PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 5 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance (Manual and Automated testing) on various Applications & Platforms.
• Proficient in both Manual and Automated Testing using HP interactive products like - HP Quick Test Professional (QTP), HP Load Runner, HP Quality Center (QC) and Test Director.
• Well versed with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Extensively involved in Defect Reporting and Defect tracking process using Test Director, Quality Center (QC), and Rational Clear Quest.
• Good exposure in creating documents (QA Status Report, QA Summary Reports, QA Test Logs, issue and defects).
• Participated in Requirements review & supported User Acceptance/Production Verification Testing.
• Worked extensively on creating Traceability Matrix between Requirements & Test Cases using QC.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing tools: Quick Test Professional 9.x, 7.6/7.5, Win Runner 6.5/5.6, Load Runner 9.x, 7.8/8.1, Rational Enterprise Suite

Tracking tools: Quality Center 9.0, 8.0, Test Director 7.2/7.0, Rational Clear Quest

Languages: Test Script Language, HTML, XML, VB SCRIPT C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL, Java, ASP & Visual basic

Database: SQL Server 2000, Oracle 8i, MS-Access

Operating systems: Windows 95/98/2000/Me/NT 4.0/XP, UNIX, LINUX, DOS

Others: MS Visio, MS Project, MS excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Skillman, New Jersey

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in manual and Automated Testing
• Responsible for preparing and executing System Test Plan and Test cases using Quality Center
• Analyze System documentation, like user cases, Requirements, User interface Specifications.
• Analyze User requirements, prepared test strategy and test cases.
• Working with developers and requirements analysts to define test scenarios and ensure that test requirements are correct and complete.
• Written test cases to test the application manually in Rational Clear Quest
• Written and executed test cases and verified actual results against expected results.
• Responsible for performing Smoke testing, Integration testing, system testing and user acceptance testing
• Responsible for writing and executing QTP Scripts for Functional, Regression and integration testing.
• Conducted Regression testing and interacted with developers to resolve the issues.
• Attended daily status meetings with project management on testing update.
• Reported software bugs using Rational Clear Quest for bug reporting tool.
• Developed the Test Automation Methodology for automated testing of the entire application.
• Generated traceability Matrices to ensure that all the requirements are covered by the test cases
• Performed Backend Testing to ensure the authentic retrieval of the data from the database
• Prepared queries in SQL for checking the integrity of databases and retrievals, updates, deletions, and insertions.

Confidential, New Jersey

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Audit Business Requirement and Functional Specification documents for writing test cases.
• Interacted with the Developers and Project Managers to provide Test plans and Test cases for the major infrastructure and enhancements projects.
• Prepared Test scope from Audit Business Requirements and Functional Specifications.
• Experienced in defining, creating and implementing testing process and methodology.
• Submitted Status and Test Evaluation Reports.
• Involved in rigorous meetings with testing team, development and BA team to plan and implement testing efforts.
• Coordinated with the Development Team on Defect Analysis arising in Test.
• Executed Integration, Regression, Smoke, Sanity testing.
• Developed Requirement Traceability Matrix, which maps requirements with test cases.

Confidential, Columbus, IN

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in setting up QA Process, Preparing of Master Test Plan and Test Cases and also responsible for formulating and defining procedures and processes to ensure the reliability and validity of all application systems, including both the testing as well as problem tracking and resolution areas.
• Test automation, scripting and tool development using Rational Suite, Clear Case. Manage complex homegrown auto test system, tightly coupled with engineering development environment.
• Developed QA reporting metrics to identify defect trends and defect distribution. These metrics highlighted areas, which had been missed during defect distribution, to allow these to be brought back into scope. These metrics also facilitated equal distribution of defects within the QA team.
• Extensively testing Data warehousing applications.
• Involved in Performance Testing, Regression Testing and Functional Testing of all Web applications.

Confidential, Texas

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used SQL queries to validate data in the Oracle server and updated the records for back end testing.
• Worked with various software teams, created project & users in Test Director reviewed software requirements & use cases.
• Wrote, reviewed & froze positive & negative test cases for all the functional specs
• Discussions with cross functional teams to come up with stringent integration test cases
• Created a Functional Test automation framework in QTP to facilitate for further automation by functional testers
• Created regression test scripts for Multi Generation products
• Created and executed QA Test plans using both manual and automated QA methods.
• Prepared test data for various levels of testing.
• Performed GUI testing and functionality testing for front end screens.
• Evaluated functional design and performed testability analysis, QA, test case reviews, and inspections.
• Tested the Functionality of the application by automated and manual testing.
• Reported problems, and tracked defects to closure using Quality Center.
• Used VSS as a source control tool for maintaining versions of Test documents, Requirements, Test scripts.
• Involved in Sanity Check test whenever there was a new build.
• Involvement in creating Synchronization Points, GUI checks Points and Data Driven Tests using QTP.
• Involved extensively with conducting UAT, Regression, Functional, Boundary, Smoke, GUI and Unit testing of the application.
• Documented the entire testing process, test cases and test results.

Confidential, Houston, TX

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating and executing Test scenarios based on User and Functional Requirements and participated in the meetings with the business analyst and the development team.
• Responsible for performing Functional testing on the Application by creating Automated and Manual Test Scripts using Win Runner.
• Responsible for performing User Interface testing, Regression testing and User acceptance testing on the AUT.
• Used Test director to log all the test cases and report results.
• Responsible for testing the Application against Oracle server for data validity. Performed database integrity tests by writing SQL commands to extract the actual results.
• Involved in performing Performance, Stress, Load Testing on Application Under Test (AUT) using Load Runner Test center.
• Tested the Applications compatibility for various versions of browsers.
• Worked with the development team to ensure that the testing issues are resolved.