SUMMARY

• Seven years of proven, extensive and diversified experience in Software Quality Assurance, Manual, UAT and Automation testing of Client/Server and Web based applications.
• Hands on experience with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Excellent knowledge and working experience in test planning, test scripts, test execution and test results analyses.
• Proficient in using Test Management Tool HP Test Director /Quality Center for Defect Tracking, Organizing, Managing, Planning and Executing Tests.
• Experience in creating Requirements Traceability Matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements.
• Good working knowledge of major Operating Systems and tested applications on Windows 98/ 2003/XP and UNIX environments.
• Testing expertise in performing Functional, GUI, Performance, Regression and Stress testing.
• Good experience in analyzing changes and identifying areas of the application to be regression tested.
• Expert in performing Backend Testing by writing and executing SQL queries against the database such as Oracle, MS SQL Server and MS Access.
• Experience in QA automation tools such as Win Runner, QTP and Load Runner.
• Good knowledge on UNIX commands.
• Strong background in software testing for Financial services, Banking, Publishing, Retail Sales and Marketing.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and work independently as well as in a team.
• Effective time management skills and the consistent ability to meet project deadlines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, Visual Basic, T - SQL, PL-SQL, .Net

Databases: MS SQL Server 2005/2008, Oracle 10g, MS Access 2003

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows 7/XP/2003/98

Testing Tools: Win Runner 7.2, Load Runner 8.1, Test Director 8.0/ Quality Center 9.0, QuickTest Pro 9.2/10.0

Bug Tracking Tools: Quality Center 9.0

Other: MS-Office, AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, CorelDraw

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze & understand Business & Functional requirements
• Assist in creating Test Plan
• Identify and create test data for Test Scenarios and Test Cases
• Create both positive and negative test cases according to the Business Rules and Business Strategies
• Manual testing using Mercury Quality Center to develop test cases, executing the test cases and logging the defects
• Automate the Tests utilizing QuickTest Professional (QTP)
• Customize QTP scripts according to functional requirements of the application
• Create Data Driven Tests to validate the same scenario with different test data
• Create SQL queries to test the backend functionality of the application
• Maintain Requirement Tractability Matrix (RTM)
• Interact and work with the development team to solve problems encountered in the test run
• Participate in daily defect review meeting
• Report daily logs and progress status to management
• Create test plans and analyze business requirements and functional specification documents.
• Create test execution schedules and test scripts.
• Create management reports, daily test execution metrics, daily test execution summaries, and test summary reports.
• Develop automated test scripts using QTP
• Review and analyze Client Statements and Trade Confirmations, verifying accuracy and consistency of these statements.
• Familiarize with the general concepts of private equities and hedge funds to better understand the test objectives for the WMR - AI project.
• Defect logging and tracking through Quality Center.

Environment: MS SQL Server 2008, Windows XP, Visual Basic, Manual Testing, QTP 10.0, Quality Center 9.0

Confidential, New York

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Review and discuss Test Specification Document with QA Manager and team members
• Meet with business analyst/business partners to understand requirements
• Create end-to-end test scripts based on business requirements
• Run SQL query against database to validate execution of daily jobs
• Execute test cases manually & log defects using Quality Center
• Generate Reports and Graphs using Quality Center
• Perform web application testing for multiple browsers
• Participate in daily team meeting and provide latest testing status

Confidential, New York

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manage testing activities and resources to ensure project milestones and deliverable are met.
• Gather and Analyzed Business, Functional requirements Specification to identify all requirements.
• Assist business users in executing test cases/scripts in UAT phase.
• Coordinate daily Functional/UAT test status & defect status meetings with business users, QA analysts, software developers and release/environment management team members.
• Facilitate business sign-off for the testing documents/artifacts.
• Gather and analyze test data and results to produce, update and maintain various QA artifacts, metrics & reports.
• Automated test cases for Functional & Regression Testing using QTP.
• Perform data integration testing among Mainframe, Web based & Client Server applications.
• Create & execute SQL queries to perform data integrity and back-end database testing.
• Create and execute detail manual test cases to test various modules & interfaces related to Mainframe, Client-Server & Web bases custody systems.
• Log defects/issues in Quality Center and followed up with appropriate groups.

Environment: Visual Basic, Oracle, Manual Testing, QTP, Quality Center 9.0

Confidential, NJ

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Assist in preparing the Test plan document and Test strategy document.
• Review, Analyze & Understand the Business & Functional Requirement.
• Create detailed test cases.
• Execute Test cases manually to verify actual results and expected results and then document the results of the testing efforts to ensure compliance to the QA standards.
• Verify the data stored in the database with the help of SQL queries
• Log defects in MS Excel
• Participate in review meetings and taken the initiative to meet the QA testing targets

Environment: Visual Basic, SQL Server 2005, Java, Manual Testing, MS Excel

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assist in writing Test Plan and defining testing scope for project based on the Requirements Document.
• Extensively involved in Testing the Application so that it meets the requirements.
• Test compatibility of web application under various browsers.
• Test data consistency, data integration and data validation.
• Manage defects/issues in Test Director.
• Map requirements, test cases, test results & defects in Test Director.
• Provide daily updates to the QA supervisors and developers on the status of day-to-day testing

Environment: Adobe Flex, C#.Net 2005, MS SQL Server 2005, Test Director, Manual Testing

Confidential, MA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Create test cases and perform Manual Testing like Positive testing, Negative Testing and Black Box Testing
• Extensively done GUI testing
• Execution of the test cases in Test Director followed by Defect management
• Create check points, for the validation of the application
• Participate in weekly meetings

Environment: Servlets, Oracle, HTML, Test Director, Manual Testing

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Perform functionality testing, which involves testing of all core functions of the application.
• Involved in all stages of testing process - Development of Test Plan, Test procedures and Test cases based upon requirements for Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing and support for User Acceptance Testing.
• Setting up Test Data in QA environment for System Testing.
• Perform End-to-End testing of full functionality.
• Develop Test Cases and Test Scripts in Test Director.
• Use Test Director for tracking and reporting defects, enhancement requests, and assess the real status of project throughout the life cycle.
• Participate in Team meetings on a regular basis and involved in active discussion in order to improve the testing quality by better strategies and testing approach.

Environment: SQL, Windows XP, VB, Manual Testing, Test Director