SUMMARY

• Over 5 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.
• 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
• Good experience in creating, modifying and enhancing both manual Test Scripts and automated Test Scripts created by Test Automation tools - Quick Test Professional
• 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.
• Good understanding of ETL principals 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, 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, NY

Sr. 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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, NJ

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.
• 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.
• Interacted with Mercury support team in enhancing the performance testing.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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, Oracle10g, UNIX, SQL, HTML

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements and wrote Test Cases and Test Strategy for functional requirements.
• Analyzed the system specifications and halped 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.
• 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)
• Attended weekly technical and status meetings.

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

QA Tester

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

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirement specifications and use cases for the system.
• Developed and maintained Test Plans, test strategy, test cases to cover entire testing effort.
• Conducted meetings and walkthroughs and updated the test plans and test scripts for any functionality changes.
• Involved in the creation of test plan, test cases, test procedure required for Manual testing and to initiate Automated testing.
• Created test cases and test scripts and performed regression testing.
• Performed Data Driven Testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Performed different kind of testing such as Functional testing, Integration testing, and Regression testing.
• Involved in the modification of the existing scripts and implemented parameterization in the new as well as existing scripts.
• Manually performed GUI and Functionality testing of the Application front end.
• Used SQL queries manually to test them for data verification.
• Developed test cases and scripts using Quick Test Pro for Functionality, Security and Regression Testing.
• Tested the properties of the tables using table checkpoints using Quick Test Pro.
• Conducted Parameterization to data tables using Quick Test Pro.
• Used Test Director as the defect-tracking tool to enter defects regarding the issues found during testing.
• Involved in team of User acceptance testing (UAT).
• Use UNIX to connect oracle database using SQL Queries.

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 halp of QTP.
• 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.
• 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.