SUMMARY

• Around 7 Years of experience in Quality Assurance/Software Testing with emphasis on both manual and automation testing efforts.
• Strong experience with Change management and extensively used Quality Center.
• Performed automation testing using Selenium and Load Runner tools and test management and bug tracking was done using Quality Center (QC).
• Expertise in requirements analysis, preparation of test strategy, test plans and creating test cases.
• Experience in developing and maintaining Test Scripts, analyzing bugs and interacting with development team members in fixing the defects.
• Expertise in Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, GUI testing, Back - end testing, Black Box testing and System testing.
• Experience in front-end functional testing and back-end database testing.
• Experience in testing of Client/Server and Web Based Applications.
• Experience in validating requirements and verification to meet requirements.
• Experience in Developing and Executing the Test Cases and Test Strategies.
• Expert in validating Databases, Oracle and MS SQL Server using SQL queries.
• Well versed with QA testing methodologies, procedures, processes, standards and activities.
• Extensive hands-on experience in testing large, complex software applications designed to automate common business processes, including automated and manual testing
• Strong exposure and experience in UNIX.
• Expertise in both manual and automation testing of Web services.
• Experience in working with analysts, developers and testers for complex projects during the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Profound ability to communicate effectively both in written format and oral presentation.
• Solid management skills, demonstrated proficiency in leading and mentoring individuals to maximize levels of productivity, while forming cohesive team environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/NT/XP, MS-DOS, Unix (Sun Solaris 8, HP, IBM Compatibles)

Programming Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, ASP,Selenium

Databases: MS Access, MS-SQL, Oracle 8i/9.x/10.x, SQL server, UAT

RDBMS: Oracle Developer 2000.

Network Communication: TCP/IP, Web Logic 8.x, LDAP

Testing Management Tools: Quality Center/Test Director, Clear Quest, Pearl, Python

Functional Testing Tools: QTP, Soap UI.

Performance Testing Tools: Load Runner.

Technologies: HTML, VB script, ASP, XML.

Modeling: UML, Erwin, Visio

Others: Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Visio, Lotus Notes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Springfield, MA

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining the Test Strategy, creating the Test Plans and the Test cases basing on the Business requirements document using Selenium.
• Review Business and Functional Requirements and develop Detailed Test Plan and Test Cases
• Interact with Business Team and Development Team to review Detailed Test plan and Test Case document.
• Used Selenium scripting for some of the automation testing.
• Perform extensive Integration Testing involving Database and System Testing
• Validating the web server logs using UNIX commands and wrote Unix Shell Scripts to perform batch jobs.
• Validate Web services built in SOA Architecture using SOAP UI and HP Service Test tool
• Performed Integration testing with the Web Service and overall System testing.
• Designed and Developed data validation, load processes and test cases using PL/SQL, SQL.
• Perform extensive Backend Testing using SQL scripts to pin point the breakage in the Data Flow
• Tested the data using SQL commands.
• Wrote complex SQL queries to verify data in the databases.
• Responsible for creating and executing QTP Scripts to perform Functional and Regression Testing
• Responsible for raising defects using Mercury Quality Center and track them to closure
• Create Defect Status report for Development Team and Stakeholders on a daily basis.
• Responsible for generating reports using Mercury Quality Center to deliver the End of testing notes to various teams that would help analyzing loopholes.
• Work with the Business Team to review UAT validation scenarios and execute the UAT test cases
• Updated SharePoint Document Management tool for accessing and updating the Test deliverables
• Responsible for performing Post Deployment validation Confidential the time of release / implementation
• Conduct Test Status meetings with the Business Team, QA Manager, and Development team to review Test Progress and discuss business critical issues identified during application validation.
• Created test cases in test plan and executed them from test lab in Quality Center.

Confidential - Indianapolis, IN

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Test Cases, Test Plan document for all project Modules
• Involved in analyzing business documents and created Test Strategy and automation assessment document.
• Involved in XML validations against application UI, backend database, and XSD as part of Web Service Testing using Selenium.
• Executed test scenarios for Add/Change and Term Reinstate transactions for 834 files.
• Tested, validated and supported EDI, Transactions, and HIPAA Compliance format.
• Performed Regression testing frequently on each and every weekly build/release, reviewed, validated and maintained a comprehensive Regression test suite, analyzed complicated business scenarios, reporting results and issues in a timely and accurate manner
• Responsible for functional testing with new tasks and client Enhancements.
• Responsible for functional, GUI & Regression testing.
• Involved in validating the mapping document between the 834 HIPPA Enrollment Data and the Facets.
• Performed verification and validations for EDI transactions.
• Tested the backend database using SQL queries.
• Performed white box testing on the applications.
• Used Mainframe CICS for online transactions.
• Performed 834 files through XML Check the responses.
• Involved in test execution and executed test cases in Test Lab module of Quality Center.
• Created test data for integration testing and coordinated with integration test teams.
• Conducted weekly and daily team meetings with team members and reported test activates and defect reports to project manager.
• Prepared test cases design documents based on the system requirements/business requirements.
• Involved in UAT Test Case creation and execution with end users
• Worked on UAT Team and prepared test cases, test summary reports, and also tested UAT Scripts Using QTP
• Created QTP Functions using VB Scripting and enhanced existing framework.
• Involved in documenting and resolving testing issues in the testing environment.

Environment: HIPAA 4010 and 5010, Facets, Oracle 9i, SOAP UI, Web Service, CICS, JCL, HP Mercury Quality Center, Windows XP, HTML, SQL, SOA, FTP, Citrix, Agile environment, HIPAA compliance, HP Quality Center

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Contributed significantly towards designing and executing test cases and summarizing test results.
• Developed a road map by understanding the business logic and user requirements for manual and automated testing that includes test objective, Test plans, test case and test procedures development using Test Director.
• Involved in quality assurance phase planning, coordination and implementation of QA strategy for overall project
• Involved in writing and implementation of thetest plan.
• Responsible for functional, GUI & Regression testing.
• Conducted extensive Smoke Testing, Regression Testing and Sanity Testing on the application.
• Investigated bugs using Test Director and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• MaintainTest Matrix and Project Matrix, to keep track of the Project Status.
• Participate in various meetings and discussed Enhancement.
• Performed Quality Analysis on problem reports against software and the production system in order to confirm that problems truly exists and can be recreated for testing
• Logged the defects and coordinated efforts with the development team to solve the problems using defect-tracking tool.
• Validated requirements for the application.
• Involved in the development and implementation of Test cases, Test plan.
• Worked in close coordination with software designers and business analysts in performance and failure analysis of detected problems.
• Involved in preparing IAD (Interface agreement document) between front end systems and ESM.
• Developed a suite of Test Scripts that included Acceptance, Functional and Regression testing.
• Tested RMI calls for Java front end system clients using ESM internal website ESMAnytime.com.
• Tested the back end Data Base by preparing Queries with SQL to retrieve data from database.
• Validated back end data.
• Extensively used SOAP UI to do SOAP call to invoke Web service transactions.
• Held weekly status meetings showing progress and future testing efforts to the QA manager.
• Assisted in Creating Detailed Time lines, Test Plans and Test Strategies for major releases and organized strategy review meetings.

Environment: SOAP UI, Clear Quest, Load Runner, QTP, Test Director, RAID, IBM Web Sphere 6.1,mobile Testing, Selenium, mainframe (IBM), DB2 (IBM), JAVA, Crystal Report 8.5. J2EE, EJB, Windows XP, UNIX, Windows 2000/XP

Confidential, Boston, MA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in Creating Detailed Timelines, Test Plans and Test Strategies for major releases and organized strategy review meetings.
• Performed sophisticated Black Box Testing on the application.
• Conducted extensive Smoke Testing, Regression Testing and Sanity Testing on the application.
• Established Traceability between the Requirements and the Tests in Traceability Matrix using Quality Center. Used Quality Center for Planning, Execution and Bug Tracking
• Develop and enhance testing process documentation including a suite of Regression scripts.
• Created QTP scripts for Regression testing of the application with various data sources and data types.
• Analyzed test Conditions and developed Manual Test Scripts for new Functionality test cases in QTP. Designed and implemented Automation Test Frameworks using QTP.
• Customized the QTP Test as per the Test Case by using the VB-Script
• Created Traceability Matrix for Automation Framework.
• Performed detailed test results analysis after each test execution cycle and maintained Test results.
• Coordinated defect management calls between various teams (development, support and management) and participate in defect review calls with the development team.
• Analyze, evaluate and review requirements for new applications and modifications to existing applications.
• Attended daily scrum meetings for the new projects that followed Agile scrum methodology.
• Involved in weekly QA meetings, project walkthroughs, and reviews on regular basis.
• Performed Integration, system Testing and executed Regression testing to identify errors in each modified build in the process of testing.
• Involved in development and review of Test Cases
• Logged the defects and coordinated efforts with the development team to solve the problems using defect-tracking tool.
• Involved in data analysis and conducted audits for output data.
• Used Erwin tool to finalize the data needs.
• Created end to end data flow diagrams to review the data model.
• Wrote SQL queries to validate the data in database tables.
• Developed SQL scripts to verify the data populated in Database and checked successful transaction by using TOAD.
• Followed change management process using Quality Center.
• Tested entire functionality of the application on different browsers and operating systems based upon system specs

Environment: QTP 10,Ajax,Teamtrack, Load Runner 9.5,Linux, Quality Center 10,Test planning, soap UI 3.0, UAT,Selenium, SQL Server, Java,Unix,CSS,DOORS,, Siebel, AGILE SCRUM, Erwin, UML, Visio

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Preparing, executing and documenting the test cases.
• Created test plan using specifications from the business requirements, which provided project wide strategic elements essential to the quality assurance processes to be employed.
• Performed Smoke testing for each new build of the application.
• Running test scripts using QTP against latest daily builds.
• Logging defects and resolving, Responsible for Documentation of Test Results analysis and Test matrix preparation, Test data preparation.
• Participate in weekly meeting with the management team and walkthroughs.
• Created the detailed test plan and test cases from the business requirements documents and meetings.
• Involved in manual testing of test cases.
• Responsible for maintaining functional/regression scripts using QTP.
• Executed UNIX shell script for extracting database.
• Wrote various test cases and test scripts.
• Member of the User acceptance Testing Team and worked with the perspective of the user.
• Coordinated with developers to fix the bugs and conducted Functional (Positive and Negative), and Integrity Testing.
• Performed functional testing for login Authentication Process through Apache LDAP server (Apache Browsers).
• Conducted Integration Testing and System Testing.
• Participate in weekly meeting with the management team and walkthroughs.
• Performed Smoke Testing, Security Testing, GUI Testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Involved in maintaining Test Matrix.
• Maintain Defect Log which gives a clear indication of quality and stability of product.
• Test applications both in QA and Production environment.

Environment: Java, Java Script, JSP, EJB, HTML, VB, Java Servlets, Web logic, QTP, Test Director, Windows NT, Solaris Unix, VB Script,SQL., LDAP, Webservices.