SQL programming and stored procedures
• Excellent working knowledge in design& implementation of all QA Test strategy plans for both Manual and Automation as demanded by the AUT.
• Extensively used SOAPUI to validate SOAP/WSDL and web services.
• Fairly worked on Groovy script to customize test in SOAP UI.
• Thorough understanding of structured Testing Methodologies working to implement, particularly from testing team perspective and user perspective.
• Possess excellent verbal and communication skills with the ability to successfully work with all levels of IT professionals and end users.
• Possess extensive experience in analyzing the Business Requirement Documents, Functional specifications and Technical specifications
• Experience in developing/writing software Test Plans, Test Cases Design and Test scripts based on user requirements, specifications and system requirements documents.
• Experienced in Testing Methodologies & Validations and Verifications to ensure the Software Quality Control and meeting the demands set by Stake Holders
• Excellent working knowledge of designing & implementation of all QA test strategy plans manually.
• Extensive experience in Functional Testing /Regression Testing/Ad-Hoc/User Acceptance (UAT)/Multi-Browser/Black Box/System and Sanity Testing.
• Performed front-end GUI testing of web and client/server applications.
• Extensively used Quality Center/ Test Director, for test planning, bug tracking and reporting.
• Uploaded Business requirements, test scenarios, test cases and defects from MS Excel to Quality Center/Test Director.
• Extensively used Quality Center & Test Director for Specifying Requirements, updating Test Cases, application testing Status Reporting, maintaining Test Scripts and observing Traceability.
• Well versed with SQL queries to run the data integrity tests.
• Expert in SQL queries to validate data in Oracle and MS SQL SERVER backend
• Good working knowledge on Windows and UNIX Environment.
• Having knowledge in scripting languages like Java Script, VB Script, HTML and XML.
• Expert in installing and configuring QA Test Environment
• Experienced in working in Agile Scrum, Agile XP, Waterfall, RUP, RAD and SDLC methodology environments
• Excellent analytical abilities in using technology to create elegant, flexible and maintainable solutions for complex development problems.
• Excellent communication skills with good presentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automated Testing Tools: WinRunner, QTP

Test Management Tools: Test Director, Quality Center, Clear Quest

Defect Tracking Tools: Test Director

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/2003/XP/NT, UNIX, MS-DOS

Programming Languages: VB.NET, ASP.NET, C#,C, Java,VB Script, SQL and PL/SQL.

Data Bases: Oracle 8i,Oracle9i, DB2, MS-SQL Server 2005, MS Access

Web Technologies: J2EE, HTML, DHTML, Java Servlets

Network Protocols: HTTP, TCP/IP, FTP, SOAP

Automated Testing Tools: WinRunner, QTP

Test Management Tools: Test Director, Quality Center, Clear Quest

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Test Execution, analyzing bugs, interaction with the development team members in fixing the errors.
• Participated in requirement and design meetings to know the functionality and flow of the application and hosted Test case review meetings.
• Tested Functionality Testing, Usability testing and Interface testing for mulitiple Web Applications created in Java
• Performed Manual Testing of the application and automated it by using QTP
• Interacted with developers and discussed technical problems, reported bugs and supported development team
• Involved in the End-To-End testing, User Acceptance Testing, Functional Testing.
• Regression testing was implemented at various phases of the development and test cycles.
• Performed Smoke Tests after installation of each build on QA servers
• Test Scripts were written in MS Excel and then imported to Quality Center/Test Director.
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results.
• Identified the high-risk points and the priorities of the application & classifying them based on the severity using Quality Center.
• Performed Web Services testing and Validated XML request/response data using SOAPUI.
• Created Test Sets to do Functional and Data Driven Testing on the Web Services.
• Used Groovy Script to connect Database.
• Inserted Assertions on the Test Cases to validate the XML SOAP response.
• Conducted Load testing using SOAPUI tool.
• Generated reports using SOAPUI.
• Conducted data driven testing using QTP to conduct backend testing.
• Used Agile Test Methods to provide rapid feedback to the developers significantly helping them uncover important risks.
• Experienced in testing Web applications and client/server applications
• Used SQL for Querying the DB2 database in UNIX environment
• Developed detailed Test cases, Test conditions, Test scripts, Test procedures, Testing Methodologies and Test Matrices.
• Writing SQL queries and validating the data.
• Responsible for Database integrity testing by executing SQL statements.
• Document all testing activities and the results were compared in each release.
• Used Quality Center/Test Director for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.
• Worked with Compatibility Testing for Browser, Operating, Mobile & Printing options for Web Apps
• Responsible for updating and maintaining the Quality Center for reporting and logging the defects found during functional and regression testing and follow up the bug life cycle.
• Experienced in data analysis using SQL, T-SQL and many other queries based applications.
• Extensively used T-SQL to verify and validate the data loaded to the SQL Server 2008
• Worked with T-SQL for validating the SQL Server 2005 data
• Used SQL tools to run SQL queries and validate the data loaded in to the target tables
• Involved in extensive DATA validation using SQL queries and back-end testing
• Provided a weekly project report that includes testing metrics and status reports.

QA Environment: Manual Testing, QTP, Test Director and Quality Center, Visual Studio 2010, SQL, C#, VB.NET, ADO.NET, C++, SQL Server, JSON, Agile, DB2, SOAPUI, Java,MS Visio, XML,Unix,MS Excel

Confidential, Wellesley, MA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the review of requirements with functional manager and technical specialists.
• Worked closely with build integration team, client and developers in order to perform testing activities as per schedules.
• Worked with AutoSys commands to execute and monitor UNIX jobs in Acceptance environment
• Extensively used T-SQL to verify and validate the data loaded to the SQL Server 2005
• Performed extensive web services Testing using SOAPUI Tool.
• Validated XML messages using SOAPUI.
• Performed Ad hoc testing, Smoke Testing, Functional, Integration and Regression testing of the website.
• Testing with ETL scripts.
• Responsible for updating and maintaining Quality Center for all the defects found during the functional and regression testing and follow up the bug life cycle.
• Performed Database Testing on Oracle Database, created SQL queries to validate the business logic and the database.
• Actively involved in all phases of testing Including User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Validated Web services usingSOAP by testing XML request and response data communicating with SOAP.
• Extensively worked on the Console application and to bring the output of the console application to incorporate in to the web application.
• Tested the outgoing links from all the web pages from specific domain.
• Executed Test Cases and verified actual results against expected results
• Performed Manual Testing of the Application, reported bugs using Quality Center.
• Performed Regression Testing for fixes and closed the defects.
• Performed Smoke Tests after installation of each build on QA servers
• Involved in the End-To-End testing, User Acceptance Testing, Functional Testing and Regression Testing.
• Responsible for Manual Testing for Front-end and initial Functional verification.
• Involved in testing of database using SQL queries.
• Created traceability matrix between requirements in Requirement plan manager and test cases in Test plan manager
• Maintained Test Matrices and Traceability Matrices
• Test Scripts were written in MS Excel and then imported to Quality Center.
• Worked with developers using Quality Center to fix the defects.
• Extensively used Quality Center, for test planning, bug tracking and reporting.
• Prepared positive and negative test cases with valid and invalid data
• Prepared and submitted reports to Project Management on a daily basis.
• Conducted reviews with clients and User Acceptance Testing teams.
• Documented all the Testing results and regression tests results were compared at every new build. Analyzed and Presented Results.

QA Environment: Manual Testing, QTP, Test Director and Quality Center Win runner, Load runner, SOAP-UI, Quality Center, Windows XP, Java, J2EE, JDBC, XML, UNIX, DB2, Agile, HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, Web Logic, SQL, Oracle9i and SQL