SUMMARY

• Around 9+ years of experience in software testing processes like Test Planning, Test Case Design, Test Data Setup, Defect Management, Test log, Test results, Test Traceability Matrix, Test Automation, User Acceptance Testing.
• Extensive experience in reviewing and analyzing Business Requirements and writing detailed Test Plans, Test Cases.
• Extensive experience in Functional, Database, Mainframe as well as Automation testing in Client - server application, Web based application and Enterprise applications.
• Experienced in preparing and executing Test Plans, Test cases, Test Reports and Documentation for Manual testing.
• Extensive experience in conducting different kinds of tests such as Integration, Regression, Functional, System Testing, Black Box, White Box, UAT.
• Experience in testing database applications like My SQL and DBVisualizer by executing SQL Queries.
• Domain expertise in Banking, Insurance and Telecom.
• Experience in validating XML, Web Services, WSDL using SOAP UI Messaging.
• Excellent testing skills wif an urge to find hidden bugs.
• Maintaining teh Traceability Matrix, Test Data Matrix and Status report related to project.
• Performed feasibility, adaptability study and risk analysis to identify teh business critical areas from USER perspective and supported multi-tier applications.
• Expert knowledge and Experience of iterative Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile, Scrum, Waterfall.
• Experience in test management and defect tracking tools like HP Quality Center and JIRA.
• Well versed in analyzing Results, Bug Tracking & Reporting, detailed status reporting.
• Developed Test Scenarios and Test Cases using functional requirement documents.
• Extensive experience in coordinating testing effort, responsible for test deliverable, status reporting to management, issue escalations wif TEMPeffective client communication.
• Proficient wif Microsoft office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook)
• Strong team player wif ability to work productively in a team as well as individually.
• Excellent analytical, organizational and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software Testing: Pre Integration testing, System Integration testing, System testing, E2E testing, Regression testing, Sanity testing, User Acceptance testing

Domain: Banking Domain, Insurance Domain

Databases: Oracle 9x/10g, SQL Server 2005/2008, DB2

Database Tools: SQL*PLUS, TOAD, Informatica, SQL Navigator, DB Visualizer

Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center 11.0, Test director, JIRA

Software Methodologies: Water Fall, V model, Agile, Scrum

Software Tools: QTP, Test Director, Humming Bird, SOAP UI

Languages: UML 2.0, SQL, PL/SQL, C, C++, JAVA, C#.NET, VB.NET, ASP.NET, HTML

Operating Systems: Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/Windows7, MS-DOS and UNIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Boston, MA

Senior QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating Test Strategies, Test Plans, and Test Cases for QA Process Management.
• Responsible for liaison wif business groups, development team, implementation and training team and software vendors.
• Developed and executed system Test cases based on teh Functional and Technical requirements.
• Performed goal oriented exploratory testing, developed and executed test cases for functionality testing, security testing, integration testing and back-end testing.
• Used Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for designing and development of manual test cases.
• Reported and tracked defects using Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Designed, created and executed regression test scripts and suites for ALM using UFT/QTP.
• Coordinated wif offshore team in getting an Automated Regression Scripting Test bed created for ALM and actively involved in providing teh offshore team support and guidance.
• Used SQL quires and Stored procedures for back-end testing.
• Involved in writing SQL queries, Database Checkpoints to verify data quality and calculations.
• Monitored project plan execution and project metrics reporting.
• Review of designed Test cases wif teh requirements.

Environment: DB2, SQL, Database testing, HPQC, DB Visualizer, Webservices, SOAP UI, QTP, TOAD.

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Business Requirement analysis and test plan and test scenario development.
• Test script preparation (Manual and Automation).
• Review and integrating teh scripts written by team members.
• Worked on Backend testing by writing and execution of SQL queries and utilized data base tool DB Visualizer.
• Test script uploading to QC.
• Test coverage (Requirement - Test cases mapping) making in HP QC.
• Test execution in QC/QTP.
• Test result analysis, issues reporting and bug logging in HP QC.
• Regression test suit preparation.
• Performing GUI, Functional, Regression, Database and Security Testing.
• TEMPEffective coordination between development team and testing team.
• Review of designed Test cases wif teh requirements.
• Maintaining teh project related documents in Quality Center.
• Ensuring timely and defect free delivery.

Environment: DB2, SQL, Nortel VPN, HPQC, DB Visualizer, Webservices, SOAP UI, TOAD, Hummingbird (CICS), XML, Agile\Scrum.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of teh specifications provided by teh client.
• Communication wif customer for requirement clarification.
• Developing test plan and test scenario.
• Test script preparation (Manual).
• Review and integrating teh scripts written by team members.
• Writing query for SQL database.
• Test script uploading to HP QC.
• Test coverage (Requirement - Test cases mapping) making in HP QC.
• Test execution in HP QC/QTP.
• Test result analysis, issues reporting and bug logging in HP QC.
• Regression test suit preparation.
• Functional, Regression Database and Security Testing.
• TEMPEffective coordination between development team and testing team.

Environment: DB2, SQL, Nortel VPN, HPQC, DB Visualizer, TOAD, Agile\Scrum.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing teh requirement specification documents.
• Responsible to gathering of information from client, customers regarding to data and business processes and make proper documentation.
• Participated in all activities in all phases of Software development and test development life cycle.
• Responsible for verification and validation for all work products.
• Creation, execution of test cases and maintains proper documentation of results.
• Created and executed Functional and System Test cases manually and performed GUI, System Integration testing, Positive and Negative testing and functional, validation and user acceptance testing.
• Worked on Back end testing by writing and execution of SQL queries and utilized data base tool DB Visualizer.
• Prepared test cases and scenarios for all levels of test executions included Unit Responsible for Test management, defect management and risk analysis.
• Reported defect issues into teh bug reporting systems and followed up wif teh development team until resolved using HPQC.
• Involved in various testing phases like sanity, smoke testing and SIT.
• Actively involved in preparation traceability matrix documents.

Environment: Java, IBM Websphere Portal Server, Nortel VPN, HPQC.