SUMMARY

• Over Five years of diverse experience in the field of Information Technology wif emphasis on Quality Assurance, Quality Control and Testing.
• Expertise in Testing, Developing, Reporting and Analysis of Commercial and Enterprise applications.
• Experienced in Black Box Testing techniques like Integration Testing, System Testing, Functional Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing, Load/Performance Testing and GUI.
• Highly proficient wif Manual Testing and Automated Testing including Back - end Testing.
• Experienced in database validation using SQL, PL/SQL on MS SQL Server 2005 and MS SQL Server 2005.
• Experience in Defect Tracking and Reporting using HP Quality Center.
• Good experience in using HP Quick Test Professional, HP Quality Center/Test Director.
• Proficient in all phases of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle).
• Proficient in writing QTP scripts using Parameterization techniques, Synchronization Points and Checkpoint validation techniques.
• Adept in writing, executing and Documenting Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scripts.
• Hands on experience in White-Box Testing of PL/SQL.
• Hands on experience in using version control tools - Visual Source Safe and Team Foundation Server (TFS).
• Coordinated wif the team to work on automation scripts and prepared Quality Assurance activity reports.
• Familiarity wif Agile software development lifecycle (iterative and incremental).
• Coordinated wif Business Analysts, developers and team members for walkthroughs and documentation reviews.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP Quick Test Professional 11/10/9.5, HP Quality Center 10/9.2

Query Languages: SQL, PL/SQL

Data Bases: SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, MS-Access

Operating Systems: Windows 7/Vista//XP/2003

Web Servers: IIS 5.0/6.0,Apache Tomcat

Web Technologies: HTML, VB Script, Java script

Development Tools: MS Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Choosing the Test Plan based on requirement documents.
• Writing the Test Cases based on Design, Functional Requirements.
• Performing Manual test scenarios to validate different functionalities against the requirements.
• Automating the test cases for functional and regression testing using Quick Test Professional.
• Creating functions and procedures using VBScript.
• Performing Black-Box Testing for each and every module and on the whole system as a whole.
• Performing Back-end, System, functional, Integration, System and navigational testing for the different types of transactions.
• Performed browser compatibility testing using different browsers like IE, Fire Fox etc.
• Developed SQL Queries for checking the Data Transaction.
• Performing smoke, regression testing after each build.
• Performing data driven test to handle the scenario requiring multiple sets of data.
• Preparing the Test data for interpreting the Positive/negative/regression results.
• Performing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure that proper functionality is implemented.
• Monitored Quality center to close the bugs/cases as and when developers fixed the bugs.
• Worked wif development team to ensure testing issues are resolved.
• Played a major role in project review meetings and updated bug status reports.

Environment: Windows 2003, XP, MS -Office, Quality Center (ALM 11), QTP 11.0, VBScript, IIS 6, MS- Visio, SQL Server 2008.

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements by interacting wif developers and business analysts.
• Written Test Plan and Test Cases by going through the Design, Functional Requirements.
• Used Quality Center for Test Planning, Test Execution and Defect Tracking.
• Performed Manual testing of the different functionalities involved.
• Participated in Automation of the test cases for regression testing using Quick Test Professional.
• Created automated test scripts using QTP for verification and validations.
• Performed GUI and Regression Testing.
• Performed Black-Box Testing for each and every module and on the whole system as a whole.
• Performed Back-end, System, functional, Integration, System and navigational testing for the different types of transactions.
• Performed smoke, regression testing after each build.
• Performed data driven test to handle the scenario requiring multiple sets of data.
• Developed and Tested SQL Scripts for database/back-end Testing.
• Prepared the Test data for interpreting the Positive/negative/regression results.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure that proper functionality is implemented.

Environment: Quick Test Professional 10.0, Quality Center 9.0, Oracle 9i, .Net, ASP.Net, Web Sphere, SQL Server 2005,IIS, Visual Source Safe, MS Office, Windows 9X/NT.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Functional Requirement Specification, System Design Specification (SDS), and participated in requirements gathering sessions wif Clients.
• Coordinated wif BA regarding the Requirements to has better understanding on User Requirements.
• Coordinated wif Developers to has thorough understanding of the other application Interface
• Created detailed test cases and mapped them to Requirements using Quality Centre.
• Prepared the Test Scenarios based on the Use Cases and broken the scenarios in to detailed test cases.
• Developed the Test Cases for four different modules based on the FRS.
• Created/Modified the Test plan and Test Strategy wif Manual and Automated testing.
• Verification and setting up of data for Test environments, performed sanity testing.
• Involved in the Review meetings of the Test Scripts wif team members.
• Modified and created new Test Scripts/Test cases based on the requirement changes/enhancements of the application
• Created automated Regression suites using QTP - Data Driven Framework
• Created VB script Objects for database connectivity and Excel sheet navigation.
• Created Functional Libraries for different functionalities and associated wif the Test scripts.
• Created Recovery scenarios for Error Handling and also used VB script for “On Error” statement for handling code level errors.
• Worked wif Quality Centre for manual/automation Test cases maintenance, execution and defect reporting
• Executed automation test scripts in QTP from Quality Centre.
• Attended Test cases and Test scripts review meetings wif Test Leads and managers.
• Gatheird Production data and Created Test data for functional and Regression testing.
• Developed SQL queries for Data Validation, Back End Testing.

Environment: Quality Centre 9.0, Quick Test Professional 9.5, ASP.Net,VB.Net, Web Services, SQL Server 2005, HTML,VB Script.