SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of professional experience in Information Technology with extensive experience in Quality Assurance and performing Manual, Automated and performance testing.
• Experience in analysis, design, development and testing of Web - based and Client-Server technologies.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Experience in performing system/functional testing in a Waterfall and Agile Software Development environment
• Good experience with testing tools like QTP, Quality Center, Test Director, Win Runner and Load Runner.
• Proficient in analyzing system requirements, use cases and other documents to gain overall understanding of the application.
• Good testing skills which include preparation of test plan, test scenarios, test cases, test scripts and bug reports.
• Strong experience in testing different web browsers ie.Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox etc.
• Experience in working with diverse industries such as Financial, Health Care and Insurance.
• Involved in designing and maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Experience in test design, defect tracking & management, and test reporting.
• Diverse work experience on functional testing, integration testing, GUI testing, system testing, regression testing, database testing, user acceptance testing and compatibility testing.
• Experience in bug tracking tools like Test Director, Quality Center and Bugzilla.
• Proficient in writing complex SQL queries to extract data from various source tables to perform database testing.
• Experience in analyzing the bugs and interacting with developers and team members in fixing the defects and Expertise in peer reviews.
• Expertise in analyzing the test results, reporting suggestions and documenting the Test Plan, Test Cases and User Manuals.
• Experience in preparation of various reports (Daily Status Report, Weekly Status Report, Monthly Status Report, Daily Test Execution Report, and Test Summary Report).
• Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal skills and leadership qualities.
• Experience in different languages like VB, .NET, Java, SQL, VBScript, HTML and XML.
• Experience in different database like SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 and MS-Access.
• Good interpersonal skills, commitment, result oriented, hard working with a quest and zeal to learn new technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Quick Test Pro (QTP) 9.2/9.5/10.0/11.0 , Load Runner, Win Runner

Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center 9.0/10.0, Test Director 8.0, Bugzilla, Empirix, SOAP test

Database Technologies: SQL Server 2000/2005, Oracle 11g/10g/9i,DB2,MS-Access 2000/2003

Internet Technologies: VB Script, Java Script, HTML and XML

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, C, C++, Java, JSP, .NET, VB, SAS, VB.NET

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/Vista and UNIX

Others: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Query Analyzer, SQL Server Studio, AQT, Outlook and Lotus Notes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in both manual and automated testing using the automated tool QTP.
• Responsible for QA test suite development, execution and analysis.
• Developed and executed the test cases based on business requirements and functional specifications.
• Responsible for the test data while executing the test scripts.
• Interacted with developers to resolve the problems while executing the test scripts.
• Automated scripts were developed using QTP to perform regression testing.
• Involved in functional testing and verified the application, as per the user requirements.
• Created Test Cases and Defects in Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center for generating the status reports (Test Case Status Report and Defect Status Report) for QA Manager and Project Lead.
• Worked with developers to resolve problems and managing the process for smooth transition between development team and testing team.
• Performed positive and negative testing and tested for boundary cases.
• Designed manual test cases in Mercury Quality Center under Test Plan Module for new functionality
• Mapped the test cases to requirements under the Requirements module in Quality Center for Traceability
• Worked on various unix command and VI editor.
• Wrote Complex SQL queries to access data from different database tables, and used for data verification.
• Reviewed various reports prepared by Test engineer.
• Involved in peer reviewing of test cases and sending appropriate comments.
• Participated in team meetings for test case reviews and status updates on daily/weekly basis.

Environment: Quality Center 11.0, QTP 11.0 Agile, AQT, Java, JSP, XML, HTML Web Services, Java Script, VB.NET, SQL, Oracle 10g, Internet Explorer, MS-Office, UNIX and Windows.

Confidential, Nashville, TN

System Analyst II / Test Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Designed and documented all valid test scenarios based on requirements set forth by business using the business requirement and functional specification documents.
• Decomposed business requirements to write test steps and created test cases.
• Prepared Test Cases according to the business specification and wrote scripts.
• 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, functionality testing manually and conducted system, integration and regression testing of the AUT.
• Perform testing of the individual Web service components before integration to ensure they meet acceptable parameters.
• Performed Performance center in load testing.
• Conducted data and integrity testing of the database and usability testing manually.
• Maintained Traceability Matrix and performed Gap Analysis.
• Coordinated with the developer on defect status on regular basis.
• Used Quality Center to track and analyze defects.
• Involved in web based services integration by using testing tool First ACT, ASPX from Empirix.
• Analyzed test results using reports and graphs generated in Quality Center.
• Made extensive use of MS Office tools to create and maintain documents such as test plans, test execution and test results documents.
• Evaluate test process with the customers and project team in Medicaid.

Environment: QTP 9.2, Quality Center 10.0, VB.NET, Active X Controls, Selenium, MS SQL Server 2005, SQL Server Management Studio, MS-Office and Windows XP.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IA

Sr.QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in manual and automation testing for web services applications in firefox.
• Responsible for writing the scripts for daily/weekly smoke tests, regression tests.
• Created scripts using HP/Mercury Quick Test Professional 10.0 for the purpose of loading data through a user interface.
• Successfully implemented the new architecture and written script for it
• Using Data driven design, written a driver script which run all smoke tests
• Created the defects in QC and validated the defects assigned to me.
• Inserted SQL Queries in to the scripts and have coded CTB Scripts
• Developed and executed the test cases based on business requirements.
• Involved in functional, regression testing and responsible for tracking, reporting and closing the defects.
• Prepared status summary reports with details of executed, passed and failed test scripts.
• Responsible for the collecting the test data while executing the test scripts.
• Interacted with developers to resolve the problems while executing the test scripts.
• Interacted with manual team to better understand the test cases they have written.
• Automated scripts were developed using Python to perform regression testing.
• Involved in functional testing and verified the application, as per the user requirements.
• Worked with developers to resolve problems and managing the process for smooth transition between development team and testing team.
• Performed positive and negative testing on the credit application.
• Wrote different SQL queries to access data from different database tables, and used for data verification.
• Involved in peer reviewing of scripts and sending appropriate comments.
• Participated in team meetings for test case reviews and status updates on daily/weekly basis
• Log project related issues in the defect-tracking tool identified for the project.

Environment: QTP 10.0, Quality Center 9.0, JSP, Web Services, XML, HTML, Python, Java Script, VB Script, SQL, Oracle 10g, Internet Explorer, MS-Office and Windows.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed business requirement documents and the technical specification documents.
• Developed test plans, test scenarios, test cases from business requirements documents and performed functionality, interoperability, and compatibility tests.
• Executed test scripts, analyzed the results and reported the test results to the project teams.
• Involved in web based services integration.
• Conducted manual, black box, gray box, functional, regression, data driven and navigational testing on the application using Internet Explorer.
• Performed authorization testing on download redesign new mechanism.
• Conducted functional and regression testing on account management system.
• Prepared the test scenarios and test cases for testing the application.
• Identified and logged defects in Bugzilla.
• Performed back-end testing with extensive use of complex SQL queries.
• Tested applications on UNIX environment using various UNIX commands and VI editor commands.
• Performed regression testing for all the internal releases.
• Tested different links for the user’s to navigate through the site with hyperlinks.
• Developed final test reports and actively interacted with development and business analysts to verify new updates in business requirement.
• Involved in weekly project meetings with development/QA teams to review the development and QA updates and discuss the bugs.

Environment: Bugzilla, HP quality center 10.0, Java, VB.NET, HTML, XML, Java Script, Oracle 9i, Internet Explorer, MS Office, UNIX and Windows XP.

Confidential, HoffmanEstates,IL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirements Documents and the technical specifications.
• Wrote and executed test cases based on the user requirements.
• Involved in writing test case matrix, summary reports.
• Designed and implemented test cases using boundary value analysis, Equivalence class partition, and error guessing.
• Logged and tracked defects, prepared defect statistics report, defect data report and defect charts.
• Verified ecommerce functions as online application processing with credit cards.
• Used SQL queries to access data from different database tables.
• Extensively used SQL queries to verify the data in the database.
• Reported defects found during test cycles and tracked the defects and retested in fixed modules.
• Interfaced with subject matter experts and developers to resolve the problems while executing the test scripts and test cases.
• Involved in defect reviews, and known issues reviews with developers.

Environment: Win Runner 7.0, Test Director 7.0, VB, Active-X Controls, SQL Server, Query Analyzer, MS Office and Windows.