SUMMARY

• QA Consultant with over 5+ years of experience in Testing of software applications, with major emphasis on Software Quality Assurance Life Cycle, Validation & Verification and Load Testing in Windows and SQL Environments
• Extensive experience in reviewing Business Requirement Documents, Software Requirement Documents
• Skilled at driving development teams based on the test - driven strategies and successfully executing the same throughout the SDLC
• Have Good experience in the creation and maintenance of Master Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Scripts
• Experience in analyzing Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and System Design Specifications (SDS)
• Proficient in understanding the objectives behind Black-box testing and expending the efforts accordingly for optimal results
• Test expert at various levels/stages - Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing
• Expertise in developing automation test framework and creating function libraries
• Experience in sanity, backend, front-end, functional, integration, regression, smoke, cross browser, cross platform, QTP/UFT, performance and stress testing
• Experience in enhancing manual test cases according to the Functional and Business requirements
• Excellent skills in Bug Tracking and Reporting using Quality center
• Experience using query tools like SQL for Oracle
• Experience in Performance Tuning of SQL and Stored Procedures
• Extensive experience in Functional testing, Regression testing and User Acceptance testing
• Well versed in Application testing, Database testing and Front-end testing
• Experience in Financial, Banking and Securities industries
• Proficient experience in different Databases like Oracle, SQL Server
• Strong Problem Analysis & Resolution skills and ability to work in Multi-Platform Environments like Windows and UNIX
• Has expertise in Test Case Design, Test Tool Usage, Test Execution, and Defect Management
• Analytical ability combined with extensive experience in conception and execution
• Team Player with excellent interpersonal communication skills & technical documentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating systems: Windows 2000/NT/XP, and UNIX

Languages: C, C++, C#, JAVA, HTML, VB, PL/SQL

DBMS: Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2008, DB2, MS Access

Test Management Tools: Test Director, QTP 9.2/9.5/10.0/11.0 , Quality center 9.0/10.0, and HP ALM

Web Technologies: XML, HTML, Java Script, Vb script

Others: UNIX Shell Scripting, Perl, TOAD, MS Office, MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NYC, NY

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in project meetings and used leadership, analytical and problem solving skills to contribute to the quality of the product
• Execute Browser Compatibility Testing (Chrome, Safari) of a Web based application
• Interpret application architectures and identify areas for automation.
• Actively involved in automating test cases using QTP 11.0
• Parameterizedtest scriptsin QTP to pass data from different data sources like Excel spreadsheets, XML files and database
• Performeddata-driven testingby developing data-driven tests to validate the same test with multiple sets of test data.
• Create and execute End to End Use Stories for User Acceptance Testing
• Gather requirements from Business Analyst and analyze the requirements for testing prospective
• Ensure test data is properly identified, setup and availability of stub before execution of a test
• Execution of smoke tests on each build using QTP and reporting the results to management
• Replaced fixed values with parameters, to check the functionality of the application with multiple sets of data using QTP 11.0
• Generate reports on daily and weekly basis for defect reports and execution status
• Execution of smoke tests on each build using QTP and reporting the results to management
• Performedintegration testing & data validationsusingQTPfor various interfaces.
• Performed database testing to test data migration from different test environments
• Participate in daily and weekly scrum meetings
• Executed test cases to compare the actual result with expected results in accordance with business, technical and functional specs of the applications.
• Drafted detailed Test Steps to be followed for Test Automation using QTP 11.0

Environment: Manual Testing, Agile, HP Quality center 10.0, Microsoft Office, XML, QTP 11.0, C#, Vb script, Windows 7.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Functional Requirements Specifications, System Design Specifications and interacted with Business Analysts and developers for changes in requirements, if any
• Designed and developed detail Test Plan and Test Cases using functional requirements, Design Specifications document
• Walkthrough with Business Analysts and developers on the Test Plans that were designed
• Executed Test cases in the timely manner and Reported defects in Quality center
• Managed & scheduled all Manual and Automation scripts from HP Quality center 10.0
• Involved in converting manual test cases into automated scripts on HP QTP 9.5
• Created and maintained automated tests usingQTPby coding inVb script
• Involved in Functionality Testing (Black Box), Integration Testing, Regression Testing, End-to-End Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Documented major business processes and developed training material for knowledge transfer to end user
• Writing Data Driven Tests to validate the same scenario with different Test Data Performed tests on various features of Agile development process/Sprint testing
• Attending stand - up meetingand reporting the progress daily basis to the project owner
• Writing Data Driven Tests to validate the same scenario with different Test Data Performed tests on various features of Agile development process/Sprint testing
• Attending stand - up meetingand reporting the progress daily basis to the project owner.
• Involved in post-production validation
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries to extract the data from the database
• Used Vb scripting in QTP 9.5 to automate all the scenarios
• Created reusable Smoke test scripts for all UI flows, and Created Reusable actions for the regression test suite with QTP 9.5
• Developed a separate test script for payroll driver to make sure necessary payroll area and correct personnel number and schema have been populated for payroll run and for 3rd party posting.

Environment: SQL, XML, JAVA, UNIX, HP Quality center 10.0, QTP 9.5, Oracle, Windows 7, MS Office.

Confidential, Chattanooga, TN

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with Peers and Developers to clarify the issues related to Test Data, Test cases design Flow, Features and Functionality of application
• Performing the tasks of running test and defining test results
• In QTP designed Test Schedules and automatically executed test scripts utilizing the available features in Quality center 9.0
• Drafted detailed Test Steps to be followed for Test Automation using QTP 9.5
• Parameterizedtest scriptsin QTP to pass data from different data sources like Excel spreadsheets
• Extensively involved in developing Vb scripts for automation using QTP 9.5
• Creating and modifying functions for different functionality and add in Function library, Load this function library in each test
• Creating different Recovery scenarios and add it to in Recovery scenario folder in Quality center Test plan. Add recovery scenarios with tests.
• Performing responsibilities of object identification and performing Data Driven Testing
• Handling the tasks of running test, debugging, and enhancing applications.
• Handling unexpected events that occur during the Test Run.
• Performing Backend testing by creating and executing SQL queries.
• Performed browser (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari) and platform (Windows 7/Vista/ XP) compatibility testing in virtual machine environment.
• Developing test cases, test scenarios and user flows for various platform.
• The bugs detected were recorded and notified to developers and managers using HP Quality center
• Closely interacted with developers to fix bugs.
• Participated inCode Review, QAmeetings, Project status meetings and Defect tracking meetings.
• Evaluated and implementedQAprocess improvements for ongoing testing.

Environment: Vb script, QTP 9.5, HP Quality center 9.0, SQL Server 2012, Agile, Windows 7, Windows XP, Vista, MS office

Confidential

Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparing High Level Test Plan based on user requirement documents
• Involved in defining test objectives for the application and performed Manual Testing. Ability to design and manage test metrics and familiar to testing life cycle
• Conducted Functionality and Regression testing using QTP during the various phases of the product development
• Created and executed data driven test scripts in QTP 9.2
• Created automated scripts by including timers for recording response times, and test checks for confirming the retrieval of the correct page using QTP 9.2
• Customization has been done for regression testing by modifying QTP scripts using loops
• Also Enhanced the QTP Scripts by Parameterization and Library File
• Used Mercury Quality Center to run and scheduling the QTP test
• Participated in enhancement meetings focused on making the product more effective in real time scenario

Environment: HP Quality center, Vb script, QTP 9.2, HTML and CSS, JavaScript, SQL, UNIX, MS Office.