SUMMARY

• Around 9 years of significant and progressive experience in IT on both Manual and Automation testing tools.
• Complete exposure to all stages of SDLC process with strong skills in writing various test plans, developing and maintaining test cases, test scenarios using Quality Center.
• Good understanding of Fixed Income Derivative products.
• Worked primarily in the domains of Financial, Telecom, Retail, Banking, Media, Insurance.
• Expertise in analyzing requirements, developing test cases and different test scenarios.
• Active role in developing test plan for Functional, Integration, System, Acceptance testing.
• Expertise in functional, Integration, System, Acceptance, Usability and GUI testing of AUT, Verification and Validation.
• Understand Business, Functional, technical requirements and transform them into test cases and develop complex scenarios
• Thorough in writing SQL queries for back end testing.
• Experience in using TOAD for querying Oracle databases.
• Strong experience in testing and QA of systems involving DBs such as Oracle (8i, 9i,10g, 11i), SQL Server and technologies including 2 tier to multi - tier with emphasis on test automation using programming as well as using readily available several test automation tools.
• Extensive experience with SQA Architecture & test automation using QTP 8.0/9.0/9.5/10 , for applications of web and client server domains.
• Advanced user in using Test management tools like DOORS, Visual Intercept, HP Quality Center/Test Director and Rational Clear Quest.
• Experienced in defect tracking, follow up with cross-functional teams to verify bug fixes, and testing progress.
• Worked on multiple Projects at same time with multi-site & multi-cultural teams.
• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies specializing in Agile, Iterative and Waterfall.
• Experience with web services testing using SOAP UI/WSDL/XPATH.
• Test to break attitude in writing test cases from requirements and while executing test cases.
• Expertise in setting up and carrying out browser Compatibility testing environment with different browsers and versions of Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari on different Operating Systems like Windows and MAC.
• Very good knowledge on UNIX commands
• Worked on Windows 7/Vista/XP pro/ 98/95, Win Server 2003, UNIX and Mac OS X.
• Maintained internal documentation library - knowledge base, providing / coordinating special documentation services, as required by PMO, test manager and for cross functional teams.
• Experienced on C#, Visual Studio, .Net Framework 2.0 and 4, MS SQL Server 2005/2008, Visual Basic 6.0, .Net, PL/SQL, MS Office, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, DB2 and HTML, Java, J2EE.
• Tested applications running on Linux, UNIX, AIX, and Sun Solaris.
• Created web service test cases using LISA tool.
• Worked as team player in a team size of 6 - 20 members.
• Enthusiastic team player who can either lead a group or be a valuable team member who can follow project instructions and get the right job done on time.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2K/XP/7, Mac

Databases: MS-Access, Oracle, SQL Server

Languages: Asp.net, C#, PHP, HTML, JavaScript

Tools: HP Quick Test Professional, Quality Center,Red Mine

Packages: MS-Word, MS-Excel and MS-PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

QA Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system requirement specifications and developed test plans, test cases to cover overall QA System Testing.
• Performed Functional and regression testing using SOAP UI.
• Developed Test Plan, Test Cases, and Test Procedures, expected results using QC and testing of end-to-end scenarios.
• Identified the high-risk points and the priorities of the application.
• Performed Usability & Sanity tests on the application.
• Performed various Boundary Tests as well as data validation to ensure record retrieval and search engine tests. Performed Tests via navigation and workflow of the application.
• Manually checked the important features (Smoke Testing) of the application.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining Traceability Matrix.
• Created and executed Test cases for Positive, Negative Testing and Field Level Validations.
• Crested scenarios as per the business process.
• Involved in the Maintenance of the Application and in the bug fixing of the issues.
• Performed Database Resource Monitoring to measure Database server performance.
• Interacted with End Users to obtain specific system requirements.
• Used UNIX for debugging.
• Reported defects using QC and interacted with developers to resolve defects/issues.
• Created web service test cases using LISA tool.
• Using Test Case Wizard to create steps for functional business scenarios.
• Created Test cases to Test Suite for automated test cases.
• Created Filters and Assertions using LISA to create test cases for positive and negative condition scenarios.
• Set up Configurations Parameterized.
• Created Data sets using LISA tool
• Performed automation of testing using Quick Test Pro and programmed dynamic VB Scripts in Expert view for testing GUI Functionality.
• Developed Functional Automation scripts using VBScript in QTP.
• Used Shared Object Repository in QTP for developing Automation scripts.
• Developed Automation frameworks using VB Script and QTP
• Created and executed the Test plan, Test Cases and Test Steps for all the modules and stored in HP mercury Quality Center(QC).
• Interactive Test Run Utility tool for validating single test cases.
• Using External Configurations file to test different environments for the same test cases.

Environment: SOAP UI, Quality Center 10.0, QTP 10.0, Struts, Adobe Acrobat, UNIX, Shell Scripting, Soap UI, Test Utility Tool, Ultra Compare Tool, Windows XP/2003, XML, XML,XSL,XSLT, Java, J2EE,JSP, Struts, Adobe Acrobat, Tomcat Apache 6.0, XAMPP, Stylus Studio XML Professional and Enterprise Suite, XML Spy, SharePoint.

Confidential, LA

QA Analyst / Tester

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Analyzed system requirement specifications and developed test plans, test cases to cover overall QA System Testing.
• Performed Functional and regression testing using QTP (Quick test pro).
• Developed Test Plan, Test Cases, and Test Procedures, expected results using QC and testing of end-to-end scenarios.
• Identified the high-risk points and the priorities of the application.
• Wrote Test Plan, Test Cases for GUI, Functionality, Data Driven and Backend Testing as per functional specifications.
• Performed functional and regression testing for web services using Soap UI.
• Performed Usability & Sanity tests on the application.
• Performed various Boundary Tests as well as data validation to ensure record retrieval and search engine tests. Performed Tests via navigation and workflow of the application.
• Manually checked the important features (Smoke Testing) of the application.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining Traceability Matrix.
• Created and executed Test cases for Positive, Negative Testing and Field Level Validations.
• Crested scenarios as per the business process.
• Involved in the Maintenance of the Application and in the bug fixing of the issues.
• Performed Database Resource Monitoring to measure Database server performance.
• Interacted with End Users to obtain specific system requirements.
• Developed and executed SQL queries for backend testing.
• Used UNIX for debugging.
• Interacted with application users (end-users) and performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Reported defects using QC and interacted with developers to resolve defects/issues.

Environment: QTP10.0, Quality Center 9.2, Struts, Adobe Acrobat, UNIX, Shell Scripting, Oracle, SQL,UDB DB2, SYBASE, Soap UI, Soap UI PRO 3.6.1, Mantis, Windows XP/2003, Groovy Script, XML, XML,XSL,XSLT, Java, J2EE,JSP, Struts, Adobe Acrobat, Tomcat Apache 6.0, XAMPP, Stylus Studio XML Professional and Enterprise Suite, XML Spy, SharePoint, Oracle, SQL,DB2, DB Visualizer, Squirrel .

Confidential, SC

QA Analyst / Tester

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Analyzed project documents, software specifications and developed test cases.
• Tested Overall Flow of the BizTalk Application (tested XML files generated by the BizTalk application).
• Used Event Viewer to check any BizTalk Application Information and any kind of errors logged.
• Performed Manual Testing like Positive Testing and Negative Testing.
• Performing Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Database and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Used Quick Test Pro for Functional and Regression testing for automation of multiple modules in the environment.
• Tested XML files using Soap UI.
• Performed Data Driven, Keyword Driven testing to test application with unique test data.
• Recorded and enhanced scripts with different Checkpoints.
• Maintained the defects in the Quality center 9.0.
• Generated Reports using Cognos tool and tested ETL Crystal Reports and validated data using SAS software
• Extensively done Backend Manual testing using SQL to verify back end data and constraint validations.

Confidential, GA

QA Analyst / Tester

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Analyzed and identified the Test Cases based on requirement document of the application.
• Requirement Traceability Matrix document to map the test cases to the requirements.
• Reviewing and modifying the Test Cases.
• Enhanced the automated test scripts by using reusable actions, parameterization in Quick Test Pro.
• Created global data table using Data Driven Tests by using parameterization to validate the same scenario with different test data.
• Created Standard Check points, Text check points, bitmap checkpoint, Image Checkpoints.
• Accomplish the Test Case for different Modules.
• Developed test cases using Quality Center.
• Created and used Shared Object Repository for QTP tests.
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Regression, Black Box Testing
• Regression testing was performed after each new build of the application.
• Extensively used Sql Queries to extract data from the databases.
• Reported and tracked the status of the bugs, assigned severity ratings to them using Quality Center
• Reported and tracked bugs using Quality Center and sent screen shots of the bugs to development
• Involved in defect status reporting, Prepare bug summary reports.

Environment: QTP 9.2, Quality Center, Windows XP, .Net.

Confidential

QA Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Reviewed all the requirements.
• Involved in writing Test Cases through Quality Center.
• Performed Black Box Testing.
• Validated test scripts to ensure that all the test scenarios are complete.
• Manual and some automation testing across all projects.
• Functional, GUI, regression and Smoke testing, End to End testing.
• Create and enhance processes and procedures to enable re-use of testing assets.
• Provide alternative solutions / work around wherever necessary.
• Executed the test cases manually.
• Participated in bug track meetings with developers to validate the severity of the bugs.
• Created and test reports and appropriate matrices.

Environment: Manual testing, Quality Center, Windows 2000, Java