SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience Quality Assurance with diverse roles in the field of Software testing, Analysis and SDLC.
• Excellent project management, written and interpersonal skills.
• Worked with multiple projects, phased deliverables risk analysis, project planning, requirements gathering and Manual as well as Automated testing of software on various platforms.
• Has good experience in writing complex/detailed test plans, release management,QA analysis on all test documentation and improve test documentation process
• Hands on experience on GUI, Functional, Regression and Load testing both Web and client/server applications which were developed in Java, .NET, ASP, HTML, XML
• Experienced in understanding Requirements, Test Scenarios and detailed Test Cases for positive,negative&boundary testing
• Experienced in Functional, Smoke, End to End, Compatibility, Load/Stress, Usability Testing with Manual and some knowledge about Automated Testing tools.
• Experienced in performing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and keeping testing logs & cycles to add to Software Testing Artifacts
• Proficient in System Testing, RegressionTesting process of a given software application for different software releases, builds and patches
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to work with team members and clients in the form of formal training, mentoring, and presentations.
• Strong team player with the ability to work collaboratively with others, fast learner and flexible, and able to adapt to new areas and technologies
• Expertise in querying and testing RDBMS such as SQLServer using T - SQL for data integrity.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000, MacOS

Programming Languages: Java, C, C++, .Net, VBScript

Testing & Defect Tracking Tool: HP Quality Center, HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)

Web Technologies: HTML, JavaScript, Asp, Asp.Net, JSP, XML, CSS

Network Protocol & Database: TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP, Oracle, SQL, MS SQL Server

Microsoft Tools: MS Office, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, MS Visio

Browsers: IE7/8/9, Google Chrome

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, PA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, functional specification, and the required documents for testing.
• Performed Manual Testing of web-based and client-server enterprise applications
• Involved in all Functional and technical discussions with theUsers, Project Management, Developers, Architects and Test Teams
• Responsible for developingtest scriptsand cross checking withBusiness Requirements
• Testing the other applications integration with the application
• Created and executedtest casesbased onbusiness testing requirementsandtest plans
• Primarily responsible forFunctional Test, System, Regression, Integration andUser Acceptance testing.
• Createdtest scenariosand executed them in order to test a product from auserperspective.
• Extensively worked onSQL Serverscriptsfor backend testing
• CreateTest scenariosforclaim selection, Generate claimsanddata validations
• Worked onbackend testingand has very good knowledge of writingSQLQueriesto verify the data.
• Documented alltest results, identifying and summarizing discrepancies.
• Generated weekly Status Reports to the team manager.

Environment: Asp.Net, VB.Net, SQL Server 2008

Confidential, PA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked on Commercial Order Management System.
• Analyzed the Business and Test Requirements and developed a detail Test Strategy
• Identified critical application areas and prioritized the Components and Test Cases.
• Developed Test Matrix and Test Cases.
• Executed the test cases and communicated the test results, defects, fixes and solutions with development team.
• Developed and Executed the SQL queries for the data validation of Reports.
• Performed System Testing.
• Reviewed issues, risks, status and gaps with team and consolidated them for reporting purposes.
• Coordinated testing process with QA Team, Development Team and Management.
• Reviewed issues, risks, status and gaps with team and consolidated them for reporting to management.
• Documented existing and new proposed Functional changes in all releases

Environment: Asp.Net, C#.Net, SQL Server 2008

Confidential, PA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Functional and Business requirements, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes.
• Extensively worked on Testing Requirements and developed a detail Test Strategy to test the application functionality.
• Identified critical application areas and prioritized the Components and Test Cases.
• Developed Test Scenarios, Test Cases.
• Executed the test cases and communicated the test results, defects, fixes and solutions with development team.
• Developed and Executed the SQL queries for the data validation of Actuate Reports.
• Documented existing and new proposed Functional changes in all releases.
• Performed Regression Testing, Integration Testing, Functional and System Testing.
• Maintained the Test scripts for new updates, releases and fixes.
• Reviewed issues, risks, status and gaps with team and consolidated them for reporting to management.
• Coordinated testing process and procedures with Development Team and Management.

Environment: Java, Crystal reports, Sql Server.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business requirements and the site specifications
• Interacted with the development team to understand the process flow, architecture and the application's functionality
• Developed detailed Testing Strategy for the entire application and developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test cases for Regression, Integration, System Testing.
• Involved in the Manual/Automated Testing.
• Maintained the Test scripts for new updates, releases and fixes.
• Developed Test plan, with the Objectives of the testing
• Identifying the critical Scenarios for functional Testing
• Setting up the Environment and executing a Base line test
• Designing a Workload and distribution ratio of users for each Scenario
• Monitored the server logs of web, application and database servers while executing the tests

Environment: Java, J2EE, HTML, Java Script, Oracle 8i, Window2000.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements and identified testing methodologies to group tests as Functional Analysis, Boundary Value Testing, Exception Handling and Error Guessing.
• Involved in writing the test plans, test cases and involved in the process of analyzing the expected and actual results.
• Gathering the Test Input data. Test Input data includes Pre-condition, Test Input, and Test Result data.
• Experience with writing and executing positive and negative test cases and executing them.
• Execution of generated Test Cases and editing the test cases.
• Performed UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and Regression Testing. Generate test records. Modify scripts to do regression testing.
• Validate the billing process and data updates to legacy application data repositories and the ETL processes.
• Verify the data cleaning process and interfaces to DW and legacy application databases.
• Performed manual testing on Security Features that consisted of Super Users, Internal and External Users.
• Participated in Walk through and Defectreport meetings periodically.
• Actively involved in coordinating with development team in bug reporting and bug tracking.
• Involved in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.
• Used SQL statements and UNIX shell scripts to extract data from the tables to validate test results.

Environment: Informatica PowerCenter, C/C++, SQL Server, T-SQL.