SUMMARY:

• Over 6+ years of IT experience in System analysis, Design, Development, Coding, Testing and Implementation, primarily includes Quality Assurance experience in Client/Server and Web based Applications. Good experience in industries like Banking, Financial, Healthcare and Insurance.
• Experience working with Retail, Telecommunications and Banking organizations.
• Experience in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), with specific focus on testing.
• Over Seven years of strong experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing (Manually and Automation using HP Products), Test Plan Formulation, Functionality, GUI, Performance and Regression Testing in Web Based and Client/Server Applications in different environments and different Browsers.
• Demonstrated excellence in writing System Specification documents, creating and developing Test Plans, Test cases and Test scripts and interacted with development Engineers and Business Analyst.
• Created, maintained, and executed manual and automated test scripts for black box, white box, functional, regression, confidence, system, security, performance, load and stress testing.
• Hands On experience in testing Data Ware Housing applications developed in Data Stage, Informatica and BI Reports using Business Objects and Micro strategy.
• Tested and executed projects in Multi - Platform Environments like Windows, UNIX and Linux.
• Proficient in writing SQL Queries, Shell Scripts to validate the application data.
• Experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Testing life cycle and Bug life cycle.
• Experience in different SDLC methodologies like Waterfall, V-model and Agile (scrum).
• Experience includes the testing of Internet, Client/Server and WEB based applications using automated test tools like Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Extensively used Quality Centre (Test Director) for test management and as Bug Tracking System for reporting defects.
• Actively participated in Project Planning, Review and Status meetings.
• Proven Strong Analytical, Logical skills and ability to work on multiple projects
• Proficient in Relational Databases like Oracle, SQL Server and DB2.
• Extensively used CA Clarity PPM for Time Tracking.
• Ability to quickly master in new concepts, applications.
• Comfortable working with JAVA, .Net, C, C++, SQL Server, UNIX, Perl, Shell scripting, VB Script, HTML, XML.
• Strong functional background, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, good Team player, Self-Starter and worked in onsite-offshore model.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/XP/NT, UNIX, Linux

Testing Tools: Win Runner 7.0, Quick Test Pro 6.5/8.x/9.x,Test Director 8.0/7.x, Mercury Quality Center 9.0, Load Runner8.0/7.8, Rational Test Studio

Languages: Visual Basic 6.0, C, C++, C#, TSQL, PL/SQL, Java

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server 6.5/7.0/2K, Oracle 9i/10g, MS-Access

Internet Languages: ASP.NET, VB.NET, ASP, VB Script, Javascript, HTML, XML, CSS

Modeling Tools: Oracle Data Modeler, Rational Rose, Visio

Project Management Methods: MS Project, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall, Agile

Bug Tracking Tools: Clear Quest, Remedy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Wynnewood, PA

Onsite Coordinator/Senior QA Analyst

Environment: HP Quality Center 11.0, Agile, Rally, Rational Rose, UML, Java, J2EE, SOAP, QTP, XML, HTML, AJAX, Spring Framework, Oracle 11g, Windows.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirements Document and system specifications and identified the test requirements.
• Interacted with Business Analysts and Developers in requirement analysis, design reviews, testing and documentation for application developed in Agile environment.
• Actively involved in Requirement Analysis, Business Analysis, Use-Case Analysis Involved and developed comprehensive Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Case and Test Scripts and documented them in Quality Center (QC).
• Involved in preparation of test data using Excel Sheet for End-to-End Scenario based testing in Web environment and validating the interfaces for Customer view and Credit Bureau systems.
• Designed the Test Cases and participated in review Inspections.
• Executed the test cases and test scenarios using Quality center (QC).
• Update the Clarification tracker with latest comments provided by Dev and QA team in Defects Review Call Every day, pull the Execution and Defects report from QC and report to relevant people.
• Helping Automation Team to resolve the technical issues they face during automation.
• Performed Smoke testing of the application from end-to end for testing different functionality and database mapping issues.
• Extensively performed Functional, Integration, User Acceptance and Regression Testing on the web-based application.
• Created, maintained and executed functional test scripts for Default HPO based on the Business requirements.
• Actively co-coordinated the team members and identified the regression and functional test cases for automation.
• Provided clear concise feedback to Development team on recurring errors both on an individual and team basis with aim of long-term reduction of defects found in test results.
• Used QTP to automate the testing process by recording the scripts and perform testing with various user data by parameterization to reduce the future duplication of efforts.
• Logged and tracked the defects using Quality Center defect tracking system (Defect Management).
• Participated in Daily Defect Status Calls.
• Participated in review meetings and took the initiative to meet the QA testing targets.
• Performed production installation and validation.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Senior QA Analyst

Environment: UNIX, Windows, HP Quality Center, QTP, SQL Server, Shell Scripting, VB Scripting, DB2.

• Reviewed System requirement document (SRS), Functional Design Document (FDD), and Test specification document.
• Worked closely with the project team in planning, coordination and implementing QA methodology.
• Split up the requirements to sub requirements and divide them into pool of tasks.
• Co-ordinate with different stake holders - Project PM, Release managers to ensure issues are resolved on time.
• I bridge the gap between the onsite functional team and the offshore QA team.
• Send DSR (Daily Status Report) and Weekly updates to all the leads.
• Update the Clarification tracker with latest comments provided by Dev and QA team in Defects Review Call Every day, pull the Execution and Defects report from QC and report to relevant people.
• Helping Automation Team to resolve the technical issues they face during automation.
• Identified Smoke test scenarios from the Regression sets and performed Smoke test once the application is deployed in to QA
• Developed/Reviewed Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Report, Test cases that are traceable to software requirements.
• Involved in setting up the Test bed machines with QTP installation.
• Extensively performed Functional, Integration, and Regression Testing and prepared the documents for User Acceptance Testing.
• Actively co-coordinated the team members and identified the regression and functional test cases for automation.
• Provided clear concise feedback to Development team on recurring errors both on an individual and team basis with aim of long-term reduction of defects found in test results.
• Worked as a coordinator for onsite offshore model work environment.
• Mentored team members by assisting them with QTP and involved in identifying repeatable steps in the project, then convert them either into a function or a re-usable action.
• Extended the support to the other sub project to reach the project mile stones.
• Effective co-ordination between development team and testing team.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

QA Analyst

Environment: Visual Studio 2005/2008, TFS, VB 6.0, ASP.Net, Visual Source Safe, TFS, Dashboard, SQL Server 2000/ 2005/2008 , Windows XP/7, QTP 9.2.

• Analyze the Business Requirements, Functional Requirements and specifications.
• Attend daily standup meetings using Agile Methodology and report the status to SCRUM master.
• Involved in performing Integration testing, System testing and Regression testing, post prod testing of the application.
• Involved in Software Configuration Management Process, Version control to build the files from development to test, pre prod and production environment.
• Responsible for writing test plans, test scripts, test cases, and executing test cases.
• Writing SQL queries and statements to test database for retrieving information, editing data and inserting data.
• Participated in meetings with developers to discuss enhancements and modifications.
• Responsible to build .Net applications and release process.
• Involved deploying code to production environment
• Interacting with development and testing team to improve overall quality of the application
• Responsible to follow up the production issues with offshore team.
• Generating reports regarding Requirement coverage, Test coverage and defects.
• Involved in collecting project QA metrics and providing necessary reports to the management.
• Responsible to develop and run the QTP Regression Test scripts on every prod releases.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Environment: UNIX, C, Pro* C, Oracle 9i, SQL, HP Quality Center, QTP, shell scripting.

• Involved in preparing test plan and test case templates for manual testing.
• Participated in Requirement review meetings and analyzed the Business Requirements.
• Developed Test cases based on requirements and the use cases provided
• Understanding the Project Related Documents.
• Creating and Executing Test Cases in HPQC
• Participated in grouping the Regression Test Cases into Automatable Test Scenarios based on the business flow of the application.
• Used Parameterization for using various data to test the application using QTP.
• Developed SQL queries to pull data from DB2 and Informix databases.
• Tracing the Requirements with the test cases.
• Defect tracking using HPQC and prepared reports for defects.
• Integrating the QTP scripts with HP Quality Center and executing the same from Test Lab from Quality Center.