SUMMARY

• 6+ years of experience as Software Tester/Quality Assurance on applications related to Finance, Insurance and Big Data application.
• Performed UI testing (WPF UI/ Web Pages / Win Forms), Database testing/ Backend testing
• Expertise in working with ALM/Quality Center, Creating and Running SQL query on Oracle and SQL data bases
• Exposure to various testing methodologies, design of test plans and test cases and industry accepted documentation.
• Experienced working with SDLC and Agile methodologies.
• Experience in creating technical documents like Gap Analysis, Test Case templates, Effort Estimation, Traceability Matrix, Metrics, Defect Report and Test Summary Report
• Experienced in Web Services Testing using SOAP UI and analyzing Rest protocol.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Application Package: MS Office, MS Visio, XML

Databases / DB Tools: Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Toad, SQL Navigator, SQL Server 2000/2005, Hive, SQL

Desktop Tools: MS Outlook, Desktop Notepad, Net meeting, Remote desktop, PC Anywhere.

Testing Tools: Mercury Quality center, Rational clear quest, MS office, JIRA, ETL Tools - Talend.QTP/UFT

Methodologies & Testing Types: Agile testing, SDLC, RUP, Waterfall, Black Box Testing, White Box testing, Functional and System testing, Regression Testing, Back End Testing, Smoke testing, End to End testing, Usability Testing, Integration Testing, Alpha and Beta testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Tester/Analyst

Confidential, MA

Responsibilities:

• Performed Smoke testing,Browser Compatibility testing, GUI testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Ad -hoc testing,Web services (SoapUI and Foundation views) testing, Positive Testing, Negative testing, Database testing, End to End testing
• Interacted with various Business Analysts and Developers to design better test plan and Test strategy based on the requirements of the business
• Developed and executed test plans and functional test cases to test the screens and workflows. This is done by analyzing Use cases, Data Mapping documents, UML, and MS Visio for Quality Assurance using MS Excel and Mercury Quality center
• Worked on Testing of Web Application which uses Restful Web services, XML, DOM, JSON and AJAX features.
• Used SOAP UI, WebLogic ANT task to test Web Services running on WebLogic Server.
• Involved in developing Entry & Exit criteria across different environments and define pass /fail standards.
• Provided status to the product owners on testing progress and estimate the deadlines based on the project schedule.
• Identify test scenarios for regression testing and automation testing
• Executed automation scripts using UFT
• Played a lead role and participated in Daily Stand-up meetings, Defects Triage meeting and produced Test metrics documents during sprint closure
• Carried out Manual Testing with UNIX Shell scripts, SQL scriptsto validate ETL process using Hive
• Tested Data mapping, Data flow, GUI, and Functional testing on Tableau reports
• Interacted with Developers, System engineers, and testing teams to identify applications defects.
• Generated Requirement traceability matrix (RTM), Daily status, weekly reports, Bug status report, QA Status report and Risk analysis document.
• Produced test metrics and done defect management process using ALM.
• Helping the Business team in carrying out the User Acceptance Testing

Environment: Microsoft.NET, Share Point, Windows 7,Hive, TFS, ALM, Web services, XML, Windows 7, and Talend, Unix, Putty, UFT, SOAP UI

QA Tester/Analyst

Confidential, IA

Responsibilities:

• Performed Smoke testing, GUI testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Ad -hoc testing, Positive Testing, Negative testing, Database testing, End to End testing
• Hands on experience in Software testing and Quality Assurance with expertise in manual and executing automated testing.
• Analyzed the User/Business requirements, functional specs, Database mapping documents, ER diagrams, and Use Case documents
• Coordinate with the business analysts and developers and discussed issues in interpreting the requirement
• Created Test Plans, Test Cases to test the Screens and workflows for Quality Assurance using Mercury Quality Centre/ALM
• Involved in Web Services Testing using SOAP UI.
• Involved in developing Entry & Exit criteria and defined the pass and fail standards
• Conducted Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, System testing, Database Testing, Negative testing, Positive testing, Regression testing, End to End testing,, integration testing and coordinated UAT
• Execute test cases, analyze result and report and track defects, verify fixes and perform follow-up work to resolve issues.
• Wrote and executed SQL Statements to test Data Integrity, Data Mapping and Data flow
• Preparation of test strategy based on mapping documents.
• Preparation of Defect Report and Analyzing test results using Mercury quality center.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues
• Helping the Business team in carrying out the User Acceptance Testing
• Produced test metrics and done defect management process using ALM.

Confidential, IA

Responsibilities:

• Perform White Box testing, Black box testing, Smoke testing, Unit testing, Back-End Testing, Screen validation testing, Data driven testing, Positive, Negative testing, Browser compatibility testing, System testing, Regression testing, End to End testing, Functional Testing, Integration testing and coordinates UAT.
• Actively participated in requirement walkthroughs, design review and development review meeting.
• Analyzed business requirements and interact/coordinate with SMEs and developers to convert business requirements to testable requirements and provided input regarding requirement and their testability.
• Participated in creating Test Plans, Test Strategy which included a detailed description of the testing scope, user requirements, environmental needs, risk assessment, test coverage, and approach/methodology.
• Testing of Web Services using web services client generated using Apache Axis, SOAP UI, TCP Monitor to track request and response SOAP Messages
• Created manual test cases for functional, integration, system, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Participated in the test environment and data set up to successfully perform the required testing.
• Interacted with the Functional and the technical team in identifying and building test data for every release.
• Provided status to the product owners on testing progress and estimate the deadlines based on the project schedule.
• Prepared test conditions for business Signoff.
• Identify automation test scenarios and executed them using QTP
• Involved in testing of on-demand, ad-hoc and scheduled reports.
• Validating data-level security of the Business reports.
• Executed the test cases manually and analyzed the test results.
• Developed SQL Queries for database and back-end testing.
• Conducted manual data integrity testing using SQL queries.
• Investigated software bugs and maintained reports, tracked defects and also interacted with the programming team to resolve technical issues.
• Participated in testing status meetings and provided test status updates to the project management office.
• Documented System Test Summary report

Confidential, IA

Responsibilities:

• Developed and executed Test Plans, Test Cases to test the User Interface and workflows for Quality Assurance using MS Excel and Mercury Quality center.
• Involved and participated in Project planning, Change control meeting, Coordination and implemented QA methodology.
• Served a leading role in internal Agile transformation and in presenting the company's agile transformation to customers
• Used Clear Quest and Quality center for repository, reporting and tracking bugs, and provided updates on resolved bugs.
• Automate test scripts and suites to test Bloomberg Functions for Fixed Income Electronic Trading using proprietary automation script writer tool
• Developed baseline scripts and enhanced the scripts in Quick Test Pro
• Wrote SQL queries and UNIX shell scripts in Oracle Data Base Management system (DBMS) and SQL Server to create Data Set for QA or UAT.
• Done Web Service testing by analyze XML and SOAP request and response.
• Developed and executed regression test cases using QTP.
• Provided efforts estimate and coordinated the test schedule using Agile testing methodology in UAT phase.
• Worked closely with the Developers and Engineering Teams in the review and modification of the product and its specifications using Agile-testing methodology
• Coordinated with the Business analysts, External user and Developers and discussed issues in interpreting the requirement.
• Done defect management and reports using HP Quality Center, Issue manager, and JIRA
• Prepared Defect Report and analyzed test results using IBM Clear quest, Mercury quality center.

Confidential, DE

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business and system requirements, managed development of specifications to create and executed detailed test plans, and verify bug fixes.
• Performed Integration testing, Positive and Negative testing, System testing and Regression testing.
• Used SQL to validate Data Warehouse reports and data marts.
• Tested and analyze the ETL transformations via ETL tool-Ab Initio necessary to load the data warehouse

Environment: Java, Share Point, Windows 7,SQLdeveloper, TFS, QTP, Web services, XML, Windows, and Talend, Unix, Putty,QC, Clear Quest, SOAP UI