SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of total experience in Manual and Automated testing of Client Server and Web Applications in QA Tester and Analyst roles.
• Extensive experience in using the Mercury Automated Tools like Win Runner, Load Runner, Quick Test Pro, HP Quality Center and IBM Rational Tools like Clearquest, RequisitePro.
• Has good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), RUP, and Agile Methodology.
• Experience and good understanding of different POS platforms.
• Perform manual and selenium testing of web based application.
• Thorough hands on experience in designing Test Cases/Test Scripts/Test Conditions for the Unit Testing, verifying and validating Web based e - commerce applications, Integration Testing, System Testing, Selenium Testing, Security Testing, and User Acceptance Testing by using the techniques like Boundary Value Analysis.
• Worked in Enterprise Data Warehousing environment with ETL Tools like Informatica.
• Proficient at writing Test Plans and Strategies by following different QA Methodologies.
• Experience in System Test Plans, defining Test Cases, developing and maintaining Test Scripts and documentation both in Manual and Automated Testing.
• Proficient in White Box and Black Box Testing, QA and QC Methodologies and Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Backend Testing, load/performance, security, browser compatibility, and Rational Performance Testing.
• Expertise in creating complex reports using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and Crystal Reports.
• Expertise in Problem solving and Tracking Bug Reports using Bug tracking Tools.
• Good Understanding of Web Services, SOAP, XML, WSDL, HTML, CSS, Style Sheets, ASP, AS/400, ASP.NET, .NET, Siebel, JavaScript, VB Script, Java applications.
• Has good knowledge and experience using SQL, Triggers, Stored Procedures, database connectivity, Unix Shell Scripting, TOAD for Back-end testing.
• Has good knowledge of Web Servers, Database Servers, and Application Servers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: C, C++, VB, Java, .NET, ASP and SQL,JCL

Web Technologies: ASP, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, WSAM

Testing Tools: Win Runner, Load Runner 9.1/9.0, Rational Performance, HP Quality Centre, QTP, HP Quality Center 9.0

Data Warehousing Tools: Informatica, Cognos, Business Objects

Databases: MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 , MS-Access

Hardware: IBM Compatible PCs, Pentium PCs, Intel based machines, Terminal Emulators

Reporting Tools: SQL Server Reporting Services 2008/2005 (SSRS), Crystal Reports

Operating System: Windows 3.1/95/98/2000/ XP, NT 4.0,RedHat Linux, Solaris 2.x, Unix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

QA Assurance Testing Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering business requirement, studying the application and collecting the information from developers and writing the test plans.
• Involved in Agile and Waterfall Development Cycle, and used agile testing methods such as Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP).
• Participated in daily scrum meetings as part of implementing the Agile testing methodology.
• Conducted Regression Testing before and after the code conversion using Quick Test Pro.
• Involved in testing Web based e-commerce Applications and performed Security Testing to ensure the authorization and authentication on web-applications.
• Created functional automation scripts using open source tool selenium.
• Execution of Test Scripts using Rational Functional and Performance Testing.
• Performed Load Testing on the application with LoadRunner
• Track the project tasks allotted and report any shortfalls to the development team.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and suggest application tuning.
• Created Test cases in MS-Excel and deploying in quality center test plan and running test Scripts in Quality Center Test Plan.
• Involved in testing Web based e-commerce Applications and performed Security Testing to ensure the authorization and authentication on web-applications.
• Designed and developed major web applications for the client including secured online transactions and e-commerce solutions
• Design, plan, scripting, data setup, test execution and reporting.
• Gather application performance test requirements by Contacting the application teams and document.
• Created complex Stored Procedures, Triggers, and Functions, Indexes, Tables, Views and other T-SQL code for applications.
• Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed test scenarios and test cases, using TestDirector, for testing the functionality, GUI, security, and usability.
• Querying data from different database tables as per the requirement and executing the source queries from workflows.
• Involved in writing test cases for load and performance testing using LoadRunner.
• Extensively used SQL queries to perform database testing to check the Data Integrity
• Used TestDirector to create a database of manual and automated tests, build test cycles, run tests, report and track defects.

Environment: SQL, Manual Testing, Performance Center 9.1, Selenium, QTP, LoadRunner, HP Quality Center, VB 6.0, ASP.Net, HTML, XML, VBScript, and Windows NT.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Creating Test Cases, execution for the Mobile Applications, Integration, and UAT testing.
• Done Component testing, Sanity testing, Feature testing, CR verification, Regression testing and Performance Testing.
• Created a requirements document using UML and MS Visio.
• Involved in developing an application using shell script for Merging excel sheet, Creating Html pages, uploading them to server, sending the uploaded path via Email and message to the test phone.
• Suggest the type of performance tests required, based on the application performance Objective.
• As per test loads between highest performance and peak level usage designed test sequences.
• Created and used stored procedures to perform complex queries on the SQL Server database.
• Generate/review performance test results and send out the performance report.
• Managed all indexing, debugging, optimization and performance tuning using SQL Profiler and SQL Server Agent.
• Involved in analyzing Transactions, Runtime and Web Resource Graphs and analyzed the results by merging Graphs to identify bottlenecks in the server resources
• Tested the accuracy of the Mobile applications used in Confidential for order processing and billing by creating and running both positive and negative test cases.
• Executed different test scenarios Calling, Call forward, LBS, Bluetooth, voicemail, call history functionalities on different Confidential phones i.e. Blackberry, Samsung, LG etc.
• Used HP Quality Center to report the defects in the defect-tracking tool.

Environment: Manual testing, MS office tools, Performance Center 9.5/9.1, SQL, HTML, XML, VBScript, HP Quality Center.

Confidential, Naperville, IL

QA Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Converted Business requirements and design documentation into test design products: Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Performed extensive QTP Automation testing, Backend testing, White Box Testing, System Testing, Integration testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Developed an integrated Test Plan covering the main functions of the designated parts of the application using Quality Center
• Certified POS applications to validate payment methods, loyalty cards, and discount qualifying transactions such as sale at pump and sale inside store.
• Analyzing the host messages that will communicate with Back Office system and various POS devices.
• Worked on troubleshooting performance issues and fine-tuning queries and stored procedures using SQL Profiler and estimated query execution plan.
• Used the SQL server profiler tool to monitor the performance of SQL Server - particularly to analyze the performance of the stored procedures.
• Used Quality Center for maintaining test scripts and defect management.
• Created stored procedures and web applications for managing inventory systems on SQL Server 2008.
• Used Quality Center to store Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and for bug tracking.
• Designed test sequences to test loads between highest performance and peak level usage.
• Wrote SQL queries to compare data with the source database and the reports generated with the data during the testing process.

Environment: SQL, Manual Testing, QTP 9.2, Quality Center 9.0, Visual Basic, MS Access, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Server Reporting Services 2008, SSIS, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, XML, Crystal Reports

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Implemented whole life cycle of QA Methodologies starting from Planning, Capturing, Creating, and Executing, Reporting and Tracking the defects using Mercury Quality Center.
• Conducted Functionality, URL Link Testing and Regression Testing during the various testing phases of the application using QTP.
• Working closely with the Developers and Engineering Teams in the review and modification of the product and its specifications using Agile-testing methodology.
• Conducted System testing manually and identified application errors.
• Performed unit, Integration, System and Functional testing as per requirements.
• Created data table parameters to test the application with multiple set of data
• Involved in testing Web based e-commerce Applications and performed Security Testing to ensure the authorization and authentication on web-applications.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing on few applications as well as written UAT Test cases.
• Prepared the test data for positive and negative testing for all the scenarios
• Used TestDirector as the defect-tracking tool to report application defects and enhancement requests.
• Performed screen navigation test to ensure that the links are established as per the documentation provided
• Performed back end testing by writing SQL statements.
• Tested application on different web browsers and different platforms for compatibility.
• Attended weekly status meetings with development and management teams

Environment: SQL, Manual Testing, HP Quality Center 9.0, MS - Office, SQL, and QTP 9.2