SUMMARY:

• Over 7+ years of diversified experience in software testing and Quality Assurance in various domains like Health care, Financial and insurance.
• Experienced in testing Web based and client/server applications using Manual and Automated testing procedures
• Experience in defining/writing Test Cases on teh basis of Business Requirements, developing and maintaining Test Scripts, analyzing bugs, interacting with team members in fixing teh Defects.
• Experience in Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Web and Cross browser compatibility testings.
• Used HP Quality Center, MS Office for maintaining teh Test Plans, Test Cases and HP Quality Center for Test Execution, Defect Management and Bug Reporting.
• Experience in creating Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Experienced in automating regression suite using Quick Test Pro, descriptive programming & VBScript and has knowledge of Selenium Testing Tool.
• Experience in all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience in using Quick Test Professional (QTP) for automating teh Web based applications
• Experience in Querying and testing RDBMS such as Oracle, MS SQL Server Using SQL, and PL/SQL for data integrity.
• Experience with defining Defect Management Workflows using JIRA, Bugzilla and Quality Center
• Experience working on QTP from HP for client - server and Web-based applications
• Experienced in both Manual and Automated testing.
• Strong skills in backend testing using TOAD/SQL queries on Oracle.
• Good experience in testing various tax forms coming from different sources
• Extensively involved in UAT testing with internal and external customers.
• Responsible for mentoring resources technically and training other QA Team Members.
• Attended Walk through, Review Meetings and Status Meetings and worked closely with Project Managers, Business Analysts, Developers and QA Engineers to achieve projects goal timely and TEMPeffectively.
• An TEMPeffective communicator, committed team player, quick learner and rapid problem solver with commitment and a strong work ethic and ability to quickly adapt to new environments.
• Thorough understanding of test environment maintenance, upgrade, and troubleshooting issues, automation of build installation process, and providing technical/ functional support to various teams
• Strong analytical skills; ability to understand applications from a technical as well as business perspective, proven track record in on-time delivery and high customer satisfaction.
• Quick Learner with an eye for problem solving and out of teh box thoughts on teh given problem.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: QTP 11.0, 10.0,9.0, Quality Center 11.0,10.0,9.0, Application Life Cycle Management, PVCS, TOAD, Test Manager and Requisite pro

Bug tracking Tool: JIRA, Bugzilla, Quality Center

Languages: C, C++, Java 2.0,SQL

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP, UNIX, Sun Solaris 5.8.

Web Technologies: HTML, XML

Databases: Oracle 11g,10g, 9i, SQL Server 2000/2005, MS Access

Other Tools: TOAD, SQL, FTP, MS Word, MS Excel and MS Power Point

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirements and Specifications and understand teh scope of teh application and reviewed Design Requirements and used Agile Scrum Methodology for Sprint Backlog.
• Participated in teh Business Requirements Specification, Detail Design Specification and Use Case Document review meetings.
• Created and executed Test Cases manually for functional, regression testing.
• Documented, tracked test plans, test results, test analysis using Quality Centre 10.
• Used Quality Center for bug-reporting, tracking and to create and execute various scenarios, generate graphs and analyzed teh results.
• Performed User Interface testing, Security testing and data base testing.
• Developed and updated Test plans, Test Matrices, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases for various scenarios across modules
• Written and executed regression test script using Quick Test Professional.
• Wrote QTP Test Scripts and enhanced teh scripts using Parameterization, Synchronization, Correlation, Regular Expressions, Check Points, Customized Exception handling and VB Script.
• Written Test Scripts using QTP for all teh Enhancements
• Created Test cases for every functionality and business rule based on documentation provided
• Performed User Acceptance Test on Different Modules.
• Checked teh data flow through teh front end to back end and used SQL queries to extract teh data from teh data base.
• Followed Agile testing methodology, participated in daily SCRUM meetings and testing each SPRINT deliverables.
• Prepared Traceability Matrix and performed Gap Analysis.
• Attended Bug Review meetings and discussed issues with teh Developers and Business Owners.

Environment: QTP11.0, QC11, .Net, C #, HTML, Java Script, XML, JSP, Windows Server, Oracle, MS Access, UNIX, Windows XP, TOAD

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed all teh interlinked applications end to end testing for multiple releases.
• Gained understanding of business requirements and Participated along with dev team in BRD, FRS reviews in teh initial phases of teh project
• Preparation of project test plan, Identifying Risk in project and prepare Risk mitigation Plan
• Participated in Functional and Technical specification, review meetings
• Preparation of Master Test Plan and Test specifications
• Followed standard release management and configuration management process
• Implemented QTP 11.0 for automating teh Regression test Sets.
• Designed and implemented teh custom keyword driven QTP framework.
• Reported teh defects to teh development team in Rational Clear Quest
• Interacted with other QA Team members to discuss teh issues before reporting them to development
• Used teh QTP built in functions and enhanced VB scripts for business logic.
• Web services testing and XML reports are pulling by using Soap UI 3.6.
• Testing data warehouse structures, mappings, ETL process, transformation of business rules, and reports. Validate, and ensure data quality in tables.
• Responsible for Functionality Testing, Regression Testing, Integration and Database Testing.
• Reporting and tracking of bugs by using Quality Center 11.0.
• Working with developers in resolving bugs.
• Involved in identifying test cases to be automated.
• Planning ahead all teh activities till deployment
• Review UAT Plan, Test cases and test data.
• Sending daily, weekly status report to teh stakeholders
• Test coverage tracking using TRM(Test Responsibility Matrix), Maintaining Test metrics and sending to stakeholders
• Post go-live validation
• Preparing user manual and work instructions for certain functionality of application.

Environment: QTP 11.0, Quality Center 11.0, VB Script, MS Office, C#, Dot net framework 3.5, Oracle, TOAD, Web Sphere

Confidential, Mt Prospect, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Requirements, involved in identification and documentation of required system and functional testing efforts for all test scenarios (Positive and Negative tests)
• Reviewed technical specifications to develop test scripts.
• Cross Browser testing for Mozilla and IE.
• Primary responsibility was to develop and execute test cases, assist in debug, evaluate results and communicate results to teh upgrade team.
• Involved in Smoke, Functional, Performance, Integration, Security, Usability, Regression, Compatibility and End-End Testing.
• Performed Screen Navigation Test to ensure dat teh links are not broken and are navigating to teh correct pages as per teh functional specs provided.
• Actively participated in status reporting meetings, walk-through, and interacted with development team to discuss technical issues.
• Used Quality Center for bug-reporting, tracking and to create and execute various scenarios, generate graphs, overlaid graphs for comparison, and analyzed teh results.
• Wrote test cases from requirements documents and functional specifications using Quality Center.
• Conducted Functionality and Regression testing using QTP during teh various phases of teh product development.
• Recorded and programmed quick test scripts through teh expert view, by adding conditional statements, loops and other user-defined functions.
• Responsible for Black box testing of teh application.
• Written Test Scripts using QTP for all teh Enhancements
• Participated in Peer Review meetings to enhance teh Test Procedures and Test cases.

Environment: QTP 11.0, QC11.0, HTML, Java, Web Testing, Data validation, SQL Server, Windows, Java script, TOAD and UNIX.

Confidential, Dayton, OH

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created and Executed test plans and Cases as well as executed Functional and System Test Cases
• Designed and executed manual test cases.
• Verifying test results and reporting teh defect status to teh development team.
• Involved in generating reports using Win runner as teh automation tool
• Modified and updated user requirements documents after requirement changes with detailed information.
• Performed verification and validation for user interactions Screens.
• Maintained Test Matrix for latest test results information.
• Prepared test reports and communicated test status and issues.
• Provided daily and weekly status reports describing issues/defects and schedule implications
• Actively participated in walk-through meetings and interacted with developers for any technical issues.
• Performed parallel testing while current application replacing existing legacy application functionality
• Written Test Scripts using QTP for all teh Enhancements
• Responsible for Black box testing of teh application.
• Performed testing against data consistency, data integration, and data validation.
• Involved in Writing, testing and executing Functional and System Test Cases.

Environment: QTP 10.0, QC10.0, .Net, C #, HTML, Java Script, XML, JSP, Windows Server, Oracle, MS Access, UNIX, Windows XP, Windows 2000, TOAD

Confidential, Bloomington IL

QA Analyst /Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Technical Specifications, Business Specifications and created Test Cases.
• Developed and executed manual test scripts as per requirements.
• Tested teh functionality of each scenario like positive and negative test cases.
• Parameterized to test teh application many times using different sets of Input values.
• Used SQL commands and pull up teh data for testing teh application data.
• Logged teh defects, tracked teh status and verified when fixed.
• Performed detailed Functional testing, GUI testing for checking functionality.
• Performed Regression Testing to make sure dat all teh bugs has been fixed and teh application is running properly.
• Validated teh data by writing SQL Queries and Unix Scripts.
• Conducted Functional, Regression and UAT Tests.
• Software Bug Identification, tracking and reporting using Rational Clear Quest.

Environment: RequisitePro, Clear Quest, ClearCase, Robot, Java, J2EE, HTML, VB, JavaScript, XML, Oracle 8i, DB2, Windows XP, MS-Office, DOORS 8.1

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plan in Microsoft word for testing teh Inventory & Distribution Management System Application.
• Performed Functional Testing on teh Inventory & Distribution Management System Application.
• Performed Database Testing by executing SQL queries.
• Problems encountered in teh application were discussed in teh status meetings.
• Bugs found in teh Application were entered in Excel Spreadsheet
• Maintained Test Matrix for latest test results information.
• Prepared test reports and communicated test status and issues.
• Provided daily and weekly status reports describing issues/defects and schedule implications
• Actively participated in walk-through meetings and interacted with developers for any technical issues.
• Performed parallel testing while current application replacing existing legacy application functionality
• Responsible for Black box testing of teh application.
• Written Test Scripts using QTP for all teh Enhancements
• Performed User Acceptance Test (UAT) on Different Modules.

Environment: Manual Testing, QTP, QC, .Net, C #, HTML, Windows NT, Oracle, UNIX, MS Excel, Windows Server, Manual Testing Methods.

Confidential

Jr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test cases And Test Execution strategies and performed User Acceptance Testing.
• Collected teh test data and prepared test summary results.
• Prepared teh test data for positive and negative testing for all teh scenarios.
• Interacted with teh release engineering team to find teh build status. Performed Smoke and Sanity testing for each new build.
• Conducted manual and regression test execution based on test cases.
• Escalated issues to Management and verified fixes and communicated critical defects and quality issues to design and development teams.
• Involved in Training and Documentation.
• Written Test Scripts using QTP for all teh Enhancements
• Created Test cases for every functionality and business rule based on documentation provided
• Performed User Acceptance Test (UAT) on Different Modules.
• Attended various meetings with teh developers, clients, and teh management team to discuss major defects found during testing, enhancement issues, and future design modifications.

Environment: Manual Testing, QTP, QC, .Net, C #, Windows NT, Oracle, MS Excel, Windows Server, Manual Testing Methods, C++, UNIX, HTML, JavaScript.