SUMMARY

• Result and detail oriented Software Professional with over 6 years of experience in the areas of Software Testing and Software Quality Assurance.
• Possess rich and diverse experience in all areas of SDLC and STLC with hands on experience in Banking and HealthCare industries.
• Expertise in Manual/Automated testing for Client/Server, and SOA/Web - based applications on several platforms, using HP tools - HP Quality Center/Mercury Test Director, Quick Test Professional (QTP), Load Runner, and Clear Quest.
• In depth knowledge of the complete Software Development (SDLC) and Software Testing (STLC) Life Cycle including requirements gathering & analysis, estimation, test planning, execution and defect tracking & reporting.
• Very good understanding of Data Warehousing concepts, Data Analysis, Data Warehouse Architecture and Designing.
• Expertise in ETL BACKEND TESTING.
• Highly Proficient in different Testing Techniques like Manual, Functional, White Box testing application in GUI, Smoke, Integration, System, Acceptance, Regression, UAT, Exploratory and Performance Testing.
• Experience in various methodologies - SDLC, Agile/Scrum, Iterative, and Waterfall.
• Excellent Scripting Knowledge of Mercury’s “TSL” for WinRunner, and VB Script for QTP.
• Excellent in automation frame work implementation and Business process testing (BPT).
• Experience on Object Oriented Programming (OOP) like C#, C++,XML, Unix, using Eclipse and Visual studio with Back end as Oracle and SQL Server.
• Good knowledge of working with QC, ALM, QTP and Clear Quest.
• Excellent Database knowledge for back-end testing using SQL, PL/ SQL Server & MS Access.
• Experience in creating defects, assigning defects, retesting defect and generating reports using Defect Management tools like Quality Center/Test Director, Rational Clear Quest, and MS Excel.
• Experience in advanced concepts of QTP like descriptive programming, custom functions, checkpoints, synchronization, parameterizations, and recovery scenario manager, reusable/split actions, regular expressions, shared object repositories, data-driven testing and Hybrid Framework.
• Expertise in writing manual Test different scenarios using Excel, QC.
• Involved in testing HIPAA Transactions & Code Sets Standards like 837/835
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, intuitive and analytical skills.
• Proven ability to work efficiently in both independent and team work environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional (QTP), Quality Center (QC), SOAPUI, Win Runner, Load Runner

Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center/Test Director, Rational Clear Quest, JIRA, Bugzilla

Scripting Languages: VB Script, SQL, Java Script, XML

Operating Systems/software: WIN XP Pro, WIN 2000, Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 7, UNIX

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL server, MS Access, SQL and PL/SQL

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, RUP, Scrum

Microsoft Office Tools: MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Visio, MS Project, MS SharePoint, Outlook

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Mount Laurel, NJ

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, software requirement specifications to create test plan, test cases, test scenarios for manual testing.
• Automated re-usable functionality (VB Scripts) using QTP.
• Written test Plans, test Cases, Test scripts, test scenarios for the Quality releases in theSOAservices and Maintenance releases.
• Wrote storedprocedures, Triggersusing PL/SQL,Worked withUNIX shellscripts extensively.
• Maintained test logs and test summary reports. Performed XML document validation and developed UNIX Shell scripts.
• Performed End-to-End system testing and reported defects in Quality Center (ALM).
• Responsible for creation and maintenance of QTP-based automation keyword-driven framework for testing of ETL processes.
• Creation of QTP scripts for Attachmate Terminal emulator to support ETL processes on mainframe environment.
• Followed Agile methodology, attended Iteration planning and daily Scrum meetings.
• Created test cases using QC and MS Excel.
• Created test cases with positive and negative scenarios and covered all business rules.
• Executed test cases manually and analyzed the results.
• Reported the defects to developers using Quality Center (QC) as the defect tracking tool and managed the defect life cycle until defect is resolved, differed or closed.
• Performed Unit/Module testing, Integration testing, and Regression testing.
• Performed both front end and backend field validations.
• Performed Database testing by using SQL queries including joins and sub-queries.
• Documented errors and implemented their resolutions.
• Performed Regression testing over different builds and defects were reported accordingly.
• Used QTP tool in Regression testing.

Environment: OTP, HTML, XML, VB Script, Unix, Quality Center 9.0, SQL Server, Windows 2003/2007, PL/SQL

Confidential, St Petersburg, FL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Designed and updated Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix. Developed Test Cases/Test Scripts and validated the scripts to make sure they have been executed correctly and meets the scenario description.
• Most working in a UNIX environment but some legacy testing is running on MVS (mainframe) environment.
• Knowledge in testing SOA Architecture, Web Services testing
• Worked with the team to update existing Test Plan structure in Quality Center/Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
• Responsible for maintenance of existing TestPartner automation framework
• Used Rational Clear Quest for Tracking Defects, Enhancement Requests, assign work activities and assess real status of project throughout life cycle
• Reviewed requirements with business analysts and technical specialists.
• Developed/Updated/Modified automated QTP scripts for functional and regression testing
• Extensively used QTP Data driver wizard for data base testing
• Coordinated with developers to fix the bugs and conducted Functional (Positive and Negative), and Integration Testing.
• Conducted Unit Testing, Integration Testing and System Testing.
• Used Quality Center bug tracking tool and as the test repository for executing the test cases.
• Took part in meetings and reviews with the project team to ensure that bugs are fixed and their status is updated.
• Involved in Verification Process on a regular basis using checklists.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing. Interacted with end users for conducting User Acceptance Testing and signing off.
• User Interface Testing to verify the functionality of various systems.
• Backend testing using SQL queries in Oracle and SQL Server

Environment: QTP, Quality Center 8.0, Unix, Java, Oracle, Windows, SQL,QC

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Written end-to-end test scripts to perform Smoke and Regression Testing.
• Competency in full life cycle of design, develop and implement Test Scenarios, test scripts as well as integration solutions, automated script framework and utility functions for performance testing using LoadRunner.
• Helped to build framework that is easy to use and extendable to functional/manual team.
• Written test Plans, test Cases, Test scripts, test scenarios for the Quality releases in the SOA services and Maintenance releases
• Implemented testing tools, techniques, and infrastructure to increase the speed of release cycles and allow for high quality applications.
• Collaborated closely with engineers to design appropriate tests for specific systems.
• Collaborate with Project Managers, business partners, and developers to define and create test objectives, test environments, and test data requirements for performance test plan.
• Performing a load test using LoadRunner script by configuring Load Controller and Load Generator.
• Using LoadRunner Analysis tool, generating comprehensive analysis report and identify the bottlenecks in the application performance, conduct statistical analysis and provide recommendations to improve the performance
• Perform manual testing using internal command for CPU, Memory, Network, and Physical disk and generate an additional report while system was under test to validate LoadRunner report.
• Designed, implemented and maintained software test automation test frameworks/solutions, experience using HP Quick Test Professional.
• Analyzed complex software systems and designed test strategies.
• Fostered collaboration between different teams for successful releases.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, LOADRUNNER, Windows XP, MS-Office, Share Point, Oracle, SQL.

Confidential, Jacksonville FL

Jr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases for the testing.
• Involved in Up gradation of ICD-9-CM to ICD-10 codes
• Established and maintained test cases and test data in HPQC.
• Worked on different methods of SDLC like Agile, Waterfall.
• Logged the defects in various tools like HPQC and SRTS (Team Track) and maintained track of the defect throughout its lifecycle.
• Provided root cause analysis for the major claim failures to the developers.
• Documented the test results and reported the status of assigned test tasks and issues to project QA Lead.
• Involved in writing extensiveSQL Queriesforback end testing SQL Server and DB2 Tables.
• Validate the date from EDI output transaction.
• Checked the data flow through the frontend to backend and usedSQL Queries to extract the data from the database.
• Involved in testing HIPAA Transactions & Code Sets Standards like 837/835
• Tested web Services using SOAP-UI.
• Performed benefit match - miss match after every execution.
• Also checked the benefits after year-to-year members benefit changes.
• Actively participated in walkthroughs and enhancement meetings.
• Maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure that test the plans written covered the requirements
• Documented the test results and reported the status of assigned test tasks and issues to project QA Lead.
• Actively participated in walkthroughs and enhancement meetings.

Environment: Windows XP, SQL, Mercury Quality Center, MS-Visio, Ms Projects, Rational suite (Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro)