PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of diversified experience in software testing and Quality Assurance in various domains like Finance, Banking, Health and Insurance.
• Gathered and attended Business Review meetings with BAs to better understand the requirements before initiating the test plan and test case preparation
• Conducted and attended triage, peer review and walkthrough meetings among the teams to discuss the functionalities of the application
• 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.
• Always open to new ideas with a strong desire to expand knowledge of systems and processes.
• Ability to work independent or as a team member, excellent written and verbal communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Mercury Test Director7.0/8.0 / HP Quality Center 9.0/10.0, QTP 9.0/8.2, Load Runner 9.0/8.0, WinRunner7.6/7.2, Rational Team Test 7.1/7.5, Rational Robot, Test Manager and Requisite pro

Bug tracking Tool: Rational Clear Quest 7.0.1, Jack Track and Mantis

Domain Knowledge: Finance, Insurance, Health and Banking.

Languages: C, C++,C#, Java 2.0

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP, UNIX, Sun Solaris 5.8.

. NET Technologies: Visual Basic.NET,MVC,ASP.NET

Component Technology: COM, DCOM, COM+, .Net Framework, .Net Assemblies

Internet Programming: HTML, DHTML, XHTML, XML, XSLT, Java Script, VB Script, ASP 3.0, Dream weaver 8, Flash Professional 8

Databases: Oracle 10g, 9i /8i /11i, SQL Server 2000, MS Access 2003

Version Control: Visual SourceSafe and Polytron Version Control System (PVCS)

Web Servers: PWS, Tomcat 5.0, Apache 1.3.4 and IIS 4.0.

Application Servers: Web logic 9.0/8.0/7.0, Web Sphere 5.1 and JBoss 4.2

Other Tools: TOAD, SQL Developer, Putty, FTP, MS Word, MS Excel and MS Power Point

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, OK

QA Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participated in writing Test Plan and Test Strategy, Wrote High Level Scenarios and Manual Test Cases in Quality center with the help of BRD (Business Requirement Document).
• Involved in writing Test Estimation document.
• Involved in meetings with Business Analysts for getting the Test Data.
• Using documentation, created manual test cases in Excel sheets and Exported to Quality Center (ALM) to create automation scripts.
• Actively involved in Automation Test Framework development, Tested in different environments and different Regression Cycles and maintain the Test Data in Excel sheets.
• Created and enhanced numerous test scripts to handle changes in the objects of the GUI and in the testing environment using QTP.
• Created reusable QTP scripts for the use of other testing purposes.
• Develop, organize, maintain and execute automated Scripts with in QTP framework and involved in Descriptive Programming.
• Performed SQL queries using TOAD to retrieve data in a database.
• Attended Defect Assessment meetings periodically and Reported Defects in Defect Documentation.

Environment: Windows 7, Windows XP, QTP 11.0, QC (ALM) 10.0, Java, Oracle 10g, UNIX.

Confidential, VA

QA Analyst /Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements, Functional Requirement & High level Design documents.
• Created the Regression Test suite and automated them for the purpose of regression testing
• Implemented QTP 9.0 for automating the Regression test Sets.
• Designed and implemented the custom keyword driven QTP framework.
• Reported the defects to the development team in Rational Clear Quest
• Interacted with other QA Team members to discuss the issues before reporting them to development
• Used the QTP built in functions and enhanced VB scripts for business logic.
• Created and managed objects in the application using Object Repository in Quick Test Pro
• Modified the scripts by inserting Text, Bitmap and Synchronization and checkpoints.
• Ran the different test sets for each individual module.
• Carried out extensive Backend Testing to ensure proper backup and restoring of data using SQL queries.
• Extensively used SQL queries to get the necessary data from Oracle data base and embedded in to each individual test scripts
• Maintained Test Logs and Test Summary Reports
• Generated Reports and Documented and Communicated test results on daily basis
• Preparing the Test Reports and maintaining of test repository.

Environment: HP Quality Center 9.0, QTP 9.0, Java 1.4, HTML, XML, PL/SQL, Oracle 10g, TOAD, UNIX, Java Servlets, Web services, Web logic 9.2, CSS, JavaScript, Windows XP.

Confidential, TX

QA Analyst /Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Technical Specifications, Business Specifications and created Test Cases.
• Developed and executed manual test scripts as per requirements.
• Tested the functionality of each scenario like positive and negative test cases.
• Recorded automation scripts for web applications using Rational Test Manager.
• Enhanced automation scripts using Rational Test Manager.
• Used SQL commands and pull up the data for testing the application data.
• Logged the defects, tracked the status and verified when fixed.
• Conducted Functional and Regression using Rational Test Manager.
• Performed detailed Functional testing, GUI testing for checking functionality.
• Performed Regression Testing to make sure that all the bugs have been fixed and the application is running properly.
• Validated the data by writing SQL Queries and Unix Scripts.
• Conducted Functional, Regression and UAT Tests.
• Software Bug Identification, tracking and reporting using Rational Clear Quest.
• Preparing the Test Reports and maintaining of test repository.

Environment: Rational Test Manager, RequisitePro, Clear Quest, ClearCase, Robot, Java, J2EE, HTML, VB, JavaScript, XML, Oracle 8i, DB2, Windows XP, MS-Office, DOORS 8.1

Confidential, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Create test plans and test cases based on business requirements, design and Functional Specifications for modifications /enhancements for Loan origination system.
• V Methodology was followed for implementation of this Project.
• Analysis, design, development and testing of Health care applications in Facets 4.31 Creating Test Plans, Test Cases and Test scripts by using Rational Manual Tester
• Involved in Functional testing of the system using Rational Functional Tester
• Executed test cases for Java application and checked the data integrity for inbound data and outbound data.
• Extensive Experience with Functional, System, Integration Testing
• Involved in the design stages of the Application and participated in the meetings with the client, Business Analyst and the development team.
• Tested Different Module Like Billing, Claims, Subscriber/Family, and Customer Care in Facets.
• Scheduled meetings with Various Teams (Configuration, Membership, Provider and Finance).
• Developed Life Cycles and Work flows for the EDI Transactions.
• Creating and enhancing numerous test scripts to handle changes in the objects, in the Tested application and in the test environment.
• Involved in Batch testing using automation tool.
• Involved in File system creations in UNIX
• Involved in Executing the Shell Scripts
• Worked on bug tracking reports on daily basis using Clear Quest
• Execute test plans and test cases to verify actual results against the expected results.
• Maintained Test Logs, Test Summary reports and participated in defect review / Status / GO-NO GO Meetings.
• Involved and reviewed QA artifacts at each phase of testing with SME’s, Team Lead and Implementation Managers
• Tested User Interface inconsistency and application functionality.
• Environment: Trizetto Facets 4.31, Java 2.0, Unix Shell Scripts, MS Access 2000, Microsoft Excel, Rational Suite 7.0, RUP, Windows XP, Lotus Notes, Sybase Advantage 11.5.