SUMMARY

• 6+ years of experience as a Test Analyst/QA Engineer in Designing, Developing, Testing and implementation and execution of test plans, test cases for Client/server and internet/intranet applications.
• Proficient & Extensive Experience in Preparing Test Plans, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios and Test Cases for Manual Testing.
• Expertise in writing, maintaining, executing Test plans, Test cases and Test Scripts, analyzing bugs and Interacting with team members in fixing the errors.
• Extensive experience in Unit testing, Black - box, Integration, Regression, System, Smoke, Performance and User Acceptance Testing.
• Extensive experience with Testing Methodologies, Strategies and SDLC process like waterfall and Agile.
• Ability to interact with developers and product analysts regarding testing status and maintain detail QA documentation.
• Assisting development team in Defect Resolution (mainly customer related production issues and during Deployment Process).
• Extensive Testing experience using Mercury Interactive Testing Tools Test Director / Quality Center (QC), Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Coordinated with Performance Testing team to carry out Load Testing using Load Runner.
• Extensive experience in Client/server & Web Based Application testing.
• Experience in full cycle of Software development, design, coding, debugging, testing, maintenance and enhancement.
• Experience of working in Financial, Retail and Energy organizations.
• Reliable, Responsible, Hard working, Good team player, flexible & quickly adapt to changing environments professionally and personally.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: QTP 11/10/9.x, Quality Center 10.0/9.x/8.2, Selenium, Load Runner, SOAP UI and JMeter.

Programming Languages: C, SQL,.NET

Web Servers: Web logic, IIS, Tomcat-Web Server, WebSphere

RDBMS: Oracle 10g, SQL Server, MS Access

Bug Tracker: Quality Center, Bugzilla

Office Tools: MS Office - MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio, Project

SDLC Methodology: Agile, Waterfall

Browsers: Windows IE, Mozilla, AOL, Netscape Mac Safari, AOL, Mozilla, IE .

Operating System: Windows (NT/2K/2K3) & UNIX (SUN SOLARIS, AIX, HP-UX)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, St Paul, MN

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in requirement gathering and Test Plan review meetings.
• Executed all Test Cases in all phases of testing like Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, System testing, end-to-end testing and UAT.
• Extensively involved in writing manual test cases, executing the test cases and reporting defects.
• Executed automated test scripts using QTP.
• Defects were reported to developers using Mercury Quality Center.
• Performed extensive manual testing, which involved functionality testing, module testing, and end-to-end testing.
• Performed Backend Testing using SQL queries to retrieve data and perform data manipulation.
• Recognized bug severity and was able to escalate and prioritize accordingly based on the severity and impact of any product bugs detected.
• Conducted all types of application testing as needed, such as Unit, Integration, System, Regression, Smoke, Load and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Recorded and documented the details of bug in HP Quality Center (QC) & followed up on all assigned defects.
• Developed Structured Query Language (SQL) queries using querying tool SQL Server Management Studio against relational database.
• Interacted with the business analyst and the developer regarding the application requirements and enhancements.

Environment: Manual Testing, QTP, Quality Center, SQL, HTML, SQL Server, webMethods 7.1.2, Remedy, Team Track and Windows 2000/XP.

Confidential, Hunt Valley, MD

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed User Requirements, User Interface Specifications and Design Documents.
• Prepared and contributed in creating Test Plan and Procedure Documentation along with preparing and executing Test Cases.
• Developed and executed Test Plans and Test Cases for client server applications, and system upgrades.
• Executed automated testing using Quality Center (QC) and Quick Test Professional (QTP) as well as coded automated tests using Quick Test Professional (QTP) using VBScript.
• Extensively used TOAD in performing SQL Queries.
• Involved in the regression testing after each modification and enhancements.
• Performed Smoke, Functionality, Integration, System tests based on Analysis, and understanding of the requirements, non-functional specifications, and end-user needs.
• Executed certification testing, report defects and release day checkout. Review business and functional requirements.
• Interacted closely with development teams to identify, isolate, and fix software defects.

Environment: Manual Testing, Test Directory, VB Script, Java, ASP, HTML, XML, Oracle, Quick Test Pro 9.1, Windows XP, Quality Center.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Test scenarios for Integrated Testing using Software requirement specification.
• Involved in writing and implementation of the test plan, various test cases, test scripts and preparation of Test scenarios, customer configuration for Software Requirement Specifications.
• Coordinated with the developer and management to layout the project schedule and deadlines for the testing phase for each content group
• Involved in testing of web application, Performed Functional, Regression, User Acceptance and end-to-end testing.
• Worked with Operations, release management and Support Team to find root causes, Reported defects, verified fixes and closed bugs during Regression testing.
• Reported software defects and interacted with developer to resolve technical issues.
• Documenting, Managing, Communicating Test Results and Test Cases using Quality Center.
• Performed Data Validation followed by the manual testing of back end and Front end testing of the web-based application by performing GUI and Regression Testing.
• Involved in Daily Huddle Meetings and weekly Team Meetings.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, SQL, HTML, SQL Server, SSIS, Replication, web services, SOAP-UI, JMeter, webMethods 7.1.2/6.5, Remedy, Team Track and Windows 2000/XP.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Quality Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed User Requirements, User Interface Specifications and Design Documents.
• Prepared and contributed in creating Test Plan and Procedure Documentation along with preparing and executing Test Cases.
• Developed and executed Test Plans and Test Cases for client server applications, and system upgrades.
• Created test scripts for the functional interface of modules using VB Script on QTP.
• Validated and tested the requests using Trading Network Console.
• Developed reusable automation tests, and built and maintained successful web testing frameworks with ever expanding coverage and continuous integrations.
• Developed Structured Query Language (SQL) queries using querying tool SQL Server Management Studio against relational database.
• Involved in the regression testing after each modification and enhancements.
• Worked with development team to ensure that testing issues are resolved.

Environment: Manual Testing, Developer, Trading Networks Console, Designer (Modeler), EDI, CIDX, PIDX, Rosattnet, XML, Test Directory, VB Script, Java, ASP, HTML, XML, SQL Server, Quick Test Pro 9.1, Windows XP, Quality Center.

Confidential

Quality Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Product Requirements, Business and System Requirement documents to initiate the test plans and Test Strategy.
• Actively involved in the Business Requirement Analysis meetings and scheduled the QA tasks.
• Developed Test Plan, Test Requirements, and Test Strategy.
• Designed test cases for both manual and automated testing.
• Extensively involved in designing, reviewing and executing the test cases and maintaining the defect tracking log for open issues with ClearQuest.
• Execution of Black box and Functional testing, Regression and Multi user tests.
• Responsible for Database integrity testing by executing SQL statements.
• Regression testing was implemented at various phases of the development and test cycles.
• Worked with development team to ensure that testing issues are resolved.
• Involved in testing of web application, Performed GUI, Functional, Regression, User Acceptance and end-to-end testing.
• Responsible for Update of existing Test cases against the Change requirements document.

Environment: Manual Testing, Test Directory, VB Script, Java, ASP, HTML, XML Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access, Windows NT.