SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of work experience in Software Quality Assurance and software testing of client server, web - based applications.
• Extensive experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle and QA Life cycle.
• Extensive experience in preparing Test Plans, Test Metrics, Test Cases, Test Scripts and test data based on business requirements and functional requirements.
• Involved in Complete Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) from Requirement Analysis, Business Analysis to Development, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.
• Experienced in testing under UNIX, Mainframes and WINDOWS XP/ NT/2000 environments.
• Hands on experience in testing of Web based and Client/Server Applications
• Good Experience in Functionality Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing using White Box and Black Box testing methodologies and Business Function Testing, Performance Testing, Stress testing and Configuration Testing.
• Hands on experience in Keyword Driven, Data Driven and Hybrid Automation Frameworks
• Have functional knowledge of Selenium
• Expertise in Manual as well as Automated Testing using Quick Test Pro and Quality Center in real time and unattended testing environment across multiple operating systems and technologies.
• Expertise in Problem solving and Defect Tracking.
• Strong Experience in Oracle PL/SQL, SQL Queries like testing and developing the queries.
• Strong in establishing QA Procedures / Standard Methods and Reviewing BRD, TRD & FRD and preparing Test Scenarios.
• Strong knowledge of QA Methodologies like CMM, Agile and RUP.
• Proven communication, presentation Skills and Leadership Qualities
• Very good in Scheduling, Planning for the releases, builds, and patches for the QA testing, worked with multiple releases simultaneously in QA environment.
• Good aptitude for learning and efficient in Problem Solving.
• Configured the test suite to Jenkins to make it run on every successful deployment, which helped reduce the feedback loop time to the developers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, Clear Quest, HP QTP, Win Runner, and Test Director

Languages: C, C++, Visual Basic6.0, SQL, JavaScript, COBOL, VB script, XML and HTML

Application Software: MS-Office 97, 2003, MS-Works 9, MS-Project

Testing Methodologies: Black Box, Smoke, Regression, and Negative & Positive at integration and system level, UAT, Test Documentation Approach, Estimations, creation of Test Plans/Test Cases and test data generation, Reporting, tracking and categorization of defects

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows 9x / WINNT/2000/Vista

RDBMS: SYBASE, SQL, MS-Access, ORACLE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr QA Analyst

Responsibilities:.

• Create test plan and test cases to validate and verify functional requirements are satisfied.
• Execute test cases, report and track defects through final resolution.
• Meet with BA’s/SME to understand expected results/requirements and document for test execution, validation and building test suite.
• Built Repeatable/Reusable Test cases for future regression testing.
• QA Effort Estimation & QA task Planning for the Iteration
• Assessing risks and identifies defects and issues.
• Work with BA/SME’s for data creation needed for testing.
• Provide QA services and act as point of contact to IT QA delivery.
• Lead, Mentor BA’s and Developers to establish and adapt QA best practices during test cycle.
• Clarify offshore team for their queries and observations

Environment: Quality Center, QTP 9.0, SQL Server, VB Script, Java, Mainframe.

Confidential, NC

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed software requirement specifications (SRS) to understand the business requirements and developed Master Test Plan
• Conducted User Interface and Functionality testing on the AUT
• Performed regression testing and user acceptance test in production environment
• Performed browser compatibility testing on different platforms and data validations for all reports
• Responsible for weekly status updates showing the progress of manual and automated testing
• Involved in developing and executing automated test scripts in Quick Test Pro for Regression Testing
• Used Data Table manipulation in test scripts to check the in and out information in Quick Test Pro.
• Created data driven test scripts to test the application with different sets of input data using Quick Test Pro
• Performed manual testing and data integrity testing by executing SQL statements.
• Designed data for interpreting negative/positive results.
• Understanding the Business Requirements, Writing & Executing test cases in Quality Center (QC).
• Mapped the Requirements to the Manual scripts and preparing the Requirement traceability Matrix in Quality Center.
• Interacting with the development and Integration team in prioritizing the Defect list
• Defects were tracked using Quality Center Analyzed Defect Reports using Quality Center and work closely with Application Developers to fix defects
• Experience in developing automated scripts using selenium webdriver and QTP/UFT
• Extensive Experience on Automation tools like QTP and Selenium

Environment: TIBCO, Quality Center, QTP 9.0, SQL Server, HTML,Junit, VB Script, Java, Mainframe.

Confidential, NJ

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities

• Assessing, and revising testing strategies and cases, add new cases based on project scope changes for every major release implementation.
• Assessing project readiness and deviations from end-product based on test results and alignment to business requirements.
• Run and execute test status, defect meetings document progress, challenges for daily metrics for enterprise dashboard reporting.
• Execute manual and QTP test cases for validating Front End functionality validation and analyze results for differences, report and track defects.
• Develop test scripts, data needs/scenarios etc. (for automation), to execute in a test environment for every build/release.
• Develop Scripts/Test cases using various Automation Frameworks using QTP (Key Word Driven, Data Driven and Modular), Frameworks developed for various Java Applications.
• Hands on experience with Hybrid (Keyword and Data driven) framework for QTP Automation and Experience in Adapting to existing Custom frameworks and coding standards.
• Work closely with project team members to define effective risk-based system testing strategies, identify risks and mitigation approaches and prepare Front End Testing plans (regression automation and manual) for projects and releases.
• Analyzing and reporting, testing progress, milestones, results and other relevant testing information to the project team, stakeholders and management.
• Effort distribution to the team, coordinating releases with development to ensure that the testing has the time required to fully test, for changes or upgrades to the existing systems.
• Streamlining the testing process by identifying challenges in existing regression testing process and identifying solutions to reduce execution cycle times.
• Monitor deployments of software packages to test environment, assessing impacts to existing testing cycle and overall impact to release.
• Support and troubleshoot production system issues, perform root cause analysis and process improvements for defect prevention.
• Identify critical coverage gaps with environment limitation, identify solutions, perform impact analysis and successfully implement solutions to improve existing test coverage.
• Successfully lead the new application regression coverage implementation, activities includes Identifying scope, planning for test resources, Test data, Environment readiness and coordinating new automation framework and script development/sharing between functional and regression team.
• Lead, coach and mentor QA team on test data mining and preparation, cross training dependent application contributing reduce effort hours during test cycle.
• Implemented cross browser testing using selenium API for Firefox, Chrome and IE

Environment: Quick Test Professional, Mercury Quality Center, IE, IBM DB2, AS400, VB Script

Confidential

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the System requirement specification and UID documents for testability.
• Prepared test cases and test scripts based on SRS and UID documents
• Conducted GUI, Functionality testing and System testing
• Prepared Test Scripts and executed scripts effectively
• Used JIRA defect management - adding defect, tracking changes and reviewing defect
• Developed test scripts for Data driven test using Rational robot
• Involved in build deployment and creation of set up files for product

Environment: C#, Developer Express .Net 2005, SQL Server 2005, manual testing and JIRA