SUMMARY

• QA professional with 8 years of experience in teh Information Technology industry with a focus on Quality Assurance, Testing, Business and Systems Analysis.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines, ability to translate high - level requirements, design into test cases and test scripts, ability to work in cross-functional teams across multiple levels of teh organization.
• Excellent experience in Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) right from planning to implementation with Testing life cycle and defect life cycle·
• Have applied skills in multiple industries such as Pharmacy, Online banking, Telecommunication.
• Knowledge and experience in every phase of Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experienced in manual testing with teh focus on Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Stress Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing and System Testing.
• Well versed with Backend Testing for Database integrity by executing complex SQL queries for validating teh data in teh backend database tables.
• Performed Batch testing for various modules in teh application and combined them to check their accuracy, performance and reliability.
• Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle processes and followed various testing methodologies like Agile, RUP, Water fall
• Expertise in analyzing Business and Development Specifications, and Functional Design documents to develop Test Plan, Test Cases, Test requirements and procedures.
• Good team player with teh ability to work in time sensitive environments.
• Testing of web application, client-server and database related projects on Windows, and Unix/Linux operating systems.
• Experience in testing online reports on Business Objects and Crystal reports.
• Experienced in automated testing tools like Quick Test Pro and Quality Center.
• Executed SQL queries in Oracle using SQL tool TOAD to validate and verify test results.
• Having Experience in E Commerce and online purchasing.
• Strong hands on experience in using Test Director / Quality Center and IBM’s Rational Tools - Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, Rational Requisite Pro for collecting Test Metrics, reporting teh modification requests and tracking them to completion.
• Used Requirement Traceability Matrix for mapping requirements to test cases.
• Good team player with excellent communication skills. Self Starter and can perform well as an individual.
• Good sense of planning, prioritizing of work and time management.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and teh ability to clearly articulate issues with teh appropriate level of detail.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: Manual Testing, Testing Tools, Automation Testing Tools

Languages: C, HTML, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, Java Script

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, Iterative

Database: RDBMS, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2

Operating Systems: WIN95/98/2000/XP/2003Server, DOS, Unix, Linux

Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA, Quality Center, Test Director, Clear Quest, MS Excellence

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Reston, VA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyze teh requirements thoroughly by interacting with system architect, developers and business analysts.
• Meet with teh business to understand teh requirements and make sure teh requirements/test documents are complete
• Experienced in analyzing project documents, BRD, Use cases, functional design docs, business process flows, screen design documents for creating test cases, test data, test scenarios for functional and system integration testing.
• Performed Reports testing created with SAP Business Objects Reporting tool BOXI
• Performed Test Planning, Execution and Analysis for each project and release.
• Created Test plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, test data, Traceability Matrix as per QA process and methodology.
• Worked on agile with Scrum SDLC methodology.
• Participated to create Test Analysis reports (TAR) and stored them into teh Quality Centre.
• Tested teh application using both Positive and Negative scenarios.
• Performed Functional, Regression, Integration, End to End and UAT Testing as per teh test plan.
• Defect identification and analyzing defects, logging bugs for teh release into Bug tracking system.
• Experienced in Defect login, tracking through Quality Centre for various statuses in each project.
• Created Execution Procedure Documents to validate data between Source and Target Databases as part of Data Validation.
• Did UAT testing to determine if teh requirements of a specification or contract are met.
• Developing automated test scripts for Regression testing using QTP.
• Have free hands on SQL. Used Toad to access teh database for data retrieval, data verification and data correction.
• Have experience writing SQL queries using SQL Server 2008.
• Have experience in writing complex queries using Joins, Group By, Order By and created index on columns to increase performance of query.
• Used Quality Center to track and report system defects and bug fixes. Written modification requests for teh bugs in teh application and halped developers to track and resolve teh problems.

Environment: Quality Center 10.0, QTP 10.0, Windows XP, MS Office, C#.Net, Java Script, Crystal reports, Business Objects, SQL Server2008, Unix, Linux, Oracle Database

Confidential, NJ

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Functional Test Cases by reviewing teh process flow and BRD documents
• Analyzed teh test scenarios and created teh test cases in Excel and Quality Center
• Performed different type of testing like Smoke, Functional, Unit, System Integration and regression Testing
• Used Quality Center for tracking teh requirements, Creating Test Cases and Reporting Defects
• Analyzed application to find out which part can be manually tested
• Worked in an Agile Methodology with Scrum
• Used to attend teh daily scrum meeting for daily stand up and discussions on defect resolution with teh development team.
• Worked on different database like Oracle to check teh data consistency.
• Involved in Backend, Regression, Integration, Functional, Smoke, End to End Testing of teh application
• Using .csv files data is loaded into database tables with teh halp of SQL Loader.
• Tested database contents Using SQL Queries.
• Backend testing of teh DB by writing PL/SQL queries to test teh integrity of teh application and Oracle databases using TOAD.
• Maintained log of test results using Quality Centre as per teh rating and interacted with developers to resolve issues.
• Performed End-to-End testing after bug fixes and modifications.
• Extensively used Quality Center for automation scripts execution.
• Interacted with Business Analysts for UAT (User Acceptance Testing), and tested teh possibilities of system failure with UAT.
• Extensively used Quality Center for automation scripts execution.
• Reported teh status report to Test Lead and QA Manger.

Environment: Quality Center 10.0,QTP 10.0, Java, Unix, Oracle 10g, SQL, SQL Developer, Windows 2003, DB2 MS Excel, HIPAA.

Confidential, Livingston, NJ

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed project documents, BRD, scope document, Use case, functional specification documents, business process flows for test documentation and feature specific test cases
• Created test scenarios, test cases and test data for various investment, mutual funds and brokerage requirements Performed Functional, Regression, Integration, End to End and UAT Testing.
• Performed Regression testing for every modification in teh application & new builds
• Experienced in creation of strategy, planning, testing, issue reporting.
• Used Quality Center for Requirements, Test Analysis, Test Execution, Defect Tracking and Test Evaluation
• Responsible to create test execution reports, defect summary reports, exit criteria reports for coverage analysis.
• Conducted Batch processing testing using Autosys for daily information updating, automated transaction processing, and validating generated log reports as per daily/weekly/monthly basis.
• Performed data integrity testing by executing SQL queries using SQL, TOAD to ensure coherence between teh data present inthe Source database matches with teh data in teh Target database.
• Developed SQL Queries to retrieve or create test data from different Oracle Test databases.
• Extensively used UNIX commands for different processes while working on UNIX, Linux platform.
• Testing involved Web Application with various hyperlinks, images, hosted pages, look and feel and cross browser testing.
• Responsible for end-to-end analysis, diagnosis, and problem resolution, including quality assurance an acceptance testing.
• Well versed in analyzing Results, Bug Tracking/Reporting, Impact Analysis and detailed status reporting documents.
• Attended change request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes.
• Interacted with developers, business users for communication and resolution of defects

Environment: Quality Center, Oracle database, TOAD, UNIX, Linux, Autosys, Rational Clear Quest, Windows XP.

Confidential, Herndon, VA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared detailed Test Scenarios, Test Cases based on requirements and design documents
• Prepared test data for teh Application under Test as per specifications.
• Performed complete testing in manual, semi automated and automated for Application.
• Worked on OSS/BSS applications and prepared testcases for teh application.
• Performed teh System& Integration, and Implementation testing in teh production environment after installing teh Product/Release.
• Performed Functional Testing using Quality Center.
• Used SQL complex queries to validate teh data in teh output tables are correctly populated.
• Provided feedback to developers and business about concerns, unexpected results, undefined testing issues and additional documentation required to completely test software changes.
• Extensively used teh test plan and test lab of Quality Center for test development, execution and reporting of teh test strategy.
• Executed teh test scenarios on UNIX platform dat fulfill teh test designs and test plan.
• Detected defects and communicated to teh developers using Test Director.
• Extensively interacted with teh developers to resolve teh bugs.
• Performed regression testing after resolving teh defects.

Environment: QC, Oracle, SQL, SQL Server Developer, Unix, MS Office,WindowsNT/2000, Java Script

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• lan and Test cases.
• Interacted with developers and Business analysts.
• Worked on E-commerce and retail applications.
• Written manual test cases according to functional documents and requirements.
• Included both manual and automated testing.
• Responsible for testing functionalities of teh application.
• Involved in Front End, Backend, Regression, and Stress tests.
• Was involved in Black Box Testing.
• Conducted Functionality, Security, End to End, Performance Testing.
• Conducted backend testing of teh application by writing SQL queries.
• Used Test Director for test documentation management and defect tracking.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.

Environment: Test Director, MS SQL Server, Java, MS Office, Windows XP, HTML