PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 7+ Years of extensive experience in IT as QA Analyst performing Quality Assurance testing primarily on Client Server, 3 - Tier Architecture and Web Applications.
• Possess strong knowledge and skills in Software testing and Quality Assurance processes, methodology and tools.
• Strong understanding of the ISO Quality standards and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Proven experience with Manual and Automated Testing Tools such as Mercury Quality Center, Test Director.
• Extensive experience in Unit, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, User Acceptance, Configuration.
• Strong in Analyzing Business Requirements and Developed Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases and Execute them.
• Well versed with GUI Automation Testing, System Testing including Functionality (Black Box & White Box testing), Performance, Stress and Regression and User Acceptance Testing.
• Extensive experience in Unit, Functional, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance, System, GUI, Load, Stress, Performance Testing and White Box Testing.
• Proficient in Manual and Automated testing tools. Expertise in using testing tools such as QTP, Test Director and Quality Center.
• Extensive experience in Manual Testing, preparing System Test Plans and defining Test Cases.
• Experience in testing Online Transactional and Analytical Processing systems.
• Experience in back-end testing with SQL queries.
• Extensive experience in analyzing business and system requirements.
• Experience in Robust Defect tracking, reporting and extensively used MS Office for project documentation.
• Effective inter-personal and communication skills, team player/lead and can manage multi-tasking.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

QA Test Tools: Mercury Interactive Suite: QuickTest Professional, QualityCenter

Bug Tracking: QualityCenter

Software Applications: MS Office 2000/2002 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), MS Project 2000.

Methodologies: Software Development Life Cycle

RDBMS: Oracle 7.x/8.0/8i/9i, DB2 7.1/7.3, MS-Access 98 and MS SQL Server 6.0/7.0

Application & Web Servers: IIS,WebSphere 3.0/4.0, Web Logic 6.1/5.1, JRUN 3.0, Servlet Exec 2.0.3, IIS 4.0/5.0 and Java Web Server

Languages: TSL, JCL, JAVA, Visual Basic,.NET, C, C++, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, Shell Scripts, JavaScript, SQL *Plus

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Review and Analyzed the Business Requirements, System Requirements and Detail Designed Documents.
• Worked closely with the Architecture team and involved in Designing the entire Testing Process.
• Extensively involved in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Agile (scrum) Methodology.
• Involved in enhancing the High Level Design (HLD) and Low Level Design Documents (LLD).
• Created Test Plans, Test cases by incorporating User Profiles, Configurations, Environments, Risks, Test Scenarios, Schedules and Analysis and Presentation of Results.
• Involved in testing the applications using Telcordia products.
• Involved in Assembly testing, Integration Systems Testing (IST) and User Acceptance Test (UAT) for Web Based Capacity Management application.
• Developed new re-usable classes and methods to improve the Automation Framework.
• Involved in testing the Bulk Load Tool to bulk update the large number of data.
• Worked on transport topologies in Granite like FTTN, FTTP & FTTC.
• Prepared XMLS in Altova XMLSpy for SOAP request.
• Involved in packaging Software Builds and release documentation for in-house developed applications on Granite Mobility Production Environment.
• Investigating, debugging and providing solution for all test/production issues/errors with less turnaround time and increased efficiency.
• Working with Telcordia in trouble shooting all Granite related issues.
• Working on Production Request (PR) to fix the Production issues.
• Involved in Data builds for Performance Testing, Integrated Systems Test to support the 24/7 FIE Testing.
• Perform black-box testing including Assembly Testing, Regression Testing and System Integration Testing.
• Used Quality Center to prepare Test Cases, Procedures and Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Responsible for tracking and managing the defects in Quality Center.
• Interacted with developers and discussed technical problems, reported bugs and supported the development team.
• Involved in installing the Subex Truesource application and fixes/patches in Dev and Test environments.
• Applying Granite Environment Change Notifications to Dev and Test environments.
• Involved in Deploying and executing Telcordia scripts in Production Environment.
• Developed SQL queries in order to verify that the data is inserted or updated in the database.
• Prepare and document Test Results, Test Summary, Test Package and Review Record Documents.
• Worked closely with the production support team. Responsible for all aspects of vendor management, which included tracking, researching, resolving and escalating issues for vendor resolution.
• Communicate/Update team with best practices that they can implement to thoroughly test the application, but reduce the amount of testing time required.
• Responsible for preparing the status reports, issues log, performance testing matrix and detailed Testing Reports.
• Prepared Software Builds and release documentation for production deployment.
• Responsible for preparing the status reports, issues log, performance testing matrix and detailed Testing Reports.
• Involved in creating weekly status reports regarding my testing progress.

Environment: Java, J2EE, JDBC, Altova XMLSpy 2005, JMS, SOAP/HTTP, web services, Oracle, Solaris 10, HP Unix, TOAD, Granite7.1/7.2, CA Introscope, Quick Test Professional, Mercury Quality Center 9.2, SQL Server, PL/SQL, HTML, VB script, WINDOWS XP/Vista.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Review and Analyzed the Functional Requirements, System Requirements and Detail Designed Documents.
• Extensively involved in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Involved in enhancing the High Level Design (HLD) and Low Level Design Documents (LLD).
• Created Test Plans, Test cases by incorporating User Profiles, Configurations, Environments, Risks, Test Scenarios, Schedules and Analysis and Presentation of Results.
• Involved in Integration Systems Testing (IST) and User Acceptance Test (UAT) and Regression Testing for PaymentNet4 Application.
• Perform black-box testing including Regression Testing and System Integration Testing.
• Used Quality Center to prepare Test Cases, Procedures and Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Record and Maintain the Test Cases, Test Results and Defects, assigned type & priority/severity levels using Mercury Quality Center.
• Responsible for tracking and managing the defects in Quality Center.
• Report tracked defects with reference to severity and priority using Quality Center.
• Generated the detailed reports of the Bugs, Pass-Fail report using Quality Center.
• Interacted with developers and discussed technical problems, reported bugs and supported the development team.
• Performed Backend Testing using SQL Developer for the Custom Reports and Mappers.
• Developed SQL queries in order to verify that the data pulled in output file for Mappers and Reports are valid.
• Perform back-end database testing by executing SQL queries to test data integrity
• Performed Inner Joins, Outer Joins to pull large amount of data using SQL Queries.
• Prepare and document Test Results, Test Summary and Test Package.
• Responsible for preparing the status reports, issues log and detailed Testing Reports.
• Involved in creating daily status reports regarding my testing progress.
• Extensively used ClearQuest to verify output files and Functional Requirements Documents for Mappers and Reports.
• Deliver training in area of expertise as required.
• Set up cronjob’s in linux environment to start and stop the process.
• Tail log files in UNIX for errors and send the same to the developer.
• Participated in walkthroughs related to the projects to be tested, performed testing to ensure that the business systems function properly and according to the business requirements on large-scale, and identified and documented any and all problems detected.
• Created and execute the test cases for Web and Client /Server applications.
• Developed test scripts for Smoke, Functional and Regression testing.
• Tested performance of the pages and links on various browsers (cross browser testing).
• Writing shell scripts to automate build process and helping in Release Installation testing(RIT)

Environment: Java, J2EE, JDBC, JMS, Oracle, Solaris 10, HP Unix, Mercury Quality Center 10.0, SQL Server, PL/SQL, WINDOWS 7.

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Review and Analyzed the Business Requirements, System Requirements and Detail Designed Documents.
• Worked closely with the Architecture team and involved in Designing the entire Testing Process.
• Extensively involved in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Agile (scrum) Methodology.
• Involved in enhancing the High Level Design (HLD) and Low Level Design Documents (LLD).
• Created Test Plans, Test cases by incorporating User Profiles, Configurations, Environments, Risks, Test Scenarios, Schedules and Analysis and Presentation of Results.
• Involved in testing the applications using Telcordia products.
• Involved in Assembly testing, Integration Systems Testing (IST) and User Acceptance Test (UAT) for Web Based Capacity Management application.
• Build an FIE Readiness Reporting script using VB script functions and descriptive programming in QTP.
• Perform web test using Quick Test Pro for checking page contents, broken links, web objects, frames and tables.
• Parameterize the scripts to run the scripts using varying form data. Generalize the scripts using regular expressions and handle unexpected errors using exception handing mechanism of Quick Test Pro.
• Extensively used different types of Check points (Standard checkpoints, Table checkpoints, Database checkpoints) using Quick Test Professional
• Involved in designing and development of Keyword driven Framework for Test Automation using Quick Test Professional
• Involved in testing the Bulk Load Tool to bulk update the large number of data.
• Worked on transport topologies in Granite like FTTN, FTTP & FTTC.
• Prepared XMLS in Altova XMLSpy for SOAP request.
• Involved in packaging Software Builds and release documentation for in-house developed applications on Granite Mobility Production Environment.
• Investigating, debugging and providing solution for all test/production issues/errors with less turn around time and increased efficiency.
• Working with Telcordia in trouble shooting all Granite related issues.
• Working on Production Request (PR) to fix the Production issues.
• Involved in Data builds for Performance Testing, Integrated Systems Test to support the 24/7 FIE Testing.
• Perform black-box testing including Assembly Testing, Regression Testing and System Integration Testing.
• Used Quality Center to prepare Test Cases, Procedures and Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Record and Maintain the Test Cases, Test Results and Defects, assigned type & priority/severity levels using Mercury Quality Center.
• Responsible for tracking and managing the defects in Quality Center.
• Interacted with developers and discussed technical problems, reported bugs and supported the development team.
• Involved in installing the Subex Truesource application and fixes/patches in Dev and Test environments.
• Applying Granite Environment Change Notifications to Dev and Test environments.
• Involved in Deploying and executing Telcordia scripts in Production Environment.
• Developed SQL queries in order to verify that the data is inserted or updated in the database.
• Prepare and document Test Results, Test Summary, Test Package and Review Record Documents.
• Worked closely with the production support team. Responsible for all aspects of vendor management which included tracking, researching, resolving and escalating issues for vendor resolution.
• Communicate/Update team with best practices that they can implement to thoroughly test the application, but reduce the amount of testing time required.
• Responsible for preparing the status reports, issues log, performance testing matrix and detailed Testing Reports.
• Prepared Software Builds and release documentation for production deployment.
• Responsible for preparing the status reports, issues log, performance testing matrix and detailed Testing Reports.
• Involved in creating weekly status reports regarding my testing progress.

Environment: Java, J2EE, JDBC, Altova XMLSpy 2005, JMS, SOAP/HTTP, web services, Oracle, Solaris 10, HP Unix, TOAD, Granite7.1/7.2, CA Introscope, Quick Test Professional, Mercury Quality Center 9.2, SQL Server, PL/SQL, HTML, VB script, WINDOWS XP/Vista.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and Analyzed the System Requirement Specs (SRS) and design documents.
• Created High Level Test Plans by incorporating User Profiles, Configurations, Environments, Risks, Test Scenarios, Schedules and Analysis and Presentation of Results.
• Developed SQL queries in order to verify that the data is inserted or updated in the database.
• Perform black-box testing including smoke tests, regression, system and function testing.
• Performed Cross Browser testing of the application manually.
• Recorded, maintained & tracked defects, assigned type & priority/severity levels using Quality Center.
• Interacted with developers and discussed technical problems, reported bugs and supported the development team.
• Develop test plans in conjunction with team leads and business personnel and perform unit, integration, regression testing.
• Carried out End to End integration testing for procurement processes in Material management.
• Prepare and document test results.
• Review compliance with existing policies and procedures.
• Design and test security requirements for all new functionality or changes to existing functionality.
• Responsible for preparing the status reports, issues log, performance testing matrix and detailed Testing Reports.
• Responsible for reporting the defects in Quality Center.
• Involved in creating weekly status reports regarding my testing progress.
• Prepared Software Builds and release documentation for production deployment.
• Assisted technical writers to formulate user support manuals and demonstrated new functionality to users.

Environment: SQL Server, PL/SQL, HTML, VB script.

Confidential, Madison, WI

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating Requirement Specifications (SRS) and design documents.
• Reviewed and analyzed the system requirements, program design, coding, and testing.
• Responsible for creating Functional and System Test Plan and Test Cases based on the requirements document.
• Perform black box testing including smoke, regression, integration and functional testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Perform system testing on various hardware platforms and software configurations.
• Perform functional and regression testing across various browsers (IE, Mozilla and Netscape) and across various operation systems.
• Design and test security requirements for all new functionality or changes to existing functionality.
• Report tracked defects with reference to severity and priority using Quality Center.
• Interacted with developers and discussed technical problems, reported bugs and supported the development team.
• Deliver training in area of expertise as required.
• Prepare Software Builds and release documentation for production deployment.
• Writing UNIX shell scripts to automate regular build process.
• Participated in walkthroughs related to the projects to be tested, performed testing to ensure that the business systems function properly and according to the business requirements on large-scale, and identified and documented any and all problems detected.

Environment: Mercury Quality Center.