SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of experience as a Sr. QA Analyst in Banking\Financial, Retail and Healthcare domains.
• Experienced in ETL testing and familiar with New Data Warehouse Testing, Migration Testing, Change Report and Report Testing. And have experience with Informatica.
• Well experienced in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) such as Agile, Iterative, Waterfall and V - Model methodologies.
• Experienced in testing using Mercury/HP Interactive Quality Center/Test Director, Quick Test Professional.
• Experienced in preparing Test Scripts, Test Cases and Test Data for Functional, Regression, Black Box, Back-End, UAT, Ad-Hoc, Positive and Negative Testing with the help of Equivalent partitioning and Boundary Value Analysis (Two or Three point System).
• Automation test experience on Quick Test Professional (QTP). Enhanced automation test scripts with descriptive programming, regular expressions, functions, reusable actions, recovery scenarios.
• Worked with different kinds of data sources (Internal and External) in QTP such as Text Documents, XL Data Sheets, Data bases, and internal Design Time Data Table. Familiar with Driver Script, Test Scheduling and Batch Test Runner.
• Beside QTP test results, also generated test results in different forms (Documents, Excel Sheets etc.) with sufficient snap shots, error description, regenerating steps for development and audit support in a dynamic folder through QTP VB Scripting.
• Excellent knowledge and working experience in creating testing strategies and execution for Web based and Client server Applications
• Driving Test Levels like Unit, Smoke, Sanity, Backend (database), Regression, Integration, Functional, System, and UAT etc. based on SLA
• Strong Experience with Cognos, extracting corps data and analyzing it.
• Experience in writing complex BI, SQL, and ETL.
• Some experience in web testing such as Selenium and familiar with TESCA Testsuite, and SOA test.
• Extensive expertise in creating Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test cases from Business, Technical and Functional Requirement Documents.
• Expertise in QC as a complete Test Management Tool for Management, Requirements, Test Plan, Test Lab, Defects and Dashboard
• Experience in using Oracle, MS SQL Server and Sybase databases for Manual and Automation Testing.
• Experience in working with 24x7 mission critical environment and efficiently to meet stringent deadlines.
• Strongly initiative, creative and able to learn new technologies and systems.
• Strong in SQL including query, update, joins, and ability to summarize data points
• Experience in Manual Testing in creating Test cases and raising defects using Mercury Quality Center.
• Willingness to do whatever it takes to get the end-to-end job done
• Experience including Test Plans, Test Cases, test summaries, SDLC, business process documentation

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Functional and Load Testing: Win Runner, QTP and HP Load Runner

Defect Tracking Tool: Quality Center and Test Director

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, C, C++, Visual Basic 5.0/6.0, JAVA and Developer 2000

Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, DML, XML, JSP, ASP, VB.Net, Servlets

Servers: Web Logic, Web sphere and apache Tomcat

Scripting Languages: Testing Script Language (TSL) and VB Script

Operating systems: Windows XP/NT/98, Windows 20000, MS-Dos, UNIX and Mainframes

RDBMS: Oracle 7.X/8i/9i,DB2,SQL Server 7.0/2000 and MS Access

Other Tools: TOAD, MS Office 2000, Word, Excel, Power Point

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the user/business requirements and functional specification documents
• Actively interacted with Team Members, Developers, Business Analysts and Project Management team to analyze the business process and requirements.
• Responsible for writing test cases.
• Involved in Business functionality review meetings.
• Participated in test plan review meetings.
• Prepared Traceability Matrix.
• Responsible majorly for Manual Testing using QTP, Quality Center, HP Load Runner, Selenium.
• Analyzed user requirement document and developed test plan, which includes trace ability Matrix, Test
• Objectives, Test Strategies, Test Environment, Test Priorities and Test Cases
• Testing included performing required Functional, Regression, System and End-to-End testing
• Convert manual test cases to automated test scripts using QTP
• Used Parameterization in QTP to run the scripts for multiple sets of data.
• Worked closely with the developers in fixing the defects
• Used SQL queries to retrieve data from database for Backend Validation
• Interacting with the Business users for UAT.
• Preparing Test Summary report, Defects Report and Status Reports.

Environment: Windows 7/ XP, Java, Oracle, QTP, QC,SOAPUI

Confidential, Atlanta

Senior Manual Tester /Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Development of the prototype of the complete system.
• Attend design reviews, requirements sessions, core team meetings, and technical team meetings.
• Understand business requirements and business operating processes/procedures in order to guide development of effective UAT deliverables that fully test impacted business and operational groups.
• Involved majorly into Manual Testing using Selenium, HP Load Runner, Quality Center.
• Facilitate creation of the UAT Test Strategy, UAT Test Plan, and execution schedule.
• Compose test scenarios, cases and related data.
• Ensure UAT test scripts are aligned to the requirements.
• Work closely with the IT QA team, Development team, vendors and UAT testers (Business) to ensure the complete test strategy is executed.
• Coordinate with Development team, vendor and QA team to ensure UAT environment is ready for testing.
• Coordinate implementation weekend testing when needed.
• Partner with business, operations, and training teams to ensure end-to-end operating model procedures are defined and tested.
• Organize and facilitate meetings
• Worked on HP Quality Center, Microsoft Office .

Environment: HP Quality Center, Load Runner, HP QTP, Microsoft Office Suite, SQL, XML, NET 2.0/3.5, WPF, XAML, WCF, AJAX, JQuery, XML, SQL Server 2008, XML Web Services.

Confidential, OH

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Defined and documented a life cycle including objectives, design criteria, building/execution/evaluation of test cases.
• Analyzed Business& functional requirement documents and recognized test scenarios
• Participated in implementing test-plans and test-cases built on high-leveled and detailed design
• Involved in manual and the functional testing
• Involved in System, Positive and Negative Testing of the financial applications
• Coordinated and performed with development group to resolve the difficulties came across in a test execution
• Performed functional testing of the application through QTP
• Performed extensive backend testing using SQL Queries to retrieve the data from the database and checked data integrity.
• Involved in manual and automated testing of the financial applications using QTP.
• Collaborated with applications leads to communicate and resolved issues
• Interfaced with development teams to report bugs and track defects using Quality Center.
• Created Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test cases in Quality Center.
• Prepared Test Data for system testing as per the specifications
• Participated in Meetings and Walkthroughs, interacted with other development team members to better understand system functionality in order to improve testing quality
• Creating test logs and test Summary reports using Quality Center to be handed over to the team lead
• Conducted quality assurance reviews of software preliminary and detailed design
• Worked with senior management for communicating knowledge, ideas, and opinions.
• Participated in architectural reviews and analysis to ensure the efficacy of technical solutions.
• Researched and presented more streamlined testing processes.
• Worked on creating testing strategy for banking\financial Shared Services

Environment: Windows XP, Java, Oracle, QTP, QC

Confidential, Wilmington DE

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in SDLC and elicited, organized, and articulated requirements definition and functional analysis documents.
• Majorly involved performing Manual Testing using UAT, Selenium, Load Runner.
• Understanding the business requirements, attending the specification meetings and brain storming sessions.
• Identify and consult to business divisions on technological efficiencies to enhance business processes.
• Interface with executive level business planning to provide technology insight and direction.
• Created Use Cases, Process Flows, Data Flows, Transitions and Decision Trees by conducting interviews, requirement workshops, brainstorming sessions.
• Responsible for testing the application manually and using automated testing tool.
• Involved in different phases of testing basically the Business Functionality Testing, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Performance Testing, Positive Testing, Negative Testing and UAT.
• Performed End User Testing before the Build is released for actual real time implementation.
• Wrote the test plans and test cases in Test director
• Also involved in End User Training of the client to make the application user friendly in real time implementation.
• Interacted with developers & various members of team to discuss and resolve defects and their priorities.

Environment: C++, VB, VB Script, HTML, XML, Oracle, SQL Server, Windows 98/NT Test Director, HP Load Runner.

Confidential, GA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Translated project objectives into team goals, QA strategies and scheduled tasks.
• Collaborated closely with the development team to prioritize tests and defect fixes.
• Design and develop black-box tests.
• Tracked and reported task completion, accurate feedback, and product metrics/- initiate and evangelize quality management best practices.
• Developed and executed automation-based test sets.
• Worked on applications, tools, processes and procedures needed to achieve high quality production services.
• Worked across various teams in the organization.
• Worked on defining, developing, maintaining test plans, escalating issues, defects and risks as appropriate to ensure project stays on track; ensured the testing is complete and of high quality prior to release sign off.
• Developed and maintained the process and procedures used to manage and test the regular update process or changes to the environment.
• Communicated and documented processes and procedures resulting in product changes within the environment.
• Identified automation opportunities; utilizing tools and methodologies to increase efficiencies in the QA process.

Environment: Windows XP, Java, Oracle, QTP, Quality Center

Confidential

QA Associate

Responsibilities:

• Managed and tracked the requirements.
• Documented test cases corresponding to business rules and other operating condition in manually.
• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specification.
• Involved in developing test cases and test scripts manually.
• Tested the application GUI and application functionality.
• Tested the performance of the application under heavy loads.
• Tested the backend database using SQL queries.
• Involved in Developing Test Plans, Test Cases & Test Scripts using Test Director.
• Involved in the functional testing, Regression Testing, GUI Testing, System Testing.
• Involved in performing Data driven testing by pumping different sets of test data.
• Manipulated the data base by writing SQL queries.
• Extensively used UNIX shell scripts.
• Prepared status summary reports with details of executed, passed and failed test scripts.
• Made extensive use of MS Office tools to create and maintain documents such as test plans, test execution and test results documents.
• Reported the bugs, Email notifications to the developers.