SUMMARY:

• Over 9 years of experience as a QA Tester/Analyst includes diversified experience in Automation and manual testing of Client/Server and web based applications.
• Excellent communication skills, strong sense of organization, effective time management and have the ability to work in a team as well as independently.
• Knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Testing Life cycle and Defect Life cycle.
• Experience in Smoke Testing, GUI Testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression Testing and Backend Testing.
• Experience in developing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Case Status reports, Defect reports, Test Readiness Review and Operational Readiness review.
• Proficient in using of Rational Test Manager, Mercury Test Director and Quality Center.
• Experience in Rational tools like Clear Case, Clear Quest, Test Manager, Manual Test and Functional Tester.
• Experience with Infocus, JAWS and NVDA for 508 Compliance testing.
• Knowledge of Quality Assurance methodologies and strategies with better understanding Rational Unified Process.
• Experience in Testing with Agile Method.
• Experience with UNIX environment.
• Experience in Validating the XML files.
• Proficient in the use database concepts to analyze the data with front - end data.
• Experience in writing and organizing test plans and test cases using Quality Center.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: C, C++, PL/SQL, SQL, SQL* Plus, Java and HTML,XML.

Testing Tools: QTP,WinRunner, QualityCenter9.2/8.2, Test Director7.5, Rational Functional Tester,Rational Test Manager, Rational Manual Test.

Defect Trackers: PVCS Tracker,Issue Tracker, Quality Center9.2/8.2, Test Director7.5 & Rational Clear Quest.

Technologies: ASP, OLAP, TOAD, INFOCUS4.2, RUP, Lotus Notes,Rapid SQL.

Operating System: Windows NT/2000, WindowsXP, UNIX

GUI: Developer 2000 / 6.0, Power Point and MSOffice

Database: Oracle, DB2, Redbrick, MS Access, SQL Server 2005/2008 R2

508: JAWS/NVDA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Virginia

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirements documents to ensure complete test.
• Worked closely with Business Analysts/Subject Matter Experts to understand the requirements for reports from Business Requirement documents.
• Responsible for attending the Code Review weekly twice.
• Generated the adhoc reports and run reports, or perform specific analytical functions using system data.
• Use database(s), report tools or specialized applications to generate reports or analyses for operations
• Responsible for writing queries as per the requirement to generate reports using toad (Take each query from clear case and execute in TOAD).
• Responsible for generating TREASURY Reports.
• Responsible for generating and validating daily, weekly, and Monthly reports.
• Supported MHA Public report process and responsible for monthly report production and analysis of MHA program metrics.
• The data for the TREASURY reports will be extracted using SAS jobs and copied into the Templates.
• Experience in validating the generated reports side by side by writing the formulas in excel.
• Updated/Set Print Area accordingly, when new rows or columns are expanded/added.
• Verified print preview for formatting issues and make sure that all results are in the print area.
• Responsible for running the .bat scripts to validate the generated report.
• Worked with the application teams to develop requirements for data extractions or pre - canned reports.
• Worked on Interfaces files for validating and did data research on the issues encountered.
• Worked on DBMODS that were requested by providing the input file and also validated the data retrieved for dB mods.
• Experience in updating and scheduling the BOXI reports.
• Once the reports has been validated, Reports will be sent for approval to the manager.
• Responsible for Email distribution to the clients once the reports has been approved as per requirement.
• Have experience, worked on task analysis and Contributed to special projects as and when required.
• Ability to multi-task while effectively managing time and meeting critical deadlines with little supervision
• Analyzed the Business Requirements and Functional Requirements to ensure complete test coverage and developed the Test Cases.
• Analysis of Requirements obtained from Doors.
• Worked closely with Business Analysts/Subject Matter Experts to create test Scenarios from Business Requirement documents.
• Designed test cases and prepared positive and negative test data using Excel, XML and CSV files and for End-to-End Scenario based testing.
• Maintained all the test cases in ALM (Application Life Cycle Management) so as to perform Manual Testing.
• Performed Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Back end testing of the application manually.
• Created XML files as per the scenario and as per requirement.
• Conducted File Cross Validation, validating the XML files created by peers.
• Run the Batches whenever necessary for execution of scenarios.
• Performed Backend Testing by using SQL queries to verify the integrity of the database.
• Used Clear Quest as the tool for Defect Tracking and Reporting.
• Involved in preparation of the Test Reports.
• Prepared RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix).
• Responsible for attending daily meetings to provide status.
• Experience in executing the BOXI reports.
• Interacted with Business Analysts, Developers and QA team members in different defect raising situations.
• Involved in the Walkthroughs with development team to discuss related issues.

Environment: Manual Testing, Windows XP, ALM, Clear Quest, Clear Case, Doors, Oracle, XML SPY, Share point,Toad and BOXI.

Confidential, Virginia

Quality Control Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Analyzing the Requirements Document and developed the Test Cases.
• Test cases were written and executed in the Jama Contour and App Test Manager.
• Responsible for Peer review for the Test Cases and Update based on the feedback, if necessary.
• Responsible for setting up the test Environment for testing.
• Responsible for triggering and installing builds twice a daily.
• Performed Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Back end testing of the application manually.
• Regression tests were performed after every build of the application.
• Responsible for back end testing using SQL queries.
• Responsible for the raising defects in JIRA and assigning them to concern developer or lead.
• Responsible execute fiddler test on the developed page for 5 or 10 users.
• Responsible for running the scripts to test the standard Business Rules across all the applications.
• Attend daily and weekly stand up meetings to provide the status.
• Responsible for preparing Test Summary reports whenever necessary.
• Responsible for doing 508 testing on the applications using Wave tool, web developer and firebug.
• Screen reader testing using JAWS and NVDA.
• Responsible for doing testing on pre-production environment.
• Conducted cross browsing testing using IE8, Mozilla, Chrome and safari.
• Once deployment is done, responsible for doing Post-production verification.
• Responsible for developing Test strategy, Test Readiness Review and Operational Readiness Review documents.
• Interacted with Business Analysts, Developers and QA team members in different situations.
• Involved in the Walkthroughs with development team to discuss related issues.

Environment: .Net, SQL Server 2005/2008 R2, Jama Contour, App test Manager, Jira, JAWS, NVDA, Fiddler and Wave tool.

Confidential, Virginia

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the Requirements Document and developed the Test Cases.
• Involved in developing the Test Plan.
• Maintained all the test cases in Quality Center so as to perform Manual Testing.
• Performed Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Back end testing of the application manually.
• Regression tests were performed after every build of the application.
• Responsible for validating the XML files received from equator and validating the data in the database.
• Responsible for testing the Business Rules provided as part of requirements using Biztalk.
• Interacted with Business Analysts, Developers and QA team members in different defect raising situations.
• Involved in the Walkthroughs with development team to discuss related issues.

Environment: BizTalk server 2010,Toad 9.6, oracle 81,Quality Center, windows XP,XML.

Confidential, Virginia

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the Requirements Document and developed the Test Cases.
• Analysis of Requirements obtained from Doors.
• Maintained all the test cases in Quality Center so as to perform Manual Testing.
• Performed Screen Navigation Test to ensure that the links are established as per the documentation provided.
• Performed Smoke Testing, GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Back end testing of the application manually.
• Run the Batches whenever necessary and created the XML as per requirements.
• Regression tests were performed after every build of the application.
• Performed Backend Testing by extensively using SQL queries to verify the integrity of the database.
• Responsible for validating the XML files received from equator and validating the data in the database.
• Ran autosys jobs whenever necessary
• Used Clear Quest as the tool for Defect Tracking and Reporting.
• Involved in preparation of the Test Reports.
• Prepared RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix).
• Conducted Cross Browser testing
• Interacted with Business Analysts, Developers and QA team members in different defect raising situations.
• Involved in the Walkthroughs with development team to discuss related issues.
• Involved in defect review meetings prior to Release.

Environment: Manual Testing, Windows XP, Quality Center, Clear Quest, Doors,Oracle,XML,J2EE,Toad,Tibco.

Confidential, Ashburn

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the Requirement document and developed the Test Cases.
• Experience with Quality Center for the test cases to be written and run them manually.
• Responsible for performing Regression Testing and Back end testing.
• Responsible for running the UNIX scripts whenever necessary.
• Used Quality Center for defect Logging
• Interacted with Business Analysts, Developers and QA team members in different defect raising situations
• Involved in the Walkthroughs with development team to discuss related issues.

Environment: Manual Testing, Windows XP, Quality Center, Redbrick, UNIX, Putty, Hyperion.

Confidential, Dulles

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Experience in Agile Methodology.
• Involved in Scrum Meetings daily to report the status of testing.
• Analyze the Requirement document and developed the Test Cases.
• Experience with Quality Center for the test cases to be written and run them manually.
• Experience in doing builds whenever necessary.
• Performed Screen Navigation Test to ensure that the links are established as per the documentation provided.
• Experience in cross Browser Testing.
• Performed Smoke Testing, GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing and Back end testing of the application manually.
• Regression tests were performed after every build of the application.
• Performed Backend Testing by extensively using SQL queries to verify the integrity of the database. Used DB Artisan tool
• Used BLT (Bug logging & tracking) as the internal tool for Defect Tracking and Reporting.
• Involved in preparation of the Test Reports.
• Interacted with Business Analysts, Developers and QA team members in different defect raising situations.
• Experience in creating Test Data for the UAT.
• Involved in the Walkthroughs with development team to discuss related issues.
• Involved in defect review meetings prior to Release.

Environment: Manual Testing, Windows XP, Quality Center, DB Artisan, BLT (Bug logging & Tracking), Sybase, UNIX, Putty, Apache.