SUMMARY

• Over Seven - years of IT experience as Quality Analyst - Manual and Automation Testing.
• Experience in Quality Assurance, Design, Development and implementation of Client-Server & Web-based Applications on UNIX and Windows Environment.
• Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle ( SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle( STLC), Bug Life Cycle, and primarily used Software Development Methodologiessuch as Agile, Waterfall.
• Good knowledge of all the phases in SDLC - Requirements gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, System Testing, Acceptance Testing, Deployment, and Support.
• Experience in writing test casesbased onBusiness and Functional requirement specifications.
• Experience in designing Test Cases and Test Scripts for Windows, Java, .NET and UNIX environments.
• Knowledge in Black Box testing techniques on Client/Server and Web Applications.
• Experience of QTP (Quick Test Professional 10.0) Automation tool.
• Possess skills in bug-reporting and bug-tracking using the test management tools Quality Center and defect management tools like Jira.
• Extensive experience in running various kinds of tests such as Regression, Functional, Performance, back end, user acceptance tests (UAT) for Web and Windows applications.
• Conducted website testing and coordinated with clients for successful Deployment of the projects.
• Carried out Manual Testing with UNIXscripts, SQL scripts, etc.
• Hands on experience in writing Queries using SQL Server 2008 Database. Good knowledge of SQL Stored Procedures.
• Performed back end testing using SQL Queries in MS SQL Server and Oracle.
• Experience working with Applications developedusing Agilemethodology;worked with Agile/Scrum teams.
• Experience in different testing types such as Smoke, Sanity, Integration, System, Functional, GUI, Regression Testing, Back-end testing, User Acceptance, Security and Usability testing.
• Excellent Analytical, Problem solving, Communication, and Interpersonal skills.
• Flexible and Versatile in adapting to new environments and working on any tasks/projects assigned.
• Self-starter and team player with excellent communication, problem solving skills, interpersonal skills and a good aptitude for learning.

TECHINCAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista, Windows 7,UNIX

Testing Tools: Quick Test Pro 9.1, Load Runner

Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center, JIRA, Bugzilla, Test Director

Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

Database Environments& Tools: SQL Server 2008, SQL Server Management Studio

MS Access: Oracle 10g, Toad

Design Tools: Microsoft Visio

Desktop Applications: MS Office

Scripting Languages: TSQL, VBScript, PL/SQL

Protocols: FTP, TCP/IP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Tester

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Business team to understand Business logic and User Requirements.
• Analyzed business requirements specifications documents and User requirements specifications documents to developand enhance test plan documents, create and execute test cases.
• Documented test results on regular basis.
• Used Agile methodology to ensure the new features meet the customer requirements and acceptable quality assurance standards.
• Actively participated in business walk-through, inspections, reviews, and user group meetings for quality assurance.
• Worked closely with developers to ensure quick resolution of defects.
• Written and executed SQL queries to cross checkapplication GUI data andapplication database.
• Used Quality Center for requirements management, planning, scheduling, running tests defect tracking and managing the defects.
• Performed Retesting and Regression testing after the bugs are fixed.
• Automated the manual test cases using QTP for Regression and Functional Testing.
• Coordinated with Business Analysts, System Analysts, and Developers for defect analysis.
• Performed Functional, Negative, Smoke, System, Integration, Regression, UAT and Performance Testing during the execution phase.

Environment: HP Quality Center, QTP, Microsoft Office, Toad for Oracle, Windows 2000/XP, SQL Server, MS Excel, Microsoft .NET Windows and Web Apps, Agile methodology.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Designed manual test cases based on functional requirements and technical documents, and executed test cases during System, Regression and User Acceptance testing.
• Wrote SQL queries to retrieve data from database, crosschecked the datavalidity on the GUI with the database.
• Performed data accuracy, data validation and data integrity testing by querying the database using SQL queries to check the data table on server using SQL Developer
• Maintained and Enhanced automation test scripts.
• Analyzed the test cases and test scenarios documents to come up with regression scripts that needed to be tested.
• Executed and Updated Regression scripts.
• Develop automation scripts in Quick Test Professional (QTP) to automate smoke and regression testing. Automate test data load for every build cycle.
• Parameterize the scripts in QTP to run the scripts for varying form data. Modify Object Repository to help QTP identify GUI objects. Enhance the scripts in QTP using VBScript.
• Detected defects and logged and classified them based on the severity using Quality Center.
• Generated Defect reports to present in project meetings with project managers and developers
• Monitored Average Transaction Response Time, Network Data, Hits per Second, Throughput, V-users and Windows resources like CPU Usage available.

Environment: Quality Center 9.5,JIRA, QTP 9.5, Load Runner, J2EE,.Net, ORACLE, TOAD, XML,Windows, Unix, PL/SQL

QA Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the system requirement specifications and developed test cases to cover overall quality assurance testing.
• Worked in the Agile environment with frequently changing requirements and features set Review product requirement documents, functional specifications, and involved in developing test strategy, test plan and test case documents.
• Interacted with Business Analysts and Software Developers for bug reviews and participated in QA meetings.
• Maintained test cases and QA documentation using SharePoint
• Coordinated and performed highly complex data quality assessments oftargeted data sources.
• Designed and Built custom QTPAutomated Testing Framework. Created a startup script usingAutomation Object Modelthat Standardizes QTP environment.
• Wrote bothFunctional and RegressionQTP scriptsfor Web Applications.
• Created data drivenQTP scripts.
• PerformedLoad Testingby creating Virtual Users usingVuGen in Load Runner.
• Performed UI, Functional and Stress Testing in web based application.
• Involved in TestingWeb Servicesusing SOAP UI PRO.
• Detected defects and track defects using bug tracking toolQuality Center.
• Involved in writing SQL queries using SQL Server Management Studio for back end testing.

Environment: Quality Center11.0, QTP11.0, Load Runner11.0, SOAP UI PRO 4.5, Java, J2EE, Oracle, Db2, SQL Server Management Studio.

QA Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Developing Test Cases, Test Scripts and Traceability Matrix.
• Documented Test scripts in Test Director.
• Responsible for GUI Testing, System Testing, UAT, Regression Testing and Functional Testing.
• Prepared Status Summary Reports with details of executed, passed and failed Test scripts.
• Made extensive use of MS Office tools to create and maintain documents such as test plans, test execution and test results documents.
• Responsible for updating Quality Center with the test case results and findings.
• Conducted Regression testing for the every new builds.

Environment: Oracle 9i, SQL, TSQL Scripts,Test Director 7.0, MS Office 2007