SUMMARY

• More than 6+ years of extensive experience in Quality Assurance Testing by using different types of QA Methodologies, processes and tools.
• Experience in analyzing Business Requirements, Functional and Technical Specifications.
• Solid experience in Develop, Review, Execute, and Maintain Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Procedures.
• Expertise in Quality Assurance, Manual and Automation testing of Client / Server & Web applications, IBM Mainframes.
• Strong understanding of QA Principles, QA Process, Use Cases, and Software Development Life Cycle, Agile Methodology
• Extensively involved in White - Box, Black-Box and Full Life Cycle Testing.
• Experience in tracking test coverage and providing Metrics to management.
• Experience in performing Smoke, Integration, Functionality, Regression, and System Testing.
• Experience in logging defects in a detailed, understandable and reproducible manner, tracking all defects through to closure.
• Hands-on experience using Mercury Interactive tools QuickTestPro and Quality Center.
• Extensively involved in using Quality Center to report defects for smooth transition between development and testing team.
• Experience in Software Verification, Validation and Testing Methodologies.
• Experience in Telecom, Financial, Banking, Insurance and HealthCare domains.
• Experience in Oracle, DB2, SQL Server and MS-Access databases.
• Experience of testing Java, .NET and Mainframe Applications.
• Specialized in Database Testing using Complex QUERIES, Sub QUERIES & Joins and testing them.
• Experience in using TOAD for querying Oracle databases and Perforce, Clear Case for Version Control.
• Excellent Communication, Leadership and Interpersonal skills with clear understanding of business logic.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

TESTING TOOLS: Mercury Interactive Quick Test Pro (QTP) 9.2

DEFECT TRACKER: Quality Center 9.2, Jira

LANGUAGES: SQL, PL/SQL, C

WEB TECHNOLOGIES: JAVA,HTML, ASP.NET, VBScript, Java Script

LEGACY SYSTEMS: DB2, Mainframes CICS & TSOPACKAGES MS Office (MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Power Point, MS-Access), Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Project and Visio.

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows 2000 Server & Professional, Mac, Windows NT, Windows 95/98/XP, Unix.

DATABASES: SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 and MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, VA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing and reviewing the business requirements and functional specs documents.
• Involved in writing test plans, written test cases manually, for functional testing purposes. Written detailed test plans and performed functional tests manually
• Developed Test Strategy, Test plan, Test cases, and Test scripts and documented in HP Quality Center
• Prepared the Test data for interpreting the Positive/negative/regression results based on the design requirements.
• Quality Center updates and test cases loading and writing Test Plan and executing Test Cases and printing status report for the team meetings
• Performed Black-Box Testing and Non-Functional Testing.
• Performed Functional, SIT, UAT and Regression test cycles
• Create Requirement Traceability Metrics
• Performed the Back-end Integration Testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL statements
• Created and executed QTP test scripts for regression testing
• Extensively worked on Agile methodology
• Used Quality Center for defect tracking and reporting. Work with development team for defect resolution
• Send daily test execution and defect status to the project team
• Participate in change management team meetings.
• Document all reusable process and SQLs

Environment: Quality Center, Manual Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Compatibility Testing, Java, Unix, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Quick Test Pro 9.2/10.0.

Confidential, Minnesota, MN

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed Test Plan using Test Manager and identified the priority functions to test
• Create Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Sets accordingly associated with each requirement for functional, integration and acceptance testing
• Created and executed Test cases for all test cycles.
• Designed and executed test cases for Functional, SIT, UAT and Regression test cycles
• Participated in design and test case walkthroughs
• Create required test data for all test cycles.
• Work with internal and external business teams on UAT
• Converted tests to Data Driven Tests by parameterizing the fixed values to read from EXCEL sheets
• Track bugs in ClearQuest and reporting the defects to the developers and project team.
• Communicate testing and defect status to the team

Environment: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Visual Basic, Oracle Server, Visual Source Safe, Clear

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the requirements, analysis and planning phases to review the project requirements.
• Participated in peer reviews and walkthroughs on the Preliminary Test Approach, which contains high-level test conditions for verifying the software solution.
• Development of Test Plans, and functionalities in SDS like PRU Graphical User Interface, Automated Response Monitor (ARM), Non-Invasive Blood Pressure (NIBP), SpO2 and Barcode.
• Developed NIBP Software Simulator, HL7 Extract Tool using VC++ for 100% verification of NIBP Module Functionality.
• Design Verification Matrix (DVM) for requirements verified for feasibility studies.
• Created and executed test scripts using RFT and RPT for validating the web based application.
• Expertise in extracting the data using HL7 tool and validating the HL7 messages.
• Involved in all Phases of SDLC
• Actively involved in developing software verification for feasibility.
• Worked in close coordination with developers and business analysts in performance and failure analysis.
• Hands on experience on test execution cycles
• Handling entire process of testing artifacts for Verification and Validation with respect to the FDA standards 21 CFR Part 11.
• Concluded the development of System test plan documents for the most important
• Worked on DOORS for the traceability matrix of all the work products.

Environment: C++, QNX, Linux, Windows 95/98/NT, RFT, RPT, HP Load Runner

Confidential, Greenville, SC

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supported QC expansion into Life Insurance Product applications by proactively coordinating for myself and the new consultant team Championed change into the Life team by introducing QC processes and reinforcing important SPS concepts into the team
• Created a System Appreciation Document to document all functionality of the entire Plan Master System which was later used to train new team members
• Lead Tester for Life GLIF Plan Master - a system developed with Oracle as backend and Visual Basic as front-end. My responsibilities include Supporting Project Management activities, Test Planning, Test Case Development, Test Scripting, Test Data preparation, Test Execution, Defect Tracking, Reporting, Results validation and relationship management with Plan Master Development Team.
• Used Mercury Quality Center to write Test Cases, Execute Test Cases, Defect Logging and creating execution reports
• Received a DRE (Defect removal efficiency) score much higher than the score on prior releases in my first assignment
• Attended several classes related to Software Testing given by SQE (Software Quality Engineering) and QAI (Quality Assurance Institute) organizations
• I was the backup Test Lead on BIOS - BIOS - Benefit Information Operating System, a claims processing system that is developed using Visual Basic with Oracle database.
• I supported test data preparation and test execution for BIOS project.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, Visual Basic, Asp.net, VB Script, Oracle 9i,Windows 2003/XP, MS-Office, SQL, .NET

Confidential, San Antonio, Texas

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively used Complex SQL queries and UNIX commands to first verify the data at file level and then at database level.
• Participated and coordinated Test Case Walkthroughs.
• Used Quick Test Pro (QTP) for automating test cases for regression testing.
• Used Quick Test Pro to conduct functional testing for Java, J2EE applications.
• Created, maintained and executed test scripts through Quality Center.
• Created and tested complex html content that needs to be converted to PDF format to generate customer statements.
• Linked requirements to test cases for traceability in Quality Center.
• Extensively tested for complex logical, boundary, positive, negative, and dependency conditions.
• Designed, developed and executed Win runner TSL scripts for functional, regression testing, and callable scripts.
• Communication of Results to Support Team and Creation of final Report.

Environment: Quick Test Pro (QTP), Quality Center, XML, Oracle 8i/9, UNIX Shell Scripts, C++, WindowsNT/2000, PL/SQL, Web Logic8.0 Application Server