SUMMARY

• 7 + years of experience in Manual and Automated testing of Client - Server and Web Based Applications using Mercury Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, and Load Runner etc.
• Thorough understanding of Software Quality Assurance methodologies wif expertise in Black box, manual, automation and UAT testing. Skilled in Testing and Development of Client Server and Web based applications in Health Care, CRM, Mortgage, Financial and Banking industries across Multi-Platform environments.
• Software Development Life Cycle and implementing IV&V Test Methodology in Non-iterative (water fall) and Iterative (Agile or Spiral) development models.
• Expertise in Manual and Automated testing of applications developed on Windows Environment.
• Very good in scheduling, planning for teh releases, builds, and patches for teh QA testing worked wif multiple releases simultaneously in QA environment.
• Excellent noledge in software engineering standards like CMM
• Expertise in problem solving and Tracking Bug Reports using Bug tracking Tools like HP Quality center, Team Foundation Server and PVCS.
• Expertise in interacting and coordinating wif system architects and data administers.
• Ability to interact wif people at all levels. Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills wif likable personality.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional 8.0/9.0/9.2, Quality center 8.2/9.0, Test Director 7.27.5/8.0 and LoadRunner9.0. Mercury Test Director, Team Foundation Server, Make TLM

Web Technology: HTML, XML,JMS, J2E, JavaScript, VB Script, VB. Net, ASP.net

Databases: Oracle 9i/10g 11g, SQL, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris 8/9/10, Windows 98/2000/NT/XP/Vista/Apple Mac

Reporting Tools: Micro Strategy v8, v9 Web, Microsoft Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IV&V Test Team Lead

Confidential, MD

Responsibilities:

• Utilized Non-iterative (water fall) and Iterative (Spiral) development models.
• Systems included client/server, web base, and ERP conversion projects critical to teh Department of State Financial Division for new development And legacy systems.
• Test tasks included test planning, requirements review, design review, unit test, system and integration test, user acceptance test, regression
• Test and conversion test.
• Wrote test plans, test cases and test summary reports.
• Created test schedules, coordinated all facets of testing, transferred test methodology and noledge as necessary to End users and Developers.
• Resolved project scheduling and testing issues, represented teh team at project meetings and prepared Executive Management weekly status reports

Environment: SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio, SQL Developer, Test Manager, Make TLM, TFS and manual testing.

Sr. QA Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Tested teh application at unit level, module level and system level for teh Quality of teh software.
• Performed all teh Quality Assurance functions, which involved reviewing and analyzing teh requirements specification for creating teh Master Test Plan, Test strategies, and all types of test cases, and Test procedures and for installing applications Involved in creating and reviewing documentation for teh installation and operating procedures
• Involved in teh development of system test plan and test scripts using business and system requirement documents
• Review and understand data requirements and create teh necessary test data and test cases to be used during UAT
• Edited functional descriptions, system specifications, user's manuals, special reports, or any other customer deliverables and documents.
• Composed technical documents including, user's manuals, training materials, installation guides, proposals, and reports
• Documented teh Bug Reports for all teh bugs detected and tracked teh bug fixing process until they were closed.
• Performed Integration and UAT testing for system compatibility.

Environment: Oracle 11g, SQL Tools, SQL Developer, JIRA, IBM Rational Doors, SharePoint, Microstratagy and manual testing.

Sr. QA

Confidential, Mclean, VA

Responsibilities:

• Used Mercury Quality Center 10.0 to write test cases and Reports.
• Performed Functional, Regression Testing.
• Created and executed SQL queries and validated teh test data in teh database.
• Responsible in data validation, mapping data wif database.
• Used IBM Clear Quest to log and track teh Defects.
• Reviewed teh Test cases of team members and identified teh gaps to make them more effective and relevant to teh requirements.
• Prepared and Presented weekly reports on teh status of teh project
• Testing teh application at unit level, module level and system level for teh Quality of teh software.
• Performed Integration testing for system compatibility.
• Various other tests like Positive, Negative, Performance, Regression, and Stress, performed to check teh various business functionality.
• Backend Testing using SQL queries.
• Wrote SQL queries to perform data validation and validate reports against teh database.
• Documented teh Bug Reports for all teh bugs detected and tracked teh bug fixing process until they were closed.
• Execution of Test cases wif respect to source and target database tables.

Environment: Rapid SQL 7.7.2, SQL Developer, SQL Plus, IBM Rational Doors 9.2, HP Quality Center 10, IBM Clear Quest, Lotus Notes 7, UNIX, and manual testing

Sr. Software Test Engineer

Confidential, Baltimore MD

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed application requirements and functional specification document to understand enhanced features.
• Produced High Level and Detailed Test Conditions.
• Worked on Agile Scrum Methodology.
• Wrote UAT test scripts in QC.
• Co-ordinate review & signoff of Test Conditions.
• Reported progress at regular status reporting meetings.
• Managed individual test cycles & resolved tester queries/problems.
• Ensured test systems outages/problems are reported immediately and followed up.
• Successfully implemented Quality Center for requirement management, test design, test execution, defect logging, mapping requirements wif test cases.
• Ensured test entrance criteria are achieved prior to System Test start.
• Ensured test exit criteria are achieved prior to System Test signoff.
• Performed UAT and database testing using SQL-Navigator.
• Extensive involvements in bug scrub meetings wif key stakeholders and reached consensus about outstanding issues.

Environment: Java 1.6, SQL Server 2005, HTML, J2EE, XML, Team Foundation Server, Quality Center 9.2, and manual testing.

Sr. QA Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Requirement reviews, Team meetings.
• Working closely wif Programmers, Business Analyst’s to resolve technical and functional issues.
• Based on teh Business Requirement Documents and Functional Specifications wrote teh high-level Test cases
• Developed, Test Plans and Test Coverage/Test Approach for multiple projects.
• Performed Functional, Regression and UAT Testing.
• Created and executed SQL queries and validated teh test data in teh database.
• Responsible in data validation, mapping data wif database.
• Used Mercury Quality Center 9.0 to Report and Track teh Defects.
• Reviewed teh Test cases of team members and identified teh gaps to make them more effective and relevant to teh requirements.
• Prepared and Presented weekly reports on teh status of teh project
• Testing teh application at unit level, module level and system level for teh Quality of teh software.
• Performed Integration testing for system compatibility.
• Various other tests like Positive, Negative, Performance, Regression, and Stress, performed to check teh various business functionality.
• Backend Testing using SQL queries.
• Wrote SQL queries to perform data validation and validate reports against teh database.
• Documented teh Bug Reports for all teh bugs detected and tracked teh bug fixing process until they were closed.
• Execution of Test cases wif respect to source and target database tables.

Environment: Quality Centre 9.0, Java, J2EE, XML, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, Windows NT, Oracle 8i.

QA Tester

Confidential, Washington DC

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed teh Vision document, Use Case document and Software Architecture document and developed teh Test strategy.
• Worked on Agile Scrum Methodology.
• Created Test plans, Test Coverage and Test Cases.
• Prepared and Presented weekly reports on teh status of teh project
• Testing teh application at module level and system level for teh Quality of teh software.
• Performed Integration testing for system compatibility.
• Performed load testing to ensure teh overall system performance.
• Various other tests like Positive, Negative, Performance, Regression, and Stress, performed to check teh various business functionality.
• Backend Testing using SQL queries.
• Documented teh Problem Reports (PR’s) for all teh bugs detected and tracked teh bug fixing process until they were closed.

Environment: - Quality Canter, Java Web sphere 3.5, HTML, DHTML, JavaScriptWindows NT, Quick Test Pro8.0, Load Runner 8.0, and Oracle 8i.