SUMMARY:

• Around Seven years of experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Quality Assurance in Functional testing on client/server and web based applications.
• Innovative, creative and results - oriented software professional, hands-on experience in planning, developing, coordinating the testing program policies, procedures and schedules on multiple projects using both Manual procedures and Automated Testing tools in a Web based and Client/ Server environment.
• Expertise in QA (Agile & Waterfall) methodology and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Expertise in analyzing system specifications and business requirements.
• Experience in different domains like Financial, Electronic Trading, Telecommunications, Retail and Publication domains.
• Experience in analyzing test results and communicating via Bug tracking systems.
• Tracking and resolving issues in Requirements phase and updated using Traceability Matrix.
• Expertise in writing, maintaining, executing Test Strategy Document, Testing Methodologies, Test cases and Test Scripts throughout Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Analyzing bugs and Interacting with team members in fixing the errors.
• Expertise in QTP using functionalities like parameterization, descriptive programming, check points and synchronization point.
• Expertise and experience in performing different kinds of testing like Smoke, Black Box, White Box, GUI, Functionality, Unit, Integration, Regression, Usability, Compatibility, Installation, System, Performance, Load, Stress and User Acceptance (UAT) of web and client/server applications.
• Extensive experience in Client/server, Mainframes & Web Based Application testing.
• Extensively involved in Backend Testing of SQL Queries using Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 and Sybase.
• Create SQL queries to fetch and verify the data from Source and Target.
• Involved in ETL validation such as Field level data verification, Count Validation and back-end testing.
• Able to work under tight deadlines and capable to effectively handle multiple ongoing projects.
• Good interpersonal skills, commitment, result oriented, hard working with a quest and zeal to learn new technologies.
• Ability to prioritize tasks well and work on multiple test projects at the same time.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

QA Management Tools: Rational Quality Manager, Rational Functional Tester, HP Quality Center/ALM, QTP/UFT, Load Runner, Jmeter, Test Director, MQC, Microsoft Coded UI, Clear Quest, Selenium-Element Locators, WebDriver, TestNG, Microsoft Test manager and Team Foundation Server

Defect Tracking Tools: Bugzilla, Work flow, JIRA

Case Tools: Rational Rose.

Languages: C, Java, VB, PHP, Python,.Net, HTML, XML and SQL/PL SQL

Scripting Languages: UNIX shell and Perl, TSL, Java Script, VB Script

RDBMS: Oracle 8i/9i/10g, DB2, Sybase & SQL Server 2000, MS Access

Operating Systems: Win2003/NT, Linux, UNIX, Solaris

Web/Application Servers: Apache Tomcat4/5, IIS, Web Logic 8.1, and Web Sphere 5.0.

Configuration Management: Visual Source safe, PVCS, Rational Clear case

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Mellon, NY

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing the Requirement Design Documents (RDD) & Technical Design Documents (TDD).
• Involved in drafting the Test Plan and share with team and Business using Sharepoint.
• Followed Agile Methodology and attended Daily SCRUMS.
• Prepared required Test Data to meet software quality.
• Responsible for writing the Test Case design document, executing the Test Cases in ALM.
• Supported UAT testing team members and AMPCUS (Business).
• Involved in Web Services Testing using UFT and Soap UI.
• Extensively used Selenium Web Driver and TestNG.
• Extensively used XMLSpy editor to compare the XML files and transaction records.
• Involved in Data Conversion using Altova Mapforce which converts flat files Data into XML format.
• Automated the Front-End Applications for Regression Testing using UFT by using Vbscripts as per Client requirements.
• Involved in REST testing to test Web services.
• Extensively used Jmeter to measure performance of the GMEP2.0 applications.
• Involved in preparing 508 compliance test plans and test cases.
• Experience on the accessibility testing standard as per Section 508.
• Knowledge in assistive technologies for web browsing such as JAWS or NVDA
• Performed 508 compliant verification testing and reviewing technical requirements for GMEP 2.0 application using NVDA.
• Successfully completed all the trainings required for the Mortgage Domain and gained excellent understanding of the domain.

Environment: HP Application life cycle Management 12.50, HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) 12.50, Selenium, JIRA, Informatica PowerCenter, JAWS, NVDA, Windows, MS-Office, XMLSpy, Altova- Mapforce, SQL Server, Web server, Application server, Java, J2EE, VB Script, HP Load Runner, JMeter 3, SOAP UI/ RESTful web services, Sharepoint.

Confidential, TX

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering and analyzing the Business & Technical Requirements.
• Prepared the High Level Test Case design document. Involved in drafting the Test Plan.
• Worked with bug tracking tools like IBM Rational Clear Quest for identifying, analyzing, and documenting defects and support requests.
• Responsible for loading the inbound feeds, setting up the metadata and test data preparation.
• Responsible for generation of outbound files for different feeds using UNIX.
• Validating and monitoring the job execution running in background using Autosys.
• Validating the data with respect to inbound feed, staging and database to make sure counts and the data matched successfully across all.
• Responsible for validation of the outbound files with respect to database.
• Extensively used XMLSpy editor to compare the XML files and transaction records.
• Extensively using MicroStrategy tool to generate the Front End Reports.
• Automated the Front-End Reports using QTP by using Vbscripts as per Client requirements.
• Involved in Performance Testing to measure the performance of the application using HP Load Runner.
• Performed positive and negative testing of the application for identification of bugs after fixing of errors in each subsequent build during the process of development.
• Reported the issues to the Developers in timely manner and followed up to get it fixed, not to impact the timelines and deliverables.

Environment: Web server, Application server, Ab-initio, Java, J2EE, VB Script, Autosys, IBM Rational Functional Tester, IBM RQM, IBM Rational Requisite Pro, IBM Rational Clear Quest, JIRA, Quick Test Pro (QTP) 10.0, Load Runner 11.0, Windows, UNIX, MS-Office, XMLSpy, MicroStrategy.

Confidential, NJ

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Agile Methodology.
• Preparation of the Test Strategy and guiding the team.
• Involvement in the System Test Plan Preparation and Requirements Streamlining.
• Involvement in Preparation of Test Procedures, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Data.
• Responsible for GUI and Functional Testing, using Black box Testing Techniques.
• Involved in Test Execution, Results Analyzing, Defect Reporting.
• Prepared Requirement Traceability matrices.
• Enhancing the Test Scripts for Global Execution.
• Involved in Regression Testing using Selenium.
• Knowledge in Integration of GIT, Jerkins and Maven.
• Analyzed data in database tables using SQL queries to create various testing conditions.
• Responsible for Backend Data Validation ETL for OLTP (Online transaction processing) project.
• Validating the data with respect to inbound feed, staging and database to make sure counts and the data matched successfully across all.
• Created execution reports using ALM - Document Generator and responsible for sharing reports to overall Team.
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Regression, Security, positive and negative testing of the application for identification of bugs after fixing of errors in each subsequent build during the process of development.
• Reported the issues to the Developers in timely manner and followed up to get it fixed, not to impact the timelines and deliverables.
• Extensively involved in Defect Mitigation and Go - No Go calls.
• Responsible for handling multiple projects.

Environment: HP Application life cycle Management 12.50, Selenium - Element Locators, Selenium WebDriver with TestNG framework, JIRA, Windows, MS-Office, Java, J2EE, Python, GIT, Jerkins, Maven, Share point, Oracle 10g, SQL, PL/SQL, Toad and Informatica.

Confidential, TX

Sr. QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Detailed review of the HLD (high level design documents) for work request job report & order creation, maintenance and process flows for work items.
• Creating and executing QTP scripts for the different job action types - this covered all the major flows for job creation, job search and DB validation.
• Prepared regression execution test suite for regression test sets in Quality Center.
• Creating QTP scripts for Data base checking to ensure that data passing in the front end is successfully processed in the DB.
• Writing Descriptive Programming for dealing with .NET GUI components having dynamic properties.
• Installing QTP with all necessary add-ins for any new systems specified by the client.
• Created detail design and run books to ensure knowledge transfer to team members and management.
• Developed test scenarios, test cases and automated the manual test cases.
• Script enhancements and Data Driven Testing for large amount of data were implemented with QTP.
• Co-ordinated with the team members for the completion of Automation Test Scripts.
• Used Quality Center to track and maintain defect reports.
• Conducted System and Regression testing, identified application errors and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Extensively involved and validated Backend transactions by TOAD.
• Attended daily standup meetings with the Manager and other team members.

Environment: Windows XP, Windows 7, UNIX, Java, J2EE, Ab-initio, Oracle, SQL, JIRA, HP Quality Center 9.2, Quick Test Pro (QTP) 10.0, SQL Server 2000, Toad, Weblogic, Web Sphere, AIX Server, Apache Server, MicroStrategy.

Confidential, NY

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Preparing Test Cases, Test Strategy, Test Case Specifications, Test Scenario’s, Test data, Test log and Defect Reports.
• Detailed Review and Analyzing of ETL system specification and Transformation requirement. Interacted with business analysts and Developers and developed the Test plans.
• Validation of Target data in Data Warehouse and Data Marts which are Transformed and Loaded using Ab-initio as per the ETL process defined by the project management.
• Involved in manual testing for testing of the functionalities of an application.
• Written SQL queries to insert and retrieve test data from oracle database in a test script while running test cases.
• Prepared test plans and written test cases manually.
• Extensively involved in all phases SDLC (Software development Life cycle) and STLC (Software Testing life cycle).
• Extensive work experience in testing the web services using SOAP UI tool.
• Web services like web API and rest web services were tested based on URL in the requirement.
• Extensively involved in automation frameworks of QTP Keyword driven and Data Driven frameworks.
• Created and executed Test Script using QTP for functional Testing and Regression Testing.
• Excellent work experience in using Checkpoints in QTP for comparing expected values with actual values.
• Created function libraries using QTP for regression testing and also involved in descriptive programming.
• Extensive experience in error handling by creating recovery scenarios in QTP.
• Used Autosys for job scheduling.
• Used UNIX shell scripts for running the automation jobs.
• Validated successfully the staging and load common data. Also validated the mapping of fields in the inbound and outbound files to make sure the requirements are matched as per BRD.
• Field level data verification to understand the linkages for the fields displayed in the report.
• Written SQL queries to insert and retrieve test data from oracle database in a test script while running test cases.
• Executed back-end data-driven tests with a focus on data transformations between various systems.

Environment: Quick Test Professional(QTP9.5), HTML, JAVA Script, Oracle 10g, JIRA, Load runner, SOA/web services, SOAPUI, Windows, UNIX, MS-Office.