SUMMARY

• A Testing professional with 7 years of extensive experience in manual and automated software testing.
• Expertise in writing Test Plans, Test Strategies, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Reports and Defect Metrics
• Very good working experience in using Black Box testing techniques like Boundary Value Analysis
• Extensive experience in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, UI Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Performance Testing, Load Testing User Acceptance Testing
• Experience in Requirements Analysis, Business reviews and working sessions to understand the requirements and system design.
• Involvement in various stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Expertise in automated tools like Quality Center
• Expertise in automated testing tools like Selenium 2, Java, TestNG, Ruby, Watir, QTP 11, Jmeter, Load Runner.
• Work experience in configuration management/version control system tool VSS, SVN, CVS.
• Experience in complete project life cycle of Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Regression testing.
• Very good Experience in White Box testing in Java, Used to write Junit scripts to test Java application. Most of the issues where found while doing white box testing. Created Junit scripts which drive the Java Api s.
• Experience in testing database applications of Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.
• Expertise in Problem solving and Bug Tracking Reports using Bug tracking Tools.
• Extensive experience in QA Testing Web Applications, Client Server, Database Testing
• Exposure to LINUX environment
• Experienced in writing SQL queries.
• Good Team player, quick learner, proactive, collaborative and self - starter, excellent oral and written skills
• Strong theoretical knowledge in programming concepts/processes and proficiency in C, Java, HMTL, SQL, JavaScript.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Functional Testing tools: QTP 11, Selenium, java, Ruby, Watir, SoapUI

Performance Testing Tools: Jmeter, Load Runner 11

Defect Tracking tools: Quality Center, BugZilla, Rally

Test Management Tools: Quality Center, BugZilla, SVN, CVS, Rally

Operating Systems: Windows-98/NT/XP/2000/2003, Linux, DOS

Languages: C, C++, PL/SQL, Java, HTML, XML

Databases: MySQL, Oracle 11g

Scripts: JavaScript, VB Scripts, Ruby

Processes: Agile Software Development Life Cycle, Software Testing Life Cycle, Defect Life Cycle, Testing Methodologies, Black Box Testing Techniques, White Box Testing Techniques.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Sr QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business requirements and participated in the creation of the Test plan, Test Cases and Test Data for functional testing.
• Involved in interfacing and communicating with the business analysts to come up with efficient Test plans and Test cases.
• Conducted successful walkthroughs with the stakeholders of the project including the technical users in order to design complete and detailed test plans and test cases.
• Maintained and Executed Test cases and tracked defects using BugZilla/Rally.
• Performed Manual/Automation testing of the application to test the system business requirements for positive and negative scenarios using Selenium RC/Java.
• Developed the Test Scripts using Java in Selenium by identifying the appropriate Test Cases and written in Java Programming language.
• Developed Functional, UI and DB Test Scripts in Java/Selenium RC based on test cases.
• Interacted with the developers for bug fixes and problem resolution
• Working closely with developers as we are following agile process
• Used Load runner 11 to create scenarios and run load tests.
• Parameterized the scripts to perform data driven testing.
• Performed Load and Stress tests with LoadRunner 11and submitted performance statistics to application teams.
• Developed and Executed SQL queries, stored procedures for Database testing for the verification of results.
• Documented the defects using Rally and tracked them to completion by communicating and coordinating with the development as well as the support groups.
• Responsible for collecting and analyzing the Test metrics and then submitting the reports, which kept track of the status and progress of the testing effort.

Environment: C#, VB.NET, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Visual Studio, SQL Server, Selenium RC, Java, TestNG, Rally, BugZilla, SVN, HP Load Runner 11, QTP 11,.

Confidential, Columbus OH

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed and Executed test plans, test scripts and Test Cases from product requirements and design specifications.
• Extensively interacted with Business Analysts, Developers and end users to test according to their requirements.
• Involved in Functional, Integration testing using the Scrum type of Agile methodology testing the process.
• Experience in planning test activities and developing Test Plan, Strategies in accordance with project scope and delivery dates.
• Performed Functional, Smoke, Database, Integration and Regression Testing.
• Scripted test suites in QTP 10, including custom functions in VB Script, to regression test daily build and stored them in Quality Center 10 for execution and maintenance purpose.
• Maintained defect lists for critical issues using Quality Center 10.
• Participated in status meetings to report issues. Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution using Quality Center.
• Used Various Checkpoints, Output Values to check values of an object properties using QTP.
• Retrieved records from multiple tables from Oracle Database by using different joins using Toad, and done backend testing using QTP.
• Prepared a comprehensive Database Testing Summary Report for the application with extended coverage of all Backend Tests performed on AUT and came up with conclusions and recommendations
• Created Scripts for the Application using LoadRunner 8.0.
• Involved in Creating Load Testing Plans and Scripting checklists.
• Parameterized the scripts and enhanced them according to the test cases.
• Used Performance monitor and LoadRunner graphs to analyze the results.
• Used Controller to Perform Load Tests and Stress Tests.
• Uploaded Scripts, Created Timeslots, Created Scenarios and Ran Load Tests in Performance Center.
• Generated, analyzed, and published LoadRunner test results and documented the testing process.
• Interacted with developers to solve Performance issues.
• Provided weekly/daily QA status reports to management for every release cycle.
• Performed back-end testing by extensively using SQL commands to verify the database integrity.
• Involved in Defect Management by creating and tracking the defects using Quality Center.
• Worked with various teams to fix problems and duplicate issues.

Environment: QTP 10.0, Quality Center 10.0, HP LoadRunner 8.0, UNIX, SQL, Windows NT/2000, Java, Oracle

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed, and executed test cases according to functional requirements.
• Developed and executed SQL queries for verifying backend data integration with health care finance application data captured in UI.
• Used Quality Center 8.0 to store test cases, report and track defects.
• Handled testing activities for implementing and rollback procedures while deploying enhancements into production.
• Worked closely with the User Acceptance Test Coordinator, Project Manager and Business System Analysts to understand business processes and develop concrete UAT cases.
• Designed and developed reports using Crystal Report.
• Used Visual Source Safe (VSS) for version control.
• Used Performance monitor and LoadRunner graphs to analyze the results.
• Performed various type Performance Test like Capacity, Stress, Longevity, Performance Testing.
• Uploaded Test cases into Quality Center and executed them.
• Used Quality Center to report defects and test results.
• Work closely with users and program developers to ensure application development meets to user’s expectations.
• Reported the daily status of test cases executed/failed, worked with business analysts to assure new functionality changes were reasonable regarding existing design.

Environment: VB 6.0, Oracle, Toad, HP LoadRunner 8.0, Crystal Report, Quality Center

Confidential

QA Analyst /Tester

Responsibilities:

• Supported Business Analysts in identifying and gathering business requirements
• Developed Test Plan and Test cases as per functional and business requirements.
• Constructed SQL queries to extract data from backend databases and validate the data quality.
• Back end database testing by writing several SQL statements to validate the Business Scenarios.
• Leverage SQL skills to validate the reports, data quality and backend database functionalities.
• Conducted End to End, Performance Testing.
• Involved in Creating Load Testing Plans and Scripting checklists.
• Extensively used LoadRunner 7.8/8.0 for Performance and Stress Testing.
• Extensively used Virtual User Generator to create Load test scripts.
• Used LoadRunner Controller to create Scenarios for Load Testing.
• Generated reports for Performance Analysis.
• Used Quality Center 8.0 for test documentation management and defect tracking
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.

Environment: HP LoadRunner 8.0, HP Quality Center 8.0, SQL Server 2000, HTML, DHTML, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft FrontPage