SUMMARY

• Around 7+ years of IT experience in Quality Assurance in Web based Applications.
• Experienced in Functionality, Integration, Performance, ad hoc, Stress and Regression Testing on Web and Client/Server based applications using Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Involved in Preparing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Strategy, Test Case Specifications, and Test Scenario’s, Test data, Test log and Defect Reports.
• Hands on work experience in writing and maintenance Test automation Scripts using VB script and TSL script with Automated HP/Mercury tools Quick Test Professional, Load runner and Win Runner.
• Hands on experience in Tracking and Reporting of defects using Defect Tracking Tools such as HP/Mercury Quality Center and Test Director
• Extensive experience in Black box/White box, manual and Automation (QTP) testing.
• Professional experience in User Interface Testing (UI), Integration testing, System Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing and Validation Testing
• Proficient in Rational Clear Quest and Quality Center for Defect Tracking
• Expertise in “Agile” (Scrum) Methodology
• Good working experience in Automation keyword - driven Framework.
• Good working knowledge on UNIX and Windows XP/NT/2000/98/95 Environments
• Good experience in Web security testing.
• Knowledge of various integration design patterns such as SOA Design Patterns and Principals.
• Good working knowledge in scripting languages like VB Script, Java Script, Perl
• Good experience in Process Flow Charting, Root Cause Analysis.
• Good experience in web related technologies including HTML, XML, JavaScript, ASP, VB, VB.NET,ASP.NET
• Good interpersonal skills, commitment, result oriented, hard working with a quest and zeal to learn new technologies and undertake challenging tasks.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Bug Reporting Tools: Test Director, Mercury Quality Center 9.2 / 10.0/11.0, ALM Premier and JIRA

Testing/Automation Tools: Quick Test Professional (QTP), Selenium

Version Control Tools: Rational Test Manger, Clear Case, Clear Quest

Operating System: Windows XP/Vista, Windows 95/98, UNIX

Databases: Oracle10g, MS SQL Server, Ms - Access, DB2, SQL Server2005/08, Toad for Data Analysts 2.6, Toad for Oracle10.5

GUI Tools: Visual Basic 6.0, ASP, Visual studio, VTS

Web Service Tools: SOAPUI 3.61

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, SOAP, VB Script, Java Script, UNIX Shell scripting

Web Servers: IIS, Apache Tomcat

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business needs user requirements and specifications.
• Written extensive PERL and UNIX Shell scripting for data parsing and text parsing needs including archiving the old data, running backend jobs and setting up of job dependencies.
• Developed automation test scripts to test the database by retrieving the data from the tables using HP QTP 10 and VB Scripting.
• Involved in User Interface Testing (UI), Regression, Functional, Integration, System Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Prepared Test Plan and Test Cases based on the User story/Business requirements
• Tested web application in agile development processes.
• Wrote and Executed Test Scripts for functional testing in Quality center
• Prepared test cases based on Design documents & Requirement documents.
• Interacted and coordinated with customer groups, Business analyst and technical stop involved in the testing process
• Created XML request files for test scenarios and test cases for the claims control web services.
• As a ETL Tester responsible for the business requirements, ETL Analysis, MVS, ETL test and design of the flow and the logic for the Data warehouse project using Informatica, Shell Scripting and PERL
• SQL queries are written to test the performance of the reports and to test the results rows are same or not
• Experience in UNIX shell scripting and configuring cron-jobs for ETL Loads
• Maintaining and executing automation scripts using Selenium during different releases.
• Participated in meetings with developers to discuss enhancements and modifications.
• Interacting with development and testing team to improve overall quality of the application
• Responsible to follow up the production issues with offshore team.
• Involved in Regression, Functional, performance testing
• Discuss Reports with Testing Manager.
• Created Excel Templates using macros and extensively used VB scripting to create various reports according to end user requirement.
• Expertise in designing the test scenarios and scripting the test cases in order to test the application.
• Interacted with developers and discussed technical problems, reported bugs and Supported development team.

Environment: Java, J2EE, SQL Server 2005, Oracle 10G, XML, QTP, shell scripting, UNIX, AGILE, Window NT/XP, HTML, Selenium Quality Center 11.0, VB scripting, XSD and Web Services.

Confidential, Eden Prairie, MN

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Attend the Business review meetings on the requirements and analyze the base lined requirements.
• Create the test strategy document for every release and review it with the stake holders
• Create the test cases and the traceability of requirements in Quality center
• Execute the test cases prepared in the test / integration environment and report the defects through Quality center.
• Perform GUI validation, page navigations, content validation and functionality check with end to end scenario.
• Close the defects through quality center once the defects are fixed.
• Perform database validation using SQL Queries/Procedures.
• Conduct Defect review meetings on a weekly / biweekly basis.
• Create the test reports and metrics and share it with the team.
• Provide sign off from QC team for the release.
• Create the regression scripts using QTP
• Create Unix Shell Scripts for testing.
• Run the QTP regression suites in the regression environment and report if any issues seen.
• Give the deployment support by smoke testing after the release.
• Communicate and coordinate with the team.

Environment: Windows XP, UNIX, IBM Web sphere, Java, Oracle SQL, QTP 9.2, QC 9.2