SUMMARY

• 6 years of experience in software Quality Assurance experience in designing, testing, implementing web based and Client - Server applications.
• Experience in Manual and Automated Testing using Mercury Interactive Tools- Quality Center, Quick Test Professional, Win Runner, and Test Director.
• Experience in Integration testing, System testing, Performance, Back end Testing, Black Box testing, Functional testing and Regression testing.
• Good understanding of all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and QA Life Cycle.
• Tested Web applications in waterfall and Agile development processes
• Performed bug and defect reporting using Quality Center.
• Experience in writing Test Strategy, Test Plan, and Testing Process.
• Experience in Writing Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Scripts, executes Test Scripts, Verify Test Results, and Log Defects.
• Experience in writing numerous test plans and test cases for conducting System, Regression, Black Box and Integration testing of applications.
• Involved in Validating Data from different Data Sources, which involved creating of number of Temporary Tables.
• Experience in Back End testing using SQL and PL/SQL
• Extensively involved in Backend testing of SQL Queries using Sybase, Oracle, and SQL Server.
• Knowledge of the relational data base concepts like table Primary and Foreign keys, Views and Referential Integrity.
• Knowledge in Mainframe.
• Experience with diverse platforms: UNIX & Windows.
• Proven ability to work efficiently in both independent and team situation with positive results.
• Experience in documenting the testing process using MS-Office tools including Word and Excel.
• Experience with writing, editing and reviewing technical documentation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: C, C++, VB, Perl, TSL, PL/SQL.

Operating Systems: MS Windows all versions, UNIX, Sun Solaris, Mac OSX

Databases: SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle 8.x, Cache

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, XTML.

Testing Tools: Rational Enterprise Suite Rose, Robot, Test Manager, Clear Quest, Requisite Pro; Mercury Interactive Test Director, Quality Center, Quick Test Professional (QTP).

Tools: & Packages Adobe Acrobat Suite, Microsoft Office Suite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, ATLANTA

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the user requirements, functional specifications and Use Case documents and created the Test Plans, Test cases for Functional testing.
• Prepared Test Data Requirements Interacted with teams managing different source systems and coordinated the data creation effort for testing.
• Worked closely with developers to troubleshoot and isolate complex problem and write test scenarios, test reports as per need.
• Communicated with software developers and business users to develop manual test cases.
• Performed Integration, System, User Acceptance, Regression, Performance and Back end testing of an application.
• Participated In Test planning meetings and submitted Test case Status during the meetings.
• Participated in Daily defect tracking meetings and prepared matrices to demonstrate daily status for testing to higher authorities.
• Used Clear Quest to maintain defect repository and followed the bug life cycle until the bugs are fixed or closed.
• Participated in Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions;
• Analyzed business requirements and segregated them into high level and low level Use Cases, Activity diagrams, Class diagrams and Sequence diagrams using Rational Rose.
• Created Traceability Matrix to trace each Use Case and associated them with the registered requirement.
• Interacted and communicated clearly with development, testing and production teams concerning release management policies and procedures.
• Fully facilitated the User Acceptance Testing cycle by providing online and telephonic support to the Business Users during their testing cycle and coordinated the data creation and loading activities. Successfully Completed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) on release of the project.

Confidential, ATLANTA

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Discussed status of all open issues facing the test team and actions to be taken to mitigate such issues.
• Worked closely with developers to troubleshoot and isolate complex problem and write test scenarios, test reports.
• Communicated with software developers and business users to develop manual test cases that are subsequently converted in to automate QTP scripts.
• Created Test Plan and Test Cases to cover overall functionality of the application.
• Identified and documented defects using Quality Center, and helped the developers to reproduce the problem in the development environment.
• Identified QTP and Quality Center environment issues and working with technical support to resolve the issues.
• Through testing of the various advertisements listed on the web site for other products offered by the company.
• In depth knowledge of Visual basic scripting
• Extensive experience working with all phases of software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Analyzed the system specifications, Business Requirements for full understanding of the project.
• Involved in different phases of Test effort like Integration testing, Regression testing, and User Acceptance testing.
• Strong knowledge and experience in writing queries in SQL.
• Experience in developing test plans and strategies and have conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of systems.
• I was actively involved in System Integration testing.
• Performed Regression Testing using Quick Test Professional and generated scripts for testing functional, acceptance and limit validations.
• Tracked defects using Quality Center and Requirement tracking and managing test cases.
• Established Standard checkpoint, Image checkpoint, Table checkpoint, and Bitmap checkpoint using QTP.
• Prepared the Software configuration document.
• Designed, developed and implemented automated Test suites using QTP.
• Experience in good document practices and validation documentation.
• Conducted regression testing on release, verifying no new defects were caused by package script fixes.
• Executed SQL queries to perform testing on Database connectivity applications.
• Interacted and communicated clearly with development, testing and production teams concerning release management policies and procedures.

Confidential, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Smoke, Sanity, Regression, System and UAT testing.
• Kept track of daily status reports and provided weekly status report that includes testing metric
• Reviewed requirement that was gathered from the front office and back office users and involved in pre testing activities.
• Maintained complex testing activities and computation financial activities using MS-Excel
• Responsible for Script creation, maintenances and execution using Quick Test Pro and performed backend testing.
• Responsible for Script creation, maintenances and execution using Quick Test Pro
• Created Test data, Test procedures, Test cases, writing automated test scripts and documentation.
• Tested application by applying checkpoints such as standard, database, Bitmap, text to verify the modules are functioning without any errors using Quick Test Pro
• Divided test into logical sections to design more efficient and modular tests.
• Connected Quick Test Pro with Quality Center for defect management and to database (Oracle) for backend testing.
• Checked Test Summary of Quick Test Pro for the verification of results that were either passed or failed.
• Generated an execution grid in the Test Lab module of Quality Center, group test cases and executing them simultaneously.
• Installed and configured Mercury Quality Center and Quick Test Pro in various client machines.
• Analyzed bugs using Quality Center and reporting those bugs to the development team.
• Managed and mailed defects to another users that enables quality assurance personnel about defect repair activity.
• Linked defects to requirements, tests, test sets, test instances, runs, run steps, and other defects to determine the status of defect using Quality Center.
• Use Quality Center for defect tracking and maintained defect repository and followed defect life cycle until it was closed.
• Exported the test run data to external spreadsheet from Quality Center, and performed detailed analysis.

Confidential, MA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, System requirements, and Functional requirements.
• Involved In developing Test Plan, Test Requirements, Test Cases and detailed test cases in Excel Sheet and Test Director.
• Extensively involved in Manual and Backend testing.
• Performed Functional, System, Integration, User Acceptance and Back End Testing of the application.
• Involved in writing detailed test cases for the Integration testing.
• Prepared Test Data and created test input requirements for Data Driven Testing
• Developed automated test scripts using QTP to perform Functional testing.
• Used Test director and Dev Track to track and report System Defects.
• Written the description for the bugs of the application and helped the developers to track the problem and helped to solve it.
• Performed Quality Assurance reviews on Development Life Cycle.
• Participated in for defect reviews with the developers and with managers and presented the Defect reports in the defect review Meetings
• Participated In Test planning meetings and submitted Test case Status during the meetings.
• Performed Database Testing using SQL Server, queried test data from SQL Server by writing SQL Queries and PL/SQL Procedures.
• Checking the data flow and extensively using SQL Queries to extract the data from the Database
• Data validation and Database integrity testing done by executing SQL, PL/SQL statements.
• Checked the data base and with the application queried result is being equal, for that lot of SQL queries is being extensively used to check the data from the data base.
• Performed data driven test by passing parameter from text files.

Environment: Windows Excel, Test Director 7.6, Quick Test Pro 8.2, .Net, C#, HTML, SQL Server, PL/SQL, Load Runner 7.0,Windows XP.