SUMMARY

• Extensive experience in various Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Phases and Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC) including Requirement Gathering, Business Analysis, System, Object Oriented Design and Testing..
• Extensive knowledge on all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experience in Agile and Waterfall models of SDLC
• Extensive experience in Test Life Cycle.
• Experience in test execution - Integration, Functional, System, Regression, Compatible testing and Database Testing using SQL and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Expertise in Manual and Automation Testing.
• Proficient in designing, reviewing and documenting system test plans, defining test procedures and creating test cases on the basis of product release features, client’s requirements and related technical documents.
• Expertise in developing Test Plans, Test cases and designing Test Strategies.
• Proficient in Test Plan formulation, Test Case design, manual and preparing test data.
• Knowledge in Business Process Testing using HP Quality Center.
• Extensive hands on experience in using relational databases like MSSQL Server.
• Expertise in manual testing
• Effort Estimation during all cycles of release like Feature, Unit, System, Integration, Regression and Performance Testing.
• Good knowledge in Unix and Unix Shell Scripting
• Excellent Knowledge in Iterative Testing, Agile Methodology (SCRUM).
• Worked on Electronic Document Management systems like Documentum
• Ability to work closely with developers and project managers to analyze the new features of the software application.
• Experience in preparing a Quality Assessment Report at the end of the release highlighting the vulnerable areas of the product.
• Expert in usage of Defect tracking and reporting using Quality Center, Test Director
• Self-Motivated team player with good communication, problem solving skills, analytical & Strong Presentation Skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: QuickTestPro 11.0/8.0/6.5, Quality Center 10.0/8.2, Test Director8.0/7.6Clear case, Winrunner7.0/6.0

Bug Tracking Tool: Test Director, Quality Center, Team foundation server (Visual studio team System)

Platforms: MS-DOS, Windows95/98/2000/NT/XP,UNIX

Languages: C, C++, Java, VB Script, TSL, Visual Basic, .Net, SQL, PL/SQL, ASP

Internet: VBScript, JavaScript, XML, HTML

Database: Oracle 8i/9i/11i, MS-SQL Server 2000, MS- Access

Others: MS-Word, MS Excel, MS-PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Wrote test plans for positive and negative scenarios for functional, and GUI.
• Conducted walkthrough of the Test Plan with Development and Design teams.
• Responsible for security testing which creating and logging in under different fictitious login
• Wrote Modification Requests and interacting with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Performed Functional Testing and Manual Testing
• Executed test cases manually to verify actual results against expected results.
• Wrote and executed test cases for regression testing.
• Responsible for migrating manual Test Cases and requirements and maintaining Requirement Traceability
• Involved in Test scripting and front end GUI testing.
• Tested SQL/PL SQL in order to validate the data on SQL database.
• Manage the testing process, schedule batch tests, log and track defects using Quality Center
• Developed and revised manual integration tests for client-server, web, and data management applications

Environment: VB, ASP, Oracle, JavaScript, VBScript, Manual Testing, LoadRunner, HTML/DHTML, QC

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

QA Analyst/ Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and functional specifications to develop test plans, test scenarios and test cases accordingly.
• Conducted smoke testing, functional testing, integration testing and system testing for the Customers Information application and it’s sub-modules like personal details, credit history, and annual income of Household.
• Interacted with the Back Office Teams, so the Applicants information and details are properly entered into the System.
• Maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Created the Manual Test Cases, their documentation and automate them on later basis.
• Successful implementation of online transaction processing applications and its associated modules like database testing and validation.
• Involved in automation team using QTP for testing, validating and debugging QTP test scripts.
• Extensively used SQL to query various databases to retrieve Information in accordance with the Requirements.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing at the Client’s Location.
• Performed cross browser testing of the application on various Browsers to ensure that it functions similarly on all browsers.
• Worked with business analysts, developers and content department to resolve issues.

Environment: Quality Center, Manual Testing, Quality Test Pro, Oracle 10g, XML, J2EE, UML, ASP.Net, MS Project.

Confidential - Raleigh, NC

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Business analyst’s team to prepare a detailed Business Requirement document.
• Involved in manual test case preparation and test case execution using Quality Center
• Initially performed manual testing of the application using numerous test scripts.
• Developed Test Plans and written Test Cases to cover overall quality assurance testing.
• Involved in various levels of testing like Functionality, Validation, Regression, Integration, Unit testing, Database, Security and User Acceptance Testing.
• Used Quality Center to define, modify and convert the requirements.
• Generated automated test templates using Quality Center and involved in writing VB scripts to test some applications.
• Linked Requirements to Test Cases using Quality Center to ensure traceability throughout the testing cycle.
• Involved in Keyword driven approach for automation to minimize the changes for QTP Scripts for future use.
• Extensively worked on QTP scripts in analyzing the business processes and created automation scripts.
• Performed Manual Testing to test the usability of application
• Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for the application
• Participated in Load Testing and Stress Testing of the application modules
• Tested entry and exit criteria for the application screens and checking their contents.
• Performed Smoke testing and Regression testing for hot fixes released during Integration testing phase.
• Performed extensive Manual and Automated testing on all the functionalities of the application.
• Established database concepts, standard methodologies and procedures
• Provide Production Support. Running automated scripts and maintaining them.
• Generating reports to ensure data integrity and validate business rules.
• Performed Positive/Negative Testing.
• Defects were tracked and reported using Quality Center.
• Assist in variances and defect identification and analysis.
• Participated in test meetings to ensure all issues are addressed and resolved.
• Updated test results in Quality Center and involved in team meetings to review those.
• Performed user acceptance testing(UAT) with development, testing teams for production signoff.\
• Developed UNIX Shell scripts to execute different SQL(tm)s to test the sanctity and integrity of the tables
• Wrote and Executed SQL queries on database for transactions on Oracle10g database.
• Database integrity testing by executing SQL statements on Oracle database.

Environment: QTP 8.2, Quality Center 8.2,VB Script, Clear Quest, UAT, MS Office, MS Visio, Oracle, Java, Unix Shell Script, HTML, XML, IIS, ASP, Windows 2000 and UNIX.

Confidential, Northbrook, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirement Documents, and prepared detailed test cases.
• Checking the dependency of the applications.
• To communicate with project manager for security issues of the application.
• Involved in Functional testing, and Acceptance testing.
• Logging the defects of all the team member’s applications and looking for the change of status of defects to ready for retest and communicate to team members that application is ready for retesting and retesting the application successfully and closing the defects.
• Stored scripts and called Automation scripts from QC.
• Executed automation scripts extensively with multiple O/S.
• Created and executed data driven test scripts in QTP.
• Worked in an Agile technology with Scrum
• Worked on Claims, Underwriting, Billing and finance modules
• Managed Object Repositories.
• Analyzed Results with Business Analysts.
• Performed UAT Testing.
• Performed Performance testing.
• Participated in meetings with developers to discuss enhancements and modifications.
• Involved in facilitating formal review meetings with project teams and developers to report, demonstrate, prioritize and suggest resolution of issues discovered during testing
• Participated in Defect assessment meeting.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, SQL Server 2005, TOAD, Oracle, Agile, UNIX, VBScript, C#.Net, SOAP, HTML, JavaScript.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements and Identified testing methodologies to groups tests as Functional Analysis, Boundary Value Testing, Exception Handling, Error Guessing, Performance Testing
• Responsible for testing the Navigation Flow, Functionality Testing, System TestingandUser Acceptance Testing.
• Interacted with developers to follow up on defects and issues.
• PerformedNegative testingto find how the functions and variables perform when they encounters invalid and unexpected values.
• TheScenario Execution, Performance Summary, Failed Transaction Reportswere generated and analyzed.
• Performed the Duration test by executing the test for longer hours in order to find out any Memory leaks, slow surface resource consumption problem.
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and usedSQL queries, to extract the data from the database.
• Extensively executed complexSQLqueries to query the database for data validation.
• Executedshell scriptsto test the backend database.
• Responsible to designUAT scenariosand get an approval before the application presentation.
• Responsible to present walk-through with clients as part ofUAT.
• Participated in various meetings fordiscussed EnhancementandModification Requests.

Environment: Manual Testing, Test Directory, Load Runner, SQL, PL/SQL, Web Sphere, Windows NT/2000, MS Office Tools