SUMMARY

• Over 5 years of professional experience as a QA Engineer in Information Technology with extensive Experience in performing Manual and Automated Testing.
• Expert in Performance testing using HP LoadRunner.
• Experience in testing Web and Client - Server applications on different environments.
• Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and in all phases of Quality Assurance Life Cycle.
• Strong experience in developing Test Plans, Test cases using requirements and design documents while specifying Testing Overview, Approach, Strategy, Scope, Roles and Responsibilities.
• Ability to write Test plans, Test cases from requirements and Use Cases.
• Experience with Test Director and Mercury Quality Center for maintaining and executing test cases, Defect Management and Bug Tracking.
• Experience with Rational Test Manager for maintaining and executing test cases.
• Strong experience in defect tracking using Rational Clear Quest, Test Director, Mercury Quality Center.
• Expertise in performing different types of Testing: White Box (Unit and Integration testing), Black box (Stress, Volume, Integration, Functional, GUI, System, Performance, Regression), Cross Browser and UAT.
• Experience in performing automation testing using QTP, Symbioware and RUP tools.
• Good understanding of Database Management Systems like SQL Server, DB2 and Oracle.
• Very Strong backend testing skills that include strong SQL queries and file validation.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer relational Skills.
• Proven communication, presentation Skills and Leadership Qualities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP Load Runner, Mercury Tools (Test Director, Mercury Quality Center, QTP, Rational Suite (Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Clear Quest).

Languages: C, C++, C#, Java, VB, Perl, PL/SQL, UNIX Shell Scripting.

Databases: SQL server 2000/2005/2008 , MS Access, Oracle, AS400 and DB2.

Design Tools: Rational Rose Enterprise Edition, UML, Design Patterns

OS/Platforms: UNIX/LINUX, Windows 95/98/2000/XP/NT, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX and AS400.

Internet: HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSP, J2EE, XML, ASP, ASP.Net, WCF, VB.Net, VB Script, Java Servlets, Web logic, Web sphere, Siebel, AS400.

Software: MS Office 2003/2007, MS FrontPage 2.0, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Melville, NY

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plan and overall Test Strategy for the program.
• Developed Test Cases and Test Scripts for System and UAT Testing.
• Manually Tested all applications End-End.
• Participated in Business Analysis, Requirement Analysis and Data Analysis.
• Reviewed and analyzed end user issues and problems, working with all stakeholders to resolve the issue with configure team.
• Tested the Interfaces and management reports.
• Reviewed and analyzed the Configuration Business requirements.
• Developed Test Strategies and Test Plans for system configuration changes based on business requirements.
• Participated in CIT (Configuration integration testing), BVT (Business validating Testing), SIT (System Integration Testing), ETE (End to End) and UAT (User Acceptance Testing).
• Developed and maintained functional and regression test scripts using QTP.
• DesignedObject model programming in QTP.
• Developed Descriptive programming in QTP.
• Responsible for Automation testing using VB Script language with QTP tool for conductingRegression testing. Also identified re-usable scripts for sake of building the test automation framework.
• Tested the User interfaces for the web application.
• Validated the data by using SQL extensively.
• Developed Test Summary Reports and participated in GO / NO-GO meetings.
• Coordinated with Business, Project Managers and Developers
• Assisted project activities as per Project Lifecycle methodology.

Environment: SQL Server 2008/2005, Windows, AS400, QTP 10.0, ASP.net, Siebel CMS, WCF, VB scripting, MS Excel, C#.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Gathering and analysis of product requirements and technical requirements.
• Develop Test Cases based on Business Requirements and Technical Specifications.
• Execution of Test Cases Manually and Automated using Quality Center.
• Participated in creation of Traceability Matrix.
• Hands on with SQL queries and populate tables according to the functional and specifications.
• Created User defined functions for sake of re-usability by the team.
• Various features of QTP like Check points, Synchronization points, parameters (data driven tests), Recovery Scenarios, and Debugging are used.
• Work independently and Co-ordinate with development team and Business team.
• Extensive analytical skills to analyze back end logic and run test scripts.
• Validate the business functionality using UAT Testing.
• Performed positive and negative testing of the application for identification of bugs after fixing of errors in each subsequent build during the process of development.
• Reporting the defects through Defect Management using Rational ClearQuest.
• Developed regression test scripts using QTP.
• Documented test cases, test results, test procedure and reported to the client.

Environment: Windows, QTP 9.5, Java, Servlets, WCF, VB scripting, JavaScript, MS Excel, DB2 8.1.

Confidential, Fremont, CA

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Centralized Data Hub (CDH) project to create Load Test scenarios and scripts using LoadRunner.
• Participated in design review / walkthrough sessions with Project Managers, Developers, and Product Teams
• Worked with file formats/layouts, namely: ASCII, EBCDIC, XML, fixed-width and delimited.
• Created detailed test plans based on analysis of requirements and design documents.
• Wrote test case scripts and execute; document detailed results and summary report using LoadRunner.
• In collaboration with other team members, analyzed raw data to ensure the data will meet the business need.
• Analyzed various graphs generated by LoadRunner Analyzer including Database Monitors, Network Monitors graphs, User Graphs, Error Graphs, Transaction graphs, and Web Server Resource Graphs
• Used Unix commands and utilities to monitor server side activities and performance.
• Participated in design review / walkthrough sessions with Project Managers, Developers, and Product Teams
• Conducted Knowledge Transfer and Training Sessions for new Team Members.
• Perform problem analysis and problem solution in a technical environment.

Environment: LoadRunner, JAVA, HTML, DHTML, XML, QTP, WebLogic, ORACLE, ApacheJIRA