SUMMARY

• Around Seven years of experience in Software testing and Quality Assurance.
• Good Exposure to Client - Server Applications and GUI applications.
• Strong Experience wif Automated/Manual, Performance Testing, Regression Testing, Load Testing, Stress Testing, Integration testing, System Testing, Black Box testing and Test Documentation.
• Exposed to all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Solid Experience in using Black Box test methodologies and Functional Testing.
• Experienced in manual testing and Automation scripting skills in Win Runner, Test Director, Quick Test Professional.
• Formulated Test cases and Test scripts on the basis of products releases features, client's requirements and related technical document.
• Expertise in writing Test plans, analyzing bugs, interaction wif team members in fixing the errors.
• Comprehensive understanding of QA standards, flows, methodologies, procedures, and QA documentation. Hands on experience wif heterogeneous hardware platforms such as Windows, UNIX.
• Experience in implementing complex functional tests that require an understanding of the application logic and excellent problem analysis and bug reporting.
• Back end testing of SQL Server, and MS-Access Databases to check the integrity of data. Used extensively SQL Queries to retrieve data from database.
• Developed and Implemented features like Data Driven, Database Checks, GUI checks, Batch, and Functions.
• Strong Exposure to SQL.
• Involved in maintaining Test Matrix and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and performing Gap analysis

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Quick Test Pro, Win Runner, Test Director

Test Reporting Tools: Test Director, Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java

Operating Systems: Windows 9x/2000/ NT/XP, Unix, DOS.

Databases: SQL Server, MS Access, DB2

Web Servers: IIS, PWS, Apache

Packages: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), MS Visio.

Networking: TCP/IP, LAN

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Denver, CO

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business Requirements and analysis of the application.
• Interacted wif Application users, Business Analysts and Developers to understand application Flow, Functionality and Business rules and requirements.
• Analyzed Business Requirements and Design Document based on Strategy and Requirements.
• Involved in checking the dependency of the application.
• To communicate wif project manager for security issues of the application
• Communicate wif project manager for security issues of the application
• Wrote Test Case and Test Scripts for System Testing and Performed Manual Testing.
• Performed Positive and Negative Testing on the application
• Maintained traceability matrix
• Generated scripts using QTP to automate unit and Regression Testing.
• Inserted Check Points to Check for the Text, and standard properties of an object using QTP.
• Worked on Agile technology wif Scrum.
• Investigated software bugs and interacted wif developers to resolve technical issues using Quality center.
• Responsible for daily updates allowing management to take corrective measures to stay on track and Coordinating wif project team personnel in achieving project goals through status meetings, monitoring deliverables against schedule, weekly updates and tracking the defects.
• Maintained/updated test scripts to ensure thoroughness of testing and performed Regression testing after the bug fix and replication of the code by the developers.
• Coordinated wif QA Lead on all decision points like prioritizing the bugs etc. and interfaced wif developers to resolve the issues.
• Compared and analyzed the test results for every release
• Analyzed Results wif Business Analysts
• Performed UAT Testing.

Environment: Quick Test Pro 9.5, Quality Center 7.6, Windows 2000 XP, .Net, SQL.

Confidential, MI

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Studied and understood the functionality of the application under test
• Formulated Test plans from Business Requirements/Function Specifications documents
• Created several Test cases that cover the entire functionality of AUT
• Wrote and executed test scripts to verify most of the Test cases
• Created and enhanced numerous test scripts to handle changes in the objects, in the tested application’s GUI and in the testing environment.
• Manually performed Functional testing that includes Security, Unit, System testing
• Tested Insurance Claims and Benefits
• UsedQuality Centerfor tracking and reporting, also followed up wif development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status
• Generated reports using quality metrics data.
• Prepared test metrics and reported to the team lead.
• Performed Negative testing to find how the functions and variables perform when they encounters invalid and unexpected values
• Used Check Points, Output Values, Recovery Scenarios, Regular Expressions, Object Repository Administration extensively in QTP
• Imported and exported data from and to Excel to and from QTP
• Used Parameterization in QTP to perform Data-Driven testing
• Performed browser compatibility testing using different browsers like IE, Fire Fox etc
• Used Descriptive Programming extensively creating Description Object
• Performed database testing using SQL, executed various DDL and DML statements
• Created Database Checkpoints in QTP for database testing
• Analyzed results of the tests by creating reports in Quality Center
• Analyzed Results wif Business Analysts
• Performed UAT Testing.

Environment: QTP 9.5, Quality center 9.2, SQL, Windows NT/2000, VB.net, ASP.net, C#, XML, VC++, AS400, IIS.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining Test Plans and Test Case Design Documents
• Studied and understood the functionality of the application under test
• Created automated test cases and scripts using QTP for Functional Testing
• Worked Extensively on QTP, created and modified scripts in expert mode.
• Developed Manual test cases, test scripts and test scenarios for AUT
• Compared and analyzed the test results for every release
• Performed Positive and Negative Testing on the application
• Conducted Cross Browser testing wif IE5.5, NS6
• Conducted Functional and Regression testing
• Performed Acceptance, Unit, Integration and Cross-Platform testing of various complex applications
• Responsible for performing various types of process evaluations during each phase of the software development life cycle
• Performed Black Box Testing and back end testing using SQL queries.
• Involved in conducting stress test and volume test against the application
• Actively participated in enhancement meetings focused on making the application more TEMPeffective
• Used Quality Center as a defect tracking and managing tool
• Documented bugs found during the test process using Quality Center and reported to development team through Defect Tracker

Environment: QTP 9.2/9.5, Quality Center 9.2, Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator (front-end browsers), Java Script, HTML

Confidential, Dallas, TX

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the major testing phases of the Application and participated in the meetings wif the client and the development team.
• Involved in Test Plan evaluation along wif the Testing Management and the Development Team.
• Extensively tested Graphical User Interface Components.
• Involved in testing of programs & functions individually to complete Black box testing phase.
• Performed Positive and Negative Testing on the application
• Conducted Cross Browser testing wif IE5.5, NS6
• Performed Functional testing, User Interface testing, System testing and Regression testing on the AUT.
• Converted manual test cases to automated scripts in Win Runner.
• Coordinated wif QA Lead on all decision points like prioritizing the bugs etc. and interfaced wif developers to resolve the issues.
• Used in-house tool to log the defects and generated reports to keep track of the testing process.
• Involved in documenting certain requirements after change request.
• Participated in bug review meetings.

Environment: Visual Basic 6.0, VB Script, Windows 2000/XP, Win Runner 7.0.

Confidential, Connecticut

Sr Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating and executing Test scenarios based on User and Functional Requirements and participated in the meetings wif business analyst and the development team.
• Involved in gathering business requirement, studying the application and collecting the information from developers
• Involved in project planning, coordination and implementation of QA methodology.
• Performed manual testing on this web based application and automated by using Win Runner.
• Responsible for performing functional testing on the application by creating Automated and Manual Test Script using Win Runner.
• Responsible for performing User Interface testing, Regression testing and User acceptance testing on the AUT.
• Used Test Director to log all the test cases and report results.
• Performed database integrity tests to create db script wif SQL commands to extract the actual results.
• Involved in performing Performance, Stress, and Load testing on application under test.
• Tested the application compatibility for IE and Netscape
• Worked wif the development team to ensure that the testing issues are resolved.

Environment: Win Runner 7.0, Test Director 7.2, Web Logic Server, Java Script, Windows 2000.

Confidential

Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering business requirement, studying the application and collecting the information from developers.
• Involved in project planning, coordination and implementation of QA methodology.
• Involved in organizing test procedures and executing tests in software, database environment.
• Developed test plans, test procedures and test cases according to business specification given.
• Capture requirements via use-cases and sequence diagrams.
• Participate in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.
• Interact wif business analyst, system staff and developers.
• Involved in documentation as to how to maintain and run scripts for future enhancements.
• Participate in weekly meeting wif the management team and walkthroughs.
• Writing, debugging and execute test scripts for various test stages using Win Runner.
• Designed the layout and prepared the content for the web pages.
• Used SQL for querying and updating records and Backend Testing.
• Involved in Black box testing.
• Created and maintained test reports and found bugs using defect tracking system.
• Participated in the team meetings to discuss the issues arising out of testing.

Environment: Win Runner 6.5, Test Director 7.6, SQL, Oracle, ASP, HTML, IIS, UNIX.