SUMMARY

• Around 7 years of IT experience with emphasis on Software Analysis, Development and QA
• Testing in Client/Server and web based/ browser based applications.
• Hands on experience and strong understanding of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), including requirements gathering, risk analysis, project planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking, management, and reporting.
• Hands on experience working in domains such as - Retail, Telecom, e-commerce, Credit card, POS, Insurance and Banking.
• Involved in Design, Development, and Implementation of the QA process and documentation of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Scripts for manual and automated testing scope in the QA life cycle.
• A result oriented individual with over 6 years of diversified experience in quality Assurance and Software testing in Financial Services, Banking, Mortgage and Investment Services and Information Technology.
• Experience in creating Traceability Matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements.
• Ability to apply technical expertise to organize and implement white-box and black-box test efforts and to analyze requirements for software design, development, and validation.
• Expertise in different types of testing including Black Box testing, Smoke testing, Functional testing, System Integration testing, Sanity, End-to-End Testing, Regression testing & User Acceptance testing (UAT)
• Experience in GUI application testing, Back End testing, Database testing, Front-end, Functional testing, System testing, Load testing on Client-Server, Regression testing, Stand alone and web-based applications with multiple server domains.
• Experience in developing and executing queries for SQL server and Oracle databases for back end testing.
• Complete knowledge of object-oriented programming.
• Experience in developing, trouble shooting and customizing Manual as wee as Automation scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP) with various version of QTP (9.2/10.0)
• Excellent Functional knowledge on various domains like Insurance, Banking, Finance, Healthcare.
• Experience in Quality Assurance methodologies like Waterfall, V-Model, Agile, Scrum, RAD, and TDD.
• Extensive work experience in Quality Assurance activities such as - laying out procedures/ standards, designing the processes, designing the checklists, collection of metrics, review of metrics.
• Experience in developing, trouble shooting and customizing Manual as well as Automation scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Expertise in using Quality Center & Test Director and Selenium test management suites for writing test cases, test execution, defect management, defect tracking and Bug Reporting.
• Experience with version control, configuration management and change control procedures using tools such as Rational Clear Case. Experience working with IBM Rational tool, Clear Quest.
• Good knowledge of Financial Analysis (NPV analysis, Stocks/bonds valuation, Real/financial options pricing, and DCF analysis), Corporate Actions Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, Feasibility study and Risk assessment, SWOT analysis and Cost benefit analysis including ROI and Financial Justification
• Familiarity with Programming & Scripting languages.
• Performed testing using various operating Systems that includes windows 98/NT/2000/2003/XP, LINUX & UNIX environments.
• Experienced in Data warehousing: Integration Services: SSIS and Reporting Service: SSRS and used ETL Tools - Import, Export Wizard.
• Expertise in coordinating the testing effort with business analysts, developers, technical support & assisting to base line the requirement specifications for change control and configuration management.
• Excellent analytical and logical skills and capable of learning new tools and technologies.
• Versatile team player with good communication and interpersonal skill.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing tools: Quick Test Professional (QTP) 8.2/9.0, Load Runner8.1/9.1,WinRunner7.5, Test Director 8.0, Selenium, Silk Test 8.0

Databases/DB Tools: SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access, DB2, ETL Tools - SSIS, Import Export Wizard

Defect Tracking: HP Quality Center, IBM Clear Quest and BugZilla

Configuration Management: Rational Clear Case

Web Technologies: J2EE, Java Script, AJAX, HTML, XML, VB Script, .NET( ASP.NET,C#.NET, VB.NET), CSS, Shell Scripting

Applications: GUI and Rumba Session Manager (Mainframe), MS Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Visio, MS Project

IDE and Other Tools: Visual Studio.Net, Visual Studio Team Server, Profiler, Microsoft VSS, SVN

Operating Systems: Windows 98/NT, Windows 2000/2003/XP, UNIX, LINUX, IBM Mainframe

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MA

Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working under Agile Scrum Methodologies attends meeting with PM team, QA team and Development Team and discuss and update for new business requirement, testing strategy and status of daily work.
• Working in Integration room team for stabilization and validation of various Development environments for different release.
• Responsible for stabilize and validate development environment for UAT and Prod fix.
• Writing test script for Selenium server in .Net (C#) for automates testing in each release.
• Discuss with Team lead and manager for new business requirement and modify the script.
• Responsible for working on On-Call schedule for smoke test of UAT, Prod Fix and Training environment.
• Created different business classes and interfaces using .Net Framework 4.0 with Object Oriented Programming Methodology.
• Strong knowledge of various procedural and object-oriented programming languages such as C#.
• Object-oriented concepts such as heredity, polymorphism, interfaces, delegates, classes, constructors, methods and struts.
• Responsible to work as production support system analyst with release engineer at each release and help them to test and install.
• Handling responsibilities of identifying and troubleshooting software and automation issues.
• Responsible for analyzing test results to ensure proper functionality of automation systems
• Discuss with Business consultant and Business analyst for new business requirement and new rules for Home Mortgage and update the automation script.
• Working on Scenario Builder Auto manual database testing with SQL server query language.
• Involve in the development of selenium server (RC) based WARP automation tools for our Automation team, Manual testing team, developer and all other outside user for creating new enterprise deal.
• Created different business classes and interfaces using .Net Framework 3.5 with Object Oriented Programming Methodology.
• Ingenuity around creation of reusable objects and engines.
• Performed unit testing using NUnit and did code review.
• Involved in Unit Testing and Integration Testing of Different Modules.
• Responsible to execute automate testing. While execute testing any issue found, we should be responsible to escalate to the team lead and release engineer and report in JIRA.
• Conduct Smoke testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Performance Testing and Data validation testing.
• Execute and managed test cases and report bugs in JIRA and QC.
• Use Microsoft Visual Studio-2010 Express with C# to create nightly automation scripts
• Running two or three script (scenarios) at that time of smoke test and five to six at the time of Regression testing.
• Experience in working with open source tools Selenium (Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Selenium Web Driver), JUnit, Eclipse and preparation of automation test framework.
• Reconciled Financial Reports with queries from Oracle database using TOAD.
• Involve in updating Database for scenario testing.
• Validation of complicated calculations associated with Credit Risk, Market Analysis, Trends, Financial Risk Management, History Analysis etc were some of the additional responsibilities.
• Involved in the meeting with Business process owners, SME (subject matter experts) and Marketing team for Requirements gathering in Definition Stage and also in JAD Sessions.
• Strong Statistical analysis skills and financial product Pricing experience, as well as investment portfolio management skills such as style and analytics analysis. and Tracked Defects in Quality Center and sent daily Defect Report to Project Team.
• Prepare test plan (Scenario) for Home Mortgage loan project for automate testing.
• Strong Statistical analysis skills and financial product Pricing experience, as well as investment portfolio management skills such as style and analytics analysis.

Environment: Java, C#, Windows - 7, SQL, Selenium WebDriver,Visual Basic studio 2010, Eclipse, Word, Excel, Outlook, SnagIt, MS Project

Confidential, Okemos, MI

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Create, maintain and execute test cases while participating in the validation of functional and non-functional requirements in an Agile development environment
• Designs acceptance tests, from functional requirements, that clearly convey the business users intent to the entire Agile development team
• Installed Siebel Diagnostics and Confidential Protune as proof of concept additions to testing environment
• Development of component classes and interfaces in C# encapsulating the business logic with strict adherence to Object Oriented Paradigms.
• Configured test environment for specific Test Cases, created test data, executed automated or manual unit tests, document results and updated defect-tracking systems.
• Perform manual exploratory and acceptance testing of new features being iteratively developed
• Experience of working on GUI automation testing tools like selenium, SilkTest, etc.
• Participate in triage process, fully reproducing production issues, communicating workarounds, developing missing test scenarios, validating fixes and accurately submitting and maintaining defects in the appropriate repository
• Performed Back end testing using SQL queries to access the main database.
• Manual unit testing of features.
• Manual regression testing of sites before deployments.
• Extensively involved in Back end Database testing using ORACLE, DB2, PL/SQL AND MS SQL.
• Good hands on knowledge of OOPS (Object Oriented Programming Structure) and Agile methodology.
• Having knowledge of Bug Tracking tools likeJIRA
• Participate on an agile development team to incrementally deliver business value
• Responsible to maintain all documentation related to the manual and automated testing process in the designated library
• Proven skill in writing test cases and validating features in parallel with development; experience testing applications developed in HTML, JavaScript, JSP, AJAX, CSS, XHTML, Flash, SQL, Java, on multiple browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome) and operating systems (UNIX, Linux, Windows)

Environment: Windows - 7, SQL/ PL SQL, UML, HTML, PDF, XML, HTML, QC 10.0, QTP 9.5/10.0, LoadRunner, Lexcel, Mingle, Micros/RMS,MS Word, Rally, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, MS Visio, MS Project. sql navigator, Validation Plan Tools,.

Confidential, Durango, Co

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Tested the application manually by executing the test cases.
• Participate in the creation of testing procedures and guidelines
• Participate in the complete software design process (requirements, design, implementation, andtest)
• Experience in Web based testing including GUI Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Performance Testing, Stress Testing, Functional Testing and Unit Testing.
• Effort analysis for automated testing and manual testing.
• Install software/hardware to support the testing process
• Lead the execution and coordination of day to day, and manage tasks from internal and external
• Customers
• Used Confidential Quality Center to create, maintain, and execute manual and automated Test Script.
• Perform test coverage analysis of test plans and schedules and use this information to prioritize
• Testing
• Performed Front End testing and Back End testing using Black Box testing methodology.
• Manual user acceptance testing.
• Work with development to triage existing bugs and ensure that bugs, enhancements, and change requests follow the established life cycle
• Conducted Back end testing using DB2 and SQL queries.
• Created back end interfaces using PL/SQL packages, stored procedures, functions, Collections.
• Manage lifecycle expectations to minimize risk and address company needs
• Actively participate in team meetings and 1 on 1 communications
• Configured test environment for specific Test Cases, created test data, executed automated or manual unit tests, document results and updated defect-tracking systems.
• Increase knowledge through internal resources, supervisors, fellow employee's, company trainings, and trade publications
• Provide mentoring and guidance for new personnel
• PerformedFunctional Testing, Regression Testing, and Integration Testingon POS usingMURTS.
• Accept and complete assignments with open, cooperative, positive, and team oriented attitudes
• Architected and implemented agile QA processes and practices, including defect and test management.
• Ran Scrum meetings, which include daily stand-up, iteration planning (comprise of team capacity and velocity planning), release planning, estimation planning, show and tell, and retrospective.
• Gave Agile Hands- on Workshops (introduction to Agile, User Story Writing, Story Decomposition, Acceptance Criteria Writing, and Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) to set a solid foundation and reinforce Agile within the team.
• UtilizedRallydefect tracking system Agile/Scrum environment.
• Define and Crate test scenarios using Rally Project management tool.

Environment: Windows - 7, SQL/ PL SQL, UML, HTML, PDF, XML, HTML, QC 10.0, QTP 9.5/10.0, LoadRunner, Lexcel, MURTS, Micros/RMS,MS Word, Rally, Excel, JIRA, PowerPoint, Outlook, MS Visio, MS Project. sql navigator.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Perform manual testing of the application to test the system for both functional and business requirements for positive and negative scenarios using Quality Center 9.0.
• Responsible for complete manual testing of application under test (AUT).
• Test the web pages manually as well as using automated tools like Selenium for image positioning and display quality.
• Develop requirements and test cases and test plans for existing and new functionality for project while maintaining traceability of requirements.
• Coordinate effort and work with business and IT team members in all phases ofUser Acceptance testing(UAT) to create deliverables.
• Performed front end, back end, GUI, Functionality, Security testing on the application.
• Identified functionality and performance issues, including: deadlock conditions, database connectivity problems, and system crashes under load.
• Worked with Java Profiling tools and Application Servers like Web Logic and SOAP, XML messaging, Agile, Scrum with XP.
• Reporting defects usingJIRA& resolution of defects while retesting from the resolved build.
• UsedJIRAtool to track Issues.
• Worked with developers to fix bugs that occur on the Sequoia staging environment through the use of Jira.
• Analyzed test results, identified issues and reported it to the developers and project manager through Jira.
• Worked on conversion of existing manual integration tests into automated tests using QTP for a few modules of the application.
• Develop Test Plans/Test Cases,Test Scriptsand Test Scenarios preferably in Quality Center and perform administration tasks as necessary.
• Identified performance issues with the application and the integrated external procurement system from an outside vendor.
• Provided recommendations to the application owner on steps to meet performance goals.
• Work with Business and IT QA team members to createregression test casesfor website functionality where requirements may not be available.
• Created test data for validating the Back end Database using SQL queries.
• Performed Regression testing, back end database validation.
• Used Hibernate as the object relational mapping tool for persisting java objects.
• Hands-on experience with different types of recording modes (in QTP), synchronization point.
• Execute test scripts as required to support UAT.
• Extensive experience with various features of QTP like Object Identification and Object Spy etc.
• Involved in various data driven testing procedures with various test data inputs with Microsoft office tools like MS-Excel and QTP.
• Responsible for defect triaging and management, in Quality center.
• Executed transactions cash, check, traveler’scheck, gift card, gift certificate, credit cards, debit cards and multiple tenders.
• I was involved in testing the whole workflow of the orders placed throught online for the Confidential gift cards.
• Involved in assisting the training program, process development and rollout plans of the application.
• Maintain a working knowledge of businessunit processes, procedures and current applications.
• Develop documentation as required for the project

Environment: Windows - 7, SQL/ PL SQL, UML, HTML, PDF, XML, HTML, QC 10.0, QTP 9.5/10.0, LoadRunner, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, MS Visio,JIRA, MS Project. sql navigator.

Confidential, Lilburn, GA

QA Analyst/ Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements and Functional Specifications and developed Test Plan detailed Test Scenarios, Test Strategies and Test cases.
• Coordinated with the Project Managers, Business Analysts, Developers and Test Team Lead and analyzed requirements needed for successful Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Conducted Smoke testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Data validation Testing.
• Developed automated Test scripts using QTP to perform Functional and Regression testing.
• Conducted End to End and Black box testing.
• Developed and maintained automated test scripts using Win Runner to support regression testing.
• Edited the automatically generated scripts to customize testing. Involved in executing SQL queries for back-end testing.
• Executed and managed test cases and reported bugs in Quality Center.
• Formulate methods to perform Positive and Negative testing against requirements.
• Responsible for validation of Target data in Data Warehouse and Data Marts which are Transformed and Loaded using Informatica Power Center.
• Developed SQL queries to check the database automatically and checking the data integrity in accordance with business standards of the company.
• Used TOAD for SQL Server to write SQL queries for validating constraints, indexes.
• Responsible to send the Data Warehouse Quality report to the QA manger on weekly basis for Caliber data mart.
• Hands on experience in collecting several metrics and come up with corrective measure to be presented to senior management.
• Good knowledge of Financial Products like Derivatives, Equities and Fixed Income.
• Hands on work experience working with offsite team model; coordinate my own efforts with team members in the off- site team.
• Provided weekly status report to the Project Manager and discuss issues related to quality and deadlines.

Environment: Windows - 7, Vista, XP, 2003, 98, UNIX, Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2008, TOAD, Java, JSP, jQuery, PL/SQL, Visual Basic 6.0, PDF, Informatica, QTP 9.5, WinRunner, XML, HTML, QC 9.2, UML, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, MS Visio, MS Project