PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Around 7 years of diversified experience in Software Design, Development and Testing. Expertise in Designing and
• Developing Test plans, Test cases and generating Test Scripts. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with clear understanding of business and ability to work as a part of team
• Extensive experience in various Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Phases and Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC) including Requirement Gathering, Business Analysis, System, Object Oriented Design and Testing..
• Extensive knowledge on all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experience in Agile and Waterfall models of SDLC
• Extensive experience in Test Life Cycle.
• Experience in test execution - Integration, Functional, System, Regression, Compatible testing and Database Testing using SQL and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Experience in testing Financial, Web-based Insurance applications on different environments.
• Proficient in designing, reviewing and documenting system test plans, defining test procedures and creating test cases on the basis of product release features, client’s requirements and related technical documents.
• Expertise in automating test cases with QTP using VBscripts.
• Expertise in developing Test Plans, Test cases and designing Test Strategies.
• Proficient in Test Plan formulation, Test Case design, manual and preparing test data.
• Proficient in Functional Testing tool Quick Test Professional (QTP/UFT) and the various frameworks in QTP/UFT.
• Knowledge in Business Process Testing using HP Quality Center.
• Extensive hands on experience in using relational databases like MSSQL Server.
• Expertise in manual testing
• Effort Estimation during all cycles of release like Feature, Unit, System, Integration, Regression and Performance Testing.
• Excellent Knowledge in Iterative Testing, Agile Methodology (SCRUM).
• Worked on Electronic Document Management systems like Documentum
• Ability to work closely with developers and project managers to analyze the new features of the software application.
• Experience in preparing a Quality Assessment Report at the end of the release highlighting the vulnerable areas of the product.
• Expert in usage of Defect tracking and reporting using Quality Center, Test Director
• Self-Motivated team player with good communication, problem solving skills, analytical & Strong Presentation Skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: QuickTestPro 11.0/8.0/6.5, Quality Center 10.0/8.2, Test Director8.0/7.6Clear case, Winrunner7.0/6.0

Bug Tracking Tool: Test Director, Quality Center, Team foundation server (Visual studio team System)

Platforms: MS-DOS, Windows95/98/2000/NT/XP,UNIX

Languages: C, C++, Java, VBScript, TSL, Visual Basic, .Net, SQL, PL/SQL, ASP

Internet Technologies: VBScript, JavaScript, XML, HTML

Database Technologies: Oracle 8i/9i/11i, MS-SQL Server 2000, MS- Access

Others: MS-Word, MS Excel, MS-PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, TX

Sr.QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Good Knowledge in Software Testing Life Cycle.
• Testing software to identify and resolve problems from end users perspective.
• Accurately monitoring and recording results in test documentation.
• Analyzing, writing reports & communicating results to colleagues & managers.
• Using HP Quality Center to keep track of Requirements and Test plans.
• Leveraged the test management features of Quality Center for System Testing, UAT and Regression Testing.
• Analyze the AML risks associated with the client from a technical perspective
• Executed test cases and procedures forFunctionality Testing, Integration Testing, Positive Testing, Negative Testing, and Black box testing
• Extensively involved in all stages of Quality Assurance Life Cycle.
• Performed various types of testing such as sanity, functional, Integration, system, re-testing, performance, network, security, UAT and regression on all phases of Accumulator and its associated interfaces.
• Review client documents and ensure conformity to KYC and AML standards.
• Involved in Descriptive programming using VBScript.
• Organizing the Defect Management Process throughout the Defect Life Cycle
• Tracking, reviewing, and analyzing defects using ALM.
• Performed AML Investigations and various peripheral supporting applications, i.e., search engines, proprietary database services
• Created and maintained test data for integration, functional and UAT testing.
• Involved in Preparing Test Cases and Test Reports.
• Ability to handle multiple priorities and manage within deadlines
• Team player with good communication

Environment: MS Visio, SQL server, VBScript, UML, Quality Center, QTP, Java, .NET, UNIX, X

Confidential, Columbus, OH

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Conducted manual testing using the Standards, guidelines and structured methodology in testing the application.
• Documented and executed Test plans, Test cases and Test scripts based on Use Case documents using the Quality Center.
• Used Linux commands and shell scripts to perform testing of the command line module of the search engine.
• Assist in Operations projects pertaining to the area of Account Opening and to ensure proper due diligence is completed to mitigate AML risk.
• Co-ordinate UAT testing with business users. Trained business users in order to help them understand the application and perform UAT testing.
• Conducted system and integration testing, debugged the software errors and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Perform AML and KYC checks on new and existing institutional clients.
• Employed data-driven testing based on Excel tables by parameter test scripts to check application using QTP.
• Wrote several System Test Scripts and UAT Scripts.
• Performed Integration testing, System testing, and Functional testing.
• Analyzed the user requirements by interacting with system architect, developers and business users.
• Used QTP to automate the Regression Testing after every version change of the application.
• Created GUI and application generated text checkpoints in Keyword view and Expert View in Quick Test Professional.
• UAT support and Production support.
• Ran UNIX commands to verify file locations & content at the backend.
• Automated test scripts for Functional, GUI validation, Data Driven testing using QTP.
• Participated in all the bug meetings and QA organization and meetings.
• Logged and tracked the bugs to close or defer in Quality Center.
• Tested the application compatibility in the Versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers
• Performed the Backend Testing, which was Oracle, by preparing and executing SQL Queries
• Participated in Walk through and Defect report meetings periodically.
• Reported the bugs, and E-mailed notifications to the developers using the Quality Center.

Environment: Quick Test Professional, Quality Center, VB.Net, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, XML, VBscript, HTML, IIS, Web Services, ALM, Misys Loan IQ 6.0, Windows NT, MS-Visio, MS-Word, Ms-Excel, MS-Project.

Confidential, Glenview IL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• AnalyzedFunctional Requirement and Business Requirement Documentsto get a better understanding of the system on both functional and business perspectives.
• Implemented and Involved in various phases of QA Life cycle likeTest Plan, Test case Design, Test case implementation, Test Execution, Defects/Bug Tracking, and Test Results Reporting.
• Involved maintaining requirements and maintained the traceability matrix between the requirements and Test cases.
• Extensively worked onMarketing and Financial Modulespertaining to personal lines.
• Developed Test Plans by incorporating UserProfiles, Configurations, Environments, Risks, Test Scenarios, Schedules and Analysis and Presentation of Results.
• Derived Test Cases from functional requirements and design documents.
• Writing and executing Rating scenarios, validating them with the Rating calculators.
• Performed data validation in the mainframe system after the policies have been run through the batch cycle.
• Performed UAT Testing.
• Execution of defined test cases on each build (BVT)
• Used TestDirector for test case development, defect reporting and track the defects to closure.
• Analyzed Test results on each phase.
• Communicated with development team to resolve the issues, performed regression testing to verify bug fixes.
• Performed System Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing.
• Developed SQL Queries to perform database testing. Performed Backend Testing using Toad.
• Involved in preparing Test Bed Environments for Integration and Regression testing.
• Participated in weekly status meetings with entire testing team and updated each PCR testing status to QA.
• Involved in Test Cases Review for multiple PCR's (Project Change Request).
• Involved in preparing Deliverable documents suchas Impact Analysis, RTM, Checklist, PCR Planning, Test Plan Results and Deliverable Tracking sheets.

Environment: SQL Server 2008, Agile, ASP.Net 3.0, HTML, Rally, Visual Studio .Net 2010, Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), Visual Source Safe, MS Visio, QTP, Windows XP, VBScript, Manual testing

Confidential, Northbrook, IL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirement Documents, and prepared detailed test cases.
• Checking the dependency of the applications.
• To communicate with project manager for security issues of the application.
• Involved in Functional testing, and Acceptance testing.
• Logging the defects of all the team member’s applications and looking for the change of status of defects to ready for retest and communicate to team members that application is ready for retesting and retesting the application successfully and closing the defects.
• Stored scripts and called Automation scripts from QC.
• Executed automation scripts extensively with multiple O/S.
• Created and executed data driven test scripts in QTP.
• Worked in an Agile technology with Scrum
• Worked on Claims, Underwriting, Billing and finance modules
• Managed Object Repositories.
• Analyzed Results with Business Analysts.
• Performed Performance testing.
• Participated in meetings with developers to discuss enhancements and modifications.
• Involved in facilitating formal review meetings with project teams and developers to report, demonstrate, prioritize and suggest resolution of issues discovered during testing
• Participated in Defect assessment meeting.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, SQL Server 2005, TOAD, Oracle, Agile, UNIX, VBScript, C#.Net, SOAP, HTML, JavaScript.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and Created Manual Test Plans, Test Cases and Executed Test Cases for Web based testing using Test Director.
• Designed and developed tests scripts for manual testing of all the modules.
• Created Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to track requirements and test cases
• Documented the errors using Bugzilla and tracked them to completion by communicating and coordinating with the development as well as the support group.
• Responsible for collecting and analyzing the test metrics and them submitting the reports, which keep track of the status and progress of the testing efforts.
• Wrote queries in SQL for backend testing
• Participated in walkthrough and defect report meeting periodically.
• Involved in build release methodology.

Environment: Bugzilla 2.16, ASP.Net 2.0, HTML, Windows NT, SQL Server 2000 and SQL.