SUMMARY

• Around 6 years of diversified experience in Software Testing and Quality Assurance.
• Extensive experience in test plans, test scenarios, test cases, test reports, Bug tracking, configuration management and documentation of manual and automated tests of Web and Client server testing, System Integration and User Acceptance Testing
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) in requirements gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Methodologies namely Waterfall, & Agile.
• Expertise in carrying out Functional Testing, UI Testing, Cross Browser, Security Testing, System Testing, and Integration Testing & Regression Testing of Client/Server & Web based applications on Windows environments.
• Strong communication, analytical, interpersonal, presentation & leadership skills.
• Strong knowledge of Automation Testing Methodologies like Functional Decomposition, Key Word Driven, and Data Driven.
• Expertise in developing Test Scripts using Quick Test Pro (HP - QTP)
• Developed the Test case Repository that contained the pool of Regression Test cases of the business critical components for building the Automated Regression Test suites.
• Experience in Designing Automation Test Scripts using Hybrid Framework in QTP.
• Experience in performing Data-Driven Testing using XML and Excel in QTP and maintaining the Shared Object Repositories.
• Experienced in logging defects using the bug tracking database, providing verifications on fixes in multiple environments, and communicating fix success, failures, status updates as appropriate using Bug tracking Tools like Test Director, Quality Center, and Bugzilla.
• Adaptable to work both as a team member as well as independently. Have proactively comprehended problems and resolved them with minimal supervision.
• Self-starter with can-do attitude, a strong sense of ownership and Proven at quickly ‘getting inside’ new concepts
• Expertise in writing SQL queries in Oracle8/9/10 and MS SQL Server.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, V-Model

QA Techniques & Deliverables: Product testing, Client - Server testing, Web testing, Database testing, Smoke testing, DATA-DRIVEN Testing, Defect Management, Regression Test Plans, STRESS/LOAD/VOLUME Testing, Test Cases, QA Automation Plans, Data Models, Business Rule Models, Localization Testing

QA Automated Testing Tools: HP Tools (HP Quality Center, Win Runner, Load Runner, Test Director, Quick Test Professional 8.2,9.2).

Project Management: MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access)

Databases/ Tools/ Concepts: Oracle, SQL Server, Access

Defect Management Tools: Bugzilla, Test Director 8.0, Jira

Change Management Tools: CVS, Perforce

Programming Languages: C, Java SQL, and VB Scripting

Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista/7, UNIX-Linux/Solaris

Hardware: Pentium Based Servers, Workstations and Notebooks

Domain Knowledge: Client Server Computing, Enterprise security, GUI Test Automation methodologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Mountain view, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements and was involved in the review discussions.
• Coordinated with development team to identify Functional areas and Test scenarios that needs to be tested.
• Written Test Cases based on Functional Specification of all the modules
• Prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to establish traceability between requirements and test cases.
• Executed test cases for Functional testing, System testing and Integration Testing
• Modified and maintained test cases due to changes in the requirements.
• Debugged the test cases, verified the test results and reported the defects using Quality center.
• Investigated software defects and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Performed Regression Testing to ensure that existing functionality is not impacted by bug fixes.
• Filed around 200 bugs
• Back end Testing was performed using SQL queries
• Used Quality Center for managing tests, and Defect reporting/tracking
• Participated in QA status and Bug review meetings.
• Executed web testing for this application to test HTTP links, Cookies testing.
• Used different Internet browsers to verify performance of application on different conditions.(Cross Browser Testing )

Environment: VB, with native MS Access, Quality center, Browsers-IE and Firefox, CVS, ASP, oracle database, Windows XP/7/Vista

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Software Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Documented test cases corresponding to business rules and other operating conditions.
• Integrated QTP with the Quality center server so that a user can run an automated test scripts and view the results in Quality center and generate Excel Reports
• Performed manual and automated testing and used Quality center to keep track of bugs and testing efforts.
• Developed data-driven test to check the same functionality with multiple set of data
• Analyzed software bugs, interacted with the developers on getting the problems fixed, verified and closed the bugs, as they got resolved.
• Performed client-server load testing using Load Runner.
• Performed negative testing to find how the functions perform when it encounters invalid or unexpected values.
• Used different Internet browsers to verify performance of application under different conditions.

Environment: Visual Basic 6.0, Oracle 9i, Windows XP/NT, QTP 9.2, Load Runner 8.0, Quality center, Firefox 4.0,Internet Explorer, Opera.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specification.
• Documented test cases corresponding to business rules and other operating conditions.
• Created test data for data driven testing.
• Performed the Back-End integration testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL queries on the Oracle database
• Developed test scripts using Quick Test Pro to perform functional and regression and data driven testing.
• Checked for navigational flow and broken links using Automatic check points.
• Developed re-usable code to share functionality with different tests, thereby providing easy to maintain and modular test scripts
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries, to extract the data from the database
• Performed Regression testing to check the Bug fixes.
• Used Quality center to log defects, track and generate defect reports and graphs.
• Used Ramp Up/Ramp Down, Rendezvous point, Start and End Transaction, Parameterization, Correlation features of Load Runner
• Actively participated in enhancement meetings focused at making the application more reliable.
• Coordinated with UAT team by providing them with test cases and test data.
• Involved in preparation of Traceability Matrix.
• Used Traceability matrix to check all test cases covered as per the business requirement.
• Interacted with the team on a regular basis and attended meetings on a daily for status updates

Environment: Windows, UNIX, XML, HTML, J2EE, .NET, Web logic, C++, Oracle, MS Project, Quick Test Pro 9.2 and Quality center

Confidential, Tampa, FL

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specification.
• Developed test cases for functional and graphical user interface testing.
• Created test cases for manual testing of the application functionality.
• Used Traceability matrix to check all test cases covered as per the business requirement.
• Integrated QTP with the Test Director server so that a user can run an automated test scripts and view the results in Test Director and generate Excel Reports
• Performed manual and automated testing and used Test Director to keep track of bugs and testing efforts.
• Developed Data-driven test to check the same functionality with multiple set of data.
• Analyzed software bugs, interacted with the developers on getting the problems fixed, verified and closed the bugs, as they got resolved.
• Performed client-server load testing using Load Runner.
• Performed negative testing to find how the functions perform when it encounters invalid or unexpected values.
• Used different Internet browsers to verify performance of application under different conditions.

Environment: .Net, Test Director, SQL Database, QTP8.2, Load Runner

Confidential, New Jersey

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed test cases for testing Java server side application namely administration, alarm and query/reporting, based on the requirement document incorporating traceability.
• Performed functional and regression testing on LSP builds focusing on the security management system configuration,
• Tested security policies by configuring firewall rules on different security zones, with role based administration namely system admin and security admin privileges.
• Functional testing of audit trail, session logs, admin event logs, alarm event logs and notification namely console alarm, SNMP trap, email and paging.
• Performed functional testing on the reporting tool that allows searching and sorting of the collected audit trail data from the audit server on the Security management server.
• Tested LMF ingress and egress packet filtering rules based on Layer 3 and Layer4 field headers and logical entities such as host groups, service groups and dependency masks.
• Reproduced field bugs and worked with developers until resolution.
• Performed functional testing of application gateways namely FTP, HTTP, Telnet, SMTP
• Executed functional Test cases and filed bugs using Test Director.

Environment: Java applets, Servlets, Windows XP Pro, Windows Vista, Solaris, Inferno (real time operating system), Perforce, Browsers - IE, Test Director