SUMMARY

• 7 years of Professional Experience as QA Analyst in the field of Financial, Retail and Health Care domains.
• Experience in Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC): Agile methodology, Waterfall model and ATDD approach
• Extensive experience in Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC) aspects such as developing Test Strategies/Test Plans, Test Cases, Defect Reports and developing Test Scripts, Traceability Matrices and Test Environments.
• Facilitate requirements entry, test case creation and defect tracking in Quality Center, which improved efficiency and traceability.
• Worked on sterling Order entry system developed by sterling commerce.
• Experience in writing Test Scripts and Test Scenarios from business, functional and technical requirements.
• Developed QTP scripts in Expert view Environment using Parameterization, Checkpoint, Regular Expression, Object Identification etc.
• Experience in VB Script programming for Development of scripts in QTP and managed the data in QC.
• Experience in implementing different Automation Frameworks such as Keyword and Data Driven.
• Performed Integration, Functional, Smoke, GUI, Regression, System and User acceptance Testing.
• Extensively used SQL queries for back end Testing and while data are being transferred between the front end and the back end database server.
• Experience in importing and exporting of requirements or test cases or between Quality Center from Microsoft Word/ Microsoft Excel.
• Experience in creating, enhancing and executing test cases using QC.
• Experience in tracking Bugs and reporting using QC.
• Prepared the Expected Values Spread Sheets for manual test cases in QC.
• Extensively used Mercury Interactive tools Quick Test Professional, Win Runner, Test Director, Quality Center in automated testing.
• Extensive Experience in Write and execute test cases based on project specifications.
• Proficient in SQL, PL/SQL programming for back - end testing.
• Interacted with Business users regarding Business Requirements.

TECHINICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Test Director, Quality Center 9.0, 9.2, 10.0, Bugzilla 2.1, HP ALM 11.52, RubyMine 7.04 and Cucumber.

RDBMS: Oracle 8i/9i, MS-Access, SQL Server.

Methodologies: Object-Oriented programming, Optimization, Client/server Distributed systems, Project management.

Languages: C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL, TSL, Ruby

Middleware Technologies: XML, HTML, ASP .Net, VB Script, Java Script, MQ Series 5.0Soap UI 3.5, Advance Rest Client

Automated Test Tool: Quick Test Professional 9.0, 9.2, 10.0, Win Runner 8.2Rational Tools (Rational Robot, Rational Test Manager)

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP/Vista, UNIX, iOS 4.5.3, 5.0.

Applications: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, VA

System Test Lead/Testing Process Lead

Responsibilities:

• As a test lead created test plan and strategy for all projects based on high-level and detailed designs.
• Followed Agile Methodology and ATDD approach.
• Given estimation of time for new modules or functionality in Sprint Planning meeting.
• Held meetings with business analyst and development team whenever required over requirement clarification and build acceptance.
• Facilitate requirements and entry test case creation in ALM for improving efficiency and traceability.
• Managed test cases using HP ALM.
• Experience in creating feature files and scenarios in Gherkin syntax in Cucumber in RubyMine 7.04.
• Generated Step Definition scripts for each scenario using Ruby Language.
• Transferred all test scenarios/test cases from RubyMine to HP ALM. Experience in installing Gems for RubyMine from command line interface.
• Using Sauce Labs verified the functionality in different browsers, different OS and even in different mobile devices.
• Extensively involved in writing Test Cases and Test Scenarios to test the functionality of the application. Developed and executed test cases.
• Created backend test cases and written queries to retrieve data from database.
• Created SQL queries to test the backend functionality of the application.
• Identified Re-usable/Repeatable manual test cases for creating Regression Test Suite.
• Creating test data and making sure environment is ready to test before execution of test cases.
• Performed Positive & Negative Testing for system validations.
• Discussed issues on various bugs and attached screens shots which help developers to resolve the issue where it is exactly.
• Provided feedback to the developers and the QA team on top priority issues.
• Executed Manual Testing to test the stability of the application using QC.
• Tracked defects and reported bugs to developers to resolve issues.
• Worked on desktop and web applications and on different browsers..
• Experience in Agile methodology - Sprint planning meeting, Sprint retrospective meeting, and had demo sessions with Users/developers/Quality Analyst and Product owners.

Environment: ALM 11.52, SQL Server, Oracle SQL Developer, Teradata, MS Office, Windows XP/Vista, Version One, Rubymine 7.04, Cucumber, Ruby.

Confidential, NC

Mobile Test Engineer/mPOS Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Created the detailed test plan and test cases from the business requirements documents, meetings and followed Agile Methodology.
• Team Lead for Mobile Point of Sale project and involved in Preparation of Test Plan (High Level Document) and involved in involving different systems like Genesis (UNIX).
• Estimation of time for new modules or functionality.
• Held meetings with business analyst and development team whenever required over requirement clarification and build acceptance.
• Facilitate requirements and entry test case creation in Quality Center for improving efficiency and traceability.
• Performed testing on different iOS’s and different devices (iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4).
• Managed test cases using mercury Quality Center.
• Performed smoke test, execution of functional test cases and doing compatibility testing.
• Extensively involved in writing Test Cases and Test Scenarios to test the functionality of the application. Developed and executed test cases.
• Performed testing on different iOS’s (4.3, 4.3.5, 5.1) and different devices (iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4).
• Performed Positive & Negative Testing for system validations.
• In SOA, performed façade calls testing using Advance Rest Client tool - GET and POST calls.
• Tested CP&I services using SOAP UI 4.0.0.
• Verified capturing of logs in IBM Coremetrics.
• Track bugs and reported defects using Quality Center.
• Discussed issues on various bugs and attached screens shots which help developers to resolve the issue where it is exactly.
• Provided feedback to the developers and the QA team on top priority issues.
• Identified Re-usable/Repeatable manual test cases for creating Regression Test Suite.
• Coordinated with the developers for code walkthrough and inspection for static testing.
• Actively participated in enhancement meetings focused at making the application more reliable.

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, 11, IBM Coremetrics, Endeca, iPhone Configuration Utility, MS Office, Genesis POS (UNIX), Windows XP/Vista, iOS 4.5, iOS 5, Advance Rest Client.

Confidential, CA

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created the detailed test plan and test cases from the business requirements documents, meetings and followed Agile methodology.
• Worked on sterling Order entry system developed by sterling commerce.
• Held meetings with business analyst whenever required over requirement clarification and build acceptance.
• Estimation of time for new modules or functionality.
• Facilitate requirements and entry test case creation in Quality Center for improving efficiency and traceability.
• Managed test cases using mercury Quality Center.
• Extensively involved in writing test cases and test scenarios to test the functionality of the application. Developed and executed test cases.
• Performed smoke test, execution of functional test cases and doing compatibility testing.
• Created and executed SQL queries to fetch data from sql developer database to validate and compare expected results with those actually obtained.
• Performed Positive & Negative Testing for system validations.
• Worked on SOA architecture tested various services using SOAP UI 3.5.
• Track bugs and reported defects using Bugzilla.
• Discussed issues on various bugs and attached screens shots which help developers to resolve the issue where it is exactly.
• Provided feedback to the developers and the QA team on top priority issues.
• Identified Re-usable/Repeatable manual test cases for creating Regression Test Suite.
• Coordinated with the developers for code walkthrough and inspection for static testing.
• Actively participated in enhancement meetings focused at making the application more reliable.

Environment: Quality Center 10.0, IBM Sterling Commerce, SQL developer, MS Office, PL/SQL developer, SOAP UI 3.5, Windows XP/Vista, Bugzilla 2.1.

Confidential, NY

Sr. Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Design and development of test plans based on high-level and detailed designs.
• Worked on various tasks, which involved writing Test Cases, Test plans, testing functionality from the functional specification and also verifying the test cases provided by the developers.
• Generated manual test cases and Scripts to test the functionality of the application using various checkpoints and data driven tests.
• Identified and automated 200 manual test cases using Data Driven Framework.
• Exposed and estimated the automation services to various projects.
• Identified Re-usable/Repeatable manual test cases for creating Regression Test Suite.
• Worked with various Add-ins as required for automating specific applications.
• Performed Smoke Testing, Security Testing, GUI Testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Used Parameterization and Output values to perform data driven tests.
• Created SQL queries to test the backend functionality of the application.
• Executed Manual Testing to test the stability of the application using QC.
• Tracked defects and reported bugs to developers to resolve issues using QC 9.2.
• Discussed issues on various bugs and attached screens shots which help developers to resolve the issue where it is exactly.
• Provided feedback to the developers and the QA team on top priority issues.
• Participating in project meetings, QA status meetings and release meetings.
• Responsible in developing Test Cases with Quality Center as a Test Management Tool.

Environment: Manual Testing, MS Office, XML, HTML, Quick Test Professional 9.2, Quality Center 9.2, ASP.NET, C#, SQL, Windows XP.

Confidential, Miami, FL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Preparation of Test Plan (High Level Document).
• Design and Developed Test Cases according to Functional Requirements and designspecifications of the application.
• Developed and executed Test scripts and Test cases.
• Prepared data for database testing in line with test scenarios.
• Tested ETL jobs, which were used to transfer the data from one stage (source) to another (Target) and run using SQL.
• Developed automated test scripts using VB Scripts to perform Functional and Regression Testing.
• Inserted GUI Check points and Synchronization points in QTP test scripts and used both Context sensitive and Analog modes to Record Application under test (UAT).
• Facilitate requirements, entry test case creation and defect tracking in Quality Center for improving efficiency and traceability.
• Managed test cases and reported bugs using mercury Quality Center.
• Identified Re-usable/Repeatable manual test cases for creating Regression Test Suite.
• Used Rational Team Test Tool (Rational Robot, Rational Manager) and developed automated test scripts.
• Used Rational Clear Quest as defect tracking tool and used Clear Case for version control.
• Coordinated with the developers for code walkthrough and inspection for Static Testing.
• Actively participated in enhancement meetings focused at making the application more reliable.

Environment: Manual Testing, Rational Clear Quest/Clear Case, UNIX, SQL, HTML, QC and Windows XP.