SUMMARY

• Over 4 years of varied experience in Software Quality Assurance spanning different stages of Testing Life Cycle that included Unit, Integration, System and Acceptance Testing.
• Implemented different test strategies that checked the Functionality, Usability, Reliability, Performance and Supportability for both Client/Server and Web based applications.
• Experienced in Manual and Automated Testing Techniques.
• Proficient in the use of various Testing tools such as Test Director/Quality Center and Quick Test Professional 9.0.
• Extensive hands - on experience in testing client-server applications & reports developed in SQL Server, Visual Basic, Java, Oracle & Business Objects.
• Having excellent knowledge in RDBMS concepts.
• Expertise in developing Test strategies, Test scripts, Test cases, Test procedures.
• Good knowledge of User interface and Business Requirement Analysis. Specific testing expertise includes GUI, Regression Testing, Manual Testing and Production support.
• Versatile team player with excellent analytical, presentation and communication skills with strong ability to facilitate easy and transparent exchange of information across the team.
• Software Testing and Documentation, Analysis of the Business Requirements and the Software Requirements Specifications
• Formulating Test Plans and Test Cases based on the User Requirements document and System Requirements document for functional, security, performance, configuration and usability testing for black box testing.
• Designing Automation Test Architecture and then automating the test scripts using automation tools like QTP and Quality Center for regression testing and Test Management.
• Extensive experience in creating and maintaining automation scripts using VB Script.
• Excellent with documentation of test cases, test scripts, pre-test conditions, input data and the actual and expected results for System Integration testing.
• Incorporated data driven testing approach for efficient testing of web and client/server applications
• Experienced in defining the Testing process using Six Sigma tools.
• Proficient in programming languages like VB, C, SQL, PL/SQL and databases like Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.
• Extensive use of bug tracking tools like Mercury’s Test Director and Quality Center for identifying, analyzing, and documenting defects.
• Clear, cohesive and complete documentation of specifications, designs, business rules, inspection reports, configurations, code changes, test plans, test cases, bug reports, user manuals, etc.
• Chalking out project schedules, resource allocations and contingency planning for project risk evaluation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix (AIX, Solaris)

Databases: Oracle 9i / 8i, MS SQL Server 2000, MS ACCESS

Test Tools: Quality Center 9.2, Quick Test Pro 8.0 / 9.0

XML Technologies: AJAX, XML, XSLT, Web services

Languages: PL/SQL, SQA Basic, Visual Basic 6.0

Tools: & Utilities MS Office Products, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Visual Source safe, Adobe Photoshop

Others: Digital Rights Management, Streaming Media Formats, Understanding of Digital Video Systems.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Quality Assurance Engineer

Environment: .NET 2005, VB script, ASP, SQL, C#, SQL Server 2005, Mercury QualityCenter 8.2, Quick Test Professional, MS Excel, SQL.

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the system specifications and business for full understanding of the business.
• Involved in Functional, System, Integration, User Acceptance and Automated Testing.
• Created high level Test Plans, Test Strategies & Test Scenarios
• Analyzed the application and decided which parts to be Manually Tested, and which to be Tested Automatically.
• Involved in all stages of SDLC.
• Tested different Batch Jobs and Stored Procedures
• Formulating Test Plans and Test Cases based on the User Requirements document.
• Installed and configured Quality Center.
• Involved in QA planning, coordination and implementation of QA methodology.
• Wrote the Test Plan and Test Cases based on the business requirements.
• Used Quality Center for Maintain the requirements and test plans and test cases.
• Developed automated scripts for testing the functionality and navigation of the application using Quick Test Pro.
• Created Functions and procedures in Automation for reusability of scripts in Quick Test Pro.
• Quality Center 9.0 was used for all testing needs like Requirement traceability, Test plans, Test Execution and Defect logging.
• Created a regression pool of test cases for all the projects that I was involved in.
• Helped the team in standardizing testing process.
• Effectively communicated project status with higher management.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Analyst

Environment: ASP .NET 2005, Visual Basic, C#, Mercury Quality Center 8.2, SQL,MS Excel.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and reviewed Business requirements Document (BRD) and System requirements.
• Involved in System Testing for the above application for Manual and Automated Testing.
• Prepared Test Plan document based on business requirements and system requirements.
• Involved in preparing test procedures, test scenarios, test scripts and schedules based on requirement and test design documents.
• Followed Water Fall Model for the Testing Activities.
• Tested reports by creating Reporting queries and validated them for accuracy.
• Tested various daily processing SQL jobs and verified the results.
• Used Quality Center to design and formulate the test plan, test cases, test procedures based on the requirement documents.
• Provide Technical support to the team and users in Quality Center.
• Worked closely with development and business teams to create functional requirements document.
• Coordinate with other system and enterprise test teams.
• Obtain business sign off after validating Test Cases for various User Scenarios.
• Defect creation and initiating the Defect Life Cycle and work with development teams for Defect Closure.
• Developed UAT Testing dashboard and streamlined periodic management reporting process.
• Provided weekly management status reports and coordinated meetings between test team and development team to review defects.

Confidential

IT Quality integration specialist

Environment: ASP, HTML, VB, Oracle 8i, SQL server, PL/SQL, MS Word, MS Excel, Windows 2000/NT/XP, Quality Center.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Testing application Manually.
• Wrote and executed Test Scripts to automate interactive testing of the system to increase both coverage and depth of the automated Test Suite.
• Involved in implementation of the Test plan, various Test cases and Test scripts
• Analyzed and reviewed Business requirements Document (BRD) and System requirements.
• Involved in Unit Testing of ASP Web Applications.
• Installing the build and creation and verification of the Testing Environment
• Involved in Functional Testing of the bank operated application.
• Tested various links of Home Page, text-hyperlinks, image-hyperlinks and Web based applications.
• Used SQL Queries to verify the data from the Oracle database.
• Designed and performed large-scale load volume end-to-end testing using very large data files.
• Quality Center was used for all testing needs like Requirement traceability, Test plans, Test Execution and Defect logging.
• Checked the data flow through the front and backend and extensively used SQL queries to extract the data from the database.
• Helped the team in standardizing testing process and streamlined periodic management reporting process.
• Work closely with the Developers and Engineering Teams in the review and modification of project specification.