SUMMARY:

• Around 8+ years of cumulative test - specific experience in the IT industry with diversified exposure in manual testing of Client-Server and Web-based applications with focus on System Analysis, verification and validation and Software Quality Assurance.
• Detailed knowledge of various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with emphasis on the Test and Requirements gathering phases in Agile, V-model and Waterfall.
• Analyzed Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD).
• Involved in all phases of QA Life cycle, including Test Design, Development, and Implementation of the entire QA process and documentation of Test Cases, Requirements Traceability and Defect reports.
• Sound knowledge in POS (Point-Of-Sale) Testing.
• Extensively uploaded test cases from MS Excel, MS Word to Test Director & Quality Center.
• Performed Back end testing by writing SQL statements like Join, Inner Joins, Outer joins and self joins using TOAD, PL/SQL.
• Extensively involved in Black box, White box, functional and data driven testing using testing techniques.
• Expert on Test Management Tool like HP Quality Centre developed test plans, test cases, test script and tested Test sets manually using QC.
• Actively involved in conducting various tests such as functional, regression, integration, system testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Developed Test cases for manual testing and automated them using Win Runner, Silk Performer, Load Runner and QTP.
• Extensively used Load Runner for Performance and Load Testing. The average CPU usage, Response time, and TPS are analyzed for each scenario.
• Involved in Maintenance testing.
• Experienced in Bug Tracking System and Process.
• Strong in manual testing and automated testing in any environment.
• Well conversant with scripting language like Java Script, VB Script, HTML, DHTML and XML.
• Self-starter and a fast learner with positive attitude regarding goal direction.
• Strong teamwork skills and the ability to communicate with all management levels.
• Hands on team leader with strong focus on Documentation, communication, process and constant improvement.
• Shown flexibility, quick learner, proactive attitude and an amazing team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: MS: DOS, Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7/8

Scripting Languages: VBScript, SQL, XML.

Database: Oracle 10g, 11g, DB2, Microsoft Access

Testing Tools: HP/Mercury Quality Center 11.0/10.0, QTP 10.0/9.5/9.2 , Rally, TFS, JIRA, BUGZILLA, TEAMTRACK, Microsoft ALM, Rational clear quest, Version One, Rational Requisite Pro and Load Runner

Tracking Tools: HP/Mercury Quality Center 11.0/10.0, Rally, TFS

Testing Environment: VB, ASP, .NET, SQL, XML, HTML, HTTP, DB2, VBScript, Java, C, J2EE, DHTML, Toad, My SQL, Access, Oracle and PL/SQL

Quality Standards: Implementation knowledge of ISO 9001, CMM s

Other Applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook Express, MS Front Page, Lotus Notes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the BRD and Prepared Test scenarios.
• Gathering and clarification of requirements from the Vendor, Business Operation Managers and Tech Managers.
• Developed Testing Strategy and Test Plans to ensure that test cases reflect user needs.
• Participated and prepared Test plans along with QA Manager, QA Team lead and other QA team members.
• Reviewed the Business Requirements document with the business and development teams to understand the architecture and functionality of the application.
• Created test scenarios from Traceability matrix in Quality Centre.
• Written SQL queries to access the data in the database to execute back-end testing.
• Extensively used Test Director & Quality Center to write test cases and for reporting. All the scripts are maintained using Test Director & Quality Center.
• Tracked Defects using QC.
• Conducted GUI and Functional Testing using QTP.
• Performed backend testing to verify that the data inputted in the frontend is reflected in the backend.
• Extensively executed SQL Queries on DB tables to gather test data for all test cases and to determine successful transaction of data from the application
• Attended weekly triage meeting with the core project team and prioritized the defects accordingly.
• Prepared test data for functional testing, for positive and negative test scenarios as documented in the test plan.
• Involved in creating and executing functional and integration test cases for system.
• Participated and carried out Smoke and Functional and Integration Testing.
• Uploaded Test cases into the Test Plan module of QC and mapped them accordingly in the Test Lab as per the testing cycle.
• Involved in production support.

Environment: .Net, VB Script,, DB2, Oracle11g, HTML, XML, IBM Mainframe, SOAP UI, Rumba 7.2, QTP10.0, Quality Centre 10.0

Confidential, Monroe, LA

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and the Functional specifications.
• Performed Functional, Regression and System testing.
• Developed UAT plan and test case scenarios to guide a select group of key end-users in testing the user interface and functionality of the application.
• Carried out Compatibility testing for cross platform to assure the performance of the application across different environments.
• Defined test case scenarios for all test conditions and include the input, the required user actions, and the expected results.
• Prepared test data for functional testing, for positive and negative test scenarios as documented in the test plan.
• Written and executed SQL queries to validate the date and to change the data in the tables to execute the tests by creating scenarios.
• Logged found defects in Quality Centre and closed the bugs after Regression Testing.
• Performed Data driven testing by taking test data from frontend objects, Excel and flat files. Create a new project, upgrade project database and Test user privileges for this project.
• Created and maintained SQL queries and UNIX commands to perform Back-end testing.
• Detecting, classifying and reporting bugs through Defect Tracking System.
• Maintained and executed test cases and test scripts using Quality Centre.
• Prepared daily status reports and submitted to management for their review.
• Prepared functional documents and reports during the development.

Environment: JDK 6, .net, UNIX, TOAD 9.0.1, QTP 9.0, VB script, HTML, XML, Quality Centre 9, SQL, Oracle 11g, Oracle 11i financial.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Developed Forms Admin fucntionality where internal admin can manage forms based on dealer specific product and warranty type.
• Analysed business requirements and system architecture/design.
• Performed Functional decomposition of the use cases.
• Developed Testing Strategy and Test Plans to ensure that test cases reflect user needs.
• Wrote test case and test plan for manual testing.
• Manually performed functionality testing of the application to make sure the application behaves as per the business process.
• Performed Smoke Testing, Integration System Testing, User Acceptance Testing and Break Fix Testing.
• Written SQL Queries to extract data from various database tables for testing purpose.
• Performed recovery testing manually to see how it responds to errors and abnormal condition such as system crash loss of device, communication, and power; after system crashes we can recover gracefully, we don’t lose data, no duplicate records, no broken records.
• Tracked Bugs and Reported using Defect Tracking and Maintenance Tool.
• Interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Executed the Batch Customer Data Integration process and verified the count of loaded, bad and discarded records.

Environment: Quality Centre, QTP, C++, J2EE, ASP, VB, HTML, SQL Server, Toad, Oracle11i financial, UNIX

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Attended review meetings with Business Analysts, Developers and end users to understand and test according to their requirements
• Developing of test cases, reviewing and Involved in Functionality, Security and Regression Testing and support
• Identify Test Data and prepare a suitable set of test data.
• Documented the successful or unsuccessful completion of each test condition in the Test Director script Repository and verified actual results against expected results for discrepancies.
• Writing critical test scenarios for product release.
• Used Test director for bug tracking and Visual Source Safe for Version control.
• Created and executed automated test Scripts using QTP8.0 for Regression testing.
• Used QTP’s Data-Driven Wizard to eliminate programming to automate testing for large volumes of data. Defined handler functions to file handling and Web exceptions

Environment: Windows 2000, C#, VB.Net, SQL Server, Test Director, VisualSafeSource, QTP

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as software tester on a 3 member team and was responsible for testing the user web interface
• Designed and implemented the application in java.
• Performed the unit, integration and end to end integration testing
• Database manipulations using of stored procedures
• Validate Test Procedures, Test Plans, and Project Plans as per Functional Requirements documentation

Environment: Windows 2000, JAVA, SQL Server, HTML, J2EE, Servlets

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed the Standard Documentation for the Test Plans and Test Summary Sheets
• Authored Test Plans and Test Specifications
• Developed and Executed Test Cases in Virtual User Generator
• Used Test Director to indicate the progress of automated testing during weekly status updates to the project manager
• Prepared Test Matrix and Test Procedures for the different modules of the application.
• Installed, maintained and used Testing software’s
• Set up the test environment and created the Test data
• Performed Integration and Stress Tested using Controller
• Modified test scripts to accommodate GUI changes in the new versions of the product
• Created bug reports, verified bug fixes, logged bugs into Bug Tracking System
• Generated reports using the Analysis in Load Runner.
• Communicated with developers and management to ensure delivery of a Quality product on time

Environment: Visual Basic 6.0, Asp.net, SQL Server6.0, SQL Loader, Load Runner, Test Director.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in identifying test scenarios
• Involved in preparation and review of test cases
• Performed Manual Testing
• Involved in functional, system, regression testing
• Defect Tracking and Bug Reporting
• Analyzing Test Results and creating the Reports

Environment: Java, HTML, Oracle 8, MS-Word, Ms-Excel, Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000