PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 9 years of experience in the field of Information Technology in Position as Software Tester, Sr QA Analyst, Lead with very good emphasis
• Experiences working in various industries like the Financial Services, Investment Services and Telecom Services.
• Experience in testing of Web - based, Client/Server, Mainframe applications in Telecom, Banking.
• Specialized in analyzing functional specifications and writing Project test plans, test cases and test strategy document.
• Experience in Manual Testing, Mobile Testing including Back-end and Front-end testing.
• Managed night operations and production control analysts responsible for 24/7 application maintenance, CA schedules and batch processing.
• Possess excellent skills in Manual Testing and Automated testing.
• Experience in use of QTP, Win Runner, Selenium and Rational Robot automation tools.
• Experience in developing Client/Server, Web-Based applications, Window-Based applications, financial applications and others.
• Experienced in On shore and Off shore resources.
• Experience in scripting like VU scripting, GUI scripting, VB Scripting.
• Experience with QA Methodologies like Agile(Scrum).
• Actively involved in Usability and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Experience with Unit testing, Integration testing, System Testing, Regression testing, Functional testing, Rules Testing and Performance.
• Experience in T-SQL joins, functions.
• Good Knowledge of working in various IDEs like Microsoft Visual Studio 2003, 2005.
• Excellent understanding and Strong experience in entire software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Excellent interpersonal and technical skills, quick learner, good team player.
• Highly motivated team player with excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, always willing to work in challenging and cross-platform environment.
• Good Communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: QTP 9.2, selenium, Quality Center, ALM, Win Runner, IBM Rational Robot Tool.

Languages: VB, C#, Java, C, C++, VisualBasic6.0

Database: Oracle, Ms-Access, SQL Server 2000/2005

Operating Systems: MS Windows2003/NT/XPMS SuiteMS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Front Page, MS project.

Scripting Languages: VU Script, VBScript, GUI Script

GUI Frameworks: Win Forms, Web Forms

Web Servers: IIS 5.0/6.0

Web Related: HTML, DHTML, XML, XSLT

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/2003/NT/XP, MS-DOS

Development Tools: ASP.Net, VB.Net, VB 6.0/5.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, IA

Sr QA Analyst / Lead

Responsibilities:

• Validated, updated and reviewed Risk based Matrix for targeted applications.
• Maintained traceability Matrix.
• Lead meetings to allocate and track the status of each demand throughout the release.
• Identified Critical, High and Medium Risk regression test cases to improve test consistency, coverage and execution.
• Gathered and analyzed Requirements from Business requirement documents and software requirement specification documents.
• Performed functional testing and Regression testing in HP ALM Quality Center.
• Part of the Test Planning effort and prepared Test Strategies.
• Created test cases and executed them in ALM.
• Followed the defect life cycle using JIRA for reporting and tracking bugs.
• Worked on complex scenarios in the fees space such as the changed circumstances and related tasks.
• Worked extensively on Credit Decision scenarios, which are derived from the GRD service for various loan types.
• Interacted with end-users to help them with UAT, production validation, and failure analysis.
• Use the SOAP UI tool to send a request of Loan Number and receive the corresponding response from a web service to track the Approval / Data of the Loan.
• Involved in creating test data for customers with high assets and performed validations related to special pricing adjusters for preferred customers.
• Attended the status meetings with the Release Coordinators, QA Managers, Requirements Leads and Requirements Managers.
• Extensively participated in Production validations along.
• Executed the Regression scripts with QTP using java script.
• Worked on Rules scenarios with of Cobra. Cobra tool shows the rules to test.
• Gathering the business rules requirements from business, prepared scenarios for Rules Testing and cross verified Request and Response through HULA in XML format to check rules fired. (Decision and Pricing messages) as Expected.
• Ability to interact with end-users and help them with UAT, production validation, and failure analysis.
• Use the SOAP UI tool to send a request of Loan Number and receive the corresponding response from a web service to track the Approval / Data of the Loan.
• Extensively involved Testing Credit and decision in the application.
• Using defect reporting tool to organize Test Processing such as plan test scenarios, execution of test scenarios and tracking defects and also using Team Track custom application for defect management.

Environment: HP ALM, Java, Oracle 9i, QTP, Authoring Tool, WARP Tool, Jira, HULA, Cobra, Microsoft Office, IE, Windows XP.

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Sr QA Analyst / Lead

Responsibilities:

• Performed manual QA testing, Integration and Regression testing activities for new releases as an End-to-End testing.
• Tested front end application in Flex technology with DORADO application framework
• Preliminary discussions of the Mortgage with the App-D Team.
• Gathered Requirements and entered in Quality Center.
• Find defects and Logged defects with Jira in the product.
• Involved in preparation of test cases and executed test cases.
• Silk scripts were generated and called different functions and checked for different properties for the recorded objects. Synchronization functions, Wait functions were introduced in the scripts.
• Executed Regression scripts with Silk Tool.
• Involved in the complete Test Driven Development (TDD) of this project.
• Involved in Functional, Regression Testing and Integration Testing.
• Ability to interact with end-users and help them with UAT, production validation, and failure analysis.
• Performed Black box and system Testing.
• Tracked software bugs Jira and communicated the same to developers to resolve technical issues.
• Involved in Functional, Regression Testing and Integration Testing.
• Attended the status meetings with the Business Analyst, Development Team, Team Lead and Manger.

Environment: Quality Center, Silk Tool, Jira, Flex, Java, Oracle 11g, Microsoft Office, IE, Windows XP

Confidential

Sr QA Analyst/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Validated, updated and reviewed Risk based Matrix for targeted applications.
• Maintained traceability Matrix.
• Lead meetings to allocate and track the status of each demand throughout the release.
• Identified Critical, High and Medium Risk regression test cases to improve test consistency, coverage and execution.
• Gathered and analyzed Requirements from Business requirement documents and software requirement specification documents.
• Performed functional testing and Regression testing in HP ALM Quality Center.
• Part of the Test Planning effort and prepared Test Strategies.
• Created test cases and executed them in ALM.
• Followed the defect life cycle using JIRA for reporting and tracking bugs.
• Worked on complex scenarios in the fees space such as the changed circumstances and related tasks.
• Worked extensively on Credit Decision scenarios, which are derived from the GRD service for various loan types.
• Interacted with end-users to help them with UAT, production validation, and failure analysis.
• Use the SOAP UI tool to send a request of Loan Number and receive the corresponding response from a web service to track the Approval / Data of the Loan.
• Involved in creating test data for customers with high assets and performed validations related to special pricing adjusters for preferred customers.
• Attended the status meetings with the Release Coordinators, QA Managers, Requirements Leads and Requirements Managers.
• Extensively participated in Production validations along.
• Executed the Regression scripts with QTP using java script.
• Worked on Rules scenarios with of Cobra. Cobra tool shows the rules to test.
• Gathering the business rules requirements from business, prepared scenarios for Rules Testing and cross verified Request and Response through HULA in XML format to check rules fired. (Decision and Pricing messages) as Expected.
• Ability to interact with end-users and help them with UAT, production validation, and failure analysis.
• Use the SOAP UI tool to send a request of Loan Number and receive the corresponding response from a web service to track the Approval / Data of the Loan.
• Extensively involved Testing Credit and decision in the application.
• Using defect reporting tool to organize Test Processing such as plan test scenarios, execution of test scenarios and tracking defects and also using Team Track custom application for defect management.

Environment: HP QC 9.2, Java, Oracle 9i, Authoring Tool, QTP 9.2, WARP, Jira, HULA, Cobra, Microsoft Office, IE, Windows XP.

Confidential, Freehold, NJ

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Executed Test scripts.
• Scripting for Functional Testing using IBM Rational Robot.
• Scripting in both GUI and VU.
• Participate in weekly meeting with the management team and walkthroughs.
• Automated testing using IBM Rational Robot.
• Worked on Mainframe console application also.
• Used Back-end testing using Oracle queries to validate the data in the back-end Oracle Database.
• Scripting in SQABasic for automated tests.
• Writing, executing & reviewing Test Cases.
• Analyzing Test Results and preparation of weekly report regarding testing and Bug status.
• Used Test Director for tracking, analyzing and documenting defects.
• Bug Reporting using Test Director.
• Used Agile methodology for scrum.
• Worked on T-Sql Queries up on requirement.
• Performance testing using Rational Robot.
• Identifying bugs and interacting with team lead and developers to resolve the bugs.
• Participated On-call on weekly basis
• Managed night operations and production control analysts responsible for 24/7 application maintenance, CA7 schedules and batch processing.

Environment: IBM Rational Robot Tool, Oracle 9i, ASP.NET.

Confidential, Cranford, NJ

Sr QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed manual QA testing (QAT), Integration and Regression testing activities for new releases as an End-to-End testing on different platforms like Win NT/2000/98.
• Attended Bug Review meetings and discussed issues with the Developers and Business Owners.
• Worked under Agile methodology in the whole development life cycle
• As a Sr QA Analyst actively involved in gathering specifications and requirements from development personnel prior to System Testing and developed detailed manual test scripts in HP Quality Center.
• Involved in doing the Unit Testing in the Java based environment and worked as programmer in resolving the issues.
• Worked closely with the prerelease issues of the product.
• Interacted with off shore team.
• Created user defined functions for the Application scenarios.
• Use the SOAP UI tool to send a request and receive the corresponding response from a web service that in turn talks to the main frame.
• Automated test cases using Mercury Quick Test Pro.
• Involved in documentation as to how to maintain and run scripts for future enhancements
• Prepared a detail test schedule and test metrics on a weekly basis to know the status of the application.
• QTP scripts were generated and called different functions and checked for different properties for the recorded objects. Synchronization functions, Wait functions were introduced in the scripts.
• Creation of Requirements to Test cases traceability in Quality Center for each release.
• Defining, Presenting and Documenting Test Plans and Test Strategies for each release of the application.
• Ability to interact with end-users and help them with UAT, production validation, and failure analysis.
• Logging and tracking defects and measuring the testing effort and the quality of the software by creating reports in Quality Center.
• Trouble shooting of customer issues on daily basis.
• Created tables and used some T-SQL queries.
• Used MS Excel Macros for loading data for Coffee Application.
• Responsible for unit testing of reports developed and deployed in the production environment
• Automated end reports using VBA with Excel.

Environment: HP QTP 10.0, HP QC, Manual Testing, Cofee East, ExpressTrak, VB Script, Java, Windows 2000/XP and SQL Server 2005

Confidential, Chicago

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Black box and system Testing.
• Preliminary discussions of the Project with the Core Team.
• Extensively performed Functional Testing.
• Find defects in the product.
• Involved in preparation created test cases and executed test cases.
• Find the bugs, report the bugs and tracking the bugs.
• Involved in Bug reporting using Jira.
• Extensively involved Testing Credit card and debit card in the application.
• Tracked software bugs Rational Clear Quest and communicated the same to developers to resolve technical issues.
• Involved in Development side using Dot Net application.
• Responsible for creating Web Forms using several ASP server controls like Standard controls, Validation controls, Rich controls
• Involved in Functional, Regression Testing and Integration Testing.
• Experience in SQL queries to perform backend testing for Data Integrity.
• Attended the status meetings with the Business Analyst, Development Team, Team Lead and Manger.
• Using defect reporting tool to organize Test Processing such as plan test scenarios, execution of test scenarios and tracking defects and also using Team Track custom application for defect management.

Environment: QTP, QC, VB, ASP, SQL Server, Microsoft Office, IE, Windows.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the requirements of the client and act as a sole functional resource
• Involved in designing and developing the Front end application using Visual basic (VB).
• Conducted Sanity Testing, Documentation Testing, Browser Compatibility Testing, Installation Testing, System Testing
• Executed test cases and documented bugs found during the process of testing.
• Tracked extensive IT testing issues of the whole project resulting from test execution and categorized according to severity of the problem.
• Managed the overall testing effort, including coordination of testing personnel and test lab resources
• Created T-SQL queries to retrieve data from database to validate the input data.
• Prepared Test data for the inputs of the test cases.
• Tested the functionality of the application with multiple data including positive and negative data for multiple times.
• Defects entered, tracked and maintained with Bug Tracking System.