SUMMARY

• 7+ years of IT experience in Software Testing of Web - Based, Client Server Applications.
• Highly motivated professional with excellent experience in manual testing and Quality Assurance.
• Excellent analytical skills for understanding the business requirements, business rules/processes and detailed design of the application.
• Experience in coordinating and engaging teams for different phases.
• Expert in conducting various testing types like Functional, Integration, Regression, UAT and End-to-end Testing
• Expertise in Process management using Quality center to Document test cases and conduct triage meetings to resolve issues
• Experience in preparing Test Plan, Test Scripts and Status Reports.
• Expert in Defect Reporting and Tracking using Test HP Quality Center/ALM.
• Preparation of Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Strategies and Test Effort Estimation.
• Strong knowledge in testing practices, testing strategies and Methodologies.
• Strong Experience in Agile Methodologies, Scrum Methodologies.
• Strong troubleshooting and organizational skills.
• Strong Experience in Web Services
• Well versed with automation testing project activities including requirements Gathering, planning, designing scripts and creating test data, executing test scripts using QTP and Selenium.
• Experience in developing data driven and Hybrid framework using QTP.
• Proficiency in testing the applications compatibility on Windows NT/2000/XP/2007 platforms.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to maintain effective work relationships with all levels of Personnel and Self-motivated, pro-active team player
• Clear understanding of business rules and ability to work individually and as a part of team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: QTP, Quality Centre/ALM, Selenium, SOAP UI (web services testing)

Languages: C, VB Script, Java (Knowledge)

Tools: MS SourceSafe, MS Office, 2000/XP/2007, MS Outlook 97/2000/2007

Operating System: Windows 2000 Advanced Server/Server 2003/Professional/ NT 4.0, Win XP Prof/Standard/2007

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Springfield MA

QA Analyst & Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and gathered software specifications and business requirements prior to testing.
• Involved in Agile methodology and contributed in the requirement analysis, test design and maintaining automated test scripts
• Designed Test Plan, Test Cases for every possible scenario of user inputs.
• Performed Black Box, Functional, Regression, and System Level testing using Mercury Tools.
• Attended meetings and walkthrough to provide status update and receive feedback.
• Worked in agile development environment with frequently changing requirements and features set
• Generated periodic reports for various levels of managements for decisions and control purposes, and closely interacted with developers to fix bugs.
• Designed and Developed automation script using QTP.
• Automation of functional testing framework for all modules using QTP.
• Involved as part of automation team using QTP, developed automation test scripts.
• Involved in preparing Test Plan by analyzing the business requirements.
• Analyzed test cases for automation and used Quick Test Professional (QTP) to automate manual test scripts for Regression and Functional testing.
• Performed Manual Regression Testing by testing entire functionality of the application and executing manual test cases on different Securities and validated the actual results against the expected results.
• Automated Functional and Regression tests using QTP.
• Reviewed the Business/ Functional/ System Requirement Specs, High Level Design Documents, and Detailed Design Documents.
• Responsible for conducting Black Box, and daily Smoke Test Manually on different browsers (eg: Firefox, Safari and IE).
• Executed SQL queries for Data Validation in Oracle Database.
• Interacted with programmers to identify and resolve technical issues.
• Communicated actively with developers and internal customers according to Agile Development principles.
• Involved in manual testing, Navigation Flow testing, UI testing and reported the bugs using ALM.
• Testing of stories/tasks in Iteration basis in Agile Methodology, designing and executing test cases in ALM
• Reporting Daily Status & Involved in documenting minutes for weekly progress to the stake holders.

Environment: Windows Server 2003, ALM, Java, Mainframes, QTP 10.0, SQL Server 2008.

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Defined Testing Process and strictly following the process until testing is certified for the test phases.
• Created Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test cases, Test Scripts, Traceability matrices according to Business and Functional Requirements.
• Work with business analyst, developers and manager to develop test plans, produce test scenarios and repeatable test cases/scripts through all parts of the development lifecycle, execute and sign - off for a high volume of data and regular release schedule for successful project delivery.
• Responsibilities included functional testing, Integration testing and system testing.
• Prepared test data for positive and negative test scenarios for functional testing as documented in the test plan.
• Participated in QA meeting for providing update status.
• Implemented Keyword driven Test scripts using QTP.
• Using Quality Center to log the defects, analyze them and assign to the responsible team and update with the proper data to reproduce the defects.
• Analyzing Test Results, Recording Defects encountered while Test execution and Tracking them to their closure.
• Wrote test case scripts; executed and documented detailed results and summary reports.

Environment: Java, SQL Server 2008, QTP, Quality Center

Confidential, New Brunswick NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed System/ Business requirements and identified the test scenarios based on requirements.
• Created test plans and test cases based on the BRD/ FRD for functional and graphical user interface testing.
• Executed test cases in QA, Staging and Production environment, which mainly involves Sanity and End-to-End testing.
• Performed backend testing to validate the data by executing SQL queries.
• Involved in preparing the Test Plan document from the requirements.
• Understanding and testing the complex CVS Caremark Rx-Claim process, its new functionalities and medical claims process.
• Used Share point as central document repository for the entire test and project related documents.
• Support to offshore testing team based in India and communication with various teams across regions.
• Worked closely with the DEV, UAT and Production teams to ensure the smooth roll out of the tested applications.
• Review of the test cases and test results documents prepared and tested by offshore team.
• Responsible for delivering product builds, analyzing build results and contributing to technical documentation.
• Prioritized problems based on the effect of the application on the end user.
• Efficiently used Quality center to log the bugs.

Environment: AS/400 system, HP QC 10, DB2, RPG, Java, Oracle 11g, PL/SQL, Windows7, CITRIX, SharePoint.

Confidential, NY

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Complete Responsibility in manual testing, Automation testing.
• Prepared Test Plan Which covers the Test Estimation for Future Release.
• Created Mappings for the Requirements in Test Lab from iteration to Iteration
• Participated in Business meeting for gathering requirements for multiple projects.
• Executed test cases manually and identified the mismatches and logged the defects using HP Quality Center.
• Wrote test case scripts; executed and documented detailed results and summary reports.
• Preparation of Test Procedures, Executing Test Cases both manual and automated tests.
• Automated Regression test cases using QTP.
• Responsible for performing the Functional, Integration, Regression and UAT Testing.
• Used Quality Center to log the defects, analyze them and assign to the responsible team and update with the proper data to reproduce the defects.

Environment: Windows Server 2003, Quality Centre, Java, QTP

Confidential

Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirements Document (BRD), developed Test cases and Test scripts for the application under test.
• Involved in preparing the Test conditions, Test Cases, Test Scenarios, and Test Data.
• Executed the test cases manually and reported the defects through Test Director.
• Analyzed test results to ensure existing functionality and recommend corrective action.
• Involved in Functional, System, Positive and Negative testing of the application.
• Conducted Functionality and Regression testing during the various phases of the application.
• Participated in Walk Through, Requirement review meetings and Defect report meetings periodically.
• Reported, tracked and verified of bugs and bugs fixes using Test Director.
• Cooperated with developers and support in solving general QA environment problems.

Environment: Windows Server 2000 Sybase Server, C#, ASP.NET IIS, Web Services, Java Scripts.