SUMMARY

• Over 6 +years of diverse experience in the field of Information Technology with emphasis on Software Quality Assurance.
• Experience in all phases of Software Test Life cycle, which includes gathering Test Requirements, Setup Test Environment, Write and Execute Test Cases, Report and Follow - up Defects
• Extensive knowledge of full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) & Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
• Experience in using automated tools like Quick Test Pro/HP Quality Center
• Participated in Smoke Testing, Black box testing, White box testing, GUI testing, System Testing, Browser Compatibility Testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Executed Automated Testing Scripts using Mercury Quick Test Professional, Win Runner and Load Runner
• Involved in Data Driven, Synchronization and Parameterization in Automation
• Expertise in Process Management using Quality Center to document Test Cases and conduct triage meetings to resolve issues
• Well versed with different software methodologies like Waterfall, Agile, and Scrum
• Experience working directly with Users / Customers and Business Analysts to identify and analyze defects and develop workable solutions
• Performed Integration, regression, functional and User Acceptance Test(UAT)
• Excellent knowledge in Sybase, DB2 and Oracle Database Systems and Unix Platform
• Experience working with huge volumes of data, analyzing record sets for Data Quality, Data Validation and Metrics using SQL and / or PL/SQL
• Extensive domain knowledge in Insurance, Banking and Finance
• Excellent technical writing skills with hands on experience creating Business Requirements, Functional Specifications, Mapping Documents, E-R Diagrams, Test Plans, Test Scripts and Status Reports
• Expertise in QA Test Plans/Procedures/Documentation, technical writing and reporting, Development Lifecycle and methodologies
• Ability to work independently and perform the jobs successfully meeting the deadlines
• Has good inter personal, communication and analytical skills
• Well Organized and ability to communicate effectively with team members and associates

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Web Technologies: HTML, VBScript

Testing Tool: QTP 11

Languages: C,C++, PL/SQL, SQL, Perl

RDBMS: Oracle 11i/10g/9i, MS SQL Server, Sybase

Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center 10

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/7, UNIX

Misc Tools: JIRA, PR-Tracker

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering Business Requirements, Functional Requirements and Design Documents.
• Performed Functional, Negative, Positive, Integration, Regression, End to End and User Acceptance Testing.
• Extensively involved in writing and designing templates for the Test Plans and Test cases.
• Identified the Test Cases and documented them in Quality Center.
• Analyzed and Developed Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Expected Test Results and Test Procedure from functional requirement for different modules.
• Involved in creating the Traceability matrix based on Functional requirement in each module.
• Base-line and Regression tests were scheduled and performed on every Release and build.
• Supported End-to-end testing for downstream systems.
• Worked with batch jobs, monitoring and scheduling jobs using Autosys.
• Involved in testing the pre and post implementation of the web application.
• Created and loaded the Test data into HP Quality Center to prepare for the execution of Test Cases.
• Regularly followed up with the development team to discuss the defects identified during Testing.
• Responsible for writing, executing and debugging PL/SQL queries to perform data completeness and correctness.
• Involved with Test Coverage Metrics and Defect metrics such as Defect Density, Delivered Defect Density, Defects by Severity, Number of Defects, and Defects per build, Defect Fix Rate, Test Case Utility, Test Effort and various other measurements.
• Interact with end users and coordinated User Acceptance testing with final users.
• Used Quality Center to store all testing results, metrics, implemented Test plan Document, created Test Cases, Defect Tracking & Reporting.
• Expertise in generating the daily defect detailed report using Quality Center for the other project stake holders and the project Management.
• Involved in testing Web services using SOAP UI.
• Responsible forData Conditioning of the data in different formats like flat files, Excel, xml tobe compatible with the system to satisfy the conditions for our Test Scenarios

Environment: HP Quality Center, Oracle, Java, JavaScript, SOAP UI, Windows 2008, MS Word, MS Access, Excel, Unix

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing requirements, creating test scenarios, executionoftest cases, raising and loggingdefectsandidentifying regression test cases
• Participated in Functional Testing, System Integration testing (SIT), Regression Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Created test data and mocking feed files for testing different functionalities of the application
• Prepared test plan, test scenario and test coverage matrix
• Automated manual test cases to the existing automation framework in QTP 11.0 in Expert view (VB script functions)
• Responsible in writing complex SQL queries to test data integrity.
• Proficient in PL/SQL database systems.
• Experience in shell scripting and Unix.
• Interacting with team on need basis and providing timely solutions
• Responsible forData Conditioning of the data in different formats like flat files, Excel, xml tobe compatible with the system to satisfy the conditions for our Test Scenarios

Environment: QTP, HP Quality Center, Oracle, Java, JavaScript, Windows 2008, MS Word, MS Access, Excel, Unix

Confidential, Fort Washington, PA

QA TESTER

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business requirement documents with the business and development team to understand the architecture and functionality of the application.
• Maintained allQA documentation like Test Plan & Test Summary, execution details, defect creation and tracking using Mercury Quality Center/ ALM.
• Used Quality Center,ALMfor preparing the Test Plans and manual Test Scripts.
• Executed Test cases using Quality Center/ ALM.
• Bugs were reported to developers using Quality Center. After rectification from developers, Regression testing was performed.
• Created Test Scenarios based on business requirements and participated in Walk through of test plans and test cases.
• Tested web services, XML, WSDL using SOAP UI tool.
• Tested web services providing required input data to request XML and validate response XML.
• Performed GUI, Functional Testing, Usability Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, Security Testing, Integration Testing, Alpha and Beta Testing
• Performed backend testing using ORACLE
• Effectively communicate with the development team for any issues in the fixing the bugs.
• Involved in preparation of Test plans, created test cases and responsible for executing the Test scripts.
• Performed Functional testing,UAT (User Acceptance Testing)and System Testing.
• Executed automated scripts for Functional and Regression testing
• Enhance the automation scripts using synchronization points, check points, output value, GetROProperty and Parameterization techniques
• Added recovery scenarios to recover the automated scripts from unexpected events
• Involved in testing of the Application manually and tested the design and functionality of the application

Environment: Html, Java, VB.Net, WebSphere, Oracle, Windows 2000/NT,SOAP UI, Quality Center 10.0, ALM11.0, Quick Test Pro 10.0

Confidential

QA TESTER

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plan, Test cases, test scenarios, expected results and prioritized tests.
• Wrote test cases, test conditions and test scripts in MS-Excel and exported to Quality Center
• Worked on Test scenarios for GUI, Functionality, Security, Database and Regression Testing
• Executed the test cases and compared the expected results with actual results
• Extensively involved in the Validation of mapping between Source and the Target data being loaded into data warehouse
• Good understanding of the physical and logical data modeling, dimensional and relational schemas
• Involved in the validation of transformations applied on source data to load target tables
• Extensively used SQL for retrieving data used for the data warehouse, Data Driven Tests to validate the same scenario with different test data
• Wrote SQL queries for database verification and validation of tables which were loaded through ETL process.
• Good knowledge of white box testing
• Extensively used SQL to retrieve the suitable data from database and validate the data quality
• Extensively worked on the testing of reports generated using Business objects
• Attend the Test case review meetings and requirements walkthroughs.
• Responsible for closing the defects being fixed
• Involved in the preparation of test summary
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Analyzed the business requirements and created Test cases for Funds Transfer Module, Portfolio
• Management module, Equity modules.
• Execution of the test case as well as reporting of the bugs
• Performed System Testing and Integration testing of the application
• Create defect report and circulate among the distribution list.
• Chase up for the defect to be fixed with integration teams.
• Assisted and worked with Business users during User Acceptance Testing

Environment: Windows Server, Java, JSP, Oracle 9i, Quality Center, QTP.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Conducted discussions and meetings with designers to get a better understanding of the application on both the technical and business perspective.
• Reviewed the Design Document with the whole project team in order to make sure the requirements are feasible to implement and testable.
• Was involved in weekly walkthrough and inspection meetings to verify the status of the testing effort and the project as a whole.
• Designed Functional Test Cases based on Use Cases using Microsoft Excel.
• Performed different types of Testing including GUI Testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing and Regression Testing.
• Executed SQL queries to test the different scenarios in the application.
• Detected bugs and logged and classified them based on the severity using Microsoft Excel.
• Generated Automated Test Scripts for Regression testing using QTP and executed the Test Scripts.
• Created QTP scripts with Local and Shared Object repositories and maintained them in Object Repository Manager.
• Created Scripts using custom VB script functions by creating external function library.
• Handle exceptions using Recovery Scenario Manager.
• Interacting with the developers on a regular basis for application updates and enhancements

Environment: .NET, SQL SERVER 2005,SQL, Microsoft Excel, QTP