PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Having 7+ Years of IT experience in Testing Software applications.
• Experience in performing Functional, End to end testing of the applications.
• Experience in writing Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Traceability matrix and Test documentation.
• Expertise in Testing Client Server and Web applications.
• Prepared Status reports, Test Summary reports, Test estimation, detect prevention and Test Progress report with various test metrics.
• Used Quality Center to maintain Test Cases, Test Requirements, and Test Plan & Defects.
• Participated in the System Testing, Integration Testing and Actively coordinated with developers, Business Analyst and Business Users.
• Participated in the entire product life cycle including product specification review, design reviews and User Acceptance Testing.
• Used Black box, and Grey box testing, UAT testing methods on different modules of the application. As part of Black box testing used Boundary value analysis for effective Test Cases and Test Data.
• Experience with full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Test Life Cycle (STLC)
• Experienced in Manual and Automated QA testing of Client/Server, Web applications.
• Expertise in tracking and reporting defects in Quality Center, Clear Quest and Jack track.
• Extensive experience in Black box, Functional, Integration, Regression, System, UAT and Performance testing
• Identified, created and executed Regression test suite for each release along the new functional test cases
• Proficient in developing detailed Test Cases using Business requirement and use case document and executed for status reporting purpose in Quality Center
• Experience in using Quick Test Professional (QTP) for automating the Web based applications
• Updated SQL queries to accommodate test data for Regression test suite
• Knowledge in developing and maintaining overall testing methodology and strategy documenting and test plans Experienced in Backend Testing using SQL for data integrity.
• Created and executed test scenarios using Verification (positive) and Validation (Negative) test data.
• Tested the entire functionality of the application on different browsers and operating systems as a part of compatibility test.
• Interacted and discussed application and environmental issues with developers and build engineers to understand the issues.
• Extensively participated in defect review meetings to discuss and better understand/explain the defects with developers, team lead and stakeholders periodically.
• Proficient in MS - Office, TOAD, SQL Developer Tools.
• Possess strong communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with ability to co-ordinate activities and work in team environment to meet the deliverables.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional, Win Runner, Load Runner, Quality Center, Test Manager and Rational Quality Manager.

Bug Tracking Tools: Quality Center, Excel, Clear Quest.

Language/Scripting: TSL, HTML, SQL, PLSQL.

Databases: MS SQL, Oracle, SQL server.

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome.

Operating Systems: Windows XP/2000/ME/98/7, Unix.

Project Management toolsM: S Office, Share Point Tracker.

Version Contro: lTFS and Microsoft Visual Source Safe

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding business requirements, requirement gathering, analysis and documentation with domain experience in banking, mutual fund and insurance industry.
• Experience in understanding and analysis of use case diagrams, analysis and design models using use case activity diagrams and Rational unified process.
• Experience in preparing and executing test cases using various test conditions available.
• Reviewed the Functional specifications, requirements document (Retail and equities) to determine the functionality of the application.
• Created Test cases, Test scripts and Test metrics.
• Coordinated with onsite, Business, UAT and production support teams to oversee Test Execution.
• Used Traceability matrix to trace Test Cases with requirements.
• Used status reports, Test Summary reports and Test Progress report with various test metrics.
• Used Quality center to maintain requirements, Test Plan, Test Cases and to Log Bugs identified during testing of the application.
• Used Black Box, White box and Grey box testing methods on different modules of the application as part of Black box testing used Equivalence and Boundary value analysis.
• Used Load Runner for performance testing.
• Prepare, Analyze, test, and review modifications before they are delivered to the end user and placed into the production environment to ensure that these modifications process as expected, are free of defects and contamination, and do not contain any unintended side effects on the application.
• Performed Smoke, Functional Testing, Regression testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Reported and tracked the status of the bugs, assigned severity ratings to them using Red mine.
• Prioritizing defects requiring resolution.
• Identify and manage defects during test cycle.
• Consolidate the weekly status of issues and report them to the lead and the manager.
• Tested 17 urls on multiple release cycles of the product involving smoke, functional, UI, Regression and integration testing on 15 different browser versions.
• Worked closely with developer’s team to identify and test requirements.
• Involved in creating test plans and test cases for static, my account and shopping cart web applications.
• Analyze test results to ensure that it meets software functional requirements.
• Tested all urls in both windows and Mac environment using different browser versions.
• Developed automation scripts in (QTP) for Functionality checking page contents, broken links, and regression test.
• Performed data driven testing on multiple accounts set, login, and multiple products checkout functions using QTP Created Image, Text, checkpoints using Quick test.
• Performed manual testing on the entire application. Conducted positive and negative testing. Designing test cases according to the functional specifications.
• Tested the end-to-end process on all product web pages.
• SD Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall,
• Reported and tracked bugs using Redmine and sent screen shots of the bugs to development.
• Maintained a strong working relationship with teammates, developers, and management staff.

Environment: Java, Eclipse, IBM Clear case, Web Sphere, Mainframes, CSS, JCL, Visual Studio, ClearCase, QC,QTP, XML, Oracle, UNIX, J-unit Test case, Top Link 9 g/11 g, Crystal Report

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the Customer Billing System.
• Created the Strategy document that defines the test environment, phases of testing, time lines of different phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria into different phases of testing and resources required to conduct the effort.
• Reviewed Requirements, Use cases and supplementary specifications.
• Created test cases and test scripts for functional, and regression testing.
• Responsible for identifying the functional test cases for regression testing.
• Manually tested data from high level to detail level during verifications.
• Handled many test cycles in QA environment.
• Extensively used SQL to verify the integrity and consistency of the data in the database.
• Assisted in training and helping new team members.
• Conducted Integration, Functional, Regression, and Bank Testing.
• Created TER (Test Execution Record) executed test cases and generated reports using RQM.
• Used Clear Quest to log defects and coordinated with developers in resolving the defects.
• Developed various reports and metrics to measure and track the testing effort.
• Participated in use case/defect calls, peer-reviews, testers touch point, and walk through meetings.
• Worked with testers, business analyst, architect, defect coordinator and test leads.

Environments: People soft Account Receivable, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Requisite Pro, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Out Office Outlook, Office Communicator), SQL Developer, and Share Point Tracker.

Confidential, Babylon, NY

Sr.QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing system requirements and developing various test plans for the projects.
• Participating in various technical meetings, coordinating on-site off-shore Dev/QA teams.
• Analyze user/business requirements and develop and reviewing various Test procedures, Test Matrices, Test cases and Test Scripts.
• Expertise in Testing Web Services using SOAP Sonar and SOAP-UI Pro tools
• Implemented Automation for Web services using SOAP-UI Pro.
• Performed Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing, Data Validation testing, end-to-end testing of the application and also involved in white box testing.
• Performed data consistency checks by writing SQL Server 2005 queries against the database and validating the results.
• Executed various stored procedures and validated the results for the corresponding XML requests.
• Verifying UDR logs and GA logs using UNIX commands.
• Involved in Migrating all the Test Plans from Quality Center to Visual Studio 2010-Team Foundation Server (TFS) by creating various Test Suites.
• Involved in discussions with Russian Development team and offshore QA team on various issues.
• Testing EBF releases in short notice with 24/7 support.
• Involved in Hands-off meetings for every sprint release and performed health checks.
• Used Maven for bug reporting.
• Presentation of the QA Status report and the Defect Status reports in the weekly meeting.

Environment: Java, Web Services, UNIX, Quality Center, Visual Studio 2010 - Team Foundation Server(TFS), SQL Server 2005, SOAP Sonar, SOAP UI Pro.

Confidential, Austin, Texas

QA Architect

Responsibilities

• Architected and implemented agile testing practices for globally distributed teams
• Coordinated efforts between product development teams and offshore enterprise test team
• Standardized QA standards and practices across teams where possible
• Oversaw development of company-wide quality dashboard for senior management
• Architected and implemented internal deployment and integration of Borland's business management products for the monitoring and management of the company's software development process
• Served a leading role in internal agile transformation and in presenting the company's agile transformation to customers

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Functional specification Document and Master Design document for business understanding and end-user focus.
• Actively participated in walk-through, inspection, review and user group meetings for quality assurance with BAs, SMEs and Developers.
• Prepared Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases based on functional specifications and user requirements.
• Executed Test Cases recorded in HP Quality Center manually to test the application for its functionality, system integration and verify the Exit Criteria.
• Performed various types of testing, such as Functionality Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Interface, Integration/System Testing, User acceptance testing and, end-to-end testing.
• Developed, maintained and executed automated regression test suites using HP Quick Test Pro.
• Conducted test on Web Services transactions sent over HTTP or HTTPS by inspecting every request and response XML document using SoapUI and Slog.
• Generated Test data and Data Request document for various types of testing for valid data, Invalid data testing.
• Performed defect reporting and bug tracking using HP Quality Center and Clear Quest.
• Maintained Metrics and participated in the Weekly Status Updates showing the progress of the testing effort and open issues to be resolved.

Environment: HP Quick Test Pro, HP Quality Center, Clear Quest, SOAP UI, Java, Windows XP, MS-Office

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Wrote test cases from the Test Plan and generated sample test data.
• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and Technical Specification.
• Prepare Technical Specifications documents as per the user requirements.
• Execute used test cases for manual testing procedures.
• Prepared Test Cases and test scripts describing the features and functions to be tested
• Documented the test cases templates in MS Word environments.
• Wrote test cases using MS excel.
• Performed functionality testing, UAT & regression testing manually.
• Involved in back end testing on the Oracle database using SQL to ensure integrity and consistency of data
• Regression tests were performed after every bug fix and system enhancements.
• Documented the testing procedures testing results for future reference.
• Wrote test matrix for the progress of the project.
• Ensured the application conformed to QA guidelines during life cycle testing.
• Executed Test Cases and generated error logs, tracked bugs and created reports.

Environment: VB, MS word, MS excel, QTP, Manual testing, Oracle, SQL, Windows NT and UNIX