SUMMARY:

• 8 years of significant and progressive experience in IT on both Manual and Automation testing tools.
• Complete exposure to all stages of SDLC process with strong skills in writing various test plans, developing and maintaining test cases, test scenarios using Quality Center.
• Sound working experience on Airline, Financial, Banking, Telecommunication and e - commerce Business Domains.
• Good understanding of Fixed Income Derivative products.
• Expertise in analyzing requirements, developing test cases and different test scenarios.
• Active role in developing test plan for Functional, Integration, System, Acceptance testing.
• Expertise in functional, Integration, System, Acceptance, Usability and GUI testing of AUT, Verification and Validation.
• Understand Business, Functional, technical requirements and transform them into test cases and develop complex scenarios
• Thorough in writing SQL queries for back end testing.
• Experience in using TOAD for querying Oracle databases.
• Strong experience in testing and QA of systems involving DBs such as Oracle (8i, 9i,10g, 11i), SQL Server and technologies including 2 tier to multi-tier with emphasis on test automation using programming as well as using available several test automation tools.
• Extensive experience with SOA Architecture & test automation using QTP 8.0/9.0/9.5/10, for applications of web and client server domains.
• Advanced user in using Test management tools like DOORS, Visual Intercept, HP Quality Center/Test Director and Rational Clear Quest.
• Experienced in defect tracking, follow up with cross-functional teams to verify bug fixes, and testing progress.
• Worked on multiple Projects at same time with multi-site & multi-cultural teams.
• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies specializing in Agile, Iterative and Waterfall.
• Experience with web services testing using SOAP UI/WSDL/XPATH.
• Test to break attitude in writing test cases from requirements and while executing test cases.
• Expertise in setting up and carrying out browser Compatibility testing environment with different browsers and versions of Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari on different Operating Systems like Windows and Mac.
• Very good knowledge on UNIX commands
• Worked on Windows 7/Vista/XP pro/ 98/95, Win Server 2003, UNIX and Mac OS X.
• Maintained internal documentation library - knowledge base, providing / coordinating special documentation services, as required by PMO, test manager and for cross functional teams.
• Experienced on C#, Visual Studio, .Net Framework 2.0 and 4, MS SQL Server 2005/2008, Visual Basic 6.0, .Net, PL/SQL, MS Office, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, DB2 and HTML, Java.
• Tested applications running on Linux, UNIX, AIX, and Sun Solaris.
• Worked as team player in a team size of 6 - 20 members.
• Enthusiastic team player who can either lead a group or be a valuable team member who can follow project instructions and get the right job done on time.
• Excellent in meeting deadlines, time management, ability to analyze results and find bottlenecks.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: QTP 8.0/9.2/9.5/10 .0, HP Quality Center 9.0/9.2/10.0, Test Director 7.2, Load Runner 8.0/9.1/9.5, SoapUI and XPATH.

Operating Systems: Windows XP/Server/NT/2000/2003/Vista/7, Mac OS.

Database: Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, DB2, RDBMS, MS Access, SQL Server.

Languages: VB, .net, Java, PL/SQL, HTML, XML.

Web Technologies: Web Designing, Photoshop, Dream Weaver, Flash and FrontPage.

Desktop Applications: MS Office Suite 2000/2003/2007/2010, MS Outlook, and MS Project, Visio. Mac Office 2004/2008.

Application Servers: IIS, Apache, JBOSS, Web Logic.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Kew Gardens, NY

QA Lead/ Functional QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Attended requirements and technical doc review meetings.
• Reviewed Business requirements, IT Design documents and prepared Test Plans for all assigned project releases.
• Helped BA’s in designing and developing Narrative Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Flow Diagrams for the application.
• Peer review test cases developed by QA team members and advice/point/discuss possible complex scenarios and make sure requirements are completely covered.
• Participated in review meetings and attended sessions to understand various business concepts.
• Prepared Entry and Exit criteria for Testing cycles, review with functional leads and PMO.
• Exported Requirements, test plans and test cases to QC 9.2.
• Created Traceability Matrix to ensure that all requirements are covered in test cases.
• Develop Risk-based Test Strategy whenever required, to save time and to determine which test activities to carry out and created complexity matrices.
• Prepared Kickoff meeting PowerPoint and gave presentation on testing activities for each cycle of testing and for different releases.
• Conducted Defect meetings on daily bases to track defects status with functional leads and to speed up resolution process at end of each cycle.
• Interacting with developers, business analysts to communicate the defects.
• Bug reporting and Bug tracking using HP Quality Center.
• Involved in UAT process before rolling out to production.
• Supported and provided test cases for UAT, staging and production when required. Participated in debugging product issues along with support team.
• Assisted in defect investigation and escalation. Prepared defect reports based on severity and priority.
• Reporting end of day QA status to all management teams.
• Prepared overall offline, online validation reports using SQL.
• Prepare weekly status report for defects in Quality Center and submit reports to PMO by conducting weekly Testing Leadership meeting.

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Work with Test Lead to develop Test Strategy and Test Planning.
• Worked on Agile Environment with daily scrum meetings, stand up meetings, burndown charts, presentations and reviews.
• Review Business Requirement documents (BRD), Software Requirement specification (SRS) and created different Test cases for various releases and different kind of environments.
• Developed Test cases, prototypes, Test data for various different clients like Citi, Target, HSBC, capital one, PNC, RBS, Geico, Wells Fargo, BAC, from Requirements and data mapping documents provided.
• Reviewed styling guide document and prototypes provided and developed test cases to measure & match dimensions, styles, graphics, pictures and animations.
• Peer review test cases developed by other QA team members and advice/point/discuss possible complex scenarios and make sure requirements are completely covered.
• Conduct periodic review and status meetings with PMO and Test Manager.
• Executed test cases developed for sanity, functional, integration, GUI testing.
• Setup virtual environment using VMware to carry out Compatibility testing before QA sign off.
• Supported and provided test cases for UAT when required.
• Used SQL day to day for back end testing.
• Involved in Automation Test Plan Preparation and developed automation VBScripts using Quick Test Pro.
• Conducted Functional testing using QTP with Valid/Invalid inputs on different browsers and Communicated with Functional Analysts on any issue clarifications.
• Customized QTP Scripts with Parameterization, Check Points, Library Files, Regular expression etc.
• Worked/coordinated effectively with the various cross functional teams at different office locations to carry out integration testing.
• Performed Web Services testing by means of SOAP/WSDL/XPATH.
• Performed Regression Testing using QTP on every new build of the application.
• Developed, executed Test cases, identified defects, Track bugs, raised defects and validated bug fixes using HP Quality Center.
• Performed Performance and Capacity Testing using LoadRunner.
• Assist in defect investigation and escalation. Prepared defect reports as per severity and priority.
• Peer review test cases developed by other QA team members and advice/point/discuss possible complex scenarios and make sure requirements are completely covered.
• Used Appworx for code promotion and for payment processing.
• Prepare, maintain and update data in excel for different clients.

Environment: Windows Server 2003, C#, Visual Studio 2005, .Net Framework 2.0/4.0, MS SQL Server 2005/2008, VB Script, HP Quality Center 10.0/9.2, Quick Test Pro 10.0, Load Runner 9.5, SoapUI, XPATH, MS Excel, Unix.

Confidential, WINSTON-SALEM, NC

Sr.QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Followed and applied Iterative Methodology.
• Participated in team discussions to understand the requirements and functional specifications of the application
• Involved in creating Test Procedures and modified Test cases for re-execution.
• Developed Test Cases, Analyzed Test Data with actual data and Developed Traceability Matrix to correlate requirements and Test cases.
• Extensively involved in manual testing of new & existing functionalities.
• Performed System testing, manual & automated Regression testing.
• Involved in the end-to-end testing of Indications and Imbalance application.
• Executed Test Scripts for Integration and Regression testing using Mercury Quick Test Pro.
• Used Parameterization for using various data to test the application using QTP.
• Verifying the auto calculated fee & pricing values for trades entered through pricing model.
• Verifying error logs using UNIX commands.
• Used Active MQ to publish messages for trade settlement.
• Verifying the XML messages (trade confirmations & asset flows) generated for each trade & its lifecycle changes to ensure that the correct data is sent to the downstream for confirmations & settlements.
• Interacted with developers to resolve application defects.
• Used HP Quality Center extensively for test case management.
• Interacting with developers, business analysts to communicate the defects.
• Used JIRA for bug tracking and logging defects
• Actively involved in Front to Back testing of the application for each release
• Worked with SQL to validate the backend data Oracle, to validate data mapping between components and Verified that the target tables are correctly populated.
• Assisted in developing test case objectives for verifying the accurate functioning of the system with respect to various mismatching under different permutations and combinations of scenario.
• Handled the role of a team lead, of size 8 for few releases.
• Reporting end of day QA status to all management teams.
• Participated in review meetings and attended sessions to understand various business concepts.
• Involved in UAT process before rolling out to production.
• Participated in debugging product issues along with support team.

Environment: Windows 2003, Oracle 10g/9i, PUTTY, TOAD, QTP 9.5/10.0, JIRA, HP Quality Center 9.0, Load Runner 8.1, MQ, MS Office, PL/SQL, IBM UNIX.

EiQ Networks, Hyderbad,India

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Schedules based on high-level and detailed designs.
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Integration, User Acceptance and Regression Testing on the web-based application.
• Performed End-End testing.
• Performed manual testing of the application. Automated Functional and Regression Testing using QTP.
• Executed Automated Test Scripts using QTP.
• Customized the QTP Test as per the Test Case by using the VB-Script
• Performed Regression testing to make sure that all the bugs have been fixed and the application is running properly.
• Performed Front-end validations and Backend validations using simple SQL Queries using TOAD to validate the test results.
• Performed Single Sign On testing to verify the systems keeps customer in login states across multiple systems.
• Developed load test plan, work load profile, business process scripts, load test schedule and data for performance testing.
• Performed web service testing with SoapUI tool.
• Utilized HP Quality center as a test management tool for planning and executing Manual scripts and for defect reporting and tracking.

Environment: JAVA, XML, SoapUI, Web logic 8.1SP4/9.2, VB Script, Apache web server Load Runner 8.1, HP Quality Center 8.2, QTP 9.0, Visual Basic 6.0, HTML, ORACLE 10g, UNIX, MS Office Suite.

Confidential

QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed Functionality and Regression testing using Mercury Quick Professional Test (QTP) at various phases of the product development using VB Script.
• Tracked down critical production issues using QTP and conducted root cause analysis on critical reproducible issues after Go-Live and created matrices to nail down the issue.
• Used various QTP functionalities like call function, Parameterization, Synchronization etc, also created objects using VB script where objects are not identified in application.
• Conducted sanity test for each Release or build released by executing the BVT (Build Verification Testing) Test Plan.
• Work effectively with the various cross functional teams, including offshore team.
• Use SQL Developer to Query and for data validation.
• Involved in back end testing using SQL queries when Order Detail Purge file into the application.
• Performed extensive Web Services Testing using SoapUI.
• Exported Requirements, test plan and test cases, mapped test cases and test scenarios with requirements in HP Quality Center.
• Work closely with Performance test developers to setup scenario in Load Runner Controller by providing proper guidance on requirements gathered from business.

Environment: QTP 8.0/8.2, VB Script, HP Quality Center 8.0, Load Runner 8.0, SoapUI, ASP.NET, VB.NET, Oracle 9i, UNIX, MS Windows, MS Office Suite, Windows Server 2003.