SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience as a QA Engineer in Automation and Manual Testing of Web based and Client/Server applications.
• Experienced with testing tools such as HP Quality Center, ALM, Quick Test Professional (QTP) SOAPUI and My SQL.
• Extensive hands on experience with all levels of testing including Smoke testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing, Regression testing and Database testing, static testing
• Exceptional understanding of different QTP features like Object Identification, Exception Handling, Descriptive Programming, Checkpoints, Regular Expressions, Object Repository, Object Spy, Smart Identification and Recovery Scenario Manager.
• Experienced in Functional Testing, Data Driven Testing and Load Testing for Web Services using SOAPUI.
• Experience in executing SQL queries in order to view successful transactions of data and for validating data
• Experienced in creating Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios and Defect Reports.
• Experienced working with an offshore team.
• Used Quality Center for managing, executing test cases and defect logging.
• Very good knowledge of different Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC) including Agile Methodology, SCRUM and Waterfall Methodology.
• Experience in various domains like Banking, Health care and insurance.
• Coordinated with the users, Development teams both onsite/offshore teams.
• Experience with QA Methodology to ensure the Quality Assurance Control, Information mapping testing and data validation.
• Strong experience with QA processes and methodologies required; automated and manual test processes, black box, white box and gray box testing, test cases design, scripting, execution, and automated test tools. .
• Experience with the Software Development Lifecycle,Drools,Cortion
• Experienced with defining problems, collects data, establishes facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Experience with Programming background and Agile/Scrum Development Methodologies.
• Experience with SQL and other data - intensive applications and frameworks.
• Good at multi-tasking and can work well under tight deadlines with high efficiency.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Quality Center, Win Runner, Test Director, Load Runner, QTP, Manual Testing

Database Management: Oracle 8i/9i/10g, SQL Server 2000/2005, MySQL, ODBC, DB2, TOAD 8.5, MS Access, Teradata V2R5/V2R6, Netezza

Reporting Tools: Cognos 8.0 Series, OBIEE, Business Objects 5.1 /6.1/XIR2

Operating Systems: Window 2003 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows 98, Windows XP, Linux and UNIX(AIX), MVS

Web Programming: HTML, XML,JSP, Java Script

Programming languages: C/C++, PL/SQL, VB 6.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Senior QA engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing Test Plans and Test Cases based on the Business requirement documents.
• Very good experience in Installation, configuration and maintenance of SQL Server.
• Experience in Data Modeling (Logical and Physical Design of Databases), Normalization and building Referential Integrity Constraints.
• Excellent backend skills in creating SQL objects like Tables, Stored Procedures, Views, Indexes, Triggers, Rules, Defaults, user defined data types and functions.
• Very good T-SQL Programming skills. Experience in query optimization & performance tuning.
• Used SQL Profiler,SQL quary from scratch, Execution Plan, Performance Monitor and DBCC Commands
• Experience in Database backup and disaster recovery procedures
• Executed and run both manual and automated tests..
• Worked with the functional regression and end to end and operational readiness testing.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing as needed.
• Having a good knowledge of the requirements, functional and technical documents and converts them into test scripts.
• Experience with Object Oriented Languages(OOD)
• Inserted Synchronization points wherever it was required using QTP.
• Conducted Data Driven Testing using QTP Data Driven Wizard for re-testing with multiple data through Excel sheets
• Prepared test data for the Enter and Exit criteria in Integration testing.
• Performed Exception Handling in application using functions and Recovery manager in QTP.
• Used Parameterization to provide varied inputs for the scenario under testing.
• Performed Web Services testing and XML validation by creating test case suite using SOAPUI.
• Created Test Suites to do Functional and Data Driven Testing on the Web Services.
• Validated soap response using various assertions such as XPath, Contains, Not Contains, SOAP Fault, Schema Compliance.
• Involved in Backend Testing writing complex SQL queries and sub queries for database testing.
• Execute test scripts & record problems & issues in accordance with the Bugs and issue management plans
• Manage the test defect process including facilitating defect reviews & reporting test execution status
• Created Traceability matrix to match the requirements with the test cases using Microsoft excel.
• Interface between the users and the different teams involved in the application development for the better understanding of the business and IT processes.

Environment: Quality Center10/11, Microsoft SQL Server, HP UFT 11, HTML, XML, Agile.

Confidential, Fort Lauderdale,FL

Senior QA engineer

Responsibilities:

• Conduct software testing and defect logging. Functional & Integration
• Develop test scripts, test conditions, input test data, and expected results for all the testing phases and also analyze the test results and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Contribute to the Test Plan document as needed.
• Responsible during testing for defect identification, logging, initial assessment/troubleshooting, error documentation capture, tracking the migration of defects fixes, re-testing and closing with notification.
• Assist in performing data preparation and cleanup for data load.
• Performed manual and automation testing of a complex system Created Reusable Actions and Functions in descriptive programming to add the new feature with the existing test suite.
• Maintained the Hybrid Framework in QTP by Error Handlings and adding Recovery Scenarios.
• Automate defect fix for high priority and high severity based on the Team Lead's decision.
• Inserted Synchronization points wherever it was required using QTP.
• Used check point for comparing the current values to the expected results.
• Performed Exception Handling in application using functions and Recovery manager in QTP.
• Created Descriptive Objects to handle dynamic content on the website.
• Involved in Backend Testing writing complex SQL.T SQL queries and sub queries for database testing.
• Captured the SQL statements from the application execution and manually checked the results.
• Used SQL for data mapping and data mining
• Identified and documented all issues and defects to ensure application software functionality.
• Experience in Talend, Sterling Integrator, JDA, AS400 and Sonic MQ Message Manager.
• Interacted with developers to explain where required, software bugs and re-tested the fixed issues.

Environment: Quality Center 9, Microsoft SQL Server, Quick Test Professional 10, Waterfall

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved as a Tester in Manual and Automation testing of Web based Application
• Executed the test scripts using QTP and analyzed the results
• Automated some of the end to end scenarios using QTP.
• Involved in test case creation and modifying existing scripts/Test cases.
• Involved in Reviewing, Peer reviewing of Test cases and scenarios
• Involved in Test case merging with existing regression scripts.
• Test case execution and defect logging using Test Director.
• Performed sniff testing for regular builds.
• Used Descriptive programming to handle multiple objects with similar properties.
• Created Functional Libraries using VBScript and used them several times in the application testing in QTP.
• Tested Web Services using SOAP UI tool
• Added Assertions for the validation purposes in SOAPUI.
• Performed backend testing by creating test data and validating database contents using SQL Queries.
• Reported bugs and interacted with developers to resolve the problems.
• Categorized bugs based on the Severity and Priority.
• Reported the bugs, Email notifications to the developers using Quality Center.
• Worked with development team to ensure that the testing issues/defects are resolved.
• Regularly involved in the meetings with the onsite co-coordinators to discuss the issues and report the status

Environment: Quality Center 8.2/9, Microsoft SQL Server, Quick Test Professional 9.0/10, HTML, XML, Waterfall.

Confidential, Pasadena, CA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirement Documents and Use Case to create Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Involving in developing the QTP Hybrid Framework for automated testing.
• Inserted different checkpoints in the QTP scripts for the functional testing of the application to be more detailed.
• Used Ordinal Identifiers to help QTP distinguish between multiple numbers of similar objects within the same page, for e.g., checkboxes and radio buttons.
• Used Virtual Object Manager to deal with objects that QTP couldn’t recognize.
• Used SOAP UI for testing Web services / doing SOA Testing.
• Performed Data Driven Testing in SOAP UI using Data Source and Data Source Loop steps.
• Used Data Sink step for storing results found using SOAP UI.
• Used Groovy Scripting for doing Property Transfer in SOAP UI.
• Validated WSDL’s using WSI-Compliance and Schema Compliance in SOAP UI.
• Viewed errors in error log files using UNIX commands.
• Derived UAT Test Cases based on the FRD and the Test Scripts used for System Integration Testing.
• Attended Ambiguity Review Meetings, Defect Resolution Meetings, Test Plan Review Meetings, Project Status Review Meetings, etc.
• Handled exceptions using Recovery Scenario Manager in QTP.
• Used Descriptive programming to handle multiple objects with similar properties.
• Created Functional Libraries using VBScript and used them several times in the application testing in QTP.
• Tested Web Services using SOAP UI tool
• Added Assertions for the validation purposes in SOAPUI.
• Performed backend testing by creating test data and validating database contents using SQL Queries.
• Reported bugs and interacted with developers to resolve the problems.

Environment: Windows XP, Manual Testing, Quality Center 8/8.2, Quick Test Professional 8.2/9.0, VB Script, VB.NET, Web Services, HTML,SOAPUI.

Confidential, Frisco, TX

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test cases for each functionality specification to ensure quality performance.
• Analyzed requirements and documents to identify manual test cases.
• Involved in walkthroughs and formal meetings with developers to discuss enhancements and modifications.
• Involved in testing all back end processes using Microsoft SQL Server.
• Captured the SQL statements from the application execution and manually checked the results.
• Wrote complex SQL queries to ensure that data at the front end matched data at the backend.
• Used SQL to check for referential integrity, for logical checking and for checking format of data in database.
• Designed test scripts in QTP for automating regression test suites.
• Used Recovery Scenario Manager in QTP to recover from unexpected events that happen during a run session.
• Enhanced scripts in QTP using Functions and Actions.
• Inserted Checkpoints in QTP to check for broken links, for back-end testing and for regression testing.
• Used Smart Identification in QTP to handle dynamic objects.
• Carried out Functional and Data Driven Testing of Web services using SOAP UI.
• Validated WSDL’s using SOAP UI.
• Used various kinds of Assertions like Schema Compliance, SOAP Response, XPath Match, SOAP UI to validate SOAP Responses
• Identified and documented all issues and defects to ensure application software functionality.
• Interacted with developers to explain where required, software bugs and re-tested the fixed issues.
• Categorized bugs based on the Severity and Priority.
• Reported the bugs, Email notifications to the developers using Quality Center.
• Worked with development team to ensure that the testing issues/defects are resolved

Environment: Quality Center 8.2, Quick Test Professional 8.0, MS-Office, Test director, SQL Server, Visual Studio2008, .NET and Internet Explorer.

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in identification, analysis and validation of functional and technical specifications to design test strategies.
• Coordinated with Business Analysts to resolve issues with Requirements for functional/user acceptance testing
• Responsible for developing and implementing test plans, test cases and test scripts in Mercury Test management tool - Quality Center and Quick Test Pro.
• Conducted Functional, Integration, System and Regression testing.
• Created detailed Test cases for validating business functions and regression testing.
• Participated in production release processes and conducted all pre- and post-release
• Testing, verification, and validation Applications included mainframe data retrieval and Selection, XML conversion processes
• Prepared Test Data for Positive and Negative Testing used in Data Driven Test using Quick Test Pro.
• Responsible for writing optimized SQL queries to test back end data consistency and Integrity.
• Tested multiple scenarios based on test cases to validate system with different data sets.
• Performed Synchronization Points, Checkpoints using Quick test Pro.
• Tested various text-hyperlinks and image-hyperlinks of Home page and different pages.
• Tested the functionality of each screen to monitor proper navigation.
• Used Quality Center for defect reporting and tracking.
• Worked with developers in resolving issues in test environment and defects while application under test.