EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Having 8+ years of experience in IT Industry in diversified platforms like Microsoft, Sun technologies and rich experience on automation of Functional and Performance testing including Quality Management as a Sr. QA Analyst.
• Experience in performing Integration, Functional, System, User Acceptance testing (UAT), Data base, Web Services, Performance and Regression testing.
• Extensive exposure in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing life Cycle (STLC) phases such as Requirements and Analysis, Design and Planning, Test Planning, Design & Test Execution, Test Estimation, Test Management.
• Experience in working in software development methodologies like Waterfall, Agile and V - model process.
• Extensive Experience in Manual & Automated testing using Mercury testing tools (QuickTest Pro, WinRunner, LoadRunner(VUGen)), and SOAP UI.
• Experience in Test Management Tools like Test Director and Quality center and Rational Clear quest: specifying requirements, planning tests, running tests, tracking defects and generation of test execution metrics.
• Good Exposure to XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and knowledge on SOA architecture and SOA based applications.
• Experienced in Performance Testing using Load runner.
• Experienced in Middleware application testing using SOA test tool.
• Responsible for maintaining the Change requests and UAT defects using Clear Quest tool.
• Ability to work in tight schedules and on different applications concurrently.
• Worked as Lead QA Analyst and as On Site coordinator on various offshore based testing projects.
• Worked on End-To-End (E2E) Testing that involves coordinating and testing chain of different applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Win Runner, QTP,Load Runner Test Director, Quality Center and Clear Quest.

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server and MS Access,sybase.

Operating Systems: WINDOWS 2000/NT/XP/WIN7,and MS-DOS,UNIX.

Languages: C, C++, Java, HTML, XML.

Web Servers: Web logic Servers and IIS.

Other tools: TOAD,XML SPY,ParaSoft SOA tool

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. QA Analyst

Environment: Java, Oracle, Web Services, Windows, and HP Quality Center, XML.

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirement document with the development team to understand the architecture and functionality of the application.
• Analyzed application requirement as well as software specifications for application to be developed and written all possible test scenarios, test cases, test plans to thoroughly test the application.
• Involved in executing E2E, System Test, Regression, Functional and UAT test cases to meet the business requirements.
• Create data for the external clients and troubleshoot the issues faced by client in course of their testing and real time activities.
• Attend all review meetings to understand the scope of changes and new functionality to be implementing for every release and also to understand the scope of testing needed every release for performance testing.
• Responsible for performing the shake out and provide Triage service in course of performance testing.
• Extensively involved in shakeouts/smoke testing for every patch and releases.
• Involved in creation of Load Runner Scripts using Virtual User Generator and enhanced scripts with C functions, Parameterized Users, stored dynamic content in Load Runner functions. Included Text checks to ensure that the correct page has been loaded while executing tests, Created scenarios as per the requirements.
• Responsible for preparing the test data for performance testing.
• Work closely with the application architecture team, development team and management team to sort out the issues and the defects
• Extensively used Quality Center to manage the testing process like Testing requirements, Planning Tests, Running Tests and Bug Tracking.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Environment: s: Java, Oracle, Web Services, Windows, and HP Quality Center, XML.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in reviewing of Business Requirement documents with the business to understand the architecture and functionality of the application.
• Involved in all stages of testing process - Development of Test Plan, Test Estimations and Test cases based upon requirements for System & Regression testing.
• Supported AT&T External Clients like Apple with Test Data for UAT testing support & troubleshooting all the issues raised by them during User Acceptance Testing effort
• Logged and tracked the defects using Mercury Quality Center.
• Used TOAD to query test data from different databases.
• Responsible for monitoring overall testing progress for respective clients I have supported and reported status to project stakeholders.

Confidential

Test Lead

Environment: s: Oracle 9i, Java, UNIX and Windows.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in reviewing of Business Requirement documents with the business and development team.
• Involved in all stages of testing process - Development of Test Plan, Test Estimations and Test cases based upon Functional requirements.
• Responsible for tracking all the requirements with the test cases in Quality Center.
• Worked with Business Analyst, Architect team and developers to resolve the issues quickly.
• Responsible for monitoring overall testing progress and report status to project stakeholders.
• Worked as Test Lead and as On Site coordinator.

Confidential

Test Lead

Environment: s: Oracle 9i, J2EE, Java, CVS, Windows.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in reviewing of Business Requirement documents with the business and development team.
• Involved in all stages of testing process - Development of Test Plan, Test Estimations and Test cases based upon requirements for Functional, Regression, Integration and support for User Acceptance Testing.
• Designed and executed the manual test cases from Mercury Quality Center.
• Responsible for preparing and maintaining the Test Summary Reports.
• Responsible for maintaining the monthly change requests using Clear Quest tool.
• Responsible for ensuring the completion of testing within specified time, effort and budget constraints.
• Preparation of Impact analysis for Change Requests, New Enhancements and Defects.
• Involved in monthly releases change request and updated the results in Clear Quest tool
• Used TOAD as an interface for database where I used to write SQL queries to retrieve the data from database.

Confidential

Test Analyst

Environment: s: Java, Business Objects, Sybase and MQC.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Business and System Requirements.
• Involved in writing Test plan, Test cases, defect management and test report preparation.
• Performed system & regression testing & Involved in Identification of Automation scope for Regression Testing.
• Developed automated test scripts from manual test cases for Regression testing based on the requirement documents using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Created, updated and ran the QTP scripts. Managed test environments and schedules.
• Performed Data Driven Test with HP Quick Test Professional (QTP) to test the application for different sets of data.
• Created shared object repository for Quick Test Pro scripts.
• Designed automation test scripts with multiple actions in HP Quick Test Professional.
• Used Re-usable actions and external actions in HP Quick Test Professional to avoid the repeatability.
• Responsible for identifying the functional test cases for Regression Testing and automated these scripts using HP Quick Test Professional.
• Used HP Quality Center for writing the test cases and executed the test cases using the Test Lab.
• Extensively worked with HP Quality Center for Bug Reporting, Tracking and Documentations

Confidential

Test Engineer

Environment: s: VC++ and Microsoft Windows XP.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Business and System Requirements.
• Developing test requirements and test cases for Acceptance testing of the product.
• Modifying the test requirements/test cases as per the review comments/changes in specification/addition of features.
• Optimization of Test Requirements, Test cases was carried out in the respective modules based on the discussion held with the Team/Client.
• Preparing bug reports & Keeping track of bugs reported during Acceptance testing of the product.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Environment: s: VC++, MS Visual Sourcesafe and Windows XP,Test Director.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Business and System Requirements.
• Developing test requirements and test cases for Acceptance testing.
• Modifying the test requirements/test cases as per thereviewcomments/changes in specification/addition of features.
• Optimization of Test Requirements, Test cases was carried out in the respective modules based on the discussion held with the Team/Client.
• Preparation of bug reports & updating the same to Test Lead
• Preparing bug reports & Keeping track of bugs reported during Acceptance testing of the product.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Environment: s: VC++, MS Visual Sourcesafe and Windows XP, Test Director.

Responsibilities:

• Learning about the project architecture
• Studying the specification of the product as per needs of the customer
• Developing test requirements and test cases for Acceptance testing of the product as and when required by the customer
• Modifying the test requirements/test cases as per thereviewcomments/changes in specification/addition of features.
• Optimization of Test Requirements, Test cases was carried out in the respective modules based on the discussion held with the Team/Client.
• Preparation of bug reports.
• Keeping track of bugs reported during Acceptance testing for each product

Confidential

Test Engineer

Environment: s: VC++, MS Visual Sourcesafe and Windows XP, Test Director.

Responsibilities:

• Learning about the project architecture
• Studying the specification of the product as per needs of the customer
• Developing test requirements and test cases for Acceptance testing of the product as and when required by the customer.
• Modifying the test requirements/test cases as per the review comments/changes in specification/addition of features. Reviewed and Updated the Test cases as per the new enhancements.
• Optimization of Test Requirements, Test cases was carried out in the respective modules based on the discussion held with the Team/Client.
• Involved in the development of test setup environment in all Phases of PCOM acquired a good knowledge over installation of Japanese OS with their service packs, Printer drivers.