SUMMARY:

• 5+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance. Actively participated and contributed in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with expertise in Requirement Analysis, Test Plan formulation, Test Design, and Test Automation. Expertise in Black Box, Performance, Ad hoc and UA Testing, Experience in Waterfall and Agile Scrum Methodology.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in software development life cycle, System Design and Testing applications
• Experience creating tests using user stories
• Experience in creation/maintenance of test plans, test cases, test requirements and analyzing test results.
• Hands on experience with automated tools such as QTP
• Proficiency in developing and implementing Quality Assurance Documentation (system test plans/quality plan/test procedures) from Business & Functional specifications as well as Software/Product Development Process Documents.
• Performed System, Acceptance, Regression, Functional, Front End and Back End Testing.
• Experience in Web Services Testing using SOA, SOAP, Soap UI, XML, XSD, X PATH, and WSDL, etc.
• Extensive experience on Financial and telecom domains.
• Knowledge in logical & physical design and implementation of Relational Database Management Systems like Microsoft Access, SQL Server 7/2000, MySQL, and Oracle.
• Strong analytical, planning, research and problem - solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Automation Tools: Quality Center,Quick Test Professional

Defect Management Tools: Test Director / Quality Center

Testing Languages: VB Script

Application/Web Servers: WebLogic, Web Sphere, Apache

Languages: C, C++, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML

RDBMS: DB2, MS SQL Server, Oracle 8i, MS Access 2000

Miscellaneous Tools: MS Office, TOAD, WS FTP, Putty

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla FireFox

Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000/XP, UNIX, LINUX, MS-DOS

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Sr QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed various requirements documents and Use Cases to prepare the detailed Test Plan
• Wrote Test Cases and Test Procedures based on the Test Plan
• Attended review meetings and walkthroughs to discuss the status of the project
• Manually checked the important features (Smoke Testing) of the application.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining Traceability Matrix.
• Created and executed Test cases for Positive, Negative Testing.
• Created scenarios as per the business process.
• Involved in the Maintenance of the Application and in the bug fixing of the issues.
• Interacted with End Users to obtain specific system requirements.
• Interacted with application users (end-users) and performed User Acceptance Testing(UAT).
• Reported defects using QC and interacted with developers to resolve defects/issues
• Performed back-end testing using SQL queries to make sure that data entered has been uploaded correctly into the SQL database
• Developed and executed SQL queries for backend testing.
• Created Test Plans and Test Cases using Quality Center.
• Performed Functional testing, GUI testing, Integration testing, system testing and End-to-End testing manually
• Familiar of Web Services Testing, SOA implementation is combination of web services components & mid tier components., Web Services tested with SOAP, SOAP UI and WSDL. SOA Integration is presented each layer of service based message based or transport based.
• Involved in the System Testing and Integration testing of the application.
• Performed Positive and Negative testing.
• Created test cases to check GUI and functionality features
• Tracked and reported bugs using Quality Center.
• Participated in User acceptance Testing.
• Defects were logged into QC.

Environment:Java, JSP, Web Services, Web Sphere Application Server, SOAP, UI, Content Management, Content centre and Toad, QTP 10,QC 10.

Confidential, NYC

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Study and analysis of the Business Requirements, Systems Architecture documentation and the Functional Requirement documents for the creation of Test Plans and Test cases.
• Documenting and Organizing the Project Requirements, Test Plans and Test cases in the HP/ Mercury Quality Center tool.
• Coordinating the internal reviews of the Test cases and completion of the reviews of the Test cases with the Business Analysts.
• Responsible for generating the required reports for the Project management teams for the Test efforts progress on the projects.
• Extensively involved in Manual Test efforts of the project for Functional, Sanity, Black-Box,Systems Integration, Regression and User Acceptance Testing
• Performed browser compatibility testing using different browsers like IE, Fire Fox etc
• Performed database testing using SQL, executed various DML statements
• Involved in the daily Defect review meetings with the Development and Business Analyst teams.
• Work closely with the stake holders, other vendor teams in understanding the business requirement.

Confidential, TX

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specification.
• Set up a QA process and ensured it was effective project wide.
• Documented test cases corresponding to business rules and other operating conditions.
• Administered & Developed Test Plans using Test Director to ensure that test cases reflect user needs for the functional, User Interface, Performance, Usability and Security requirements.
• Created Test input Data Requirements and prepared the test data for data driven testing.
• Conducted regression testing using Quick Test Pro (QTP) for the fixes and enhancements.
• Create automated tests using QuickTest Professional
• Architect QA processes (e.g., defect tracking, test case management, automated functional and Load testing strategies, etc.) in a team of 6+ QA engineers
• Creation of automation framework and automation standards for the team
• Implemented procedures for making QA and development more productive:
• Coded and helped to deploy automated regression test suites
• Evaluated, recommended and implemented enterprise-wide Functional Testing Tool (QTP)
• Installed Mercury Tools, related Addins and the required patches.
• Generated connection between the tools for proper test management.
• Understanding of Software and hardware compatibility issues with Mercury Tools and Troubleshooting them.
• Addressing customer queries and solving the issues in the automation process.
• Presenting demo sessions for internal customers to use the Regression scripts.
• Interviewing and recruiting of the test engineers for the team
• Developed SQL queries to query the database and test the back end process of the application.
• Conducted validations using checkpoints and transactions in QTP.
• Used Mercury Quality Center to manage the requirements, test cases and also defects.
• Documented and sent reports according to the standards.
• Implemented training documents for end users and involved in the training.
• Created and executed Test scripts to verify complex system requirements.
• Developed VB scripts in Quick TestPro to perform end to end testing and created a set of re-usable scripts.
• Used Data sheets in Quick Test Pro to import data from data tables for conducting the Data Driven Testing.
• Developed re-useable code to share functionality with different tests, thereby providing easy to maintain and modular test scripts.

Environment:QTP 9.0, Quality Center 9.2 and Manual Testing J2EE/EJB, Servlet/JSP, JDBC, XML, HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, Web Logic, Web sphere, Oracle 8i, SQL, UNIX and LINUX

Confidential, MN

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Apart of requirements gathering to help develop test cases.
• Reviewed, suggested requirement specification documents.
• Involved in developing System Test Plan, test approach and strategies.
• Decomposed high level requirement specifications to low level test conditions and logged them in the requirements tab of Test Director.
• Documented the automation scripts to assist easier maintenance of scripts by manual testers.
• Traceability Matrix for mapping test cases to requirements for business metrics.
• Participated in daily reviews and stakeholder meetings.

Environment: Test Director 8.0, HTML, SQL, Windows NT, .Net, MS Office

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Cases from System requirements specification and Functional requirement documents.
• Participated actively in the team meetings with the developers for fixing the Bugs.
• Prepared and executed manual test cases for Boundary Value Analysis.
• Generated automated test script using Win Runner for Functionality, Regression.
• Maintained log of test results using Test Director as per the rating and interacted with developers to resolve issues.
• Performed backend tests and handled large volume of data using SQL Queries.
• Followed Iterative methodologies.
• Creating test cases and executing the same to certify the functionality of the software.
• Verifying resolved tickets and following up to get unresolved tickets fixed.
• Preparation of defect report and status report.
• Performed functional testing and Regression Testing.
• Participating in team meetings and coordinating with other team Members.
• Created Test data.

Environment: Win98/2k, Manual Testing