SUMMARY

• Over 4 years of IT experience in SQA/Quality Analyst and Testing Manually on Windows Platform using HP Tools (QC) and Automation using Selenium as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer and Quality Analyst.
• Over 1.5 years of experience with automation expertise and in depth hands - on experience with Selenium.
• Expertise in developing and applying customized Automation Testing Strategies/ Automation Methodology and Automation Test Process.
• Evaluate different frameworks in selenium and define the right one for testing based on testing needs.
• Excellent in converting existing Manual Test Cases into Automation Scripts.
• Excellent Functional knowledge on various domains like Finance, Banking, Derivatives, Insurance
• Conducted System Testing/ Functional/ Integration and Regression testing.
• Experienced in test management and defect tracking tool Quality center.
• Excellent knowledge of various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with emphasis on the Testing and Requirements gathering phases.
• Worked in the QA Life cycle, which includes Design, Development, and Implementation of the entire QA process and documentation of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Script for Manual, Automated & Bug tracking tools.
• Thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Waterfall Model, Agile Model, Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC)
• Experience in testing in the domains such as Banking, Finance and Insurance.
• Experience with QA Methodology and QA Validations to ensure the Quality Assurance Control and identifying the Test Requirements based on User Requirements and Design Specifications
• Expertise in testing applications on Windows.
• Experience in backend testing using SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access and good knowledge in SQL, PL/SQL.
• Expertise in converting Use cases to Test Cases.
• Proficient in Front end (Functional & GUI Testing), Black Box Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), Regression Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Experience in writing SQL Queries for back-end Testing Worked closely with development team, support team and customers. Coordinating with the onsite team and updating the status.
• Extensive data validation in batch files, reports and databases; used SQL to query database extensively for data validation; expert in SQL for sub-queries, nested queries and for complex data enquiries
• Skilled at working independently, multi-tasking and delegating responsibilities.
• Quick learner, strong analytical skills, motivated with a positive attitude, good inter-personal skills, individual contributor and team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing tools: Selenium, Load Runner

Defect Tracking: Bugzilla,Jira

Databases: SQL Server 2005/2008, Oracle, MySQL, Access

Scripting languages: VB Script, HTML, Java script

Application environments: C#, .NET Framework, ASP.NET, Crystal, SSIS/ SSRS/ SSAS, CSS.

MS Suite/ Project Tools: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), MS Visio, MS Project

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, UML.

Operating Systems/ Products: Windows - 7, Vista, XP, NT, 2003, 2000, 98

BI Tools: Business Object Business Intelligence

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SQA Engineer/QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Automated the Manual Test Cases for Functional, Integration, System Test Cases and writing automation script for Banking.
• Involved in converting Test Cases into selenium Test Scripts and performed Regression Testing.
• Worked on with Object Repository where properties of object are stored under respective logical name.
• Exposure to Database checkpoint to verify the data present in database with the help of DSN (Data Source Name).
• Reviewed the Business Requirement Document to understand the process and write Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Formulate methods to perform Positive and Negative testing against requirements.
• Conducted Smoke testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Data Validation Testing.
• Used Agile testing methodology for achieving deadlines in UAT.
• Developed Manual Test scripts to perform Functional and Regression testing.
• Executed and managed test cases and reported bugs in bug tracker.
• Performed Verification and Validation on the Input data (Text files, XML files) before loading into target database.
• Validated data in between source and target after running Mappings by the Informatics developer team.
• Developed SQL queries to check the database automatically and checking the data integrity in accordance with business standards of the company.
• Also used TOAD for SQL Server to write SQL queries for validating constraints, indexes.
• Communicate with the vendors for the application issues.
• Support various internal Application of bank like LMS, IPA/GPA, Screening, Internet Banking, Mobile Banking, BDO and IPS.
• Make the hierarchy and application flowchart in Visio.
• Suggested measures and recommendations to improve the current application performance.
• Conducted requirements analysis testing and prepared proposals for replacement systems.
• Developed innovative system solutions to support business objectives.
• Prepared and presented proposals and presentations for clients.

Environment: Windows - 7, Vista, XP, 2003, 98, Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2008, Java, PL/SQL, Visual Basic 6.0, Java Script, Crystal, SSIS/ SSRS, HTML, UML, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, MS Visio, MS Project.

Confidential

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created Test Plans and Test Scripts by analyzing the Business requirements and System Requirements of the Application.
• Worked closely with Application Architects, Business Analysts, and Project Managers to create Use Cases.
• Experienced in data analysis using SQL, PL/SQL and many other queries based applications.
• Performed Requirement Analysis to Develop Use Cases, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams.
• Hence developed and documented conceptual design of Application in System Specification Document.
• Provided Efforts Estimate and coordinated the test schedule using Agile testing methodology in UAT phase.
• Participated in Agile Development Cycle.
• Attended meetings with Developers for Requirement reviews and Code reviews.
• Developed test cases to test different scenarios including positive and negative testing.
• Successfully implemented Mercury Quality Center for Requirement Management, Test Design, Test Execution, Defect logging, Requirement Mapping with Test cases.
• Executed accurately and concisely Report Progress, Defect Status using Quality center and Bugzilla for Bugs.
• Involved in testing the full functionality of POS (Point Of Sale system) from end to end including Front end Terminal and Backend application.
• Performed POS Terminal testing as part of the integrated testing effort.
• Designed Summary Reports, Traceability Reports using Crystal Reports from MSSQL database of Quality Center.
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries, to extract the data from the database.
• Used TOAD to perform backend testing on the data base to verify the changes made are reflected accordingly.
• Generated Weekly Reports, Defect Reports, Test Summary, Requirement Traceability Reports, and Test Statistics and Customized Summary Reports.

Environment: Windows - 7, Vista, XP, 2003, 98, Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2008, Java, PL/SQL, Visual Basic 6.0, Java Script, Crystal, SSIS/ SSRS, XML, HTML, UML, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, MS Visio, MS Project.

Confidential

Junior SQA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in functional testing, regression testing, system testing.
• Performed Manual (Black Box type) testing for the UAT.
• Documented test hierarchy, test scenario, test case based on the SRS and BRD.
• Documented the test data such as customized, historical and the Production data.
• Executed the test cases for manual testing of the UAT.
• Performed both Positive and Negative testing.
• During the testing the Actual results are updated to the test steps
• At the end of the execution test results report delivered.
• Test Director was used to create a Repository for storing the test plan, test subjects, test strategy, test steps, test scripts.
• Logged, maintained & tracked defects, assigned type & severity levels, using the Test Director.

Environment: SQL, Visual Basic, MS Access, Windows NT/ XP, SQL server.