SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of strong experience in Quality Assurance and Testing of stand - alone, Expertise in Black Box testing, writing test plans, test cases, System testing, Integration testing, Regression testing. Experience wif both team and individual work environment.
• Experienced in functional testing of various domains like Investment,Banking, and Insurance.
• Good noledge in Software Test Life Cycle (STLC), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) models.
• Expertise in developing Test Plans, Test strategies and Test Cases.
• Experience in various Testing Methodologies i.e. Waterfall and Scrum Agile.
• Experience in performing Smoke, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Backend, E2E Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Participated in status meetings to report issues, communicated wif developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution using Quality Center.
• Experience in Automated testing using Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Expertise in all cycles of test life cycle from test planning to defect tracking and managing defect lifecycle.
• Experience in Backend testing by writing SQL queries to execute test cases inOracle databases.
• Expertise in writing easy to reproduce bug reports and verification of bug fixes
• Extensive experience in managing offshore teams responsible for Work allocation, Tracking and Team management.
• Good noledge of batch processing testing on teh Windows platform.
• Expertise in MS-Office Suite (MS-Word, MS-Excel & MS-Access)
• Problem-solving skills, quick learning ability to work independently also wif collaborative and Team Oriented work approach.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: C, SQL, Java, Mainframes, HTML

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, TOAD

Testing Tools: Quick test pro, Quality centerOperating Systems: Windows 98/XP/Vista/7, UNIX

Defect Tracking Tools: Mercury Quality Center, Test Director

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Jersey, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Analyzing teh Test Requirements based on teh Application Functionality.
• Involved in gathering business requirements, understanding teh application, collecting teh information from developers and writing teh test plan.
• Exported Test Requirements and Test Cases from Excel and Word to Quality Center.
• Created test scripts using QTP Tool and performed functionality, and regression testing on new builds of teh application
• Design and execute manual and automated test scripts.
• Involved in test data preparation for teh batch jobs
• Involved in running mainframe batch jobs daily
• Validating if teh firm’s order to purchase or redeem mutual fund is accepted or not
• Used HP Quality center fortestmanagement and logging defects.
• Created test scenarios for System testing and Regression testing.
• Conducted Smoke, Sanity, End to End and Black box testing.
• Logged teh defects in Quality Center and retested teh application after teh defects are fixed.
• Attended meetings to discuss on status of defects and projects.
• Interacted wif developers regarding priority of bugs and update teh status of bugs once they are fixed.
• Executed test cases before and after bug fixes for each build for User acceptance testing.
• Interacted wif Developers and QA groups at various phases of project development.
• Performing daily system checks.

Environment: HP Quality Center 10.00, Quick Test Professional (QTP), Oracle, IE, Microsoft Windows, Mainframes

Confidential, Dayton, Ohio

Software tester

Responsibilities:

• Participated in requirement meetings to understand teh requirements from business people
• Developed Test Plans by incorporating User Profiles, Configurations, Environments, Risks, Test Scenarios, Schedules and Analysis and Presentation of Results.
• Developed and executed numerous test cases for complete testing coverage of many functional areas.
• Validated member eligibility and eligibility enquiry in order to confirm teh migration successful or not.
• Created Traceability Matrix for mapping teh Test cases wif teh Requirements.
• Detected Defects, Communicated to teh developers using Quality Center Tool and Tracking teh Defects using Quality Center.
• Conducted regression testing to identify teh impact caused by teh release modifications
• Reports were been collected from Quality center on a daily basis to submit them to Project Management
• Extensively used SQL Queries to validate teh Database Updates.

Environment: HP Quality Center 10.00, Microsoft, Oracle, UNIX.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing System specifications, design, development and execution of test plans, test Cases for manual testing.
• Used in-house and open source tools for record play automation testing
• Performed Business Functionality testing.
• Debugged teh Test Scripts, created Batch tests, verified teh test results and reported teh defects to Quality Center.
• Involved in creation of test strategy documents for both manual and automated testing.
• Performed data validation, data verification on every stage testing.
• Documented every stage of testing for historical purpose.
• Worked wif test data specialist and involved creation test data.
• Created criteria for data conditioning needed for manual testing.
• Documenteddefects, errors, and inconsistencies in application outputs, and content.
• Tracked test results for management, categorized issues, created defect reports and managed defect databaseusingQuality Center.

Environment: Toad, HP Quality Center 10.00, Microsoft Windows

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Review of design and identify critical functionalities.
• Gathering, Understanding and Documenting Requirements documents.
• Involved in effort estimation preparation.
• Develop and execute Test Plans and Test Cases from requirements and specifications.
• Participate and create Test Plans.
• Manually created, developed and executed Test Cases.
• PreparationofTestData.
• Create test plans to detail teh testing scope, requirements (high level), strategies and all needed required resources
• Perform Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Integration testing, (UAT) User Acceptance Testing, and End to End Testing
• Document and report all found defect in Quality Center
• Creation of UAT document for UAT walk through
• Preparing Test Scenarios & Test Cases and performing Manual Testing of teh application
• Performed System and Regression Testing of teh application

Environment: Windows, Mainframes, XML, HP Quality Center.