SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience in software industry with emphasis on Quality Assurance of both Client - Server and Web based Applications in Manual Testing and Automation Testing.
• Extensive experience in testing Java, ASP .NET, VB based applications in both Windows and UNIX environments.
• Strong Back-End Database (Oracle, SQL Server) testing skills using SQL & Toad.
• Experienced in Agile and Waterfall testing.
• Involved in the ETL processes where in the organization were using Informatica.
• Experience in analyzing Functional Specifications, Use Cases and Business Requirements to prepare test plans, test procedures that follow different QA Methodologies.
• Involved in maintaining existing Test Plans, Test Cases based on the enhancements and Change Requests.
• Proficient in Functional Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Smoke Testing, GUI Testing, End-to-End Testing, Positive Testing, Negative Testing, Cross Browser Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Experience in using test management tools such as Quality Center during entire testing phase.
• Extensively used Microsoft Office for documentation.
• Performed Regression Testing using automation tools such as Quick Test Professional.
• Proficient in developing, enhancing and executing automated testing VB scripts for Quick Test Professional.
• Actively participated in all phases of the Manual testing cycle including reviews and project status meetings.
• Strong ability in analyzing business requirements (BRD) and interacting with the Business users.
• Excellent analytical skills coupled with effective technical writing and verbal communication.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: MS DOS, UNIX, Windows NT/ 2000/ XP and Linux

Languages: C, C++, COBOL, JCL, JAVA, SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL, Shell Scripting

RDBMS: Oracle 7.x/ 8i/ 9i, MS SQL Server and DB2

Web Technologies: HTML, ASP .NET, Java Script, J2EE, Java Servlets, JSP

Application servers: Web logic, Web sphere and IIS

GUI Tools: Oracle Developer 2000 and Visual Basic 5.0/ 6.0

Testing Tools: QTP, Quality Center, Rational Suite (Requisite Pro, Rose, Robot, Test Manager, Clear Quest, Clear Case)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and analyzed Business, Functional Requirements, System Specifications and Design documents.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, and Traceability Matrix.
• Involved in creation of the Test Scripts according to the test plan and Use cases.
• Coordinate meetings with project and development teams to communicate project issues.
• Responsible for doing functional, regression, System integration, Component Integration and UAT testing.
• Uploaded the test scripts into Quality Center.
• Tested the GUI of the application comparing to the standards.
• Created and maintained the Traceability Matrix and Test Matrix and helped the QA Testing teams.
• Performed back-end testing extensively using SQL & TOAD. Wrote and Executed SQL Quires for Oracle database testing.
• Extensive Experience in testing Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) mechanism-using Informatica.
• Working experience in creating SQL queries that involved complex operations joins and sub queries.
• Created several SQL queries on the fly for some specific requirements for trouble shooting day-to-day production issues to identify root cause.
• Followed the Agile testing and Scrum methodology for the integration and regression testing approach.
• Participated in daily scrum meetings for the testing part along with the developers.
• Attended regular project meetings and follows up with team members as required focusing on business and operational issues or technical issues.
• Executed the manual and QTP Automation regression scripts.
• Developed and modified the QTP automation scripts according to the requirements and releases.
• Executed the test scripts in quality center and responsible for reporting the defects by using Quality center defect tracker.
• Attended the status meetings and reporting the issues and also collecting status from all other team members.
• Worked with group projects as well as individual projects and sending the status report to manager each and every week.

Environment: s: Quick Test Pro 9.2, Quality Center 10.0, Oracle 9i,DB2, SQL, TOAD, ASP .NET, Visual Studio, Visual Basic, Rational Suite, Informatica, Webserver IIS 6.0, IE, HTML, XML, UNIX, Windows 2003/ XP.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked actively with Business Analyst to nail down the requirements for all the releases and enhancements
• Partnered with Business Analyst and Developers in building traceability across Requirements, Design Specifications, Test Scenarios and Test Cases
• Developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Detailed Test Cases based on the Use Case Documents, Business Requirements and Functions Specifications
• Planned and documents the test approach and strategy for critical Business Scenarios in End to End fashion
• Created End to End System test cases based in Business Process identified with the help of business users
• Planned Integration testing across different systems to verify and validate the application and its modules
• Conducted Functional, Integration, System, UAT and Regression testing for the applications under test
• Identified Test data requirements based on Business Requirements, Use Case Document and Test Scenarios
• Masked test data form Production and pre production database to test environment to conduct various testing
• Identified, classified, reviewed and resolved defects in consultation with developers and other team members using Quality Center, maintained all the defects matrix
• Manually performed Back-End testing by creating SQL queries on Oracle and MS SQL database
• Performed End-to-end and UAT testing of the applications partnered with Users, Dev and BA teams
• Partnered with Test Environment support team in building Test Environment and loading test data for all testing
• Coordinated and worked with different teams environment, to achieve project quality goals
• Created reports and release notes for software releases and enhancements updated with testing details
• Wrote complex SQL queries to perform the backend testing of the Oracle database using PL/SQL
• Enhanced Scripts by Putting Check Points like standard checkpoints, Text Checkpoint, output values by putting Text Area output value Check point, passing values between actions if the scripts needs.
• Involved in writing scripts, which involved some advanced programming of scripts using QTP.
• Used object spy to know the properties of the object, which helped me in writing my QTP scripts
• Used the Smart Identification in QTP in order to identify the dynamic objects
• Validated data files and data extractions from Relational Database systems Source to Stand alone target systems
• Created Risk Assessment documents with list of defects identified in testing and associated production risk
• Represented QA in release status meetings with different groups including Product Management, Dev and DBA
• Responded to inquiries from users and technical support regarding functions and operations of the application
• Trained and supported users, assisted users to isolate possible problems in software after implementation

Environment: Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, DB2, Oracle, Rational Suite, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Server, Java, J2EE, Webserver IIS 6.0, IE, HTML, XML, UNIX

Confidential, Franklin, TN

Sr QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and analyzed Business, Functional Requirements, System specifications and Design documents.
• Created System Test Plan, Test Scripts and Status Report Templates which were used in multiple projects.
• Prepared test coverage matrix and the traceability matrix in Quality center.
• Drafted test cases to cover all areas of the test coverage matrix.
• Reviewed all business requirements, use cases, process flows, data definitions and business rules for test case preparation and execution.
• Reported variances using defect tracking tool Quality Center and give input to the Test completion report.
• Conducted walkthroughs and presentation of the Test requirement group and test cases to development and business team.
• Participated in walkthroughs in the Requirements, Detailed Design, and Construction phases as determined by the project team.
• Responsible for reporting, updating and maintaining the Quality Centre for all the defects found during Functional and regression testing as well as following up on the bug life cycle.
• Extensively used Descriptive Programming to develop Scripts from Scratch.
• Verified and Validated the Data using SQL queries in QTP.
• Developed test scripts using DDT (Data Driven Testing) with QTP.
• Performed parameterization techniques to use different set of customer data on a script to generate expected reports.

Environment: Mainframe, Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, Java, Java script, VB Script, SQL, Oracle, MS. Excel, HTML, Lotus Notes, Windows NT/XP.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed detailed Test Plans and Test Cases in Test Director and executed them
• Participated in Business Analysis, Requirement Analysis and Data Analysis
• Test Cases were designed based on Use Cases and Requirements in Test Director
• Maintained requirements in Test Director and requirements are traced to Test Cases in Test Director
• Performed GUI, Functional, System-Integration and Regression testing
• Extensively used SQL for data integrity testing at the backend
• Investigated Software defects and interacted with Analysts to resolve technical issues
• Involved in analysis and study of functional specifications for the enhancement of existing functionality
• Conducted Smoke Testing on new versions
• Maintained and Troubleshooter Network and its problems in the testing environment
• Responsible for System Testing, Regression Testing and Acceptance Testing
• Recommending continuous process improvement, maintain QA standards and artifacts

Environment: Windows 2000, Mercury Interactive Tools 6.0/ 6.5 (Test Director), Mainframes Java, Java script, ASP, HTML, SQL Server 2000, MS Word, Ms Excel, MS Project.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Created end to end test cases for the project
• Involved in creation of Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Specification
• Performed Functionality Testing
• Participated in Manual and Automated Testing
• Manually tested access levels and privileges of personnel handling adjustment
• Created and performed Compatibility Testing procedure
• Created different Test scenarios to validate the customer class role type decisions
• Performed Back end testing using PL/SQL
• Created ODBC Vuser scripts in LoadRunner to measure database performance
• Used correlated queries to resolve dependent queries in database Vuser scripts

Environment: WinRunner, Test Director, Java, JavaScript, JSP, HTML, DHTML, Oracle, MS Office, SQL, Windows NT and UNIX.