SUMMARY

• Over 5 years of experience in the field of Information Technology with emphasis on Software Testing, Quality Assurance, and Web based applications using Manual Testing techniques and Automation Testing Tools.
• Expertise in Black Box testing, writing Test plans, Test cases, GUI testing, System testing, Integration testing, and Regression testing.
• Experience with both team and individual work environments as a Quality Assurance Analyst and handling complex projects and participating in full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Tested applications belonging to different domains like Finance, Insurance and Media.
• Meeting with Developers, Management and Business users to design functional specifications before each Release
• Delivering quality software according to project schedule and signing off on deliverables on and executing them, performing Defect Reporting and Tracking throughout the defect life cycle.
• Ability to gather requirements from the clients
• Tact and Diplomacy to maintain co - operative relationships between team members
• Extensive use of documentation to avoid communication gap between team members
• Extensive experience in both Manual testing and Automation of software testing process using Automated Testing and Test Management Tool (Quality Center and Quick Test Pro).
• Defines and tracks Quality Assurance metrics such as defects, defect counts, test results and test status. Collects and analyzes data for software process evaluation and improvements, and integrates them into business processes to address the business needs.
• Experience in maintaining Test Matrix, Traceability Matrix & performing GAP analysis to verify that test cases meets the end client requirements.
• Experience in interacting with business analyst, developers, and technical support and helping them on Baseline requirement specifications.
• Strong skills in performing Unit, Integration, Functionality, Smoke, Sanity, Stress and Usability testing for web and Client/Server application.
• Good judgment skill to analyze the High-risk area of the application, which helps to focus testing effort on the AUT.
• Experienced in Backend Testing using SQL Queries
• Good working knowledge of major Operating Systems and tested applications developed in wide variety of environments viz., Windows 98/2000/XP, UNIX.
• Ability to Analyze high risk area of an AUT to focus the testing effort
• Strong Analytical skills coupled with Good Communication and Interpersonal Skills.
• Motivated self-starter and a good team player with the ability to work in time sensitive environments.
• Possess excellent communication and organization skills with the ability to adapt to a new environment.
• Excellent Communication skills that help to develop good work environment with team members and clients

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Win Runner, Load Runner, Quick Test Pro (QTP), Rational Team Test, MS Visual Studio 2005, 2008

Test Reporting Tools: Test Director, Rational Clear Quest, Quality Center, DOORS

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/XP/NT, UNIX, LINUX

Databases: Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server, MS Access, TOAD

Testing Languages: TSL, SQA Basic, VB Scripting

Trading Technologies: J-Risk, Trading Technologies

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, ASP, JSP

Programming Languages: C, C++, SQL, Visual Basic, JAVA/J2EE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

UI Tester

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated design walkthroughs to analyze requirements, functional scope, and use case documents for testability and created test plan and test cases that ensure fail-safe business coverage of critical areas for functional testing and performance testing.
• Interact with developers and BAs to understand the design and technical specifications.
• Work with Business analysts and present the test strategy to the entire team in order to obtain the necessary approval.
• Create functional and integration test cases based on business requirements and design documentation.
• Experience in Functionality testing and analyzing reports.
• Designed conditions for entrance and exit criteria.
• Execute test cases based on requirements using QTP.
• Help to link test cases to require and ensure complete coverage through Requirement Traceability Matrix
• Performed Data Driven testing in QTP by performing parameterization.
• Implemented agile QA processes and practices, including defect and test management
• Responsible for running different types of testing like functionality Testing, Black Box testing, Security testing, Smoke testing, Usability testing, System Testing and Regression Testing on AUT.
• Used Quality Center to log in defects and also track defect status.
• Performed GAP Analysis using requirement traceability results.
• Performed backend testing using SQL statements to check database tables for validity of various business transactions and database integrity.
• Revise test cases for new and revised features and capabilities.
• Update managers and leads on various test reports after analyzing results.
• Create the necessary testing procedures and documentation and update on QC in compliance with the required regulatory rules.
• Perform Deployment testing on Production environment for each major and minor Release.
• Responsible for entering bugs into QC, track defect status and co-ordinate defect resolution with the developers.

Environment: QC, QTP, LoadRunner, Agile, Java, SQL plus, MS Query, Apache HTTP Server, Oracle/Unix and SQL.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

UI Tester

Responsibilities:

• Prepared the Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Responsibility Matrices for the Application under test.
• Involved in entire QA Life Cycle which includes Test Designing and Execution of the entire QA process and documentation of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Scripts.
• Analyzed the specifications in the User Requirements Document, Functional Requirement and Technical Requirement Documents for the purpose of preparation of Test plans.
• Performed manual testing for each system build.
• Quality Center was used to track and report defects to developers.
• Automated Test scenarios for GUI Functionality, Regression Testing using Quick Test Professional
• Performed GUI Testing by creating GUI checkpoints to verify the functionality of the GUI objects using Quick Test Professional.
• Enhanced Test Scripts using user defined functions.
• Performed Backend Testing to ensure the authentic retrieval of the data from the database.
• Designed and developed dynamic spreadsheets and queries to reconcile test results and logged all test results and bugs.
• Parameterized key elements to verify the Database Integrity.
• Conducted Regression Testing on various builds of the application and reported the defects to the developers using Quality Center for the bug fixing and tracking.

Environment: Windows XP Pro/2000, HTML, DHTML, XML, XML, SOAP, XSLT, Java, JavaScript, Web Logic, Oracle, Quick Test Professional, Quality Center.

Confidential, Long Island, NY

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively conducted Back-End Testing using which involves complex SQL Queries
• Tested Applications to ensure they comply with Business specifications
• Set up projects in Quality Center, writing test cases, executing them and performing bug tracking
• Attended daily defect meetings with Developers, Business Users and Management
• Met with Management, Dev and Business Analysts to design functional specifications before each Release
• Served as interface between QA and Senior Management when QA Manager was away
• Performed Demos to Senior Management and Business Users after each Release to explain new functionalities
• Performed Regression Testing after each build.
• Performed Web testing using SOAP UI
• Executed test cases manually to verify the expected results.
• Wrote the Test Plan and made sure that the development process was in accordance with the requirements
• Performed GAP Analysis to verify that test cases matches to the user requirement
• Participated in the team for User Acceptance Testing
• Performed Integration testing, System testing and Regression testing.
• Performed backend testing using UNIX queries

Confidential, Fair Fax, VA

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Formulated detailed Test Plan, Test Cases and Testing Procedures, which included Test Cases/Scripts, capturing Test Results and capturing and resolving Test Anomalies.
• Performed configuration/ compatibility and user interface testing manually.
• Have experience designing and writing training manual templates, design formatting, project planning and writing technical documents.
• Assisted in preparing UAT plan/scripts and assured project manager has taken steps for alignment of Operational Quality Checklist.
• Performed UAT manually in coordination with UAT team to ensure the correct business logic.
• Conducted GUI/Usability Testing and Black Box Testing according to specifications.
• Involved in writing complex SQL queries to check the data integrity
• Ensure that products and changes are fully documented.
• Analyzing and documenting detailed program information working and interacting with software developers and members of various other dependent departments
• Analyzing User and Functional requirements to point out gaps between used SQL queries to extract the data from the database.
• Performed Smoke and Sanity testing.
• Performed Positive and Negative Testing
• Performed Security testing and Backend testing Manually.
• Participated in conducting System testing and End to End testing Manually.
• Extensive UAT Testing Manually.
• Performed Usability and Integration testing Manually.
• Used Test Director for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.
• Documented bugs found out during the process of testing.