SUMMARY:

• Over 7+ years of experience in Informational Technology Quality Assurance (IT QA), testing various business applications in client/server and web - based environments for Government, medical insurance and financial institutions out which 3 years extensive experience in agile projects.
• Experience in reviewing and analyzing business requirements and writing detailed test plans, test scripts. Updating when business rules change and p articipated in the creation and execution of automated test cases.
• Experience in executing different kinds of tests such as integration, regression, functional, smoke testing, User Acceptance Testing, black box testing and white box testing
• Performed manual and automated testing on multi-platform environments.
• Expert in designing complex SQL queries and have good experience working with different relational databases like Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.
• Experience in designing test data using MS excel.
• Experience including working as a Software Test Engineer in Performance, Automation and manual testing, Mobile Testing and Agile Scrum Methodologies of large mission critical applications.
• Extensive experience using test tools like quality center, mercury interactive test suit, App test manager and Quick Test Professional to create t est cases, report bugs and requirement traceability for status reporting.
• Experience with migrating QTP test scripts to OATS (Oracle Application Testing Suite).
• Experience with ad-hoc testing and converting ad-hoc testing into formal testing by using Quality Center to document test scripts.
• Extensive experience in testing business applications developed using technologies like Java, .NET, PHP, PYTHON,SQL, PL/SQL, JSP, XML, HTML and MS Access
• Working experience in project methodologies like Waterfall and Agile. Involved in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Effective leadership skills along with good written, verbal communication and presentation skills. Self-motivated with result oriented approach.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools :  Quality Center 10.0/9.0, Quick Test Pro (QTP) 6.5/8.0/90/9.2 , Load Runner 6.0/7.0/7.5/8.0 /9.0 , Test Director 7.0/7.6/8.0/9.0 , TOAD, Rational Test Manager, BPT 10.0, Software Planner 9.4.2

Test Reporting Tools  Test Director 8.0, Quality Center 9.0/9.2/10.0 , App test manager (ATM) Bugzilla 3.0.6, Track Record 6.02.02, Version One 8.1, Remedy, RTC

Operating Systems:  Windows 7/2003/XP/Vista, Linux, Unix, Mac, MSDOS

Databases:  Oracle, SQL Server, MS SQL Server 2008/2005,JBOSS

Defect Tracking Tools:  Bug Tracker, Bugzilla, Clear quest & Clear view, Clarity Repository, App Test Manager (ATM) and Visual Studio

Hardware:  IBM Compatible PCs, Pentium PCs, Intel based machines

Other Tools:  Team Track, Perforce, Test Depot, Qshare, (QTF) Open Source Tool, OATS, Agile,MS Office, Text Pad, Toad-7.6, FTP, CVS (Tortoise & Win CVS), TFS, VMware

Languages: JAVA, .NET, JSP, HTML, PHP, XML, PERL, C, C++, VB 6.0, SQL, PL/SQL

Confidential, TX

Quality Analyst

• Create and execute test cases derived from design specifications and product requirements perform manual testing and limited automated testing, with guidance from higher-level test analysts
• Identify and log defects found in testing and retesting to verify defect resolution
• Work with business analysts and the business experts to understand the business flow and business rules
• Involved in daily scrum meetings and gathered meeting notes from all other teams and update test team
• Responsible for testing business intelligence reporting application which included functionality, regression, integration, system and user acceptance testing
• Reported defects in RTC helped the developers to track and resolve the defect to participate in triage meetings.
• Attended daily and weekly meetings for project updates

Environment: Windows XP and 7,QTP 11.0, Web Services,Rational Functional Tester (RFT), Rational Clear Quest, SQL Server 2005/2008, Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010 Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS), Mercury Quality Center (Test Director)

Confidential, ID

Sr. QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in working with business SME's to better understand the requirements & the application
• Analyzed user Stories and documented test scenarios in Quality Center
• Worked on user stories and design specifications based on functional requirements for different a pplications
• Identified existing project information and the software components that should be tested
• Developed and implemented detailed test plan and test scenarios for quote, bind and issue policy
• Worked with developers to determine feasibility of test planning and test script development
• Worked extensively with quality center to create test cases, test Inputs, test logs, test summary reports etc.
• Maintained traceability between requirements and test cases in quality center
• Performed integration testing, functional testing and regression testing to check the application is error prone according to the requirement specifications
• Performed back-end testing using SQL queries and also performed positive and negative testing
• Involved in entire QA life cycle, which includes designing, developing and execution of the entire BA/QA process & requirements gathering, data analysis, documentation of test plans, test cases, test procedures & test scripts

Environment: Windows XP, .NET4.0, C #, VB Script, QTP 11.0, Web Services, Rational Clear Quest, End to End, SQL Server 2005/2008, Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010 Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS), OATS, Soap, Web Security, Quality Center (Test Director), Web Services, API Testing.

 Confidential , TX

Sr.QA Engineer

• Followed Agile methodology with four weeks sprint
• Daily status, stand-up meetings, scrums with business, development, and test team to report the test status planned, accomplished, and issues
• Driving daily defect/bug review meetings with business, environment and development team to understand the problem and setting the severity levels and get resolutions for defects logged by team
• Involved in data analysis and prepared required test data for validation of test cases.
• Involved in front end GUI testing, backend SQL server database validations testing
• Wrote SQL Statements to extract data from tables to verify the output data of the reports.
• Generated test metrics showing the number of test cases executed, number passed, number failed and number left to execute in weekly meetings.
• Conducting regression testing whenever some code module is change and automated the test scripts using QTP
• Responsible for periodic updating of test plans and test cases as per requirement specifications and business rules
• Performed sanity test in QA, user acceptance testing (UAT) and system testing.
• Ensured proper sign-off at all stages of the QALC (QA, UAT and PROD).
• Created and documented test plan & detailed test procedures for the application and exit report for every sprint
• Responsible for data integrity testing, data profiling and data reconciliation testing

Environment:Java, Oracle 10g, QTP,Selenium,Test Director, Perl, C#,.NET, QTF, QTP 8.5/9, Wireless, Agile(Iterations), VBScript, XML, SQL Server 2005, Web Services, Java/J2EE,Agile.

Confidential, Plano, TX

QA Engineer

• Work with business analysts and the business experts to understand the business flow and business rules
• Strong experience testing web applications/portals
• Worked with in a dynamic agile/scrum environment that will require vigilance to deadlines, traceability and teamwork.
• Responsible for testing business intelligence reporting application which included functionality, regression, integration, system, backend and user acceptance testing.
• Test cases were designed based on use-cases and requirements, logged the traced defects and created the test metrics to analyze the defects in quality center.
• Participated in Production meetings and discussed about enhancements of the project
• Involved in all stages of testing process of generic quikmet web application.
• Performed Navigation testing and cross-browser testing with IE and Netscape to test the application behavior using and developed base line scripts for testing the future release of the application using quick test pro (QTP).

Environment: ALM 11.0, JAVA, .Net, MacOS, Jira, SQL Server, WAVE, JAWS, SOAPUI, CSS, HTML

Confidential, CA

QA Engineer

• Responsible for writing test plan, test scenarios and test cases for the application after analyzing the business requirements and system requirements documents
• Executed and tested many SQL statements, and PL/SQL packages to validate backend data in the oracle database.
• Debugged and modified Perl scripts written to load, unload, and modify data in the database.
• Worked closely with senior developers to identify areas and methods to improve testing efficiency, expand coverage and to increase product reliability
• Involved in designing of BRD and manually tested the whole application before handing over for the automated testing p erformed data-driven, functional, GUI, black box and regression testing.
• Performed module testing, random testing, smoke testing, functional testing, integration testing, and end to end Testing
• Coordinated and facilitated status meetings with cross-functional team members.

Environment: Java 2.0, .NET, PERL,JavaScript 1.1/1.2, Oracle 10g, SQL server 2008, Windows Xp, XML, Quality Center 9.2, UNIX, Quick Test Pro 9.2, TOAD

Confidential, CA

QA Tester

• Prepared and executed manual test plans, test scenarios and test cases based on business and functional requirements.
• Prepared test scenarios, test cases for complex business requirements
• Tested formulas for various loan, interest calculation, and currency conversions required for reporting purposes.
• Tested functionality of interest data issued and gained from different customers by the bank from the database for calculating net profit and also graphs.
• Conducted random testing of credit and debit card transactions manually
• Database testing was performed to make sure that the data in the backend is the correct data
• Reported defects in rational clear quest helped the developers to track and resolve the defect to participate in triage meetings.

Environment: Quality Center 9.0, Quick Test Professional, Java, Windows XP, XML, UNIX, JavaScript, HTML, SQL Server 2005 and MS Access.

 Confidential, CA

QA Tester

• Developed manual test cases for positive, negative, functional and performance testing.
• Executed test cases on each build of the application and verified the actual results against requirements, bug reporting and defect tracking using mercury quality center
• Placed the checkpoints to compare the actual results with expected results.
• Performed Ad-hoc testing, integration testing, End-to-End testing, function testing, and regression testing
• Documentation of all test results and reviewing the test results.
• Submission of test results to the development management and user acceptance testing management
• Attended daily and weekly meetings for project updates.

Environment:XML, HTML, JavaScript, SQL Server 2005, UNIX, Win’98, Win 2000,Internet Explorer, QTP 8.x, 9.x, Quality center