SUMMARY

• Around 6+ years of experience Quality in Assurance Testing of application systems.
• Experience in Manual and Automated Testing of Client Server and Web Based applications.
• Experience with full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Methodologies & Validations to ensure the Quality Assurance.
• Expertise in analyzing Business Requirements, develop Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and execute them.
• Worked with setting up the test environment and have worked with testing methodologies.
• Proficient in Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, system Integration Testing, System Testing & Regression Testing.
• Solid experience with Test Director, Quality Center and Quick Test Professional.
• Ability to interact with Business users and Developers regarding Testing Status, Defect & Change Tracking.
• Expertise in Problem Solving and Tracking Bug Reports using Quality Center
• Strong Problem Analysis & Resolution skills and ability to work in Multi Platform Environments.
• Experience in testing Database like SQL Server and Oracle
• Strong experience in Backend Testing for Database integrity by executing complex SQL queries for validating the data in the backend database tables
• Managed and Mapped Requirements, Tests and Defects by using different Tools and RTM.
• Extensive experience in coordinating testing effort, responsible for test deliverables, status reporting to management, issue escalations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing & Management Tools: Confidential Quality Center/Test Director, Confidential Quick Test Professional (QTP), Rational Quality Manager, Functional Tester

Bug Tracking Tools: Quality Center/Test Director, Quality Manager, Jira.

Operating Systems: MS - DOS, Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, VBScript, HTML

RDBMS: Oracle, MS SQL Server

GUI Tools: Toad, SQL Developer

Browsers: Netscape, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox

Applications: VSS, MS Office, MS Project

SDLC: Waterfall, Agile, Iterative

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed design documents & business requirements to learn the function and scope of the application.
• Prepared Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Requirement Traceability Matrices (RTM), Issues Tracking Documents, Defect reports.
• Interacted with project managers, QA manager, developers, business analyst and users to develop an understanding of the system requirements for each assigned project and task.
• Performed System Testing, Smoke testing, Exploratory testing, Integration testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance testing, Cross-Browser, Front-end and Backend Testing at various phases of the development and test cycles.
• Worked as a Confidential Quality Center support to ensure efficient services to the team and the client.
• Created Test plan and tests, wrote and executed the test scripts through Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center for requirements management, planning, scheduling, running tests and executing the test cases, tracking defects and managed the defects.
• Conducted manual testing by following the end user business processes on the entire application to test for real world scenarios.
• Logged& managed defect in Quality Center and conduct regression testing after fix the defects.
• Wrote and validated SQL queries to retrieve data from different Relational database tables to perform database verification.
• Performed Database level verification of successful processing using complex SQL queries.
• Wrote SQL scripts to facilitate testing and used SQL Loader/SQL* Plus to insert/update records to Relational Database Tables.
• Performed backend testing to ensure that the user data was updated in database using SQL queries.
• Created, enhanced and maintained automation test scripts for client-server and web based applications using QTP.
• Developed and enhanced test automation script using several QTP scripting method, such as: Descriptive programming, Object repository method, and also applied custom function method to build robust Automation Script
• Scheduled and conducted meetings before, during and after the Testing phase, as required, to ensure all participants are fully aware of the QA standards, testing plan, status and results
• Created real world scenarios based on requirements for UAT.

Environment: Oracle 10g, Java, SQL* Plus, SQL*Loader, PL/SQL, TOAD, Windows 2000, Windows XP, VB Script, QTP and Quality center.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed design documents & business requirements to learn the function and scope of the application.
• Participated in QA Methodology Life Cycle
• Prepared and maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases to cover entire testing effort.
• Involved in testing the Front-end, Backend testing, Integration and co-coordinated UAT
• Involved in System, Integration and Batch Testing of the application.
• Participated in risk management and implementation of the applications on the local and remote locations.
• Conducted Security, Positive & Negative Testing to ensure secure login and access for various application depending on different users
• Worked with business analysts, programmers and business users through the life cycle of the project.
• Performed manual testing for some of the modules of application and Conducted meetings and walkthroughs with Business Users
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries, to extract the data from the database.
• Conducted Functionality and Back End testing during various phases of the application Manually
• Interacted with developers, business analysts and discussed technical problems and reported bugs.
• Tracked and reported defects using Quality Center

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, Oracle, JAVA, Windows 2000, Windows XP.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

QA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creation and execution of Test Scripts based on functional specifications.
• Involved in Review and verification of Test Scripts for Unit, Integration and Regression testing with the Technical Team.
• Involved all the database changes to the development and test databases and implement SQL scripts as necessary.
• Tested different data warehouse transformations, created by using informatica.
• Validated Data at each Transformation.
• Validated Data at each stage using SQL queries (Staging & Data warehouse/Data Mart).
• Participated in automating the User interfaces using QTP.
• Involved in End-to-End and User Acceptance Testing.
• Generated the detailed reports of the Bugs, Pass-Fail results, Comparison Chart and defect Tracking and defect aging in TestDirector.
• Participated in Code reviews.
• Actively involved in Regression testing for version releases and for customizing the software.
• Worked on the application Helpdesk/Support for queries or problems reported by the users.

Environment: Windows 2000, Informatica 5.5, TestDirector 6.0, MS Excel 2000,Oracle, T-SQL, Java, XML, IBM Web Sphere Application Server 3.5.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Junior Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigation flow.
• Analyzed the business requirements and system specifications to understand the application.
• Prepared test plans and executed test cases and test scenarios.
• Developed and executed Test Script and provided reports to the team lead.
• Used Mercury Quality Center to store Requirements, Test Cases and log Defects.
• Executed the manual Test cases in the Quality Center Test Lab section.
• Conducted random testing of credit and debit card transactions.
• Performed Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Integration Testing, and System Testing, Back End Testing and User acceptance Testing.
• Wrote SQL queries to test Data Integrity, Referential Integrity and performed Database Testing for the Application.
• Executed various Batch tests for testing a group of functionalities in the application.
• Executed and tested various procedures, functions, triggers, packages in order to test their functionality.
• Report bugs and follows our defect management flow

Environment: Confidential Quality Center, QTP, .NET, SQL-Server 2000, Windows, PL/SQL, MS Office, VSS.

Confidential, Ewing, NJ

Junior Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed requirement specification (RS) documents and attended design meetings to develop test plans and test cases.
• Wrote Test Plans, Test Cases, Requirements Matrix, and Test Summary Reports
• Developed and executed Test cases, Automation test scripts and verified actual results with expected results.
• Performed end-to-end black box testing to test the functional workflow of the application.
• Conducted GUI Testing, Functional Testing, and Smoke Testing, Integration Testing,
• Carried out extensive testing with the QTP testing tool with different test cases, which reflect various real time business situations.
• Involved in Parameterized test scripts for Data Driven testing in QTP.
• Performed data driven testing by importing excel sheet into data sheet in QTP to verify that the application was working properly with different data inputs.
• Used Quality Center for test management as well as test planning and test scheduling.
• Used SQL queries to retrieve data from the database for Back End Testing
• Performed Back End Testing by verifying the data in the Oracle Database.
• Performed reviews of Audit checklists prepared by SQA to fit in the testing environment.

Environment: Quick test pro, Quality Center, VB Script, Oracle, JAVA, SQL*Plus, MSOffice, and Windows XP.