SUMMARY

• 6+ years of Information Technology experience in Quality Assurance Analyst, System Analysis, Design and Software Testing.
• Extensive experience as a Quality Assurance Analyst in preparing Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases for both Manual and Automated testing for Web Applications and Client - Server Applications.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Rational Unified Process (RUP), Use Cases (UML), Testing Methodologies, test environment set up, and implementation in all phases.
• Experienced in QA processes (e.g. assessing risks, automated testing strategies, tracking defects, test case management, document status reports etc.).
• Expertise in developing Test strategies, formulating Test plans, document and executing Test cases by analyzing Business requirement (BRD) and functional requirement specifications.
• Experience in Manual and Automated Testing including Regression Testing, Black Box Testing, White Box Load Testing, Stress Testing, Performance Testing, Functionality Testing and UAT.
• Experienced in using Automated Testing Tools like SOAP UI, Quick Test Pro, Load Runner and developing test scripts using Test Script Language (TSL) and to manage the entire testing process.
• Executed test cases and automated test scripts to ensure functionality of the application
• Worked effectively with the Product Managers and project team members to reconfigure equipment to meet all testing specifications
• Involved in Creation and Maintenance of Test Strategies and Test Planning.
• Responsibly handled tasks such as Project assessment, Technical Writing, Test Case creation and execution, creation of functional and system requirements, data collection and analysis and mentoring other members of the team
• Experienced in creating Project plans, Scheduling Test Cycles and Guaranteeing Deliverables.
• Experience in testing Windows based applications, Client/Server (2-Tier), Multi-Tier, financial applications, e-commerce applications, Insurance applications and Commercial Stand-Alone applications

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SDLC Methodologies: RUP, Waterfall, Agile, Spiral, V-shaped, RAD

Testing tools: Quick Test Professional (QTP) 10.00, Quality center 10.00, SOAP UI, TFS, Load Runner, Win Runner, Manual Testing, Rational Functional tester, Selenium IDE.

Databases/DB Tools: SQL Server 2008,2010,2012, MS Access, SharePoint, Lotus Notes, Oracle PL/SQL, DB2, ETL Tools - SSIS, Import Export Wizard

Web Technologies: J2EE, Java Script, HTML, XML, VB Script, .NET( ASP.NET, C#.NET, VB.NET), CSS, Shell Scripting

IDE and Other Tools: Visual Studio.Net, Visual Studio Team Server, Profiler, Microsoft VSS, SVN

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista/Win7, and UNIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Q.A Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Functional System Testing and supporting the Integration Testing
• Have followed the story cards and worked on 2 week/ 3 week sprints.
• Did the ETL testing for data that is being transferred from one website to another website, according to the business needs
• Working along with the Third Vendor Product owners, ORACLE Corporation, for various Releases and patches which needed to be tested with Confidential 's legacy systems.
• Communicate Test Progress, Test Results and identify existing information to Project Stakeholders and Management.
• Developed and executed test cases for EWS (Enterprise Web Services) /XML / SOAP and Restful services using SoapUI tool.
• Prevented substantial cost incurrence to Confidential during data center migration by Identifying key bug in the Payment origination system.
• System test case design, test bed preparation, test execution, test results & test incident log generation and retesting.
• Added Property Transfer in SoapUI tool to transfer the values from one response XML to another request XML.
• Was involved in regression testing extensively to check that the existing code has not been broken by the new code
• Used Rational Clear Case for change management process ( Requirements, technical and functional designs)
• Effective interaction and coordination with IT community for reviewing test script, test data, test results, defects severity / priority
• Automated Test scripts for regression testing using QTP.
• Created SQL scripts for data extraction and comparison of test query results
• Extensively used SQL queries/Unix commands for data verification and backend testing.
• Performed Verification, Validation, and Transformations on the Input data (Text files, XML files) before loading into target database.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Main Frames, SQL, IBM DB2 LUW, SQL Server 2008, web services, HP Quality Center 10, Quick Test Pro, SOAP UI.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Q.A Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked successfully as the QA Analyst on two releases on the Vendor collaboration team.
• Established testing resources' schedules by working closely with project managers for various projects
• Defined test scope and schedules; communicated issues and status to upper management
• Successfully wrote scripts for testing for regression and post production testing.
• Key Player in all test phases including integration, functional, system, performance, conversion, cross-system, smoke, batch, and database testing.
• Organized bug meetings and sent out daily status to the team including upper management
• Developed good relationships with project managers to better understand the application and effective produce a quality testing results.
• Derived and managed the testing efforts of mid/large size projects while working side by side with Scrum master and project manager
• Strongly emphasized meeting and exceeding project objectives (even when it meant putting in extra hours--nights and weekends)

Environment: Agile, HP Quality Center, SQL server management studio 2008, Quick Test Pro, SOAPUI, HTML, Windows XP, UNIX, MS Office.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Stories (Agile Methodology Requirements Documents) and Identified the Test Scenarios & Test Cases.
• Contribute to and monitor test planning, test preparation and scripting, test execution according to defined best practices, standards and procedures and work with on shore/Off Shore Team.
• Interface regularly with peers and management regarding test related topics including coordination of test related initiatives with QA Test Leads, Project Managers, Development Managers and other QA Core team members (SDLC Team)
• Participate in all phases of the IT Project Delivery Framework, including review of complex business and functional requirements. (Kick Off meeting, Change Control, etc.)
• Use advanced knowledge of applications to provide technical assistance in identifying, evaluating and resolving highly complex test problems.
• Experienced in technical specifications reviews and providing guidance and feedback.
• Participate in the defining System Test entry/exit criteria in each release to support QA Team.
• Maintain document template libraries and internal project documentation like QA Test Plan, Local procedure, QA Test Results, etc.
• Organize and/or facilitate team member training sessions in each new application to implement process.
• Participate in both internal and external process improvement projects like QA, SIT, UAT Testing with business & Marketing and External Vendors team.
• Plan and direct quality assurance schedules and assignments, assist in monitoring project status in comparison to cost/time projections. Log, track and verify resolution of software and specification defects.

Environment: HP Quality Center 10, DATASTAGE, SQL, SQL server Management Studio 2005, UNIX, Shell scripting, ASP.NET, Business process testing.

Confidential

Q.A Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the requirement document and wrote detailed Test Cases by referring requirement documents, High level design document and User interface specification.
• Reviewed the Test Cases that are developed by the peers, attended the Test Case review meetings and with BA and fellow testers and updated the Test Cases as per the review comments.
• Prepared the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) based on the requirements
• Extensively participated in performing Functional Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing
• Performed the Backend testing executing SQL Queries
• User defined functions were written according to the functionality of the application
• Participated and organized the change request meeting and documented the Test Cases for Change Request.

Environment: Agile, Scrum, SharePoint, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Excel, Windows. Java J2EE, Oracle database, UNIX and Windows OS, XML, Quality Center 10.

Confidential

Q.A Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business analysis and requirements gathering.
• Develop test plans based on test strategy. Created and executed test cases based on test strategy and test plans based on ETL Mapping document.
• Extensively worked on the Console application and to bring the output of the console application to in corporate in to the web application.
• Tested the outgoing links from all the web pages from specific domain.
• Optimizing/Tuning several complex SQL queries for better performance and efficiency.
• Created various PL/SQL stored procedures for dropping and recreating indexes on target tables.
• Worked on issues with migration from development to testing.
• Preparation of technical specifications and Source to Target mappings.
• Solid testing experience in working with SQL Stored Procedures, triggers, views and worked with performance tuning of complex SQL queries.
• Tested all the internal links and tested links jumping on the same Web page
• Used Quick Test Pro generated various scripts for performing functional testing.

Environment: HP Quality Center, SQL Server 2008, Agile, Load Runner, Quick Test Pro (QTP) ver. 10.0, SOAP UI UNIX/LINUX, XML, Framework using Excel Spread Sheets, Oracle Apps, Business Process Testing, Windows XP.

Confidential

Q.A Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed automated test scripts from manual test cases for Regression testing based on the requirement documents using Quick Test Professional.
• Defects identified in testing environment where communicated to the developers using defect tracking tool Quality center.
• Assisted System Test and UAT testing.
• Developed scripts, utilities, simulators, data sets and other programmatic test tools as required executing test plans.
• Adopted Agile/scrum methodology for - Risk Mitigation, Monitoring and Management (risk analysis) at every stage of the project Cycle with transparency in planning and module development

Environment: HP Quality Center, SQL Server 2008, Agile, Load Runner, Quick Test Pro (QTP), SOAP UI, XML, Framework using Excel Spread Sheets, Windows XP.