SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of diverse IT experience in quality assurance engineering with expertise in SDLC, Agile, QA methodologies and having excellent knowledge in Manual Testing and Automation Tools
• Proficient in functional, negative, integration, regression, acceptance and automation testing of cross - platform, distributed, client/server, web based n-tier applications
• Experience in performing Smoke, System, Sanity, Regression and UAT (User Acceptance Testing).
• Experience in Web multi-tier applicationtesting and testing Web-Services.
• Experience in client/server Application Testing.
• Experience in testing jobs in UNIX server and verifying file formats.
• Expertise in analysis of requirements and design specifications, writing tests plans, test cases, test scripts, creating end-to-end business test scenarios and defining entrance and exit criteria for Integration testing.
• Extensive experience in writing functional Test Plans, Test cases and Test scenarios for Manual and Automated testing for various Business applications in .NET and JAVA.
• Experience in working long term in System testing and Regression testing teams.
• Possess good Knowledge of automated software testing tools like Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, and requirement management tool like Rational Suits (Requisite Pro).
• Strong in Software Development Life Cycle and Test Methodology.
• Using Toad 9.2 for backend testing by querying data base and validating the same against the application.
• Using QTP 10.0 for creating and running the scripts.
• Using HP Quality Center 10.0 for defect management, test planning, and reporting.
• Worked as Configuration Controller to support the versioning of the scripts and maintain the folder structure, taking the backups on weekly basis.
• Worked as Defect Preventer to verify that the deliverable is defect free, maintain the checklist, and maintain the documents.
• Approving test cases and procedures for offshore team of 6.
• In-depth knowledge in Auto & property Insurance Domain and knowledge of Banking and Credit Card domain.
• Acquire various Testing and Domain certification.
• Part of SOX audit team.
• Experience in auditing and approving development team documentation with respect to SOX compliance.Developed bug reports, Built Certification and test data preparation.
• Conducted Project status meetings, identified requirements, Code walkthroughs, and inspection reviews.
• Designed and created testing training manual for use by the business users as per the companies SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures).
• Experience in creating requirement traceability matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements.
• Execution of test plans for loading the data successfully into the targets.
• Experience inDataIntegration of various data sources from databases such as Oracle, SQL Server,DB2, flat files,XMLfiles.
• Tested on various browsers like Internet Explorer, Netscape, AOL, Mozilla etc,.
• Documented Test documents using MS Office - Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Formulated and tested queries with SQL on an Object /Traditional Relational Database.
• Done Security testing with SSL, HTTPS and also performed digital certification testing.
• Worked on Black box testing, back end and data validation testing, GUI and functionality testing, white box testing, grey box testing and structured testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: Intel based platforms

Operating System: WinNT 4.0/Win98/2000/XP /Wintel/Linux/Unix

Languages: C, C++, COBOL, UNIX Shell Scripts, Java, SQL, Perl, Visual BasicASP.Net

Applications: SOA, Mainframes

Automation Tools: Quick Test Professional, BPT, Load Runner 7.5, Win Runner 8.2

Scripts: HTML, XML, Java script, VB Script, TSL

Defect Tracking: Quality Center 9.0/8.2, Test Director 8.0

Database: Oracle 10g/9i/8i, DB2, MS SQL Server, MS Access

Domain: B2B, E-Commerce, Telecom, Materials Management, Financial Management, Supply Chain Management

Others: MS Project, Visio

Environment: XML, Windows XP, UNIX, SQL, Oracle.

Networking: TCP\IP, DHCP, LAN\WAN, TELNET

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Analyst

Confidential, MA

Responsibilities:

• Design and document Test plan / Test Cases from Initial requirements, System Demo and User Guide.
• Review Test Plan by sending Feature Test Cases to MUT Unit Testing environment and Cross Functional Team, Requirement Engineering, Design & Development, Technical Documentation Team, Technical Customer Support and Product QA Team.
• Executed Test Cases using different Quality Assurance Methodology like: Positive Testing, Negative Testing, Stress Testing, and Volume Testing. ØMaintained MS Project Plan in each releases and kept track of all minor & major activities. Created MR Modification Request with different severity into MR LOG. Reviewed MRs with Developer and involved in DEFECT RESOLUTION.
• Involved in weekly status meetings with Team explaining weekly status, discussion of feature Release Requirements, MRs
• Testing of FRONT END involved screen flow testing of Visual Basic properties Object Testing, Transaction Testing Insert, Update Insert and Functionality Testing. ØUsed Win runner in regression testing and used Load runner to measure Load on GUI actions by measuring DB Time with Virtual User.
• Design SQL Queries in an Oracle utility SQLPLUS to validate Testing. Involved in billing generation Data file
• Testing and Design UNIX Shell scripts using different Control Structure, Shell Variable, and File Operator. Familiar with UNIX Commands line: awk, awk F, sed, grep, nohup, cut, ps eaf, kill, jobs, etc.
• Involve in Testing of User Guide as a part of software delivery document.
• Created Test Cases for Win Runner, Load Runner, Stress Testing, Performance Testing. Responsible for developing Test plans, Test Outlines based on the Technical Functional Specifications.
• Worked with UAT Testing, Developed various Test cases and Test Scripts for testing the web pages using Rational team test, Astra Load Test 4.0. Tested the web pages and the business rules for the application manually.

Environment: Windows2000/98/NT, Visual Basic 6, C++, MS-SQL Server7.0, MS Outlook 2000

Sr. QA Analyst

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Involved in planning and execution of E2E/IST, Regression testing from the scope closure to completion of the project.
• Conducted Test cases review meetings with peer, development and business.
• Scheduled Project kick-Off meeting and Weekly Test Team Meeting, Established Primary Contact List to support Test Case steps related to requirements.
• Identified project objectives and requirements to create a Business Scenario Test Metrics and E2E/IST High Level Test Requirements.
• Created System Data flow diagram(s).
• Tracked Project for the Major Milestones.
• Creating daily and weekly status report of task completion, milestones and roadblocks.
• Mapped High Level Test requirements to the Test Cases in Quality Center.
• Created detailed test conditions and expected test results and test data.
• Coordinated the planning and execution of E2E Test Cases.
• Tracked software issues and report statuses on the daily Executive check point calls.
• Effective co-ordination between development team and testing team.
• Provided a written/verbal escalation of project status, resources and schedule issues as required to Executive Level Management.
• Attended reviews and walkthroughs to better understand the Requirement documents (SOBR).
• Based on requirement documentation, translated the information to business scenarios and high level Test cases.
• Worked on test plan to create manual/automated test scripts for the test cases including test details for the functionality test using Quality Center.
• Worked with the different interfaces in different test phases System, integration, back out, Shakeout and GUI testing.
• Managed the onsite and offshore testing and testing resources.
• Back up Test Manager and lead a team of 10 resources.
• Conducted Regression testing effort and involved in training off shore and on shore regression testers.
• Performed VBA applications for data validation.
• Logged defects using Mercury Quality Center.
• Participated in the User Acceptance Warranty Testing. Created automated scripts for BPT based testing using QTP for web services and UI testing for smoke and regression testing using data driven and functional driven framework of shared repository.
• Tracked bugs & defects by prioritizing bugs, assigning bugs, verifying and troubleshooting in Mercury Quality center.

Environment: Windows XP, Quality Center, QTP, XML, IBM mainframes, SQL Server 2000, VB scripts, ESB (Enterprise service Bus).

QA Analyst

Confidential, BOSTON, MA

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system specifications, requirements and developed detailed Test Plan, including test cases and test procedures.
• Performed manual testing on various modules.
• Performed Unit, System testing to verify the application under test is as per the business requirements and performed End-to-End testing.
• Formulated positive and negative Scenarios for Functional, GUI and Security Testing manually
• Perform manual testing for integration and acceptance.
• Manual Testing was done to perform functional testing on the User interface
• Manual Testing for checking the flow of the application functionality
• Managed and scheduled users based on different criteria.
• Conducted Data Driven testing using parameterization in WinRunner to test the application with different set of data.
• Performed back end testing using WinRunner by Querying database by executing SQL queries.
• Worked closely with QA and Developers to clarify/understand functionality, resolve issues and provide feedback.
• Used Test Director to track, analyze and document defects
• Reported bugs using Test Director

Environment: Java, JavaScript, MS-SQL Server7 Manual Testing, WinRunner, Test Director, Windows 2000, Windows NT

QA Analyst

Confidential, Hopkinton, MA

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed business requirements, documents and technical specifications.
• Assisted in writing test plans, which detailed the testing scope, strategy, test requirements, and necessary resources
• Documented test cases based on corresponding business /user requirements documents & technical specification and other operating conditions.
• Performed several testing methods like Regression, Functional, Integration and System.
• Attend meetings, document user change requests. Analyze user change requirements, and to make necessary amendments to the test requirements.
• Performed White Box and black Box Testing.
• Performed Positive and Negative testing.
• Performed End-to-End testing manually.
• Closely worked with respective personnel to nail down the bugs.
• Reporting of bugs to all concerned.
• Developed SQL Procedures for database

Environment: Windows2000/98/NT, Visual Basic 6, C++, MS-SQL Server7.0, MS Outlook 2000

QA Analyst/Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Wrote Test Cases and Created Test Plan to test the Functionalities based on the requirements and Use Cases provided.
• Developed automation scripts using Win Runner. TSL was used to enhance the power of the scripts for complicated scenarios.
• Involved in Positive and Negative Testing of Application with Cross Browser and Cross Platform scenarios.
• Conducted Functional Testing, Integration, Regression and System Testing on the features developed in a given iteration.
• Authored and conducted Black-Box Testing to check form validation and other object properties such as field length and data validation.
• Installed and Loaded database with Test Data and validated the latest Build with new DB features checked in.
• Loaded Input Data file into database using SQL loader and validated the Data loaded in to tables by executing queries for checking integrity of databases (Oracle) update, deletions, and insertions using TOAD.
• Performed backend testing using SQL queries to check if relevant user information is populated in RAW Tables and also in the corresponding Tables.
• Coordinated with offshore team in Ireland from requirement Analysis stage to Production Stage.

Environment: VB, ASP.net, MS Access, JavaScript, HTML, MS Excel Sheets, Windows 2000,Oracle, Toad, SQL.