SUMMARY

• Having 5+ years of experience in teh various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and experienced as a QA Tester in manual, automated and performance testing of Software, Financial, Insurance, and Banking Industries.
• Experience in creating functional documents for end users.
• Experience in client - server environment using various testing and Quality Assurance tools and methodologies.
• Involved in writing Test plans, Test cases and Test scripts and interacting with developers to resolve teh defects.
• Experience in Functional testing, System testing, Integration, Regression testing and Performance testing.
• Key expertise in automated testing using Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, Selenium and performance testing using Load Runner in Windows and UNIX Environment.
• Good Exposure to Functional, Usability, Regression Testing, System Testing, UAT testing.
• Excellent skills in overall Defect Management/Problem solving including tracking defects, reporting using Quality Center.
• Experience in Software Quality Assurance and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as well as software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) for various web based and Client/Server applications.
• Knowledge in Descriptive programming using VB Script
• Hand on experience with SQL query with Relational database ORACLE and Access
• Strong noledge of Software Development Life Cycle Methodologies like Waterfall, Spiral, RUP and Rapid Application Development (RAD), Agile Methodologies
• Ability to interact with developers and business analysts regarding testing status and defect tracking
• Ability to handle projects independently or in a group
• Self-motivated and detail-oriented

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Quality Center 8.2/9.0/9.2/10.0 , Quick Test Pro 9.1/9.5/10.0/11.0 , JIRA

Environment: Windows XP/NT/2000/2003/7, UNIX

Methodologies: RUP, Waterfall, RAD, Agile

Languages: C/C++, HTML, XML, SQL, PL/SQL

Web & App Servers: Web Logic Server 6.1/7.0, IIS 5.0 and Java Web Server

Databases: Oracle 9.x/11.x, MS-Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Attended daily standup meetings by following Agile methodology
• Performed Functional, System, and Regression testing of a web based application working in an Agile environment.
• Involved in developing detailed test strategy, test plan, test cases using Quality Center for Functional, Navigational, and Regression Testing.
• Performed Smoke Testing on teh application before accepting teh build for a major testing effort.
• Usage of QTP’s Data Driven Framework, various GUI Check points, Synchronization points and performed Exception Handling in QTP scripts.
• Usage of Descriptive programming and VB-Script (QTP) to enhance script performance.
• Mapped teh custom objects to teh standard objects where necessary and inserted Bitmap and Text Checkpoints where needed, to compare teh current behavior of teh application being tested using QTP.
• Used Mercury Quality Center for Scheduling and executing test sets, collecting test results, analyzing teh data and involved in preparing requirements traceability matrix.
• Formulate methods to perform Positive and Negative testing against requirements.
• Logging and managing teh defects in Quality Center.
• Work with developers on resolving defects by providing detail test steps, logs, screenshots.
• Work closely not only with internal team but external teams BAs, Developers to meet deadlines.
• Participated in Change Request meetings and implemented procedures for test changes.
• Conducted Peer Reviews for every release of teh application.
• Provided management regular status on QA activities with various test metrics: Requirement to test case to test execution to defect traceability matrix, Reports and Schedules as necessary and participated in teh design walkthroughs and meetings.
• Developed SQL Scripts to query teh database and verify against teh GUI results.
• Used database checkpoints to verify teh data in teh application with dat in database and across different versions of teh application.
• Provide support including after hours and weekends.

Environment: QTP 10, Quality Center 10, VB Script, TOAD, Oracle, Java, Web HTTP/HTML, PL/SQL

Confidential, Crystal Lake - IL

QA Analysts

Responsibilities:

• Attended daily standup meetings by following Agile methodology
• Prepared test plan, test cases and test strategy document from teh collection of use case documents and submitted to teh business for review and approval
• Involved in testing effort estimation along with development team and submitted in teh baseline presentation for further business approval
• Used manual testing to perform functional testing, black box testing for data validation
• Involved in performing back-ending testing by writing SQL statement
• Performed functional, integration, regression testing by QTP
• Reviewing, analyzing results, risk assessment and defect tracking by Quality Center
• Performed bug logged in and management and Defect Report (functional and non-functional).
• Interacted with developers to report bugs
• Used Bug Tracker tool Jira to track teh bugs
• Responsible for weekly status to show teh progress of teh testing effort

Environment: Windows-XP, Jira, Confluence, Quality Center 10.0, QTP 11.0, Java, XML and HTML, Oracle.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended daily SCRUM meetings by following agile methodology
• Developed test cases with functional requirements, technical specification and use cases
• Worked with Business Analyst regularly for developing test cases from teh Business Requirements
• Prepared detailed test schedule, test plan, test cases and test data documents and sent it for business review
• Reviewed requirements and related clarifications for teh defined scope and worked with teh development team to make design improvements and refinement
• Performed regression testing by using QTP and Selenium
• Created VB scripts using Descriptive programming in QTP
• Gatheird test data and documented UAT scenarios
• Performed Manual Testing on teh User interface
• Performing Functional, Integration, Regression testing and viewing, analyzing results, risk assessment and defect tracking, defect reporting and documentation
• Performed Performance testing with load runner
• Managed and analyzed defects and provided defect summary to stake holders
• Updated test reports, test summary reports, defect and build reports

Environment: Windows Azure, ASP.Net MVC3, QTP 11.0, Quality Center 10.0, JQuery, C# 4.0, SQL Server 2008, TFS2010.

Confidential, NY

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in SCRUM meetings since this project followed agile methodology
• Acted as a point of contact regarding defect status / resolution for teh Development team, QA team and teh clients.
• Coordinated teh testing activities to complete System, Integration, Regression and End to End testing for multiple projects which followed Rapid Application Development (RAD) within teh schedule.
• Created Test Plans utilizing teh customer request documents for identifying specific business requirements.
• Performed Data Driven testing using QTP.
• Performed Manual Testing
• Performed Cross Browser testing using IE and Firefox in Windows Environment.
• Utilized Quality Center for Defect tracking system
• Created test cases as per requirements and mapped test cases with requirements and executed test cases in Test Lab in Quality Center
• Automated test cases using QTP and worked onBPTcomponent of Quality Center to create quality scripts
• Created VB scripts using Descriptive programming in QTP for Regression Testing
• Performed Load test for critical scenarios using Load Runner

Environment: Quality Center 9.2/10.0, Dot Net Frame work, BPT, SQL Server, QTP 9.5, Load Runner 9.5/11.0, Java, Oracle, Web services, HTTP/HTTPS, TCP/IP, QTP 10.0/11.0

Confidential, New York, NY

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended daily SCRUM meetings since this project followed agile methodology
• Provided QA work leadership and oversight for assigned projects
• Coordinated between QA Manager and Developers
• Involved in requirements gathering when manual test cases are lacking and requirements are insufficient to build automated scripts.
• Implemented Keyword driven QTP Framework.
• Assisted with teh test Defects Analysis and Management
• Provided briefings and presentations of testing related aspects.
• Used Quality Center for writing Test Cases, Test Plan based on Business Requirements
• Used Load Runner for teh Performance Testing
• Performed Manual Testing.
• Performed functional testing using QTP and regression testing using Selenium
• Used Quality Center for Defect Tracking, Evaluating and Reporting.
• Reviewed project requirements and convert into testing requirements.
• Supervised a small resource team.
• Ensured dat risks and issues are managed and communicated efficiently.

Environment: Windows XP, ASP.Net, Java, SQL Server, Visual Source Safe 6.0, Load Runner 8.1, Quality Center, QTP 9.0 /QTP 9.2