SUMMARY

• Over 10 years of it experience in testing software applications using various tools.
• Solid experience in testing of web and desktop based applications.
• Experience in testing and change management tools with quality center, QTP, win runner, clear case, clear quest and bug central.
• Expertise in writing and executing SQL queries to perform back end testing.
• Expertise in setting up and carrying out browser compatibility testing with different browsers and different versions of Internet explorer, Mozilla,Firefox, Google chrome, safari on different operating systems like windows.
• Strong experience in database design using SQL.
• Good understanding of software development life cycle and waterfall, spiral, agile software testing methodology.
• Extensively worked in creating and reviewing test procedures, test plans, test cases for quality assurance, analyzing bugs, interacting with team members in fixing errors. Worked on black box and white box testing.
• Extensive experience in various testing strategies like unit/ system/ integration/ load/ stress/ volume /user acceptance testing (UAT) and manual testing (GUI testing, field validation testing, and functionality testing) of UI and web application.
• Preparation of the daily matrix and the team reports.
• Excellent in meeting deadlines, time management, ability to analyze results and find bottlenecks.
• Extensive experience in coordinating testing efforts, responsible for test deliverables. Status reporting to management and issue escalations.
• Proactive, quick learner and ability to work independently and handle any tasks needed.
• Good team player; a self - motivated highly organized person, able to work with minimal supervision and set own deadlines.
• Ability to multi task and work under stress of deadline.
• Communicate effectively with management and peers to locate and resolve problems.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and leadership skills and ability to perform independently or as part of a team with can-do attitude.
• Worked under onshore & offshore model and follow up with offshore on daily status.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing tools: Quick test professional(QTP), win runner,selenium.

Test management tool: Quality center 10/9, test director 8.0/7.6/7.5

Other tools: MS Project, MS Office, MS VISIO, SQL navigator, toad, SQL

Platforms: Windows NT/XP/vista 200. Unix, dos

Reporting tools: Bug central, bug zilla, clear quest, team track, quality center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Jersey city, NJ

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Wrote test scripts, wrote scenarios that adhered to the requirements, and executed test.
• Test lead for system integration and verification test.
• Performed functional and unit, integrated, system, regression, negative and positive testing.
• Performed backend testing by executing SQL statements.
• Wrote sql scripts to insert regression test data into the database.
• Validated some of the reports, using complex sql queries, generated during the process.
• Manually tested functionality and integration of prototype.
• Involved in writing test cases & test scripts, review and test execution.
• Performed backend testing for checking data validation and data integrity.
• Submitted weekly progress reports to the QA manager.
• Maintained QA computer lab machines to support multiple configurations of operating system and software.
• Examined application for testing, data validation and work flow of customers.
• Developed and reviewed scripts for positive and negative test scenarios, conduct baseline testing and generate reports.
• Executed manual test cases and review test cases developed by other testers.
• Was involved in regression testing after each modification and enhancements.
• QC is used to define releases, specifying requirements, planning tests, executing tests, tracking defects, alerting on changes, and analyzing results

Environment: windows XP/7, ms-office suite, QC,SQL, Java, j2ee.

Confidential, NJ

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Wrote test scripts, wrote scenarios that adhered to the requirements, and executed test.
• Performed functional and regression testing using selenium.
• Handle exceptional situations in test scripts using recovery scenario manager.
• Performed unit, integrated, system, regression, negative and positive testing.
• Performed backend testing by executing sql statements.
• Wrote sql scripts to insert regression test data into the database.
• Validated some of the reports, using complex sql queries, generated during the process.
• Manually tested functionality and integration of prototype.
• Involved in writing test plan, test cases & test scripts.
• Inserted checkpoints to check for broken links, text and standard properties of an object .
• Performed intensive manual and automated testing.
• Performed backend testing for checking data validation and data integrity.
• Attended regular walk through and inspections.
• Submitted weekly progress reports to the QA manager.
• Maintained QA computer lab machines to support multiple configurations of operating system and software.

Environment: oracle, VB script, web logic, apache tomcat, windows 2000, UNIX, quality center, selenium.

Confidential, Mont vale, NJ

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed test plans and defined cases for functional, integration system and user acceptance testing.
• Examined the application for testing, data validation and work flow of customers.
• Developed and reviewed scripts for positive and negative test scenarios, conducted baseline testing and generated reports.
• Executed manual test cases and reviewed test cases developed by other testers.
• Was involved in regression testing after each modification and enhancements.
• Analyzed application, system and security errors.
• Involved in integration testing of upgrade releases.
• Ensured that all the test cases are updated in master test plan.
• Involved in creation and execution of manual test cases and analyzed the test results.
• Integration and functional testing, load and usability testing according to the application complexity and test requirements.

Environment: windows XP/2000, ms-office suite, QTP, team track,Java, j2ee.

Confidential, park ridge, NJ

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in design review meetings to understand various business concepts and application functionality.
• Wrote test cases for both positive and negative scenarios for websites and customer service tool using design documents, use cases and requirement documents.
• Modified the test cases created earlier as per the requirement changes.
• Tested all links in web pages, database connection, forms used in the web pages for submitting or getting information from user and cookie testing.
• Tested account profile creation functionality.
• Verified account profile data in database.
• Extensively worked on browser compatibility testing with internet explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google chrome and safari.
• Wrote test cases and executed the test cases on customer service center tool.
• Created requirements traceability matrix to verify that all requirements have been covered.

Environment: Java/j2ee, HTML, jira, windows 7, mac OS ms office 2007, oracle 11g, SQL developer, toad,QC,QTP.

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed functional requirement documents and streamlined testing activities.
• Designed test plans and defined cases for functional, integration system and user acceptance testing.
• Examined the application for testing, data validation and work flow of customers.
• Developed and reviewed scripts for positive and negative test scenarios, conducted baseline testing and generated reports.
• Executed manual test cases and reviewed test cases developed by other testers.
• Analyzed test results, tracked defects and generated reports using clear case.
• Was involved in regression testing of application.
• Analyzed application, system and security errors.
• Involved in integration testing of upgrade releases.
• Ensured that all the test cases are updated in master test plan.
• Involved in release support - helped in environment setup, testing the release process.
• Involved in performance testing, backend database testing in oracle using sql.

Environment: Oracle 8i, IBM AIX and windows NT, IBM web sphere v4.01, windows 95,98,2000 and NT, Rational clear case, clear quest.

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed requirement analysis by gathering both functional and non functional requirements based on interactions with the client and conducted document analysis.
• Involved in creating and reviewing test procedures, test plan and test cases based on business requirement for quality assurance.
• Performed functionality testing/ integration testing, analyzing bugs, reported the defects using clear quest and interacting with dev team members for fixing bugs.
• Involved in comprehensive testing of the system to check it satisfies functional specifications.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating and reviewing test procedures, test plan and test cases based on business requirement for quality assurance.
• Involved in writing standard and complex sql queries for performing data validation to meet user needs.
• Performed black box/white box/GUI testing/functionality testing/ integration/load/user acceptance testing, analyzing bugs, reported the defects using bug central and interacting with dev team members for fixing bugs.

Environment: windows 2000/NT, sql, pl/sql, ms access, vb, bug central.