SUMMARY

• 5+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance as QA Tester/Analyst with a good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) like Agile model, V - model.
• Extensive QA experience in all phases of lifecycle, including Requirements Gathering, Project Planning, Testing, Defect Tracking, Management and Reporting.
• Extensive experience in analyzing, reviewing and understanding of Business/Functional & Testing requirements and writing Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test Scenario, Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Expertise in management reporting using Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Daily/Weekly Status Report, Defect Report and Project Report.
• Experience in writing & executing SQL Queries for back end testing.
• Experienced in automated functional testing by recording functional scripts with Positive and Negative sets of data (Data Driven Testing) and check system's functionality.
• Experienced in Change Control Methodology, Defect Management with tools like HP QC.
• Prepared UAT Test Plan to record the customer’s signoff of the documented scenarios and also detailed test plans to record the results of user testing.
• Was responsible for QA activities for the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Update and circulate change requests, prioritize issues, identify open issues, weekly status reports and set deadlines for inclusion in the build.
• Have extensive experience in Black Box Testing as including Load testing, Performance testing, Regression Testing.
• Design, build, test, and deploy effective test automation solutions.
• Submit the status reports of projects to client and management.
• Excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills and consistently being organized by management and peer for producing high quality works.
• Efficient and versatile team player with a positive approach to all tasks.
• Quick learner, self starter, great communicator and follow good work ethics and QA methodologies and a strong team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Environment: VB, ASP, .NET, SQL, XML, HTML, HTTP, TCP/IP, DB2VBScript, Java, C, J2EE, DHTML, CSS and PL/SQL

Tools: QTP, Win Runner, Load Runner

Tracking Tools: HP/Mercury Quality Center

Operating System: MS-DOS, Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

RDBMS: Oracle, DB2.

Scripting Languages: VBScript, Java Script, HTML and XML.

Microsoft Office Tools: Word, Excel, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project Plan, MS Front Page.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and Reviewed System Requirements Specs (SRS), High Level Scenarios (HLS) use cases, detail level requirements and design documents
• Developed the standard documentation for the Test Plans and Test Summary Sheets for multi-tiered application.
• Actively involved in the daily testing status meetings in which defects identified were discussed.
• Involved in back end testing using SQL Queries for comparing the inputs & validate the reports
• Prepared work flow test cases and provided test data for UAT(User Acceptance Testing) to facilitate acceptance from business users.
• Extensively worked on HP Quality Center for logging and tracking defects.
• Maintained Traceability Matrix and performed Confidential Analysis.
• Performed Smoke, Integration, functional, Regression, Performance and system testing, used Load Runner and QTP for regression testing.
• Responsible for end to end testing.
• Close interaction with designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigation flow

Environment: JAVA,J2EE, HTML HTTP, Oracle, Mercury Quality Center, Oracle, MS-Word, MS Excel &Windows 98/2000/NT/XP.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business Requirements and developed Test Cases to test the complete functionality of the application.
• Performed Performance, Functional and Regression testing using QTP and Load testing as well.
• Interacted with Development teams/Business users for various clarifications.
• Manual testing of the SS modules as part of functional testing.
• Actively involved in the daily testing status meetings in which defects identified were discussed.
• Executed ETL testing and verify the test results at the Database level.
• Involved in back end testing using SQL Queries for comparing the inputs & validate the reports.
• Knowledge of working in web services and validating GUI features.
• Provided test data for UAT (User Acceptance Testing) to facilitate acceptance from business users.

Environment: JAVA,J2EE, HTML HTTP, Oracle, Quality Center, Oracle, MS-Word, MS Excel &Windows 98/2000/NT/XP, Web Services.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test cases, Test procedures and executed functional Test scripts for these applications. create automation scripts for assigned products/projects
• Performed Functional and Regression testing using QTP.
• Prepared and Executed Data driven scripts for adding multiple customers, applying loans etc.
• Used SQL Queries to verify the data from the Oracle database.
• Designed and performed large-scale load volume end-to-end testing using large data files.
• Done GUI validations and verified UI applications.
• Using Quality Center submitted the bugs, verified and resolved the bugs, Change Requests and raises the issues.
• Done usability testing, performance testing.

Environment: Solaris, Quality Center 9.2, QTP, Load Runner 7.5, Oracle, VB, ASP, IIS, Windows NT/2000.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Review Change Requests (CR)/Enhancements and prepare test cases/test plan.
• Write detailed test steps to execute test cases.
• Involved in preparing/executing regression test cases.
• Implemented the whole life cycle of QA methodology starting from planning, capturing, creating, executing, reporting and tracking the defects using Quality Center.
• Performed manual and automated testing.
• Extensive involvement in backend testing using SQL Queries.
• Developed and executed Web services test cases.
• Coordinated with the developer on defect status on regular basis.
• Used Quality Center to track and analyze defects.

Environment: Oracle PL/SQL, Oracle Reports, Oracle Telesales, Web Services.

Confidential, NJ

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manual testing of the ECF modules as part of functional testing.
• Developed and executed Test Cases and verified actual results with expected results.
• Worked on web services integration.
• Actively involved in the daily testing status meetings in which defects identified were discussed.

Environment: Quality Center, Windows XP, DB2, HTML, MS Project, Web Services