SUMMARY

• A dynamic IT professional with 7+ years of rich experience in the arenas of Software Quality Assurance.
• Experienced in analyzing Business Requirements and Specifications. Worked with Development team and Business Analysts to analyze the test scenarios and ensure that test requirements are correct and complete.
• Sound domain knowledge in Auto insurance, Health insurance, Retail and Financial.
• Extensive experience in reviewing and analyzing Business Requirements and writing detailed Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scripts
• Experience includes the testing of Client/Server, ETL, SOA and WEB applications using Manual and automated testing tools like Quality center, Rational Suit, Load Runner and QuickTest Professional.
• Experience on Test management tools like Quality Center and Test Director.
• Expertise in implementing RUP (Rational UnifiedW Processes), Agile and SCRUM Methodologies by analyzing requirement specifications and responsible for developing Test Objective, Strategies, Scope, Test procedures and Test Matrices.
• Extensive experience in conducting different kinds of tests such as Integration, Regression, Functional, System Testing, Black Box, UAT and Smoke Testing.
• Experience in working with scenarios related to Banking, and finance Web portal applications
• Experience in coordinating the testing effort for Mainframe, COBOL, java, J2EE, .NET applications.
• Sound knowledge and exposure in working with the various relational databases like Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 etc.
• Expert in testing of cross browser Applications (Internet Explorer, Fire Fox, Safari, Google chrome) with different protocols like HTTP, HTTPS and FTP.
• Results oriented, with an ability to work with aggressive timelines and deliverables and to see any assignment to successful completion within the established project schedule.
• Expertise in Back end database testing with database Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server.
• Proficient in executing SQL queries and strong in security backend testing.
• Excellent working knowledge of designing and implementation of QA test strategy and Test plans manually and automated test solutions for client/server, ETL, SOA Process, ERP and Web applications.
• Worked with the build/release management teams to validate the system setup and c configurations at pre - deployment stage.
• Experience on Object Oriented Programming (OOP) like C# .NET, Java, using Eclipse and Visual studio with Back end as Oracle and SQL Server.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: QTP, Win Runner, and Load Runner

Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center, Test Director Rational Clear Quest, JIRA and Bugzilla, Run Test Run

Project Methodologies: Rational Unified Process, OOD, UML, SDLC, Waterfall, Agile

Languages: C, C++, JAVA, J2EE, JSP

Data Base: Oracle9i/10g, SQL Server, DB2

Scripting Language: VB Script, JAVA Script, HTML, DHTML, UML and XML

Operating Systems: Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Home, Vista and UNIX

Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP and HTPS

Application Servers: Web Services, Web Logic and Web Sphere

Version Manager: Visual SourceSafe, and Clear Case

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Nets Cape Navigator, Mozilla Fire Fox, VMware

Others: MS Office, MS Excel, Visio and Adobe

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Grand Rapids, MI

Sr QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and reviewed Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and System Requirement Specification (SRS) documents and Functional Design Documents (FDD).
• Involved in performing day to day testing of product updates and releases
• Responsible for creating or setting up any test data that is required for every release by coordinating with 10 different backend systems.
• Responsible for the analysis, test and design of the flow and logic of the system.
• Actively participated in writing Test Plan and Test cases
• Participated in peer reviews of all the documents and Test Cases
• Tracking software defects and routing them to the right person/team found in the applications while testing.
• Single Point of Contact (SPOC) between Development team, Business Analyst team and our offshore resources.
• Well versed in covering all the test scenarios because of the strong Domain Knowledge
• Conducted database testing using SQL queries
• Used Quality Center for organizing test requirement documents, test plans, test scripts, and defects
• Interacted with Developers and Business Analyst regarding requirements, test scenarios and defects
• Trained resources at offshore on daily call from onsite to equip them with knowledge of application
• Working on several different projects simultaneously
• Coordinated with Team Lead/PM/Business Analysts for QA Sign off for Test Cases/Test Plan.
• Participated in review meetings and daily status meetings during the testing process
• Extensively involved in manual functional testing.
• Created use case scenarios and documented work flow and business process
• Delivering project Technical Demos to clients and participating in business calls
• Participated in the User Acceptance Testing with the clients for every release

Environment: Quality Center/ALM 11.0, QuickTest Professional 11.0, SQL, Agile Scrum Methodology, JIRA Agile, VB Script, J2EE, EJB, XML, HTML, Oracle, UNIX and Windows XP

Confidential, Richfield, MN

Sr. Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and reviewed BRD, SRS, FRS, TRS documents to design quality test cases.
• Involved in generating Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) for functional requirements.
• Participated in peer reviews of all the documents and Test Cases.
• Involved in executing test cases manually and reported defects using Quality Center.
• Effectively interacted with business analyst and technical team in providing clear solutions to requirements.
• Designed test cases using Test Plan in Quality Center and mapped with requirements.
• Involved in execution of test cases using Test Lab in Quality Center and linked the detected defect with requirements and test cases.
• Generated test scripts using Quick Test Professional to check the functionality of the system.
• Used Quality Center to save the generated test scripts.
• Linked detected defects during automation to requirements and test scripts using Quality Center.
• Actively participated in status meetings to report issues.
• Generated scripts using Load Runner to measure the performance of the system.
• Performed web testing using Quick Test Professional to check the compatibility, reliability, and scalability of the application in different browsers.
• Involved in system and User Acceptance Testing.
• Documented test procedure documents and test results using Quality Center.
• Performed gap analysis by comparing actual result with expected result.
• Conducted database validation using SQL queries.
• Closely interacted with clients, developers, and system engineers to identify application defects, reviews, and follow ups.

Environment: Quality Center 9.0, Quick Test Professional 9.0, oracle 9i, JUNIT, ASP.NET, Perl, HTML, C++, IIS, VB.Net, JavaScript, IE, web sphere, web services, UNIX, LINUX, and Windows2000.

Confidential, Florida

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement analysis and documentation of functional specs.
• Identified Test Scenarios for required system and functional testing.
• Provided support in the preparation of Test Plan specifying an overview of testing approach, testing strategy, and scope.
• Developed Test Cases as per to the Requirement Specifications.
• Responsible for testing all new and existing data warehouse components.
• Experienced at testing ETL's and flat file data transfers without relying on a GUI layer
• Worked with the components of Data Warehousing like components model, ETL tools.
• Tested Abinitio graphs for File to Table and Table to file conversions required for EBCIDIC format and XML files.
• Maintained the Requirement Traceability Matrix using Mercury Quality Center.
• Executed test cases and test scripts manually and using automation tools.
• Performed Functional, Regression and Integration testing.
• Responsible for designing and managing UAT test scenarios.
• Used QTP and RAID automation tools for Functional, Regression and Data Driven testing.
• Used SQL tools such as SQL Query Analyzer for creating SQL queries to verify the integrity of the data.
• Performed extensive back-end testing and database auditing using SQL Server.
• Used Quality Center as a release management tool.
• Provided production support for the releases.
• Used Mercury Quality Center and JIRA to house all test documentation, report/track all issues and defects.
• Provided clear concise feedback to development team on recurring errors both on an individual and team basis.

Environment: QTP, Load Runner, Quality Center, Cognos8BI, SQLServer2005, .Net, COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, Rumba, QC8.2, VSS, Windows Vista/XP and Informatica Power Center 7.1.2.

Confidential, Montvale, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and reviewed business requirement documents (BRD’s) and system requirement specification documents and functional design documents.
• Actively participated in writing Test Plan and Test cases.
• Documented the application from business, functional, and technical requirements.
• Created and documented the Test Designs for each functional area mentioned in Test Plans.
• Involved in smoke testing, functional testing and automation.
• Involved in performance testing and functional decomposition of web-based (SOA) and legacy systems architecture.
• Enhanced and modified test scripts according to the test case scenarios.
• Worked extensively on Virtual User generator and Controller.
• Parameterized the scripts for multiple users and enhanced them according to the test cases.
• Performed Correlation to scripts for multiple users and enhanced them according to the Workflow.
• Performed functional testing by generating scripts for application using QuickTest Professional.
• Effectively interacted with business analyst and developers to identify the defects in application.
• Conducted database testing using SQL queries.
• Used Quality Center for organizing test requirement documents, test plans, test scripts, and defects.

Environment: UNIX, Quality Center 9.2, Quick Test Professional, VB.net, VB Script, TOAD, Ms Office.

Confidential, IL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and Analyzed the System Requirement Specs and understand the control flow of the whole system.
• Follow the Agile methodology due to the continuous change of requirements.
• Performed Ad-hoc/Exploratory testing prior to automate the testing on the application.
• Developed re-useable code to share functionality with different tests, thereby providing easy to maintain.
• Performed Business Processes Testing (BPT) for typical Functionality.
• Review and approve test cases written by other QC staff members prior to execution
• Ensure thorough and documented traceability from test cases to design / requirements
• Write, present/distribute and maintain testing documentation; including release notes, release forms and other necessary testing reports
• Configure, maintain and control all test tools; including Quality Center, Quick Test Professional.
• Create the test environment for the all the flavors of windows and Mac operating system
• Provide expert analysis and acquisition of testing tools for the Quality Control team.
• Effectively communicate test considerations, defects, process initiatives, and general status of projects to the Quality Control staff, functional management and executive management.
• Perform Load and Stress Test By creating V users using Load Runner
• Used Quality center to log defects and generate defect reports and graphs.
• Monitored Quality Center to close the bugs/cases as and when developers fixed the bugs.

Environment: Quality Center 9.0, QTP 8.2,TFS, Load Runner 9.0, JIRA, .Net Framework 1.1 ASP.NET,C#.NET, AJAX, XML,, PHP,HTML,CSS, SQL Server 2005, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS MS Excel, UNIX, Windows XP, MAC OS and MS office.