SUMMARY

• Over 9+ years of diversified experience in software testing and Quality Assurance in various domains like Finance, Banking and Insurance.
• Gathered and attended Business Review meetings with BAs to better understand the requirements before initiating the test plan and test case preparation
• Conducted and attended triage, peer review and walkthrough meetings among the teams to discuss the functionalities of the application
• Experience with full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Test Life Cycle (STLC)
• Experienced in Manual and Automated QA testing of Client/Server, Web applications.
• Expertise in tracking and reporting defects in Quality Center, Clear Quest and Jack track.
• Extensive experience in Black box, Functional, Integration, Regression, System, UAT and Performance testing
• Identified, created and executed Regression test suite for each release along the new functional test cases
• Proficient in developing detailed Test Cases using Business requirement and use case document and executed for status reporting purpose in Quality Center
• Experience in using Quick Test Professional (QTP) for automating the Web based applications
• Updated SQL queries to accommodate test data for Regression test suite
• Knowledge in developing and maintaining overall testing methodology and strategy documenting and test plans
• Experienced in Backend Testing using SQL for data integrity.
• Created and executed test scenarios using Verification (positive) and Validation (Negative) test data.
• Tested the entire functionality of the application on different browsers and operating systems as a part of compatibility test.
• Interacted and discussed application and environmental issues with developers and build engineers to understand the issues.
• Extensively participated in defect review meetings to discuss and better understand/explain the defects with developers, team lead and stakeholders periodically.
• Proficient in MS - Office, TOAD, SQL Developer Tools.
• Possess strong communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with ability to co-ordinate activities and work in team environment to meet the deliverables.
• Always open to new ideas with a strong desire to expand knowledge of systems and processes.
• Ability to work independent or as a team member, excellent written and verbal communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Mercury Test Director7.0/8.0 / HP Quality Center 9.0/10.0, QTP 9.0/8.2, Load Runner 9.0/8.0, WinRunner7.6/7.2, Rational Team Test 7.1/7.5, Rational Robot, Test Manager and Requisite pro

Bug tracking Tool: Rational Clear Quest 7.0.1, Jack Track and Mantis

Domain Knowledge: Finance, Insurance and Banking.

Languages: C, C++, Java 2.0,SQL

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP, UNIX, Sun Solaris 5.8.

. NET Technologies: Visual Basic. NET, Visual C#. NET, ASP.NET

Component Technology: COM, DCOM, COM+, .Net Framework, .Net Assemblies

Internet Programming: HTML, DHTML, XHTML, XML, XSLT, Java Script, VB Script, ASP 3.0, Dream weaver 8, Flash Professional 8

Databases: Oracle 10g, 9i /8i /11i, SQL Server 2000, MS Access 2003

Version Control: Visual SourceSafe and Polytron Version Control System (PVCS)

Web Servers: PWS, Tomcat 5.0, Apache 1.3.4 and IIS 4.0.

Application Servers: Web logic 9.0/8.0/7.0, Web Sphere 5.1 and JBoss 4.2Other Tools TOAD, SQL Developer, Putty, FTP, MS Word, MS Excel and MS Power Point

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, GA

Lead QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements, design specifications, and testing strategy to plan and prepare for testing.
• Develop test scenarios/ scripts based on Functional Specifications and System Specifications.
• Reviewed and analyzed test results to confirm, establish, and communicate the cause of discrepancies.
• Conducted internal quality inspection against requirements and design reviews.
• Reviewed General System Design documents (GSD) and created Interface files,
• Performed System and Integration Testing.
• Prepared of Test Plan and analyze integration system impacts.
• Lead defect Triage Meetings and worked with developers to resolve issues.
• Lead other testing resources through technical testing assignments.
• Delegated manual and regression execution task to team members, reviewing test cases and assuring all have sufficient work to move.
• Performed database testing using SQL queries.
• Worked with onsite/offshore teams and coordinate test activities.
• Experience in database testing using Oracle, MS SQL Server.
• Experience in Managing test Database and validation Databases, Test data preparation using SQL queries.
• Validated the Change Requests by using SQL Queries
• Validated the Common Records by using SQL Joins
• Coordinating testing team onshore and offshore testing activities.
• Maintained Test Logs and Test Summary Reports.
• Generated Reports and Documented and Communicated test results on daily basis
• Preparing the Test Reports and maintaining of test repository.
• Involved the BI team meetings from initial phase of the project to know about the business.
• Interacted BI Team daily basis to know and guide my onshore off shore team to understand the changes.
• Lead other testing resources through technical testing assignments

Environment: HP ALM Quality Center 11.0, Java 1.4, HTML, XML, SQLServer, Oracle 10g, TOAD, UNIX, SOAP UI, Web logic 9.2, CSS, JavaScript, Windows XP.

Confidential, Columbia SC

Lead QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and Analyzed Business Requirements, High level Design and Use Case documents.
• Involved in Developing Test Plan and detailed test data Preparation.
• Created and updated the Test data Test cases.
• Prepared preconditioned data for negative and positive testing of the application
• Automated the test cases for the purpose of regression testing.
• Extensively worked with the development team in order to resolve testing issues
• Automated the test cases for the purpose of regression testing.
• Extensively worked with the development team in order to resolve testing issues.
• Performed database testing using SQL queries.
• Worked with onsite/offshore teams and coordinate test activities.
• Experience in database testing using Oracle, MS SQL Server.
• Experience in Managing test Database and validation Databases, Test data preparation using SQL queries.
• Validated the Change Requests by using SQL Queries
• Validated the Common Records by using SQL Joins
• Interacted with other QA Team members to discuss the issues before reporting them to development
• Logged and maintained the defects in Quality Center to the development team for fixes.
• Retested the fixed defects in the next build by reviewing the release notes.
• Involved the BI team meetings from initial phase of the project to know about the business.
• Interacted BI Team daily basis to know and guide my onshore off shore team to understand the changes.
• Interacted with peers to entertain peer review meetings and reproduced the issues before raising the defects
• Generated and maintained Test Logs and Test Summary Reports
• Software Bug Identification, tracking and reporting using Q.C.
• Involved in Pre-prod and Production activities.

Environment: Quality Center, SQL Developer, Excel 200 CSS, Oracle 10i, JavaScript, Windows7.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

QA Analyst /Tester

Responsibilities:

• Wrote test cases based on the technical specifications and business requirements
• Worked with development team to understand assigned modules/new product features for the purpose of developing test cases
• Performed Functional, System, Regression and User Acceptance testing (UAT)
• Wrote the SQL queries to do the database operations like select the data from database, update and modify the data in the database
• Wrote the SQL and PL/SQL statements to test the database
• Wrote test plans based on the business requirements document to test various enhancements for the application.
• Performed Functional testing by following the standards marked in the design documents.
• Experience in Automotive Infotainment Testing
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results
• Responsible in executing Test Cases, Test Procedures and Record Defects in Defect Tracking Tool called Bugzilla
• Wrote the SQL queries to test the application to comply with the business requirements
• Interacted with developers in evaluating and bug fixing and performed end to end system testing.
• Analyzed Business Requirement and design documents
• Performed a thorough study and analysis of the modules assigned to me.
• Attended weekly status meetings and walkthroughs for project updates.

Environment: HP Quality Center 9.0, SQL, UAT.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QA Analyst /Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements, Functional Requirement & High level Design documents.
• Created the Regression Test suite and automated them for the purpose of regression testing
• Implemented QTP 9.0 for automating the Regression test Sets.
• Designed and implemented the custom keyword driven QTP framework.
• Reported the defects to the development team in Rational Clear Quest
• Interacted with other QA Team members to discuss the issues before reporting them to development
• Used the QTP built in functions and enhanced VB scripts for business logic.
• Created and managed objects in the application using Object Repository in Quick Test Pro
• Modified the scripts by inserting Text, Bitmap and Synchronization and checkpoints.
• Ran the different test sets for each individual module.
• Carried out extensive Backend Testing to ensure proper backup and restoring of data using SQL queries.
• Extensively used SQL queries to get the necessary data from Oracle data base and embedded in to each individual test scripts
• Involved in Pre-prod and Production activities.
• Maintained Test Logs and Test Summary Reports
• Generated Reports and Documented and Communicated test results on daily basis
• Preparing the Test Reports and maintaining of test repository.

Environment: HP Quality Center 9.0, QTP 9.0, Java 1.4, HTML, XML, PL/SQL, Oracle 10g, TOAD, UNIX, Java Servlets, Jakarta Struts1.1, Tiles, Log4J, Eclipse3.1, Harvest, Web services, Web logic 9.2, CSS, JavaScript, Windows XP, Sun solaria’s 5.8, Rational Clear quest 7.0.1, Citrix Meta Frame.

Confidential, Bloomington IL

QA Analyst /Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Technical Specifications, Business Specifications and created Test Cases.
• Developed and executed manual test scripts as per requirements.
• Tested the functionality of each scenario like positive and negative test cases.
• Recorded automation scripts for web applications using Rational Test Manager.
• Enhanced automation scripts using Rational Test Manager.
• Parameterized to test the application many times using different sets of Input values.
• Used SQL commands and pull up the data for testing the application data.
• Logged the defects, tracked the status and verified when fixed.
• Conducted Functional and Regression using Rational Test Manager.
• Performed detailed Functional testing, GUI testing for checking functionality.
• Performed Regression Testing to make sure that all the bugs have been fixed and the application is running properly.
• Validated the data by writing SQL Queries and Unix Scripts.
• Conducted Functional, Regression and UAT Tests.
• Software Bug Identification, tracking and reporting using Rational Clear Quest.

Environment: Rational Test Manager, RequisitePro, Clear Quest, ClearCase, Robot, Java, J2EE, HTML, VB, JavaScript, XML, Oracle 8i, DB2, Windows XP, MS-Office, DOORS 8.1

Confidential, Dublin,OH

QA Analyst /Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business requirement, functional specifications and created the test cases in Quality Center.
• Created and executed Test Cases manually to conduct the System Testing.
• Conducted Integration testing on all application components and interfaces to validate their data exchange with each other.
• Performed Regression Testing using for different builds to satisfy changes in requirements and to verify it’s affect on other modules.
• Identified, Documented and Tracked defects in Quality Center.
• Involved in writing SQL queries to perform Backend testing.
• Prepared preconditioned data for negative and positive testing of the application.
• Involved in review meetings to identify the enhancements and modify the Functional Test Cases as required.
• Worked closely with Developers to resolve the issues.

Environment: Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Source Safe, Quick Test Pro, Quality Center 8.2, UNIX Shell Scripts, VB Script, Oracle 10g, MS Office, Windows 2000