SUMMARY

• Over 10 years of experience in IT Industry in Quality Assurance, Testing, Analysis and Design using Black Box Methodologies/ Application testing.
• Profound experience in testing Web Applications and Client/Server Applications
• Certified Quality Center, Quick Test Professional
• Sound knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), having thorough understanding of various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.
• Extensive experience in reviewing and analyzing of Business Requirements and writing detailed Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scripts.
• Formulated, refined and distributed test cases and plans with supporting matrices based on customer requirements and system specifications
• Experienced in RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) to know the status of the project
• Proficient in manual and automated testing methodologies, including Data driven and Hybrid driven framework test design framework.
• Experience in Technical Documentation and SLM Process.
• Proficiency in Quality center for Test Management as well as Requirement Management
• Performed Functional, Integration, System, Regression and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) testing, Automation Testing
• Experience in writing queries to extract data from databases using SQL
• Good Expertise in Banking, Telecom, Insurance, Retail, Life Sciences Domains.
• Experience in POS(Point of Sale) Testing.
• Excellent in verbal and written communication, pragmatic team player with a combination of business acumen and technical skills
• Excellent problem solving skills, experience in working group projects, desire and ability to learn and apply new technologies. Self motivated and detail oriented

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows95/98/2000/NT/XP/Vista/Win7

Automation Knowledge: QTP 10.0/UFT11.5.

Defect Reporting Tools: Triage (Client Specific), Bugzilla,Trac,Jira

Test Management Tool: Quality Center 10.0/ALM 11.5.

RDBMS: Oracle 8.x/9i, SQL Server

Languages: Java, Java Script, VB Script, CICS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Ohio

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gathered information from the existing process flow documents from subject matter experts.
• Logging the defects in to Quality Center for failed test cases in Execution.
• Analyze and fix the defects which are logged in QC
• Re - Execute the failed test cases after fixing the defects
• Documentation for the knowledge base preparation and for project/client deliverables
• Define the Test plan, Test Strategy to execute the project, built a testing team of professionals with appropriate skills, attitudes and motivation.
• Involved Setup the QA Environment for manual testing.
• Developed Data Driven Frame work to execute Automated test cases.
• Involved in creation of Shared Object Repository.
• Involved in Automation Execution through QC .
• Preparation of weekly and monthly status reports.
• Involved in Test Estimation
• Involved in MOM(Meetings of Minute) and track the progress of the Report.
• Involved in Data base Testing.

Confidential, Groton, Connecticut

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gathered information from the existing process flow documents from subject matter experts.
• Logging the defects in to Quality Center for failed test cases in Execution.
• Analyze and fix the defects which are logged in QC
• Re-Execute the failed test cases after fixing the defects
• Documentation for the knowledge base preparation and for project/client deliverables
• Define the Test plan, Test Strategy to execute the project, built a testing team of professionals with appropriate skills, attitudes and motivation.
• Define the Service Strategy, Service Definition, Technical Design, Release Build, Release Test, Release Deployment Documents.
• Involved Setup the QA Environment for manual testing.
• Written the SOP by explaining in simple language the scientific and technical ideas that are difficult for the average reader to understand.
• Comprehensive understanding of the technical writing SLM(Service Lifecycle Model)process, proven strong writing and editing skills, ability to communicate well with all levels of staff and organize inter-departmental meetings.
• Ability to pay attention to details and accuracy while being flexible, able to adapt to changing priorities. Strong time management skills (schedules, timelines, and task prioritization)
• Preparation of weekly and monthly status reports.

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Quality Analyst

Environment: Triage,Trac, Oracle 10g, Win XP.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the business needs and implementing them effectively
• Resolving production defects/bugs.
• Testing the application using POS System.
• Documentation for the knowledge base preparation and for project/client deliverables
• Developed the Testing Methodology for Manual Testing of the entire application.
• Involved Setup the QA Environment for manual testing.
• Involved in Test Estimation.
• Performed Backend Testing to ensure the authentic retrieval of the data from the database.
• Actively involved in preparing the Test Cases.
• Preparation of weekly and monthly status reports.
• Coordinate and communicate with client/onshore team for project related matters.
• Attend and drive meetings/walkthrough session/group meetings.

Confidential, Bloomington

Test Analyst

Environment: Triage,Trac, Oracle 10g, Win XP.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the business requirements and functional specs documents.
• Developed the Testing Methodology for Manual Testing of the entire application.
• Assisted Project Manager in writing the Test Plans.
• Manual Testing was done to test the functionality of the application
• System testing was done to test the whole business process manually.
• Involved Setup the QA Environment for manual testing.
• Worked in Requirements, Test Plans, Test Lab and Defects module in Trac and Triage.
• Performed Backend Testing to ensure the authentic retrieval of the data from the database.
• Preparation of Knowledge Transition Plan for Offshore
• Preparation of weekly and monthly status reports.

Confidential, Denver

Quality Analyst

Environment: Mercury Quality Center 10.0, Toad, Oracle 10g, Win XP.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the business requirements and functional specs documents.
• Involved in Automation Execution.
• Execution of Tests and Reporting Defects Using QC.
• Involved in Regression Testing using QuickTest.
• Designed Tests Using Data Driven Methodology for selected areas.
• System testing was done to test the whole business process manually.
• Involved Setup the QA Environment for manual testing as well as for Automation.
• Worked in Requirements, Test Plans, Test Lab and Defects module in Quality Center.
• Write test cases to test the application manually in Quality Center.
• Created Requirements using Quality Center and generated tractability Matrices to ensure that all the requirements are covered by the test cases.
• Performed Backend Testing to ensure the authentic retrieval of the data from the database.
• Preparation of Knowledge Transition Plan for Offshore

Confidential, Jacksonville

Quality Analyst

Environment: Mercury Quality Center 9.2, Toad, Oracle 10g, Win XP.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the business requirements and functional specs documents.
• Developed the Testing Methodology for Manual Testing of the entire application.
• Involvement in Test Design includes Test Data preparation and Reviews.
• Involved in preparing the Library Files.
• Performed Data Driven Framewirk Testing by Using Excel sheets.
• Executing the Automation Suite of different applications through QC.
• Logging the defects in to Quality Center for failed test cases in Execution..
• Daily / Weekly status report to the client.
• Preparation of Test Plan and Test Strategy.
• Knowledge sharing to team members.
• Preparation of weekly and monthly status reports.

Confidential, Jacksonville

Quality Analyst

Environment: Mercury Quality Center 9.0, Toad, Oracle 10g, Win XP.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the business requirements and functional specs documents.
• Developed the Testing Methodology for Manual Testing of the entire application.
• Involved Setup the QA Environment for manual testing as well as for Automation.
• Worked in Requirements, Test Plans, Test Lab and Defects module in Quality Center.
• Write test cases to test the application manually in Quality Center.
• Created Requirements using Quality Center and generated tractability Matrices to ensure that all the requirements are covered by the test cases.
• Performed Backend Testing to ensure the authentic retrieval of the data from the database.

Confidential

Programmer

Environment: Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis
• Logging the defects in to Quality Center for failed test cases in Execution.
• Analyze and fix the defects which are logged in QC
• Re-Execute the failed test cases after fixing the defects
• Attending the client calls for Status review meetings.
• Communicate with the team, test Coordinator and development team in regard of Bug Resolving.
• Actively involved in preparing the Test Cases