SUMMARY

• 6+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance of Web and client/server applications on Windows and UNIX platforms, expertise in analysis and design of applications. Well expert in both area of manual and automated testing, and currently seeking for a Quality Assurance/Software Tester /Software Test Engineer position to utilize my skills and further my experience.
• Experience wif focus on Quality Assurance/ Software Testing of Web based applications; Web based services, Client/Server and Mainframe applications.
• Experience utilizing two or more of the following automated test or test methodology tools: HP Quality Center, QTP, Rational Robot, Rational Functional Tester, Clear Case, and Clear Quest.
• Familiar wif SDLC, test phases, quality standards (ISO, CMM), practices and test methodologies.
• Experience wif supporting Test Life Cycles, Compiling Test Status Reports, Environmental Log, participating in Defect Status meetings, Project Status meetings and interacting wif Project Managers, Operations Teams and Engineers.
• Utilize Quality Center for maintaining the Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Execution, Defect Management, and Bug Reporting.
• Substantial experience in writing and executing Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts and working wif overall team to meet project goals.
• Proficient in different phases of testing: Smoke, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Black Box and Performance Testing.
• Experience wif Software Bug Tracking used PVCS Tracker, Quality Center, and Clear Quest.
• Ability to apply engineering approaches to solve problems and ability to utilize research methods, problem solving and resolution skills.
• Database Testing knowledge, especially Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.
• Develop SQL queries to collect Test Data and to perform Backend Testing.
• Develop Automated Test Scripts using QTP and automated various Business Flows for the application to perform Regression Testing.
• Clear and concise verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills including the ability to work in teams.
• Excellent Work wif technical documentation and reporting skills.
• Attention to detail, organized, good analytical and troubleshooting skills, and being a key team player are a must
• Knowledge of and adherence to Change Control procedures
• Ability to work independently, multitask and focus on critical path deliverables are essential skills for dis position

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: Quality Center, Quick Test Professional, Load Runner, Rational Robot, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Test Manager.

Languages: C++, J2EE, Visual Basic, Pl/SQL, VBS, JavaScript.

Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, XML, XSL, JavaScript, CSS, ASP, ASP.NET

Operating Systems: Windows XP/2000/98/95, Windows NT, Unix/Linux and MS - DOS

Databases: Oracle, SQL server, Access

CM Tools: VSS, Star Team, CVS, PVCS Tracker.

Others: MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Out Look.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Planning, Execution and Analysis of the project and also involved in creating Test Plan, Test Scripts and Test cases using HP Quality center
• Worked closely wif Team leads in planning, scheduling, developing, and executing tests by using HP Quality Center
• Written PERL scripts and UNIX Shell Scripts for various data comparison and data parsing needs.
• Defects identified in testing environment where communicated to the developers using defect tracking tool Mercury Test Director.
• Tested the Web applications involving Membership, Eligibility and Claims processing applications
• Performed GUI using Selenium.
• Worked on Onsite and Off-shore model by co-coordinating the testing teams off-shore and development team onsite.
• Excellent understanding of entire Software development life cycle(SDLC) and Software testing life cycle(STLC) including methodologies such as Waterfall, Iterative and Agile methodology .
• Expert in PERL, UNIX Shell Scripting and SQL writing for several technology needs.
• Developed Web Services for the product to interact their other application.
• Developed test cases based on functional specifications and design documents.
• Analyzed and maintained Requirement Traceability matrix (RTM) between Requirements and Test Cases.
• Extensively Used Quality Center, PVCS Tracker, Rational Clear Quest for Test Case and defect tracking management.
• Good experience in Data Modeling using Star Schema and Snow Flake Schema and well versed wif UNIX shell wrappers, KSH and Oracle PL/SQL programming.
• Involved in Manual, Negative, Positive, Integration and System Testing
• Designed, developed and executed Quick Test Pro VB scripts for functional and regression testing.
• Performed manual front-end testing to check all functionalities of different modules.
• Involved in Functionality, Integration, Regression, System, UAT (User Acceptance Testing) testing during various phases of the application.
• Strong Experience in data Maintenance and Support which uses Oracle 10g/9i databases, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL* Loader in windows NT and Unix environment.
• Extensively communicated wif developers using bug-reporting tool HP Quality Center.
• Having Daily meeting wif client for better understanding of requirements and Meet wif the off-shore team and guide them through the execution of all testing.
• Experienced in Object Repository, Object Identification set the Environment variables, Output value, Recovery scenario, Data Driven Test by using Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Participated in all QA review meetings.
• Call web service using AJAX.
• Defects identified in testing environment where communicated to the developers using defect tracking tool Mercury’s Quality Center.
• Maintaining and executing automation scripts using Selenium during different releases.
• Wrote some Generic Functions that deal wif different sets of data.
• Generated Reports, analyzed data according to the business needs.
• Written extensive UNIX Shell scripting for error logging, cleanup, data archiving and job scheduling
• Design and implement asynchronous messaging using JMS and Web Sphere MQ.
• Used Oracle SQL plus to test the integrity of data by querying the database.
• Performed back end testing by writing SQL statements using TOAD.
• Wrote SQL Queries and executed them using TOAD and SQL Editor.
• Used Quality Center for Test Plan, Defect tracking and so on.
• Prioritized defects and logged them in PVCS Tracker and coordinated their resolution wif the development team.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, PVCS Tracker, TOAD, HTML, Selenium, Java Script, XML, Java, JSP, EJB, Oracle, SQL Server, Web logic, Unix, Windows Server.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Documented Software requirements and developed Use Cases for various application level processes.
• Conducted Integration, Security, Data Driven, Regression and System testing on various versions.
• Setup and installed Rational components for automated testing environment, Rational Robot, Test Manager, Clear Quest, Clear Case, Requisite Pro and other required tools.
• Planned and managed test in Test Manager, Testing application wif Test Factory, Managed defects wif Clear Quest, managed requirements wif Requisite Pro and trained team members accordingly.
• Generated monthly financial reports for supervisors and customers using Crystal Reports.
• Researched and analyzed competitors and their evolving solutions.
• Wrote functional test plans and test cases using Rational Test Manager and Excel
• Developed automated test scripts using Rational Robot
• Oversaw requirements tracking process wif Rational Requisite Pro.
• Worked wif Rational Requisite Pro for use cases.
• Analyzed System Requirement Documents.
• Created, Executed and Enhanced test scripts.
• Extensively executed SQL Queries on Oracle Database to verify the data for Back-end.
• Attended periodic meetings, teleconferences and led discussions on problem resolution.
• Participated in the weekly team meeting actively.
• Effectively communicate testing activities and findings in oral and written formats

Environment: Windows, Java, JavaScript, HTML, SQL, Oracle, Win Runner, and Test Director.