Objective

• A Certified Software Testing Professional with 8+ Years of experience in various Software Testing Methods and Methodologies.
• Proficient in Manual Testing & Web service testing which includes Functional, Sanity, Smoke, Ad hoc, Regression and System Testing of Web Based Applications.

SUMMARY

• Around 7 years of experience in Manual Web Services testing in banking domain and 1 year in automation testing.
• Having good Knowledge of SDLC & Software Testing Methodologies.
• Well exposure to banking and financial industries.
• Thorough understanding of Defect life cycle, having experience reporting and reproducing application issues with Defect Tracking tool HP Quality Center.
• Proficient in Database testing using SQL Queries
• Tested Soap Web services and HTTP based services using Soap - UI Pro version
• Expertise in Test Case Designing, and Regression Suite Preparation
• Assigned Test cases to entire team and coordination between onsite and offshore during test execution.
• Conducted Parallel Testing, Functional Testing & Regression Testing for all modules
• Peer reviewed Test Cases and handling client delivery calls
• A proactive leader and planner with expertise in strategic planning, staffing, plan execution, test deliverables.
• Streamlining workflow and creating a team work environment to enhance profitability innovatively.
• Exceptional ability to maintain and build client relationship.
• Possess excellent communication skills & ability to relate to people at any level of business and management
• Have led teams and individual modules at offshore and onsite ensuring quality and on time deliverables
• Expertise in Test estimation & Test Planning·
• Identify process improvement areas and take corrective action. Ensure timely communication of issues and status.
• Prepared Metrics and Weekly & Monthly Status Report Deliverables
• During release day coordination between onsite and offshore.
• Effective Team player, Have very good rapport with both offshore and onsite.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automation Tools: QTP and SOAP UI

Test Management Tool: ALM, Test Director 8.0, Bugzilla.

Operating Systems: Win95/98, 2000, XP

Database: SQL, DB2, MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Plainview, NY

Sr QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in testing the functionality of Account Receivables and Account Payables applications.
• Involved in writing and executing test cases.
• Analyzed business requirements and reviewed test cases and test scripts.
• Executed test scripts using QTP.
• Interacted with developers and business analysts.
• Actively involved in all phases of SDLC.
• Involved in Functional, System, Positive and Negative testing of the application
• Participated in walkthroughs and technical reviews.
• Extensively used SQL queries to perform data integrity testing.
• Involved in GUI, Functional, and usability tests.
• Developed data and individual test cases to satisfy positive and negative testing.
• Finding issues/defects and informing Technical PM, Lead and other developers
• Attended regular project meetings and discuss the release plans, provide testing status, highlight outstanding issues.

Environment: SOAP UI, Web services, Windows2000, DB2, ALM, SQL, QTP, VB Script

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the system specifications, business requirements for full understanding of the business.
• Defined test cases and test scenarios for different types of testing like functional testing, system testing, integration testing, and Regression testing as per the requirements.
• Extensively used Quality Center to manage the assets.
• Wrote a weekly aging report, which kept track of all bugs/ issues in the system.
• Performed Manual Testing of the application, interacted with developers and discussed technical problems, reported bugs.
• Conducted Integration testing between different modules of the application under test.
• Prepared Test Conditions and Test Cases in Quality Centre.
• Involved in Test specifications and Unit test plans for all the developed objects.
• Conducted Smoke, Regression, System (Functional), E2E and UAT testing types.
• Involved in Test Data preparation and optimization.
• Used Quality Centre to prepare Test cases, procedures, Requirements Traceability Matrix and Defect Management for all the modules in the project.
• Reported and maintained product defects, verified fixed defects, and prioritized outstanding defects created and maintained test procedure documentation.

Environment: Manual testing, Quality Center, SQL, Windows XP, 2003, Vista, MS-Word, MS-Excel.

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Quality Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created detailed test plans, test cases from Business Requirements in Quality Center.
• Performed manual, automated testing and developed SQL scripts for data validation.
• Tested each application against the QA Test Plan and communicate findings with the team.
• Tested the batch jobs which load and refresh the database nightly from Legacy to data marts.
• Provided test support for user Acceptance and End 2 End testing phases.
• Conducted Functionality and GUI (Java web interface) testing manually.
• Performed Database and Regression testing for the various modules of the application, logged defects in Quality Center and performed Defect Tracking.
• Managed Test Scripts, Test runs and Defect Management thru Mercury Quality Center
• Automation of the test cases for Regression testing using QTP

Environment: HP Quality center 9.0, ASP, VBScript, HTML, Web Logic,, SQL Server, Toad, Windows 2000/NT

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Analysis and Ambiguity Reports
• Develop Test Scenario’s and Test Plans
• Interacted with the Subject Matter Experts at Confidential Technology in developing the test plans and testing the application on XP with different management levels setup in the COE.
• Performed functionality, user interface, regression, security and user acceptance testing.
• Defect reporting & Tracking using HP QC
• Participating in the Defect Triage calls and coordinating with cross teams for defect fixes.
• Defect Consolidation and Defect Prioritization for the team.
• Project Delivery

Environment: DB2, SOAP UI, Windows 2000, HP QC, UNIX, HTML, WEB LOGIC

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Functional Requirements and Use cases and Involved in development of test plan
• Created Test cases for various Functionalities of the application.
• Prepared test data for system testing.
• Identified and Prioritized Test Cases, Analyzed Defects and generated Status Reports.
• Performed database testing to ensure data consistency by writing and executing SQL queries
• Reported defects using HP QC, also verified fixes and closed bugs during regression testing
• Developed and enhanced test scripts for regression testing
• Participated in walkthroughs and technical reviews.

Environment: DB2, UNIX, Windows XP Professional, SOAP UI, HP QC, HTML

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Generated test cases as per Use cases defined in product requirement document
• Actively involved in reviewing Test cases.
• Generating Test procedure documents for various tests that are to be performed.
• Executing Test cases as per the requirement.
• Performed Functional and Regression testing.
• Reporting the bugs.
• Verification of the fixed bugs and subsequently closing them if they passed the test case,
• Involved in weekly status reporting and official meetings.
• Reporting status of testing progress, issues to team lead on a weekly basis.
• Periodically obtaining feedback from Team lead and consciously working for Improvement.

Environment: ASP. Net, SQL Server 2003, Win2000, HTML, SOAP UI, UNIX