SUMMARY

• Around 7 years of cumulative test - specific experience in the IT industry with diversified exposure in both Manual and Automated testing of Client/Server, n-tier distributed architecture & Web-based applications with focus on System Analysis, verification and validation and Software Quality Assurance.
• Expertise in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and QA Life Cycle.
• Expertise in preparing Test Plan, Test Cases, Test scripts and Traceability Matrix with extensive experience in manual and automated testing.
• Experience in Testing Methodology and Test Plan Formulations.
• Actively involved in conducting various tests such as functional, regression, integration, system testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Proficient in using Test Management Tools Test Director, Quality Center, Rational Test Manager for Test Planning, Requirement Management, Defect tracking and Reporting.
• Good knowledge of automation testing tools like QTP, Selenium.
• Experience working on Performance testing of web applications using Load Runner.
• Expertise in defect tracking and change management using Clear Quest, Test Director/Quality Center and PVCS.
• Experience in documenting the testing process using MS-Office tools including Word and Excel.
• Experience in executing SQL Queries to validate data in the back end.
• Worked in various facets of Software Development Life Cycle, Software Test Life Cycle and good working knowledge on software engineering models like Agile, V-model, CMM and RUP.
• Expertise on Windows/Unix/Mainframe environments.
• Good knowledge of SQL, Triggers, Stored Procedures and database connectivity for Back-end testing.
• Proficient in analyzing Business/System requirements and use cases.
• Participated in Walkthroughs, Defect Review, Status, Go No-Go, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Review and Sprint Planning meetings.
• Solid troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Able to work independently as well as a good team player and interacts with all levels of management.
• Possess good communication skills, self-motivated, proactive, task oriented and quickly adapt to new technologies/processes/ methodologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Dos, WINDOWS-98/2000/XP/2003, UNIX, Mainframes

Languages: C, C++, C#, VB.net, ASP.net, SQL, Java, J2EE, Perl.

Database: Oracle 8i/9i/10g, SQL server, MS ACCESS, Sybase, DB2

Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, XML, XSLT, Java Script

Test Management Tools: Mercury Test Director (7.5/8.0), Mercury Quality Center(8.0/8.2/9.0), Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Test Manager, Finesse

Testing Tools: Mercury Tools Winrunner (7.0/7.5/8.0), QTP (8.0/8.5/9.2/10.0 )Rational Tools (2002/2003/7.2 )

Selenium IDE/RC: Load Runner

Defect Tracking Tools: Bugzilla, Clear Quest, Test NG

Web Servers: BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, IIS, Apache.

Version Control Tools: PVCS, CVS, Clearcase

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Documented Test Strategies, Test Plan, Test Schedules, Test Cases, Test summary report, data and environment for business requirements.
• Conduct Functional, System and Regression testing during the various phases of the development.
• Prepared the defect reports and interacted with developers for debugging.
• Conduct regression testing using QTP.
• Performed Functional, System and negative testing.
• Performed end to end back end testing.
• Closely interacted with business users to perform UAT testing.
• Functional scripts were written Using Quick Test Professional. Identified all windows, Pages, Objects, Methods and Properties. Scripts were custom coded with Parameterization, programming logic and data driven types.
• Inserted verification checkpoints, synchronization points, and parameterized data using QTP.
• Execute Test scripts in various stages of updated builds.
• Used LoadRunner VuGen for generating the automated performance test scripts.
• Performedbaseline testwith1 userand5 iterationsandbenchmark testunder a loadof100 usersusingLoadRunner controller.
• Monitored the metrics suchasresponse times, throughputandserver resourcessuch asCPU utilized, Available BytesandProcessBytesby usingLoadRunner Monitors for IIS, Web Logic server.
• Analyzed theTransaction Summary Reportandgraphsgenerated in aLoadRunner Analysissession.
• Conduct Defect Review meetings.
• Responsible for daily and weekly status updates showing the progress of the testing effort and open issues to be resolved.

Environment: Informatica (power Center) 8.6.1, Oracle 10g, Sql developer 3.x, Unix, QTP 9.2/10.0, XML, Quality center 9.2, Main frames(MVS-OS/390), Load Runner.

Confidential, Lake Land, FL

QA Analyst.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and documented Test Strategies, Test Plan, Test Schedule, Test Cases, data and environment requirements.
• Involved in Functional, System, UAT and Negative testing.
• Documented Test Cases and Test Scripts for the system.
• Performed Manual Testing of the application using numerous Test Scripts on the modules Time & Attendance, Scheduling & forecasting.
• Involved in Integration testing of the system.
• Conduct Functional, System and Regression testing during the various phases of the development.
• Involved in GUI and Functional Testing to verify that each business function operates according to the external and internal design specifications.
• Preparing the defect reports and interacted with developers for debugging.
• Run tests by using Selenium remote control in different browsers.
• Designed and Developed Test Cases for automated testing using Selenium, Test NG and Eclipse IDE.
• Developed the performance Test Plans and Load Test Strategies.
• Created Load/Stress scenarios for performance testing using theLoadRunner Controller.
• Created customized LoadRunner VuGen scripts at API level with manual correlation, user defined functions, development libraries (classes and methods), and error handling.
• Monitored the performance of application server and web server underloadby looking at server resources suchTotal Processor TimeinLoadRunner Monitor.
• Monitored CPU, Memory and other system resources while performing load tests and notified performance issue to high level management and resolved the issues.
• UsedLoadRunner Analyzerto prepared detailedLoad Test Analysis Reportwith Graphs and the application bottlenecks from the scripts execution.
• Execute Test scripts in various stages of updated builds.
• Participate in Defect Review meetings.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing.
• Responsible for daily and weekly status updates showing the progress of the testing effort and open issues to be resolved.
• Performed system certification for the application.

Environment: JAVA, J2EE, JUNIT, Selenium ID/RC, Oracle 10g, XML, HTML, Windows 2000, UNIX, Test NG, JIRA, Load Runner.

Confidential, FL

Sr QA Tester.

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Requirement Analysis, Business Analysis, Use-Case Analysis and Gap Analysis.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Beds, Test Data and Traceability Matrix.
• Agile Process was followed throughout the project and all artifacts are generated for each discipline.
• Conducted Integration, System, Functional, GUI, Regression, Smoke, Database Integrity, User-Acceptance (UAT).
• Tested Claims and validated EDI transactions.
• Tested adding/updating/deleting of the providers, members, groups, facilities, hospitals in Facets.
• Used SQL Queries to verify the data from the Oracle database.
• Involved in the GUI, functional testing of web pages.
• Worked with UNIX shell scripts.
• Worked with XML and MQ series for data transfer.
• Created Actions and Scripts in Quick Test Professional for automated application testing and Performance testing.
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix between Requirements and Test Cases.
• Used Mercury QTP tool for automating test scripts.
• Used Selenium for web testing.
• Design, develop, maintain and implement LoadRunnerscriptsto executeperformanceandquality testingon retail distribution management software.
• Extensively used LoadRunner VuGen for generating the automated test scripts.
• Using LoadRunner, execute multi-user performance tests, used online monitors, real-time output messages and otherfeatures of the LoadRunnerController.
• Monitored Metrics on Application server, Web server and database server.
• Created rendezvous point for Performance test scenarios to find deadlocks.
• Performed Backend testing using SQL queries.
• Created Test input requirements and prepared the test data for data driven testing.
• Maintained configuration management on all documents and scripts using PVCS.
• Maintained Test Logs, Test Summary reports and participated in defect review / Status / GO-NOGO Meetings.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Mainframes, XML, MQ Series, selenium, Oracle 8i/9.0, LoadRunner, Windows 2000, UNIX, QTP, PVCS.

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

QA Tester.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements and Use Case documents and developed Test Plans and Test Cases for Manual Testing and documented them along with the test results.
• Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed Test Plan for System Testing.
• Initially performed Manual Testing of the application using numerous Test scripts.
• Worked with Fitnesse test frame work for testing requirements.
• Conducted Functional, System and Regression testing during the various phases of the development.
• Involved in Functional Test to verify that each business function operates according to the external and internal design specifications.
• Performed Verification of text, Database checkpoints and Synchronization points of application using QTP.
• Involved in tracking, reviewing, analyzing and comparing Defects using Quality center.
• Preparing the Defect reports and interacted with developers for Debugging.
• Developed the performance Test Plans and Load Test Strategies.
• Created variousscenarios in LoadRunner controllerfor performingbaseline, benchmark,Load, Stress tests and endurance tests.
• Analyzed theTransaction Summary Reportandgraphsgenerated in aLoadRunner Analysissession.
• Responsible for Black Box Testing of Application.
• Verified whether requirements are testable and generate testing objectives.
• Conducted Browser Test and Platform Test to ensure same behavior for different browsers.
• Performed manual testing and Data integrity/Backend testing by executing SQL statements.
• Participated actively in the Software issue Management (SIM) meetings with the Developers for fixing the defects.

Environment: Java, JSP, HTML, XML, Apache, J2EE, Load Runner, Windows NT/2003, Oracle, UNIX, QTP, Quality center, PVCS Tracker.

Confidential . Chicago, IL

QA Tester.

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Test Plan and Test Cases review meetings with QA Lead, PM and Business Analysts.
• Involved in Writing and executing System test plans and Test cases. These test cases / test scripts were developed after reviewing the business requirements, document and technical specifications document.
• Managed requirements using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Documented Test cases corresponding to business rules and other operating condition in Rational Test Manager.
• Automated the functionality using Rational Robot.
• RUP Software Engineering Standard was followed.
• The XML files were fed to Policy System to process the claims.
• Validated the .pdf bills and xml files produced by the Policy System.
• Involved in the GUI, functional testing of web pages.
• Wrote SQL queries to validate functionality in the back end.
• Used Clear quest for Defect Reporting.
• Tested the functionalist in different environments like QA, STAGING and PROD.
• Validated the UI behavior/functionality in different browsers (Mozilla, IE, and Opera).
• Responsible in providing regular test reports to the management.

Environment: Mainframes, XML, Java, JSP, JDBC, Oracle, Windows 2000, UNIX, Rational Test Manager 2003, Rational Robot 2003, Rational Requisite Pro 2003, Clear quest.

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing Test Scripts for the main application functionality such as validation, business workflow.
• Regularly involved in discussion with developers with the test results to improve the performance.
• Performed Manual Testing on different Modules of the Application.
• Automated test cases using QTP.
• Involved in analysis of Test Plans and Test cases according to business Specifications and designing.
• Managed requirements using Requirements Plan Manager (Test Director).
• Documented Test cases corresponding to business rules and other operating condition in Mercury Test Director.
• Maintained configuration management on all documents and scripts using PVCS.
• Developed and conducted system and user acceptance test plans on completion of system testing before installation of the application on user environment.
• Created SQL Scripts to run against database testing and for populating, updating and deleting the data from the database.
• Involved in the design of Automation Approach, Automation Framework, and Automation Object Model.

Environment: C#, Smart Client Technology, Oracle, PVCS, Test Director, QTP, XML, WINDOWS 2000.