SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance testing in Web based and Client/Server applications using Manual and Automation Testing.
• Strong experience in working with Wireless, Telecommunications, Banking and Financial organizations.
• Strong noledge and understanding of QA SDLC methodologies like Waterfall Model and Agile model.
• Experienced with all aspects of software development life cycle including planning, estimating effort for testing and requirements gathering.
• Created and updated User stories and tasks in Rally Agile testing tool
• Experienced in preparing and executing software Test Plans, Test cases, testing and implementation of both Manual and Automation of test cases for various systems using Mercury Tools HP ALM, and QTP.
• Extensive experienced in XML Testing using Eclipse ITE 3.6.0
• Extensive experience in API Testing
• Experience is using WSDL Builder for updating schema.
• Experience in database testing using ToadforOracle
• Well experienced in implementation through Agile Methodology and attended regular SCRUM meeting.
• Hands on experience in all phases of life cycle, including requirements gathering, risk analysis, project planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking and reporting.
• Extensive experience in writing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and analyzing Test Results.
• Extensive experience with SDLC, STLC and Defect Management Lifecycle.
• Worked extensively on Mercury/HP interactive Testing tools, Quick Test Professional (QTP), Win Runner and test management tools like Quality Center (QC) and Test Director (TD).
• Worked on QTP Data driven Automation framework model: Created Automation scripts in data driven Automation model QTP.QTP Keyword driven Automation framework model:Developed Keyword driven model using QTP tool.
• Worked on QTP Keyword driven Automation framework model:Developed Keyword driven model using QTP tool.
• Worked on QTP Hybrid driven Automation framework model:Developed Hybrid driven model using QTP tool.
• Experience in data validating testing using Aqua Data Studio 4.7.2
• Participated in Walk through meetings and interacted with BAs and end clients for better understanding system functionality and gathering business process requirements and preparing BRDs in UML for better testing to improve & maintain quality of teh application.
• Familiar with Web Services, Use Cases, UML and Data Flow diagrams.
• Extensive experience in functional Testing, End to End System Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Ad Hoc Testing, Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Expertise in performing backend data validation/testing using complex SQL queries to validate teh completeness, integrity and accuracy of data.
• Performed Data Driven testing in QTP for checking teh dynamic behavior of teh application and analyzed teh results.
• Experience with Regular expression, recovery scenario in QTP.
• Expertise in writing programming scripts using VB script.
• Participated in defect management process, track and retest defects found during testing until fixed.
• Process oriented, versatile and highly motivated team member with a positive attitude and teh ability to support multiple projects simultaneously.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, V - Model, Agile/Scrum

Languages: Java,J2EE,SQL, T/SQL, Visual Basic .NET,C,C++,C#

Databases: Oracle9i/11i,MS SQL Server, MYSQL, MS Access, DB2, TOAD, Aqua Data Studio 4.7.2

Operating Systems: MS DOS 6.0,Windows 98/NT/2000/XP,UNIX,Macintosh

Web Development: HTML, DHTML, VBScript, .NET, Flash, AJAX, XML web services

Testing Tools: QTP(9.5/10/11.0),SOAP UI 4.0, Mercury Win Runner, ITE Eclipse 3.6.0

Defect Tracking & Test Management Tools: HP ALM 11.0, HP Quality Center 11.0, Mercury Test Director

Servers: Web Logic, IIS, Web Sphere, Apache

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta

Senior QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked in agile development environment with frequently changing requirement and feature set and Participated in daily SCRUM meeting.
• Worked under waterfall development environment for regression testing
• Involved in Test Planning, Test Scenarios and Test Cases documentation along with some manual testing.
• Responsible for coordinated and executed teh testing of entire system in accordance with teh test plan.
• Regularly participated in Technical and Used Case review meetings for various functionalities in teh application.
• Involved in Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Involved in Internal and external review for functional requirements and Test case scenario and Test case designing.
• Developed test scenarios and test cases based on AID (Application Interface Design) and HLD (High Level Design).
• API Testing using SOAP UI and Eclipse ITE
• Responsible for sent DSR (Daily Status Report) for onshore and offshore to teh Test manager.
• Created and updated User stories and tasks in Rally Agile testing tool.
• Web Services testing using SOAP UI and ITE Eclipse.
• Regularly updated schema in WSDL builder tool and stored in SVN repository.
• Extensively used XML SPY to view and edit xml schema.
• Executed test cases for XML API in ITE Eclipse 3.6.0.
• Examined and validated application log files using Putty telnet (UNIX) and Splunk.
• Designed test cases for manual and automation testing, developed and maintained checklists for regression using QTP automation, functional and system testing of Billing and Provisioning module.
• Performed Data Driven testing in HP QTP 10.0 for checking teh dynamic behavior of teh application and analyzed teh results.
• Worked on QTP Keyword driven Automation framework model:Developed Keyword driven model using QTP tool.
• Performed recovery scenario to recover form unexpected events and errors those occurred during run session.
• Used VB scripting to develop test scripts in QTP for automation of Regression testing.
• Enhanced teh scripts in QTP by applying checkpoints, parameterizations, synchronizations point and data driven tests.
• Used regular expression in QTP to identify objects with varying values.
• Performed teh Back-End testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL statements on SQL Database.
• Join multiple tables for retrieving result and perform data validation and data integrity testing by writing SQL Queries.
• Logged Defects in HP ALM with priorities and co-ordinate with Development team for fixing.
• Recorded Defects/Tickets using Remedy.
• Generated Traceability matrix to map requirements, tests and defects.
• Created public reports using Dashboard, Excel Reports and Document Generator in Quality Center to help teh QA Manager and Project Manager in reporting Project status reports.

Environment: HP ALM (Quality center 11.0), QTP 10.0, Remedy, Rally, Post XML, Telegence, ITE Eclipse 3.6.0,WSDL builder, Aqua Data Studio 4.7.2, XML SPY 5, XML Web services, SOAP UI 4.0, Splunk 6.0, SharePoint, MS Office 2010, SVN, Windows 7, Putty, Oracle 10g.

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Organized multiple brain storming sessions with Business Leads in understanding teh Business logic's of teh Application.
• Worked in Waterfall and Agile SDLC Methodology
• Increased QA efficiency by improving process and facilitating communication to enhance visibility and understanding of need for QA.
• Performed functional testing after teh application is unit tested.
• Performed smoke testing, functional testing, integration testing, system testing and security testing for validating accuracy, reliability, stability and compatibility of teh application.
• Involved in teh creation of test plan and informal meetings with QA Team using HP Quality Center.
• Defined Test Strategy and developed Test Plan tree in Quality Center.
• Write test cases based on functional specifications and requirement documents.
• Defects were identified and reported to teh development team using HP Quality center.
• Analyzed test results by generating reports and graphs in Quality Center.
• Worked closely with Production Managers, Technical Managers and Business Managers in planning, scheduling, developing, and executing quick tests script.
• Determined user requirements and goals by conducting meetings.
• Analyzed Requirements specification and developed teh Quality Center Requirement tree.
• Wrote and executed SQL queries for backend testing.
• Checked teh data flow through teh front end to backend and used SQL queries, to extract teh data from teh database.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.
• Enhanced teh scripts in QTP by applying checkpoints, parameterizations, synchronization point, data driven tests, keyword driven tests and creating modular tests.
• Parameterized teh fixed values in checkpoint statements, created data tables for teh parameters and wrote functions for teh parameters to read new data from teh table.
• Created different QTP automated scripts to test functionalities.
• Created Projects and users in teh Administration in Quality Center and QTP.
• Created and executed Data Driven automation scripts using excel sheets using HP QTP.
• Created and executed Keyword Driven automation scripts using excel sheets using HP QTP.
• Generated reports in teh Quality center to show teh run status of teh test scripts and participated in teh meetings to walk through teh defect reports periodically.
• Involved in testing Web services and XML with tool called SOAP UI.
• Involved in batch testing for nightly build system.
• Worked closely with QA team and developers to clarify/understand functionality, resolve issues, provide feedback and tune teh entire development process.
• Conducted Integration testing, to make sure data was fed to teh downstream applications.

Environment: VB.net, Web Sphere, Quality Center 10.0, QTP 10.0, Windows XP, Excel, SQL Server 2008, ASP .Net, SOAP UI, JIRA 4.2

Confidential, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), Functional Requirement Specifications and use cases in teh initial phase of teh testing.
• Worked extensively with teh BAs to carry out Business analysis of teh complete project.
• Involved in teh preparation of test cases, communicating with software developers on quality issues following it with bug reports, developing, running and maintaining manual and automated test Scripts.
• Involved in developing requirement documentation for teh claim processing.
• Performed manual and automation testing: considering teh base line of developed test plan and test cases.
• Developed Manual test cases of teh complex parts of teh application and also verified teh functionality of teh application using business requirements.
• Involved in Preparation of Test Procedures, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Data.
• Prepared requirements traceability matrix to ensure that all requirements are covered with respective test cases using HP Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center for tracking, reporting and managing bug life cycle during testing process.
• Designed and Performed Functional, Regression, System, User Interface, Compatibility, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), for verifying overall application functionality.
• Worked on teh J2EE and ASP.Net frameworks for testing of teh application and closely worked on agile software development methodologies
• Worked on Data Driven and Keyword Driven Framework for Data driven testing and Keyword Driven Testing
• Coordinated with teh developers on Result and Defects Status on a regular basis.
• Involved in conducting biweekly meetings with team members to inform status of teh project to teh manager and documented teh progress.
• Constructively participated in all teh Team meetings, Review Sessions, and teh meetings with teh BAs, Database Administrators, and teh Developers.

Environment: Quality Center 10.0., MS Office, XML, MS SQL Server 2005, .Net, IIS 6.0, UNIX, C++, ASP .Net

Confidential, UT

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing business requirements and writing test plans accordingly for Billing System
• Involved in Designing and preparation of Test Cases.
• Actively participated in teh pre-testing that included review of teh requirement documents, studying teh use cases for developing test plans and collection of test data.
• Performed Black Box-white Box Testing, acceptance, system, end to end, positive, negative online transactions and regression testing manually.
• Developed Manual test cases of teh complex parts of teh application and also verified teh functionality of teh application using business requirements.
• Manually performed Regression testing, documented bugs and worked with development team to resolve issues, Report teh bugs by using Test Director.
• Created and executed Data Driven automation scripts using excel sheets using HP QTP.
• Created and executed Keyword Driven automation scripts using excel sheets using HP QTP.
• Used SQL queries for database verification.
• Performed Backend Testing by using SQL Queries for teh purpose of database integrity.
• Interacted with developers and business units for resolving issues with applications that fail testing.
• Modified previously existing test cases that were driven by teh manual testing effort so that they are more appropriate for future automation testing.
• Conducted result analysis and interacted with developers to resolve bugs.

Environment: C#, C#.net, ASP.net, Java Script, SQL Server 2005, SQL, Quality Center 9.0, QTP 9.0, Windows XP, CRM.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing requirements, creating detailed specifications, and writing teh Software Requirements Specification (SRS) document.
• Regularly participated in Technical and Used Case review meetings for various functionalities in teh application
• Performed Smoke, Functional, GUI, Regression, integration, regression, End to End and Production Verification testing.
• Organized and managed all phases of teh software testing process, including planning tests, executing tests and tracking defects.
• Designed Test Cases using Software Requirements Specifications, Business Requirements and High Level Design Documents and Executed Manual Tests.
• Performed Manual Testing using Quality Center.
• Extensively used Quality Centre to report Defects, analyze Defects and retested once it gets fixed.
• Tracked teh defects and reported teh defects using Quality Center.

Environment: Java, JSP, Oracle, HTML, XML, SQL, Quality Center 8.2, Windows XP.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed teh Test plan, which detailed teh testing scope, strategy, test requirements and necessary resources.
• Responsible in developing Test Cases with Test Director using it as a Test Management Tool.
• Performed manual testing to check on major functionality of AUT.
• Performed Functionality testing, Integration, Regression testing and GUI testing.
• Was responsible for conducting incremental integration, regression testing and Cross browser testing on an extensive basis.
• Performed back-end testing procedures using SQL statements to verify data integrity for some online customer interactions.
• Wrote SQL queries to extract various tables in different databases to validate test cases
• Used Test Director for managing teh test cases and test scripts.
• Organized and managed all phases of teh software testing process, including planning tests, executing tests and tracking defects.
• Involved in weekly meetings with teh development team to resolve technical issues.

Environment: C#, C#.Net, JavaScript, SQL server, Test Director, Windows XP