SUMMARY

• Extensive knowledge in QA methodology
• Extensive knowledge on all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experience in Agile and Waterfall models of SDLC
• Experience in Testing Client Server applications, Web application using manual testing.
• Experience in Black Box (System testing, Functionality testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, End - to-End testing, Sanity testing, Alpha Testing, Exhaustive Testing, Ad Hoc Testing) and Gray Box testing.
• Knowledge in preparing Test Plan, Test Cases & Test Scripts.
• Knowledge of defect tracking tools: Mercury Quality Center, PVCS Tracker
• Expertise in manual testing and in automation testing tools like Quick Test Professional
• Web Application and Client/Server Application Testing.
• Excellent understanding and Experience in complete Software Testing life cycle.
• Excellent in meeting deadlines, attention to detail, time management and presentation skills.
• Excellent written, communication and negotiation skills.
• Solid ability to create "ad-hoc" tests to exploit areas of suspect performance
• Strong Experience in Backend testing in Oracle and SQL
• Solid ability to analyze results and find bottlenecks.
• Possess strong Analytical skills with ability to follow project standards.
• Exceptional ability to quickly master new concepts to applications and a team Player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quality Center 9.0/8.2,Test Director 7.6 and PVCS Tracker.

ETL Tools: Data Stage 7.5/8.0

Platform: UNIX, MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP, Lotus Domino 6.5

Languages: TSL, SQL, C, Formula Language

Web Technologies: JavaScript, Lotus Script, XML, HTML, PHP

GUI Tools: Outlook, Access, and Developer/2000, MS Excel

Databases: Oracle 9i, SQL Server 2000, MySql

Internet Browsers: Fire Fox and Internet Explorer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for End-to-End QA management activity.
• Involved in Resource allocation & management activities.
• Represented & provided the updates from the FIN39 team in the checkpoint meetings with upstream and downstream systems (nearly 30 teams involved)
• Handled several Decommissioning projects.
• Involved in the Data Reconciliation Process.
• Data Reconciliation involves the analyzing trade attributes (e.g.: Notional, MTM, maturity date, Prod code etc.. are the key attributes which Business will be looking into)
• Run the SQL queries in the db to find the discrepancies / Use excel lookups / use Excel Pivot tables to analyze the data at the detailed level.
• To provide the detailed analysis to the FIN39 Tech and Business team.
• Organized meetings between various upstream teams to discuss the discrepancies.
• Consolidated the discrepancies and send the reports to FIN39 technical and business team.
• To track the each discrepancy in the grid format in the spreadsheet.
• To coordinate with upstream systems to get the data discrepancies fixed or explained.
• To follow up the FIN39 Business team for Business signoff by providing the defined & explained issue list.
• Involved in the month end COB runs.

Environment: SQL Server 2000, Quality Center 9.2, UNIX, Java, HTML, JavaScript, Excel 2007

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the complete testing lifecycle spanning.
• Analyzed system requirement specification and developed test scripts and testing custom and functional enhancements.
• Setting up the Testing Environments.
• Interacted with business analysts to understand the requirements.
• Managed and coordinated offshore testing team.
• Prepared and executed test cases.
• Responsible for Backend Testing, Functionality testing, Regression Testing.
• Responsible for the releases in ATS.
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries, to extract the data from the database.
• Executed SQL scripts to test the backend database.
• Prepared and executed SQL queries to query the database for data validation.
• Used Quality Center to do defect tracking, coordinated the defect resolution process and generated management reports.
• Interacted with developers to follow up on defects and issues.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Requests.
• Worked with other development team members to better understand system functionality in order to improve testing quality.

Environment: SQL Server 2000, Quality Center 9.2, UNIX, Java, HTML, JavaScript

Confidential

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the complete testing lifecycle spanning from pre-testing phase to User acceptance Testing.
• Analyzed system requirement specification and developed test scripts and testing custom and functional enhancements.
• Involved in Migration testing of Data stage 7.5 to Data stage 8.1.Data extractions comparisonbetween the same activities of Data stage 7.5 and Data stage 8.1 was performed.
• Analyzed the objectives and scope of each stage of testing process from the Test plan
• Prepared and executed test cases.
• Responsible for Backend Testing, Functionality Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Used Excel for task allocation and work progress tracking.
• Supported for UAT Testing for the issues raised by the UAT users.
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries, to extract the data from the database.
• Prepared and executed SQL queries to query the database for data validation.
• Performed browser compatibility testing using different browsers like IE 6, IE 8
• Used Quality Center to do defect tracking, coordinated the defect resolution process and generated management reports.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Requests.
• Worked with other development team members to better understand system functionality in order to improve testing quality.
• Involved in the complete testing lifecycle spanning.
• Analyzed system requirement specification and developed test scripts and testing custom and functional enhancements.
• Setting up the Testing Environments
• Interacted with business analysts to understand the requirements.
• Managed and coordinated offshore testing team.
• Prepared and executed test cases.
• Responsible for Backend Testing, Functionality testing, Regression Testing.
• Responsible for the releases in ATS.
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries, to extract the data from the database.
• Executed SQL scripts to test the backend database.
• Prepared and executed SQL queries to query the database for data validation.
• Used Quality Center to do defect tracking, coordinated the defect resolution process and generated management reports.
• Interacted with developers to follow up on defects and issues.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Requests.
• Worked with other development team members to better understand system functionality in order to improve testing quality.

Environment: Lotus Domino, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, UNIX, Quality Center 9.2, HTML, ORACLE 9i, .Net 2005,Data stage 7.5 and Data stage 8.1

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities

• Involved in the complete testing lifecycle spanning pre-testing phase, acceptance-testing phase and also in user acceptance testing.
• Involved in weekly walkthroughs, inspections and verification meetings with various stakeholders in the project to understand the business process of fixed income and equities sector of investment market.
• Identified the test cases dat would be ideal candidates for regression testing and created a regression test sets.
• Created manual test sets for performing sanity testing of the application.
• Tested HTML, XML and website design.
• Tested manually the various navigation steps and basic functionality of the application.
• Created positive and negative testing scenarios and tested them manually as well as using automated scripts.
• Performed UAT Testing
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries, to extract the data from the.
• Involved in writing SQL queries
• Used Excel for Defect report generation.
• Tested manually the data source access in the Oracle Financials modules (Account Receivables, Accounts Payables and General Ledger).
• Tracked the defects by entering and managing them in Quality Center after analyzing the defect to determine severity and other factors.
• Requirement Analysis
• Functional Specification Document Review
• Created positive and negative testing scenarios and tested manually as well as using automated scripts.
• Involved in test case preparation
• System Integration Testing.
• Tested HTML, XML and website design.

Environment: PHP 5.1.0, Apache Server, MySql 5.0, HTML, JavaScript 1.2

Confidential

Web QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for testing the Navigation Flow, Functionality Testing, System Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Used Excel for task allocation and work progress tracking.
• Functional Specification Document Review
• Created positive and negative testing scenarios and tested manually as well as using automated scripts.
• Involved in test case preparation
• System Integration Testing.
• Functional Specification Document Review
• Developed User Interfaces.
• Developed the website using PHP.
• Used JavaScript for client side validations.
• Performed System Integration Testing.
• Migration Support.
• Post Production support.

Environment: PHP 5.1.0, Apache Server, MySql 5.0, HTML, JavaScript 1.2