SUMMARY:

• Around 7+ years of experience in Software Design, Development and Testing Management. Expertise in designing and developing Test plans, Test cases and generating Test Scripts. Hands - on experience in
• Manual and Automated testing using QuickTest Professional, and Quality Center. Involved in Integration testing, GUI testing, Regression testing, Stress testing, Functional testing and System testing. Exceptional analytical and communication skills.A committed team player with positive attitude and ability to meet deadlines under pressure.
• Strong knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Extensive knowledge of QA methodology.
• Strong analytical and QA/testing skills, capacity for work and diagnostic ability, and gathering different kinds of project requirements.
• Experienced in Agile and Waterfall methodology projects.
• Extensive knowledge of HTML.
• Proficient in analyzing Business and Functional documents.
• Proficient in writing Test Plans, Test Strategies, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, RTM and Test Cases for Manual testing.
• Extensive experience in functional testing of E-Commerce, Point-of-Sale (POS),Personnel Administration, Organization Management and HR Management Systems.
• Expertise in performing Grey Box Testing (Black Box Testing), User Acceptance Testing (UAT),
• System Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, Smoke Testing,
• Usability Testing, Load Testing.
• Well versed with defect tracking tools Rally, Quality Center, and Test Director.
• Extensive experience in Building, Executing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases according to Business, Functional and User Requirement Specifications and Writing Test Scripts and Reports.
• Strong experience in implementing test scripts, UAT testing.
• Strong skills in Back-End testing using SQL queries generating reports to ensure data integrity and validate business rules.
• Experience in testing wireless/telecommunications middleware applications using XMLs, SOAPUI,TOAD,SQL, Putty, LDAP, WINCVS,WINSCP etc
• Knowledge of Software QA Standards and Methodology.
• Solid ability to analyze results and find bottlenecks.
• Possess strong problem analysis skills with ability to follow project standards.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Can work under heavy work pressure/under deadlines.
• Exceptional ability to quickly master new concepts to applications and a team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP/2000/Vista, UNIX

TESTING TOOLS: Quick Test Professional 8.2/9.0/9.2

BUG TRACKING TOOLS: Quality Center 8.2/9.0/9.2, Rational ClearQuest, TestDirector, HPALM

FRONT END TOOLS: MS Excel, MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio

LANGUAGES: C#, SQL, JavaScript, Visual Basic, PL/SQL

WEB TECHNOLOGIES: HTML, XML, NET Framework 2.0/3.0, ASP.NET, C#, VB.Net

DATABASES: Oracle 9i, MS SQL Server 2005, SharePoint Server 2003, 2007 Management Tools, Rational Requisite Pro

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr.QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• . Created test plans, test summary report and test cases.
• Created proper traceability between Requirement, Test Plan, Test Lab and Defects module in HPALM.
• Participated in unit testing and pre - merge testing and prepared report based on results.
• Manually executed the test cases and logged the defect in HPALM.
• Expert in retrieving logs from Command Prompt in Unix and the Devices (release log, build details, system error message and background message, any particular zap or store configuration setting for executing the project).
• Extensively worked on the POS terminals (also known as registers) connected to Controllers IBM 4690.
• The transaction data recorded at the POS registers are sent to the central data repository through the controllers. Also, all communications from the register to other 3rd party systems are routed through the controller. There were two POS controllers, the master (CC) and the alternate master (DD) which acts as the backup to the master controller.
• Performed Device testing on iOS, Android Devices and other web based and window based simulators.
• Performed data driven test manually for functionalities with multiple set of data.
• Manually regressed test cases, conducted creating test sets in HPALM after the bug fixes were done by the developer.
• Performed backend data validation by writing SQL queries retrieving data from database and compared with the test data..
• Writing SQL Query to validate the data integrity for Oracle database
• Set schedule estimates, timelines, milestones for the task identified.
• Escalated Defects while studying Project Requirements and writing Test Cases by using HP Quality Center (QC) and followed logged defects throughout its lifecycle
• Executed Regression test cases and changed the test steps as per the flow.
• Used remote desktop connection, mobile application, EPAY Simulator, EPAYT transaction viewer and MSCO simulator for executing some test sets.
• Worked on Self-Checkout systems and took the diagnostic logs for further information
• Co-ordinated between Offshore and Onsite team.
• Worked Closely with Production data and Created few real orders with complete real data which were later cancelled at Enterprise level

Environment: UNIX, Quality Center 10.0, QTP, HPALM, Microsoft Office, XML, SQL, DB2, IBM 4690, iOS, Android, Putty, Web Services.

Confidential, Grapevine, TX

Sr.QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used D - Con framework to carry out all the automated tests.
• Test Scripts were Ruby based and were written for both Services and UI layer.
• Creating DSLs and finders for automation tests.
• Writing Unit tests for each created Finders.
• Used Rally for creation of User Stories and tasks.
• Obtaining reports and task completion charts from Rally.
• Used TFS to manage the project details and reports.
• Performed Functional Testing, Load Testing, Stress Testing, Regression
• Testing, Cross Browser Testing, Boundary Testing
• Used MTM for creating and running the test cases (manual and automation).
• Created Generic test on TFS which can be linked to MTM for automation purpose.
• Used Rally for defect tracking.
• Performing loader(Sources) testing on Unix..
• Creating templates on D-Con for service testing.
• Writing Automated scripts for different functions on the CSL layer using C#
• Used Entity Framework to write the automated test scripts.
• Developed test cases for Black box testing like GUI, Functionality Testing, System Testing and User Acceptance Testing and regression testing.
• .Performed black box testing, functional testing, system testing
• Performed Negative testing to find how the functions and variables perform when they encounter invalid and unexpected values.
• Testing of the notification services to receive email and SMS.
• Participated in Walk through and Defect report meetings periodically.
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries, to extract the data from the database
• Performed the data validation and verification to meet all test condition requirements.
• Tested the reports (Sales, Inventory, and Price) and compared to POS reports.

Environment: Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), D-Con, Rally, Ruby Script, PowerShell, HTML, C#, XML Spy, Java, SQL, IPhones 3G & 4, Microsoft Project, Windows 7.

Confidential, Menomonee, WI

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business and Technical Requirements specification and test cases in Quality Center.
• Created Test Cases and Test scenario for the application developed in .Net3.0
• Convert manual regression test suite into test data in the format of action and input/verification values for the test automation framework
• Translated software specifications and business requirements into test cases
• Created test data for critical test scenarios.
• Performed Regression and Functional testing of the Atlas and CSI middleware applications for the clients.
• Execute the converted scripts using the automation framework against a baseline build to uncover any test data error or defect in the framework functions if any.
• Executed test cases and recorded the test results.
• VB Scripts was used to enhance the recorded scripts and some of the fixed values were parameterized for performing data - driven testing.
• Created Test Data using Excel Macro and SQL Server Database.
• Co-ordinated with development team, test automation lead related to defects uncovered, their resolution and deployments.
• .Analyzing log files from UNIX Environment, to detect application, data, system configuration, system resource problem.
• Created and maintained weekly status reports for the test automation progress.
• Executed Regression test cases and changed the test steps as per the flow.

Environment: .Net, SQL Server, Windows Server 2008,Quality Center, Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Commerce Server, VB scripting, XML

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analysed use cases and UI requirements to prepare test cases.
• Created test scenarios and developed test plan and test cases for the application developed in Java/J2EE.
• Created test data for test scenarios in excel.
• Executed test cases and recorded the test results.
• Involved in prepared load Test analysis reports
• Entered the bugs in Bugzilla and kept a constant trail of the bugs.
• Performed, Functional, Smoke, Usability, Comparability testing.
• Co - ordinated with development team related to bugs identified.
• Involved in System testing and Regression testing.
• Stress, Load, Performance testing was done with Load Runner 7.51 for Web.
• Involved in testing Personnel Information and Compensation module.
• Extensively used SQL to verify data in the backend.
• Tested the payroll functionality like viewing the paycheck stubs, direct deposit enrollment/updates, maintaining the end of year tax return information.
• Also performed User acceptance testing on completion of integration testing before installation of the application on user environment.
• Involved in testing the HR functionality like hiring, rehiring, movements, separations.
• Involved in QA planning, coordination and implementation of QA methodology and QA effort estimation.

Environment: JAVA, J2EE, JSP, JAVA Script, SQL Server Database, Windows Server, Bugzilla, Load Runner 7.51, Microsoft Office

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze application requirements, specifications and test results. Write and maintain Test scripts, Test scenarios and Test plans.
• Developed and documented Standard Testing Procedures for both Manual and Automated testing.
• Developed and executed test cases and test suites for functionality and regression testing.
• Executed test procedures and documented test results.
• Performed back - end database testing using SQL queries.
• Performed Test planning and Executing Test Cases for new Healthcare Information System.
• Developed automated test cases in Test Director and maintained them.
• Performed testing of GUI consistency against different browsers (running on Windows) against various screen resolutions.

Environment: Mercury Quality Center 8.2, WinRunner, SQL, Oracle, Windows XP.