SUMMARY

• Software Quality Assurance Engineer with 7+ years of intensive experience in SDLC and QA Lifecycle.
• Involved in analysis, design and quality assurance of Web applications, Client - Server and Mainframe applications.
• Proficient in both Manual and automated testing tools.
• Experience with Rational Suite (Test Manager, Robot, Requisite pro, Rational Rose, Clear Quest, Clear Case) and MercuryTools (WinRunner, QTP, Quality Center, LoadRunner, TestDirector).
• Experienced in testing under UNIX, LINUX, and WINDOWS environments.
• Expertise in developing Test Plan, Test Scripts, Test Cases and Test Data.
• Designed and implemented Functional, System and UAT.
• Experience in working with Financial, Insurance and Pharmaceutical applications.
• Excellent knowledge in software engineering standards like CMM and RUP.
• Experience with SQL and PL/SQL procedures.
• Excellent experience in writing Java Script and VB Script.
• Experience in performing System, Functionality, User Acceptance, Integration, GUI, Regression Testing.
• Expertise in documentation using MS-Office Tools (Word, Excel).
• An Experienced Quality Assurance Professional with Multiple skill sets and a proven record of successfully completing projects.
• Capable of working as an individual and also as a part of team.
• Strong team player, commitment towards learning, pose’s excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and communication skills.
• Fast and self-studying learner of new and required technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: MS-Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP, MVS, UNIX, Linux.

Testing Tools: Rational Tools 2001/2002, Mercury Tools 7.x / 8.0, LISA.

Languages: C, C#, JAVA, J2EE, HTML, JCL, ASP.NET, SQL, PL-SQL, COBOL, SQL Server.

Development Tools: VBScript, JavaScript, Shell script, FrontPage, VB, Power Builder, Toad, WinSQL, FrontPage, XML Spy, ASP.

Database: MS SQL Server 2000, Oracle 10g/9i/8i, DB2, MS Access.

Packages: MS-OFFICE (Documentation Packages)

Hardware Platforms: IBM, PC Compatibles

Others: OLAP and OLTP(Dataware housing),Informatica Data Testing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CO

Senior QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Managed requirements using Mercury Test Director / Quality Center.
• Documented Test cases corresponding to business rules and other operating conditions in Mercury Test Director / Quality Center
• Involved in Developing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Data.
• Performed End-to-End testing manually.
• Responsible for GUI Testing, API Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing and Acceptance Testing.
• Tested the backend database (Oracle/DB2) using SQL queries.
• Extensively used UNIX shell scripts.
• Developed automation test scripts in VBScript for Smoke testing of the application using QTP.
• Extensively testing the application with multiple inputs using Data Driven framework. using QTP
• Communicated defects encountered during regression test and follow up with developers until all issues were resolved
• Created the complex SQL queries to fetch data from the multiple tables based on the Test cases.
• Worked with XML/SOAP UI (web services).
• Worked with LISA for Functional and regression testing
• Worked with JCL to Schedule and execute jobs.
• Responsible in providing regular test reports to the management.
• Reported the defects to the developers using Mercury Test Director / Quality Center
• Investigate software defects and interact with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Responsible for test data preparation for the system/integration testing, traceability matrix to ensure the test case coverage and defect logging.
• Participated in defect review meetings with the team members.

Environment: Mercury Quality Center 9.0 / Test Director 8.0,QTP, Lisa 5.0.24, ASP.NET, VB.NET, IIS, XML, Mainframes, SOAP UI, VB script, Oracle 10g, Win SQL, Windows 00/XP, MS-OFFICE.

Confidential, NY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Requirement Analysis, Business Analysis, Use-Case Analysis and Gap Analysis for application developed in Java
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Beds, Test Data and Traceability Matrix.
• Rational Unified Process (RUP) was followed through out the project and all artifacts are generated for each discipline.
• Executed the test cases by making use of test management tools Test Director and Quality Center.
• Conducted Integration, System, Functional, GUI, Regression, Smoke, Database Integrity, User-Acceptance (UAT) and Performance testing.
• Test Management was done using Rational Test Manager.
• Managed the requirements using Rational RequisitePro.
• Developed Test Cases and Test Design using Test Manager.
• Automated the functionality using Rational Robot
• Developed SQABASIC scripts, used various verification points and developed reusable functions using Robot
• Worked with SQL, PL/SQL and functions to test the database integrity (Oracle).
• Created Traceability between Requirements in RequisitePro and Test Cases in Test Manager.
• Worked with Use-Cases (UML) in Rose and tested the hyperlinks of the application using Rational Site Check.
• Created data pools to test various sets of data using Robot.
• Conducted Load/Performance testing by creating VU scripts, Virtual Users and scenarios using Robot.
• Worked with Unix Shell Scripts.
• Tracked the defects using Rational ClearQuest and generated defect summary reports.
• Maintained Test Logs, Test Summary reports and participated in defect review / Status / GO-NOGO Meetings.
• Configuration management was done using ClearCase.

Environment: Rational Test Manager, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Robot, Rational ClearQuest, Rational ClearCase, MS Office, HTML, Lisa, Quality center, Java2.0, J2EE, WebSphere, Oracle 9i, TOAD, MS-Project, Windows 2000/NT, UNIX, Crystal Reports 8.0

Confidential, NY

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Writing and executing software System test plans and Test cases.
• Managed requirements using Test Director.
• Documented Test cases corresponding to business rules and other operating condition in Test Director.
• Involved in Developing Test Plans, Test Cases & Test Scripts.
• Tested the browsers under specific conditions, such as with Java script enabled and disabled.
• Involved in the functional testing of web pages using Winrunner
• Conducted Performance test for web applications using LoadRunner.
• Performed End-to-End testing manually.
• Tested the backend database using SQL queries.
• Extensively used UNIX shell scripts.
• Responsible for GUI Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing and Acceptance Testing using Winrunner.
• Prepared status summary reports with details of executed, passed and failed test cases.
• Made extensive use of MS Office tools to create and maintain documents such as test plans, test execution and test results documents.
• Responsible in providing regular test reports to the management.
• Conducted browser compatibility test of application
• Reported the bugs, Email notifications to the developers using the Test Director.

Environment: Java, Java script, HTML, XML, WebLogic, MQ Series, Oracle 8.1.x, Mainframes (DB2, JCL, CICS, MVS),Windows NT, Test Director, Winrunner, Loadrunner, UNIX .

Confidential

Testing Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering requirements from the business analyst, creation of test plans.
• Interacted with Business People and Developers to exchange the updated Functionality specification.
• Understanding and documenting the technical and functional requirements.
• Converted Business requirements and design documentation into Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Performed Smoke testing, Functional testing, Cross-Platform, Regression, System, Acceptance and Usability testing during different stages of the application development.
• Create scripts to enable the Controller to measure the performance of Web server under various load conditions.
• Information gathering from the end users to understand their requirements in order to generate reports according to their specifications.
• Responsible for Test Verification in terms of documentation, plans, requirements and specification.
• Responsible for performing various types of process evaluations during each phase of the software development life cycle, including review, walk through and system testing.
• Attended end user meetings and gathered requirements from User Interviews.
• Extensively worked with processing team to prepare Functional and Technical design documents.
• Performed data driven test using win runner for multiple scenarios with different sets, conducted data validation testing using SQL queries.
• Fully responsible for the Testing Group and acted as a liaison between QA Manager and the testing group
• Identified software problems, wrote easy-to -follow bug reports, logged them into bug tracking tool, monitored their progress and verified their fix.
• Used CLEAR QUEST and Test Director as a bug tracking tool.
• Categorized bugs based on the severity and interacted with developers to resolve them

Environment: QTP 6.5,Test Director 7.6i,WinRunner 7.6, Load Runner 7.02 Oracle 9i, Business Objects 5.1, COBOL Files, Flat Files, VISIO, Windows 2000, PL/SQL, DB2, Windows NT