SUMMARY

• 5 years of professional Software Quality Testing experience on Windows, Web and Client/Server Base applications
• ISTQB/ASTQB Foundation level (CTFL) certified tester
• Strong Business and Domain knowledge of Financial - Banking, E-Commerce, Retail, Telecom
• Proficiency in Requirement Analysis, Estimation, preparing Test Plan and Test Cases/Scripts
• Expertise in analyzing, evaluating test results as well reporting and tracking Defects
• Performed Functional Testing, GUI Testing, Integration Testing, End-to-End Testing, Smoke testing, Database Testing and Regression testing
• Experience in HP Quality Center, Quick test professional, Bugzilla, IBM rational, Clear-quest, SOAP-UI
• Experience of working in programming languages C, C++, Java, Asp.net and SQL
• Thorough knowledge of all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including the Waterfall model, Spiral model, Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology, Agile methodology and Test driven development process.
• Knowledge of Quality Standards like ISO and CMM Levels
• Expert in Implementation and Quality Assurance aspect of Software Management
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, creative thinker, and passionate about software testing
• Inclined towards building a strong team/work environment, and have the ability to acclimatize to new technologies and situations with ease
• Acknowledged numerous appreciations from customers and management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Management Tools: Quality Center, Test Director, Clear-Quest, Bugzilla

Test Automation Tools: QTP, Win Runner, Load Runner and SOAP-UI

Database Language: SQL, Oracle (PL/SQL), My-SQL

Programming languages: C, C++, JAVA, HTML, XML, Visual Basic, ASP.Net, C#

Protocol: TCP/IP, FTP, UDP

Operating Systems: Windows NT/ / XP/7,Unix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr.QA Analyst

Environment: IBM-Rational, QTP11.0, Visual-Basic, JAVA, XML, HTML, UNIX, JBOSS Server, SOAP-UI, MySQL

Responsibilities:

• Involved in meetings and discussions to understand the scope, purpose and requirement of the application.
• Reviewed and Verified Software Requirement specifications (SRS) for identify the Test Scenarios, Developed Test Cases as per the Scenarios and Use Case Documents
• Involved in entering requirements, developing test plan tree, designing the test steps, writing test cases and running test scripts using Test Management Tool Quality Center.
• Worked with Quality Center Admin in customizing fields for Users.
• Run Test scripts through QTP for performing the regression testing
• Participated and coordinated in test case walkthrough.
• Performed Functional, Regression testing and data base testing using SOAP-UI
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries to extract the data from database.
• Created Traceability matrix between requirements and test cases
• Interaction with Development team in bug reporting and bug fixing process
• Coordinated with the off-site QA team to identify the errors in the application.
• Conducted meetings with the client’s team and developers to present the test results and helped in finding resolutions to the problems
• Tested the Application end-to-end in Manual and Automated Testing of the Application.

Confidential

Sr.QA analyst

Environment: ASP.NET, SQL server, Windows XP, Bugzilla, Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• As a Senior QA analyst analyzed and reviewed functional and technical overall design documents for better understanding of the Extensions and Interfaces.
• Prepare and review Test Plans, Test cases and Test scripts to test the application ensuring application compliance with requirements and able to manage action items.
• Attend Pre Project Planning (PPP) meeting to provide estimations for testing effort.
• Responsible for identifying testing scope, approach & right tools based on technology.
• Involved in testing the layout of various Extension screens as per design specifications
• Executed test cases manually and verified actual results with expected results
• Performed Functional, Regression, Smoke and end-to-end Testing.
• Co-ordinate between On-shore and off-shore resources.
• Participated daily Scrum meetings to track the QA tasks
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries to extract the data from database.
• Create final Test Summary reports, update Test Logs/ Issues log in Bugzilla for reporting purpose.
• Track application issues reported by Customer support center.

Confidential

QA tester

Environment: ASP.Net, Quick Test Professional10.0, Quality Center 9.0, Windows XP, UNIX, Oracle, Visual Basic

Responsibilities:

• As a QA analyst, worked closely with Business Analysts and Developers for thorough Requirements Review and developing the Test Scenarios.
• Every day involved in the scrum meeting to deliver the status report.
• Participated in daily walkthrough and inspection meetings to track the testing efforts in the project.
• Performed Functionality, Regression & Integration testing of the web based application
• Maintained log of test results using Quality Center as per the product versions, modules etc. and interacted with developers to resolve issues.
• Responsible for identifying manual test cases for automation..
• Coordinated the testing activities with QA team for Functional and GUI testing, and defect tracking using Quality center.
• Responsible for Regression Testing of products using Quick Test Professional (QTP), for every new release to validate that the new enhancements have not caused any issues when compared to existing functionality.
• Created the test cases & test sets using Quality center for all the functionality of the application under test and exported test case into Quality center by using the add-ins.
• Heavily involved in the database testing. Developed the SQL Queries for identifying whether the application getting the correct information from database or not.
• Identified defects during test executions, entered them into Quality center’s Defect module for bug tracking and generated defect reports.
• Used Quality Center to enter bugs, create bug reports, issue life cycle tracking and when it is closed to see where exactly the delay to fix the bug.

Confidential

QA tester

Environment: Oracle, SQL, C++, .Net, C#, UNIX, UML, Windows XP, Test Director, PL/SQL, MS Excel, MS Word, Oracle, QTP9.0,Visual Basic

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and analyzed user/business requirements and developed System test plans.
• Interacted with business team to understand business logic and user requirements.
• Managed the project using Quality Center, added test categories and test details.
• Used QTP for running test scripts, bug tracking, reporting and analysis.
• Used Parameterization in QTP extensively to perform Data-Driven testing.
• Used Check Points, Output Values, Recovery Scenarios, Regular Expressions and Object Repository Administration extensively in QTP.
• Thorough knowledge of Smart Identification feature in QTP.
• Used Descriptive Programming extensively creating Description Object.
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results.
• Involved in Regression Testing, Backend testing, Functionality and Security testing.
• Worked on Functional and GUI testing of the web application making sure the application functions as per requirements.

Confidential, NC

QA tester

Environment: JAVA, Windows XP, MS SQL server2008.

Responsibilities:

• Performed requirement analysis of the project.
• Perform functional, integration, regression and system testing.
• Create final Test Summary reports; update Test Logs/ Issues log for reporting purpose
• Interaction with development team in bug reporting and bug fixing process.