SUMMARY

• Over EIGHT+ years of diversified experience in testing Web Based E - Commerce, GUI based client/server applications through Manual and automated testing procedures.
• Involved in all stages of Quality Assurance Life cycle (SDLC).
• Highly proficient in Mercury Interactive Testing Tools (QTP 6.5, 8.0, 9.2, Win Runner 6.0/7.0/7.5, Load Runner 6.0/7.02/7.5/8.0 Test Director 6.0/7.6, Quality Center)
• Hands on experience with analysis of business, technical, and functional requirements and Developed, Executed & Tested the test plans, test cases and test strategies.
• Have strong understanding of software life cycle and software testing methodologies.
• Have Performed functional testing, Integration testing, Performance testing, Stress testing, Regression testing, Sanity testing, User acceptance testing, System testing, Back-end testing and so on.
• Expertise in testing the environments in Service oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Experienced in testing the WebTechnolgies developed on JAVA, J2EE & Microsoft .NET.
• Experienced on UNIX Commands and resolving the network issues.
• Familiar with Database concepts, good programming skills in SQL.
• Expertise in testing the Web Sphere MQ Messaging application.
• Extensively worked with Oracle products, tools and utilities like DB Artisan, SQL plus.
• Programming skills in UNIX, C, C++ & J2EE.
• Expertise in XML scripting.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Developed and executed test Scripts for QTP on Various Web Applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automation tools: Quick test professional, Load Runner, Winrunner, Test Director, QC

Scripting languages: ANSI C, TSL, VB script.

Languages: SQL, C, C++, VERILOG, Visual basic 6.0

Database: Oracle 7x/8i/ 9i, DB2 6x/5x, SQL server, MS Access.

Software tools: DB Artisan, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Project, Rational Clear Case.

Platforms: Unix, Windows NT, Windows 2000,Windows XP

Web Technologies: JAVA, J2EE & Microsoft.net

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

System/Integration Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirements Document, Functional Specifications and the application thoroughly.
• Experience in testing client's web application
• Involved in writing test cases using Functional Specifications
• Involved in Unit Testing, Functional Testing, System testing.
• Created Manual Test cases for Integration, System, Functional and Backend testing.
• Developed and executed Test cases.
• Used Mercury Quality Center (MQC) Management tool for writing test cases and for reporting the bugs. Involved in tracking, reviewing, analyzing and comparing bugs using a Defect Tracking system.
• Worked on Batch testing.
• Performed Database testing by writing and executing SQL queries using WIN SQL.
• Good knowledge on MS office tools such as reporting tools such as excel, MS Access
• Good knowledge in customer relation management billing and Invoicing
• Familiar with XML schema
• Performed Ad-hoc testing to find the uncovered bugs.
• Conducted walkthrough with Business Analysts and QA Lead to clarify issues related to requirements.
• Participated in weekly status meeting, Coordinated with the developers and testers to resolve the defects and close them

Environment: Windows NT/XP, DHCP, DNS, TCP/IP,UNIX, SQL, Oracle 11i HTML, XML, Sybase, C++, .NET, VB Script, Java Script, MS-Excel, IE5.5/6.0, Mercury Quality Center (MQC).

Confidential, NY

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on internal web base financial management systems such as Microsoft Financial Services, InfoLease, eBoss, CITConnect, eFinanceIT and CITDigitalEdge.
• Partnered with various QA/BA groups and set the architectural direction for the products tested in the department.
• Also interfaced with project managers/owners and other systems engineers to baseline requirements.
• Responsibilities also included providing training and software presentation using Web - Ex.
• Supervised the System Integration Testing group that tested the platform on which various data and outbound network design and financing applications were built.
• Reviewing Business, Software Requirement Specifications, negotiated and signed off on the Test Plans for the releases, produced feature specification documents detailing the high-level design of the software and the user interface.
• Writing initial high-level specification documents, developing, updating and reviewing test plans and test cases.
• Generation of status reports, test analysis, bug reporting, verification, tracking & management using Mercury Quality Center
• Reporting directly to Vice President, Quality Assurance and assisting to collect status reports and schedule formal and informal weekly meetings with team members.
• Performed Ad-Hoc, Functional Testing, Load /Stress Testing, Regression Testing, GUI and UAT Testing using manual and automated test methods.

ENVIRONMENT: Windows 2000, NT, IIS 4.0/5.0, XML, Oracle 9i, .NET, Test Director 7.6, QTP 9.2, Quality center, JavaScript, HTML, Adobe Reader 6.0

Confidential, NY

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the functional specifications while testing to make sure that developers have coded according to functional specifications.
• Involved in writing test plan and test cases by reviewing requirements document
• Matched online retirement account Statements and the Statements printed on Paper via manual testing.
• Performed Regression testing manually every time a new Server patch was applied.
• Developed automated test scripts for Load testing the view function, which executes complex queries to display work queues of various units and processes.
• Performed Load testing on MQ workflow transactions.
• Performed actual load and stress testing using Load Runner by creating virtual users and multiple Scenarios.
• Performed load and stress testing using rendezvous points and recording transactions in Load runner, to pinpoint potential problem areas and bottlenecks.
• Written Data Driven test to handle the scenario requiring multiple data set using QTP 8.0.
• Created detailed test cases to be executed during the automation phase of testing.
• Manually verified tax form (1099R, 5498, 5498ESA etc.) change as published by IRS within the Tax Form viewer application.
• Queried database using SQL and performed back end testing to check customer profile information as displayed in the application.
• Performed integration testing for all major software releases.
• Created automated scripts to validate a set of PDF customer statements requested by Business.
• Reported defects identified during the process using Mercury Test director

ENVIRONMENT: Windows 2000, NT, IIS 4.0/5.0, XML, Oracle 9i, .NET, Test Director 7.6, QTP 8.0, Load runner 7.6, JavaScript, HTML, Adobe Reader 6.0

Confidential, NY

QA Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Regression testing using Winrunner 7.0 by creating verification points (objects data, object properties, window and image verification, database verifications and inserting synchronization points).
• Involved in Performance Testing using Load Runner, planning the load by Analyzing Task Distribution diagram, Transaction Profile, User profile and Business Requirements.
• Developed Test Strategy and Test Plan to ensure that test cases reflect user needs for the functional, User Interface, Performance, Usability and Security requirements.
• Tested the application manually and reported the defects through the Test Director.
• Managed, Documented and controlled all the Test Cases, test scripts and test results using Test Director, QTP. And also in a status update report using MS Excel.
• Preformed Regression Testing using Winrunner and generated scripts for testing functional, acceptance and limit validations.
• Prepared the Test Data for Data Driven Test.
• Wrote several SQL Queries to test and view the data in a database.
• Measured Response Times and Transaction rates of the applications using Performance testing.

ENVIRONMENT: Win runner 7.0, Load Runner7.02, Test Director, QTP 8.0, C#, XML, Java, DB2 UDB 5x, Windows NT, UNIX, MS Office.

Confidential, McLean, VA

Jr. QA Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Created test plan and test specifications based on Functional Requirement Specifications and System Design Specifications.
• Developed test cases based on the technical specifications and business requirements. Used Test Director to write test cases.
• Developed and executed test Scripts using QTP for Individual T Codes and integrated these T Codes for each Scenario for critical business Process.
• Executed SQL statements to check the database.
• Reported software defects and interacted with the developers to resolve the defects investigated in the application during testing.
• Performed regression testing on the successive releases.
• Performed User acceptance testing on completion of integration testing before installation of the application on user environment.

ENVIRONMENT: QTP 6.0, LoadRunner7.02, Microsoft.NET, Windows 98, Windows NT and HTML. DHTML, JSP, Java script, Oracle 7x.

Confidential

Manual QA Tester

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Analyzing test plan that defines the test environment, phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria into different phases of testing and resources required.
• Wrote manual test scripts supporting the available business requirements
• Executed test cases manually to check GUI and Functional features of the application
• Identified test data specific to the test case.
• Performed the back-end testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing, SQL queries on the database.
• Worked On Crystal Reports for Generating Reports
• Worked closely with build integration team and developers in order to perform testing activities as per schedules.
• Performed End-to-End testing manually.

Environment: SQL Server, Windows 2000, Java, XML, HTML, Visual Basic 6.0, Crystal Reports, ASP, Java Script, VC ++