SUMMARY

• Around 6+ years of experience in manual and automated testing of web - based and Client-Server Applications.
• Worked in various facets of software development lifecycle (SDLC) like analysis, development and testing.
• Designed, Developed and Implemented Test Plans, Test Designs and Test Cases for various applications.
• Expert in Manual Testing and Automation Testing using Mercury Interactive Tools such as: (Win Runner, Load Runner, and Test Director and etc.)
• Good Experience of Quick test professional 6.5
• Knowledge of Rational Suite Enterprise (Test manager, Robot, RequisitePro, ClearCase and ClearQuest).
• Proficiency in using Mercury Interactive Test Director, for Test Management and Defect tracking.
• Expert in System testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Load testing, White Box testing, User Acceptance testing, Functional testing and Backend Testing with SQL.
• Experience using MS Office tools such as Word, Excel, and Access.
• Experienced in using Shell Scripts and PL / SQL for data validation and manipulation.
• Strong analytical skills with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Fluent in Object Oriented Programming Languages C, C++, Java
• Highly motivated resourceful team player takes a positive approach to problem resolution.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/NT/XP, UNIX

Languages: C, Java, Visual Basic, VB.Net, Web Services, SQL, Shell Scripting

Automated Tools: Win Runner 7.0/7.5,Load Runner 7.5/9.0, and Quick Test Pro 8.5/9.0

CASE Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, ERWin3.5, Rational Rose 4.0, TOAD

Bug Tracking Tools: Test Director 7.5/8, Quality Center 9.0/9.2, Rational Clear Quest

RDBMS: MS-Access, oracle 9i, MS SQL Server 2000 and Sybase.

Web Servers: IIS4, JWS, Web logic 4.0 and Web sphere4.0

Reporting Tool: Crystal reports, Business Reports

Version Control: CVS, PVCS, Rational Clear Case, Subversion, DOORS.

ETL Tools: Informatica power center 7.x/6.2, Power mart 5x/4.7, Data Stage, Abinitio

Web Technologies: ASP.NET, Web Service, SOAP, XML, HTML, VB Script, Java Script

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Brooklyn, NY

Sr.QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in different phases of SDLC.
• Interacted with Business Analysts to designed detailed test plan document for application testing.
• Provided assistance to team members to clarify functional and technical difficulties.
• Analyzed functional specifications from the front-end application with reference to requirement documents.
• Prepared comprehensive Test Plan for Cash Wire and Key Rep application.
• Conducted integration testing for several modules for Cash Wire Application.
• Extensively used Quality Center to upload requirements, write test cases.
• Used Quality Center to Report, track and, monitor defects.
• Produced Requirements Traceability Matrix to support the application development.
• Imported and exported data from and to Excel to and from QTP.
• Created best practices documents for QTP.
• Used QTP for functional and regression testing of the application.
• Developed various object repositories to develop effective scripts and designed master Scripts so as to invoke sub scripts.
• Involved in Keyword driven approach for automation to minimize the changes for QTP Scripts for future use.
• Extensively worked on QTP scripts in analyzing the business processes and created automation scripts.
• Enhanced the QTP Scripts in expert mode in order to implement efficient test scenarios.
• Performed data driven testing, designed Input/output check points to validate the data and develop effective automated QTP Scripts
• Was completely involved in Descriptive programming for objects which were giving issue.
• Used VBScript heavily for writing the automation test scripts.
• Developed, modified and debugged scripts in QTP.
• Prepared Automation frame work using QTP for future release.
• Performed browser compatibility testing using different browsers like IE, Fire Fox etc
• Parameterized Stress and Load testing by using Load Runner.
• Validated data for the Sybase version of the application with the SQL version in order to check the data integrity of the new version with the older version.
• Developed SQL Queries for checking the Data Transaction.
• Used SQL for Data base queries on UNIX operating systems.
• Involved in UAT.
• Provided regular status updates to the project manager on high priority issues.
• Attended Turnover and Product move meetings.

Environment: Load Runner 6.0, Quality Center 9.2,QTP 8.2, HTML, Oracle 9i, Star Team Netscape, Windows 2000/XP, J2EE, Web Logic and Manual Testing.

Confidential, Marlborough, MA

Automated Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the objectives and scope of each stage of testing process from the Test plan.
• Interacted with business analysts to gather the requirements for business and performance testing.
• Participated in the Manual Vs Automated testing decision-making process.
• Responsible for testing the Navigation Flow, Functionality Testing, System Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Customized Quality Center to meet the specific metric requirements given in the test plan.
• Involved in execution of scripts from Quality Center and also logging defects in Quality Center.
• Defined the scope of the automated testing effort using Quality Center Visual Test Tree.
• Used Quality Center to do defect tracking, coordinated the defect resolution process and generated management reports.
• Interacted with developers to follow up on defects and issues.
• Developed automated scripts using QTP to perform functional and regression testing.
• Created and executed data driven test scripts in QTP.
• Conducted Functionality testing during various phases of the application using QTP.
• Inserted Check Points to Check for the broken Links, Text, and standard properties of an object using QTP.
• Created User Defined Functions in QTP.
• Worked on both Expert view and Keyword view in QTP.
• Performed Integration Testing and Batch Testing in QTP.
• Used Parameterization for using various data to test the application using QTP.
• Involved in writing the Smart term automation Scripts for the Mumps version.
• Performed Negative testing to find how the functions and variables perform when they encounters invalid and unexpected values.
• Used Load Runner for stress test-to-test Web Servers, Application Servers, Databases, and Back Office Connectivity and analyzed their performance.
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries, to extract the data from the database.
• Extensively executed complex SQL queries to query the database for data validation.
• Executed shell scripts to test the backend database.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Requests.

Environment: C#, SQL Server, Windows 95/98/XP/NT, IIS, Manual (White box and black box) Testing, XML, Crystal Reports.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in different phases of Project Life Cycle.
• Involved in Training and Documentation.
• Worked with Business Analysts, Developers, and participate in the product design process including specification and other document reviews.
• Experienced in Agile technology with Scrum.
• Support the entire test and certification process, getting involved early in the product development cycle and managing through product launch analyze and design comprehensive test plan and test implementation strategies.
• Develop detailed test plans from use cases, detailed specifications etc. develop test cases for functional, Integration, System Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Configure test environment for specific test cases, create test data, and execute automated or manual tests, document results, and update defect tracking systems.
• Created user guides for Quality Center and Quick Test Professional.
• Created best practices documents for Quality Center and Quick Test Professional.
• Used Quality Center for updating and generation of reports.
• Extensively used Quality Center for test planning, bug tracking and reporting.
• Integrated Quality Center with Quick Test Pro and maintaining the Test cases and Scripts.
• Support definition and development of automated test programs and tools using QTP.
• Created and executed data driven test scripts in QTP.
• Conducted Functionality testing during various phases of the application using QTP.
• Inserted Check Points to Check for the broken Links, Text, and standard properties of an object using QTP.
• Used QTP Step Generator feature heavily.
• Created Load Testing Scripts using Load Runner VuGen.
• Designed load tests (Stability, Stress and isolation tests) in different ways to measure the application performance.
• Simulated the load test scenarios with different types of user behaviors, such as First time user and revisiting user.
• Used Ramp UP/Ramp Down, Rendezvous, Start and End, Parameterization, Correlation features of Load Runner.
• Executed SQL Queries and Procedures to perform database testing using SQL Server.
• Interacting with Development and other QA Teams to ensure overall quality of the software.
• Providing support to technical support and help desk to analyze data and to verify the help desk tickets opened on the request of customers,

Environment: Quick test Pro 6.5,Win runner 7.2, Load Runner 7.0, Quality Center, Manual Testing (Block Box & White Box) Visual Basic, ASP, IIS and Oracle 8i.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the business requirement and functionality and ensuring that the test cases are covering all possible scenarios.
• Doing QA reviews for detail design document.
• Analyzed user requirements and developed test plans and test cases using Test Director.
• Setting up the Master test plan using Test Director.
• Involved in development of automation test scripts for verifying functionality and GUI of the application using Win Runner.
• Running and Analyzing test results with the help of reports generated by Win Runner.
• Maintaining automation test scripts according to changes made to the application.
• Using Load Runner analyzed the response times of the business transactions under load.
• Developed reports and graphs to present the stress test results to the management

Environment: Win Runner, Quality Center, Load Runner, JDK, JSP, Oracle, SQL, Web Sphere.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Created Test cases, Test scripts as per the design documents (both Functional and Technical Designs)
• Interacted with Business Analysts/Users/Developers heavily for collecting Requirements.
• Created Business Flows, Decision Trees using Visio and Decision tree matrix to give the weight age for the test cases.
• Developed Test Plan based on previous Templates.
• Performed RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) to ensure all requirements are covered.
• Prepared Test Cases from MRD, Use Cases.
• Imported requirements, test cases from Excel to Quality Center.
• Reported Defects in Quality Center.
• Automated manual test cases using Win Runner.
• Used Analog/Context Sensitive recording.
• Involved in the preparation of Risk Analysis Document with BA’s.
• Prepared and provided test matrix to the management.

Environment: Manual Testing, Win Runner, Java, Windows, Quality Center and SQL Server.