SUMMARY:

• Over seven years of experience in IT industry with major emphasis on Quality Assurance and Software Testing.
• Expertise in manual and automated testing (HP Tools - QTP and Quality Center(ALM)) of software applications.
• Expertise in developing test cases from use cases, executed test cases and has created/executed automation test scripts.
• Expertise in Testing Web Based, Client/Server and Mainframe Applications.
• Firm knowledge of Software Development, Software Testing and Software Development Life Cycle.
• Conducted walkthroughs, system testing, GUI and functional testing, regression testing and back end testing.
• In depth knowledge and working experience of Agile (SCRUM) development.
• Expertise in Agile Methodologies and experience representing Testing Team as QA expert for Agile development (SCRUM)
• Expertise in Manually and Automatically testing Mobile Applications both Android and IOS
• Expertise in developing and working with VB Scripts (QTP).
• Experience in Extracting Testing and Loading of Large(ETL) Back-end data using Automation.
• Expertise in developing Automation Framework from scratch
• Proficient in writing SQL Queries and executing them.
• Experience in working independently as well as in team.
• In depth Knowledge of Business Process Testing (BPT)
• Involved in preparation of technical documentation and presentation of test results.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, both oral and written.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing /Tools: QTP, WinRunner, LoadRunner, Rational Test Suite

Management, Defect Tracking and Reporting Tool: Quality Center, ALM, Bugzilla, Jira, Doors

Operating Systems: Win XP/2000/NT/Windows 7, UNIX, Linux, DOS

Databases: SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, MS Access, MySQL, Oracle

Software Packages: MS Project, MS Visio, SPSS, SAS, Outlook, MS Access, MS Word, MS Excel

Languages: VB.Net, ASP.Net, VBA, XML, Visual Basic, HTML,Java Script,VBScript,CSS,Ajax,PHP,XML,XSL.

Web Designing: Macromedia Firework, Macromedia Flash

System Design Skills: Process Modeling, Data Flow Diagrams, Relational Data Modeling and Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Others: OBIEE, IBM Cognos

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Merrimack, NH

Sr. Software Quality Assurance Engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and worked with the development team to understand detailed requirements to Convert them to Test Cases
• Interacted with developers and business analysts to resolve discrepancies between system specifications and user requirements - involved in the complete testing life cycle (refining SDLC methodology)
• Communicating with QA manager providing requirement changing status and how it will take place for an alternate change in test plan and test case
• Wrote Manual Test Cases in Quality Center and Excel.
• Participated as QA Expert for various Sprints of Agile Development in SCRUM team of 15 people.
• Helped develop automation framework from scratch.
• Converted Manual Test Cases into Automated Scripts using QTP.
• Evaluated various mobile emulators for testing applications on mobile devices (IOS and Android).
• Tested IBM Cognos BI reporting, for each and every phase of the application.
• Tested MainFrame Application by using TE (Terminal Emulator) for QTP and Zephr Passport.
• Created Business Process Scenarios (manual and automated) by using Business Component Module in Quality Center.
• Developed different Reusable actions and developed Parameters and Functions wherever possible for better re-usability of Scripts.
• Performed Automated regression testing by grabbing data from Excel Sheets, Data Table and databases.
• Wrote SQL queries to get data from database for Regression Testing.
• Performed Overall Test Management through Quality Center
• Performed Integration Testing of different modules containing customer’s property details, rmation, employment history & sources of income, assets, debts and other relevant information
• Defined and listed modules for proper grouping of bugs in (Quality Center)
• Maintained Traceability between Requirements, Test Cases and Defects using Quality Center.
• Setup, co-coordinated, and conducted System and UAT Testing with Business Analysts and end users
• Conducted Manual and Automated Testing for Functionality and Regression Testing for each build and release

Environment: Oracle, Windows NT, Java, QTP, Quality Center, BPT, Terminal Emulator, HTML, XML, Mainframe, Doors. Agile(SCRUM), CSS, UNIX, Cognos BI

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements by interacting with user groups.
• Summarized Business requirements and converted them to Manual Test Cases.
• Prepared the Test Plan and Test Cases based on the functional specifications.
• Automated Manual Test Cases using QTP (VB script) to achieve the test objectives.
• Facilitated bi-weekly meetings and evaluated the project progress.
• Worked as QA Expert to Test additions done to the application in SCRUM team.
• Performed Backend Testing of the application by writing SQL queries.
• Tested mobile applications both Android and IOS using Mobile emulators.
• Verified and Tested financial reporting on IBM Cognos BI.
• Performed Data Driven Testing (DDT) using parametrization in QTP.
• Performed Smoke, Regression, Negative and Positive testing.
• Performed automated testing on Mainframe.
• Executed Performance/Load Test Cases using LoadRunner.
• Used Quality Center for error reporting and communicating between developers, product support and test team members.
• Integrated Quality Center with QTP and converted Manual Test cases into Automated scripts by writing QTP Script (VB Script) in Expert View.
• Integrated QC parameters to QTP Test parameters and Action parameters.
• Conducted Integration testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Maintained the overall STLC (software testing life cycle), by interacting with the developers and Business Group to get Defects fixed.

Environment: Windows NT/2000, MS Access, Cognos, MS Word, Ms Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, QTP, Linux and Quality Center, JAVA, LoadRunner, Mainframe, Agile, XML, UNIX

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

QA Tester/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with teams of BA’s, developers, users and testers throughout the entire development life cycle, to identify and manage requirements, execute, track, and report on functional and integration test cases generation and execution of assigned modules
• Created test cases in Quality Center, parametrized them and converted them to Automated Scripts by integrating QC with QTP.
• Verified and Tested Financial Reports on OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence EE)
• Automated test scenarios for GUI testing, Functionality testing using QTP
• Created Customized Check points to check for the broken links, text and standard properties of an GUI object using QTP
• Involved in Data Driven Tests to validate the same scenario with different test data
• Performed Sanity, Smoke, Functional, Security, and User Acceptance testing manually
• Performed Front End testing and Back End testing using Black Box testing methodology
• Performed Security Testing of the application to ensure proper user authentication
• Provided test plan, daily reports on the functional or performance testing effort
• Wrote Test Summary Report at the conclusion of the test cycle
• Performed back end testing using SQL queries to verify the correct information was entered in the Database
• Identified and reported software defects/bugs using Quality Center.

Environment: Quick Test Professional, Quality Center, HTML, SQL, Oracle, MS Excel.

Confidential, Morristown, NJ

Quality Assurance Tester / Analyst.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the software functionality by reading Requirements.
• Developed test cases based on business and functional requirements.
• Converted Manual Test Cases into Automated Scripts using QTP
• Created Customized checkpoints in QTP to perform checks of each and ever action performed by QTP script.
• Extensively queried through SQL to check the database records
• Develop & automate Data Validation Test Cases to test the application
• Performed System Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Black Box, White Box, and Smoke Testing by developing Automated Scripts using QTP
• Performed regression testing by linking test cases to data obtained from Database.
• Conducted Regression testing, Integration testing and User acceptance testing for various combinations using manual and automated scripts
• Maintaining status reports and communicating with the management regarding progress of work
• Maintained traceability between Requirements, Test Cases and Defects using Quality Center.

Environment: Windows NT, UNIX, QTP, QUALITY Center, HTML, XML, IE, Netscape.