SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of experiencein thefield of IT, Specializing in SoftwareQA/QC & Automation Testingof Application system in different environments.
• Expertise in manual and automated testing with the focus on Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Performance, Load Testing and System Testing.
• Solid understanding of Financial Products - Equities, Fixed Income, Structured Products, Derivative Instruments, Credit Risk Methodology & Calculations
• Excellent knowledge and working experience with test planning, test scripts, test execution and test results.
• Excellent understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Agile, RUP. Waterfall Model, Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Bug Life Cycle.
• Highly experienced in using Quality Center (ALM), Test Director, and Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Expert in Automated Testing using QTP Scripting, VB Scripting, Descriptive Programming.
• Diversified Software quality assurance and testing experience in GUI testing, security and performance testing of Web and Client/Server based applications
• Proficient in AGILE methodology, hands on experience in developing use cases, user interface specifications, and user requirement specification documents.
• Strong Experience inGUI Testing using SOAPUI, Smoke testing, Functionality/Integration Testing, System Testing, and Regression Testing.
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Methodology (Waterfall, Spiral, V-Model, Agile/Scrum Methodology),
• Used Parameterization to fetch data to test the application using QTP
• Specialized in bug tracking, bug-reporting, analyzing results, and defect trackingprocedures.
• Excellentexperience inreviewingthe requirements, Designing and uploading to Quality Center.
• Developed and implemented test case mapping to requirements, project statusreports, issue/defect matrices.
• Experience of using HP/Mercury QC for defect logging and creation of reporting and statistics throughout the Testing cycle
• Experienced in planning, delegating and tracking the test activities to meet the project schedule.
• Expert in analysis and creation of Change Request (CR).Excellent experience in Web services testing
• Solid Experience and knowledge in writing extensively SQL Queries for testing and programming and designing in C++ usingLinuxandWindows 2000platforms
• Strong problem analysis and resolution skills and ability to work in multi platform environments like windows2000/XP
• Extensive knowledge on end-to-end testing
• Extensive experience on Excel, Word, PowerPoint, HTML, XML and SQL.
• Ability to multitask and flexible in adjusting as per demand and strong aptitude towards learning new technologies.
• Worked on reporting features of QTP extensively
• Strong analytical, problem solving, communication, learning and team skills.
• Data Validation and Regression testing using quick test Pro.
• Expertise of development, execution and maintenance of Quick Test Pro automated test and resources Framework, Actions, Function Libraries, Object Repositories, Data Table Files as well as descriptive programming.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

QA tools: Quality Center 10.0/9.0, QTP 11.0/10.0/9.0 , Test Director, Rational Clear Quest and RUP, SOAP UI

GUI: Outlook, Access and Developer

Databases: MS Access and SQL server 2000

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL

Web Technologies: HTML, VB Script, Java script, XML

Internet Browsers: AOL and Internet Explorer, Mozilla firefox

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows family, Unix

Others: ASP.NET, MS-Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. QA analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended walkthroughs and inspections with the Project Manager, Business Personnel, Business analyst and developers to decide the Scope of testing and Testability of Requirements.
• Used the Agile environment effectively to get the maximum output for the QA efforts.
• Tested the Functionality, Compatibility, Usability and Security scenarios for the E-commerce website.
• During test execution of SIT and UAT test cases, worked effectively with the BA and Developers to accommodate the frequently changing requirements and sorted out the ambiguities and make sure that maximum testing was done.
• Submitted the daily EOD test status report to the project team to communicate the progress of testing.
• Used QTP for functional and regression testing of the application.
• Involved in Keyword driven approach for automation to minimize the changes for QTP Scripts for future use.
• Involved in GUI, Functional, Integration and Regression testing to test each individual function/feature
• Regression Testing was performed to validate the corrections of defects and to ensure that no side effects introduced using QTP as automation tool.
• Performed SOA services testing including WSDL, XML, and SOAP messaging using SoapUI tool
• Performed both manual and automated testing of the application.
• Documentation of Scripts, Analysis of results and Defect Tracking are managed in Quality Center.
• Worked in Agile environment.
• Performed on Agile to emphasize face-to-face communication over written documents.
• Extensively done Backend Manual testing using SQL and constraint validations.
• Used to develop Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases, and executed them in test lab (QC) and excel sheets.
• Conducted Functionality testing during various phases of the application.
• Created Test cases, Manual Test Scripts.
• Created best practices documents for QTP and build Automation Frame Work.
• Developed automated test scripts from manual test cases for regression testing based on the requirement documents using Quick Test Professional.
• Used SCRUM (Agile) methodology for testing.
• Thoroughly analyzed the functional requirements documented in the Software Requirements Specifications to develop the corresponding test cases in Mercury/HP QC.
• Experience in managing services, adding calls and Validating XML using HP Service Test
• Prepared Test Report and Summary for the applications.
• Performed functional testing and regression testing using HP QTP
• Inserted Check Points to Check for the broken Links, Text, and standard properties of an object using QTP.

Environment: Quality Center 11.0, QTP 11.0, MS Office, MS Visio, VBScript, Agile, SOAP UI, Windows XP, XML, SQL.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in different phases of SDLC.
• Interacted with Business Analysts to designed detailed test plan document for application testing.
• Worked under different iterative and modular SDLC methodologies like Agile Scrum and actively conducted and participated in various meetings.
• Extensively used Quality Center to upload requirements, write test cases.
• Used Quality Center to Report, track and, monitor defects.
• Worked on conversion of manual integration tests into automated tests using QTP
• Wrote and Executed SQL queries on database for transactions on Oracle10g database.
• Strong QA Knowledge in Mercury QTP and Quality Centre
• Performed Integration testing, Build Verification testing, System testing manually.
• Imported and exported data from and to Excel to and from QTP.
• Performed Database Testing using SQL, executed various DDL and DML statements
• Performed Database Backend Testing by writing SQL scripts for data validation.
• Provided Efforts Estimate and coordinated the test schedule using Agile testing methodology in UAT phase
• Validated XML extract to ensure data integrity when loaded into New Business Accelerator
• Conducted Functionality testing during various phases of the application using QTP
• Extensively worked on QTP scripts in analyzing the business processes and created automation scripts.
• Responsible to convert the manual test cases into Test Scripts and execute them using QTP for fixed income module
• Used Check Points, Output Values, Recovery Scenarios, Regular Expressions, Object Repository Administration extensively in QTP
• Enhanced the QTP Scripts in expert mode in order to implement efficient test scenarios.
• Validated data for the Sybase version of the application with the SQL version in order to check the data integrity of the new version with the older version.
• Developed SQL Queries for checking the Data Transaction.

Environment: Quick Test Professional 8.2, Quality Center 8.2, VB.Net, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, VB script, HTML, Web Services, Windows NT, MS-Visio, MS-Word, Ms-Excel, MS-Project.

Confidential, Huston, TX

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering business requirement, studying the application and collecting the information from developers and writing the test plans.
• Responsible for the creation and execution of manual/automated test scripts Win Runner.
• Review test assignments, develop test plans and scripts, test conditions, test scenarios, test procedures, and conduct tests as assigned.
• Developed automated scripts using QTP to perform functional and regression testing
• Created and executed data driven test scripts in QTP
• Conducted Functionality testing during various phases of the application using QTP
• Inserted Check Points to Check for the broken Links, Text, and standard properties of an object using QTP
• Created User Defined Functions in QTP
• Managed Object Repositories
• Performed Integration Testing and Batch Testing in QTP
• Involved in UAT testing
• Checked the data flow from the front-end to back-end and vice-versa using SQL queries
• Application was updated twice a week, so that all the Test Procedures created as Baseline can be played back to perform Regression Testing.
• Performed all phases of end-to-end testing which includes User Acceptance testing, Functionality testing, Regression Testing, GUI testing, boundary testing, negative testing, system testing, and Smoke testing of the Application.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.
• Involved in weekly walkthrough and inspection meetings, to verify the status of the testing effort and the project as a whole.

Environment: QTP 9.0,Quality Center 9.0,Java, C++, HTML, SQL, Oracle, MS Word, MS Excel, Windows NT.

Confidential, Freeport, ME

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business, Functional and Technical Specification document.
• Prepared Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases based on requirements.
• Prepared Test Scenarios and Test Cases for both positive and negative testing.
• Developed Test Cases in Excel and exported to ALM.
• Executed test cases manually in ALM and verified the actual results against expected results.
• Analyzed the application and performed Smoke, Regression, Retesting, Functional and Adhoc testing.
• Used ALM for tracing Requirement, Testing and Defect Coverage.
• Involved in the tracking and updating of the Requirement Traceability Matrix, thereby linking the test cases with the business requirements as well as other associated test cases in ALM to ensure accurate and complete test execution as planned.
• Executed various SQL Queries to perform the backend testing
• Participated in walkthroughs, inspections with the Business analyst and developers to decide the Scope of testing and Testability of Requirements.
• Performed application compatibility testing on UNIX and Windows environment.
• Perform the UAT testing with BA and end client before product is going live
• Used ALM for defect tracking, monitoring the testing process and bug reporting also followed up with development team to review and verify bug fixes, and update bug status after each cycle
• Experience in interacting with client in all aspects of testing cycle.
• Collaborated with project teams & conducted knowledge sharing sessions and training to end users.
• Participated in weekly team meetings and adhoc meetings to discuss and understand functional requirements with design team, development team and QA team

Environment: Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, UNIX, VBScript, Java, J2EE, HTML, JavaScript, SQL Server.

Confidential, Houston, TX

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and Executed Test Cases for Functional and Integration testing.
• Followed Agile methodology and tested manually as per the specification documents.
• Created Traceability matrix to keep track of changes in requirement to that of the testing effort.
• Participated in SCRUM meetings to understand the day to day tasks and perform testing on various user stories.
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Regression, Navigational, System and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Tested applications and documented results and bugs including documentation of information useful in the debugging process.
• Performed Database testing using SQL queries for verification and validation.
• Followed up with developers on defects status on a daily basis.
• Executed test cases and reported defects in JIRA.
• Performed manual testing, considering the base line of developed test plan and test cases considering both positive and negative scenarios.

Environment: Windows, Quality Center, SQL Server, MS office, XML, ASP. Net, Jira.