SUMMARY

• Having 8 years of Quality Assurance experience in planning, coordinating and performing White box Testing, Black box testing, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing, User Interface Testing, Usability, Functionality, Database, Load, Stress and Performance testing, and large - scale applications with multiple interfaces.
• Wide Exposure to Financial, Telecom, Real Estate, Insurance and Web Portal domains.
• Experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) aspects such as Requirements Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Deployment.
• Extensive experience in Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC) aspects such as developing Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Cases (Manual / Automated), Defect Reports and developing Test Scripts, Traceability Matrices and Test Environments.
• Experience in Agile Methodology (Scrum model) to deliver high standard/complex products to the client in short time box with greatest Quality with in planned scrum sprints
• Having Good knowledge in Data Warehousing and ETL Testing concepts
• Experience in Testing with Microsoft .Net Framework and on both Web and Windows based applications.
• Experience in testing the application with WinRunner7.1, LoadRunner9.2, QTP 10, Test Director7.5, Quality Center 10
• Thorough experience in XML technologies like XML, CSS, XSLT, SAX, DOM, DTD, XML Schema and also in XML Parsers like JAXB
• Extensively used SQL queries for back end Testing and while data are being transferred between the front end and the back end database server using T-SQL and PL/SQL.
• Experience with different relational databases like SQL Server, MS-Access, Oracle and Teradata.
• Experience in Developing, deploying, maintaining and debugging .Net Web and Windows based applications.
• Expert in debugging applications using Microsoft Visual Studio.Net and excellent in trouble shooting skills.
• Experience in tools like Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Visual Source Safe, Clear Case, Surround SCM and SVN Version control mechanisms.
• Self motivated with the ability to set and meet deadlines on multiple projects without frequent supervision. Ability to quickly upgrade to new technologies and tools.
• Effective working independently and collaboratively in teams and ability to work effectively with end users
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

QA Tools: HP - Quality Center 9.2/10, Test Director, Microsoft TFS

DBMS/Query Tools: TOAD, T-SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Navigator

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, C, C#.NET, Java, HTML, XML, JavaScript, VBScript

Databases: Oracle11/g/10g, SQL Server 2008/2005/2000 , DB2, Sybase Teradata.

Version Control Tools: Rational Clear Case, WIN CVS, SVN, Microsoft Visual Source safe.

Requirements Tools: Doors, Rational Requisite Pro

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows - Vista, XP, 98, 2000, NT 4.0, Windows Server 2003, UNIX - Sun Solaris.

Scheduling Tools: Autosys, Control M, Flux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NYC, NY

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• ReviewedBusiness, Functional and System Requirement Specifications, and performing extensive manual testing for testing for overriding the rate Modules according to SDLC.
• Involved In thesystem, End to endand UAT(User acceptance test) testing.
• DevelopedTest plans, Test cases and performing Test Executionbased on the requirements in MercuryQualityCenter.
• Assisted clients and developers and ensured that test case prepared was comprehensive in nature.
• Assisted Agile teams and implemented all test plans in accordance to need of development projects.
• Involved inboth front end and back end testing.
• Performing Back-end testing manually by writingSQL Queries.
• Involved in collecting the test data for System andEnd to Endtest.
• Identified functionality and performance issues, including deadlock conditions, database connectivity problems, and system crashes under load.
• Performed defect tracking and defect management usingMercuryQualityCenter.
• Worked with business and development teams to resolve various requirement issues.
• Participating in weekly meeting with the management team and performed requirements, functional and test script walkthroughs.
• Worked on Mercury’s Quality Center 10 and Load Runner 10 to map requirements to test cases, create test sets and carried out test runs manually as well as using automated test scripts.
• UsedMercuryQualityCenterto track and report system defects and bug fixes.
• Actively participated in analyzingChange Requirements.
• Provide dailyTest Summary Reports for projects.

Environment: UNIX, Mainframe, Oracle, JSP, JavaScript, J2EE Technology, QTP, Quality Center

Confidential, NYC, NY

Sr. Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plans, Test cases to test the Screens and workflow for Quality Assurance.
• Involved in both Manual and Automated Testing.
• Created and managed testing schedule.
• Provided test team status reports on weekly basis to the project manager.
• Developed a detailed Test plan for the testing effort of the User Interface.
• Performed Backend Testing of the application by writing SQL queries.
• Performed Data Driven Testing, Security Testing and User Interface Testing using QTP.
• Inserted Checkpoints to check for the broken links, standard properties of an object using QTP.
• Created and maintained SQL Scripts to perform Back-end testing on the Oracle database.
• Developed automation test scripts for regression testing on the application using QTP.
• Specified test requirements and test plans in the Quality Center.
• Report defects and generate reports in the Quality Center.
• Arranged weekly team meeting to assign testing task and acquisition of status reports from individual team members.
• Conducted bug review meeting to discuss resolution of issues.
• Performed Performance Testing using Load Runner

Environment: Oracle/ UNIX, QTP, Quality Center, Load Runner, Java, J2ME

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the requirements, designed meetings, reviewing and analysis of requirements and also involved in preparation of documentation.
• Actively participated in creating requirements traceability matrices, and test plans.
• Involved in the redesigning of the test cases together with the QA lead.
• Document issues in a bug tracking system and report progress of testing to the QA Lead.
• Created, developed and executed test cases.
• Used HP Quality Center to provide Functional & Regression Testing for the Web application.
• Worked with business Analyst, Developers and concerned departments to resolve the issues.
• Report/track all issues and defects using Bugzilla as a defect tracking tool.
• Performed Cross browser compatibility testing across browsers and operating systems.
• Performed Functional testing on each and every component of an application and Integrated testing based on business transaction scenarios.
• Extensively used T-SQL queries for back end Testing and while data are being transferred between the front end and the back end database server.
• Functional testing of XML requests and responses using SOAP UI 4.5.
• Preparing Help files, and user documentation.

Environment: TestDirector, Java, EJB, JSP, JavaScript, JFC Swing, Oracle9i, SQL, Windows NT, SharePoint Portal and QTP

Confidential, NYC, NY

Sr. Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed planning, scripting, updating and execution of test cases.
• Writing the test cases on the basis of DPD document (Detailed Programming Design) available.
• Responsible for defining test details, test data requirement, and determine test results along with document change requests and responsible for providing updates on testing status.
• Provided feedback to the development team for all the defects raised and ensured that defect list was maintained appropriately.
• Coordinating with offshore team in providing the requirements and involved in discussions regarding execution of test cases, preparing daily reports and organizing the weekly status call.
• Providing appropriate solutions on any issues which were raised by offshore team regarding requirements gathering, requirements analyzing, defects or any other detailed questions and ensured timely delivery of the work items with the highest Quality.
• Involved in test scripting discussions with Business Analysts, team leads and other team members.
• The web based application was also tested on different browsers & different versions - IE, Google Chrome and Firefox.
• Wrote SQL queries against Oracle database for verifying data as part of functionality testing.
• Extensively used Quick Test Pro as a defect management tool.
• Used HP Quality Center for regression test and to log the defects

Environment: HP Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, PL/SQL, Oracle, VB.NET, ASP.NET, AJAX, Web Services, XML, HTML, CSS, Java Script, Microsoft Excel, Team Foundation Server

Confidential, South Lake, TX

QA Tester/ETL Tester

Responsibilities:

• Develop automated scripts to facilitate Regression testing on multiple releases using Empirix e-Tester
• Conduct Functionality test, Performance test and UAT with Product Test Group and report to Release Management
• Interacted with developers to explain where required, software bugs and re-tested the fixed issues
• Observed the Mapping results using Workflow Monitor.
• Created Test Cases for functionality, integration, UAT and End- End (windows to UNIX) testing in Quality Center.
• Created functional and integration test plans and test cases to validate business, system and operational requirements for a variety of applications
• Documented through Quality Center on the updates like passed vusers and logon defects etc, Report and verify defect fixes.

Environment: QTP, ASP.NET, Toad, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, Quality Center, PVCS Tracker, SAS Connect, Macros, Oracle Apps, ETL-Informatica, SQL Server, MS Excel

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the requirements analysis, use case preparation; use case analysis and prototype development.
• Prepared the requirements documents for different builds.
• Involved in writing Servlets, JSP, pages for the different application UI pages
• Involved in designing the architecture using J2EE standards.
• Used Struts framework for implementing the MVC architecture.
• Conducted Load and Stress testing using LoadRunner.
• Written SQL queries to retrieve specific information from the database to make sure that the data entered has been up-loaded correctly in to the database
• Used Custom tags in JSP pages based on the requirements.
• Planned and implemented various SQL, Stored Procedure and triggers in Oracle to implement business logic.

Environment: Java, JSP, Struts framework, Tiles, XML, JBOSS3.0, Servlets, JDBC, Tomcat, Ant, Junit, Winrunner, Test Director, JavaScript, CVS, ORACLE and SQL