PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 8 years of experience in different types of Black Box Testing techniques like System Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, and GUI Testing.
• Extensive manual testing expertise, which includes design and execution of test plans and test case scenarios, with involvement in functionality, system, regression, load and integration testing.
• Worked in Agile methodology, handling scrum meetings and involved in sprints.
• Hands of experience on installations and configurations.
• Good experience in GUI (Graphical User Interface) testing.
• Good exposure to software development and test life cycle.
• Knowledge on using Mercury Interactive Tools - Quality Center, QTP and Open Seapine Test Management Tool TTP (Test Track Pro).
• Tested various projects spanning in Heath care and Banking domains.
• Involved in Functionality testing, System Testing, Regression testing and Retesting.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer relational Skills. Proven communication, presentation Skills and Leadership Qualities.
• Used various testing metrics and project metrics.
• Ability to manage multiple complex projects under tight deadlines, good combination of technical and analytical skills coupled with successful coordination among Project Managers, Developers, and Designers.
• Good database experience in Teradata, Oracle 10g/9i/8i, SQL Server 2008/2005/2000.
• Have good knowledge on Teradata architecture.
• Have good knowledge on Automation testing.
• Expertise in Problem solving and Tracking Bug Reports using various Bug tracking Tools.
• Experience in using Test management tools like Quality Center and Test Track Pro.
• Experience in working with documents in SharePoint.
• Experience in client Interactions during Business Requirements/Technical specifications Analysis.
• Responsible for mentoring resources technically and training other QA Team Members.
• Involved in task planning and assignments of work to resources.
• Strong knowledge of SQL server database.
• Acquired excellent interpersonal and communication skills, email and call etiquette during my tenure in the ITES sector.

SOFTWARE SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000 and Windows xp, Unix, Linux

Tools: Informatica, SSH Tectia, Altova XML Spy, QTP

Scripts: HTML, DHTML, XML, Vb scripting

Database Connectivity: Excel sheet, File system object’s, Sql Server

Databases: Teradata, SQL, Oracle

Configuration Tools: Quality Center, TTP

Domain Knowledge: Banking, Insurance and Health Care.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Environment: VB, .NET, C#, SQL server 2005.

Responsibilities:

• QA Lead tasked with feature and system verification of Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) software package running on Windows Server 2003 and 2008 platforms, with SQL2005 and SQL2008 databases.
• Handled a team of 5 by assigning work to them and mentoring them.
• Completed installations and upgrades, database comparisons, investigations into outages.
• Done interface testing using QTP.
• Assigned defects to offshore team and prioritized fixes. Provided QA support for beta test program.
• Designed and tracked metrics for feature defect densities, pass/fail rates, and schedules.
• Transitioned regression testing ownership to off shore test team, including creating a new test coverage analysis process.
• Critical member in the group that lead team through transition from Waterfall to SCRUM.
• Led daily SCRUM meetings in Agile Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) to rapidly identify issues and increase development velocity.
• Designed, tested, and implemented custom defect tracking workflow that eliminated administrative overhead for managing tasks and tracking defects.
• Extensively used SQL to validate the data loads, ETL jobs and verified the changes to the Macro's and Stored procedures.
• Validate report data in SQL server database during report migrations.
• Good understanding of Views, Triggers and stored procedures
• Hands-on manual and automated testing including regression, functional, feature validation and bug validation.
• Collaborated with automation team to develop automation scripts to increase speed and efficiency of builds, deployments and migrations
• Responsible for providing regular test reports to upper management.
• Created project test plans, feature test strategies, and test cases for multiple features and project releases.
• Created and maintained detailed project plans and metrics. Led weekly review of project status and quality with QA and Development team.
• Developed methods for simulating customer environments enabling detection of functional and performance issues during integration testing with multiple 3rd party applications.
• Designed efficient processes to track and manage multiple versions of content for every Quarterly product release.
• Trained offshore team on new content infrastructure and released content features with minimum defects ahead of schedule.
• Execute and write SQL queries for data validation and manipulation
• Key member of QA team during release that was certified for Meaningful Use (MU), a critical distinction for hospital applications required to increase their reimbursement rates.
• Performed interoperability testing to meet hospital information system (HL7) standards.
• Investigate software defects and interact with developers to resolve technical issues
• Developed automation requirements standards which improved automated regression and benchmarking capabilities.
• Full software life cycle experience with emphasis on design for testability, scheduling and risk
• Write test plans, test cases and defect reports. Decomposed requirements down to test case specific functions for testability
• Write SQL scripts and queries for test case validation and database verification
• Cross team support with Dev, PM and other internal groups to keep project on schedule, risk assessment defect resolution and other outstanding issues
• Upgraded customer sites to the latest version and troubleshoot issues on failed upgrades.
• Created client mirror sites prior to upgrade release and performed compatibility testing to ensure compatibility with OS and third party changes to client sites.
• Configuration, upgrade and maintenance of client server test environment

Confidential

Environment: VB, .NET, SQL Server.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement gathering and reviewing the Business requirement documents.
• Prepared test plan and creating work order for QA resources.
• Prepared and executed test cases and involved in peer test case review.
• Involved in reviewing and analyzing the work being done by peers.
• Used Enterprise architect application for Use cases diagram creation.
• Used quality center as bug tracking tool for reporting.
• Performed smoke testing, functional testing, integration testing and regression testing.
• Involved and Interacted with the onsite team and had discussed business requirements and technical issues with the client.

Confidential

Test Engineer.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Involved in setting milestones and deliverables for the team.
• Involved in reviewing and analyzing the work being done by peers.
• Prepared test plan.
• Prepared and executed test cases and involved in peer test case review.
• Used Traceability Matrix, Test Summary report, testing metrics and project metrics.
• Used PPMStudio as bug tracking tool for reporting.
• Performed smoke testing, functional testing and regression testing.
• Involved in meetings along with developers to resolve identified issues.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement gathering and reviewing the Business requirement documents.
• Prepared test plan and creating work order for QA resources.
• Prepared and executed test cases and involved in peer test case review.
• Involved in reviewing and analyzing the work being done by peers.
• Used Enterprise architect application for Use cases diagram creation.
• Used quality center as bug tracking tool for reporting.
• Performed smoke testing, functional testing, integration testing and regression testing.
• Involved and Interacted with the onsite team and had discussed business requirements and technical issues with the client.