SUMMARY:

• Over 10 years of diversified experience in analysis, design, development, integration and testing on multiple platforms such as in Java, Siebel, VB, .NET and ASP
• Extensive experience in preparing Test Plans, Test Strategies, Test Scripts and Test Cases for both automated and manual testing for Web Applications and Client - Server Applications
• Good experience in Understanding and working on Agile Scrum methodology, Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) and QA life cycle
• Experience in using Automated Testing tools such as Quick Test Pro, Win Runner for developing test scripts and using Test Director / Quality center to manage entire testing process
• Ability to define and create test automation frameworks
• Extensive Experience in UI with web technologies like HTML, DHTML, Object Oriented Java Script, AJAX and CSS
• Experience working on Microsoft.Net web development using c# and VB.Net languages
• Experience in Functional Testing, System Testing, Configuration Testing, Regression Testing, Black-Box Testing, Performance Testing and Back-End Testing
• Working knowledge on both Unix/Linux and Windows environments
• Excellent back-end programming skills using SQL, PL/SQL, Stored Procedures and Triggers
• Proficient in User Acceptance Testing, Exploratory Testing and Ad-hoc testing to ensure that the system under test meets the users needs and provides confidence in its use
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication and interpersonal skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional, Win Runner

Test Reporting Tools: Test Director, Quality Center, PVCS Tracker, Clear Quest

Version control Tools: Clear Case

Languages: C, C++, Java, JavaScript, VB Script, TSL, Visual Basic, C#. Net, SQL, PL/SQL, Cobol

Platforms: Windows NT/XP, Unix, Linux and DOS

Web Technologies: JSP, ASP, XML, HTML and DHTML

Web/Application Servers: Web Logic, ATG, Web Sphere, IIS, See Beyond, Glassfish

Process Methodologies: Agile Scrum Methodology, Waterfall Method

Microsoft Office Programs: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint

Database Technologies: Oracle, MS-SQL Server 2000, MS Access

Networks: TCP/IP, SMTP, Ethernet

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. QA Analyst/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed and documented QTP automation framework
• Co-ordinate the efforts of both functional & automation teams to identify the areas and functionalities for automation testing
• Performed manual system, integration and user acceptance testing of the application
• Developed SQL script for fetching data from multiple tables by using joins
• Created the Automation Test plans and implementing them
• Development and maintenance of automation scripts for Regression testing for all releases
• Provided Test Estimates for various phases of the project
• Worked closely with development staff to resolve the defects and Testability issues throughout Software Development Life Cycle
• Used Quality center to log and track defects and generated reports to provide weekly/monthly status reports

Environment: Quality Center, Quick Test Pro 11.0, Windows XP, J2EE, Oracle 10g, Solaris, MS Excel

Confidential

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performing manual testing of the various applications like WALT, Correspondent, Audit Assign, UW Assign and Global Assign
• Performed User Interface testing for all three applications
• Tested functionality and security issues
• Developed SQL script for fetching data from multiple tables by using joins
• Developed test plans and test cases/scripts as a part of the job duties
• Executed functional, integration & regression tests as per test plans and test scenarios
• Used SQL Queries to validate the data for backend testing
• Used Quality center to log and track defects and generated reports to provide weekly/monthly status reports
• Working with the development teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues and provide fine tuning recommendations. Also generated test reports to document all test results

Environment: Java, Oracle, Quality Center, Windows XP, Crystal Reports

Confidential

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing the test strategy, test design, and test scripts based on product design and expected functionality and ensure exhaustive test coverage
• Responsible for conducting formal and informal review meetings for Test Strategy and Test Scripts with all the stakeholders (Testing, Development and Requirements)
• Build the environment for performance testing, preparing test plan, create test scripts, creating test scenarios, executing the scenarios and analyzing the test results
• Actively Participated in requirement and development walkthroughs and reviews
• Performed manual testing of the various modules like Provider, Consumer and Employer of the application in newly migrated IBM web sphere portal
• Tested EDI 276, 277 and 278 transactions in 5010 for HIPAA Complaint
• Guided testers to create test scenarios for QTP
• Reviewed the QTP scripts for accuracy and completeness
• Responsible for interacting with the off-shore team for issues and task assignments
• Responsible for formulating and executing SQL queries for Oracle database.
• Used Quality Center for defect tracking and reporting
• Worked closely with developers and other technical groups to reproduce errors, identify issues and resolve problems
• Coordinate with lead, developers and requirement engineers during the SCRUM and discuss about the progress of work, Holdups and dependencies

Environment: Java, J2EE, SQL Server, Windows 2000/XP, MS Excel, Quality Center

Confidential

Sr. Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed manual testing of the new enhancement project to Acorn, which is to support Multi-Currency in billing the clients
• Automated the application testing process to enhance the speed of regression testing using Quick Test Professional 10.0
• Developed test scripts for Client, Location, Vendor, and Service modules of the application
• Wrote user defined functions where necessary in the process of application automation
• Created reusable actions that were used in several places in the scripts
• Used Data driven testing methodology avoiding the hard coding of the values within the scripts
• Developed SQL Queries to extract and modify data in database
• Used Descriptive Programming wherever necessary
• Helped the test automation team to catch up with the items that are not automated and finished automation of all the items that were tested manually in the previous releases
• Reported and tracked defects in the TFS
• Responsible for reporting daily updates to Scrum Master in Stand Up meetings

Environment: VB .net, UNIX, SQL Server 2008, MS Excel, Microsoft Visual Studio, Quick Test Pro 10.0.

Confidential

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed requirements, functional and technical specifications to come up with Testing Strategies
• Gathered and identified test inputs, created test plan, test cases in MS Excel, associated scripts to the test cases, defined configurations to test against and, defined iterations
• Performed manual testing of different interfaces, Worksheets, Reports, and ad-hoc SQLs
• Extensively used Quick Test Professional methods to create automated scripts
• Wrote SQL Queries extensively, to retrieve data from the database for validating the database records as a part of backend testing
• Developed test scripts for GUI, functionality and regression testing using QTP
• Done Data Driven Test with Quick Test Professional to test the application for different sets of data
• Responsible for documenting the defects and their history in Access database and Quality Center and submitted them to the higher management, this helped in identifying the defects in the build
• Responsible for generating the defect reports and testing summary reports
• Assisted and mentored other new team members to bring them up to speed on the project
• Coordinated and worked with offshore team to meet the dead lines.

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, Quick Test Pro 9.2, Beyond Compare, Windows XP, UNIX, Oracle, Oracle Forms, and MS Access

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked with users, business, off site /Onsite development teams in gathering functional and business requirements
• Designed, developed and executed Test cases/Test conditions using Test Director
• Coordinated all testing efforts including the setup and use of testing environment
• Scenarios created/review and discussions with client about any open issues with the scenarios
• Automated and created scripts to verify various features, functionality and performance of the application using Win Runner for Regression and Functional Testing
• Created Data Pools and populated them with the test data for creating data driven tests in Win Runner
• Made use of Check Points such as Synchronization, GUI, Database and Bitmap checkpoints to make sure that the GUI and database specifications and customer requirements of the application are followed
• Discussions with the developers to tune the system based on analysis
• Responsible for updating project status to project manager and team

Environment: Win Runner, Test Director, Visual Source Safe, Windows 2000 Professional, Java, SQL Server 2000

Confidential

Worked as a EDI Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in trading partner kick off meetings with the users to gather the EDI requirements
• Tested the health care data for HIPAA compliancy
• Developed and Tested Asynchronous communication scripts for transmission of files using ProComm plus and PFS/Async
• Reconciled inbound 997 files with the outbound 837 files