SUMMARY

• Over SEVEN years of IT experience including working Software Test Engineer in Automation and Manual testing of large mission critical applications.
• Experience in working wif V - Model, Agile and Waterfall development methodologies and Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Test Life Cycle (STLC).
• Expertise in defining and developing quality assurance testplans and test cases by analyzing business / technical requirements, system design documents and use case documents for various application modules.
• Specialized in Integration, Smoke, Functional, System, Positive, Negative, Regression, Load and User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Experience in automation testing using industry standard testing tools such as Quick Test Professional (QTP) and manual testing as HP QC.
• Worked on Data Driven and Customized Framework, by implementing Shared Scripting Techniques in quick test professional. Used different features of QTP like object identification, virtual objects, object spy. Used SOAPUI and GROOVY scripting for Web services testing.
• Developed VB script for automated test procedure using Quick Test Professional. Extensively involved in writing & executing SQL statements for backend testing. Used UNIX to view error log files.
• Strong leadership, self-starter, positive attitude, personable, great organizational skills, attentive to detail and self-motivated.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automated Testing tools: QTP 8.2/9, Rational Testing Suite Soap UI, Clear Quest, ITKO Lisa & LoadRunner. Tested web based application using Soap UI.

Defect Management Tools: Test Director, Quality Center.

Operating System: Windows Server/XP, UNIX, Linux.

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, HTML, XML.

Database: Oracle, SQL Server, My SQL.

GUI: Visual Basic.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Business functionality validation for work packages that was spanned across different sprints.
• Responsible for offshore coordination in making sure requirements were communicated properly for.
• Test Case creation and queries were addressed TEMPeffectively by teh business analysts.
• Responsible for Exploratory testing sessions wif multiple integration areas.
• Responsible for System Test execution and reporting of results.
• Responsible for Defect Management process wif monitoring and validation of defects.
• Responsible for team coordination when issues were faced.
• Executed teh test cases and verified teh actual results wif teh expected results.
• Responsible for analyzing teh Requirement Specifications documents and prepare detailed Test Cases around teh specs.
• Understanding teh Business Requirements for Writing & Executing Test Cases in IBM Test Link.
• Executed manual Test Cases in Test Link.
• Developed Manual Test Cases for Regression Testing based on teh requirement documents.
• Documented and reported various Bugs during Manual Testing.
• Extensively performed Manual Testing process to ensure teh quality of teh software.

Environment: IBM, Triage, Test Link, Windows XP.

Confidential, Ashburn, VA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed business requirements and functional requirement documents. Created test plans, created Test Cases in various scenarios. Performed functional testing, integration testing, regression testing of web services messages based on WSDL documents.
• Performed data driven testing of teh web service using JDBC Connection. Used Groovy Script to do conditional Property Transfers for dependent test cases. Involved in Business functionality review meetings. Worked on functionality testing.
• XML data mapping using SQL and SOAP UI for various checking transaction and credit card application. Implemented manual testing of web services using SOAP UI. Done Functional, System and Regression testing of teh application.
• Prepared documentation for testing Standards and procedure documentation of rule guidelines. Used various assertions to validate soap response. Using QTP to convert manual testing to automate testing using test batch runner. Used regular expression to handle dynamic fields and Windows in QTP.
• Performed functional and regression testing to verify defect fix using Quick Test professional. Used virtual objects for identifying objects in QTP.

Environment: C#, QTP 9.3, SOAPUI 3.5, UNIX.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed business requirements and functional requirement documents. Involved in developing teh software Test plan and implementing Test Cases and Test Scenarios. Using SOAP UI, tested request and response XML and updated end point as needed. Exported test cases from Excel to Quality Center.
• Maintained testing documentation in Mercury Quality Center including reports on problem areas covered, those not testable and percentage of tests passed. Broadly done manual, system, functional and regression testing of teh application. Reviewed specifications cases and performed manual testing.
• Execute Automation and Manual test cases for Functional and Regression testing of various modules of teh application. XML data mapping using SQL and SOAP UI for various checking transaction and credit card application. Created test sets in test lab module in Business Process Testing.
• Insure all teh test cases are written and updated in teh quality center. Created automated steps for login components in Business Process Testing. Log application bugs using Mercury Quality Center. Retested bugs after teh fix and monitored them until resolved.
• Used Quality Center to store testing results, metrics, implemented Test Plan Document and created Test Cases, Defect Tracking and Reporting.

Environment: SOAPUI 3.5, Quality Center 8.2, UNIX, ORACLE 9i, Windows NT4.0, Windows XP.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for interaction wif teh team lead to understand user requirements and gather inputs for creating teh test cases for manually testing teh modules such as account info, order entry, quotes and market data, research and planning functionalities.
• Involved in performance testing using load runner. Executed teh test cases and verified teh actual results wif teh expected results. Executed VB scripts in Quick Test Professional for functionality and regression testing. Develop Test cases using use case document. Performed Regression testing after fixing teh bugs.
• Performed Cross-Browser testing to verify teh application on multiple environments. Writing Manual test cases. Created sample XML files to load data in to database. Involved in testing Web services and XML wif tool called ‘SOAP UI’. Automated testing using Oracle SQL.

Environment: SOAPUI 3.5, QTP 9.3, My SQL, LoadRunner, UNIX.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Analyst / Production Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended requirement review meetings and provided feedback to teh business analysts. Analyzed UML Use Cases and Activity Diagrams to understand business process. Documented and reviewed Test Scripts, Test Scenarios and Test Cases by identifying features and functions to be tested.
• Performed smoke testing to check teh major functionalities of application. Worked wif Business Users to conduct teh Business Process Testing. Executed teh Test Cases Manually (Functional Testing) to check teh functionalities and used Quality Center (QC) to log and track defects.
• Performed Integration Testing to ensure teh flow of communication between different modules of O2. Performed Data Validation of teh data flow from teh front-end to teh back-end by executing SQL scripts. Developed SQL scripts to perform Backend Testing.
• Identified and reviewed teh Manual Test Cases to be automated. Participated in review meetings and daily status meetings during teh testing process. Identified Test Cases to be executed in automated environment and performed automated testing using HP Quick Test Pro 9.5.
• Used parameterized scripts in VB script for Data Driven Tests in Quick Test Pro (QTP).

Environment: SOAPUI 3.5, QTP 9.3, Quality Center 8.2.

Confidential

Process Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing teh Requirement Specifications documents and prepare detailed test cases around teh specs. Review of specs, test case creation and involved in active manual testing (functional and Regression testing) of teh different modules.
• Created Test plan, allocation of system testing and assigning issues wifin QA. Moderate use of SQL queries through SQL developer. Responsible for Smoke testing teh application. Coordinated and acted as a liaison wif Business Analysts and Developers in for TEMPeffective bug fixes.
• Extensively used Excel to prepare EOD execution reports, Test Execution Reports. Moderate Milestone Review and Project monitoring review meetings. Defect Reporting in Team Track.

Environment: Windows Xp, Quality Center, Java, J2EE, Java script, HTML,, Oracle, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft word.