SUMMARY

• Over nine years of experience as a software QA engineer. Expertise in writing and executing test plans, test scripts and test cases and performing functional, integration, regression, product, system, acceptance, load, stress and performance testing for both client server and web applications
• Extensive experience writing and executing automated test scripts using QuickTest Professional, WinRunner, LoadRunner, TestDirector and performing manual testing on Windows and UNIX platforms.
• Thorough knowledge of all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Good experience in tracking bugs and generating reports using Test Director and documenting test documents using MS Office tools
• Proficient in writing and executing SQL queries using joins and SQL functions to perform backend testing.
• Experience working on SDLC COTS implementation.
• Good experience as a Data warehouse tester in testing teh ETL process.
• Extensive knowledge developing and executing shell scripts for testing in UNIX environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing tools: Quality Centre 10.0/9.0/8.0 , WinRunner 7.5/7.0/6.0, LoadRunner 7.5/7.02, Quick Test Professional 6.5Bug tracking tools Rational Clear Quest, Test Director 8.0/7.6/7.2/7.0 , PVCS Tracker

Languages: Java, C++, UNIX shell, TSL, 4Test, XML, JavaScript, VB Script, SQL, HTML

Operating Systems: Solaris 9.0/8.0/7.0, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, RedHatLinux, Suse9.2, FedoraCore3, HP UX, IBM OS/360, MS - DOS

Database Systems: Oracle, SQL Server, Microsoft Access, DB2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

QA Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed and coordinated testing team of eight members in an offshore model.
• Validated BRD and FRD.
• Created detailed test plan, test scenarios test cases.
• Generated test data while coordinating wif external vendors dat were partner to teh solution provider for teh lockbox services.
• Executed system test cases and reported bugs.
• Conducted daily defect review meetings wif other stakeholders to validate, assign and follow up on reported issues and close them if deemed fit.
• Created teh system test report
• Helped teh Business analyst in creating UAT test cases and identifying teh UAT test group.
• Performed End to End testing of wholesale banking lockbox application.

Environment: HP QC, QTP, Windows XP, Websphere, J2EE, .NET

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

QA Team Leadand Onsite Co-ordinator

Responsibilities:

• Supervised an offshore team of eight testers and a team lead.
• Involved in Business, Design and Test reviews of CLM and Valuation Dashboard releases.
• Analyzed BPS documents, HLD documents, Path Analysis documents and Workflow diagrams to understand teh new requirements or enhancements to teh CLM application.
• Performed Functional, Regression, GUI and End to End testing of Asset Recovery, Valuation and Sales functionalities.
• Extensively used Autosys to schedule and execute batch jobs in CLM and Valuation applications.
• Developed SQL queries to retrieve teh data from one or more tables using joins and validated teh data as per teh business requirements.
• Performed XML validations to ensure teh data sent to and from Bulk vendors are as per teh schema and passed business requirements.
• Performed Web Service testing to validate teh communication between CLM applications.
• Performed validations of teh different Workout programs in DARTS application based on teh Business Rules Catalog.
• Performed Business Rules validations of teh Workout programs both manually and via teh XML Bulk Upload process.
• Performed Business Objects report validations for BO releases of CLM and Valuation Dashboard BO requirements.
• Extensively used Quality Center for designing and executing test cases for functional and Regression testing of CLM and Valuation Dashboard releases.
• Performed requirements traceability matrix (RTM) of test cases to business requirements to ensure coverage.
• Performed extensive front-end and back-end validations.
• Performed retesting of defect fixes and successfully closed issues.

Environment: Java, .NET, Doors, Quality Centre10, Oracle 10i, UNIX, Autosys, Rapid Sql, Toad, Ab-Initio, WSDL, SoapUI, MS Office, SQL, Altova XML Spy, XML Marker, Microsoft Visio, Business Objects X1, Windows XP.

Confidential, Herndon VA

QA analyst and Onsite co-ordinator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in updating Test plans and Test cases based on Business Requirement Documents for every release.
• Performed End to End testing in different work streams and supported 24/7 execution.
• Performed Dataware house testing by scheduling and executing Abinitio jobs using Autosys.
• Performed data validations to ensure teh data loaded into target tables are as per teh transformation rules.
• Performed Functional, Regression, System and End to End testing in Test, UAT and Pre - Production environments.
• Performed positive and negative testing of teh application for identification of bugs after fixing of errors in each subsequent build during teh process of development.
• Developed and executed automated test cases to perform Regression testing using Unix shell scripts and SQL queries.
• Developed SQL queries to retrieve teh data from one or more tables using joins and validated teh data as per teh business requirements.
• Executed Reports by manually scheduling in BOXI and through Autosys.
• Extensive analytical skills to analyze back end logic and run test script execution.
• Developed test cases and mapped to business requirements to ensure coverage.
• Extensively used Quality Center for designing and executing test cases for End to End testing of Securities.
• Logged issues in Rational Clear Quest and coordinated wif developers to resolve issues.

Environment: .NET, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Requisite Pro, Quality Centre, Oracle 10i, UNIX, Autosys, Rapid Sql, DB Visualizer, Ab-Initio, MS Office, SQL, Business Objects X1,Windows XP.

Confidential, Richmond VA

QA Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in teh development of test requirements from business use cases by interacting wif business analysts and BPTL’s.
• Involved in teh development of test plans and test strategies to facilitate teh process of testing
• Involved in modeling QA process workflow using Test Director.
• Involved in developing test cases in Test Director for card processing functionalities such as (Fees, Finance charges, Balance structures, Access checks, Balance transfers and General core billing).
• Involved in data conditioning according to teh test requirements to perform Functional and Regression testing.
• Extensively worked wif Test Director to develop test cases, mapping requirements to test cases, executing test cases and documenting results.
• Involved in mapping teh business requirements to test cases to ensure traceability.
• Performed Functional, Integration, Regression and User Acceptance Testing of TS2 (TSYS) application.
• Verified and validated teh green screens of teh TS2 (TSYS) while testing teh entire core billing components.
• Involved in verifying and validating teh Prophit screens (Front End GUI application) for Account Summary information and various customer service work flows.
• Involved in validating Small Business accounts wif Fees, Finance charges, Backdating payments and Credits for Dress Rehearsals.
• Performed Validation of teh Card Data Warehouse to verify, teh transactions, fees and finance charges posted to teh correct transaction categories by querying teh database.
• Provided a weekly project report dat includes test metrics and status reports.
• Logged defects in Rational Clear Quest and participated in review and project status meetings and interacted wif test leads, BPTL’s and developers to resolve teh problems.

Environment: .NET, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Requisite Pro, TS2, Test Director 8.0, DB2, UNIX, MS Office, SQL, Windows XP.

Confidential, Mahwah NJ

Sr. QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed and updated Manual test cases to perform Functional, Regression and Product testing of teh Radia OS Manager.
• Performed Installation and Un-installation testing of teh Radia servers on Windows and UNIX platforms for different product versions.
• Installed and Configured Radia Servers according to teh testing requirements.
• Performed Functional, Regression and end-to-end testing of teh different modules of teh Radia OS Manager.
• Performed compatibility testing of ROM on HP Proliant DL585, DL360, BL20P, BL30P servers wif 32 bit and 64 bit processors using ILO remote server management and on machines wif different hardware characteristics.
• Developed test cases and performed Functional and Performance testing of teh ROM supported Multicast Server which deploys OS’s to multiple client machines in single and overlapping sessions.
• Performed end-to-end testing of teh ROM supported HP Ignite, RedHatLinux Kickstart, Solaris JumpStart and Suse AutoYast to install and manage OS’s on UNIX related hardware.
• Performed Integration and compatibility testing of ROM wif other Radia products like Radia Patch Manager and Radia Inventory Manager.
• Modified and Performed testing of Korn Shell and Tcl scripts to upload, download OS images, files and logs.
• Verified and validated teh database for policies and instances created in teh Radia Management Portal and teh OS image and configuration files published to teh database.
• Opened, tracked and maintained defects for issues in teh Remedy Tool, prioritized defects according to teh severity level.
• Participated in status meetings to report issues, and worked wif developers to reproduce errors and resolve software anomalies.

Environment: .NET, J2EE, Tcl/Tk 8.2, Remedy Tool, MS-Access, SQL,CVS, Windows NT/XP/2003, Red Hat Linux4.1/3.0/2.1, Fedora Core3, Solaris, HP UX, Suse 9.2, ILO, Vim, MS Office suite, FTP, Kshell,VM ware.

Confidential, St.Paul MN

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in teh development of test requirements from business use cases by interacting wif end-users and developers
• Involved in teh development of test plans and test strategies to facilitate teh process of testing
• Involved in modeling QA process workflow using TestDirector
• Ensure traceability of test cases back to teh Business requirements.
• Conditioning data available from teh repository as per teh front end of teh application under test.
• Involved in Manual testing using TestDirector to develop test cases, test scripts, executing teh scripts and logging teh defects.
• Developed automated test scripts using Quick Test Professional and enhanced teh scripts for parameterization and datadriven testing to perform functionality and regression testing.
• Involved in Functional, Regression, Performance and User Acceptance Testing of CARE and Access Online applications.
• Verified and Validated teh SQL source data wif teh Mainframe target data.
• Provide a weekly project report dat includes testing metrics and status reports.
• Extensively used SQL scripts/queries for data verification at teh backend.
• Reported bugs and interacted wif developers to resolve teh problems.

Environment: JDK1.3, DB2, C++, .NET, SQLServer 2000, TestDirector 7.6,Quick Test Professional 6.5, DB2, MVS,TIBCO4.1.1, IE 5.0, and NN 4.7 on Win NT 4.0/2000.

Confidential, MN

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed teh Business Requirement Documents and teh Technical Specifications of teh application under test.
• Involved in Preparing Test Data in XML format using xmlspy tool.
• Written Manual Test Cases in Test Director, organized, executed teh test cases efficiently by submitting XML reports in to Java environment.
• Developed templates, performed parameterization to run teh test cases for different data.
• Developed automated test scripts using Quick Test Professional and enhanced teh scripts for Data Driven Testing, Batch testing, Synchronization.
• Tracked bugs and created reports using TestDirector and interacted wif Developers to follow up on Defects/Issues.
• Used CICS, TSO, ISPF to interact wif teh mainframe data
• Identified and validated test data for performing functional testing by using tools like Toad and File-AID. Created expected results for teh assigned test scripts
• Actively Participated in development walkthroughs and various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Requests.

Environment: TestDirector7.5, Quick Test Professional 6.5,xmlspy, TOAD, MS Office Suite, Windows NT, XP, Kshell,Oracle8i, Java, JavaScript, OS/390, MVS, CICS, ISPF, HTML,FileAID, SQL, UNIX, FTP, HTTPS.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed and executed test plans/cases based on business requirement of teh application
• Analyzed and checked all test plans and test cases
• Tested teh application at various levels such as unit level, module level and system level for its quality
• Collected teh data from teh central system to validate teh test cases
• Used SQL queries for backend testing and Participated in user training and submitted weekly status reports.

Environment: Java, JavaBeans, Servlets, HTML, Solaris 7, Oracle 7.3, VB, SQL Server 7.0, MS-Word, MS-Excel, DB2, Windows 98/NT.