SUMMARY

• Extensive 14+ years of experience in SDLC, Quality Assurance, BA, Client Server and Web based applications.
• Extensive Experience in manual and automated testing of software applications in People Soft HR, Insurance, Banking, Telecommunication domains and E - Commerce.
• Experienced with software Quality Assurance methodologies, Project Management life cycle methodologies including release management and change management process deliverables and executing and maintaining Test Plans.
• Involved in creatingMaster Test Plan, Test Cases,Test Scripts and Test Reportsformanual and automated testing based on the functional specification for theFunctional, Integration, Regression and GUI Usability testing.
• Involved in all phases of software testing life cycles, Analysis of Business Requirements, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases.
• Expertise in Manual and Automated testing, white box and black testing for client-server and web based applications using automated tools like HPQCv11.0, QTP v11.0, Load runner and Rational suite of tools.
• Extensively Involved Testing the application in different environments likes Functional Testing, IntegrationTesting, System Testing, User Acceptance, Regression Testing, and CAT Testing.
• Testing Experience on different languages including VB 6.0/5.0, ASP 3.0, Visual Studio .NET, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, VB Script, Java Script, XML, Java, J2EE, EJB, JSP, SQL, PL/SQL, C/C++ and HTML/DHTML.
• Established and maintained productive working relationship with management, clients, project team members, QA team.
• Ability to work with diversified offshore and onsite QA.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Win Runner, ALM QTP,Selenium, ALM TFS 2010,Load Runner, Rational Robot

Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center, Test Director, Bugzilla,JIRA, Rational Clear Quest

Programming Languages: C++, Java, JavaScript,J2EE, SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Studio .NET, C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET

Application Servers: IIS, IBM Web Sphere, Web Logic, and Java web server

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP/7/8.1, UNIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Wrote detailed business requirements documents (BRD) and perform assessment of current OTC derivatives instruction trade management processes for front, middle and back office.
• Gathered Requirements from different sources like Stakeholders, Documentation, Corporate Goals, Existing Systems, and Subject Matter Experts by conducting Workshops, Interviews, Use Cases, Prototypes, Reading Documents, Market Analysis.
• Documented business and technical requirements, along with developing design specifications, test plans, and use cases for business requirements.
• Documented trade order lifecycle for all instruments: equities, equity options, structured products, equity derivatives, Fixed Income, treasury bonds, Auction Rate securities including corporate and municipal bond debt instruments.
• Responsible for business user review sessions, requirements gathering, UAT test scripts, gap analysis, data consolidation, benchmarks, metrics and attributes for Automated Positions
• Reviewed functional specifications with the business owners.
• Involved in finalizations of requirements in consultation with users at field levels and aided support in preparation of functional design specification document for all Functional domains.
• Developed Conduct analysis of client processes and functional or reporting requirements to prepare documentation and communicate.
• Developed and updated functional use cases and conducted business process modeling to explain business requirements to development and QA teams.
• Project planning and execution: participates in project management process, including participating in project meetings.
• Documented issues, action items, user requirements, or deliverables from project meetings.
• Performed a variety of project related activities, including analysis or preparation of documentation and presentations.
• Facilitating JRS and JAD sessions, brain storming sessions with the Business Group and the Technology Group.
• Designed and developed all Use Cases and UML models using Microsoft Visio.
• Extensive experience in client server and web based application testing including Java API Testing
• Extensive experience in testing applications implemented in .NET, C#,, ASP,XML,HTML.
• Involved in the Requirements Meetings, Review Meetings continuously with developers and users and modifying the test Cases accordingly to test the new features developed in the application as per the user requirements as part of User Acceptance Testing.(UAT).
• Developed Test Cases using Microsoft Excel Templates for each functional front end area of the application and uploaded to Quality Centre 11.0
• Experienced with Preparation of UAT Test Plan, Test Case Suite, Defect Handling, and User Meetings as part of UAT.
• After completion of Final Regression cycles, concentrated on User Accepting testing (UAT) to correct feedback in two types of approaches such as Alpha Testing and Beta Testing.
• Captured Results and uploaded to QC, Communicated defects encountered during regression test and follow-up with developers until all issues were resolved.
• Worked closely with the project manager to record, track, prioritize and close bugs by using HPQC.

Environment: MS project, MS Visio, MS Word, Excel, Erwin 7.1, Oracle 10g, Java, JavaScript, SQL*Plus, HP QC, Load Runner, Selenium, Ecommerce, Net, Java

Confidential

Sr.Quality Assurance Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Experienced with manual web based testing of work brain COTS application of People soft Time and attendance.
• Implemented Agile (Scrum), sprint methodologies and quality Assurance Testing Methodologies.
• Worked in Agile development environment with frequently changing requirements and features set.
• Developed test plan and created test scenarios, test cases and test scripts.
• Involved in unit testing, functional testing, regression testing, business cycle testing on various Modules of People Soft Applications for Time & attendance.
• Expertise in performing Test case execution and defect investigation and escalation and documenting test metrics.
• Created Test scripts and estimates from design documentation.
• Tested software using both systematic and exploratory methods on .Net and ASP web applications
• Extensive experience in creating SIT and UAT Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test cases based on requirements.
• Facilitated User Acceptance Testing by creating Test cases with business users and utilized my strong domain expertise.
• Performed User acceptance testing exclusively in Agile environment.
• Excellent hands on experience in handling the defects throughout the bug life cycle from detection until resolved using HPQC.
• Extensive experience with ALM Tool of HP QC v11 for test management process.
• Performed and Tracked the Requirements traceability matrix by using Excel/HP Quality center.
• Defect Reporting and Tracking by using HPQC v11.0 and mapping child requirements to the main requirements and by linking those with test sets and defects and achieved 100% test coverage by analyzing various Interface documents.
• Conducted and Participated in Defect triage meetings and resolution Meetings at various stages of application development.
• Generated various Defect reports and Test status reports and discussed with internal and external teams.
• Performed back-end testing by executing SQL queries over various database products on Window platform.
• Coordinated testing activities between development leads and business analysts during execution of test plans and test cases.
• Excellent Leader experienced in building and managing offshore teams.

Environment: H.P.Quality Center 11.0, my Team, People Soft, Java, C++, MS Access, SQL Server, JavaScript, .NET, ASP, Oracle, Windows

Confidential

Sr. QA. Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed project requirement and design specification documents and generated various documents during test life cycle like QA test plan, test strategy, test cases, test data requirement, and RTM.
• Created various reports like test case creation, test case execution, test case result, defect report, daily and weekly status report, QA Report, Test summary report and analyzed test results and defects reported through HPQC.
• Experienced in designing and executing Test cases based on Business requirements and Technical Specifications document.
• Developed 300 test cases for: Business Acceptance testing, System Integration testing and End to End testing.
• Created Test Framework for communication between two integrated applications (Flash and Windows).
• Created different quotes and performed testing of XML Structure by using Code Compare and Win Merge Tools.
• Performed Testing standalone Life Scripter application with Modern Rich user Interface developed in C++.
• Performed Compatibility testing on different operating systems.
• Involved in large scale multiple Projects and handled multiple tasks of Life Insurance Applications.
• Created test estimates and test schedule, resource plans from design documentation.
• Excellent hands on experience in handling the defects throughout the bug life cycle from detection until resolved using HPQC, BugZilla and JIRA.
• Executed test cases and validated the test results and extensive experience by using Quality Center for Defect tracking purpose.
• Defect reported and tracked by using HPQC v11 and achieved 100% coverage by mapping Requirements,Testscripts and defects.
• Prepared and reviewed UAT test artifacts of test plans, test scripts,tracebility matrices with Project stake holders.
• Performed UAT regression testing after the defects were fixed.
• Designed and developed automation Test Framework using QTP.
• Involved in Database testing by writing SQL queries.
• Worked with Descriptive programming and VB scripting in Quick Test Pro.
• Involved in monitoring the data flow from using SQL queries and stored procedures to extract the data from the database.

Environment: QTP 10.0,H.P.Quality Center 11.0, TFS 2010 & Team Foundation server, BugZilla V4.0.4, JIRA, Win Merge, .NET,C++,MS Access, SQL Server, Windows

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Created Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Script. based upon the Business requirements and the Functional Requirements.
• Experienced in creating Requirement Traceability Matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements by using HPQC.
• Developing and Maintaining Test Scripts, analyzing bugs and interacting with development team members in fixing the defects.
• Developed and executed test cases in Development, staging and production environment for Life insurance applications.
• Involved in Functional, Integration, User Acceptance, and Comparison testing.
• Managed and maintained two test labs with QA operations from inception to completion.
• Involved in post-production testing in staging environment.
• Built QTP Function Library(QFL) to handle application work flow.
• Used SQL queries to retrieve data from Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)/Teradata and validate them, tested on the Mainframe for data validation and also tested using Pivot Tables for ETL processes.
• Managed a team of size 8 and reported to Project manager.

Environment: QTP 9.1, Mercury Quality Center, SQL Navigator, Oracle 10g, JavaScript, DB2, ETL-Informatica .NET, Web Logic, UNIX

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed the test plan, writing Test Cases based on the requirement and Use Cases by using Mercury quality centre.
• Automated the test scripts for GUI, Functional, Data Driven and Regression testing using QTP.
• Wrote reusable functions in VB Script and created a library of compiled modules in QTP.
• Performed functional, System, Integration, regression testing.
• Created the test sets in Test Lab and executed the test cases and analyzed test results in HPQC.
• Performed set up and maintenance of QA environments.
• Experienced with a team of 4 members of testing team.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, TOAD, Oracle, Java, Web Sphere, UNIX, IIS, IE, Netscape, VSS, Servlets, J2EE

Confidential, New York, NY

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirements Documents and the Technical Specifications.
• Performed extensive Functional Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Testing, Cross Browser Testing and Comparison Testing.

Environment: Test Track, XHTML, CSS, Java script, HTML, Visio, Flash, .Net Technologies, SQL server 2000, Windows XP, Netscape, Firefox, IE6 and IE7

Confidential, Springfield, MA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing Test Plans, Test cases for WAR application by referring the Business and Functional requirements.

Environment: Rational Robot, Rational Test Manager, Rational Clear Quest, Visual Studio, .NET, VB.Net, Microsoft Web Technologies, SQL Server 2000, AJAX Technology, Web Controls

Confidential, Tampa, Fl

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created test plans and test cases according to business requirements and specifications.
• Performed functional, Integration, System, GUI, and Regression using QA Run.

Environment: QA Run, Track Record, VBA, Oracle, SQL, MS-Office

Confidential, Denver, CO

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Created and executed test cases for GUI, Functional, UAT, Security and end to end testing.

Environment: AMDOCS, SQL, Windows 98, PVCS, Oracle, Java, UNIX

Confidential

Jr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed and executed the test cases according to Business requirement document.

Environment: Windows 98, MS Office, Lotus Notes