SUMMARY

• QA professional with 7 years of experience in the 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 the organization.
• Excellent experience in Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) right from planning to implementation with Testing life cycle and defect life cycle·
• Knowledge and experience in every phase of Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experienced in manual testing with the focus on Black Box testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Stress Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Load Testing and System Testing.
• Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle processes and followed various testing methodologies like Agile, RUP, Water fall
• Knowledge of using automation tools - Load Runner, Quality Center and Test Director.
• 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 the ability to work in time sensitive environments.
• Experience in testing online reports on Business Objects and Crystal reports
• Ability to document and track defects, as well as produce detailed reports using defect tracking tools
• Strong hands on experience in using Test Director / Quality Center and IBM’s Rational Tools - Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, Rational Requisite Pro, and Rational Manual Tester.
• 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 the ability to clearly articulate issues with the appropriate level of detail.

SKILLS SUMMARY:

Tools: Manual Testing, Testing Tools, Automation Testing Tools

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

Database: RDBMS, Oracle, SQl Server, DB2

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

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

Utilities: MS Word, Excel, Macros, Access, Power

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Reston, VA

UAT Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the requirements thoroughly by interacting with system architect, developers and business analysts.
• Meet with the business to understand the requirements and make sure the 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 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.
• Participated to create Test Analysis reports (TAR) and stored them into the Quality Center.
• Tested the application using both Positive and Negative scenarios.
• Performed Functional, Regression, Integration, End to End and UAT Testing as per the test plan
• Defect identification and analyzing defects, logging bugs for the 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.
• Has free hands on SQL. Used Toad to access the database for data retrieval, data verification and data

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

Confidential, NJ

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Functional Test Cases by reviewing the process flow and BRD documents
• Analyzed the test scenarios and created the 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 the 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 the daily scrum meeting for daily stand up and discussions on defect resolution with the development team.
• Worked on different database like Oracle to check the data consistency.
• Involved in Backend, Regression, Integration, Functional, Smoke, End to End Testing of the Capella applications
• Tested database contents Using SQL Queries.
• Backend testing of the DB by writing PL/SQL queries to test the integrity of the application and Oracle databases using TOAD.
• Maintained log of test results using Quality Centre as per the rating and interacted with developers to resolve issues.
• Performed End-to-End testing after bug fixes and modifications.
• Interacted with Business Analysts for UAT (User Acceptance Testing), and tested the possibilities of system failure with UAT.
• Reported the status report to Test Lead and QA Manger

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

Confidential, Livingston, NJ

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• 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 the application & new builds
• Experienced in creation of strategy, planning, testing, issue reporting.
• Used Quality Center for Requirements, Test Analysis, Test Execution, DefectTracking andTest Evaluation
• Responsible to create test execution reports, defect summary reports, exit criteria reports for coverage analysis.
• Performed data integrity testing by executing SQL queries using SQL, TOAD
• Developed SQL Queries to retrieve or create test data from different Oracle Test databases.
• Independently developed Load Runner test scripts according to test specifications/requirements.
• 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.
• Interacted with developers, business users for communication and resolution of defects

Environment: Quality Center, Oracle database, under WindowsXP, JAVA, JavaScript, HTML, Crystal Reports, Business Intelligence.

Confidential, Herndon, VA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

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

Environment:QC,Oracle, SQL,SQL Server Developer, Unix,MS Office,WindowsNT2000,Java Script

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test plan and Test cases.
• Interacted with developers and Business analysts.
• Written manual test cases according to functional documents and requirements.
• Included both manual and automated testing.
• Responsible for testing functionalities of the 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 the 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, WindowsXP, HTML