SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of experience as a Software QA Analyst. Writing and executing test plans and test cases in highly structured/non structured environments and performing all types of testing and managing large groups of testers through Quality Center.
• Diverse experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Quality Assurance, Manual Testing, Automated Testing using Quick Test Professional, Quality Center, Rational Test Manager, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest
• Experience in software analysis, Quality Assurance (QA) testing of Web, Client/Server, Manual and Automated Testing.
• Experienced in testing applications manually as well as using the automated testing tools like TestDirector and Quality Center/ALM.
• Involved in entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) from Inception, Transformation to Execution, which includes Design, Development, and Implementation.
• Good Understanding in Waterfall and Agile (Scrum) methodologies.
• Involved in entire QA Life Cycle, which includes Designing and Developing and Execution of the entire QA Process and Documentation of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Scripts for Manual and Automated Testing.
• Proficient in analyzing Business/ System Requirements documents and Use Cases, preparing Test Logs and Summary Reports.
• Expertise in Designing and Developing Test plans, Test Cases, Defect Tracking.
• Experience in performing Integration, System, Stress, Regression, Comparison, Recovery, Performance, Security, Smoke, Failure Point and User Acceptance tests.
• Expertise in GAP analysis and developing Traceability Matrices, and implementation of best QA practices.
• Hands on experience inManualand Automatedtesting usingQuick Test Professional and Quality Center.
• Extensive experience in testing trading system and analyzing large volumes of data within the financial domains: FX, Equity Swaps, Convertible Bonds, Derivatives (Futures and Options), Commodities,
• Strong Experience in Testing Client Server applications, Web applications using both Manual and Automated testing tools.
• Extensively used Mercury Interactive tools like QTP, Win Runner, Test Director and Quality Center.
• Experience in software testing which involved development of test cases and test scripts and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Well - versed with defect tracking tools Quality Center, Test Director and Clear Quest
• Extensive experience in Functional and Regression Testing of web-based and client-server applications using QTP, Win Runner and Quality Center.
• Experience in Database Testing.
• Strong skills in Back-End testing using SQL queries generating reports to ensure data integrity.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automation tools: HP ALM, Quick Test Pro 11.0, Win Runner, Selenium Web driver

Performance tools: Load Runner

Scripting Languages: VB Script, Java Script

Test/Defect Reporting Tools: Test Director 8.0, Quality Center11.0, Clear Quest7.0, Bugzilla

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000 Professional/XP/Vista/7, UNIX, LINUX

Databases: DB2, SQL Server 7.0/2000, Oracle 9i/10g, MS Access

Applications: DHTML,XML, AJAX, ASP, FrontPage, Java, JSP, Servlets

Project Management Tools: MS Project, MS Visio, Eclipse

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Rational Unified Process (RUP) and UML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in daily scrums, sprint planning and Sprint Kick off.
• Authored and reviewed test cases using Quality Center for the agile stories and made sure they met the acceptance criteria in the story
• Participated in peer reviews and formal reviews, suggested new enhancements to developers.
• Performed Usability and GUI testing for the Front-end of the application and developed on the time events for monitoring the functionality.
• Maintained Test Scripts, Requirements & management of test suites using Quality Center.
• Tracked the defects, logged the defected and developed and maintained Defect reports & Test Metrics using Quality Center.
• Created manual Test Cases in HP QC/HP ALM for various User Stories based on Release and Sprint Plan.
• Performed extensive back end Database testing using complex SQL queries.
• Involved in the User Acceptance testing (UAT) to check the reliability for end user.
• Also performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) on all the Trading Apps.
• Used Test Director for running automated and manual tests and for defect reporting.
• Performed manual tests and created SQL queries for data verification
• Extensively done Backend Manual testing.
• Tested American options including Exotic FX Options of various types including barrier and Average options.
• Executed test cases and test scripts for manual and automation testing. Defects are raised in the HP Quality Center/HP ALM for logging, tracking and reporting bugs in the application.
• Involved in Manual Testing using TFS
• Performed functional and regression testing of applications using QTP.
• Used SQL queries for Back-end testing and Data integrity testing.
• Implemented Regular expressions and parameterized checkpoint using QTP.
• Handled unexpected errors at time of playback using Recovery Scenario wizards.
• Created a startup script using Automation Object Model that Standardizes QTP environment.
• Performed Integration testing using both Data-driven and Keyword Driven Frameworks created in QTP by using VBScript coding.
• Created automation results report documents.
• Participated in daily stand up meeting.
• Generated progress report and defect report for project every week for senior management
• Worked as QC admin for creating and deleting user, projects, customization in defect module.

Environment: Oracle, Java, Quality Center 11.0, QTP 11.0 & Manual Testing, SQL Server, .NET Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2005, TSL, Quest Tools, Win Runner, MS Outlook 2003, QTP, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project.

Confidential

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Business Requirements and understanding the high level and detail design of the application.
• Documented test plan and test cases using Quality Center.
• Wrote Test plans and test cases that identify the schedules, environments, resources (personnel, tools, etc.), methodologies, cases (inputs, procedures, outputs, and expected results), documentation, and reporting criteria
• Defined testing entrance and exit criteria; ensured business and technology acceptance.
• Responsible for creation and maintenance of Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix.
• Executed manual and automated test cases and verified results with expected results.
• Involved extensively in conducting integration, performance and UAT testing.
• Involved in all phases of the quality testing process that was designed and developed for this project.
• Follow ‘Agile’ methodology-SCRUM during the test execution; using Quality Center-ALM manage the test set and perform manual and automation testing.
• Generated SQL queries to validate the data in the database.
• Used SQL for database testing, production verification, and management reporting.
• Extensive experience in Back-end testing using SQL Queries.
• Prepared materials for gathering materials, QC/ALM reporting,Test Strategy QA methodologies, automation frameworks, design, defects reporting and other QA templates.
• Automated Manual Test Cases by performing black box testing.
• Developed test cases and components in the Automation Framework inSelenium.
• Execute automated tests developed in Selenium and analyze failures.
• Automation of web application testing and other UI testing usingSelenium.
• Automated regression and release acceptance testing for many products utilizing QuickTest
• Professional &Selenium IDE, Maintained automated scripts between releases.
• Executed test case and linked them with requirements in Quality Center.
• Managed defect management process; coordinated defect review meetings with development and business.
• Produced daily, weekly metrics and status reports for senior management.
• Involved in coordinating test case execution and defect logging using Quality Center.
• Identified and escalated system, business issues and risks within the project structure.
• Used the Office Suite extensively which included MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Project, MS Visio for various documentation and reports.

Environment: Windows NT, Oracle, Java, Selenium IDE,SQL, client-server, Quality Center 10.0, QTP 10.0, Load Runner & Manual Testing, UNIX, Java, JavaScript, Oracle 9i, HTML

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Sr. QA Analyst/UAT Tester

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Users, Business Analysts, gathered business and technical requirements, reviewed business requirements, technical requirements and specifications.
• Responsible for handling complex projects and participating in the full SDLC Cycle.
• Involved in developing Test Methodologies, Test Strategy, Test Plans and test cases, Design and developed the manual tests for 5 modules.
• Analyzed system requirements specifications, developed Test Strategy, Test plans, Test Cases, Test Data for manual testing of the functionality, GUI, Compatibility, performance, usability and User Acceptance of the application.
• Involved in functional, Integration and Regression testing, Adhoc, stress (WED), UAT and Smoke testing after release of each sprint.
• Used the automated tool QTP for Functional Testing and Regression Testing.
• Tested daily support for Equity Options, Equity Swaps, Cash Equities, FX forwards and Options in Front Arena
• Worked on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 during the migration of NDS objects including the Users, Groups, Organizational Units, Workstations and Printers.
• Enhanced and modified the scripts according to the test case scenarios.
• Worked with Quality Center to trace the requirements, write the Test Cases in the test plan, execute the Test Sets in the test lab and track the Defects logged in the defects module.
• Used Microsoft excel and Word 2003 to document the test status reports and the test data.
• Used Automation of regression testing QTP by creating verification points e.g., objects data, object properties, window and image verification, database verifications for testing functional, acceptance and limit validations. Also inserting synchronization points.
• Responsible for inserting checkpoints to verify the functionality of page, text string, XML and table objects.
• Performed extensive back end Database testing using complex SQL queries.
• Wrote complex SQL Joins, Unions and Nested Queries on various data tables for Data validation.
• Performed Database validation using PL/SQL Functions, Cursors, Packages, Stored procedures and Database triggers.
• Experience in working with SQL Server 2005 to query the NDS and AD databases during the migration process to verify the objects migrated into the COF AD.
• Created Test scripts and UAT test cases and coordinated with the UAT Team and Project manager and performed User Acceptance Testing with the Users.
• Assisted external clients during the UAT. Conducted and created reports at the end of the UAT test.

Environment: QTP 9.5, Quality Center 9.5, VB Script, MS Excel, MS Word 2003, HTML, Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2005, TSL, Quest Tools, Win Runner, MS Outlook 2003, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Resource planning & allocation to meet project deadlines, managing team work-flow, to achieve goals, management of QA team, day-to- day planning of all activities related to QA and UAT.
• Interacted with the business analysts and the end-users to develop the test plans.
• Involved in writing testing methodology, by following standards for test documentation, test requirements and test procedures.
• Define a number of test cases using quality data end-to-end business processes during the UAT and validated the system set up for transactions and user access in UAT.
• Regularly interacted with Developers to discuss various problems and issues.
• Involved in entering requirements, developing test plan tree, designing the test steps, writing test cases and running test scripts using Test Management Tool Quality Center.
• Exported test cases and requirements from MS Excel to Quality Center.
• Imported and exported data from and to Excel to and from QTP.
• Used Parameterization in QTP extensively to perform Data-Driven testing.
• Performed browser compatibility testing using different browsers like IE, Fire Fox etc
• Worked within an Agile environment with Sprint and Scrums
• Performed database testing using SQL, executed various DDL and DML statements
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries, to extract the data from database.
• GeneratedSQL queriesto validate the data in the database.
• UsedSQLfor database testing, production verification, and management reporting.
• Extensive experience inBack-end testingusingSQL Queries.
• Automated Manual Test Cases by performing black box testing.
• Involved in designing, implementing and maintaining the entire QA process.
• Involved in defect reporting and tracking using Test Director and project metric.
• Experience with Mercury Interactive Test Automation Suite.
• Test scripts were Data Driven and parameterization in test script to enhance the functionality.
• Created performance script using VU Gen.
• Performed load test/Stress test using Load Runner.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, VB Script, Windows NT/2000, J2EE, Jscript, XML, EJB, HTML, ORACLE, SQL, UNIX, Test Director, Selenium IDE, Win Runner and Load Runner.

Confidential

QA analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the functional requirements and the master test plan.
• Created Test Cases for various forms of the application manually.
• Performed Functional Testing, Black Box Testing, and Regression Testing.
• Performed the Functional and Regression test using Skill test.
• PVCS Bug Tracker was used to keep track of bugs.
• Involved in submission of bugs through modification reports and frequent review of MR by conducting meetings during the development phase.
• Involved in Bug Reporting and Documentation of whole testing process.

Environment: Microsoft Excel, QTP, Visual Basic, UNIX, Windows95, Manual Testing, and PVCS Bug Tracker