SUMMARY

• Over 5+ years of IT Experience in Software Manual and Automation Testing of web - based applications.
• Exposure on all phases of SDLC and STLC.
• Extensively involved in different phases of testing includesIntegration, Regression, System, User Acceptance Testing, Functional, Business, Configuration and Load testing.
• Ability to work with minimal direction - taking concept to analysis and potentially leading QA through development, debugging, testing, defect documentation, regression and conclusion.
• Expertise in creating Test Plan, Test Strategy documents and Traceability Matrices.
• Expertise in designing the test scenarios and scripting the test cases in order to test the application.
• Have programming skills in SQL and PL/SQL and experience in SQL Server and Oracle databases on UNIX and Windows platforms.
• A sound understanding of data warehousing and ETL processes including star and snowflake schemas and data mart characteristics.
• Have the ability to elicit, understand and articulate business requirements and perform detailed analysis to map them to technical and functional requirements.
• Excellent Communication and Documentation Skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Quality Center 9.0, Test Director, HP Quick Test Pro (QTP) v11, WinRunner.

ETL Tools: ODI (Oracle Data Integrator).

Reporting tool: Hyperion Essbase v 9.0/ 11.0

RDBMS: Oracle, MS Access, SQL Server, Terradata.

Programming: C/C++, Java. SQL/PL, .Net.

Web Languages: HTML, XML.

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP, Unix, Mac OS.

Applications: Office (Word, Excel, outlook, powerpoint), Microsoft Visual Studio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QA ANALYST

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Writing and executing software System Test plans and Test cases, developed after reviewing the business requirements document, and technical specifications document.
• Documented Test cases corresponding to business rules and other operating conditions.
• Involved in Developing Test Plans, Test Cases & Test Scripts
• Involved in the Functional testing of web pages using QTP.
• Performed End-to-End testing manually.
• Tested the backend database using SQL queries.
• Prepare status summary reports with details of executed, passed and failed test cases.
• Made extensive use of MS Office tools to create and maintain documents such as test plans, test execution and test results documents.
• Developed Test scripts and enhanced scripts using QTP.
• Reported the bugs, Email notifications to the developers using the Quality Center.
• Monitored status using Quality Center to close the bugs/cases as and when fixed.
• Responsible in providing regular test reports to the management
• Performed Integration Testing, Functionality testing, System Testing, Regression Testing.
• Developed test scripts for GUI applications using QTP and automating the test scripts for the regression testing.
• Record incidents encountered during System testing and generated Status/Defect report.
• Participated in User Acceptance Test (UAT), Documented procedures and guiding the users in verifying various transactions on the System.
• Worked on the build management and Release management for the product release.

Environment: Quality Centre 9.0, Rational Clear case, Clear quest, Oracle 10g, Sql Navigator, Teradata, flat files, SQL Server 2000, PL/SQL, . NET and Windows XP Professional

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

QA TEST ENGINEER

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Interaction with Business Analyst and Project manager in designing Test Strategy.
• Developed and Executed test cases and test plan corresponding to Business requirement.
• Made extensive use of MS Office tools to create and maintain documents such as test plans, test execution and test results documents.
• Performed Integration Testing, Functionality testing, System Testing, Regression Testing.
• Worked with Test Architects in the clarification/simplification of test case procedures and pass criteria due to ambiguous customer requirements.
• Tested 3G+ GSM mobiles utilizing both manual and automated scripts QTP in both full test and maintenance/regression test cycles (test group responsibility: execute customer lab acceptance tests in-house, where possible, prior to mobile shipment for customer lab evaluation)
• Executed GUI testing.
• Reported the bugs, Email notifications to the developers using the Test Central.
• Developed Test scripts and enhanced scripts using QTP.
• Reviewed "manual/automated script" test cases developed from customer requirement definitions.
• Captured and submitted mobile logs, using internal proprietary logging tools, when submitting defect reports
• Worked with software development engineers on reproducing submitted defects and testing their defect resolution builds.

Environment: Teradata SQL Assistant 7.1.1, Oracle 10g, Sqlplus, flat files, Quality Centre 9.0, Hyperion Essbase V 9.0/ 11.0, SQL server 2005, Microsoft excel, PL/SQL, Teradata utilities, UNIX and Windows XP Professional, Accurev, Coreftp

Confidential, Hartford, CT

QUALITY ANALYST

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Developed Test scripts from requirements, functional and technical specifications.
• Involved in complete testing life cycle of the project.
• Designed the test cases to satisfy all the functions of the application.
• Developed test cases, test procedures and test scripts in TestDirector.
• Responsible for Smoke, Integration, Functional and System testing.
• Involved in testing different types of trouble tickets with different destinations.
• Responsible for Functional and Regression testing.
• Performed Black box and White box testing.
• Logged and assigned defects using TestDirector.
• Executed SQL queries to verify the data in Oracle database.
• Procedures to test changes.
• Attended the Walkthroughs with the Business Analysts, Technical Analysts and Developers.
• Worked closely with development staff to resolve the defects and Testability issues throughout Software Test Life Cycle.

Environment: JAVA, J2EE, EJB, JavaScript, JSP, Servlets, XML, XP, UNIX, IE 6.0, Oracle, WinRunner, TestDirector and Windows XP.

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

MANUAL TEST ENGINEER

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Performed manual testing, automated testing, defect tracking, resolution of applications and solutions
• Involved in white box testing.
• Executed SQL Queries to check the data table updates after test execution.
• Performed the Back end testing by using SQL and verified the data integrity.
• Worked on testing the interfaces between Web Application and IBM Mainframes.
• Experience with working on background jobs and executing SQL queries on Mainframes.
• Developed Use Cases to highlight different requirements from the SRS (Software Requirement Specification and SDS (Software Design Specification).
• Involved in writing comprehensive test plans based on business requirements and technical specifications.
• Prepared and developed test cases, test scripts, and test approach documents.
• Created test cases and test procedures based on Functional Requirement.
• Prepared test data for test cases based on test plan and requirement document.
• Created tests using programming.
• Created Data-Driven Tests by using Data Driver Wizard and by manually adding data driven statements to test scripts to check how it performs the same operations with multiple sets of data.
• Developed test scripts for Functional and Data driven tests using WinRunner on web based module.
• Performed GUI Test, Functional test, Smoke test, User Acceptance testing (UAT), and System testing.
• Performed Black box testing
• Performed Integration and Regression testing
• Involved in testing the loading of the Claim processing Data.
• Extensive experience with Members/Subscribers, Products, Providers, Claims processing and Billing modules.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using Test Director.
• Extensively used Test Director for reporting/tracking bugs and for document control.

Environment: Win Runner, Test Director, Manual Testing, Clear Quest, Java, JSP, Java Script, Servlets, Shell Script, Weblogic Server, XML, ORACLE, SQL, MSOffice and WindowsNT/2000