SUMMARY

• Over 8+ years of experience as a Quality Assurance Tester. Experience includes concepts, requirements, design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of complete Software Development Life Cycle projects. Extensive knowledge of Financial products and services, such as Fixed Income investments (T - Bond, T-Bills, T-notes, Corporate Bonds, Municipal Bonds etc), Equities, Derivatives (Futures, Options, Swaps), Mutual Funds, portfolio management, Cash Management & Asset management
• Sound knowledge of manual and automated Testing, Black Box, System, Regression, Integration, Functionality, and User Acceptance Testing of both client-server and Web-based Internet & intranet applications.
• Creation of test automation tools and applications customized for proprietary uses.
• Experience in interacting with business analysts, developers, and technical support groups.
• Experience configuration of the components necessary to support the load test environment - i.e. Load Runner Controller, injectors etc.
• Experience in Windows Functionality compatibility, translation/creation of specs, and test plan design, in addition to functionality testing and automated testing with Rational Visual Test and Winrunner.
• Expert technical writer, involved in writing technical documents like Used cases and design documents.
• Ability to thoroughly analyze system’s functional requirements and break them down into test requirements/test objectives for unit, integrated and system software testing
• Extensive experience with defect tracking tools like Test Director and Quality Center. Possess a high technical aptitude and a high level of analytical ability.
• Conducted sessions on Application performance for Application stakeholders and aligned IT personnel.
• Expertise in use of Quality Center & Test Director for writing test cases, test execution, defect management, defect tracking and Bug Reporting.
• Experience in Excel Macros, JDE, Data warehousing Testing ETL, SOAP UI, and Web Services Testing for the backend (SOAP, XML).
• Good understanding of ETL principles and concepts.
• Involved in walk through and inspection.
• Use UNIX to connect oracle database using SQL Queries.
• Created and added tables to the SQL database when required.
• Involved in the back end testing by executing SQL statements
• Quick learner and Good team player with excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to handle multiple tasks and work independently as well as in a team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows 9X/2000/XP/NT, UNIX

Testing Tools: LoadRunner 8.2, 9.0, WinRunner9.2, 8.2, 8.0, Quick Test Professional 10.0, 9.2, 9.0, Rational team suite

Bug Reporting Tools: Test Director, Quality Center 10.0, 9.2, JIRA

Languages: C, C++, TSL, Java, VB Script, SQL, PLSQL

Database: Oracle 10g, 9i, 8i, Microsoft Access, MS- SQL Server 2000/2005

Web Technologies: HTML, ASP

SQL Tools: Toad, DB Artesian

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Senior QA Analyst

Environment: Java Server Pages (JSP), C++, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, Windows NT/2000/XP, UNIX

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the System Requirement Specs (SRS).
• Analyzed the requirement and design documents.
• Involved in the day-to-day testing of the application, which involved functional testing, backend testing, regression testing, integration testing, backward compatibility testing and Database testing.
• Checked the Database changes by using SQL queries.
• Tested migration from GroupWise to Exchange / Office 365 and Notes to Exchange / Office 365
• Upon migration, ensured that users' mail, calendars, tasks, personal address books and contacts are stored on new user mailboxes on an Exchange server while preserving important enterprise information
• Used TOAD to connect to the database and ran SQL queries to view data.
• Backend testing of the DB by writing SQL queries to test the integrity of the application
• Used MQC (Mercury Quality Center) to invoke the scripts and initially performed the baseline testing and organized all the scripts systematically and generated reports.
• Analyzed and generated various workflows and designed Manual and Automated Scripts
• Performed Black Box Testing, User Acceptance Test and extensively used QTP for Regression Testing.Experienced in planning and executing Smoke, Functional, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance Testing, Compatibility Testing for Java and .net based web application, Data Warehouse Application; UNIX based applications and Client Server applications.
• Interacted with Mercury support team in enhancing the performance testing.
• Regression Testing is performed and the additional scripts are generated for each version.
• Login to JIRA for reporting the bugs.
• Connected to QTP from Quality center and executed the scripts.
• Develop and implement load and stress tests with Mercury LoadRunner, and present performance statistics to application teams, and provide recommendations of how and where performance can be improved.
• Testing (that includes unit, integrated, regression, and UAT) a new .NET application which uses Microsoft Visual Studio under the Scrum (Agile) Methodology
• Defect management using Quality Center, coordination with developers and Business users for rectification of defects and re testing
• Responsible for preparing High level Test Scenarios, Test Cases, RTM, Test execution and Report Metrics using Excel Macros.
• Developed Functional scripts Using Quick Test Professional 9.2. Identified all windows, Pages, Objects, Methods and Properties. Scripts were custom coded with Parameterization, programming logic and data driven types. Check points were written for all types of objects and Text checks were written for validating Text in all pages of the applications.
• Prepared Test Cases, Vugen scripts, Load Test, Test Data, Execute test, validate results, Manage defects and report results
• Communicating TEMPeffectively to risk management on assignments, deliverables, schedules and areas of risk
• Complete follow up on Defect management, Business signoffs and RFC to production.
• Synchronization points and Wait functions were introduced in the script
• Extensively checked log files by connecting to UNIX server using Putty.
• Performed Database Testing for checking data validation and data integrity
• Developed detailed test conditions and documented test scripts and test procedures.
• Interfaced with developers and participated in several walkthroughs to resolve the problems while executing the test scripts
• Participated in weekly review meetings and GO/NO-GO meetings

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Sr. QA Analyst

Environment: Java Server Pages (JSP), C++, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, Windows NT/2000/XP, UNIX

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the day-to-day testing of the application, which involved functional testing, backend testing, regression testing, integration testing, backward compatibility testing and Database testing.
• Extensively checked tags in the log files and the flow of the FIX messages.
• Checked the Database changes by using SQL queries.
• Worked on FIX messaging and generated various test scenarios to validate different FIX Transactions.
• Conducted Functionality and GUI testing manually and recorded scripts for QTP.
• Used MQC (Mercury Quality Center) to invoke the scripts and initially performed the baseline testing and organized all the scripts systematically and generated reports
• Developed GUI, Text, XML checkpoints to validate the data and parameterized the scripts to drive with External Data Files.
• Analyzed and generated various workflows and designed Manual and Automated Scripts
• Performed Black Box Testing, User Acceptance Test and extensively used QTP for Regression Testing.
• Participated in requirement review meetings, analyzing requirements, developing test plan and test cases, Requirement Traceability Matrix, Defect management, Reporting and tracking.
• Performed load testing (HP - Load runner, Load generator, Load controller and Load Analysis tools) executed scheduled tests and analyzed the test results.
• Solve critical issues in a time-sensitive environment Proven quality assurance, risk management and change management expertise Thorough knowledge of cross-functional project management concepts, methods and practices
• Interacted with Mercury support team in enhancing the performance testing.
• Synchronization points and Wait functions were introduced in the scripts.
• Regression Testing is performed and the additional scripts are generated for each version.
• Scheduling, Interacting, invoking the QT Pro Scripts are done using Quality Center.
• Updated defects report to expedite the system test process time
• Developed detailed test conditions and documented test scripts and test procedures.
• Developed various reports and metrics to measure and track testing effort

Confidential, CA

Sr. QA Tester

Environment: Window XP, LoadRunner 8.0, Oracle10g, UNIX, SQL, HTML

Responsibilities:

• Using LoadRunner, execute multi-user performance tests, used online monitors, real-time output messages and other features of the LoadRunner Controller.
• Analyzed the business requirements and wrote Test Cases and Test Strategy for functional requirements.
• Analyzed the system specifications and helped team members to achieve test goals.
• Recorded scripts in Quick Test Pro to perform Functionality testing.
• Performed data driven testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Involved in parameterization using Quick Test Pro.
• Used Telnet to connect oracle with UNIX platform.
• Developed test scripts for performance testing using LoadRunner
• Developed QTP scripts by implementing VBScript functions and developed Checkpoints to check expected information is displayed in the application.
• Performed Back-End Testing using SQL queries.
• Generated all reports for the test cases through Quality Center document generator.
• Responsible for extracting bug reports and conducting Bug Review meetings
• Prepare Project-level test plans and created test cases for the respective applications
• Used Quality Center for tracking and reporting bugs.
• Extensively performed Traceability Matrix in MQC.
• Use UNIX to connect oracle database using SQL Queries
• Attend regular meeting to track bug related issues and critical problems
• Involved in team of User acceptance testing (UAT)
• Co-ordinate with the UAT testing team and created UAT Test Strategy, UAT Test Plans and UAT defect reporting.
• Attended weekly technical and status meetings.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

QA Tester

Environment: HTML, J2EE, UNIX, Windows, Oracle9i, IIS, Apache

Responsibilities:

• Wrote test cases from the Test Plan and generated sample test data.
• Participated in the management of testing project with the help of QTP.
• Responsible for implementing LoadRunner, Performance center, architecting the load testing infrastructure, hardware & software integration with LoadRunner.
• Developed and executed test cases test Scenarios and followed-up defects using Test Director.
• Developed automation test scripts for performing regression testing on the application using QTP.
• Used Test Director as defect management and defect tracking tool (Similar to Rational ClearQuest).
• Also used scripts which were created for WinRunner, in QTP and executed it.
• Created the Automated Script for Regression test and Data driven test using WinRunner
• Inserted Checkpoints to check for broken links, Text and standard properties of an object using QTP.
• Handle exceptional situations in test scripts using Recovery Scenario Manager in Quick Test Pro.
• Verified the application’s functionality on different Configurations with QTP.
• Participated in requirement walkthroughs and creation of test plan.
• Interfacing with developers to resolve the technical issues.
• Enhanced test scripts using various utilities provided in Quick Test Pro like check points, Data driver wizard for testing multiple data input.
• Use UNIX to connect oracle database using SQL Queries.