SUMMARY

• Software Quality Assurance Professional with 5 years of experience on multiple Testing products with ability to recommend design and build robust and bug free components based on Multi - Platform Systems, OS and Networks.
• Sound knowledge of effective software testing practices and test management applied in SDLC process for delivery of quality software products.
• Extensive experience in system testing, business logic testing, functional testing and integration testing and test automation.
• Expertise in Manual and Automated testing of GUI and functional aspects of the client server and web based applications on different levels of SDLC and Testing life cycle.
• Proficient in using Quality Center.
• Excellent working knowledge in design & implementation of all QA Test strategy plans for both Manual and Automation as demanded by the AUT
• Responsible for analyzing Business requirements, specifications and development of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test procedures, Test Matrices, Testing standards, Test Scripts.
• Excellent in reviewing the Test Plans and writing Test Cases.
• Experienced in Testing Methodologies, Validations and Verifications to ensure the Software Quality Control and meeting the demands set by Stake Holders.
• Expertise in different testing methods Functional, Unit, Integration, Regression, GUI, Back-end, Browser Compatibility, Ad-Hoc, Black Box, Volume, Stress, DB intensive Testing, System Testing, UAT, Test Scenario/ case design, Test Check Lists, Test reports, Test Matrices, Use cases, ROM, SOW, Test Closure report, Test execution matrix, Traceability matrix.
• Extensively used Test Director/Quality Center for Defect Reporting and Tracking
• Excellent communicative, interpersonal, intuitive, analysis, leadership and presentation skills.
• Sound knowledge in different QA process and methodologies
• Maintaining strong analytical skills with the ability to adapt to changing environments and work in collaboration with Colleagues
• Proven ability to work efficiently in both independent and team work environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows NT/XP/Server2003,Unix,Linux

Databases: Oracle9i, MySQL, SQL Server 2008, SQL, PL/SQL

Test Management Tools: Quality Center 10.0 /9.2

Packages: MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS Access and MS-Power Point

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional and Load Runner

Browsers: IE 7/6/5, Netscape / Fire fox

Programming Languages: C,C++,C#,.Net,HTML,COBOL, XML, Java, SQL,MS Visual Studio 2008,VB.Net

Datawarehousing: Infosphere Datastage, ETL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develops in-depth knowledge of the purpose and approved specifications for capability/functionality to be tested
• Participates actively in project/product detail design meetings, team meetings
• Identified gaps of requirements and raises business issues, lead to develop change controls
• Adopts defect prevention methods, requirements traceability activities
• Responsible for planning, leading all system test activities, assigning QA tasks, overseeing project, QA team
• Conducts test overview meetings to communicate test plan, test strategy, test guidelines, test approach and all related issues
• Designed, developed & maintained test plans, strategies, test cases, defect reports, test status reports using Quality Center
• Used SQL to query database for backend testing
• Responsible for system, functionality, configuration, sanity, regression testing and UAT. Identifies majority of defects of high priority on all assigned projects
• Performed UAT with the data given by the release coordinator and created test scripts to test in different environments.
• Conducts defect meetings, status and reporting to project management, business teams on testing issues, test schedules & test metrics
• Manages lifecycle of software defects, excels in defect management, verification, validation
• Reported/Monitored and tracked defects, test results, testing status, testing issues to project management.
• Mentoring new team members with Test/QA processes, procedures, methodologies to promote test efficiency, test effectiveness and to deliver system with improved quality
• Responsible for coordinating testing issues with release managers, developers, analysts, database administrators to resolve the issues, improve product quality, to deliver system in estimated schedules
• Performed production support testing in different environments.

Environment: SmallTalk, Manual Testing, Quick Test Professional 11.0,Junit, Quality Center10.0,Soap, SQL, Windows XP/NT, IBM DB2, Java, Shell scripts, VB Scripts, HTML, JavaScript, IE 8.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Use Cases and developed Test Plan, Test Scripts and Test Cases and executed them.
• Manually checked the important features of the application before going for automation testing.
• Performed Sanity Testing and Smoke Testing before the starting of Testing in the Test environments.
• Created and executed both manual and automation test cases.
• Conducted Functionality testing during various phases of the application.
• Performed Black Box, Integration, Functionality, System, Database, Regression, and Acceptance Testing from each release build.
• Conducted Functionality testing during various phases of the application using QTP.
• Mainly involved in Data Base testing writing SQL queries.
• Extensively did Manual Testing in all modules of the Application.
• Used QTP for Regression Testing.
• Written SQL queries for checking the Data Transactions and Database Integrity in Oracle.
• Used Quality Center to track, review, and report defects.
• Involved in gathering business requirement, studying the application and collecting the information from developers and writing the test plans.
• Review test assignments, develop test plans and scripts, and conduct tests as assigned.
• Application was updated twice a week, so that all the Test Procedures created as Baseline can be played back to perform Regression Testing.
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries, to extract the data from the database.
• Verifiedand Validated the Automated Test script.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.
• Was involved in weekly walkthrough and inspection meetings, to verify the status of the testing effort and the project as a whole.

Environment: Manual Testing,Unix, Java, J2EE, HTML, JavaScript, SQL Server, MS Office.

Confidential

QA Tester

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Involved in setting up the Test environment
• Implemented Data Driven testing framework
• Reviewed functional specifications
• Developed and reviewed test plan
• Prepared test cases based on corresponding business/ user requirements, documents & technical specification and other operating conditions
• Developed Sanity, Regression test scripts using QTP for web based application.
• Used Test Director as test case repository and for version control
• Involved in manual testing when required
• Executed the scripts in batch mode using Test Batch Runner tool and submitted the test report on time
• Involved in manual testing when required
• Actively participated in team meetings to enhance and improve the test strategy
• Communicated with Mercury team regarding bottlenecks of QTP over Web Applications.

Environment: Manual Testing,QTP Java, J2EE (Servlets, JSP, EJB, RMI), Networking, Tomcat, Oracle