PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of professional experience in Information Technology wif extensive experience in performing Manual and Automation Testingof Web, Client/Server and Desktop Applications in Television, Insurance, Telecommunications and Financial organizations.
• Experience in Manual and Automated testing.
• Experienced in testing different phases of teh software development life cycle (SDLC) and QA Lifecycle.
• Diverse work experience on Unit Testing, Functionality Testing, Integration Testing, GUI Testing, System Testing, Regression, Smoke, Performance and UAT Testing.
• Proficient in developing Test Plan, Test Cases, and executing them using Test Lab.
• Extensive testing experience in Java, XML and .Net applications.
• Exposure to different operating systems like Windows 95/98/NT, Win2008, UNIX.
• Expertise in documentation using MS - Office Tools (Word, Excel).
• Strong experience in SDLC process and QA Life Cycle including Defect Tracking.
• Experience in Creating TSL test scripts for testing stages such as Functional testing and Regression testing.
• Experience wif SQL and PL/SQLprocedures.
• Planning Tests, Test Execution and Defect Tracking using Test Director and preparation of Test Status Reports for defect review and QA status meetings.
• Experience wif UNIX Shell Scripts.
• Possess exceptional, analytical, interpersonal, communication and problem solving skills wif ability to interact wif individuals at all levels of teh organization.
• Enforce teh policies and guidelines related to quality assurance and testing.
• Experience in multiple browsers and cross platform environments.
• Worked wif Project planner and test manager to provide testing estimates.
• Worked wif management and technical teams to resolve teh issues related to test environments.
• Experience in various Software Engineering Standards like CMM, RUP and Agile methodology.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and communication skills.
• Fast and self-studying learner of new and required technologies.
• Excellent communication, coordinating, relationship building skills wif Team Members and Business Users.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Win Runner, Quick Test Pro, Load Runner, Quality Center, Test Director, Selenium.

Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, PVCS Tracker, Find Bugs.

Databases: Oracle 9i, MS Access, SQL Server.

Languages: Java 2, HTML, C, C++, SQL, PL SQL, XML, ASP.

Methodologies: Agile (Scrum), RUP.

Environment: Java, J2EE, .Net.

Project Management: Confluence, Serena Business Manager.

Operating systems: Linux, Windows.

RDBMS: Oracle, JDBC, MySQL.

Web servers: Jboss, Tomcat, Weblogic.

MS Office: Word, Excel, Access, Outlook.

Web services: SOAPUI, SOA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bristol - CT

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in converting Business requirements and design documentation into Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Developed and integrated Test Plan covering teh main functions of teh designated parts of teh application.
• Developed traceability matrix between requirements and test cases to ensure maximum coverage of teh requirements.
• Responsible for coordinating wif different teams such as Development, Testing and maintenance for various activities.
• Worked closely wif teams of clients, developers and testers throughout teh entire development life cycle, to identify and manage requirements.
• Documented, implemented, monitored, enforced all processes for testing as per standards defined by teh organization.
• Tested web services using SOAP UI to test teh Xml requests and teh responses.
• Generate Operations for teh given WSDL and Endpoint. Setup Filters and Assertions for web service and web testing to capture and validate teh response. Create test steps to validate WSDL definition.
• Worked wif BAs and SMEs to identify and analyze functional gaps in teh requirements.
• Worked wif Business Analysts and Functional experts for analyzing and prioritizing test cases for automation testing.
• Responsible for test data preparation for teh system / integration testing, traceability matrix to ensure teh test case coverage and defect logging.
• Responsible for running automated Smoke Test Suites after each build.
• Interacted wif development team for defect prioritization and resolution using Defect Tracking Tool JIRA.
• Reviewing teh data and end-to-end test cases for running teh application TEMPeffectively.
• Performed end-to-end testing on applications manually.
• Reporting teh progress of teh Project on a Daily/ weekly basis to Team Lead.
• Responsible for generating reports on weekly basis to track teh effort and defects.
• Attending daily defect triage meeting and update status on newly opened and tested defects.
• Attending weekly project checkpoint meetings and addressing issues related to test activities.
• Communicated defects encountered during regression test and follow up wif developers until all issues were resolved.
• Interacted wif developers and other QA team to ensure delivery of a quality product.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Jboss, SOAP UI, JIRA, QTP 10, SVN(Version Control), Oracle 10g, Linux, Agile.

Confidential, Richmond VA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in testing teh Web Applications and Client Server Applications developed by Java.
• Developed automation test scripts in VBScript for Smoke testing of teh application using QTP.
• Extensively testing teh application wif multiple inputs using Data Driven framework. using QTP
• Tested Restful Web services to retrieve teh data from teh database and convert it into xml.
• Tested Web services client modules using SOAPUI dat are developed by JAX-WS based on SOA architecture to consume services.
• Created test scripts for all three testing stages such as Functional testing, Integration testing and Regression testing.
• Involved in teh Smoke Test while Pushing teh build in to Stage, and Production environments
• Created and executed End to End scenarios to test teh through functionality of teh application
• Reported teh defects to teh developers using Quality Center
• Investigate software defects and interact wif developers to resolve technical issues.
• Communicated defects encountered during regression test and follow up wif developers until all issues were resolved.
• Performed teh database testing using SQL and PL/SQL Scripts
• Created teh complex SQL queries to fetch data from teh multiple tables based on teh Test cases.
• Maintaining a test log reporting defects also monitored teh resolutions of defects

Environment:Java, J2EE, Oracle Weblogic server, XML, SOAP UI, QC, QTP 10, SVN(Version Control), Oracle 10g, Linux.

Confidential Middletown, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Requirement Analysis, Business Analysis, Use-Case Analysis and Gap Analysis for application developed in Java
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Data and Traceability Matrix.
• Rational Unified Process (RUP) was followed throughout teh project and all artifacts are generated for each discipline.
• Executed teh test cases by making use of test management tools Test Director and Quality Center.
• Conducted Integration, System, Functional, GUI, Regression, Smoke, Database Integrity, User-Acceptance (UAT) and Performance testing.
• Worked wif SQL, PL/SQL and functions to test teh database integrity (Oracle).
• Created Traceability between Requirements in RequisitePro and Test Cases in Test Manager.
• Developed test cases based on business and functional requirement
• Conducted Regression testing, initial level testing for various combinations using Manual and automated scripts.
• Performed Parameterization using Data Driver Script
• Responsible for generating defect reports and report to project manager.
• Interacted wif Business People and Developers to exchange teh updated Functionality specification.
• Responsible for Reviewing test cases and defects logged by all teh team members
• Created and maintained automation test scripts using QTP for smoke and regression testing using data provided in EXCEL sheets.
• Tracked teh defects using Rational Clear Quest and generated defect summary reports.
• Maintained Test Logs, Test Summary reports and participated in defect review / Status / GO-NOGO Meetings.

Environment:Java, Java Script, XML, SQL Server, Load Runner, Quick test Professional 9.0,Quality Center.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirements, Design Documents and specs to prepare Test Plans for System Testing and Integration Testing.
• Designed and developed test scenarios (Use Cases) as per teh requirements in Quality Center.
• Documented Test cases corresponding to business rules and other operating conditions in Quality Center
• Involved in Developing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Data.
• Performed End-to-End testing manually.
• Responsible for GUI Testing, API Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing and Acceptance Testing.
• Tested teh back end database (Oracle/DB2) using SQL queries.
• Extensively used UNIX shell scripts.
• Developed automation test scripts in VBScript for Smoke testing of teh application using QTP.
• Extensively testing teh application wif multiple inputs using Data Driven framework. using QTP
• Communicated defects encountered during regression test and follow up wif developers until all issues were resolved
• Created teh complex SQL queries to fetch data from teh multiple tables based on teh Test cases.
• Worked wif XML/SOAP UI (web services).
• Developed and executed SQL statements as part of teh backend testing to check teh data integrity of teh GUI application against Oracle database and vice versa.
• Responsible in providing regular test reports to teh management.
• Reported teh defects to teh developers using Quality Center
• Investigate software defects and interact wif developers to resolve technical issues.
• Responsible for test data preparation for teh system/integration testing, traceability matrix to ensure teh test case coverage and defect logging.
• Participated in defect review meetings wif teh team members.

Environment:Mercury Quality Center 9.0 / Test Director 8.0, QTP, ASP.NET, VB.NET, IIS, XML, Mainframes, SOAP UI, VB script, Oracle 10g, Win SQL, Windows 00/XP, MS-OFFICE.

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in team finalizing business requirements, user requests and Defects/Issues meetings.
• Performed Integration, System and User acceptance Testing.
• Developed Test Procedures, Test Cases and Test scripts.
• Performed Smoke testing, Functional testing, Cross-Platform, Regression, System, Acceptance and Usability testing during different stages of teh application development.
• Utilized Test Director as a Test management tool for planning and executing manual and automated Tests, and for defect reporting.
• Performed Black Box Testing from end user's perspective.
• Generated and executed Test cases according to teh user requirements.
• Performed Screen Navigation Test to ensure dat teh links are established as per teh documentation provided.
• Tested teh payments module for different payment types i.e., credit card, debtor payment, client payment, canceled check etc.
• Wrote SQL Queries as per teh need to test teh application
• Performed all phases of end-to-end testing which includes User Acceptance testing, Functionality testing, GUI testing, negative testing, system testing and Smoke testing of teh Application, its interfaces and Client-Server Utilities.
• Reviewed and authored technical documentation.

Environment: Java, .Net, Oracle, Jboss, Tomcat, Linux, Windows, QTP, QC, Agile, RUP.