SUMMARY

• 6+ years of IT experience in effective use of QA tools and software practices with full understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experienced in working with automated testing tools like QTP, WinRunner, LoadRunner, Test Director and Mercury Quality Center and also carryingout White Box, Black Box, System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Regression Testing as per the functional specifications.
• Extensively worked on creating detailed Test requirements, Test Plans, Procedures, Test Cases, Test Strategies and generating/executing Test Scripts to meet business and functional specifications.
• Earned reputation for meeting demanding deadlines and delivering critical solutions on various levels of Quality Assurance for Client/Server and Web based applications in Agile environment.
• Followed software testing methodologies and plans to ensure software product quality.
• Work individuallyas well as in team environmentto achieve project quality goals. Well experienced to handle complex situations and time critical schedules.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate with different development groups and clients.
• Strong analytical and problem - solving skillsand Documentation skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows XP/2000/NT/98, UNIX

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MS-Access

Programming Languages: C, JavaScript, HTML, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, C#.Net,VB.Net, ASP.Net, JAVA

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional, Win Runner, Load Runner, Test Director, Mercury Quality Center

Testing Languages: VB Script

Application Servers: Web Logic, Web Sphere, Tomcat, Jboss, Glassfish

Others: Rally, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel), Lotus Notes, TOAD.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user and business requirements for this application to modify test plans and test cases for positive and negative scenarios for functional and performance testing.
• Automate Manual Test Cases using QTP.
• As a Systems Testing Engineer working on Web Services projects and order entry GUI interfaces.
• Tested Web Services provided by Services application using SOAPUI tool.
• Maintain centralized status report by hosting a web portal for the clients to get status of the moment
• Maintain Smoke Test for weekly build using robust automated smoke test
• Identified, Prioritized, and implemented test cases
• Bug tracking and reporting of the project using Rally and also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status
• Validation from Backend using SQL commands
• Manage task and resource allocation for testing
• Document the issues and enhancement requests to assist development team with concise and detailed steps for reproducing the problem.
• Verified resolved Change Requests and maintained accurate status for Change Requests entered in each project.
• Briefly working on Visual Studio Team System 2010 coded UI testing.

Environment: Automated QA Test Complete, JAVA, VB Script, MSWord, MS Excel, MS SQL Server 2008, VSTS 2010

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QA Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user and business requirements for the new build and compared of those with the old build to modify test plans for positive and negative scenarios for functional and performance testing.
• Prepared Test Plan and Test Cases, Test scripts. Worked in Agile/Scrum Methodology.
• Attended Standup Meetings, updating daily status, worked on Sprints (iterations).
• Tested synchronous and asynchronous Web services using Soap UI, HP Services Test Manager and QTP
• Synchronous Web Services were automated using QTP automation test scripts.
• Tested the Web Services using the SOAP UI tool.
• Tested Web Services calls used in the applications using Jmeter SOAP UI.
• Tested SOAP Protocols, validated request and response XMLs, prepared test data to validate the XMLs
• The whole application was manually tested before going for automated testing. Prepared test data by writing SQL
• Developed automation test plan and developed test scripts using VB Script and Quick Test Pro (QTP), maintained object repository, designed automation frame work, scheduled test script from test lab, developed descriptive programming to identify the objects, and developed automation scripts for Web Services to test request and response XML with valid and invalid data. Also verified request and response xml manually using Soap UI
• Developed/ enhanced VB Script in Quick Test Pro to added check points, parameterize data, data base checking
• Performed the Positive and Negative testing, User Interface Testing on the application.
• Performed manual and automated Regression Testing after every build Installation. Reported defects in Quality Center.
• Tested reports generated from ETL tool Informatica (Data Warehousing)
• Executed Shell Scripts and different commands in UNIX ( Sun Solaris) environment, FTP the files from UNIX to Windows for testing/ comparing data
• Executed SQL queries/ joined for data base verification/ back end testing
• Run Regression Test using QTP Script to ensure that introduction of new component into application doesn’t affect the existing functionality
• Kept track of the bugs/ defects, deciding their priority and then assigned them to the different developers
• Attended status review meetings, interacted with developers, Architects to resolve the issues.
• Interacted with off shore team, co ordinate meetings to review the automation scripts and informed the progress of the project.

Environment: Mercury/ HP Quick Test Pro (QTP), Quality Center, HP Service Test Manager, HP Service Emulator, ETL, Informatica, Data Warehousing, Oracle, SQL, Ms Office, XML, Soap UI, Java/ J2EE, C, C++, Mainframe, UNIX.

Confidential, NE

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the design and Business requirements documents.
• High Level Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases were generated for Functional and Loadtesting.
• Performed Manual, Black Box Testing, User Acceptance Test and extensively used QTP for Regression Testing.
• Createdand modified Functional and Regression scripts by introducing Text, XML, Object, Table and Image Checkpoints.
• Known Exceptions were handled in QTP using Recovery Scenario Manager.
• Used Load Runner for conducting Performance, Stress and Load tests.
• Generated metrized all the scripts to run for multiple users by introducing data file parameters.
• Used the Load Runner Online Monitors to monitor the possible bottlenecks in the application
• Monitored various system resourcesviz..,online transaction response times, Hits per Second, Throughput, CPU and Memory for multiple operating systems.
• Used Mercury Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting.

Environment: Java,J2EE, C++, Web Logic, QTP, Load Runner, Mercury Quality Center 9.0, Oracle 9i, SQL,Windows, UNIX.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Created the detailed test plan and test cases from the business requirements documents and meetings.
• Developed and executed SQL queries against database to prepare test data.
• Developed automation test scripts using VB Script for Quick Test Pro (QTP), maintained shared and local object repository based on the functionality
• Interacted with development and design teams to resolve defects
• Involved in manual testing of test cases
• Wrote various test cases and test scripts
• Coordinated with developers to fix the bugs and conducted functional testing
• Participated in weekly meetings with the management team and walkthroughs
• Performed smoke testing, GUI testing
• Test applications both in QA and production environment
• Maintain Test Matrix and project Matrix, to keep track of the project status.

Environment: Mercury/ HP Quick Test Pro (QTP), Quality Center, SQL,MS office, XML, VB Script, Web Services, Soap UI.