SUMMARY

• Around 8 years of experience in information technology with emphasis on software testing, software quality assurance.
• Equipped with the broad experience of Financial, Banking & Telecom applications testing UNIX, Client/Server and Web based Applications.
• Actively involved in Functional testing, Unit testing, System testing, Data driven testing, Performance testing, Regression testing, Load testing, Integration testing.
• User acceptance testing of multiple applications on various environments.
• Well versed with Black Box and White Box testing
• Expertise in Analysis of Problem Severity, Defect tracking system and Defects reporting system.
• Extensive knowledge in Manual and automated testing using Selenium and Mercury Testing Tools such as Quality Center, QTP, Load Runner, Test Director.
• Participated throughout Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and QA Life Cycle of Test Plans, Test cases based on Business, Functional &Technical requirements and Test Execution and Defect Reporting & Tracking.
• Extensive experience in manual testing of software applications testing procedures like System, Regression, Interface, Database and UAT Testing.
• Experience in Back - end testing like SQL Queries for database and UNIX shell scripts.
• Familiar with the SDLCs: Waterfall, Agile and/or Scrum and the effective integration of the quality assurance life-cycle (QALC).
• Attended Stand Up Meetings.
• Worked in Agile Environment.
• Strong organizational and communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Strong team player with good interpersonal skills.
• Ability to interact with developers and product analysts regarding testing status.
• Strong Analytical and Problem Solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to self-motivate and be flexible within a fast-paced environment.
• Enabled QC to assign test scripts to individual resources prior to the start of a test cycle and track assignments throughout test cycle.
• Experience in Design and execute Non Functional Test Cases QC.
• Experience in QA methodologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Selenium IDE, Quality Center 11.0, Quick Test Professional (QTP), Win Runner, Load Runner

Defect Tracking Tools: Test Director Rational Clear Quest, Bugzilla, J meter, JIRA

Web Technology: HTML, XML, Java, J2EE, Soap UI, WSDL, Web Services, JavaScript, XSL, VB Script.

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, Toad

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/2003/2007/ VISTA, UNIX/LINUX.

Workflow Tools: MS-Visio, MS-Project, MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-PowerPoint, Version One, Rally.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and reviewed Business Requirement and Functional Requirement documentation.
• Interacted with Developers and Business Analyst to analyze and understand the user requirements, functional specifications and technical specifications.
• Involved in writing Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases and execute Test Scripts.
• Performed black box testing of the application and manually tested the functionality and user Interfaces of web application.
• Used QTP for creating automated scripts.
• Performed Web Services testing for different account types and packages using SOAP - UI.
• Used Quality Center for Test Planning, Test execution and Defect Tracking. Involved in System testing, Integration testing, Functionality testing, Regression, End-End testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Developed automation strategy so the test cases to be automated.
• Performed Data-Driven testing to read test input data from an external source so as to test the application with different positive and negative data and wrote some reusable functions.
• Executed UNIX Shell Scripts that invoked SQL loader to load data in tables.
• Used Quality Center for requirements management, planning, scheduling, running tests cases and bug reporting.
• Used Agile and Scrum testing methodology for achieving deadlines in UAT.
• Interacted with developers to report and track bugs using Quality Center.
• Created standard report, snapshots and full reports using Quality Center.
• Involved in database analysis and Back End Testing using specific SQL queries in Oracle.
• Used Simple and Complex SQL Queries like Joins, Select, and Update for data validation and data manipulation
• Hands on experience in collecting several metrics and come up with corrective measure to be presented to senior management.
• Provided weekly status report to the Project Manager and discuss issues related to quality and deadlines.
• Participated in, Team meetings and Defect report meetings .Compared and analyzed the expected results to the actual results and documented the reports accordingly.

Environment: Quality Center/Test Director, QTP, Windows, UNIX/LINUX, XML, Java, VBScript, SQL Server, Toad, Shell Scripting, Soap UI, Bugzilla, HTML, Version One, Rally, Soap, WDSL, Selenium, CRM.

Confidential, AZ

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and reviewed Business Requirement and Functional Requirement documentation.
• Interacted with Developers and Business Analyst to analyze and understand the user requirements, functional specifications and technical specifications.
• Involved in writing Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases and execute Test Scripts.
• Performed black box testing of the application and manually tested the functionality and user Interfaces of web application.
• Used Quality Center for Test Planning, Test execution and Defect Tracking. Involved in System testing, Integration testing, Functionality testing, Regression, End - End testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Developed automation strategy so the test cases to be automated.
• Performed Data-Driven testing to read test input data from an external source so as to test the application with different positive and negative data and wrote some reusable functions.
• Executed UNIX Shell Scripts that invoked SQL loader to load data in tables.
• Used Quality Center for requirements management, planning, scheduling, running tests cases and bug reporting.
• Used Agile and Scrum testing methodology for achieving deadlines in UAT.
• Interacted with developers to report and track bugs using Quality Center.
• Created standard report, snapshots and full reports using Quality Center.
• Involved in database analysis and Back End Testing using specific SQL queries in Oracle.
• Used Simple and Complex SQL Queries like Joins, Select, and Update for data validation and data manipulation.
• Hands on experience in collecting several metrics and come up with corrective measure to be presented to senior management.
• Provided weekly status report to the Project Manager and discuss issues related to quality and deadlines.
• Participated in, Team meetings and Defect report meetings .
• Compared and analyzed the expected results to the actual results and documented the reports accordingly.

Environment: Quality Center/Test Director, QTP, Windows, UNIX/LINUX, XML, Java, VBScript, SQL Server, Toad, Shell Scripting, Soap UI, Bugzilla, HTML, Version One, Rally, Soap, WDSL, Selenium, CRM.

Confidential, Austin, TX

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developing the scripts using Descriptive programming for critical functionality by using QTP Enhanced the test script by inserting various checkpoints.
• Wrote and executed test scripts to upload data from flat files to an Oracle database.
• Update the test cases based on the implementation changes that have taken place.
• Worked as part of tight deadlines and monitor the applications in a 24 x 7 environment.
• Performed Functional testing, GUI testing, Security testing, Integration Testing with
• Modules, User Acceptance testing, Requirements Testing, Data & Database testing, Performance testing, Stress testing and Sanity testing.
• Executed various batch processes as part of interface testing.
• Created test cases with various types of assistance such as Managed Care, Medicare,
• Medicaid, TANF and Food Stamps.
• Performed Regression Testing on the application after the application was modified due to updates in the functionality.
• Responsible for communicating with development team about the necessary steps to fix the problems and to add new features as enhancements wherever necessary.
• Communicated with functional & business analysts, Users, Managers in requirements gathering and making sure that all requirements are fulfilled for all required functionalities in the application.
• Wrote test plans, test cases based on business requirements of the application.
• Recorded the test script according to business requirements and executed number of test scripts at a time with test batch runner.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle, UNIX, ASP.NET, SQL Server, HTML and Windows XP/2000,XML,VB script.

Confidential, Austin

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business and product requirements to identify testing requirements and formulate functional test plan and test scripts in Rational Test Manager.
• Identified, prioritized and designed test scenarios by grouping the test cases for batch testing.
• Manually tested the application GUI with regards to layout, usability and boundary.
• Performed smoke testing on new builds of the application. Tested the adjudication of Claims and Migration Process.
• Designed test harness for simulating external interfaces.
• Provided inputs to performance Test lead for test data setup, developed test cases and test scripts and completed sequence performance test efforts (Individual transaction performance, Mix of transactions with constant load, Workload variations, and Stress tests).
• Performed data integrity and backend testing using SQL queries.
• Worked with SQL statements.
• Prepared test data for UAT and Performance testing. Worked closely with users during UAT and discussed possible solutions to particular issues.
• Developed test cases and performed unit/integration testing for the web-based application.
• Utilized Quality Center for test case creation and reporting of bugs.
• Created loop functions by using Visual basic as a scripting language in QTP.
• Performed unit testing, module testing and integration testing. Performed automation testing on the application using QTP.
• Developed, enhanced and maintained automated testing scripts with Quick Test Pro.

Environment: Windows, QTP, Quality Center, UNIX, XML, Java, VBScript, SQL Server, Toad, Shell Scripting, Soap UI, Bugzilla, HTML, Version One, Rally.