SUMMARY:

• To work in a challenging environment, where there is lot to learn, as well as the opportunity to grow and excel along with organization.
• To grow in the area of software testing and become a quality control expert knowing all the aspects of Software quality assurance.
• Over 9 years of experience in Quality Testing & Analysis.
• Extensive experience in Manual Testing like White - Box/Black-Box, Database, GUI testing, Functional, Regression, Load, and Performance Testing.
• Experience using Mercury Interactive Win Runner, Load Runner, Test Director and Rally.
• Worked closely with Development Teams, Test Leads, Business Analysts and End Users.
• Integral part of the processes adhering to Quality Control initiatives.
• Good Confidential identifying risks and issues and thus taking up risk based testing.
• Well versed in developing Quality Assurance strategies, testing methodologies in software development environments.
• Good client interfacing skills and experience.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong understanding of Organizational structure, and effective time Team handling/management capacities and have the ability to work independently as well

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Mercury Quality Center 8.0/9.2, Toad, QTP, Rally

Operating Systems: Windows XP/ Windows 2000, UNIX.

Languages: JAVA, J2EE, PL/SQL.

Internet Related Technologies: HTML, XML, ASP, JSP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Tester/Analyst/ Defect Manager

Responsibilities:

• Review and Analyzed the Business Requirements, System Requirements and Detail Design Documents.
• Worked closely with the Architecture team and involved in designing the entire Testing Process.
• Extensively involved in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Agile (scrum) Methodology.
• Created Test Plans, Test cases by incorporating User Profiles, Configurations, Environments, Risks, Test Scenarios, Schedules and Analysis and Presentation of Results.
• Involved in testing the applications using Telcordia products.
• Involved in Assembly testing, Integration Systems Testing (IST) and User Acceptance Test (UAT) for Web Based Capacity Management application.
• Involved in testing the Bulk Load Tool to bulk update the large number of data.
• Worked on transport topologies in Granite like FTTN, FTTP & FTTC.
• Prepared XMLS in Altova XMLSpy for SOAP request.
• Investigating, debugging and providing solution for all test/production issues/errors with less turnaround time and increased efficiency.
• Working with Telcordia in trouble shooting all Granite related issues.
• Working on Production Request (PR) to fix the Production issues.
• Involved in Data builds for Performance Testing, Integrated Systems Test to support the 24/7 FIE Testing.
• Perform black-box testing including Assembly Testing, Regression Testing and System Integration Testing.
• Used Quality Center to prepare Test Cases, Procedures and Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Record and Maintain the Test Cases, Test Results and Defects, assigned type & priority/severity levels using Mercury Quality Center.
• Responsible for tracking and managing the defects in Quality Center.
• Interacted with developers and discussed technical problems, reported bugs and supported the development team.
• Involved in Deploying and executing Telcordia scripts in Production Environment.
• Developed SQL queries in order to verify that the data is inserted or updated in the database.
• Prepare and document Test Results, Test Summary, Test Package and Review Record Documents.
• Worked closely with the production support team. Responsible for taking care of aspects of vendor management like tracking, researching, resolving and escalating issues for vendor resolution.
• Communicate/Update team with best practices that they can implement to thoroughly test the application, but reduce the amount of testing time required.
• Responsible for holding status calls to get all respective teams on board and track the progress of testing and production deployment.
• Responsible for preparing the status reports, issues log, performance testing matrix and detailed Testing Reports.
• Responsible for preparing the status reports, issues log, performance testing matrix and detailed Testing Reports.
• Involved in creating weekly status reports regarding my testing progress.
• Defect Management for project HALO: Completed Agile testing training provided by Confidential &T. Defects Management tool - Rally.
• My daily responsibilities included hosting AM call to get a status from offshore developers on blocking defects, attending scrum calls, assigning new defects and setting up ETAs, tracking defects every hour to be on top of the priority defects, providing EOD status to leadership.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Altova XMLSpy 2005, JMS, SOAP/HTTP, web services, Oracle, Solaris 10, HP Unix, TOAD, Granite7.1/7.2, Mercury Quality Center 9.2, SQL Server, PL/SQL, HTML, WINDOWS XP/Vista.

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

QA Tester/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Confidential &T specific Documentation for each cycle in SDLC.
• Unit testing and system testing with the clients
• Team Lead - Onsite - Offshore co-ordination, assigning tasks, leave planning
• Status tracking
• Code review and deployment of application

Environment: Mercury Quality Center 9.2, Java/C++/shell scripting, Solaris, Oracle.

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

QA Tester/ Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Expert in QA Life Cycle, which includes Requirement Gathering/Analysis, Designing, Developing and Execution of the entire QA Process and documentation of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Scripts.
• Performed GUI Testing by creating GUI checkpoints to verify the functionality of the GUI objects using Win Runner for testing certain applications.
• Automated Test scenarios for GUI Functionality, Regression, and Integration Testing using Win Runner.
• Created the System and Regression Test cases and automated them
• Implemented Quick Test Pro by calling and executing Win Runner scripts into Quick Test Pro.
• Used all necessary checkpoints of Quick Test Pro to make the reusable scripts on enhancements
• Worked on conversion of manual integration tests into automated tests using Quick Test Pro
• Developed and maintained automated test scripts to support regression testing and participated actively in system testing and Regression testing.
• Developed and maintained the regression test bed, which includes the Test cases, Test scripts and the Test data.
• Used Test Director to store and maintain the Test Repository.
• As an admin, created User Groups, Configured Mail in Test Director and created user defined fields within the project wherever required.
• Performed GUI Testing by creating GUI checkpoints to verify the functionality of the GUI objects using Win Runner.
• Preparing the estimates for the projects and negotiating with the client team
• System Test Documentation as per Confidential &T Standards - System Test Plans, Scripts
• Defect management- Identifying defects and recording them in QC
• Hosting and attending status calls/ defect calls with clients
• Preparing the status reports
• Involved with End Clients and Users and Performed UAT ( User Acceptance Testing)
• Daily onsite - offshore status reporting, task allocation
• Team Management - leave tracking, appraisals, estimations, resource allocation

Enivironment: Quality Center 8.0/9.2, TOAD, QTP, Windows XP, CMI.