SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years of diverse professional experience in the field of Software Quality Assurance and Software Testing and with emphasis on Manual, Automated, Functional and Performance Testing. Performed Functional and Performance Testing for complex software projects on both Client - Server and distributed Web-based applications using automated testing tools like
• QTP, Rational Robot and Load Runner. Additional expertise in interpretation of requirement models to identify test effort needs and test data setup. Enthusiastic, quick-learner and effective in organizing job functions and developing efficient solutions. Good team player and have the ability to work independently.
• Excellent knowledge of industry standard Software Development Life Cycle methodologies like Waterfall Model, Agile/Scrum and Rational Unified Process.
• Experience in reviewing UML diagrams such as use cases, class diagrams, activity diagrams and sequence diagrams for creating Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts for end to end Functionality Testing.
• Skilled in creating test data including the Precondition Data, Test Input Data, and Regression Data exhaustively for both positive and negative test cases.
• Experienced in manual, automated, regression, data driven, functional and performance testing of the applications using Quick Test Professional, Rational Robot and Load Runner.
• Experience with Defect Management Process like Quality Center and Rational Clear Quest for defect tracking.
• Experienced in creating Load Plans and Scenarios as per the performance specifications to verify the application’s performance meeting the business requirement.
• Proficient in performing Performance and Load testing using Virtual User Generator, Controller and Load Generator components of the Load Runner.
• Generated graphs and reports for tracing bottlenecks in performance using LoadRunner’s Analysis component.
• Experience in writing advanced SQL queries for the retrieval of data from databases for Backend testing, to check and analyze performance, response time, data integrity and validation.
• Experience with working in UNIX environment, using Vi Editor, using various commands and shell scripts.
• Proficient with office applications such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Visio & Project.
• Excellent communication and analytical skills with strong problem solving capabilities to interact with business analysts and development teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional/UFT, Load Runner, HP Quality Center/ALM, Test Director, Test Complete, Rational Robot, PVCS Tracker, Serena Team Tracker, Rally and Spira.andand Spira

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, UNIX, Windows

Languages: SQL, HTML, XML, C, VB Script and Java Script

Databases: Oracle, Toad

Test Strategies: Integration, System, Functional, Regression, Load, Recovery User-Acceptance smoke, Black Box and white box testing.

Applications: MS Suite, MS Visio, MS Project

RDBMS: Oracle, Sybase,MYSQL, DB2, MS SQL Server, MS Access

Tools: Visual Interdev, Front page, Lotus notes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in all the phases of SDLC, starting from requirement, design, development, testing and implementation phase.
• Analyzed user/business requirements from UML diagrams such as use-case models, activity diagrams and sequence diagrams to create corresponding test cases and test data.
• Participated in walkthroughs of the test plans and test scenarios with the development team, QA team, and business analysts before starting the testing phase.
• Prepared detailed test plans defining objective, scope of testing, test procedures and pre-condition data for manual testing.
• Documented detailed test cases, test scripts, expected and actual results in Quality center and traced the test cases to the requirements.
• Mapped the Test Cases prepared to corresponding requirements in the Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Reviewed development plans, quality assurance test plans and user documentation to ensure correct interpretation of original specifications.
• Executed Manual Test Cases by using positive and negative data inputs. Reported results and defects in Quality center.
• Conducted functional testing at GUI level as well as at module level for the end to end functionality.
• Performed Regression Testing by creating automated test scripts using Quick Test Professional to test the functionality of the new builds with bug fixes.
• Automated test cases specified in Quality center by creating Test Scripts in Quick Test Professional.
• Created Bitmap checkpoints, Standard checkpoints, Database checkpoints in Quick Test Professional.
• Enhanced the recorded Test Scripts with VBScript and also developed reusable actions and functions.
• Modified test scripts and parameterized constants in order to adapt scripts for data driven testing.
• Performed data driven testing by fetching data from Excel sheets and Databases to verify the application’s behavior for different data inputs.
• Responsible for entering, Tracking bugs in Quality Center and reporting the defects to the developers for Modification Request.
• Collected test metrics weekly from the Quality center that reflected the current status of the test execution.
• Wrote SQL queries to retrieve the information from the Oracle database server to check whether the information has been updated.

Confidential, Denver, CO

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the Functional Testing of FA and GL including their sub-ledgers in multiple currencies using Mercury tools.
• Worked as QA Analyst responsible for analyzing the application and performing Black box Testing.
• Developed a functional test matrix considering all aspects of the application.
• Responsible for making the detailed QA test plan regarding the scope and focus of the testing.
• Developed strategy to configure Test Director as the defect tracking and reporting tool.
• Worked closely with the development team to develop and implement testing plans.
• Performed the lab setup with different configuration and operating systems.
• Prepared knowledge base for the application by reviewing different applications and documents.
• Developed test cases for Functionality, Validation and Regression Testing.
• Developed and reviewed test automation scripts using WinRunner for regression testing of the various releases of the application.
• Developed templates for test script, test cases and test matrix.
• Performed Performance Testing of the website and the entire application and analyzed the test results with the business team.

Environment: Quality Center, Oracle 11i (Financial modules AP, AR, FA and GL), Oracle Forms/Reports 6i, IBM Mainframes, PL/SQL, SQL Navigator and Win Runner.

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Quality Assurance activities related to various groups within bank; process Improvements, managing QA content management tools.
• Coordinate with the ecommerce Business Analysts and analyze the Business Specifications.
• Set up a Master Test Plan and Test schedule in regards to data warehouse repository maintenance, Meta data development, reporting engine etc.
• Wrote Integration level, User Acceptance test cases for functionality and GUI, and browser dependency testing
• Involved in designing the stored procedures for getting the test data using source systems for test loads into Data Warehousing system.
• The bugs were tracked, reviewed and reconciled in the Test Director.
• Win Runner was used as an automated tool for testing the above application.
• Performed Black Box testing.
• Used SQL queries and validated the data from different tables.
• Automated test runs using Kern shell scripts for faster data activity reducing testing timeline.
• Extensively created Data Driven Test scripts to make testing a more exhaustive process.
• Performed regression testing using QTP by automating test scripts.
• Had regular interactions with the Developers, Business Analysts and the System Administrators for continuous improvement of the application.
• Conducted Day to day planning meetings and ensured the delivery of the product with in the deadlines.
• Coordinate with the Release Management team to schedule releases for on-time delivery of projects
• Involved in Security test of the Application.
• Analyzed the results and suggested ways to improve the present application.

Environment: QTP, Test Director / Quality center, SQL, PL/SQL, Shell scripts, VBScript, Java Script, JSP, Windows NT, XP and UNIX (Solaris).

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, functional specifications and mock ups of financial to provide functional decomposition.
• Conducted installation and cross-platform testing of Internet Configuration Wizard application (Visual Basic 6.0, various Windows platforms).
• Performed Functional and regression testing of Web-Admin application
• Generated test scenarios, test cases and test data. Executed tests, created problem reports.
• Conducted various management activities by analyzing and verifying test results, providing status reports
• Worked with business analysts, developers, and content department to resolve issues.
• Performed Scalability, Performance, and Load Testing using Load runner (System Analysis, Creating Virtual User Scripts, Defining User Behaviors, running Load test Scenario, Monitoring the Performance, Analyzing Result)
• Tested the Functionality and Performance of the application using automated test tools as well as by manual testing.
• Wrote smoke test plan for the Application under Test, which includes the basic test cases, which ensure that the application is stable enough to start functional testing.
• Involved in Smoke testing on all environments after every deployment.
• Constantly verified Requirement Traceability Matrix to determine if each and every Functional requirement is taken care

Environment: Windows NT, Win Runner and Visual Basic.