SUMMARY

• Around 7 years of experience in software quality assurance expertise in testing web based e - commerce applications, GUI based client/server applications through manual testing procedures using Mercury interactive toolsTest Director, QC.
• Experience in bug reporting tools like Test Director, Bugzilla, Mercury Quality Center and Rational Clear Quest defect tracking, results analysis and Status reporting.
• Well-versed wif all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing life cycle (STLC).
• Experience in manual testingand also involved in determining gap and risk analysis.
• Expertise technical skills in Testing, Reporting and Analysis of Commercial and Enterprise applications.
• Hands on experience of testing functionality of applications from business and user's perspective.
• Experience in various types of testing like Functionality, GUI, Regression, User Interface, Integration, User Acceptance, Smoke, System, localization, and backend testing of client/server and web based applications on various browsers and operating systems.
• Hands on experience in performing all QA management activities to ensure QA milestones are achieved.
• Good interpersonal written and verbal communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/VISTA/7, Apple Mac OS,UNIX, Linux, Solaris

Languages: C, J2EE, SQL, PL/SQL, C#

Databases: ORACLE 7.x/8i/9i SQL Server 7.0/2000, MySQL

Scripting Languages: Perl, Shell Scripting, ASP.Net, VBScript, HTML/XML, Java Script

Application Servers: Oracle Application Server, JBoss, Seibel 7.8, Sales force(Cloud computing)

Web Servers: Apache HTTP Server, Microsoft IIS, VMware, MQ Series, TFS

Software Configuration Tools: IBM Rational Clear Case, Concurrent Versioning Systems (CVS), Microsoft Visual Source Safe, XMLSpy®, PhP, Filemaker

Bug Tracking Tools: IBM Rational Clear Quest, DOORS, Bugzilla, fog Bugs, Test director, QC

Reporting Tools: Crystal Reports, Business Objects (BO)

Other Tools: TOAD, PVCS Tracker

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, IL

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test plans and documented Standard Testing Procedures for manual testing.
• Played a key role in developing overall quality processes, metrics collection and change management.
• Developed and executed test cases and test plans forFunctionality.
• Executed, wrote, maintained test case script procedures, and documented test results.
• Involved in creating traceability matrix to map requirement andtest cases.
• Reportedsoftware anomaliesin accordance wif the internal procedures.
• Provided testing theGUI consistencyagainst different browsers (running on windows) against various screen
• Performed Database Validation and Integration Testing and manipulations using SQL
• Performed manual testing and maintained documentation on different types of testing like positive and Negative testing.
• Logged and monitored any issues/defects encountered during test cycles in Mercury Quality center 10.0 and conduct fix verification
• Worked wif Linux operating system

Environment: Quality Center,Windows 2000, Oracle, SQL, TOAD, UNIX, XML, Linux

Confidential, Warren,NJ

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the system requirements for the future needs and thus design & develop manual test scripts
• Create, develop & Implement QA process and procedures
• Assisted in creating test plans, estimations, development and execute the business work flows
• Involved in preparing Requirements Traceability Matrix
• Reviewed the requirements and the Use Case Diagrams to write Test Cases/ Test plan that would test various Scenarios
• Used Test Director for both defect tracking and Test Management
• Involved in creating and executing SQL to validate the data at the Back End
• Analyzed Load, stress, stability & Performance of the developed application to identify opportunities for performance improvement
• Document manual test results after each release and present them to Development and Business teams for reviews and sign-off

Environment: Test Director, Oracle, Windows XP, Ms Project

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test strategies and Test Cases by reviewing the Software Business Requirements.
• Responsible for writing the System Test Cases, and to map the System Test Cases and Procedures to software requirements on Quality Center 10.0.
• Performed Manual Testing on the application.
• Modified and executed the XML messagesthrough SOPUI and verified the acnoledgment.
• Performed Smoke testing in Production environment when new code is released to Production.
• Reported and Tracked Defects using Quality Center.

Confidential, CT

Sr QA analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test plans and Test scripts as per the business requirements
• Actively participated in the technical reviews and QA meetings wif the project team
• Performed back end testing extensively for the application.
• Created User defined functions to enhance to maintainability of the test scripts and handled exceptions
• Performed database functionality tests and verified business logic implementation by constructing and executing various SQL statements
• Created framework for backend testing and created actions for scripts re usability
• Conducted navigational testing for the web links usingQuick TestPro to identify defects such as broken links, permanently moved pages
• Regression testing of the various releases of the application by executing the baseline scripts identified functional errors and interacted wif developers to resolve technical issues.
• Validated end to end business processesinSIT & UAT
• Generated Test Data for system testing as per the business specifications
• Associated wif multiple key projects in the organization and gained recognition.

Environment: Quality center 9.0, .Net, windows, oracle

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Analyst (Manual)

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the functional specifications (user stories) in Requirements Document.
• Performed manual testing for each system build and testing the whole application manually Prepared test data by writing SQL and extensively.
• Wrote and executed SQL queries for the validation of the integrated data in the database.
• Manual tested scenarios for regression testing using Quick Test professional and enhanced Test scripts using user defined functions in VB script.
• Attended conference calls wif developers, business analysis team, technical architects to resolve the defects and issues in functional requirements.

Environment: SQL, Quality Center, MS Excel, Web services