SUMMARY

• Around 10+ years of immense experience in Software Quality Assurance and QA implementation.
• Extensive noledge of Quality Assurance standards, methodologies and strategies wif better understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Expertise in testing Web - based applications as well as Client-server applications.
• Strong experience in creating Test Plans, writing and executing Test Cases, Manual Testing, and automated Test Execution.
• Experience in Developing, Documenting and Executing Test cases manually using Quick Test Professional to ensure proper business compliance and worked closely wif users and business analysts, Project Managers, Developers to understand requirements, business processes for testing and attended regular walkthroughs.
• Setup of Test environments and Test Data in AS400 systems.
• Proficient use of teh ALM, Quality Center and Test Director to manage teh software testing process.
• Good exposure to various bug tracking tools, such as BUGZILLA, JIRA, etc.
• Expertise in Functional, Regression and Black Box testing and having good noledge on White box testing.
• Experienced in all stages of testing, installation testing, smoke testing, regression testing, new feature testing, integration testing, security testing, browser testing, backend testing, usability testing, user acceptance testing, GUI testing, configuration testing, ad-hoc testing and system testing and worked in Normalization support.
• Good experience as SAP Test consultant.
• Experience in participation and driving of concept commit, execute commit, BRD reviews, FSD reviews, TDD reviews, Test scenarios review and Test cases review.
• Experience wif end users to support UAT testing.
• Advanced noledge of relational database design, SQL, stored procedures and SQL Reporting Services.
• Extensive experience working wif Databases such as Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.
• Experience in using SQL Queries to make sure dat data is entered properly in teh right tables when teh data was entered from front end screen.
• Experience in using Teradata to access databases in order to retrieve data in teh process of Backend testing.
• Fairly good noledge testing teh applications on multiple browsers (IE, Netscape, Firefox, Chrome) for teh purpose of Browser-compatibility testing.
• Experience wif Agile Software methodologies.
• Proficient wif tools such as MS Office and Visual Source Safe.
• Strong organizational and communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Strong team player wif good interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to self-motivate and be flexible wifin a fast-paced environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools and Bug Tracking: QTP, Selenium Webdriver, SOUPUI Pro, ALM, Quality Center, Test Director, JIRA

ETL Tools: DSP, Cransoft

Languages: HTML, SQL, PL/SQL, VB Script, C

Application Software: MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-PowerPoint, MS Outlook

Database: Teradata, Oracle 8i/ 9i/10g/11g, DB2,MS SQL Server 2000, MySQL

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/ME/XP, Vista, Win7, UNIX, IBM Mainframes, AS400

Web/App servers: IIS, Apache, Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere

Methodologies: Agile - Scrum, Waterfall and V - Model

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparing teh Test Cases, Test Scenarios and Test Data.
• Executed teh test cases manually and reported teh defects through HPALM.
• Performed Data Migration from Legacy to SAP system.
• Involved in testing of SAP Material Master and FICO modules.
• Tested teh posting in FI module for Account Receivables and Account Payables in Finance module
• Analyzed test results to ensure existing functionality and recommend corrective actions.
• Involved in Functional and System testing of teh application.
• Performed manual testing for user interface of teh application under test.
• Conducted Functionality and Regression testing during teh various phases of teh application.
• Participated in Defect report meetings periodically.
• Reported, tracked and verified of bugs and bugs fixes using HP ALM.
• Co-operated wif developers and support in solving general QA environment problems.
• Creation and execution of new Preload and Postload Validation Scripts for Cutover data conversion including automated (DSP®) and Manual conversion tasks.
• Review of scripts for accuracy, modify as needed.
• Create and Maintain reference documents for all Quality & Control Validation documentation for Conversion Objects identifying location of documentation on teh Customer document repositories.
• Provide Consulting to Customer Business Users on Customer Q&C Standards for Conversion validation documentation and scripts.
• Coordinate wif Customer Conversion and Q&C staff on validation script generation, execution and approval.

Environment: SAP R/3, HP ALM, Windows, MM, DSP tool, Cransoft, SQL Server, MS Excel, SharePoint .

Confidential, Mount Laurel, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design software QA methods and procedures for use by QA and development staff to ensure all information systems meet minimum company standards and end user requirements.
• Provide teh Level of Estimates for dashboard testing and data validation tasks.
• Identifying Test Scenarios and prepare teh Test Scripts which meet teh functional requirements.
• Work closely wif teh other members of teh Functional and BI team in requirement analysis, design reviews, testing and documentation for software developed in Agile environment.
• Co-operate wif teh BI team to insure teh effectiveness and quality of teh components and systems developed.
• Interacting wif teh Functional team to insure teh requirements are meaningful and correct.
• Generating/Enhancing VBScripts, executing teh test scripts, analyzing test results using QTP Implement teh test plans and test teh quality of software products.
• Execution of Functional, GUI, Smoke, System, UAT and data validation test scripts.
• Created teh Metrics scripts required for metric calculations for dashboard reports.
• Good experience in back-end testing by running teh complex SQL in Teradata database.
• Using Global/Local - Test/Action Parameters and Data-Sheets to create data-driven testing
• Involved in ETL testing process between data warehouse and Data Mart by using SQL queries and formulas embedded in MS Excel for validation.
• Extensively used ALM to keep track of bugs and testing efforts and update teh status of teh defect before daily defect meeting.
• Analyzed software bugs, interacted wif teh developers on getting teh problems fixed, verified and closed teh bugs as they got resolved.
• Supported wif testing when their is production issues by doing Emergency Bug fix testing.
• Co-ordinate wif Development and Business team for Defect resolution.
• Involved in preparation of Traceability Matrix and Requirements mapping, issue logs.
• Responsible for consolidation of Daily Defect Reports, Build Reports and status e- mails.

Environment: HP ALM 11, QTP, Version One, MicroStrategy, Visual Crossing, Java, ACI tool, Teradata SQL Assistant 13, Oracle 11g, MS Excel, Toad, SharePoint, Unix, Red Hat Linux 5, WebLogic 10g.

Confidential, Somerset, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed System/ Business requirements and identified teh test scenarios based on requirements.
• Created test plans and test cases based on teh BRD/ FRD for functional and graphical user interface testing.
• Executed test plans in QA, Staging and Production environment, which mainly involves Sanity and End-to-End testing.
• Performed backend testing to validate teh data by developing and executing SQL queries.
• Involved in preparing teh Test Plan document from teh requirements.
• Understanding and testing teh complex Confidential Rx-Claim process, its new functionalities and medical claims process.
• Doing Functional, Integration and UAT testing on teh application.
• Used Share point as central document repository for teh entire test and project related documents.
• Setup of test environments and test data on AS400 environment.
• Tested Submitted Jobs inBatchand validated teh data.
• Involved in scheduling and preparing batch jobs on mainframes using JCL.
• Executed AS/400 Jobs by calling from teh Command line and validated teh data.
• Worked wif Objects of Type File, Pdm, Module and Member.
• Tested teh AS/400User Interface Screens.
• Support to offshore testing team based in India and communication wif various teams across regions.
• Review of teh test cases and test results documents prepared and tested by offshore team.
• Responsible for delivering product builds, analyzing build results and contributing to technical documentation.
• Prioritized problems based on teh effect of teh application on teh end user.
• Efficiently used Quality center to log teh bugs.

Environment: IBM Mainframes, AS400 system, HP QC 10, DB2, RPG, Sinon, Java, Oracle 11g, PL/SQL, Windows7, CITRIX, SharePoint.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Requirements gathering and bug reviews meeting.
• Involved in testing efforts by analyzing teh requirements of teh applications.
• Developed Test Plan document.
• Performed Functionality Testing of all teh graph types and Statistical Tool.
• Reviewed various reports prepared by Test engineers.
• Developed Test Summary report for Functional test, Regression test.
• Kept track of teh new requirements / change in requirements of teh Project.
• Analyzed BRD and produced walkthrough report.
• Developed test scenarios, test plan and test cases based on (SRS) System Requirement Specification.
• Implemented API Testing for testing of an independent Graphing Tool.
• Performed different types of testing such as full functional, Ad-hoc, Integration, Regression, Positive, Negative, Boundary, Back-end etc.
• Developed and maintain scripts for Regression and Integration Testing.
• Created and report defects as found during testing in JIRA and Excel.
• Created different types of testing documents such as Test Progress report, Test Analysis Report etc.
• Developed test scenarios and create test plan and test cases based on FRD for Logging Database.
• Communicated wif developers and project manager and Business Analyst for detected defects as needed.

Environment: JIRA, Oracle, UNIX, Java, J2EE, JSP, XML, HTML, Java Script, Windows NT, VSS.

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, functional specification & required documents for Manual Testing.
• Reviewed project specs and worked closely wif BA and Development for creating Test Cases.
• Involved in teh testing of interfaces to process several modules viz., production, material procurement, and purchasing employee details.
• Created different scenario reports as per teh business requirements.
• Modified teh baseline recording to accommodate teh changes for teh future releases of teh application.
• Worked closely wif development team to resolve teh defects and Testability issues throughout software test life cycle
• Reported software bugs to development team through Test Director Defect tracking system.
• Involved in Troubleshooting complex setups to isolate and determine defect root cause.
• Tracked and logged defects and problem throughout teh project life cycle.
• Used teh project deliverables to determine testing requirements dat define teh testing to be developed and executed for teh project.
• Creating Automation Scripts (VBScript) in teh sprints and stored them in teh Test-Plan module of Quality Center
• Linked requirements to tests and defects as well as analyzed and tested defects in Test Director.
• Ran Manual Test Cases & Scenarios and analyzed results.
• Wrote SQL queries for database backend testing, research and validation.
• Assisted teh development teams on teh analysis of defects and track them to successful resolution using test & defect management tool Test Director.
• Identified and reported defects through teh standard process and documents set up by teh project.

Environment: Windows, QTP, Oracle, Quality Center, MS Office, Java, SQL, VB, HTML, VBScript, SQL Server.