SUMMARY:

• More than 7 years of experience in Quality Assurance testing of client/server, Web based using manual and automated testing tools.
• 2+ years of experience using applications using Mercury interactive testing tools Quick Test Pro 8.x/9.x, Mercury Quality Center 8.x/9.x, IBM Rational Tools Clear Case, Clear Quest and Test Manager.
• Excellent working knowledge of designing and implementation of all QA test strategy plans manually and automated test solutions for client/server and Web based applications.
• Involved in the entire software development process monitoring and improving the process and making sure that standards and procedures are followed and also ensuring that problems are found and fixed.
• Experience in documentation of Test Plans, Test Cases for the Web and Client/Server Applications.
• Experienced in Functionality testing, Black Box testing, System Testing, Integration, Regression Testing, Database Testing and Browser Testing.
• Very Good Exposure in Functional, Usability, Regression and Sanity Testing
• Comfortable with various Industry Leading Operating systems (Windows 95/NT/98/2000/XP and UNIX flavors).
• Excellent skills in overall Defect Management/Problem Solving including Tracking Bugs, Reporting using Mercury Quality Center and IBM Clear Quest.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Client Server architectures, Distributed Computing, Use Cases and various databases like Oracle (7.x, 8i and 9i) and PL/SQL.
• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and QA Life Cycles.
• Ability to interact with developers and product analysts regarding testing status and Defect Tracking.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: Mercury Quick Test Pro 9.0, Quality Center 9.0, Win Runner 7.0 and LoadRunner 9.0

Microsoft Tools: MS office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Bug Tracking Tools: Quality Center, IBM Clear Quest.

Databases: MS SQL Server, Microsoft Access and Oracle.

Languages: HTML, SQL, PL/SQL, T - SQL, Visual Basic, C#.Net, ASP.Net

Scripts: VBScript and Java Script

Operating Systems: Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/2003/2007,UNIX

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile (SCRUM)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and maintained Test Cases, Test Plans, and Scenarios using Mercury Quality Center.
• Create Requirements using Quality Center and generate Traceability Matrices to ensure that allthe requirements are covered by the test cases.
• Execution of test cases, verification the actual results against the expected and documenting in thetest plan.
• Involved in defect tracking and customized reports on defects using IBM Clear Quest.
• Performed Manual Testing and Automated Testing.
• Executed of Test cases using Quick Test Pro to check the Product pricing and eligibility rulesavoiding the User Interface of system by providing the test data, default data, decision engine to check the eligibility.
• Modify the test data, default data using Quick Test Pro as per the changes in guidelines, newregulations, and addition/modification.
• Tested GUI by inserting checkpoints in QTP scripts for single or multiple objects and text.
• Perform Functional and System Integration Testing for all interfaces.
• Prepare Defect Report, Weekly Status Reports, and Bug tracking.
• Generated SQL and Run Query to generate Reports (Front-end) and compare the results withthat of Oracle (Back-end).
• Provided clear concise feedback to development team on recurring defects with an aim of long-term reduction of defects found in final release.
• Provided back end testing for database auditing and data validation using SQL queries.
• Interacted with Business Analyst and developers in resolving the issues.

Environment: ASP.NET, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle10g, MS Office, Mercury Quality Center 9.0 and QTP 9.0

Confidential

QA Analyst.

Responsibilities:

• Written the Test Cases for- Unit Level, Functional and Regression Testing.
• Executing the Test Cases, and analyzed the Test Results.
• Analyzed and identified the Test Cases based on the requirement document of the application.
• Reviewing and Modifying the Test Cases.
• Writing Test Definition Files and functions wherever necessary for various units of the businessmodules.
• Recording the Test Definition Files as per the Test Cases written.
• Involved in the Defect Status Reporting, Prepare Bug Summary Reports and release notes.
• Effective coordination between development team and testing team.

Environment: Mercury Quality Center 9.0, C#, ASP.Net, SQL Server 2005.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Wrote Test cases for Functionality, Security, Database and Acceptance testing of the software.
• Prepared Test Matrix and Test Procedures for the different modules of the application.
• Installed, maintained and used Testing software. Set up the test environment and created theTest data.
• Performed Integration and Regression Tests and created the regression test suite.
• Modified test scripts to accommodate GUI changes in the new versions of the product.
• Created bug reports, verified bug fixes, logged bugs into Bug Tracking System and Presentedprogress of the testing process at status meetings.
• Server, Application Server and Database Server to identify any bottlenecks in the network.
• Interacted closely with the development team and DBA with all the analyzed results.
• Created customizable graphs and reports indicating the final analysis of the test plan to projectrequirements coverage, test readiness and overall application quality using Test Director.
• Participated in Control Body meetings, to investigate the software bugs using Test Director,documented and tracked defects using Test Director.
• Strong understanding of Mortgage Loan Origination and servicing, FIX protocol, Equities, Stocks,Mutual funds etc.

Environment: HTML, DHTML, XML, Oracle 9i, TOAD 9.0, Win runner, Mercury Test Director 8.0

Confidential, GA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Create Test Plans, Test Cases and logs defects in Test Director.
• Converting high-level test requirements into reliable, repeatable, and maintainable test cases.
• Generating scripts that handle error condition and perform GUI interface verification.
• Planning, scheduling and coordinating testing in conjunction with the application developmentand support teams.
• Tracking and managing defects (i.e. communicate with developers regarding the status)
• Created different types of scenarios to run with the available virtual users.
• Monitored the performance of the various online monitors as per required.
• Conducted Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Performance, Load/Stress, Whiteand Black Box Testing.
• Created analysis sessions and collated execution results.
• Used SQL to perform Backend testing.
• Viewed summary reports, creating HTML reports, and worked with transaction reports.
• Involved in test cases and wrote scripts manually.
• Writing user defined functions and calling those functions from the compiled module.

Environment: Windows NT, Servlets, EJB, XML, Oracle 9i, Win runner, Informatica,Mercury Test

Confidential

 Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed User Controls to reduce the Complexity in User Interface Coding and provide betterlook and feel.
• Wrote and maintained Test Cases, Test Plans, and Scenarios using Mercury Test Director.
• Design and Development of Win Forms using VB.NET.
• Created stored procedures, Views, Cursors, Indexes and Triggers by using PL/SQL.
• Used ADO.NET in VB.NET to execute stored procedures.
• Developed various reports by using Crystal Reports Bundled Version for .NET.
• Involved in Unit Testing.

Environment: Mercury Test Director 8.0, VB.Net, Crystal Reports and SQL Server 2005