OBJECTIVE

• To be a part of the team in a leading software organization, where I can use all my skills in the best possible way to increase the productivity, thereby gaining Management's appreciation & Customer Satisfaction

SUMMARY

• Around 7 years of extensive experience in the IT industry with emphasis in Quality Assurance.
• Experienced in Design, and Execution of Test cases, Test scenarios and Test plans
• Diversified work experience on all Testing types and levels of testing like - Unit testing, Integration, Interface testing, System and User acceptance testing, Web application testing, Desktop application testing, Database testing, Functional testing, Black box testing, Locale testing, Cross browsers testing, Smoke Testing, Sanity testing End to End testing
• Knowledge of Automation Testing using Mercury QTP (Quick Test Professional) and open source tools Selenium (Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, and Selenium Web Driver), JUNIT, Eclipse.
• Experience in using Mercury Quality Center/ALM 11 for Test management
• Experience in the Analysis of Bug Severity, Bug Tracking Reporting using Jira, Fogbuz, Bugzilla
• Expertise in using UML diagrams, especially use case diagrams and its textual description to better understand the business process.
• Have good knowledge in testing applications in various industry domains like Media & Entertainment Finance, Insurance and retail
• Experience in writing SQL/PL-SQL queries for database testing
• Having Knowledge on SOA testing (Web Testing) (SoapUI)
• Experience in writing code in Java (J2SE, J2EE), Object Oriented Programming
• Experience in Version Control and Configuration Management tools such as Microsoft Visual SourceSafe
• In depth knowledge of SDLC, STLC and testing methodologies like Agile, Waterfall, V-model
• Expert in web technologies like HTML and XML

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: C, C++, VB, J2SE, JSP, JAVA Script, JDBC, HTML, XML, Struts

Operating system: MS-DOS, Windows 95 / 98 / 2000/NT / XP, UNIX/Linux

Web Browsers: IE, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome.

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle 9i, MS Access 2003Version Control Tools Visual Source Safe, Tortoise CVS (1.10.9)

Tools: /Software: HP QTP (Quick Test Professional), Quality Center/ALM 9.2, Selenium, Fogbugz and Jira

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Somerset, NJ

Sr QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a Lead QA Engineer, I am primarily responsible for working with the functional testing team and the business team to come up with a standard automation approach
• Conducting Test Plan Design Meetings with the QA team, to discuss and analyse the sprint user stories and tasks and to answer questions on how the team should build test cases.
• Interacted with Business analyst to understand the functionality of the application, user story and developed the detailed Test Cases for manual testing based on System Functional Requirement and involved in the review discussions. .
• Performed Functional, and System testing. Test cases and defects were tracked in QC and reported daily to the project team.
• Involved in test cases execution and documentation of all test results, identifying and summarizing discrepancies.
• Involved in daily health checks by running Smoke test in QA environment to ensure services are up and running.
• Generated sample test data from the real data to perform data base testing
• Doing White box Testing by verification of code, and correcting them
• Preparing the understanding document for the related functional document

Confidential, NY

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis business requirements, use cases.
• Identifying Integration User-Stories
• Creating various Test cases using Quality Centre according to functional documents and requirements and store them in the Test-Plan module of Quality Centre. Tests cases were created to test for Back-end (SQL - database) testing) & Front End (functional testing) and Integration testing.
• Created the Test Summary Report (TSR) to detail the testing effort such as Test Case ID, number of Test Cases executed, passed, failed and status of Test Cases
• . Attending Daily Stand-up meetings, as part of the sprint meetings, for distribution of tasks in team.
• Performed Smoke testing, Web based testing, functional testing, Locale, Localization testing, Security and Regression Testing.

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing the Business Requirements document and have written Test cases.
• Ensured the traceability of test cases back to the Business requirements
• Involved in Web site, Portal, blog and Forum testing and logging the defects in Jira
• Involved in Functional, GUI and User Acceptance Testing
• Participated in requirement and design meetings and hosted Test case review meetings.
• Participated in DP (Defect prevention) meetings with developers to validate the severity of the bug and responsible for tracking of the bug life cycle using Jira
• Involved in assisting the end users in performing User Acceptance Test on the application
• Testing web pages, web links using Soap UI tool
• Working Closely with Business Users/end user and Involved in Business Users testing and training the users in using the application

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system requirements, test case executed by running commands
• Executed basic Unix/Linux commands like (ls, chmod, pwd, cd, kill), also Unix scripting
• Reported defects in excel sheets
• Analyzing and observing Functionality of Application i.e. whether or not application behavior is according to Test cases or not.
• Testing the application behavior on different Operating systems (AIX, Linux X64 & IPF HP-UX, Solaris, windows) whether it work accordingly or not
• Involved in training to new team members

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in, Requirements analysis.
• Validating Data elements of the applications
• Validation of Money transaction, Payment Processing, like Card, Cash and Cheque payments
• Creating Test cases, store them in Quality Center
• Detect bugs and log them in Quality Center
• Coordinated with Project Managers, Business Analysts and System Analysts to set up the validation environment to execute test cases
• Performed Back end Testing (Data base testing) by executing SQL Queries.
• Involved in Functional (Black box) testing.

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing the Business Requirements document.
• Involved in Test cases writing and execution
• Responsible for entering, Tracking bugs in Fogbuz (Defect tracking tool)