SUMMARY

• Solutions focused, Meticulous and result oriented ISTQB Certified, QA professional offering 5 years of successful career in IT arena distinguished by commended performance and proven results
• Experience in all phases of software development life cycle including analysis, design, development, testing, & implementation
• Experience in Manual Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing.
• Hands on experience in reviewing code, standards and bug completion
• Exposure to Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Case Preparation and Reviews, Test Summary Preparation, Creating Defect Report and SQL queries
• Extensively used automation tools for iterative test case execution and for load and performance testing of the application
• Experience in using Quick Test Professional (QTP) for functional and regression testing. Generated VB scripts using QTP
• Experience in Quality Center which includes Uploading Requirement, Preparation of Test Cases, Execution of Test Cases, Logging Defects, Preparing Status reports for test design Phase and Execution Phase.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills with proven abilities in team management and planning

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Woodland Hills CA

QA Tester

Environment: Linux, MySQL, Apache, HTML, pho, CSS, Quality Center, QTP 11.5

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plans using HRMorange VERSION 3.0 Software Requirement Specification document
• Formulated test scripts and performed Manual Testing
• Developed automated test scripts using UFT/QTP 11.5 to perform Functional and Regression Testing
• Active participation in Project Team Meeting and helped in reviewing the Defects and its severity
• Performed Load Testing by emulating artificial Load using Load Runner
• Performed Functional and UAT Testing
• Created Traceability Matrix using ALM
• Utilized test design techniques to design the tests and ensure that functionality is performed as intended
• Executed on Test Plan and strategies
• Conducted formal test case review sessions with project team and incorporate feedback
• Provided test case to requirements traceability
• Planned and scheduled all QA deliverables during project life cycle
• Executed manual and automated test cases, documented actual results, and evaluated actual to expected results
• Performed exploratory testing using experiential testing techniques
• Developed SQL queries to retrieve data from database for validation purposes

Confidential, San Jose CA

On - site QA Lead

Tools/Technologies: Mercury Quality Centre, Oracle Forms, JAVA, Oracle PL/SQL

Responsibilities:

• Liaised with IT Analysts and Business Leads and analyzed requirements
• Interacted with the offshore team and getting the functional doubts clarified
• Distributed test cases for Functional QA on stage, integration and production environments
• Responsible for Regression testing
• Extracted data from Databases for Testing Requirements using PL/SQL in TOAD
• Prepared Post Mortem reports

QA Analyst

Confidential

Environment: Quality Center 10.0, Brainware, Docshare, SQL Server 2000/2005, MS Delphi, HTML, XML, Web

Responsibilities:

• Performing End to End testing Remit one with Brainware
• Formulating test requirements and scenarios on the Brainware new functionality
• Reclassify the documents in Verifier if IDC Distiller failed to classify the documents; Documents that fail to extraction/validation will be routed to Verifier, on these batches keying correct values and checking the validation done through the verifier
• Custom Edits which designed for specific client will be validated in the Verifier
• Performing root cause analysis for the batches which failed to export back to Remit One application
• Validating all the batches which processed through end to end (Remit One to Brainware to Remit One)
• Conducted Walk-through on Testing Requirement/Test Case Review with Business Analyst/SME/Development
• Designed detailed Test Steps for Test Cases and generated Test Data using Quality Center
• Concerned with Test Execution including System, Integration, Functional, Regression, Ad-Hoc, Exploratory, End to End Testing managed by using the

Enterprise Quality Center

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed test conditions, test scripts, and expected results
• Concerned with Final sign off for the test script
• Formulate test data for offshore team
• Modified and maintained test cases as per new functionality of the application
• Involved in updating the requirement traceability matrix
• Executed test cases and the reviewed the results by comparing the actual results against expected results
• Query application database for test execution and investigation
• Maintain the database of status and defects within Quality Center
• Validate all the system fixes; coordinate Regression testing, UAT testing
• Manage the deliverable tracker for assigning deliverables
• Supervised assign tasks and time to meet all individual deadlines
• Identification of project document errors; raise any project issue & potential risks
• Update Functional documentation as per the change requests

QA Analyst

Confidential, Woodland Hills CA

Environment: Test Director7.6, Quick Test Pro, Load Runner, HTML, Java, SQL Server 2000, PL/SQL, DB2, Windows XP, and UNIX

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, documented functional requirements, supplementary requirements in Test Director
• Performed Integration, System, Regression, Performance and User Acceptance testing
• Developed detailed test plan, test cases & test scripts using Test Director for Functional and Regression Testing
• Upload test plan in MS-Word format into Test Director by using the Test Director add-in for MS-Word
• Developed automated test scripts using QTP to perform functional and regression testing
• Strategized test input requirements and prepared the test data for data driven testing
• Utilized Test Director to track and report system defects & bug fixes; written modification requests for the bugs in the application and facilitated developers to track and resolve the problems
• Performed quality assurance reviews on all aspects of the System Development Life Cycle
• Active participation in defect review meetings with the team members
• Involved in other test planning meetings and submitted test metrics daily to the management

Confidential

Environment: Windows Vista (native language OS), Windows XP (native language OS), MAC leopard and Tiger

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Product Requirement Specification documents and Setting up Test Environment
• Configured and managed machines for all localized languages
• Executed Test Cases and reported bugs on the Bug Tracking tool Adobe’s Watson
• Reviewed test cases and posted bugs by team members
• Participated in the kick-off and weekly project meetings with Project Management team and Development team
• Coordinated with the development teams in resolving several issues by providing them connect sessions
• Master of Science in Accounting from Roosevelt University in 2002 with 3.5/4.0 GPA
• Bachelor of Arts (Economics) from Kanpur University in 1995 with 3.5/4.0 GPA

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows XP/7 and Windows 2000/2003, UNIX

Scripting Languages: VBScript, Java Script and TSL

Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, XML, VB Script, Java Script

RDBMS: MS Access, MS SQL Server 2008, Oracle 9i

Tools: Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, Outlook

Web Server: Microsoft Internet Information Server 6.0Testing Tools: QTP 11.5/10.0/9.2, Load Runner 11.52, Win Runner, Selenium

Bug Tracking Tool: Quality Center 11.52/10.0/9.2