PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 9years of experience in software testing with solid experience in automation/manual testing of web based and client/server applications.
• Hands on experience in creating automation environment using Quick Test Professional, HP Quality Center.
• Expertise in manual testing as well as automation testing.
• Experience in entire testing life cycle, including writing test plans, test scripts executing the test scripts and analyzing the error logs.
• Sound knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience in Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Experience in backend testing by writing SQL Queries for data verification at the backend.
• Experience in problem solving and defect tracking using defect tracking tools such as Visual Studio 2010, HP ALM Quality Center, and Jira.
• Experience in test automation using Selenium.
• Experience with QA methodology and QA strategies to ensure quality assurance control.
• Expertise in testing applications on windows and UNIX environment.
• Sound knowledge on Fixed Income Securities Clearing and Settlement Processing.
• Have hands on experience in providing testing services for Corporate Actions products (Reorganization and BPS Dividends and Firm Trading).
• ISTQB Foundation Level Certified Tester.
• Hands on experience in Trade Life Cycle.
• Sound Business knowledge in Finance, Banking, E - Business and Defence.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Good working knowledge of XML to read or pull data.
• Hands on experience in web API testing for several brokerage applications.
• Comfortable working according to business needs and team expectations.
• Sound knowledge on Object Oriented Programming.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automation Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional 11.53,(UFT), 10.0/9.2/9.0/8.2, Cucumber

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7, UNIX

Languages: C, C++, C#, Java, OOPS

Scripting Languages: HTML, XML, VBScript and Java Script

Database: PL/SQL, SQL, Oracle 10g2/9i, Access 2000/03/07, SQL Server 2010, Microsoft Access.

Management Tools: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPointBug Tracking Tools HP ALM Quality Center and JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in SSR testing.
• Involved in Batch Regression testing for every QA Cycle.
• Responsible for creating QA test plans.
• Monitoring use of QA tool by testing staff and others, to ensure that defects are entered and updated according to standards.
• Responsible for writing test cases based on the information coming from SSR system.
• Using SQL server management studio to run SQL queries against SQL server database to perform data validation between source and target data tables.
• Responsible for test automation using Selenium and QTP.
• Participating in the QA Team meetings and effective communication with project management in terms of updating QA status.
• Responsible for creating QA Test Plans, materials, presentation based on the projects.
• Responsible for creating QA reports.
• Have a good rapport with Developers, Project Manager, Business Analysts QA Team and QA Director.

Environment: HP ALM Quality Center, SOAP UI, QTP 11.53 (UFT), MSOffice, SQL, SQL server, SQL server management studio, Web services, IE, XP and win7,COBOL,DB2,Excel Macros, IBM 3270 screens(Terminal Emulator),BMC Remedy Action Request System.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed and was a part of maintaining BR test automation framework for running the automation scripts for every QA cycle for all the products.
• Participated in Disaster Recovery testing of all the products developed in mainframes to validate the product is working fine when routed to the secondary server
• Participated in the lockdown meetings organized within the team to discuss the testing status of the changes before moving to production.
• Actively communicated to offshore team regularly for discussing the test cases to be tested in detail and defects raised while testing the application during the QA cycle.
• Actively participated in Wells Fargo Go-Live on Option 8 functionality of Firm trading product, RBC Canada Go-Live on Reinvestment functionality of Dividends Product.
• Actively involved in preparing test cases, executing test cases and raising good number of functional defects for testing a major regulatory change in US FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) by which several core applications are impacted like Corp Actions, Order Management and Firm trading.
• Employed number of testing methodologies in testing applications from traditional waterfall thru Agile Methodology.
• Performed API Testing for Dividends product as a part of regression testing on regular basis.
• Experienced in conducted Browser Compatibility Testing on variety of browsers and operating system combinations to address applications integrity.
• Experienced in both Front end and Back end (Database ) testing during the tenure, created number of SQL queries to validate testing scenarios with respective to data quality and integrity.
• Used the Quality Center tool effectively for maintaining the test cases, executing the test cases and for logging defects
• Was involved in Production Support testing during critical releases on regular basis.

Environment: HP ALM Quality Center, XML API, HP QTP 11.5, VB Script, PL/SQL, HTML

Confidential, NY

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in testing of client and web products.
• Responsible leading a team of testers on multiple projects which involves cross mobile device testing and cross browser testing.
• Involved in testing of client applications on various mobile devices.
• Supported cross browser testing.
• Used Selenium for test automation.
• Used Jira and Quality Center to track defects.
• Main responsibility is to support systems integration testing and make product bug free.
• Thorough manual testing of new builds as they come in test environment.
• Using SQL Developer to run SQL queries against Oracle database to perform data validation.
• Responsible for documenting test scenarios in Quality Center from user stories.
• Extensively involved in testing client application on various operating systems such as XP/Vista/Win7 and MAC.
• Involved in conducting QA stand up meetings with in the QA team.
• Responsible for QA initiatives and deliverables.
• Have a good rapport with developers, project manager, QA team and QA director.
• Effective Communication with QA management in terms of updating QA status.
• AGILE: Involved in SCRUM Meetings with development and product/project manager.

Environment: C, C++, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Jira, HPQC, MSOffice, SQL, XP/Vista/Win7, QTP10.0, Selenium, AGILE, GUI, Oracle.

Confidential, New York

Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirement documents to get a better understanding of the system.
• Worked with HP Quality Center 9.2 to develop test scenarios with the complete description of requirements of client.
• Tracked defects and change requests are submitted using Quality Center.
• Extensively involved in backend testing by writing SQL Queries to validate different flags.
• Involved with creation and execution of tests scripts in Quick Test Professional for regression testing.
• Involved in web services testing using SoapUI.
• Involved in test automation using Selenium.
• Participated in defect report meetings with business, developers, and QA management and updated them.
• Responsible for preparing weekly/monthly status reports for upper management.
• Communicate testing status to the management and managed the test team.
• Involved in creation of end of testing analysis and summary.
• Participated in QA team meetings and walkthroughs.
• Designed Function Library, Functions, Subroutine’s common function, Regular Expressions using Environment variables in VB scripts.
• Developed test cases for cross-browser (MSIE, Firefox, and Chrome) testing.
• Validated the Production Environment prior to “Go Live.

Environment: HP Quality Center 9.2, Quick Test Professional (QTP) 9.2,BankOfAmerica.com, MS Office, Selenium, SoapUI, Oracle 10g2, VBScript, Java, Windows XP, WebLogic, GUI, UNIX, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, XML, Agile Methodology.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing test scripts to test functionality of the applications manually and ensure utmost quality.
• Involved in manual testing for Web based applications.
• Developed the test cases and executed them through Quality Center tool.
• Implementing the regression tests for every QA build.
• Involved in weekly team meetings to discuss the testing status of the current changes in QA.
• Performed the screen navigation validations to make sure all the links are working properly as per the requirements.
• Performed the data validation by writing some basic SQL queries to make sure proper data is being pulled from database.

Environment: Windows, Microsoft C#.Net, Windows Based Forms, SQL Server, HTML, Quality Center, Excel Macros, Visual Studio 2.00