SUMMARY

• 6 Years of diversified experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing on Client/Server, Windows.
• Strong experience in automating the Business Process Testing utilizing HP Quality Center and Quick Test Professional.
• Knowledge of HP Quality Centre for Traceability to Requirements, Test progress, Test execution results, Defect tracking and Defect Reporting. Agile and Scrum methodologies from a testing/QA perspective
• Credit card projects under a variety of systems using automation - tools and manually.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as well as Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
• Extensively experience in analyzing business requirements and specifications, development and execution of Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases.
• Involved in Manual testing & Tracking defects using Test Director & HP Quality Center
• Hands on experience of developing test plans and strategies of testing web applications and e-commerce situation.
• Ability to perform effectively and efficiently in team and individually.
• Involved in Writing, Updating and maintaining the Test documents for various stages of Testing for reference and auditing purpose.
• Strong experience in all levels of Testing such as Positive testing, Negative testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Black box testing, Browser testing.
• Expertise in Problem solving and Bug Tracking Reports using Bug tracking Tools.
• Strong Experience in Smoke, Functional, Regression, Performance and User Acceptance testing for the highly structural and complex systems.
• Expertise in Test Case/Test Procedure Design, developing Requirement Traceability Matrix Scripts.
• Retail supply chain, Point Of Sale, Banking\\Finance, Insurance.
• Extensive experience in working in multiple projects concurrently.
• Suggested probable risk and risk mitigating strategies along with creative solutions to the management team.
• Excellent Organization, Analytical and Problem Solving skills and ability to quickly learn new technologies.
• Good Communication, interpersonal, and Teamwork skills.
• Test coordinator developed test data in support of User Acceptance Testing
• Good understanding of interpreting business requirements
• Good knowledge on testing Methodologies
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral
• Excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills
• Aptitude for trouble-shooting and problem-solving
• Strong understanding of software development principle
• Experience interacting with clients Collected all information and available documentation to create test plans, and a procedures manual

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Mercury interactive Win Runner, Quick Test Program, Defect Tracking Tools, Mercury/HP Quality Center, Bugzilla, Rational/IBM Clear Quest, Rally & homegrown tools. Test Director7.6 /Quality Center 10. Microsoft Tools MS office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Adobe Acrobat Reader

Defect Tracking Tools: Test Director, HP Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest

Internet Technologies: ASP.NET, Java

RDBMS: Oracle10g/11g, SQL Server 7.0/2000/2005 , MS Access.

GUI: Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Studio.java, .NET /2008

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98//NT/2000/XP/7, unix

Languages: 95/98//NT/2000/XP/7, UNIX Languages SQL, HTML & VB Script Database, SQL Server, Microsoft Access, MS SQL

Web Servers: SQL, HTML & VB Script DatabaseSQL Server, Microsoft Access, MS SQL Browsers, Internet Explorer, Netscape navigator, Bugzilla, Firefox, chrome Other tools SQL plus, & knowledge, Data testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements and site specifications
• Worked in QC related to administrator
• Coordinated and implemented the QA Process and Methodologies
• Developed detailed testing Strategy for the entire application and developed various test cases.
• Performed Manual / Automated Testing on client-server and web based applications.
• Executed Manual Tests on QA/UAT and Production environments
• Worked on developing Test Strategy, test plans, writing test cases, and generated test scripts.
• Used Quality Center to invoke the scripts and initially performed the baseline testing and organized all the scripts systematically and generated reports.
• Regression Testing is performed and additional scripts are added to regression set for each Release.
• Conducted Dev to QA meetings and participated in Analysis to Dev meetings.
• Facilitated test data for User Acceptance Testing.
• Coordinated with offshore QA team for best utilization of resources.

Environment: Manual/Automation, Quality Center10.0, QTP10.0, .Net, Oracle9i,Toad, Windows 2000, Xml, HTML, Visual Basic

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed to write Test Plan, Test cases and responsible for executing the Test Scripts
• Performed End to End Testing and System Testing, Regression, Unit / Module Testing, Smoke Testing,
• Worked on Agile/Scrum team environment
• Interacted with Business users and Technical team to provide some suggestions on uses requirements.
• Tracked defects using QC version 10/11.
• Bugs were reported to Developers using Test Director and after rectification from Developers regression Developed thorough test plans and analyzed business and user requirements
• Executing the Test cases and analyzing the results and managing the defects in HP QC /ALM
• SharePoint, MS Visio, MS Project Professional, MS Project, WebEx, and Microsoft Office package with Blue’s Outlook Express and Blue’s Link.
• Ability to create SQL queries against an Oracle database when necessary to verify business scenarios have been met
• Ability to generate statistical data and reports and multi-task & support multiple priorities / multiple deliverables
• Effective in Team Setting or as Individual Contributor.

Environment: .NET, HP Quality Center, Visual Source Safe

Confidential, Danville PA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing Test Plan, Test cases and responsible for executing the Test Scripts.
• Test coordinator Prepared test data by developing and executing SQL queries from database.
• Created the documents that defined the test environment, phases of testing criteria into different phases of testing in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Participated in Design walk through and status meetings periodically through the SDLC.Performed Functional, Regression, Unit / Module Testing, Smoke Testing, Database testing and System Testing.
• Working on Medicaid and Medicare team environment Test Plan, Test cases and responsible for executing the Test Scripts
• Interacted with Business users and Technical team to provide some suggestions on uses requirements.
• Tracked defects using IBM (Rational) Clear Quest.
• Created test plans, decided testing strategies.
• Written test cases for - unit level, functional and integration testing. Test coordinator developed test data in support of User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Gathering and analyzing Functional Requirement Document and Business Requirement Document for testable functional requirement and non-functional requirement
• Executing the Test cases and analyzing the results and managing the defects in QC
• Executing the System test cases based on prioritization of each module

Environment: Oracle, Java/J2EE, Rational Robot, ClearQuest, Mercury Quality Center, QTP, Load Runner.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user and BRD to modify test plans for positive and negative scenarios for functional testing.
• Involved test writing Test cases in QC version 10.0
• Involved in writing Test Plan, Test cases and responsible for executing the Test Scripts Using Clear Quest for bug report.
• Used Squirrel SQL queries from database.
• Involved in planning test scenarios and writing test cases and test results for application.
• Executed manual testing of the Application.
• Performed Functional, Regression, Unit / Module Testing, Smoke Testing, Database testing and System Testing.
• Bugs were reported to Developers using Test Director and after modification from Developers regression testing was performed, automation scripts in QTP for regression testing.
• Used tool Auto VIN for Inspection report manual and automation.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked to write Test Plan, Test cases and responsible for executing the Test Scripts Test
• Involved in writing Test Plan, Test cases and responsible for executing the Test Scripts Using Clear Quest for bug report.
• Performed Functional, Regression, Unit / Module Testing, Smoke Testing, Database testing and System Testing.
• Interacted with Business users and Technical team to provide some suggestions on uses requirements.
• Tracked defects using IBM (Rational) Clear Quest./QC
• Bugs were reported to Developers using Test Director and after rectification from Developers regression Developed thorough test plans and analyzed business and user requirements
• Test coordinator developed test data in support of User Acceptance Testing
• SharePoint, MS Visio, MS Project Professional, MS Project, WebEx, and Microsoft Office package with Blue’s Outlook Express and Blue’s Link.

Environment: CICS, Mainframes TSO, DB2, Quality Center. Visual Source Safe

Confidential, CHICAGO, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing Test Plan, Test cases and responsible for executing the Test Scripts.
• Credit card company projects under a variety of systems using automation-tools and manually.
• Test coordinator Prepared test data by developing and executing SQL queries from database.
• Facilitated test data for User Acceptance Testing.
• Work on Agile/Scrum team environment
• QA engineer and got promoted to team lead
• Performed Functional, Regression, Unit / Module Testing, Smoke Testing, Database testing and System Testing.
• Used Test Director as a QA lead to perform a test plan, track executions against plan throughout testing and handle faults from start to resolution.
• Documented and communed test results. As a lead handled several projects with the short deadlines.
• Lead Contributed in developing each test plan and test case based on the high-leveled and detailed design
• Bugs were reported to Developers using Test Director and after rectification from Developers regression testing was performed, automation scripts in QTP for regression testing. Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), HP Quality Center (HC) or Rational).
• Lead and mentor QA team members, as well as manage outside contract testers. Test coordinator developed test data in support of User Acceptance Testing.
• Worked with other team members Developed automation scripts in QTP for regression testing ate script internet explorer, applications that run in web pages such as java script
• QA Lead, developing test strategies and schedules, as well as leading the work of other team members in large test efforts (including, but not limited to, functional, system, integration, and regression testing).

Environment: CICS, DB2, HP Quality Center