SUMMARY

• About 6 years of professional experience in software testing and quality assurance.
• Experience in Manual and Automation testing of Web applications.
• Expertise in Mercury interactive automated testing tools like Quick Test Professional and Test Director/Quality center.
• Expertise in creating and executing test documents such as Test Plans, Test Cases and Test scripts.
• Expertise in problem solving and tracking bugs using bug tracking tools like Test Director/Quality Center.
• Thorough knowledge of Software development life cycle and experience of Software Testing life cycle.
• Experience in Black Box, GUI, Regression, Functionality, Integration, System, User acceptance and Data driven testing.
• Good knowledge of operating systems like Windows, UNIX, Linux and MS - DOS.
• Expertise in testing various applications developed using Java, J2EE, ASP, Oracle and MS-SQL Server.
• Strong RDBMS skills that include SQL, Stored Procedures, Functions and Triggers.
• Ability to communicate to people at all the hierarchy levels in an organization, strong analytical and problem solving skills, excellent communication, presentation skills and good team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Visual Basic, C programming language

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional 11/10/9.0, ALM-Quality Center 11/10/9.0, Win Runner and Load Runner

Databases: MS-SQL Server, Oracle 11i and MS-Access

Other Packages: Fox Pro and MS-Office Suite

Scripting Languages: VB Script, Java Script and HTML

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/NT/XP, Unix and MS-DOS

Database Tools: DB Visualizer, TOAD, Query Analyzer and SQL Plus

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Sr QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the functional spec to identify the various critical functionality of the proposed system
• Discussed and worked with business analyst team to gather detail functionality of the application.
• Participated actively in Functional, System and Integration testing of the application.
• Developed Manual Test Cases for the testing for the Main Frame Application.
• Responsible for discussing the performance test scenarios and work load model and get the necessary sign off on the plan
• Worked in both Agile SCRUM and Waterfall Environments
• Automated regression test scripts using QTP and designed hybrid framework for easy maintenance.
• Developed functional libraries, error handling, shared object repositories and used descriptive programming to handle dynamic objects through Quick Test Professional.
• Performance tested the modules Asset Lifecycle Management, Governance, Risk & Compliance and Financial Control & Reporting of Oracle Financial applications.
• Assisted the QA Manager in creating the Performance test strategies
• Performed RCA(Root Cause Analysis) upon completion of Performance Tests.
• Analyze the CPU Utilization, Memory usage, Garbage Collection and DB connections to verify the performance of the applications.
• Responsible for the Test lab setup including Installation of the Load testing Infrastructure such as Controller machines, Load Generators, IP Address reservation needed for IP Spoofing etc.
• Designed and developed the Load Test Scripts based on complex business usage for the sub-systems.
• Responsible for fixing the advance correlation and logging in the Vuser scripts and taking care of the problems faced by the Load testing team.
• Scheduled QTP batch scripts through Quality Center for nightly smoke testing on new builds.
• Performed regression testing to ensure that the other parts of the application functions properly.
• Performed system testing to ensure business functions performed correctly
• Participated in defect management process, track and retest defects found during testing.
• Scheduled formal status meeting to finalize a particular functionality test strategy.
• Updated status to the QA Manager as and when needed.
• Involved in connecting to DB2 tables and run SQL queries to check data updates in tables.
• Closely worked with the development team to ensure issues are identified and resolved

Environment: .Net, Main Frame, Webservices, SQL, QTP 11, Loadrunner 11, Performance Center/Quality Center 11, MS-Word, DB2, MS-Excel, IE8.0, Windows 7, Putty.

Confidential, Marlborough, MA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirement document and Functional Specification document to develop test cases and test scenarios.
• Developed and executed Manual and Automated test scripts for Staples Technology Module.
• Created data-driven and reusable test scripts using QTP.
• Developed Database validation thru ADODB connections using VBScript functions and Quick TestPro.
• Involved in performing load and stress test on the application and server by configuring LoadRunner to simulate hundreds of virtual users and provided key metrics to the manage ment.
• Configured and used Site Scope Performance Monitor to monitor and analyze the performance of the server by generating various reports from CPU utilization, Memory Usage to load average etc
• Developed different test cases to replicate the exact production scenarios to test the component price change, overall price change features of BTO & CTO.
• Responsible for testing Dividend coupon functionality and building reusable actions in Quick Test Professional.
• Used Order Look up tool to verify Order Processing functionality.
• Used Query Analyzer for Back-End database testing.
• Performed functionality testing to test the application whether it is working as intended.
• Black Box testing for entire applications for various builds in a team environment.
• Investigated Software Bugs and interacted with developers to resolve the Technical issues.
• Executed individual test cases to satisfy both positive and negative testing and logged the bugs in to the defect module in Test Director.
• Provided weekly build regression support by executing test scripts, evaluating test results and maintenance of new/fixed bugs.

Environment: Quality Center 10, QTP 10, VB script, Loadrunner, Site Scope, ASP 3.0, SQL Server 7.0 and Query Analyzer.

Confidential, Pittsburg, PA

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Manually tested the front-end of the web application and automated Regression test suite with QTP.
• Performed Functionality and System testing manually using QC.
• Involved in analyzing required documents and writing test cases and test scenarios.
• Involved in bug tracking and reporting using Quality Center defects module.
• Used DB Visualizer for Back-End Testing.
• Performed GUI, Positive and Negative testing.
• Automated Smoke Testing for overnight builds using QTP and developed user defined functions and actions.
• Developed the performance Test Plans and Load Test Strategies
• Developed Vuser scripts using Web (HTTP/HTML), Ajax (Click and Script), Web Services.
• Found performance degradation issues like “Out of Memory” problems and improved Thread pool utilization, Memory Leaks, JDBC connection Pool size, & Transaction Rollbacks.
• Analyzed Load pattern and created test scenarios to emulate the real life stress conditions.
• Reported critical issues to the developers and retested on new builds prior to UAT.
• Performed database testing by passing SQL queries to retrieve data records.
• Participated actively in the team meetings with the Developers for Bug Reporting and in estimating the status of coverage.
• Provided management with daily status reports.

Environment: Java, Servlets, JSP, HTML, Oracle, QTP 9.2, Quality Center 9.0, Load Runner, DB Visualizer and Unix.

Confidential

Sr. Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements, involved in the Test Plan and detailed Test Case preparation.
• Manually tested the front-end of the client-server application.
• Involved in bug tracking and reporting using Test Director.
• Performed Functionality and system testing Manually using Test Director.
• Performed Manual Testing to ensure the application is stabilized.
• Automated the functionality and interface testing of application using WinRunner in TSL for regression testing.
• Extensively used Query Analyzer for data manipulation and back-end testing using SQL queries on MS SQL Server database.
• Established standards for writing the WinRunner (TSL) Data driven tests.
• Wrote and executed TSL scripts in WinRunner.
• Identified the flaws of the application and writing MRs (Modification Request).
• Participated in review meetings.

Environment: Visual Basic, Windows NT/98, UNIX, MS SQL Server, WinRunner 6.5/6.0, Test Director and Query Analyzer.