SUMMARY

• QA professional with over 7 years of experience on enterprise projects
• Experience creating/executing/interpreting test plans & test cases based on functional and business requirements
• Experience using variety of tools to identify, qualify & track defects
• Interact with developers, business analysts and stakeholders to report test findings
• Experience utilizing HP, IBM and open source testing tools in writing scripts and queries
• Self - learner who takes ownership of his work and an excellent team player
• Possess excellent communication and problem solving skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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

Automation Tools: UFT, WinRunner, LoadRunner

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.
• Conducted functional walkthrough, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions and supervised the development of user manuals for clients.
• 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, MS Visual Studio, Windows 7, HP - ALM, Rational Clear Quest, UFT

Confidential, Atlanta GA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, system requirement specifications and responsible for documenting functional requirements in ALM
• Conducted functional walkthrough, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions and supervised the development of user manuals for clients.
• Understood business requirements and program specification project deliverables to develop RTM, test cases, test data in ALM 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.
• 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.

Environment: MSSQL Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2, ALM, IBM Rational Clear Quest, Microsoft office, Window 7.

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
• 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.

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: JAVA, J2EE, XML, IBM Mainframe, Excel, MS Word, Web Methods, EAI, MQ Series, Web Sphere Application Server, J2EE, Eclipse V3.3.1.1, Hermes JMS V1.12, EJB, Servlets/ JSP, JDBC, 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, Viper, 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, VB Script, Windows NT/00, Oracle, HTML, Java, J2EE, 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, Shell Script, Win runner, Quality Center, Java, Oracle 9i, Windows 2000/XP, MS-Office, SQL, MS-Office