SUMMARY:

• Over 10 years of experience in Information Technology industry with emphasis on Software Testing/Quality Assurance.
• Sound Experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as well as software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) for various Web based and Client/Server Applications.
• Experienced in Requirements analysis, Test planning, Test case design, Manual test execution, and Defect reporting.
• Expertise in testing techniques like Black Box, White Box, Smoke, Functional, System, User Interface, Integration, Regression, Stress, Load and Performance.
• Strong skills in Mercury Tools Suite Quality Center/Test Director, QTP/Win Runner and Load Runner.
• Expertise in RDBMS like Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2 and working knowledge of major Operating Systems viz., Windows 9.x/NT/2000/XP and UNIX.
• Hands on experience in MS Office Products Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Visio and Project
• Excellent Oral and Written Communication Skills adoptable to dynamic situations and is also a collaborative, professional team member.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: - Quality Center, Test Director 7.5/8.0, Quick Test Pro 5.6/6.0, Win Runner 6.0/7.5, Load Runner 6.5/7.0, Rational Clear Quest, Action Request System (Remedy) v4.0, Test Partner.

Operating System: - Windows 9X/NT/2000/XP, MS-DOS, UNIX, OS/2, OS/400 and MVS/ESA

Languages: - C, Pro*Cobol, C++, CICS, JCL, Visual Basic, JAVA and PL/SQL, TSL

Database: - Oracle v8/9, MS-SQL Server v6/7/2000, DB2, MS Access v2\7\2000

Web based Technologies: - ASP, JSP VBScript, Jscript, JavaScript, Servlets, HTML, DHTML, IIS, IBM Web Sphere and XML

Development Tools: - Visual Studio, Visual Age, Jbuilder, JUnit and TOAD v.6.3

Documentation & Version Control: - MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project 98/2000, MS Outlook 2000 Lotus notes R5 GroupWise v.5.5, Visio 5.0/2000 and MS Visual SourceSafe, CVS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Sr. QA Analyst / Test Lead

• Ran Unit Tests to validate the code changes.

• Validate XML changes.
• Participated in Product issue meeting with the SMEs and Product analysts.
• Created various documents for testing purpose.
• Created and Maintained Issue Log document.
• Wrote and updated Test requirement document.
• Updated Test cases
• Created and Maintained documents for future references.

Environment: Microsoft Excel, XML Spy, HP Quality Center.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Systems QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on testing a large portal redesign across multiple devices and desktops.

• Review test strategies and see that all the various kinds of testing like smoke functional, performance, user acceptance and production support testing and end to end testing are covered.
• Worked on Agile methodology Environment.
• Attended stand up sessions and retrospective meetings
• Ensuring all development tasks meet quality criteria through test planning, test execution, quality assurance and issue tracking. Worked closely on the deadlines of the project
• Worked on Mobile/Devise &simulators Testing - iOS and Android - iPad and Galaxy tablets
• Worked on Cross Browser testing - IE, Chrome & Firefox.
• Analysis and review of the high level design and technical design documents
• Create test requirements, test plans, test scenarios, and test scripts.
• Initiate status, review, test planning, development and testing meetings and proactively involving in all project related meetings. Initiate Peer review meetings
• Provided weekly status report w/r/t testing and retesting effort to the Test Manager

Environment: HP ALM, Jira, MS SQL Server, MS Word, MS Excel, Java J2EE, Mobile Apps Platform- iOS and Android.

Confidential,Minneapolis, MN

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended the wireframe meetings to estimate the home page and category page weights and ensure that the scores are within the Fast guidelines.

• Calculate the page weight scores from live pages on weekly basis.
• Customize the HTML code as per the business needs, generate the result in Firefox and ensure the estimated weight should match with the live scores.
• Report the over page weight scores to the supervisor.
• Report the critical issues and performance issues to the supervisor.

Environment: Dreamweaver, Yslow, Firefox, Jira, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Systems QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analysis and Review of business/functional requirements and project specifications.

• Preparing Test Strategy/Test cases based on Business Requirements
• Creating Traceability matrix and mapping requirements with the test cases.
• Used Mercury Quality Center as Test Repository Tool to plan tests, manage test assets, create and run manual to check GUI and functional features.
• Conducted walk through of the test cases with the high level/business teams.
• Functional responsibilities included performing System testing, Database testing, Usability testing, Interface testing and Regression Testing on SIS application.
• Creation and modification of database test scripts for billing in SQL Server Database.
• Executed the test scripts on different releases and validated the actual results against the expected results.
• Worked Closely with Test Co-coordinator, Architects, Developers and System Engineers to resolve the technical/functional problems.
• Identified and worked to resolve application bugs and bottlenecks found during the tests.
• Involved in risk analysis and Impact analysis to help determine best use of development and testing resources.
• Involved in Daily Scrum meetings as part of the AGILE development process and participated in Retrospective sessions.

Environment: Mercury Quality Center, Java J2EE, Web Services, MS SQL Server2000, DB2, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Visio.

Confidential, St. Paul, MN

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analysis and Review of business/functional requirements and project specifications.

• Preparing Test Strategy/Test cases based on Business Requirements.
• Coordinated with Test lead for the creation of one consolidated IT Plan.
• Created the Test cases and test scenarios.
• Coordinated all requests for information changes and notices of problems as defined by the project’s change control and problem reporting procedures.
• Identify and document the risk to the project and notify it to Test lead and Test Manager
• Ensure test metrics are collected timely and correctly for the entire project.
• Follow up with a testing status report prepared by test lead for the Project and Development Manager and ensure whether the overall test strategies are covering
• Review and update defects and testing issues.
• Reporting of Defects with defect numbers to the development team.
• Conducted the regression testing and ensure the entire test scenarios and test cases are covered.

Environment: Quality Center 9.0, Clear Quest, JavaScript, Team site (interwoven tool).

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for compliance with testing processes

• Manage test lifecycle - Test strategy, planning, design and execution
• Ensures defect logging, tracking, reporting and retesting
• Prepare and maintain test records.
• Maintain test assets.
• Report Test progress and results to Management/Project team
• Identify and implement reusable test software. Execute test cases, log test results.
• Log test defects, and retest defects fixed by dev teams
• Report status/result to Test Manager.
• Provide data for metrics reporting. Test Asset Management.

Environment: Quality Center, .Net, SQL server, Windows XP, Visual Studio 2005, VB.NET 2005, .Net Framework 2.0, Sybase 8.0, IBM DB2 8.0, MS SQL Server.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

UAT Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of the testing process. Interacted with BPMs and developers to identify test cases based on the business requirements.

• Identification and development of test cases, writing test scripts and test data setup, involved in the development of Test Plan for integration testing
• Performed System and Interface availability check in Stage and Test environments
• Performed Smoke, System, Integration and UAT testing.
• Performed regression testing using QTP 8.0.
• Bugs are tracked and reported using Test Director 8.0.

Environment: J2EE, JSP, Java Script, Oracle 8i, MS Access, Test Director 7.6, Windows Workstation, IBM AS400, Sea Beyond, AS2

Confidential, FRANKLIN LAKES, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with Business Analysts for independent verification of system requirements, testing scope and setting up QA Environments

• Creating complete test documentation, updating test cases, as per the design documents (both Functional and Technical). Outlined Importing test requirement, test scenarios, creating test sets in Mercury Test Director. Involved in Smoke Testing, Black box Testing, Integration testing
• Verify Actual results against Expected results and investigate discrepancies.
• Performed Manual Testing User Interface of the application. Executing the Test Cases, generating reports developing sample test data to be used for executing the tests.
• Performed extensive Data Integrity testing by executing SQL Statements
• Entering/tracking the defects in the Test Director defect tracking tool updating as per the results. Tracking defects and assigning bugs to developers for fixing and retest when needed. Created Automated Test scripts using QTP Tool for Regression. Conducted web testing for hyperlinks and navigations.
• Analyzed application performance characteristics by creating GUI, Bitmap and Database Check Points.
• Developed test scripts and check points for testing using QTP.

Environment: Windows NT, Unix, Java 2.1, Servlets, JDBC, Web logic Server, Application Server, Oracle 9i, Query Man, MS-Office, QTP, Quality Center /Test Director 8.0.

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating Test plans and Test cases based on the requirement and functional specification.

• Performed GUI testing, functional testing, and Regression Testing, Prepared test cases and test scripts based on user requirements and functional specifications. Tested compatibility of software under various browsers. Performed acceptance, performance, data driven, and smoke testing.
• Performed the regression testing using the Quick Test Professional.
• Created test cases to check the html pages (web page), hypertext links, images, Java applets and tables.
• Developed test scripts and check points for testing
• Written SQL Queries to perform database testing. Performed the Backend Testing using SQL Navigator
• Preparation of test conditions detailing the high level overview.
• Generated Change Request’s for failed test cases and assigned them to responsible developers.
• Used Test Director Defect tracker for reporting bugs.
• Categorized bugs based on the severity and interfaced with developers to resolve them.
• Reported bugs, anomalies, and runtime errors using the Star Team bug tracking System.
• Performed Baseline Data Testing to make sure that the data is checking whether it’s having the global access connectivity.

Environment: CICS, COBAL, TELON, DB2, Java 1.2, JSP, JavaScript, JDBC, HTML, XML, Visual Basic 6.0, Crystal Reports 7, Oracle 8i, SQL, Quick Test Professional 6.2, Test Director 8.0. & Star Team.

Confidential, Huntsville, AL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user requirement documents (URD), software requirement specification document (SRS) and prepared System test plan by dividing the application into manageable units.

• Analyzed the System Specification Documents and Functional Design Documents.
• Involved in writing Detailed Test Plan for the Application under Test (AUT).
• Enhanced the Test Cases by analyzing the Specification Documents.
• Developed, implemented and executed test methodologies and plans to ensure software product quality as per the Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology. Involved in both Manual and Automation testing.
• Involved in Regression and Functionality testing on new builds using Rational Robot.
• Performed Sanity testing on the builds before accepting the new builds.
• Performed builds on the application at regular intervals during the testing process.
• Created Traceability Matrix to ensure that all the requirements are covered by the test cases.
• Responsible for creating maps for processing inbound and outbound Customer data and integrating that data into the clients back end solution. Extraction of test data from DB2 tables and loading of data into DB2 tables.
• Written various JCL procedures to create various files. Created User Defined Functions for more maintainability of the application. Responsible for Database testing using SQL queries and database functions.
• Identified cosmetic and functional bugs during the entire testing effort.
• Participated in review meetings during the entire testing process

Environment: RUP, DB2, SQL, Java, Sybase, Windows NT, UNIX.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Designed the test cases for the Enhancements based on the Customer Requirements.

• Wrote automated test scripts for Functional, GUI, and Navigational testing to identify errors within the applications using Win Runner.
• Maintained and updated scripts for regression test suite to effectively manage the testing process
• Performed manual and automated test of updates to the content.
• Checked the data flow and extensively used SQL Queries to extract the data from the Database.
• Conducted data driven test by passing parameter from text files.
• Preparation of test conditions detailing the high level overview.
• Investigated and documented the errors using Test Director. Coordinated with the development team for bug resolution. Scripted and performed load tests to measure the response times. Identified performance bottlenecks and points of degradation using Load Runner.
• Performed Volume and Performance Testing by using Load Runner 7.2.

Environment: UNIX, JDK 1.2, Servlets, JUnit, JDBC, Visual Basic, SQL, Oracle 8i, WinRunner7.2, Load Runner 7.2 and Test Director 6.5.

Confidential, Murray Hill, NJ

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in test design and development. Devised test plans from functional specifications.

• Designed the test cases for the Enhancements based on the Customer Requirements.
• Wrote automated test scripts for Functional and Navigational testing to identify errors within the applications using Win Runner.
• Maintained and updated scripts for regression test suite to effectively manage the testing process
• Performed manual and automated test of updates to the content
• Creating and executing SQL queries on an ORACLE database to validate and test data
• XSL was used to display the customer details in a structured format.
• Writing the DTD for document exchange XML. Generating, parsing and displaying the XML in various formats using XSLT and CSS. Involved in white and black box testing. Involved in QA test plan documentation. Involved in preparing test cases and test plans and performed QA on mainframe and Perl code. Involved in writing the Perl Scripts for QA Testing
• Generating Test Scripts for Performance Testing using Load Runner. Executing Test Scripts for Load test using Load Runner. Handling large amount of data & worked with the source code.
• Conducted integration testing between the customer site and Administration site to verify the dataflow. Investigated and documented the errors using Test Director. Coordinated with the development team for bug resolution. Scripted and performed load tests to measure the response times. Identified performance bottlenecks and points of degradation using Load Runner.

Environment: UNIX, WindowsNT 4.0/2000, Java, XML, XSL, C++, PERL, SQL, PL/SQL, JDBC, Visual Basic 6.0, Web Sphere, Oracle 8i, UML, Win Runner, Load Runner and Test Director.

Confidential

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Developed front end screens in Visual Basic and integrated components developed in C++

• Developed HTML and ASP pages using Visual Interdev Tool. Developed Dynamic Webpages using Java Script, and VB Script code.
• Worked on Transact SQL and developed various stored procedures for data retrieval and to provide functionality. Used Toad Tool for developing Stored Procedures, Triggers as IDE to interact with the Oracle Database
• Developed Server side Scripts using ASP and created ODBC scripts to interact with database using ADO and OLEDB. Involved in Unit testing & Integration testing.

Environment: Visual Basic 5.0, Oracle 7.1, PL/SQL, Windows 95 and Win Runner.