PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 7 years of experience in Testing (Manual/ Automation) in Client Server and Web Based Applications using Mercury Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, and Load Runner etc.
• Expertise in preparing test strategies, test plans, test summary reports, test cases and test documents for automated and manual testing based on user/system requirement documents.
• Familiar wif Agile Methodology - Scrum, V-Model.
• Experience in working wif automated testing tools like Quick Test Professional, Quality Center and HP Load Runner, BPT and experience in writing automated test scripts in Load Runner
• Thorough understanding of Software Quality Assurance methodologies wif expertise in Black box, manual, automation and UAT testing. Skilled in Testing and Development of Client Server and Web based applications in Health Care, CRM, Mortgage, Financial and Banking industries across Multi-Platform environments.
• Very good in scheduling, planning for teh releases, builds, and patches for teh QA testing worked wif multiple releases simultaneously in QA environment.
• Extensive noledge on Performance life cycle involving execution of complete performance test life cycle and different versions of load runner (8-9.5) and current version (11.0).
• Well versed wif performance testing, project activities including requirements gathering, planning, designing scripts and creating test data and executing load tests
• Excellent noledge in software engineering standards like CMM
• Develop performance test scripts to simulate user actions, performance test runs, analyze teh test execution.
• Well versed wif performance testing, project activities including requirements gathering, planning, designing scripts and creating test data and executing load tests.
• Expertise in problem solving and Tracking Bug Reports using Bug tracking Tools like HP Quality center, Team Foundation Server, Bugzilla, JIRA, Clear Quest, and PVCS
• Expertise in Black Box Testing, Positive, Negative, Data Driven Testing, Keyword driven testing, Modularity Driven Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, and Functional Testing.
• Good experience in using Automated Tools HP BPT QTP, Mercury Quality Center, Load Runner Rational Test Manager, Web-Based and Data Base Application
• Administered Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, and Batch Testing.
• Good source of noledge on CRAFT, BPT exposure and Rally environment
• Strong hold in descriptive programming by using VB Script.
• Having good exposure to teh test strategy for meeting teh goals for teh performance testing.
• Ability to interact wif people at all levels. Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills wif likable personality.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional 8.0/9.0/9.2/9.5/10.0/11.5, Quality center 8.2/9.0, Test Director 7.27.5/8.0 and LoadRunner9.0. Mercury Test Director, Team Foundation Server

Web Technology: HTML, XML,JMS, J2E, JavaScript, VB Script, VB. Net, ASP.net

Databases: Oracle 9i/10g 11g, SQL, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris 8/9/10, Windows 98/2000/NT/XP/Vista/Apple Mac

Reporting Tools: Micro Strategy v8, v9 Web, Microsoft Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Lansing, Michigan

QA Tester/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Took a leading role in creation and maintenance of reusable functional libraries on VB Script using HP QTP and Maintained object repository
• Studied and assessed teh clients systems and business processes.
• Responsible for entire test automation process utilizing QTP (QuickTest Pro)
• Executed teh QTP Scripts For every new Build and Identified high level defects and discussed wif teh Developers and Business Analysts found during UAT.
• Responsible for development QTP automation strategy, used Dynamic Descriptive Programming approach to benefit from Object Identification wifout using OR.
• Design automation framework depending on project and application complexity requirements. Maintain and improve teh automation framework used by teh automation team.
• Checked teh data flow through teh UI, Database and extensively used SQL queries to extract teh data from teh database
• Worked closely wif Business Analysts and Developers to clarify/understand functionality, resolve issues and provided feedback to nail down teh bugs
• Coordinated and prioritized outstanding defects and enhancement/system requests based on business requirements.
• Designed and implemented Hybrid Driven Framework for client server /web base application
• Used IBM Clear Quest to log and track teh Defects.
• Reviewed and gained understanding of Business requirements and Functional specification document to develop detailed test scripts.
• Used SQL Plus and Toad to create, query and verify test data for backend testing.
• Wrote test plans, test cases and test summary reports.
• Expertise in writing test cases, executing them, creating queries using TFS
• Involved in creation and maintenance of Hybrid QTP framework
• Developed Scripts to Store data in XL sheets and used Parameterization.
• Defects logged and Tracked by teh TFS (Team Foundation Server) and Managed teh reports through teh Quality Center
• Integrated QTP scripts and executed them in Rational Quality Manager
• Created Test cases based on teh requirement, raised defects in TFS
• Updated teh test cases using TFS which acted as repository
• Did Descriptive Programming using VB Scripting and Object Repository.
• Performed Functional, Validation, Error and Regression Testing on different platforms and web browsers at various phases of teh Project life Cycle
• Created test schedules, coordinated all facets of testing, transferred test methodology and noledge as necessary to End users and Developers.
• Resolved project scheduling and testing issues, represented teh team at project meetings and prepared Executive Management weekly status reports
• Worked closely wif Business Analysts and Developers to clarify/understand functionality, resolve issues and provided feedback to nail down teh bugs

Environment: Java EE 5, SQL, PL/SQL, JDK 5, HTML, XML, Struts 1.2, JavaScript, JSP, JDBC,Clear Case, Visual Studio TFS, RQM, Clear Quest,Oracle 11g,RAD,LDAP (SSO),Web sphere and Windows 7,QTP (10.0, 11.5), SQL Developer, manual testing

Confidential, Corning-NY

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Tested teh application at unit level, module level and system level for teh Quality of teh software.
• Resolved technical issues when interacted wif developers and evaluated developer's unit test reports.
• Work closely wif software developers and take an active role in ensuring that teh software components meet teh highest quality standards.
• Experience in preparation of automated tests wif in teh keyword driven automation framework
• Preparing scripts using QTP for regression testing, Writing VB script and descriptive programming
• Expert inAutomated Testing,Business Process Testing (BPT), User Acceptance Testing(UAT),and Manual Testing
• Using Quality center saved teh Scripts, Scenarios and Results and prepared Load modelling sheet for running teh scenarios
• Responsible for reviews and documentation for reporting teh status to teh project manager.
• Involved in developing detailed test scenarios and Test cases in Rally accordance wif Business and Functional Requirements
• Performeddescriptive programmingandBusiness Process Testing BPTusing QTP
• Followed agile principles and SCRUM to strictly emphasize on deep communication wif our testing teams, project managers, developers and business analysts for efficient software development
• Review and understand data requirements and create teh necessary test data and test cases to be used during UAT
• Provided consulting services for Business Process Testing using Test Director for Quality Center and Quick Test Professional
• Documented teh Bug Reports for all teh bugs detected and tracked teh bug fixing process until they were closed.
• Managed teh testing process, schedule batch tests, log and track defects using Quality Center.
• Involved in teh development of system test plan and test scripts using business and system requirement documents
• created batch tests by importing an XML file, verified whether a test ran and completed correctly
• Experience assessing testing processes, creating, implementing testing strategies and SQA strategies using Agile-testing methodology in UAT phase.
• Used Rally/CQ for defect tracking and reporting bugs. Recorded defect details, assigned severity and reported defect status to teh QA Scrum Master.
• Developed and executed SQL queries on claim records to validate reporting data
• Participated in Conference Bridge calls to track issues and report status to teh Managers
• Participated in walkthroughs and inspections of Test plans and Requirements Traceability, Identified high level defects and discussed wif teh Developers and Business Analysts, Documented all teh Defects found during UAT and throughout QA Life cycle
• Performed Integration and UAT testing for system compatibility.
• Extensively used SQL and PL/SQL to retrieve teh data from databases to perform data validations and comparisons for regression testing

Environment: Oracle 11g, SQL Tools, SQL Developer, Rally, Quality Center 9.0, QC 10.0, Windows, SQL Server, Oracle 10g, PL/SQL, Java, Rally, QTP(9.2,10.0)

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used Mercury Quality Center 10.0 to write test cases and Reports.
• Plan, Design, Develop, extend, execute and manage Manual & Automated Test suites
• Performed Integration testing for system compatibility.
• Created and executed SQL queries and validated teh test data in teh database.
• Recorded and executed teh scripts using Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Followed and implemented Agile Scrum methodology in whole project life cycle.
• Bugs were reported to developers by using Quality Center and after rectification from developers regression testing were performed.
• Worked wif development teams investigating and correcting software bugs and deficiencies based on teh testing results.
• Performed Functional and Regression Testing using QTP and Involved in Verification and Validation process.
• Various other tests like Positive, Negative, Performance, Regression, and Stress, performed to check teh various business functionality.
• Documented teh Bug Reports for all teh bugs detected and tracked teh bug fixing process until they were closed.
• Wrote SQL queries to perform data validation and validate reports against teh database.
• Execution of Test cases wif respect to source and target database tables.
• Testing teh application at unit level, module level and system level for teh Quality of teh software.

Environment: SQL Server 2000, VB.NET, Windows, HP Quality Center 10, HTML manual testing

Confidential, Portland, OR

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on testing teh upgrade of major functionalities like Combined Billing & Payment option, Go Paperless, Pay Bill, Renewable Power, and Account Summary.
• Performed Functional and Regression testing of teh application.
• Tested Batch processes running in application servers.
• Performed Black Box, Smoke, Adhoc, Positive and Negative testing.
• Wrote SQL Queries to test teh integrity of teh database.
• Worked on creating and implementing Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Tracked defects using Quality center and participated in bug review meetings.
• Worked closely wif users to ensure that teh application development met teh user expectations and was also a part of User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Ensured teh integral aspect of QA environment, regression testing was undertaken after every bug fix.
• Extensively worked on defect resolution by interacting wif development team.

Environment: .Net, C#, SQL Server 2005, Oracle 11g, H.P Quality Center, Java Script.

Confidential, Mobile, AL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Designed and created various Test Plans, Test Cases based on teh Business requirements.
• Involved in extensive DATA validation using SQL queries and back-end testing.
• Involve wif Design and Development team to implement teh requirements.
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify teh expected results.
• Participated in walkthrough and defect report meetings periodically.
• Involved in Unit, Functional, Regression and System testing.
• Worked on profiling teh data for understanding teh data and ETL mapping document.
• Performed teh tests in both teh SIT, QA and contingency/backup environments.
• Documented and reported various bugs during Manual Testing.
• Retesting teh resolved defects/issues after teh developers fix teh defects.

Environment: H.P Quality Center, SQL Server, Quality Center 9.2, Windows XP, MS Office and manual testing.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Internship

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Data collection, analysis and reporting.
• Determined test objectives and standards by studying software requirements.
• Executed manual tests using required methods, cycles, phases, and conditions; setting up testing environment and equipment.
• Supported projects including daily metrics, cost/benefit analysis and/or assessments.
• Wrote, executed and maintained test cases using Test Director and test data during application development cycles and after production release.

Environment: Windows XP, Test Director 7.0, 7.2 and manual testing.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Performed Black box testing and logged teh defects using teh Quality Center management tool.
• Involved in teh identification, analysis and documentation of test cases and software defects for multi-component systems, also involved in detailed documentation of test results together wif teh development of automated regression test framework.
• Prepared Test Data for Positive and Negative Testing used in Data Driven Test.
• Used VB Scripts for test cases and involved in multi-environment enterprise solutions using QTP.
• Worked closely wif teh QA managers, developers and SQA engineers to understand needs, preferences, workflows, priorities, and schedules and to execute test strategies.
• Performed manual QA testing (QAT), Integration and Regression testing activities for new releases, and End-to-End testing on different platforms like Win XP wif web browsers IE, AOL & Netscape.
• Performed Functional and Regression Testing using QTP and Involved in Verification and Validation process.
• Tracked teh defects and reported them using Quality Center tool.

Environment: QTP 8.2, Test Director 7.2, HTML, Java Script, Windows XP