EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• 7 years of experience as a Sr. QA Analyst in Banking\Financial, Retail and Healthcare domains.
• 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 wif teh help of Equivalent partitioning and Boundary Value Analysis (Two or Three point System).
• Worked wif White Box for Java applications Automation test experience on Quick Test Professional (QTP). Enhanced automation test scripts wif descriptive programming, regular expressions, functions, reusable actions, recovery scenarios.
• Worked wif 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 wif Driver Script, Test Scheduling and Batch Test Runner.
• Beside QTP test results, also generated test results in different forms (Documents, Excel Sheets etc.) wif sufficient snap shots, error description, regenerating steps for development and audit support in a dynamic folder through QTP VB Scripting.
• Excellent noledge 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
• 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 wif 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
• Sound noledge and experience in test management tool HP Quality Center and HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
• Experience in Manual Testing in creating Test cases and raising defects using Mercury Quality Center.
• Willingness to do whatever it takes to get teh 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 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 MSAccess

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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed teh user/business requirements and functional specification documents
• Actively interacted wif Team Members, Developers, Business Analysts and Project Management team to
• analyze teh business process and requirements.
• Responsible for writing test cases.
• Involved in Business functionality review meetings.
• Participated in test plan review meetings.
• Prepared Traceability Matrix.
• 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 teh scripts for multiple sets of data.
• Worked closely wif teh developers in fixing teh defects
• Used SQL queries to retrieve data from database for Backend Validation
• Interacting wif teh Business users for UAT.
• Preparing Test Summary report, Defects Report and Status Reports.

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

Confidential, Atlanta,GA

Senior QA Tester /Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Development of teh prototype of teh 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 dat fully test impacted business and operational groups.
• Facilitate creation of teh UAT Test Strategy, UAT Test Plan, and execution schedule.
• Compose test scenarios, cases and related data.
• Ensure UAT test scripts are aligned to teh requirements.
• Work closely wif teh IT QA team, Development team, vendors and UAT testers (Business) to ensure teh complete test strategy is executed.
• Coordinate wif Development team, vendor and QA team to ensure UAT environment is ready for testing.
• Coordinate implementation weekend testing when needed.
• Partner wif 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, 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, Mayfield Village, 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 teh functional testing
• Involved in System, Positive and Negative Testing of teh financial applications
• Coordinated and performed wif development group to resolve teh difficulties came across in a test execution
• Performed functional testing of teh application through QTP
• Performed extensive backend testing using SQL Queries to retrieve teh data from teh database and checked data integrity.
• Involved in manual and automated testing of teh financial applications using QTP.
• Collaborated wif applications leads to communicate and resolved issues
• Interfaced wif 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 teh specifications
• Participated in Meetings and Walkthroughs, interacted wif 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 teh team lead
• Conducted quality assurance reviews of software preliminary and detailed design
• Worked wif senior management for communicating noledge, ideas, and opinions.
• Participated in architectural reviews and analysis to ensure teh 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.
• Understanding teh business requirements, attending teh specification meetings and brain storming sessions.
• Identify and consult to business divisions on technological efficiencies to enhance business processes.
• Interface wif 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 teh application manually and using automated testing tool.
• Involved in different phases of testing basically teh Business Functionality Testing, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Performance Testing, Positive Testing, Negative Testing and UAT.
• Performed End User Testing before teh Build is released for actual real time implementation.
• Wrote teh test plans and test cases in Test director
• Also involved in End User Training of teh client to make teh application user friendly in real time implementation.
• Interacted wif 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

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Translated project objectives into team goals, QA strategies and scheduled tasks.
• Collaborated closely wif teh 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 teh organization.
• Worked on defining, developing, maintaining test plans, escalating issues, defects and risks as appropriate to ensure project stays on track; ensured teh testing is complete and of high quality prior to release sign off.
• Developed and maintained teh process and procedures used to manage and test teh regular update process or changes to teh environment.
• Communicated and documented processes and procedures resulting in product changes wifin teh environment.
• Identified automation opportunities; utilizing tools and methodologies to increase efficiencies in teh QA process.

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

Confidential

QA Associate

Responsibilities:

• Managed and tracked teh requirements.
• Documented test cases corresponding to business rules and other operating condition in manually.
• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and teh Technical Specification.
• Involved in developing test cases and test scripts manually.
• Tested teh application GUI and application functionality.
• Tested teh performance of teh application under heavy loads.
• Tested teh backend database using SQL queries.
• Involved in Developing Test Plans, Test Cases & Test Scripts using Test Director.
• Involved in teh functional testing, Regression Testing, GUI Testing, System Testing.
• Involved in performing Data driven testing by pumping different sets of test data.
• Manipulated teh data base by writing SQL queries.
• Extensively used UNIX shell scripts.
• Prepared status summary reports wif 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 teh bugs, Email notifications to teh developers.

. Environment: Visual Basic, C++, SQL Server, MS-Word, Excel, Windows NT/2000