SUMMARY

• 5 years of diverse experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing.
• Experience in Manual and Automated testing of Windows and Web applications.
• Experienced in designing Test Scenarios and Test cases.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and QA Methodologies like Water fall and Incremental model..
• Involved in Static and Dynamic testing.
• Have strong experience in Sanity testing, Functional testing, Compatibility testing, Retesting, Smoke testing, Regression testing, user acceptance testing, Usability testing, Interface testing of windows and web based applications.
• Worked on End - To-End Testing that involves coordinating and testing chain of different interfaces.
• Experience in Integration Testing, and System Testing (Functional, Regression).
• Extensively worked with Graphical User Interface testing and methodologies.
• Good experience in the Onsite/Offshore working model.
• Preparing Requirement Traceability matrix for test cases.
• Involved in Requirement collections, analysis, and documentation.
• Responsible for executing Test cases manually and verifying the system functions as per user specifications.
• Proficient in writing test cases by using test case design techniques.
• Very good in Test Execution Process, Defect Life Cycle and Test Plan.
• Actively involved in Requirement Analysis, Use-Case Analysis Involved and developed comprehensive Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Case and Test Scripts and documented them in Quality Center.
• Functional Tester to create report bugs and follow the complete defect cycle.
• Extensive experience in Black Box & White Box Testing.
• Expertise on Black-Box testing techniques like BVA, ECP and Decision tables.
• Expertise in testing with Windows / UNIX Environment.
• Developed/Maintained Test plans, Test Cases, Defect Tracking and reporting for both Manual and Automated Test Environments.
• Experience in testing Financial (Equity/Trading), Health, Banking, Telecom and Retail Applications.
• Ability to work under strict deadlines. Good analytical and communication skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision and perform as part of a team.
• Strong Team player and contribute towards the team goals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Test Director/Quality Center, Win Runner, QTP.

Scripting Language: VBScript

Languages: C, Java, T-SQL, PL-SQL.

Web Tech: HTML, XML.

RDBMS: MS SQL Server 7.x/2000, MS Access 97/2000, Oracle

Operating Sys: Windows NT 4.0/XP/2000/ME/95/98,Unix

GUI Tools: MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Preparing the test plan
• Preparing the test cases, upload into Quality Center.
• Responsible for running test cases and posting defects into Quality Center
• Performing regression testing.
• Report the status to the client on daily/weekly basic.
• Involved in all stages of software Development Life Cycle such as analysis, design,development, testing and documentation.
• Direct interaction with the client.
• Involved in conducting Black box testing of the application.
• Regression Testing for New Change Requests and Enhancements Helping team members in environment setup and test execution
• Logging and Tracking the bugs using QC
• Providing daily/weekly status update to the onsite coordinator
• Involved in User Acceptance testing (UAT) to validate the application, to check that the application properly reflects business functions and requirements.
• Providing different statistics/information on the project status to the managers.
• Analyzing and evaluating the new work items (projects)
• Performed End to End testing manually
• Responsible for maintaining updated reports on resolved bugs.
• Performed Functional, Negative and Positive Testing on the application.
• Handling tele-conferences with the onsite/offshore teams.
• Executed the test scripts and compared the Actual and expected results.
• Conducted database testing using SQL queries and Validating the data at Backend.
• Involved in Analysis, Design of Test Cases, Review, Test Execution, Status Reporting of Project by using Mercury Quality Center
• Analysing, writing reports & communicating results to colleagues & managers.
• Involved in Interaction with Developers and Reporting Defects and Defect Fixing and Clarifications

Environment: Quality center, Windows XP, Manual Testing, Black Box Testing and Java

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Creating test scenarios and test cases for Engineering Change Description.
• Ensure all the test cases are updated in the Quality Center along with test plan.
• Involved in implementation of the Test plan, various Test cases and Test scripts including validating the data at Backend.
• Involved in the Weekly Defect Status Meetings along with QA team and Development team.
• During System Testing Life Cycle, performed different types of testing, such as GUI, Functional, Integration and Positive & Negative Testing.
• Involved in all stages of software Development Life Cycle such as analysis, design, development, testing and documentation.
• Created test data sets for the data verification and validation of the application by conducting positive, negative and boundary testing.
• Involved on testing the new functionalities based on test cases coordinated with development team in fixing the issues.
• Involved in Integration Testing of modules for the application and used Unix Commands for file interface testing.
• Involved in smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, GUI Testing, End To End Testing, Data Base testing, UAT Testing
• Executed the test scripts and compared the Actual and expected results.
• Conducted database testing using SQL queries.
• Tested the back end Data Base by preparing Queries with SQL to retrieve data from database.

Environment: Quality Center, Manual Testing, SQL, Windows, UNIX, MS Access.

Confidential, Nashville, TN

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements, Functional Requirements and Use cases and developed Test Plan and Test cases for both positive and negative tests.
• Involved in regression testing of web-based application written in Java. Wrote test cases for each valid transaction and reported bugs. Performed smoke and functional tests on screens to verify values, including Optional values.
• Performed System Testing, Functional, Regression, Integration and Compatibility Testing.
• Responsible for testing and sending out the build status on the arrival of every other new build.
• Responsible for updating and maintaining Quality Center for all the defects found during functional and regression testing and follow up the bug life cycle.
• Used Mercury Quality Center for Test Documentation, Test Execution and Defect Management.
• Used Simple and Complex SQL Queries like Joins, Select, Update, Drop, and Append to manipulate the database.
• Perform backend testing by using SQL queries and check if the reports generated actually suffice the search criteria submitted.
• Developed User-Acceptance Test scripts and assisted users in conducting UAT.
• Actively participated in daily bug report meetings and interacted with developers diplomatically to ensure high quality of the applications.

Environment: Quality Center, Manual Testing, JAVA, UNIX, Firefox2.0/3.0 and Windows, Access.

Confidential, CA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed test cases, test scenarios based on Requirements.
• Involved in both Manual and Automation testing.
• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Testing Methodologies and Techniques.
• Developed Test Plan based on the Business Requirements Documents
• Used SQL scripts and SQL queries to access the database for Back-end testing.
• Involved in system, functional, integration, regression testing and retesting as well.
• Developed and maintained automation scripts in QTP using VBScript.
• Executed automated test scripts and reported the results.
• Identified the tests that are repeatable for each testing cycle and generated Automated Test scripts using QTP.
• Also performed the UAT of the application for client satisfaction.
• Used Quality Center for test case management and tracking defects; entry and reporting.
• Actively involved in Requirement Analysis, Use-Case Analysis Involved and developed comprehensive Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Case and Test Scripts and documented them in Quality Center.
• Used Simple and Complex SQL Queries like Joins, Select, Update, Drop, and Append to manipulate the database..
• Logged the defects detected in the quality center and verified the fixes.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, VBScripting, Manual Testing, Unix, Windows, Java

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement collections, analysis, and documentation.
• Involved in Manual Testing & Regression Testing.
• Assisted in implementing a standard System Development Life Cycle for the project.
• Involved in testing life cycle for recording bugs, writing the test cases and instituted Test Plan design.
• Developed system test plans, Test Cases based on requirements and business document by using Quality Center.
• Studied the Application under Test as per the specification documents.
• Involved in User Acceptance testing (UAT) to validate the application, to check that the application properly reflects business functions and requirements.
• Involved in meetings at various level with Business Users.
• Development of test cases based on the product specification and manually tested the modules at site observing the user specific requirements.
• Performed GUI, Functional, System and Integration testing.
• Conducted Regression testing based on the bugs submitted in earlier build.
• Reported bugs and Follow up with the development team for bug resolution.
• Used Test Director for Bug reporting and Tracking.

Environment: Manual Testing, Black Box Testing, Unix, QC, Test Director, Windows XP and Java.

Confidential 

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Requirement documents, Functional Specification and use case documents.
• Built detailed test plan to that ensure complete testing coverage.
• Involved in preparation of Test Cases based on requirement documents.
• Responsible for executing Test cases manually and verifying the system functions as per user specifications.
• Involved in test case reviews.
• Involved in manual and automated testing.
• Developed, executed, and maintained test cases using Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center to store all testing results, test case management, and defect tracking and reporting.
• Performed System, Functional, Regression, Integration, Smoke, Usability, Black Box, White/Gray box and user acceptance testing.
• Testing of client-server applications on Windows and UNIX operating systems.
• Defects are tracked and reported using Quality Center.

Environment: Black Box Testing, Quality Center, Windows and Unix