SUMMARY

• Over 10 years of experience in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), with specific focus on Quality Assurance testing of web based, mainframes based and client/server applications.
• Hands on experience in analyzing Business Requirement, Functional Requirement, Design specification documents and developing Test plan and Test scenarios
• Experience in working with Insurance / Retirement benefits, Banking Industries.
• Hands on experience in Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing, Regression testing and End to End testing and Data base testing.
• Demonstrated excellence in creating and developing Test Plans, Test cases and Test scripts.
• Seasoned professional with hands on experience in manual testing and using automation tools like Selenium, Rational Functional tester(RFT)
• Worked on Treasury and Pricing products with Wire/ACH process flow items.
• Expertise in Defect Tracking, Defect management and Bug Reporting using tools like Clear Quest, Test Director, Quality Center
• Created, maintained, and executed manual and automated test scripts for functional, regression, confidence, system, security, user acceptance
• Used Quick Test Pro to conduct functional testing, regression testing and data driven testing for Java, J2EE applications
• Highly motivated team player with excellent analytical, problem solving, interpersonal and communication skills
• Have done the SOAP testing to verify the web services to generated the deals across the lines of business.
• Used Hybrid and Key Frameworks to implement the test scripts in Selenium.
• Have done core Java /Java scripting/ html to implement the Test scenario scripts for the sanity and regression scripts.
• Having the working experience on Version Controllers VSS, CVS and Orbi - Valut.
• Ability to prioritize tasks very well and work on multiple test projects at the same time.
• Experience in working as a single point of contact for all testing activities and as liaison between different teams members and the manager
• Expertise in writing simple and complex SQL queries using TOAD, SQL Navigator
• Performed Data base testing using SQL queries.
• Have mock service testing to verify the deals report generation experience as well.
• Experience in testing/validating the Source, Stage and Target (End-to-End) data systems
• Experience with Quality Center/HP ALM to maintain Business Requirements, Create and update Test Cases, Test Runs, and Test Results for every iteration and report defects and link them back to the requirements.
• Ability to work well in fast paced, dynamic team environment.
• Excellent communication, leadership and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Mercury Quality Center, Selenium, Win Runner, Quick Test Pro, Test Director, Rational Test Manager, Rational Clear Quest Web, API Tester

Scripting Tools: VBScript, JavaScript.

Database: Oracle, SQL, MYSQL, Sybase, MS Access 2003, DB2 8/9, TOAD, IDMS

Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL, C, C++, Java, Visual Basic

Web Applications: HTML, DHTML, XHTML, XML

Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP and HTTPS

OS: Windows, MVS, UNIX, Red Hat Linux.

Utilities: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visual Studio, MS Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participated in requirement gathering and application design meetings with Business Analyst and process owners.
• Generated the test scripts using SQL for Data base, Regression and Sanity testing
• Designed high level test scenarios and conditions from functional, business and process documents.
• Involved in preparation of high level Test Plan and Test strategy
• Validated the test results data by using the SQL data base queries (using DMLs and Joins)
• Understand the business requirements by interacting with the Business Analyst and process owners.
• Created test data, Test cases for equivalence partition values and Boundary values, positive and negative business scenarios.
• Have created regression and sanity the test scripts using Selenium
• Leading the team of 8 members which includes offshore and onshore
• Use HP ALM to track, report system defects and bugs, written modification request for the bugs in the application to track the problem and resolve the issue.
• Involved in all the stages of SDLC for this project and designed and executed Functional, Integration and System (End to End) test cases within HP ALM.
• Assisted QA lead in preparation of Test Plan and Test Strategy for this project
• Have done the SOAP testing to verify the web services to generated the deals across the lines of business .
• Have done core Java /Java scripting/ html to implement the Test scenario scripts for the sanity and regression scripts.
• Use HP ALM as test management tool for executing test cases and tracking the test status
• Performed backend testing, retrieval & manipulation of data using SQL queries.
• Have mock service testing to verify the deals report generation experience as well.
• Worked closely with Developers on Defects until the test case is passed

Environment: HP ALM 11.5, Java, HTML,Windows7, ORACLE

Confidential, TN

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Module lead responsible for managing 2 QA engineers along with hands on manual and automated testing.
• Validated the test results data by using the SQL data base queries (using DMLs and Joins)
• Analyzed business requirements and module-specific functionalities to identify test requirements and formulate an effective master test plan
• Responsible for review of Functional Requirement Specification and System Design Specification documents for testing
• Design and Development of QA documentation like Test Cases and Test scenarios from business and functional requirements
• Designed test lab and formulated test cases using HP Quality Center for end-to-end, regression testing and UAT.
• Actively participated in creating Requirements Traceability Matrices and Test plans
• Performed extensive SQL queries to extract data from data bases for verification and validation
• Used Quality Center to log and track defects status. Provided training to the operational team for using Quality Center during UAT
• Worked on the continuous improvement of QA processes by reviewing and evaluating as is practices and standard testing guidelines to develop desired QA processes.
• Developed various reports to communicate testing issues with the project manager
• Worked with the users to drive UAT process and coordinate fixing the defects found in UAT

Environment: JAVA, SAP, Quality Center 10.0, (ITSM) BMC Remedy, SQL Server, PL/SQL, Toad, MS Access,, Bugzilla, Windows 7/2000/NT/XP, UNIX

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirements and Rules while interacting with Business Analysts and Business Users
• Review the Functional Specifications and understand the test scenarios in System testing and Integration testing (SIT)
• Develop Test cases, Test scripts from the data mapping documents, functional Specification documents and mapped the test cases with the requirements for generating the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Involved in all the stages of SDLC for this project and designed and executed Functional, Integration Regression, and System (End to End), UI Testing, Browser Compatibility, Backend (Database) Testing
• Prepare the End to End test scenarios, review and update the test plan
• Execute test cases, log defects and assign them to development for fixing in Clear Quest
• Prepared Test Scenarios by creating Mock data based on the different test cases
• Exclusively tested the inbound and outbound batch jobs.
• Use HP Quality Center as test management tool for executing test cases and tracking the test status
• Prioritized the test cases based on the projected metrics and project deadlines
• Worked with Developers on Defects until the test case is passed
• Extensively written SQL to confirm the data transfer from source to target
• Verified test results (viewing the log files using VI editor, querying the database using the SQL) documenting the defects
• Involved in testing the UI screens, reports that was used by the internal business team