SUMMARY:

• 6 plus years of diverse experience in the Information Technology industry wif a focus on Software Quality Assurance (QA / Software Testing) activities
• In - Depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Verification and Validation (IV&V)
• Implemented Verification Processes (IVPs).
• IT industry experience in Financial, Insurance, Health and Retail (Consumer Goods).
• Over 1+ Year of experience in implementing Data Driven and Modular Framework using HP QTP.
• Highlighted motivated team player wif excellent spoken and written communication, presentation and
• Inter-personal skills, always willing to work in challenging and cross-platform environment.
• Conducted Project Meetings, having good technical skills in managing a group of QA testers.
• Proficient in Documenting and Executing Test Plans and test cases for manual testing and automated testing.
• Worked in close co-ordination wif the testing team in Developing Test Plan and Test Cases from functional and business requirements.
• Strong experience in Preparing Reports for some of the Functional and Performance Testing.
• Contributed Extensively towards Manual testing / Automated testing / Web testing / Client Server testing on UNIX, Shell Scripting & SQL and Windows platforms
• Maintained Automated Test Scripts using Test Partner (VBA) and Visual Test.
• Proficient in using Mercury Test Tools such as Quick Test pro, Rational Tools(Clear Quest and Clear Case)
• Win Runner, Load Runner and Quality center / Test Director
• Prepared Test plans, Test cases reviews, test cases execution, designing, executing, verifying and Analyzing test programs.
• Ability to work as independent as well as a team member in challenging and cross platform environment. Interacted wif Users/Analysts to finalize test cases.
• Developed bug reports, Build and Test data preparation.
• Conducted Project status meetings, identified requirements, Code walkthroughs, and inspection reviews
• Designed and Created testing manual for use by the business users as per the company’s SOP’s (Standard Operating Procedures).
• Gained vast expertise in Integration testing, Performance testing, Regression testing, System testing, User
• Acceptance testing, Volume testing, Unit testing and Stress testing .
• Tested on various browsers like Internet Explorer, Netscape, AOL, Mozilla etc..
• Documented Test documents using MS Office tools- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook
• Advanced skills in white box test design, testing techniques and exposure to unit testing framework such as unit Testing, Junit etc.
• Expertise in design and code development of software using programming languages such as C++, Java, or C#.
• Experience in development, testing of large scale complex enterprise level application using web
• Develop use cases, user interface specifications, and user requirement specification documents.
• Formulated and tested queries wif SQL on an Object/Traditional Relational Database.
• Worked on Black box testing, back end and data validation testing, GUI and functionality testing, white box testing, grey box testing, structured testing and SQA process .

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 98/ NT/ 2K/ XP, Unix and DOS.

Testing Tools: QTP, Test Director, HP Mercury Quality Center, Team Foundation Server, Microsoft

Test Manager, Win Runner and Rational Tools(Clear Quest, Clear Case).

Languages: C, C++, Java, J2EE, Visual Basic, .Net, ASP

Scripts: JavaScript, VBScript, Shell scripting.

Web Technologies: HTML, HTTP, HTTPS, DHTML, JSP, Servlets, XML, Web sphere, Web logic

Database: Oracle 9i, DB2, MS-Access, SQL Server 2005, SQL & PL/SQL .

Other Tools: PVCS, UML, Toad, Oracle, XML Spy, Clear Case, Change Management, Lotus Notes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago,IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in strategy and status meetings to report issues and also in Build release meetings and
• QA status meetings.Communicated wif developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution.
• TEMPEffectively implemented different QA methodologies/policies, strategies and plans in all stages of SDLC(Scrum).
• Involved in scheduling and executing test sets, collecting test result and analyzing the data using Visual Studio 2010.
• Performed System, Functional and Regression test and verified all the failure conditions enhancement.
• Create, review and execute test cases in Microsoft Test Manger (MTM).
• Strong knowledge Microsoft Test Manger & Coded UI tools (include writing and executing automation scripts)
• Develop test schedule and scenarios for both system testing and User Acceptance Testing(UAT).
• Developed test execution plan describing important details regarding how the test sets need to be conducted, organized and executed.
• Introduced the Agile SCRUM process for the Risk Data team and utilized Microsoft Team Foundation
• Server (TFS) to manage the team's software development lifecycle including deriving product backlog items, assigning sprint work items to developers and conducting sprint review meetings.
• Performed Black Box Testing, Usability and Integration Testing.
• Wrote SQL queries to access the data from the database tables and crosscheck the results.
• Performed cross-browser testing using Safari,IE & Firefox.
• Performed Database Integrity testing using SQL*Plus to ensure the data TEMPhas been populated as intended and all database events occurred properly.
• Participated in design, walkthrough and review meetings.

Environment: Windows 2000, Manual testing, One Notepad,Team Foundation Server,Microsoft Test Man ager, Visual Studio 2010, HTML, Web Applications, XML, MS office, SQL.

Confidential, Fall Church, VA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in design, development and implementation on a multitude of manual tests for functional, UAT and regression tests.
• Responsible for preparing Test Cases, Test Summary Reports, Testing and Status Reports.
• Proficient in using HP Mercury Quality Center tool for defect tracking and reporting.
• Developed, executed and maintained manual functional tests and results in HP Quality Center.
• Heavily involved in mapping the requirements to the test cases
• Executed automated scripts in HP QTP and stored the results in Quality Center.
• Responsible for analyzing the documents and executing test scripts.
• Analyzed the design requirements for preparing the test scenarios.
• Generated the scripts for Automated testing using Quick Test Pro. Performed Data-Driven testing using QTP Conducted Integration, System, Functional, GUI, Regression, Database Integrity.
• Responsible for writing test cases based on requirements.
• Validation of test data created for next cycle. Recording and writing of Automated test scripts using QTP (In different environment and add-ins).
• Modify existing software to correct errors, allow it to adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance.
• Responsible for executing the test cases, upon successful completion, responsible to promote/migrate the application using Clear Quest.
• Customized the queries using CQ to pull the data out.
• Compiled full shakeout test plan for monthly migration along wif making the results available in SharePoint.
• Participated in the walkthroughs wif the Business Analyst and development team to understand the requirements and to formulate test plans.
• Involved in System testing, Black Box testing and White Box Testing.
• Responsible for monitoring the server logs and bringing the server up and down in UNIX
• Participated in the External User TestingProcess and developed methodologies.
• Participated in the Oracle Upgrade processes, testing for evaluating the TEMPeffectiveness of the upgrade system testing performed for the purpose of finding problems before release. The test activities and procedures represent those deemed TEMPeffective for determining that the test effort TEMPhas been successful.
• Built our own queries by integrating Business objects wif quality center for running the reports for monthly migrations.

Environment: HP QTP, HP Mercury QC, UNIX, Toad, SQL Server, Remedy, DB2,Visual studio, C#,MS Access.

Confidential, Holland MI

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business requirements and wrote the Test Plan.
• Created Test Cases as per the business requirements and executed them.
• Created test cases and test scripts using Win runner for Functionality, Security, Backend and Regression and System Testing.
• Created Test cases and Test scripts using Load Runner for Stress and Performance Testing.
• Conducted functionality and security testing manually also.
• Tracked bugs by using HP Mercury Quality Centre by Using SQL query check the back end testing.
• Written TSL Scripts and functions for functional and GUI Testing.

Environment: Windows2000/NT, VisualBasic6.0, ASP, VBScript, SQLServer2000, Win runner, Load runner, HP Mercury Quality Center

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business Requirement Documents Definition (RDD), Functional specifications & systems requirements.
• Created, developed and executed test cases and test scripts using automation tool QTP.
• Developed many automation scripts using VB Script.
• Developed many reusable functions using VB Script and QTP.
• Exporting the Existing Scripts in to Mercury Quality Center’s Test Plan Tab.
• Execution of Manual and Automated Scripts from Mercury Quality Center’s Test Lab Tab.
• Analyzed requirements from end users and stakeholders and made test plans and test cases using SRS and FDD in the Quality Center. Created Messages in XML format to test Message Queue (MQ) like Inbound, Outbound and response Queue.
• Participated in the walkthroughs wif the Business Analyst and development team to understand the requirements and to formulate test plans. Involved in System testing, Black Box testing and White Box Testing. Created complex queries using SQL to retrieve the test data.
• Performed Functional, Integration and Regression testing using QTP.
• Enhanced QTP Scripts using different Checkpoints, Parameterization, Regular expressions, Environmental variables, User defined functions, User messages, Warnings and used Recovery scenarios for Error handling.
• Used Actions in Quick Test Pro to parameterize specific components of a test. Used reusable Actions to streamline and modularize the scripts.
• Executed QTP scripts, both as individual tests and as batch tests and also integrated scripts wif the Quality Center.
• Responsible for setting up the QA Environment and execute the regression suite for each build.
• Designing and reviewing the manual Test cases and also reviewing in Automation perspective.
• Coordinating wif Offshore testing team to clarify their issues by interacting wif development team, BA's and Users.
• Enhanced QTP Scripts using different Checkpoints, Parameterization, Regular expressions,
• Environmental variables, User defined functions, User messages, Warnings and used Recovery scenarios for Error handling.
• Used Actions in Quick Test Pro to parameterize specific components of a test. Used reusable Actions to streamline and modularize the scripts.
• Using standard concepts, practices, and procedures, ensure that new or enhanced software applications meet or exceed the quality standards established for the product’s functionality, usability and performance prior to its release.
• Initiated and participated in conference calls, walkthrough and review meetings.

Environment: Windows NT4.0, HP Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, XML, .NET SQL Server 2005.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identified the test requirements based on application business requirements and blueprints.
• Performed manual testing and maintain documentation on different types of Testing viz., Positive, Negative, Regression, Integration, System, User-acceptance, Performance and Black Box
• Involved in analyzing the applications and development of test cases
• Involved in doing System testing of the entire applications along wif team members
• Applications are tested manually.
• Analyzed and reviewed the software requirements, functional specifications and design documents.
• Proficient in QA processes, test strategies and experience in creating documents like Test plan, Test procedures.
• Developed test scenarios and test procedures based on the test requirements.
• Participated in Preparing Test Plans.
• Wrote SQL queries and stored procedures to validate data.
• Documented errors and implemented their resolutions.
• Created test scripts, executed test scripts.
• Developed Test Objectives and test Procedures.

Environment: Oracle 7.1, Visual Basic 5.0, Manual testing, Win Runner 5.01, Test Director5.0 and Windows 95.