SUMMARY:

• Software IT professional with over 5+ years of diversified experience in Software Testing and Quality Assurance with various client/server as well as web based applications.
• Proficient in Domain testing of Banking, Financial, Pharma and Insurance.
• Specific testing experience includes writing, documenting, and executing Test Cases and analyzing test results for both Manual and Automated testing using HP tools (Quality Center, Quick Test Pro).
• Involved in complete software testing lifecycle owning the test deliverables from start to end through the entire SDLC and experienced in methodologies like Waterfall, V&V, Iterative and Agile (SCRUM).
• Participated in Sprint Planning Meeting, Sprint Kickoff Meeting and Sprint Review Meeting.
• Participated in Daily Scrum Meeting and Sprint Retrospective meeting.
• Extensive knowledge on Test Planning, Test Designing, Test Estimation, Defect reporting and tracking, Test result analysis.
• Expertise in Functional, Regression, Smoke, Adhoc, Integration, System, User Acceptance, Sanity, Compatibility and Security testing.
• Excellent skills in identifying test data including the input data, pre - conditions and expected results for Functional Testing.
• Strong experience in designing Test Scenarios, and Test cases by reviewing Business Requirements, Software Requirement Specifications for testing purpose.
• Proficiency in providing Defects management including Defect Creation, modification, reproducing, tracking, prioritizing and reporting using Tools like Test Director, Quality Center, and manually using excellent detailed formats in Microsoft Spreadsheets.
• Experience in using HP Functional Automation Tools and Defect Management Tools.
• Involved in Stress/Load testing and Performance testing for Web based and Client Server applications using Load Runner.
• Experience in writing SQL queries to verify the backend data and also to check data integrity and data dependency.
• Experienced in logging defects using the bug tracking database, providing verifications on fixes in multiple environments, and communicating fix success, failures, status updates as appropriate using Bug tracking Tools like Quality Center.
• Possess excellent analytical, presentation, interpersonal and communication skills and an ability to work independently in a team environment.
• Possess excellent project management skills, time management skills, presentational skills and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: C,C++,Java, VB.NET, VB Script, Java Script, PHP

Operating System: Windows XP/2000/NT/98, UNIX

Testing Tools: QTP 10.0,Test Director, Quality Center 10.0, Load Runner

Web Technologies: Flash, ASP.NET, HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS

Databases: SQL Server 2000, My SQL, Oracle, MS Access 2000

Front End Tools: Visual Studio 2003, Dream Weaver, MS Project, MS Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Weehawken, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in testing phase of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) of application.
• Analyzed business requirements, functional specifications to provide inputs to develop Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Generated Test Scenarios, Test Cases for all levels of testing to cover all over Quality and Assurance Testing.
• Worked on SCRUM Project Management and Agile Methodologies for Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Authored and reviewed the test cases for the newly identified test scenarios on sprint basis.
• Performed Smoke, Adhoc, Functional, GUI, Regression, System and User Acceptance testing for the Application was responsible for executing all testing scenarios..
• Involved in Integration testing, to verify the data dependency and data integrity between Credit Card and Loan express modules of the application.
• Executing and Logging defects using Quality Center as Defect Tracking Tool.
• Investigating bugs and interacting with developers and use Quality Center to log and track defects.
• Preparing Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to establish traceability between requirements with test cases & results.
• Performed Database Testing using SQL to inspect and Verify Back end Database Tables updates.
• Responsible for interacting with developers to fix the problems especially pertaining to database which are not populated to the online screen when customer enters his quote.
• Created automated scripts for the application and performed the Regression Testing using Quick Test Professional.
• Participated in Sprint Planning Meeting, Daily Scrum meetings, reporting project status and setting goals.
• Participated in weekly Sprint Review Meeting, Burn down Charts and Retrospective meeting.
• Involved in preparation of Task closure reports on sprint basis.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, UNIX, VBScript, HTML, XML, Oracle, SQL, Windows NT/XP, Green Hooper.

Confidential, NYC

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing system design specifications and Functional Requirement Document, and developedTest ScenariosandTest Cases to cover overall quality assurance testing.
• Performed Test case design for Page template module, Split in event and Interaction and Mobile profiler on Profiler 7.0.1.
• Upload and Manage the Test Cases into theQuality Center,run manual and automation test cases from test lab and log defects from defects module.
• Designed the test cases in MS Excel and then uploaded them into the Quality Center.
• Associated test cases with their requirement using coverage and used coverage analysis view in Quality center to ensure all requirements are tested.
• Conducted Functional, Smoke, Adhoc, integration and Regression testing during various phases of the project.
• Involved in performing the User Acceptance Testing of Page Template of the application.
• Developed SQL Queries to query the database to test the back end process of the application
• Followed up with standard software testing life cycle (STLC) and Waterfall Methodology to perform different types of testing for the projects.
• Participated in peer review meeting for Designing Test Cases and analyzing various testing documents and process of testing life cycle.
• Involved in internal and external reviews as well as formal walkthroughs, and participated in Status meetings.
• Prepared release notes for Page Template 7.0.1 and Mobile profiler.
• Worked closely with the application development and testing team to resolve technical issues and interacted with them to ensure overall quality of the software.
• Gave training of product to new team members.

Environment: Internet Explorer7, Firefox 3. 5, Safari 4, Java, J2EE, Oracle, Tomcat Server, QTP, Quality Center

Confidential, PA

QA Teste r

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated and understood Business requirements from the requirements Specification document.
• Designed and documented Test Scenarios, Test cases in Quality Center by applying gathered knowledge from the requirement document.
• Created different test sets under Execution tab in Quality Center to assemble collections of test cases to be executed together and check the test coverage by exercising combinations of tests.
• Mapped the requirement and Test Cases by using Requirement Traceability Matric.
• Retrieved existing 4010 claims from Production region and further manipulated them according to the scenarios.
• Developed Test Design Specifications and Test Scripts for various UAT Test Scenarios.
• Participate in UAT planning and execution activities for business
• Executed batch files in the Mainframe and matched the expected result with the actual result.
• Worked with development team in diagnosing and isolating various integration problems and explain defects.
• Developed SQL scripts to test data loading process from and to different data sources.
• Extensively used Quality Center for defect reporting and tracking and prioritizing defects and enhancement requests after base lining the requirements.
• Attended change request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes.

Environment: Quality Center, Windows 2000/NT, MS Office, Oracle 8, Sql Server 2005

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the requirements from FRD and other documents to get overall picture of the application.
• Writing Test Cases and Test Conditions based on the requirements and functional specifications given by the business users.
• Executed the Test Cases in Quality Center and logged the defects.
• Maintained and Tracked defect logs and Designing the RTM for mapping the Requirements with the Test Cases.
• Created and executed SQL queries to fetch data, validate and compare expected results with those actually obtained.
• Participated in Weekly Status meeting with Development and Management teams to discuss defects and other issues.
• Created integrated and system test completion reports to evaluate the release testing process.
• Created UAT test case scenarios and provided back end support to facilitate UAT testing.

Environment: Quality Center, VBScript, Windows NT/XP/2000.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participated in reviewing the Functional Requirement Document and analyzed the requirements.
• Involved in creating Test Cases, Test Completion Reports, and Traceability Matrices.
• Involved in writing and executing the Test Cases based on requirements and customer feedback.
• Reporting and managing bugs in Test Director.
• Exchanged ideas and improvements across domains to increase the overall quality.
• Actively involved in User Acceptance Testing.
• Managed Defect Reporting and Prioritization via Test Director.
• Always ensured on time delivery of quality deliverables and well adapted with the team members.