PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 8 +years of IT experience in Software Development Life Cycle: system analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of projects of business systems in Insurance Organization, Banking, Retail and telecom industries.
• More than 6 years of experience in Quality Assurance with Client Server environment and Web Technologies.
• Good expertise in the review and documentation of system test plans; Creating and executing test scripts, test cases and data sets on the basis of product release features, client requirements, and technical documents.
• Proficient in both Manual and Automation Testing with ability to manage the automation of the entire testing cycles and leading the testing team.
• Experience in Writing Test Plans, Test Objectives, Defining Test Cases. Developed and maintained test scripts.
• Experienced in documentation and writing test cases using MS - Word and MS-Excel.
• I have the ability to identify the root cause of the issues whether it is a code, environment or data.
• Experience using HP/Mercury Interactive Automated Tools like WinRunner, LoadRunner, Quick Test Pro and Test Director for Web based and Client/Server Applications.
• Experience using Rational Suite Enterprise tools like Rational Robot, Rational ClearQuest, Requisite Pro and Rational Clear Case.
• Proficient in all phases of Testing functional, integration, regression, security testing and Load Testing.
• Wide exposure to Object Oriented Analysis and Design using UML, Requisite pro, Rational Clear Case, and MS-Visio.
• Expert in Java, J2EE Architecture, JSP, JDBC, Servlets, ASP, Visual Basic (VB), XML, UML, C, C++, HTML and Proficient in Shell Scripting and UNIX.
• Worked extensively on RDBMS databases like MS SQL Server 2008/2005/2000, Oracle 10g/9i/8i, MS Access
• Expertise in SQL Server such as SQL, PL/SQL, Transact - SQL, JOINS, Constraints, Functions, Stored Procedures, Views, Triggers, Performance Tuning and Monitoring and Tracing.
• Excellent communication, coordination, documentation, project planning and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, Load Runner, Test Director, Rational Test Suite (Robot, Test Manager, Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Clear Quest, Clear Case), Fiddler, MS Visual Studio, TOAD

Programming Languages: C#, Visual Basic, ASP.Net, C, C++, HTML, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, Transact - SQL

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008/2003, Windows 8/7/Vista/XP Pro/9x/ 2000 Pro/NT 4.0, UNIX/LINUX and MS-DOS

Databases: MS SQL Server 2008/2005/2000, Oracle 10g/9i/8i, MS Access, IBM DB2, Sybace

Web Technologies: XML, HTML, DHTML, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Visual Basic Script, WSS, IDE and Front Page

Reporting Tools: Crystal Reports 9.0, SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services, TOAD

Scripting Languages: HTML, XML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, VB Script, Perl, Python and AJAX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

Senior Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Content verification of Bing Applications Finance, Weather, Maps, Travel, Sports and News on various devices desktop, laptops, notebooks, slates and kindle.
• Testing of apps in various browsers and OS platforms with X86 and 64-bit
• Accurately monitoring and recording results in test documentation.
• Preparing detailed test plans, acceptance criteria and test scenarios for each project.
• Liaising with developers and programmers to swiftly resolve faults.
• Analyzing, writing reports & communicating results to colleagues & managers.
• Monitoring the testing process and identifying and logging test failures.
• Performing peer reviews and estimates.
• Involved in Performance Testing, Scalability / Stress and Load Testing.

Environment: WINDOWS 8, Microsoft Office, BING Applications, Fiddler, C#, SQL SERVER, XML, Microsoft Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, XML, .Net platforms

Confidential, Brea, CA

Validation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed the Validation Plan for the Process Library and Program Central modules of the PLM application according to the FDA standards.
• Prepared the Functional and UAT Test Packets for the execution which includes the Test Instructions, Test Setup and Test Scripts.
• Prepared an Access document for the PLM Library Central module.
• Developed and executed the QA/Production Verification Protocol Plans to validate the proper installation of the software and ensure that it is operational in QA and Production environments respectively.
• Prepared Test Data by using DBU and SQL Queries in the DB2 database files.
• Validated the spooled files for the reports generated.
• Performed Functional testing by executing the test scripts to verify the expected results and documented the results by handwriting the actual results and signing off.
• Prepared the Functional and UAT Test Results and Test Summary reports for approvals.
• Assisted users in performing the User Acceptance Testing.
• Logged the issues in PLM Application and followed them up with development team. Used PLM as the defect management tool.
• Conducted Smoke and Regression testing after the fix is applied.
• Participated in Daily Communication meetings with developers and the management to discuss the progress of open issues.
• Participated in the team meetings and suggesting the necessary process improvement.
• Prepared bi-weekly status reports with the progress and targets and sent to the management.

Environment: J2EE, JSP, Hawkeye, Windows XP, DBU, IBM Web sphere XML, LINUX, Test Director, Clear Quest.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Tested Access control of YCRM application by logging into application using Head less Id’s and verified screens based on the responsibilities.
• Documented defects in Bugzilla and participated in bug triage calls, hosted bug triage call in absence of lead.
• Worked actively with Business analysts and developers for functional change requests.
• Worked on Pilot SFDC Implementation project in Confidential where the following entites were customized and tested as per Tenant Organization needs
• Testing Creation of Customers, Accounts and Contacts
• Association of a Potential revenue agent Opportunity and its revenue forecasting
• Creation of Activities Notes and attachments
• Synchronization of Contacts,Activities Tasks and Meetings from Microsoft Outlook to SFDC and Viceversa
• Testing Reports and its generation, Groups, People, chatter and chatter feed
• Adminstration setup features like Profiles, New User, Roles and rmation setup

Environment: SalesForce, Siebel 7.8, Siebel 8.0, Tibco, Windows, RHEL, Web services, Oracle Apps.

Confidential, rockville, MD

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• From the detailed use cases, create manual & automated test cases for web applications and web services
• Extraction of test data from Oracle, DB2 database and loading of data into tables using SQL
• Assist with user testing of systems, developing and maintaining quality procedures ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place
• Developed the test plan, test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge
• Responsible for leading the pre deployment testing, tracking the issues and sending out the test results to the team.
• Used the SQL to perform the Backend Testing on the Oracle database.
• Conducted Black box testing, URL Link Testing and Regression Testing during the various testing phases of the application.

Environment: C#, Asp.net, WebServices, Servlets, Applets, XHTML, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, CSS, XML, XSLT, MS-XML, VSS, Silk Test, SQLDeveloper, SQL*Plus, Toad, Silk Radar, Test director, Team Track, DB2, Sybase, Oracle 9.0, SQL Server 2000, PuTTY, MS IIS

Confidential, Herndon, VA

UAT Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created test scenarios and testcasesof Amortization, Sales Relief and Bookvalue in IG4-UAT team
• Validated and executed testcases to support IG4-UAT
• Created End-End scenarios and developed SQL scripts to test them
• Created TestCases to Validate Operational Reports.
• Wrote Data correction scripts to support the execution team.
• Analyzed system requirement specifications and developed test plans, test cases to cover overall UAT Testing.
• Defined Scope, Milestones and designed Business Model.
• Analyzed Portfolio Management, Investment Planning, Financial Planning, Customer Support and Investment Strategy Tools and processes.
• Interacted with End Users to obtain specific system requirements.
• Assist with user testing of systems, developing and maintaining quality procedures ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place
• Develop the test plan, test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge
• Used the SQL to perform the Backend Testing on the Oracle database.
• Conducted Functionality, URL Link Testing and Regression Testing during the various testing phases of the application.
• Performed Black Box Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Performance Testing, Functional Testing, and Backend Testing in Oracle environment.
• Developed and executed SQL queries for backend testing
• Reported defects using Clear Quest
• Interacted with developers to resolve any defects/issues
• Implemented whole life cycle of QA Methodologies starting from Planning, Capturing, Creating, and Executing, Reporting and Tracking the defects using Mercury Test Director.

Environment: Mercury Tools - TestDirector (Quality Centre), QTP, Rational Clear quest, SQL Server, Toad, Oracle 10g, Windows and Unix, Java, HTML, Windows NT/XP, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access.

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, Designing and Coding using Visual InterDev and FrontPage.
• Responsible for designing the system and gathered the system Requirements Specifications (Use case Analysis).
• Used JavaScript for the Client-side validations
• Designed JSP Pages
• Used Paint Shop pro to design the images.
• Build the database model.
• Build a prototype for the system

Environment: Java, JSP, Visual InterDev, FrontPage, Dream weaver, JMS, Oracle, J-Run, Java Script 1.2, and Win NT.

Confidential

Jr. Software Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Develop Active Server Pages.
• Server side scripting using VBScript.
• Client side validation and scripting using JavaScript.
• Design layout using Visual Inter Dev.
• Developing Business objects (COM objects) using Visual Basic 6.0
• Deploying the COM Objects (components) in the MTS Server.
• ADO objects are used for database connectivity.
• Writing database triggers and procedures.

Environment: Visual Basic with SQL Server, ASP, VB Script, Java Script, Visual InterDev, Win NT 4.0, Windows 98.