SUMMARY

• More than 7 years of experience in Quality Assurance with Client Server environment and Web Technologies.
• Experience in Software Development Life Cycle: system analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of projects.
• Good expertise in the review and documentation of system test plans; Creating and executing test scripts, test cases and data sets on the basis of product release features, client requirements, and technical documents.
• Proficient in both Manual and Automation Testing with ability to manage the automation of the entire testing cycles.
• Experience in Writing Test Plans, Test Objectives, Defining Test Cases. Developed and maintained test scripts.
• Experienced in documentation of test cases using MS - Word and MS-Excel and importing them to quality center.
• Experience using HP/Mercury Interactive Automated Tools like Quick Test Pro and Quality Center for Web based and Client/Server Applications.
• Experience using Rational Suite Enterprise tools like Rational Robot, Rational Clear Quest, Requisite pro and Rational Clear Case.
• Proficient in all phases of Testing functional, integration, regression, security testing and Load Testing.
• Wide exposure to Object Oriented Analysis and Design using UML, Requisite pro, Rational Clear Case, and MS-Visio.
• Developed test plans and test cases for Java applications running on Windows, UNIX, and Mainframe environments.
• Worked extensively on RDBMS databases like MS SQL Server 2008/2005/2000, MS Access
• Good understanding of Software development life cycle.
• Good at analyzing of functional Requirement documents and creating appropriate Test cases.
• Positive attitude towards learning new areas in testing and quality assurance in the software field.
• Have a work experience on Functional Testing and System Testing through Manual Test Approach.
• Experience in preparing and Executing Test cases for both Client Server and Web applications.
• Defect management and reporting through Quality Center for Business Application Software and Web Applications.
• Expertise in Problem identifying and Tracking Bugs
• Strong analytical, problem solving skills and flair for creativity. Good team player with excellent communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Test Director/Quality Center, Rational Test Suite (Rational Rose, Requisite pro, Clear Quest, Clear Case), HP Quick Test Pro (QTP)

Programming Languages: Java, C/C++, C#, Visual Basic, ASP.Net, HTML, XML, SQL, PL/SQL

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008/2003, Windows 7/Vista/, UNIX (HP-UX, AIX), and MS-DOS

Databases: MS SQL Server 2008/2005/2000, MS Access

Web Technologies: XML, HTML, DHTML, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Visual Basic Script

Reporting Tools: SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services, TOAD

Scripting Languages: JavaScript, VB Script

Version Control: MS Visual Source Safe 6.0

Object Oriented Methodologies: OOAD, UML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing the QA process at all phases of software development life cycle(SDLC)
• Reviewed Business Requirement documents like BRD, FRD, SRS, Data field mapping documents, product tables, Approach notes and developed test plans, test cases
• Performed Manual testing using Quality center
• Have documented test cases in Excel and uploaded into QC
• Extensively used QC for writing test cases, executing test cases, reporting defects and preparing final test reports(dashboards)
• Performed positive and negative testing for system validations
• Performed weekly status meetings and estimating future testing efforts
• Involved in defect analysis and review meetings
• Performed Integration testing, system testing, user acceptance testing, smoke testing, security testing, End to End testing, Functional testing, Mobile testing.
• Managing all phases of testing for assigned components ensuring test plans and test cases are completed and met business requirements
• Extensively interacted with developers(Front end, Back end) to resolve the defects
• Responsible for Regression testing after bug fixes and system enhancements
• Detected defects, communicated to the developers and tracking the defects using Quality center, Bugzilla
• Executed test scripts using QTP for Regression testing
• Process used in testing was Agile methodology
• Have gone through the Caliber training
• Created test data for running the automated scripts using QTP

Environment: Java/J2EE, Ajax, Scrum, HTML, XML, CSS, SQL Server, Quality center, Quick Test pro, Caliber, JQuery

Confidential, Merrimack, NH

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing the QA process at all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Analyzed the requirements and based on requirements prepared Test Plans, Test Strategies for various applications.
• Responsible for writing test plans and test cases based on the requirements collected from the business team
• Performing Smoke Testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, GUI testing in different stages of the project for various applications.
• Periodically performed peer review to ensure quality & process compliance.
• Updating existing automation test scripts as per the requirements.
• Performed backend testing using SQL Queries.
• Prepare and review Test Plans, Test cases/scripts to test the application ensuring application compliance with requirements.
• Assigning and monitoring the tasks of team members, ensuring the coverage of all the functional requirements.
• Experience in creating and managing comprehensive Test Plans and Test Cases using HP Quality Center
• Knowledge of web technologies such as HTML, XML, Java, JavaScript, and Web Services
• Process used in testing was Scrum and Agile Methodology.
• Diverse experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Quality Assurance, Manual Testing, Automated Testing using Quick Test Professional, Quality Center.
• Extensively used Quality Center for entering requirements, writing test cases, executing test cases, reporting defects and preparing final test reports.
• Involved in Defect Analysis and Review meetings.
• Use SQL queries to extract the data from the database.
• Assigning and reviewing of the work with the team members.
• Create test data for running the automated test scripts using QTP.
• Exposed to Agile Process

Environment: Java/J2EE, Mainframe (OS/390), HP Quickest Pro, HP Quality Center, Agile, Scrum, HTML, XML, Clear Quest, Clear Case, UML, SQL, MS Visio, MS Office

Confidential, Columbus, OH

QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate the requirements for the applications and synthesize the Test plans, Testing Strategies, and Test cases for the functional and integration testing of the system
• Managing all Phases of testing for assigned components ensuring Test plans and Test cases are completed and met Business requirements.
• Validated data by writing SQL Queries on different Environments
• Created SQL scripts for pre-population of test data to run Manual and Automated test scripts
• Plan tests with Quality Center (Design Steps and Run Tests) and also prepared detailed documentation with Screen Shots
• Proficient in formulating test plan and requirement traceability matrix.
• Created Bug Reports using tools like Quality Center and Rational Clear Quest.
• Extensively interact with the Developers, Database designers and Business Team to resolve the defects.
• Responsible for Regression testing after bug fixes and system enhancements
• Created scripts to test many different business critical path and complete end-to-end data driven test scripts to do positive / negative login scenarios
• Analyzed failures found through the execution of test scripts
• Designed, Developed, Enhanced and executed automated scripts using HP QTP
• Created Data Driven Tests to validate the same scenario with different test data
• Compiling results from data validation into individual reports that summarizes pass/fail ratio and the types of failures being discovered
• Exclusively handled the validations of Reports Section, which shows the End output of the System

Environment: Java, C#/.Net, HP Quick Test Pro, HP Quality Center, Clear Quest, QMF, SQL, UNIX, DB2, MS Office

Confidential, MD

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the user requirements and interacted with system architect, developers and business users
• Reviewed Business Requirements Documents and the Technical Specifications Documents and developed Test plans, Test cases
• Performed Manual and Automated testing for the test cases using Quick Test Professional
• Generated Traceability Matrices to ensure that all the requirements are covered by the test cases
• Recorded, maintained & tracked defects, assigned type & priority/severity levels using Quality Center
• Converted manual test scripts to automated test scripts in QTP
• Executed test scripts using QTP for Regression testing
• Enhanced the scripts by adding user-defined functions such as parameterization using VB Scripts
• Detected Defects, communicated to the developers and tracking the Defects using Quality Center
• Uploaded Business requirements, test scenarios, test cases and defects from MS Excel, MS Word to Quality Center
• Performed Positive & Negative Testing for system validations
• Weekly status meetings showing progress and future testing efforts to the QA manager
• Daily co-ordination with Offshore team on development efforts
• Conducted User Acceptance Test (UAT) with users and customers and wrote issues log based on outcome of UAT

Environment: C#/ASP.Net, HP Quickest Pro, HP Quality Center, UAT, VB scripts, Oracle 9i, MS Office, MS Excel, MS Project

Confidential, VA

QA/Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business requirements and identified testing methodologies to group tests as Functional Analysis, Boundary Value Testing, and Performance Testing.
• Setup the testing environment and involved in both manual and Automation testing.
• Implemented Black Box, Functional, User Interface, Security, Data Driven, Configuration, System, Regression, User Acceptance testing.
• Created queries using SQL.
• Created the environment for automation testing and designing the strategy for complete test coverage.
• Analyzed the requirements and designed detailed test cases.
• Developed automation scripts in QuickTest Professional (QTP) and have used for regression testing.
• Involved in writing the test plans, test cases and involved in the process of analyzing the expected and actual results.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Case design using Quality Center.
• Gathering the Test Input data includes Pre-condition, Test Input, and Test Result data.
• Used Descriptive Programming to learn objects.
• Used SQL statements to extract data from the tables to validate test results.
• Performed UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and Regression testing to generate test records and to modify scripts to do regression testing.
• Performed manual testing on Security Features that consisted of Super Users, Internal and External Users.
• Actively involved in coordinating with development team in bug reporting and bug tracking using HP Quality Center.
• Participated in Walk through and Defect report meetings periodically.
• Mapped the custom objects to the standard objects where necessary, and inserted GUI, Bitmap and Text checkpoints where needed, to compare the current behavior of the application being tested to its behavior in the earlier version using HP QuickTest Professional (QTP).
• Parameterized the fixed values in checkpoint statements, created data tables for the parameters and wrote functions for the parameters to read new data from the table upon each iteration - Performed Data-driven testing.
• Performed End-to-End Systems Regression Test, Review, and test results analysis. Involved in Performance and Stress testing.
• Enhanced Performance and smoke tests were executed to fix any testing issue.

Environment: VB/ASP.Net, HP QuickTest Pro, HP Quality Center, Clear Quest, Oracle 9i, UNIX, MS Office, MS Excel, MS Project

Confidential, Jacksonville FL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements from Business and end-users to understand the operational flow to create very effective test scenarios
• Interacted with developers to understand the functionalities of the interface and all the forms
• Involved in creating the QA test plan and traceability matrix
• Identified test requirements & work flow scenarios by studying and analyzing functional and technical specification documents and created test summary reports
• Used HP Quality Center for test scripts creation, execution, test coverage and defect tracking
• Developed Status reports, Test Execution presentations
• Worked closely with Functional Architects and Developers to isolate and troubleshoot defects and monitored until resolved
• Performed End-To-End testing to ensure a smooth deployment of new functionalities
• Performed Regression testing using Quick Test Professional (QTP) to assure that the new code had no adverse effect upon the current system and participated in document reviews and inspections
• Created database scripts to test in back end testing
• Involved in meetings with QA Testing team to plan and implement testing efforts
• Documented all defects and issues and communicated with the development team on periodic basis
• Involved in gathering stakeholder approvals on UAT verification and production validation
• Responsible for preparing QA Test Strategy Documents, Test Plans, and User Acceptance Test Reports for assigned campaigns and wrote test cases using Quality Center, linked to the requirements, establishing Test Sets, and tracked through completion of testing
• Performed QA Testing, entered and tracked all defects through the Bug Logging and Tracking system and provided clear and concise status reports of testing to the QA Manager
• Analyzed the LOG files for debugging after executing the scripts
• Responsible for Regression testing after fixing the defects

Environment: Java/J2EE, HP QuickTest Pro, HP Quality Center, Clear Quest, SQL, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, SOAP, UNIX, MS Office, MS Excel, MS Project

Confidential

Quality Analyst/ Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Created scenarios based on business conditions and functions.
• Comparing/analyzing mainframe test data with the front end.
• Running SQL queries on the mainframe servers to retrieve test data.
• Reviewed Functional and Integration requirements.
• Develop Functional and integration test cases and review Test cases wrote by peers.
• Created Test Cases, and got reviewed those by peers
• Discuss issues/defects with the business and development teams.
• Testing/Verifying/logging defects.
• Performed application setup in test environment and enhancing the documentation.
• Worked with internal and external developers/quality assurance staff to understand and resolve issues.
• Reviewed test assignments, developed test plans and scripts, and conducted test as assigned.
• Developed test procedures and test cases.
• Adopted Data Driven Methodology to test the application with different sets of data.
• Executed test scripts and reported the defects.
• Troubleshoot new releases and production issues.
• Responsible for creating and executing test cases for System, Integration, Regression and End-to-End, User acceptance testing of the Application.
• Executed the tests manually to verify the application functionality.
• Used Test Director for error (defects) reporting and communicating between developers, product support and test team members.
• Identified the performance requirements and created the load and stress test environment using Performance Center.
• Conducted System testing to ensure the system functions will meet the business needs and establishment of preliminary work instructions.
• Verified and closed bug reports once they are resolved.

Environment: VB/ASP.Net, Test Director, SQL, SQL Server 2005, MS Office, MS Excel, MS Project