SUMMARY

• Around 6 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, Quality Control, and actively involved in analysis, design and Quality Assurance of Client - Server & Web applications on UNIX & Windows Platforms.
• Extensive experience in Manual and Automated testing.
• Expertise in Software Quality Assurance Life Cycle, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience working in different application development methodologies such as Waterfall, FDD (Feature-driven Development), TDD (test-driven Development) and agile compliance development processes.
• Extensively used automated Testing Tools such as Mercury Interactive Test suite (Win Runner, QTP, Test Director/Quality Center, Load Runner) & Selenium, TestNG, SOAP UI in both Windows/UNIX environments.
• Extensive experience in testing code using Fitnesse.
• Extensive experience in Analysis/Review/Recommendation of Business Requirement Specification (BRS) and System Requirement Specification (SRS) and Assessment of its Testability.
• Extensive Experience in preparing Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test cases based on Business Requirements and Technical Specifications.
• Extensive experience in Functional, Regression, Integration, Smoke, Black Box/White Box, Backend/Database and User Acceptance testing (UAT) methodologies.
• Synchronized BPM Pega test strategy with existing testing practice of the organization.
• Managed Pega Test Frame work and Pega Test Suite.
• Experience in SAP TAO, QTP & HPQC (ALM), Execution & designing the test scripts as per the application behavior.
• Experience in SAP testing with QTP Automation and also BPT.
• Expertise in writing Test Cases, Executing & Reporting Bugs into different defect trackers such as Quality Center, Test Director, Clear Quest, PVCS Tracker.
• Expertise in VB Script, UNIX and Shell Scripting.
• Experience in Back-end testing using SQL, PL/SQL in various Relational Database - Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and trouble-shooting skills.
• Experience in Web and Object Oriented Technologies.
• Strong experience in testing Web services using SOAP UI.
• Worked with Data Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL).
• Expert in implementing / suggesting best practices and Understanding the complexity of the application, collecting the client’s requirements and providing the software solution to achieve their quality standards.
• Experience in Banking/Financial, Healthcare, e-commerce, Automobile and Insurance domains
• Have good interpersonal skills, committed, result oriented self-starter, quick learner and hard working.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: C, Python, SQL/PL SQL, T-SQL, Java/J2EE, JavaScript, Fitnesse Fixtures, VB Script, C#.NET, VB.NET, ASP.NET, Perl script, and Shell scripting.

Testing Tools: QuickTestPro 10/9.5/9.2/8.0 , WinRunner 9.2/9.0/8.0/7.5 , LoadRunner9.2/9.0/8.0, PVCSTracker, TestDirector9.0/8.0/7.5, QualityCenter 9.2/8.2/10, Fitnesse and Selenium/TestNG, SOAP UI, Clear Case, Version One, and Clear Quest.Test Link

Databases: Oracle 8i/9i/10g, MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 , MySQL, DB2, MS Access, Teradata.

Web Technologies: XML, XSL, XSLT, CSS, Java Script, HTML, DHTML.

Application/Web servers: Web logic, IBM Web Sphere, Apache Tomcat 5.0/6.0, JRun, JBoss.

Operating Systems: Windows 98/NT/2000/2003/XP, UNIX, LINUX.

Office Tools: MS-Access, office, Excel, MS Project, Visio, Power point, MS-Outlook, Lotus Notes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Waukegan IL

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analysed Business Requirements and Technical specifications for creating and implementing a test approach with effective test strategies.
• Involved in all phases of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Prepared Test Plan from the requirements, Scenarios and supporting the testing procedures.
• Documented all the requirements in the test plan module of the Quality Center.
• Responsible for creating Test Scenarios, Test cases and Test scripts based on functional requirements and design documents.
• Executed Automated test scripts using Selenium RC and C#.
• Developed and created automated Python scripts for test harness, which includes PSM - PSM Client Interface and supports different functionalities: UNS location Service, Authentication Service, etc.
• Developed test automation programs for HD video conferencing products using Java/JUnit 4, Selenium, and Android instrumentation.
• Prepared automated test cases in Java/JUnit 4 and Selenium for telnet, REST web services, web UI, Android UI.
• Better optimized the simulation of a PS LTE system model using Python and C++.
• Developed automation scripts in Quick Test Professional (QTP) to automate smoke and regression testing. Automate test data load for every build cycle.
• Converted manual test scripts to automated test scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Involved in designing the framework to integrate HP ALM to cucumber using the newly released version of HP ALM rest API.
• Tested Pega XML, SOAP, MQ, Clipboard, Harness, PAL etc.
• Tested using Pega Test Management Framework
• Worked on open source tools like Soap UI, Test Link.
• Tested Web services using Soap UI.
• Created scenarios and test suits using Soap UI.
• Performed Load and Stress for REST API and SOAP API.
• Create the Test plan, Test strategy and Test cases using Test link.
• Tested mobile apps in iOS and Android systems using mobiles phones/iPads/Note books manually.
• Involved in writing test scripts using java and executed it through selenium cucumber.
• Enhanced and tested the VB Scripts using checkpoints and synchronization points.
• Create automated smoke and regression Test suite using QTP.
• Identify the performance requirements and create the load and stress test environment using Load Runner.
• Extensively used SOAP UI to test the java based Web services.
• Involved in different phases of testing which includes Business Functionality, Unit, Integration, Performance, Positive, Negative and UAT.
• Gained a solid grasp of Internet Protocols: TCP/UDP and a good understanding of application level SIP message.
• Performed database testing with SQL queries to verify data integrity using QTP.
• Used Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting and also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.
• Performed extensive Back-End testing by writing and executing SQL/PL SQL queries on the database-using SQL Query Analyser.
• Developed SOQL and SOSL queries to get data from different related objects.
• Responsible for understanding the data migrating requirements and analyze data to be loaded from legacy systems to Salesforce.com.
• Integrated SFDC with Oracle ERP for order management system using Informatica.

Environment: QTP 9.2/10, Quality Center 11, Cucumber, Load Runner 9.5, SQL/PL SQL, SQL Server 2005/2008, SQL Query Analyser, Java/J2EE, Java/Junit, VB Script, Oracle 10g, Web sphere Application server 7, Unix/Linux & Windows 7/XP, SOAP UI, C#, Python, Selenium, MS Excel.

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements and technical specifications for creating and implementing a test approach with effective test strategies.
• Executed Automated test scripts using Selenium RC and C#.
• Involved in all phases of SDLC, and played important role in testing phase.
• Participated in defining and executing test strategies using Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology.
• Extensively utilized the expertise in Visual Basic to develop QTP scripts where here recording would not yield better evaluation.
• Performed both manual & automated testing.
• Develop automated scripts using QTP for GUI, Functional, Smoke, Regression and Back-end testing by writing user defined functions and inserting applicable checkpoints and Automate test data load for every build cycle.
• Examined MySQL Queries performance with Junit.
• Performed unit testing using JUnit 3, Easy Mock Testing Framework for performing Unit testing.
• Performance testing for RESTful API to identify bottleneck in the workflow using Junit.
• Performing Regression test using automated testing tool QTP, Fitnesse and Selenium.
• Parameterized the scripts in QTP to run the scripts for multiple sets of data.
• Field Validations are handled dynamically at the script level by writing the Database connectivity and validation functions.
• Worked on open source tools like Soap UI, Test Link.
• Involved in creating automation test scripts usingselenium, cucumber built on Eclipse IDE.
• Triggered the automation jobs using Jenkins to get the cucumber JSON reports.
• Tested mobile apps in iOS and Android systems using mobiles phones/iPads/Note books manually.
• Wrote automated Selenium WebDriver tests for Chrome and Firefox in Python for a complex Backbone.js application with a Pyramid API
• Developed and maintained test automation tools to increase the testing efficiency for HP Storage products with Perl, Python, C/C++.
• Created Load Runner scenarios using Web/HTTP virtual user scripts to carry out load, performance and capacity testing.
• Record virtual user scripts to emulate user actions from a web browser. Create custom scripts to generate web custom requests for XML requests over HTTP.
• Used verification points and conducted Data Driven test with the Test Data set using QTP.
• Used Quality center to track the defects and coordinated with corresponding development teams to resolve the issues.
• Performed manual testing of the application to test the system for both the functional and business requirements for positive and negative scenarios.
• Documented process flows, process dependencies, and production environment configuration.

Environment: Load Runner 7.51/8.0, QTP, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Quality Center, Visual Studio, Web Sphere, Windows, VB Script, C#, Python, Jenkins, Oracle, SQL, J2EE (Java 2.0, EJB 2.0, JSP 1.2, Servlets), Java/Junit, Selenium and Fitnesse, Clear Case and MS Excel, MS Visio, Windows 2000/ XP, UNIX.

Confidential, Sanjose, CA

Sr. QA Analyst with Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the Business Analysts, UI Designer, System Designer and all the vendors involved in the application to come up with the Testing Strategy and the detailed Test Plan.
• Reviewing the business, functional, technical and performance related requirements to endorse their testability.
• Worked with System Designer, Developers, DBAs and the Test Environment Analysts to develop the Test Topology.
• Created VB Scripts and set up test data to execute the automated test cases using QTP.
• Used Quality Center as a repository for Test Cases and for Defect Tracking.
• Identified and resolved all testing related Issues, Risks, and Dependencies of the project during the testing phase.
• Conducted the Daily-Defect/ Status meetings to effectively triage the defects and to drive the testing effort past the potential road-blocks if any.
• Assisted the Business Analyst to complete the acceptance testing.
• Worked with Selenium/TestNG tools to automate and execute the Rich User Interface test cases.
• Used JUnit Testing Framework for performing Unit testing.
• Database testing by writing complex SQL Queries through SQL Script. Extensive use of SQL Query to perform data integrity testing.
• Run SQL queries and Stored procedures for data base testing for the verification of results retrieved and check the data table updates after test execution.
• Generated Vuser scripts for Web services (XML/SOAP request)
• Performed Load testing, Stress testing, Ad-hoc testing, Integration testing, End-to-End testing, Performance testing, System testing, and UAT.
• Helped the automation testing team in creating automated scenarios for functional, security and GUI testing with valid and invalid data.
• Providing the daily testing-status reports, testing metrics with the detailed Quantitative analysis to the Test Management.
• Document problem tickets and ensure appropriate follow through to resolution.
• Coordinated and worked with offshore team to escalate the defects and resolved.

Environment: QTP 9.0/9.2, Quality Center 9.5/10, Manual, Load Runner 9, SQL/PL SQL, SQL Server 2005, Java/J2EE, Java/Junit, Oracle 10g, VB Script, MS Excel, Web sphere Application server 7, Selenium, TestNG, SOAP UI, XML, XSLT, HTML, Unix & Windows 2003/XP.

Confidential - Fredericksburg, VA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed System Requirements Specifications and developed appropriate Test Plans, Test Cases and executed testing.
• Documented all the requirements in the test plan module of the Test Director.
• Developed the test cases for Screen UI testing for all the Screen Labels.
• Installed, Administered, Customized and Maintained the Test Director Environment.
• Manually tested the whole application before going onto automated testing.
• Extensively used QTP automation tool to automate the execution of test cases for various applications.
• Tested the application using work sprints in an agile environment.
• Used Clear Quest for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.
• Worked on the high level framework, identifying the functional areas and created different functions to make the scripts reusable in Win runner.
• Create scenarios and VUser scripts and run those scripts from various generators. Insert rendezvous points to test the performance of the application at concurrent load, correlating the dynamic values passed from the server to the client and analyze the results using Load Runner.
• Performed extensive Back-End testing by writing and executing SQL queries on the database-using Oracle TOAD.
• Contributed to design, analyzed and conducted back-end testing using SQL scripts on a database developed from Data Mining.
• Tested Functionality Testing, Usability testing and Interface testing for multiple Web Applications created in Java.
• Involved in different phases of testing includes Functional, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Performance Testing, Positive/Negative Testing and UAT.
• Managed and executed the test process, using Rational Unified process.
• Used Quality center to track the defects and coordinated with corresponding development teams to resolve the issues for one of the sub-application.

Environment: Win runner, Test Director, Manual Testing, QTP, Clear Quest, Quality Center, Load Runner, Rational Unified Process (RUP), SQL/PL SQL, Oracle, Java/J2EE, UNIX Shell Scripting, Perl, HTML, XML, Agile Methodology, MS Office 2007, MS Excel & Windows 2000/XP.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full life cycle of the application.
• Involved in preparing Test plan, Created test cases and responsible for executing the Test scripts.
• Defined and continued to evolve QA Test strategy, performance benchmarks, reliability testing and automation technologies resulting in scalable and reliable quality product.
• Participated in QA Team meetings and walkthroughs or weekly QA testing reviews.
• Developed use case driven test scripts using Test Director.
• Used Quality Center to manage the requirements and execute test scripts.
• Created automated VB scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Executed load and performance tests using Load Runner.
• Involved in Module, Integration, Functionality and Regression testing.
• Participated in System Testing, UAT Testing including working with the users to ensure a satisfactory User Acceptance Test is performed.
• Involved in White Box, and Black Box Testing
• Wrote Test cases and Test scripts for the GUI, functional and integration testing.
• Performed Bug Reporting or Defect tracking using Quality Center/Test Director.
• Recorded and programmed quick test scripts through the expert view, by adding conditional statements, loops and other user-defined functions.
• Used SQL queries through Oracle Toad to check the database records.

Environment: Waterfall, Quality Center/Test Director, QTP, Manual Testing, Load Runner 7.0, Toad, Oracle 9i, SQL, PL/SQL, Java/J2EE, XML, HTML, DHTML, Web Sphere, UNIX & WinNT.