SUMMARY

• 8 years of experience as a Quality Assurance (QA), Test Engineer/Automation specialist in various Test methodologies.
• Extensive knowledge on all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and followed Agile Methodology for Quality Analysis.
• Involved in various stages of testing lifecycles including Functional, Integration, Regression and User Interface and Acceptance Testing.
• Extensive experience in manual, automated testing using Black Box Testing and Automation Tools respectively.
• Extensive experience in developing Test Plans and Test Cases using business requirements and design documents while specifying Testing Overview and Approach.
• Expert in reviewing requirements, preparing Test Plans, designing and executing Test Cases, managed and reported Defects.
• Extensively used test management tools and Defect tracking tools such as Quality Center.
• Expertise in Problem identification, debugging and providing Bug Tracking Reports to Managers as required.
• In depth experience in Planning, Managing and executing QA Processes for Large Client Server and Web - based Applications.
• Proficient in Negative, Security, Browser Compatibility and System Integration Testing (SIT).
• Executed data queries and data scripts for backend testing using Oracle and SQL Server.
• Strong Business and Functional knowledge in healthcare and Banking and Retail sectors.
• Team player with strong leadership, problem solving, interpersonal, and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: QTP, Test Director, Quality Center, JIRA, Bugzilla, Rational Clear Quest

GUI’s: Developer 2000, Designer 2000, Reports 6i/2.5, Crystal Reports6.0

Databases: Oracle, SQL server, MS Access

Operating System: Windows XP NT/98/95, UNIX, MS-DOS & Windows 2000

Languages: VISUAL BASIC, SQL/PLSQL,C,C++,JAVA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed system requirement specifications doc. (SRS), high level scenarios (HLS), use cases, detailed level requirements and technical design specification documents (TDS).
• Interacted with business analysts, developers and support team to define and develop the test specification/requirement document along with the Test Lead.
• Worked closely with software developers and business group to understand application functionality and navigational work flow.
• Executed the mapping of all requirements to Quality Center for effective coverage, traceability and execution of test scripts.
• Coordinated multiple system test processes, team members and end user community through all project test cycles.
• Acted as Key contact for resolution of data issues in production environment, also provided support and maintenance.
• Developed an efficient testing effort, expediting testing and directing focus in areas that needed more rigorous testing.
• Collaborated with testers and developers, analyzed the user stories to write the test cases to implement the new changes in the application.
• Extensively used Agile methodology for testing the EPR application.
• Actively involved in the creation of the test strategy document that defines the test environment, phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria for end to end testing and resources required for conducting the effort.
• Was responsible for day-to-day operations of QA Lab, including automated test execution, results reporting and analysis using different metrics, and planning and rollout of new tests.
• Automated test scenarios for Functionality, Security and Regression testing using Quick Test Professional.
• Developed Data Driven Test Framework to handle the scenarios requiring multiple sets of data.
• Provided training to end users in using the MS Excel spreadsheet add-in to load data and the basic concepts of multidimensional databases.
• Executed test cases manually to perform SIT / Integration testing, compared and analyzed actual with expected results and reported all deviations to the appropriate individual(s) for resolution using Quality Center, along with logging defects with details and following up.
• Updated Traceability Matrix for requirement changes, after change requests (CR) executed.
• Build SIT Environment in Quality Center Test Lab after acquiring Test Data for execution of Test scripts.
• Mapping Requirements to Test Cases (Traceability) for SIT and UAT in Requirements module of Quality Center.
• Wrote SQL Queries to extract Data from Tables to verify the output Data of the reports
• Managed Defect tracking and completed retesting after defects fixed to close defects in SIT and UAT in defects module of Quality Center.
• Helped the team in developing baseline scripts for testing the future releases using QuickTest Pro
• Defined test cases using quality data to validate end-to-end business processes during SIT and UAT.
• Tracked and documented the entire UAT workflow.
• Attended daily scrum meetings, Sprint planned meetings.
• Conducted the defect review board meetings daily.

Environment: Quality Center 10.0, QuickTest Pro 10.0, Java, Java Script, HTML, XML, UNIX, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Windows XP/Win 7.

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Test Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Automation scripts for Web-based.
• Developed Automation scripts using Descriptive programming in QTP.
• Developed Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Data.
• Used Vb Script extensively to develop the script.
• Involved in Functional testing of application using Quick Test Pro.
• Reviewed the Test cases from Quality Center and executed the test cases in Quality center test lab.
• Responsible for handling the Object Repository.
• Created automated test scripts for System testing and Regression testing.
• Created Data Driven Tests to validate the same scenario with different test data.
• Generating and Running Automated Test Scripts Using QTP.
• Involved in Regression, Unit, Integration and System testing.
• Experienced with White Box Testing and Black Box Testing.
• Documented the approach for Automated Testing.
• Manual testing was done for each and every module’s functionalities.
• Wrote SQL queries in SQL Navigator and IBM Data Studio to validate database.
• Participated in code reviews and followed the BCBSF standards in generating the scripts.
• Worked under pressures and met the deadlines.

Environment: Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, SQL Navigator, IBM Data Studio

Confidential, Orlando, FL

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements document (BRD) and identified testing methodologies to group tests as Functional Analysis, Boundary Value Testing, Exception Handling, Error Guessing.
• Worked with system integration testing, business work flow developed and maintained quality procedures and executed the test cases.
• Tested application security features, including session expiry, book marking, passwords and compatibility across multiple browser types.
• Involved in preparation and execution of Test Cases Manually.
• Involved in Functionality, Regression Testing & Retesting
• Logged and tracked defects using QC
• Participated in several meetings related to improvements / enhancements.
• Defined Test Process and Test strategies for testing and gave weekly status reports and final sign-off reports to the management.
• Performed Backend testing by extensively using SQL queries to verify the integrity of the database.

Environment: Java, SQL Server 2005, QC

Confidential

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Attended design meetings, reviews; analyzed requirements, ERD and design documentation.
• Developed test design, test plan, test development, test execution and test results.
• Analyzed user business requirements, functional specifications and assisted QA Team lead in writing the Test Plan in Test Director.
• Coordinated with all the team members and development team in order to resolve the bugs and reported to the development team.
• Reported defects in timely manner and logged into a defect tracking tool like Bugzilla tracker.
• Wrote SQL Queries for Back-end Database Testing.
• Assisted clients in all levels of implementation. Provided timely top-level technical support to essential corporate clients.
• Extensively used UNIX commands to retrieve data files and to update parameter files to run the application on multiple sets of test data.
• Attended Business meetings, discussed the issues and reported in time and worked in production releases to support the team on validations.
• Assisted team lead with daily QA tasks. Attended project meetings, release meetings, and QA status meetings.
• Prepared status summary reports with details of executed, passed and failed test cases.

Environment: Test Director, Visual Basic 6.0, MS SQL Server 2000, SQL, UNIX, Bugzilla Tracker, Windows 95/98.