PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 6 years of Information Technology experience, involved in Quality Assurance & Testing, with in - depth understanding of Software Development Life Cycle, Software Testing Life Cycle and Testing Methodologies.
• Excellent knowledge of full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with different models like Waterfall, V-Model, and Agile-Scrum software development process.
• Expertise in developing Test Procedures, Test Strategies, Test Cases, Test Plans, Test Summary reports and Defect Tracking.
• Expertise in automated tools like Mercury/HP Quick Test Professional (QTP), HP Quality Center, and Bugzilla.
• Experienced in Web Applications, Web Services, E-Commerce, and Client/Server testing.
• Strong in Back End testing using Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MS Access. Good knowledge in writing SQL queries.
• Well versed withUNIXCommands.
• Extensively performed cross-browser compatibility testing.
• Strong exposure toData drivenandKeyword Driven automationusingQTP.
• Experienced in executing, and revising automated test cases within HP QTP automationframeworkand custom scripting as appropriate to the test case.
• Experienced in writing, modifying automation script inVB scriptingto create custom test.
• Experienced inRequirement Analysis, Arriving at Test Scenarios from Requirements and Use cases, Test ePlanning, Test data Preparation, Test Case Execution, Defect Reporting and Documentation.
• Extensively PerformedBlack box testing, Positive, Negative, Smoke Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Back End Testing, Functional testing.
• WorkedinInsurance, Banking and Healthcaredomains.
• Mentoring and Motivational skills to achieve team’s objectives.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, ability to conceptualize and learn quickly, good analytical reasoning and high compliance to new technologies and tools.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP Quick Test Professional 9.2, 9.5, 9.2, Win Runner 7.x, 8.x

Test Mgmt Tools: HP Quality Centre, Bugzilla, ApTest Manager

Operating Systems: Windows Server NT/ 2000/2003/2008 , Windows XP/Vista, Unix, Linux 7.1, 7.2 (Red Hat)

Languages: C, C++, HTML, XML, Java, SQL

Databases: Oracle 7.x/8i/9i/10G, MS SQL Server 2005/2008

Web Technologies: DHTML, XHTML, SVG

Application / Web Server Technologies: Apache Tomcat 5.5, 6.0; IBM Web Sphere - Application Server, Portal Server, HTTP Server; IIS

Scripting Language: VB Script, JavaScript, TSL, WSH, SQL Script

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Google Chrome, Netscape, Safari

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Groton, Connecticut

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and identified documents required for functional and end to end testing efforts for all test scenarios.
• Extensively prepared Installation Instructions and Installation Qualifications Test Scripts as per the application requirement.
• Executed Operations Qualification/Production Qualification Test Script for thorough end to end testing of the application functionality in different environments.
• Prepared Test Plan, Test Summary Report in accordance with the project Maintenance plan and ELC Standard.
• Prepared and executed extensive user acceptance test scripts, maintained test requirements, test execution and defect tracking using HP Quality Center.
• Responsible for on time and quality deliverables, preparing day-to-day testing status report, weekly status report for the upper level management.
• Actively participated in day-to-day conference call and joint working session with the Onsite and Offshore team.
• Thorough understanding of all the environments with know - how of how user connection reaches the application server and how the application interacts with the database.
• Conducted GUI and functional testing for each successive module manually.
• Reviewed and Validated Computer Systems in compliance with 21 CFR Part 11 and GxP FDA Regulations.
• Experience in reviewing all ELC documents, protocols and SOP’s to ensure they meet FDA regulations.

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, Internet Explorer, Windows 2000 servers, Oracle 11g, TOAD, Microsoft Office, MSB, UNIX, Weblogic.

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the project from beginning of Requirement phase.
• Extensively involved in arriving at the test estimates, test planning, test case preparation and strategic planning of test execution using test management tool Quality Center.
• Analyzed the component’s functional requirements and wrote functional level test cases for Quote and Inquiry/Change.
• Wrote Test cases / Scenarios for positive and negative flows.
• Prepared requirements traceability matrix for various phases of the project.
• Attended test case walk through sessions.
• Logged into the Citrix Server and accessed the Agency Office Automation Application to test Quote, New Business and policies.
• Performed sanity testing as soon as the code was deployed on the server to eliminate the possibility of show stoppers like screen freezes and ensured that the basic functionality is working fine.
• Performed functionality testing and regression testing of Quotes, New Business and Policies by adding Coverage’s, Limits, sub limits and deductibles against created policies.
• Extensively tested defect fixes and made sure new defects were not introduced.
• Well versed in ISAM file system, used to modify the values in the file using Iedit for testing purposes.
• Reviewed the testing-related work of peers and providing them with appropriate feedback.
• Guided the team for their day to day activities and prepared them to reach the deadlines.
• Logged discrepancies in Quality Center and sought resolution by coordinating with the development team.
• Developed test summary reports.
• Reported bugs and sent email notifications to the developers using Quality Center.
• Timely escalation of issues if any
• Performed functional and regression testing using Quick Test Professional and enhancing script using check points, synchronization point and parameterization and used multiple actions.

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, Internet Explorer, Windows 2000 servers, Oracle 10g, Citrix Server, Visual Source Safe, Microsoft office, QTP, SQL Script

Confidential, Falls Church, VA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Produced test documentation such as test plan & worked closely with QA project manager and monitored team progress.
• Automated QA regression test suite with QuickTest Pro automation Tool.
• Developed test automation strategy, scripting, test scheduling and execution for all types of system testing including: Integration, Regression, GUI, and Functionality.
• Prepared and updated traceability matrix with new updated test cases.
• Managed Object Repositories.
• Used Parameterization for using various data to test the application using QTP.
• Developed external custom functions using VBScript for QTP.
• Co-ordinated with users for UAT.
• Involved in functional testing of Oracle EBS applications
• Oracle Functional Testing for automated functional and regression testing
• Developed the scripts using descriptive programming for critical functionality by using QTP.
• Inserted Check Points to Check for the broken Links, Text, and Standard properties of an object using QTP.
• Developed and executed test cases, logged the defects using Quality Center.
• Set up users and maintain access controls for Quality Center.
• Maintained/enhanced Quality Center configurations to support all phases of testing, including requirements tracking.
• Developed detailed documentation to support the automation effort for Performance Testing development and execution.
• Prepared Performance Testing Scripts as per the Business Transactions.
• Performed Stress, Performance and Load Testing using Load Runner.
• Enhanced the Script by doing Correlation, parameterization, and Rendezvous Points.
• Enhanced Vusers scripts by Parameterization, Transaction points and various LoadRunner Web Functions.
• Developed Test Scenarios and performed the Test runs using the Controller on Windows.
• Used Performance Center to manage multiple, Concurrent load testing projects.
• Involved in testing web applications in different browsers such as Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and Mozilla Firefox to check the performance of the application.
• Analyzed Software and Hardware components using Load Runner Analysis Graphs.
• Analyzed the Performance Bottlenecks and Memory Leaks.

Environment: QTP, Load Runner, Quality Center, IIS6.0, XML, ASP, JavaScript, SQL server, Windows 9x/2000/N.T, SQL Script

Confidential, Maryland

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and identified documents required for Integration, Functional, and End to End testing efforts for all test scenarios.
• Designed and developed Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Documentation in compliance with the requirements.
• Extensively used Quality Center for creating test plan, test case, data mapping, defect management and communicating with developers, project managers and QA team. Created customized report on test coverage cycle, requirement coverage.
• Developed Traceability Matrices linking the test requirements and test cases using quality center.
• Wrote manual test cases for bug tracking system; organized and executed the test cases.
• Involved in Integration, Regression and Functional testing using manual testing methods and QTP automation tool.
• Extensively involved in quality deliverables on time, preparing day to day testing status report and weekly status report for upper level management.
• Extensively involved in performing performance testing using automation tool LoadRunner.
• Created Test Coverage and Requirement Coverage Metrics.
• Involved in User Acceptance Planning, designing UA test cases and selecting a team for executing UA test cases. Tracking defects for UAT with the help of business analyst, developers and stakeholders and looking at the test deliverables and signoff.
• Tested the backend database using SQL queries. Toad was used to extract data and make/edit changes to SQL queries and table entries.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, Load Runner, Clear Quest, MS-SQL Server 2000, IE 6.0, SQL, TOAD, UNIX.

Confidential

Testing Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and executed software System test plans and Test cases. These scripts were developed after reviewing the Technical Specification Document.
• Performed Functionality testing and End-to-end testing of the User Module to ensure that the Add and Update functionality works fine.
• Extensively tested the Search engine to test its searching capability.
• Extensively tested Negative flows to ensure that the application behaved as expected.
• Involved in Defect Reporting and Defect Tracking using Test Director.
• Involved in preparing the daily Status Report.
• Built a suite of test cases that can be used for future versions and builds.

Environment: Test Director 7.0, Windows NT, HTML, ASP.NET, Oracle8i, Visual Source Safe, IIS, Firefox, SQL Script, MSI, Salesforce