SUMMARY

• Around 5years of experience in Quality Assurance, Analysis, and Testing of enterprise wide Web Services Testing, Web based applications and Client/Server.
• Expertise in Functional, Integration/System, Regression, Performance, User Acceptance Testing & Pre - Production / Staging Testing.
• Strong in analyzing Business Requirements Document (BRD), System Requirement Specification (SRS), Functional Requirement Specification (FRS), Design Documents, Developing, Executing and maintaining Test suits and Test plans.
• Extensively used Test Director/Quality Center, Rational Requisite Pro for Requirement management, test plans and created traceability metrics among requirements and Test cases.
• Extensive experience with Waterfall, Prototype, Spiral, Iterative, and Agile/Scrum Methodologies.
• Good knowledge and understanding of Software development life cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Extensive experience in writing Test Strategies, Test plans, Test cases, Defect reports and test scripts and Traceability Matrices.
• Performed Black-Box testing, Functional, Regression, Adhoc and User Acceptance testing using Manual test Methodologies.
• Deep knowledge in the Analysis of Bug Severity, Bug Tracking system and Bug Reporting using Quality Center, ClearQuest and BugZilla.
• Hands on experience with independently testing on verification and validations
• Experience in using QTP for Regression Testing for any changes made to the production environment.
• Experience in testing multiple browsers like Netscape, fire fox, Internet explorer and Mac.
• Extensive working experience on Unix/LINUX Systems by executing cronjobs and checking log messages and writing shell scripts and job schedulers like autosys.
• Experience in testing web services using SOAP-UI, XML, WSDL using SOA.
• Having good experience in XML data type testing with XPATH, XML,XQUERY,XSLT.
• Extensive experience in writing SQL Queries to test the data base persistence.
• Proficient in Data Base and Data Warehousing Testing using advanced SQL Syntaxes and Functions.
• Strong communication, interpersonal skills and a team player.
• Good experience of successfully delivering projects, able to work in a team environment and individually with minimal supervision and able to learn and work on new technologies quickly.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Web Development: Java Servlets, JSP, HTML/DHTML

RDBMS: Oracle 9i/10, SQL Server 2000, MS Access.

Scripting languages: Unix shell scripting and JavaScript, autosys

Mercury Testing Tools: Test Director, Quality Center 10.0, QTP 10.0, LoadRunner 9.5

Rational Testing Tools: Rational Requite Pro, Clear Quest, Clear Case

Query languages: SQL, PL/SQL

XML Technologies: XML,XPATH, XSLT, XQUERY

Defect Tracking Tools: BugZilla, Quality Center, Clear Quest

Other Software Tools: SOAP-UI 3.1, SOA, XML Spy, TOAD, MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-Access MS-Visio, MS- Project

Application Servers: Web Logic, Web sphere, Jboss 4.3.

Operating Systems: Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, UNIX/Linux, MS-DOS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Purchase, NY

Senior QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in different phases of Project Life Cycle.
• Testing various entities like licensing Non Members, Pseudo ICA functionalities, RTNs, Processors, Relationships, Contacts, Comments, and Auditing events.
• Involved in the analysis of business/functional Requirement(s) with TL & BA.
• Attending the requirement gathering meetings and involved in business use cases walkthrough.
• Analyzed Business Requirements, Use Cases and design documents throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Involved developing Test plan, Test cases from use cases, developed test cases for Functional testing and performed Regression Testing.
• Testing the functionalities in multiple browsers like Netscape, Internet Explorer, Fire fox .
• Extensively used Quality Center to develop and maintain test cases.
• Created test data, executed positive, negative and boundary test cases, documented results, assigned defects to development team and updated defect tracking systems.
• Experiecnced in testing of XML files using Xpath and Xquery.
• Performed GUI testing including validating input fields and screen flows.
• Used SOAP UI to test web services and validated all operations in WSDL
• Responsible for testing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) components
• Involved in backend testing using SQL Queries.
• Extensively involved testing the application in different environments like System Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing.
• Worked on Unix environment for running cronjobs, verifying log messages and validating job status by executing Unix commands
• Created and tracked defects using Quality Center
• Attended daily defect status meetings and prepared status reports.
• Involvement and Active Participation with BA while giving product Demo’s to the customer.

Environment: Quality Center 10.0, Web Services, SOAP UI 3.1, SOA, XML, SQL, Oracle 9i, TOAD, Unix shell scripts, MS-Office, HTML, JSP, JAVA1.5, Xpath,Xquery, WINDOWS XP and UNIX.

Confidential, Purchase NY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participated in requirement and business analysis meetings.
• Developed Test Plans and Test Cases in Quality Center.
• Testing of various Pega processes of Licensing entities like Additional Bin, Bin Transfer, Bin Delete, Bin Program Code Change, Change of Sponsor, Additional Sponsor, Termination of Sponsorship, Add ICA, ICA Transfer and ICA Delete.
• Generated QTP scripts for Regression testing.
• Written SQL queries for XML type columns using XPATH, XQUERY.
• Verified outputs against database using SQL queries.
• Conducted Smoke, Integration, System, GUI, Regression and User-Acceptance (UAT) testing.
• Executed positive and negative test cases by preparing test data for all test scenarios.
• Worked on Windows and Unix environment.
• Developed UAT Test Cases and Test data for end users.
• Tracked the defects using Quality Center and generated defect summary reports.
• Focused on testing the content and accuracy of the generated reports according to the user requirements.
• Worked closely with management to track and communicate testing progress.
• Maintained Test Logs, Test Summary reports and participated in defect review meetings.
• Attended UAT review meetings with business users to discuss with UAT issues.

Environment: Quality Center 9.0, QTP 10.0, SQL, XML, XML Spy, Oracle 10, TOAD 8.0, MS-Office, Java 1.5, Windows XP, UNIX.

Confidential, White Plains NY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Converted business requirements into test design products: Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Involved in developing Test Plan covering the main functions of the designated parts of the application.
• Developed Test data matrix for test cases.
• Performed Functional & Regression Testing.
• Created test cases in Test Director.
• Used Test Director to store Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scripts.
• Logging and tracking defects in BugZilla and made sure that all the defects were tracked across all stages till the closed Status.
• Developed SQL queries to get the test data from different database tables.
• Responsible for performing various types of process evaluations during each phase of the software development life cycle, including walk through and hands on System Testing.
• Involved in UAT testing by writing the UAT testcases.
• Identified software problems, wrote easy-to -follow bug reports, logged them into bug tracking tool, monitored their progress and verified their fix.
• Categorized bugs based on the severity and interacted with developers to resolve them.
• Scheduled batch job execution for test cycles.
• Extensively used Microsoft Office Suite of products for documentation and data interpretation.

Environment: Test Director, Bugzilla, TOAD, Oracle,SQL/PL-SQL, MS-Office, Unix shell scripts, Windows, UNIX.

Confidential, Saint Louis, MO

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the business requirements and prepared test plans and test scripts.
• Interacted with project managers, business analysts, and developers to analyze the requirements and design changes and incorporated the changes within test scenarios.
• Created test cases, test plan using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Used SOAP UI and XML to test web services.
• Performed integrating testing under Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Performed WSDL validations using SOAP UI
• Submitted defects using Clear Quest bug tracking tool.
• Created test data and tested all the screens, e-mail functionality and workflow.
• Used TOAD to perform database testing by executing different SQL scripts and stored procedures.
• Test documentation is maintained in ClearCase version monitoring tool.
• Maintained Test Logs, Test Summary reports and participated in defect review meetings
• Responsible for Manual Testing, Integration Testing and to make sure all the test cases were executed before signing off to UAT.

Environment: Rational Requisite Pro, Clear Quest, Clear Case, SOAP UI, SOA, XML, SQL,TOAD, Oracle, MS-Office, Solaris UNIX