SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience in Information Technology Industry with emphasis on Quality Assurance & Software Testing in Client/server and web based Applications with Manual Testing, Quick Test Professional (QTP) and Load Runner.
• Possess excellent skills in Automation Testing using Mercury (Win Runner, Load Runner, QTP, Quality Center and Test Director), Rational Robot, Segue (Silk) and Compuware (QA Run, QA Load) tools along with Manual Testing dat involves the whole Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience in integration of various data, Data Conversions of sources like Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MS Access and Flat files into the Staging Area using the tool DataIntegrator. Extensively worked with materialized views, IDE TOOLS and TOAD.
• Experienced in analyzing Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and System Design Specifications (SDS).
• Involved in development of Test Process, developed automation testing requirements, prepared test scripts, running tests, reported status of the tests.
• Experience In testing Stand Alone, Web Based Applications, Client Server Applications
• Experienced as a Software Engineer in Test: developed software programs and scripts extensively for integration and unit testing of vast number of standalone and distributed GUI - based applications and GUI-less SOA Web Services.
• Experienced in test management and defect tracking tool Quality center.
• Viewed reports and dashboards dat display the status of test coverage including the number of test cases passing, failing or pending
• Excellent knowledge of various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with emphasis on the Testing and Requirements gathering phases.
• Worked in the QA Life cycle, which includes Design, Development, and Implementation of the entire QA process and documentation of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Script for Manual, Automated & Bug tracking tools.
• Experienced in Agile testing process.
• Excellent Functional knowledge on various domains like,Banking, Equities, Fixed Income, Apply,Hogans.
• Experienced in Quality Assurance methodologies like Waterfall, V-Model, Agile, Scrum, Spiral etc.
• Perfect understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Excellent skill in creating SQL Objects like Tables, Stored Procedures, Views, Indexes, Triggers, and user defined data types and functions.
• Well versed with writing detailed test cases for functional & non functional requirements.
• Expertise in use of Quality Center (QC) for writing test cases, test execution, defect management, defect tracking and Bug Reporting.
• Excellent Knowledge in different types of testing dat includes Black Box testing, Smoke testing, Functional testing, System Integration testing, End-to-End Testing, Regression testing & Involved in Load Testing, Performance Testing & Stress Testing.
• Proficiency in Back-End Testing/Database Testing specifically in developing and executing SQL queries to interact with databases.
• Expert in different types of testing dat includes Black Box testing, Smoke testing, Functional testing, System Integration testing, End-to-End Testing, Regression testing & User Acceptance testing (UAT) & Involved in Load Testing, Performance Testing & Stress Testing.
• Has hands on experience on BI tools like Query Monitor.
• Experience on Win runner and TSL Scripting
• Extensive data validation in batch files, reports and databases; used SQL to query database extensively for data validation; expert in SQL for sub-queries, nested queries and for complex data enquiries.
• Experience in developing, trouble shooting and customizing manual testing and understanding the processes.
• Involved as part of automation team using Selenium 0.6 and developed test scripts.
• An effective communicator with strong analytical abilities combined with skills to plan, implement & presentation of projects.
• Good communication & interpersonal skills & self-motivated & quick learning skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Functional & Performance Testing tools: Quick Test Professional (QTP), Win Runner, Load Runner, Test Quest

Defect Tracking: Test Director/ Quality Center, Mantis, Selenium, JIRA

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, My SQL, Access, DB2

Configuration Management: Rational Clear Case

Scripting languages: Java script, VB Script, HTML, XML, UNIX Shell/ Cron,C,C++

Application environments: C#, .NET Framework, AJAX, ASP.NET, PDF, Crystal, .NET Web Services, SSIS/ SSRS/ SSAS, SOA, CSS, Java, J2EE

MS Suite/ Project Tools: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), MS Visio, MS Project

Methodologies: Waterfall, V-Model, Agile, RUP, Scrum, RAD, UML, TDD.

Operating Systems/ Products: Windows - 7, Vista, XP, NT, 2003, 2000, 98, UNIX, UBUNTULINUX, IBM MF, AS400, Touch Point

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

Sr. QA Analyst/ Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of Functional, Integration and System Testing.
• Worked with different phases of Regression Testing like Unit, Regional, Fully Regression Testing.
• Performed ReliabilityTesting ( Testing functionality of application continuously for particular period of time)
• Involved in performing AD-HOC testing, Smoke Testing and Compatibility testing.
• Automated the Manual Test Cases into QTP Automation Scripts for Functional, Integration, System Test Cases.
• Performed functional, regression, stress, performance and interoperability testing using Test Quest Pro.
• Involved in End to End testing of the application
• Involved in testing Web services and XML with tool called ‘SOAP UI’. I has been using this tool to locate WSDL file on internet, create Test cases, run them, do load testing, security testing.
• Designed and developed user defined functions of QTP with well versed VB scripting.
• Involved as a representative from the QA team in creating Sprint/ iteration (of Scrum/ Agile Process) with closely defined and agreed output. Involved in Analytical Services (SSAS) delivers both OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) and Data Mining functionality for BI applications.
• Developed various T-SQL stored procedures functions for the web based application.
• Worked in OLTP and OLAP environment dat includes production, QA and development database in SQL Server.
• Extensively used the built-in services for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) using the SQL Server Business Intelligence Studio Tool.
• Executed testing of the applications using Agile’s Test Driven Design (TTD) technique.
• Created the UAT test environment consisting of UAT application, UAT database tables, UAT files etc.
• Carried out different types of UAT like Operational Acceptance Testing, Contract and regulation Testing.
• Involved in project planning, coordination and implemented QA methodologies.
• Modified test cases against upgrades in the builds for regression test purposes.
• Performed test for functionality, security, GUI, system and backend.
• Performed extensive Regression testing for subsequent versions of the application.
• Performed manual and automated testing including functional, load and stress testing.
• Used Selenium for automating web applications for testing purposes
• Reported bugs, sent email notifications to the developers using the Test Director
• Performed Verification, Validation, and Transformations on the Input data (Text files, XML files) before loading into target database.
• Helped to create Traceability Matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements identifies all test conditions and test data needs.
• Used Quality Center for Integration into Microsoft Visual Studio Team System for QA /Developer collaboration for accurate defect management.

Environment: QTP 10.0, Load Runner 9.1, HP Quality Center 10.0, .Net, SQL Server 2005, SSIS/ SSRS (Data Warehousing tools), Informatica, MySQL, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Documentation Tools: MS Office - MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, Visio, .Net Framework, C#, Specflow, Visual Studio, End to End Testing, Integration Testing. Test Quest

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended several walkthrough meeting with the Business Analysts, Project Manager and developers and provided feedback accordingly.
• Involved in Integration Testing and made used of STUBS and DRIVERS for testing.
• Performed Compatibility testing for Different Browser and different Operating System
• Involved in doing User Acceptance Testing and collected the feedback from the end users.
• Performed Smoke, Reliability, AD-Hoc testing.
• Worked with V-V Model and Agile methodology in Testing environment.
• Performed tests based on Agile Environment to increase revenue of Amica.
• Worked with Apply, Hogans, ACAPS, OLB/MM features and performed End to End testing on each of these applications.
• Analyzed the business requirements divided the test features among the members of the team.
• Involved in writing Test Plan. And developed in Traceability Matrix. Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed Test plan, Test scenario, Test cases and Test scripts for testing the Application under Test (AUT).
• Set up, execution and maintenance of the testing environment platforms to ensure the Quality for Allstate’s Valuable customers.
• Performed Data Driven testing in QTP and checking the behavior of the application and analyzed the results.
• Performed GUI, Smoke, Sanity, Regression, System and Backend testing.
• Interacted with developers and users to resolve major bugs.
• Prepared test data for positive and negative test scenarios for functional testing as documented in the test plan.
• Inserted check points to check the consistencies of the links in the webpage.
• Performed ETL testing to validate data is transformed correctly from OLTP to data ware house.
• Created and Executed Automated Test Scripts / Test Procedures using Selenium IDE based on the Use Case Scenarios.
• Performed SOA - Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Simulation and validation for web service integration.
• Successfully designed, developed and implemented a complete regression testing for the entire system.
• Database testing was done to see whether the correct data is being retrieved.
• Created, Updated and maintained Test Scripts for different builds and releases

Environment: QTP 9.0, Quality Center 8.2, Web logic Server, MS SQL Server, VSS, Oracle database, MS Access, UNIX, Load Runner.

Confidential, Bellevue, Washington

Sr. QA/Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the applications to gather the business requirements.
• Prepared Test Plan dat provides a detailed list of conditions under which the system will be tested using Test Director.
• Extensively involved in the Manual Testing of the applications.
• Conducted Unit Testing, Integration Testing and organize User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Got involved in Regression testing after bugs been fixed.
• Actively participated in various meetings like defect resolution meeting, QA status, Knowledge transfer meeting.
• Conducted User Acceptance Test (UAT) with users and customers and wrote issues log based on outcome of UAT.
• Worked on writing and executing unit test cases using Visual Studio.
• Debugged code using Visual Studio debugger.
• Performed Backend testing to validate the data using Toad, added SQL queries to the required Test cases.
• Report and review the defects in Mercury Quality Center & Jira Defect tracking systems.
• Attended several walkthrough meeting with Business analysts, Project Manager and Developers and provided feedback accordingly.
• Wrote and maintained test automation using Visual Studio 2008 Team System as well as developed quality assurance standards for the development team.
• Analyzed test cases for automation and used Quick Test Professional (QTP) to automate manual test scripts for Regression and Functional testing.
• Writingmanualtest cases.
• Prepared Test Plan wrote Test Cases and executed test scripts as well as tracked bugs and generated defect report using Quality Center (QC).
• TestingMethodologies Involved inmanualtestingdat includes functionaltesting,
• Involved in designing process/ methodology to identify the opportune areas for automation.
• Responsible for Quality Assurance of validation of Target data in Data Warehouse and Data Marts which are Transformed and Loaded using Informatics Power Center.
• Experienced in preparation of automated test cases with in Data Driven Automation framework.
• Extensive experience in executing Automation Test tasks - automation requirements, automation test scripts, running tests, monitoring/ analyzing results.
• Administered Quality Center partly by creating the user groups and assigning privileges to Users.

Environment: Windows NT / 2003, Oracle 9i, SQL Server, HTML, XML, Web Logic, Test Director 8.0

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in functional testing, regression testing, system testing.
• Responsible for testing and reviewing of ETL mapping and transformation specifications based on the business requirements from various cruise specialists and the business team.
• Testing of ETL jobs dat are scheduled for file transfers from Operational Data Stores to designated file systems/directories.
• Tested various Reusable ETL Transformations which facilitate Daily, Weekly & Monthly Loading of Data.
• Tested the performance bottle necks at sources, targets, mappings, and sessions and employed required measures
• Executed automated regression testing which contains the risks associated with agile methodology.
• Tested and used extensively Agile Data Load Instructions System Engineering Report.
• The steps required to facilitate the loading of electronic documentation into the Agile PDM system for future data migrations.
• Documented test hierarchy, test scenario, test case based on the SRS and BRD.
• Documented the test data such as customized, historical and the Production data.
• Executed the test cases for manual testing of the UAT.
• Performed both Positive and Negative testing.
• During the testing the Actual results are updated to the test steps
• At the end of the execution test results report delivered.
• Test Director was used to create a Repository for storing the test plan, test subjects, test strategy, test steps, test scripts.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Launch of new web site and involved with the look and feel testing of all the web pages, Top Side, Bottom navigation, category pages, family pages, checkout page. Has also performed extensive Regression testing with each modification.
• Provided inputs from QA standpoint to the Design/Development teams and Stakeholders.
• Prepared Test plan, Test cases for the Module, Integration and System testing phases.
• Involved in Requirement gathering phase and performed Usability to verify “friendliness” of application.
• Prepared scripts, running tests, Analyzing results in LoadRunner 9.1 for Performance testing.
• Defect tracking and Status reporting using Quality Center 10.0 defect tracking tool.
• Tested Data Integrity by executing SQL queries against Central databases.
• In-charge of Usability testing on the product and making appropriate recommendations
• Validated the CRM functions in the product - managing customer information, cross-channel customer information access,customer history, preferences and profiling.
• Performed Functional testing for each module.
• Involved in Unit testing at developer side and TEMPthan performed Integration, System and Regression testing.
• Prepared parts of the User Manual, reviewing with the team and releasing the final document.
• Performed Database testing to check the data integrity.
• Prepared the Release notes(for every release/version) by consolidating current product status
• Involved in setting up the various Review Processes for the QA team
• Developed several T-SQL stored procedures functions for the web based application.
• Created invalid request to test Error handling response.
• Participated in User Acceptance testing (UAT) at the client site.

Environment: Windows XP/NT/2003, Oracle 9i, SQL Server 2000, JAVA, Visual Basic, Quick Test Professional 8.2, Quality Center 9.0