SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of extensive experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Quality Assurance, Data warehousing Testing, Manual testing of Web, and Client/Server based commercial applications.
• Experienced in QA methodologies and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) from Requirement analysis to User acceptance Testing.
• Extensively involved in creation of Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts and project related documentation.
• Well versed with Unit testing, Black Box Testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Load Testing, Stress Testing.
• Extensively worked on multiple platforms like Web - based and Client-Server application on different environments.
• Experienced with Manual and automated testing tools like Win Runner, Load Runner, QuickTestPro and Quality Center.
• Experienced with MS Office Tools like MS Word, MS Excel, and MS Access.
• Experience in Back-End testing using the Oracle.
• Experienced on Visual Basic, .Net,and VBScript Scripting Languages
• Adopted the Descriptive Techniques of QTP scripts for maintainability.
• Good understanding of Database, SQL, PL/SQL and SDLC.
• A team oriented person with excellent analytical skills coupled with good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Created a single huge shared object repository for all the different modules by using the Object Repository Manager in QTP.
• Extensively used SQL Queries to retrieve data from database.
• Extensively involved in Verification and Validation process to evaluate documents, plans, code, requirements, and specifications.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively and focus the team to commit towards achieving dynamic goals.
• Hands on experience in Arc-GIS environment and Oracle 9i-10g
• Strong work ethic, excellent inter-personal skills and analytical skills.
• Worked in Agile methodologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows XP/ Enterprise Server 2003 and 2008/NT, UNIX

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Plus, Visual Basic 6, SQL, PL/SQL, Shell Scripting, Perl.

Database: SQL Server 2008, 2005, Oracle 10g/9i, IBM DB2, MS Access.

Reporting Tools: Business Objects XI 3.1, R2, 6.5, 5.1; Web Intelligence (WEBI); Desktop Intelligence (5.1 Business Objects), Crystal Reports XI and 2008, Xcelsius 2008 and Visio.

Testing tools: Load Runner, Quick Test Pro, Test Director, Quality Center, Rational Robot, Test Manager, Requisite Pro, Clear Quest.

RDBMS: MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, Sybase 11.x, MS Access

Tools: MS Office, SQL Navigator, Toad, Word Perfect, Visio, Visual Studio,Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power Point, SQL* loader, SQL* Plus 3.2.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

Sr QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with business users, IT management and staff throughout the project life cycle, to assist, support the design, development and implementation of effective systems, to establish and maintain a consistent test methodology.
• Functioned as the Onsite / Offshore coordinator
• Participated in business, client and status meetings.
• Trained new team members on the entire testing and report verification process.
• Acted as a point of contact regarding defect status / resolution for the Development team, QA team and the user community (clients).
• Developed the frame work for QTP
• Logging and managing the defects in Visual StudioTFS2010.
• Used Quality Center for Defect tracking system and to get different types of Reports to check the status and performance of project
• Conducted defect review meetings with the team members
• Created test cases as per requirements and mapped test cases with requirements and executed test cases in Test Lab in Quality Center
• Created scripts using Descriptive programming in QTP for Regression Testing
• For QTP Frame work Created Functions and Procedures

Environment: HP Quality Centre 10, MS Access, MS Excel, Microsoft Share Point, MS Visual StudioTFS2010, MS SQL Server 2008, .Net, XML, Windows XP

Confidential, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and authored test cases for test execution in both manual and automated modes for online banking and loan application modules.
• Executed test cases manually to check GUI and Functional features of the AUT, compared and analyzed actual with expected results and reported all deviations to the appropriate individual(s) for resolution usingTFS.
• Performed pair-wise testing with one up and one down application.
• Create decision tables for identification of test scenarios
• Executed test scripts for data validation, UI integrity and content validation in manual and automated modes. Also, identified and reported software bugs and logical errors.
• Successfully designed the change management procedure for the project after identifying the criteria for change / feature request qualification, bug reporting, roles and responsibilities and issue escalation processes.
• Conducted multiple sessions of user acceptance testing (UAT) for the financial services and online trading modules, recorded user feedback and logged it in the form of bugs.
• Verified defect fixes in both manual and automated modes using QTP scripts along with SQL queries for data validation.
• Reported various defects with complete description when there is a discrepancy between actual and expected results and tracked for their status using Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS).
• Conducted load and reliability testing on the web sites workflows to identify and report performance bottlenecks.
• Used Quality Center for defect tracking and reporting bugs. Recorded defect details, assigned severity and reported defect status to the Quality Manager.
• Conducted tests for compliance of the website with Netscape and Internet Explorer.

Environment: Oracle, PowerBuilder, SQL, PL-SQL, Windows NT/2000, MS-Office (Word, Excel, Power Point) Oracle, VB, ASP .Net,Mercury Quality Center.

Confidential, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business requirement Documents and functional requirements documents.
• Involved in Establishing Automation framework for QTP 8.2
• Develop scripts using QTP for Regression Testing.
• Building the Test case Repository.
• Involved in code reviews, Unit testing and Peer reviews
• Performed Functional, GUI, Regression and System Testing
• Identifying Test Cases to be run for Regression Testing and conducting Regression testing as and when new builds were made
• Reviewed FRS, BRD, HLD and LLD design documentation
• Maintained proper traceability between test cases and requirements documentation.
• Tested multiple scenarios based on test cases to validate system with different data set.
• Designed detailed test cases for testing software functionality.
• Wrote test cases for both the web interface as well as the entire integrated system.
• Maintained proper traceability between test cases and requirements documentation.
• Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to make sure that test plans were written for all the requirements
• Performed page Navigation Test to ensure that the links are established as per the requirements.
• Developed user defined functions for the Data base testing using ODBC connections in QTP.
• Execution of automation test scripts in batches using Quick Test pro.
• Developed test data depends on the Test Scenarios as per the functionality of the application
• Participated in weekly QA team meetings & reported the Status

Environment: Windows NT, AS/400, DB2, COBOL, Natural, EDI/Mercator, XML, MS Office, Quick Test pro and Test Director

Confidential, Abbott Park, IL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked with business users, higher management for gathering and analyzing requirements.
• Consulted with client, IT management and staff throughout the project life cycle, to assist, support the design, development and implementation of effective systems, to establish and maintain a consistent test methodology.
• Provided guidance in the creation of standard Test Environments, Tests Plans and Test Scripts.
• Prepared and conducted manual User Acceptance Testing of new and modified applications/systems.
• Generated various Test Cases and Test Scripts based on functional specification.
• Conducted Functional Testing manually for each build.
• Manually tested complete billing and transactions modules.
• Conducted backend testing with Complex SQL queries within UNIX shell scripts in the UNIX environment.
• Validated ETL extracts.
• Validated Staging, data mart tables and look up logics.
• Manually checked for broken links on Navigator and sites.
• Developed reusable automated test scripts using QTP.
• Performed software Compatibility testing on different hardware platforms manually.
• Performed manual Usability Testing of application.
• Used Test Director for test documentation management and defect tracking.
• Suggested Enhancement Requests based on prior industry experience with Web Applications.
• Participated in the review of new QA software and consulted with IT staff and client areas in resolving questions during the testing process.

Environment: Business Object 6.5, Web Intelligence, Windows Server 2003, VB Script, SQL Server 2005, T-SQL, Oracle 10g/9i, TOAD, T-SQL, Business Object (Client Tool), PL/SQL, Crystal Reports XI/10, Xcelsius 4.5, Business Objects Enterprise XI R2, Visual Studio 2005, QTP.