PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• QA professional with over7years of experience on enterprise projects
• Experience creating/executing/interpreting test plans&test casesbased onfunctional and business requirements
• Experience using variety of tools to identify, qualify & track defects
• Interact withdevelopers, business analysts and stakeholders to report test findings
• Experience utilizing HP, IBM and open source testing toolsin writing scripts and queries
• Self - learner who takesownership of his work and an excellent team player
• Possess excellent communication and problem solving skills
• Working in different methodology such as Water fall model, V-model and Agile & Agile Scrum.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Bug Reporting Tools: ALM, Rational Clear Quest, Quality Center, Test Director

Automation Tools: UFT, Win Runner, Load Runner

Database Systems: MS SQL Server, DB2, MS Access, Oracle, Sybase

Operating Systems: Windows, Macintosh, MS-DOS, Unix(Solaris), Linux(Redhat)

Languages: C, C++, Java/J2EE, COBOL, SQL, PL/SQL

Script: JavaScript, VB Script, Unix shell scripts

Workflow Tools: MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Visio, MS-Project, MS-Word

Other Software: QTP 9.0, Quality Center9.0,Test Director

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Denver, CO

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, system requirement specifications and responsible for documenting functional requirements in ALM
• Understood business requirements and program specification project deliverables to develop test validation matrix, test cases, test data in ALM and manually test the web application
• Create Test Design Document and Test Cases based on the Business Requirement Documents and Use Cases for the upcoming releases.
• Maintained defects in Rational Clear Quest and participated in weekly defect reviews
• Performed Smoke testing after the Code Install in QA environment
• Attended the design review meetings for the upcoming RTN/PRs
• Assisted automation team by running the automation scripts in UFT after the daily build
• Updated existing and created new test cases covering the new functionalities for the regression test suite
• Testedand documented the Production incidents in Test Environment
• Assisted the Support and Development team in recreating the production issues in QA
• Involved in designing, developing and executing a performance measurement plan and participated in reviews, meetings, and walkthroughs to ensure quality in the development process. Used checklists, issues lists, to evaluate documents, plans, code, requirements and specifications
• Actively participated in enhancement meetings focused on making the application more effective and user friendly
• Extensive involvement in Project Status meetings
• Highlighted risks/blocking issues and escalated them to Lead QA in timely manner for smooth execution of project
• Responsible for weekly QA status report to be sent out to the Product and Development team

Environment: C#, .NET, SQL Server, Windows 7, HP - ALM, Rational Clear Quest, UFT, Test Director, Toad, Microsoft Office

Confidential, Atlanta, Ga

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, system requirement specifications and responsible for documenting functional requirements in QC 9
• Understood business requirements and program specification project deliverables to develop RTM, test cases, test data in QC 9 and manually test the application
• Create Test Design Document and Test Cases based on the Business Requirement Documents and Use Cases for the upcoming releases.
• Maintained defects in Rational Clear Quest and participated in weekly defect reviews
• Performed Smoke test after code install then performed functional testing in detailed, Regression testing performed after the bugs fixed to make sure new changes will not effect to existing functionality. UAT performed when real users using software, we have to make sure software work as per expectation of user s need.
• Assisted the Support and Development team in recreating the production issues in QA
• Involved in designing, developing and executinga performance measurement plan and participated in reviews, meetings, and walkthroughs to ensure quality in the development process. Used checklists,issues lists, to evaluate documents, plans, code, requirements and specifications.

Environment: MSSQL Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2, QC 9, IBM Rational Clear Quest, Microsoft office, Window 7, Test Director, Toad

Confidential, Columbus, OH

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the Business Analyst/System Analyst to understand the work flow of various functionalities
• Developed test plans, Test data, test cases after thorough requirement analysis.
• Conducted functional requirement testing to test business scenarios, user actions, interfaces, data rules, user messages and error conditions.
• Involved in Manual Testing of the application.
• Maintained and created test data required for the test execution at the test planning stage.
• Executed black box testing, system testing and regression testing, UAT
• Identified bugs, logged and tracked the defects and interacted with the developers to resolve the defects.
• Writing UNIX/Linex commands
• Handled client queries and change control as a single point of contact.
• Coordinated and communicated the test process and results.
• Generated execution status and defect reports to provide project status to upper management.
• Participated in weekly status meetings, process improvement meetings and walkthroughs.

Environment: Quality Center 9, Windows NT/2000, Rational Clear Quest, Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint, Toad

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plan, Test Strategy and Test design to ensure the Quality of the application being developed and kept track of the testing schedule as per the test plan.
• Designed Test Objectives, additionally collaborated to formulate effective test documentation and created data set up.
• Followed Rational Unified Process and Agile Methodology for the software development cycle.
• Conducted functional walkthrough, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions and supervised the development of user manuals for clients.
• Wrote detail Test Cases based upon the business requirements and Functional specifications; was involved in various meetings with the Business and development team to understand the functionality of the system.
• Establish test cycles to ensure all test scenarios are covered with optimum batch runs.
• Prepared Entry and Exit criteria for each level of testing such as (SIT and UAT).
• Monitor and control the test execution and defect resolution.

Environment: XML, IBM Rational Clear Quest, Excel, MS Word, Web Methods, EAI, MQ Series, Server, Eclipse V3.3.1.1, Oracle, UNIX, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows NT, Share Point, QTP, Quality Center.

Confidential, MN

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed initial smoke test to verify the stability of the application.
• Performed Regression testing of application to make sure that no new bugs are introduced into the system with the fix.
• Used Quality Center Extensively to run the Test Scripts and update it with Test Results.
• Recorded and resolved defects using IBM Rational Clear Quest.
• Collaborate and Review various test plans with QA, Development and Product team.
• Communicated project updates regularly to high - level stakeholders.
• Used defect tracking and test directing tools to track testing progress and track software defects
• Provide timely updates to management on testing, status and scheduling high priority issues in weekly status meetings.

Environment: Oracle DB, Rational Clear Quest, HP Quality Center, SharePoint 2010

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Functional, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance and GUI Testing
• Written test cases following test case guidelines
• Conducted reviews and approval of test cases
• Checked the basic functionality with the sanity testing
• Executed test cases and verified actual results against expected results
• Extensively used Quality Center to create and execute the test cases
• Responsible for opening defects in Test director, assigning and follow up with developers and performing regression tests.
• Compiled software defect reports detailing the defects status and their severity
• Responsible for data creation for the automation scripts
• Participated in enhancement meetings focused on making application more effective
• Highlighted Risks/Issues as and when faced
• Compiled results from data validation into individual reports that summarizes pass/fail and the types of failures being discovered

Environment: QTP 9.0, Quality Center9.0,Windows NT/00, Oracle, HTML, Test Director

Confidential, Westmont, IL

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Development and Execution of Test Plans, Test Cases using the business requirements and technical specifications.
• Used Win runner to capture, verify and replay user interactions automatically to identify defects.
• Performed data - driven tests by using appropriate test data, parameters, and data structures.
• Reported the bugs, Email notifications to the developers using the Quality Center
• Editing of automated scripts by inserting logical commands to handle complicated test scenarios.
• Maintained detailed test defects and report test results in Mercury Quality Center.
• Coded SQL basic and advanced queries for accessing the database for testing purpose.
• Analyzed Defect Reports and worked closely with Application Developers for resolving the bugs.

Environment: Unix, Win runner, Quality Center, Java, Oracle 9i,Windows 2000/XP, MS-Office, SQL, MS-Office, Test Director, Filezilla

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed the test strategy for PS3 (POI System 3) application
• Created recommendations for shared test environment layout between offshore QA team and client side team
• Created detailed test plans for various modules in PS3 like extraction, blending, cleaning
• Created SQL scripts to verify data integrity of the imported data in Oracle database
• Generated test matrix for each test cycle and presented to development managers
• Prepared weekly status report for the client based on the progress of offshore and on - site testing
• Carried out manual testing of new and complex UI screens in POI edit tool
• Provided UAT support to users of PS3 by conducting user trainings and resolving deployment issues
• Maintained defects and reports using Test Director

Environment: Unix, Oracle 9i, Java, PL/SQL, Weblogic 9.1, Win Runner, Test Director 8.0, Informatica 7.1, Windows XP, Rational Clear Quest, Clear case, XML, TOAD, MS-Office