SUMMARY:

• Extensive working experience in quality control methods like functional, regression, integration, user acceptance, migration and smoke testing.
• Experience in Agile - Scrum, Waterfall methodologies.
• Managing execution, and maintaining of test plans, test scenarios, test result documents and bug reporting.
• Good Experience in creating Test Metrics such as Effort Variance, Defect Severity Index, Defect Acceptance. Defect Overrun, Test Plan Metrics.
• Experience in testing Business Intelligence reports generated by various BI Tools like MicroStrategy and Business Objects.
• Expertise in performing White Box Testing (Glass Box testing), Grey Box Testing (Black Box Testing), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Database Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, Smoke Testing.
• Extensive experience in using the Mercury Automated Tools like Quick Test Pro, LoadRunner, Quality Center and Test Director.
• Experience executed various scripts using HP Quality Center and Mercury Quality Center.
• Experienced in QTP scripts in Expert View Environment using Parameterization, Checkpoint, Regular Expression, Object Identification, etc.
• Experience in using Rational Testing Tools like Rational Robot, Rational Test Manager, Rational Clear Quest.
• Experienced in setting and configuring QA Environments for financial and non-financial clients.
• Front-end GUI testing of web and client-server based applications.
• Proficient at writing Test Plans and Strategies by following different QA Methodologies.
• Experience working with databases like Oracle, MS SQL Server, Access.
• Excellent knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), RUP, Methodology, UML and TOAD.
• Excellent knowledge of SQL, Triggers, Stored Procedures and database connectivity for Back-end testing.
• Experience in managing the entire quality process management, administration and testing of application-based system using Quality Centre.
• Excellent knowledge of Web Servers, Database Servers, Application Servers.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Phoenix, AZ

Sr. QA tester

Responsibilities:

• Review and analyse Business Requirements Document (BRD's) and Functional Requirements Document (FRD's) to ensure requirements are testable.
• Extensive experience in identifying Test Scenarios based on the Use Cases provided.
• Analysed business requirements, wrote and implemented the Test Plan, various Test cases and Test Scripts in VBScript to test various functionalities using the automated tool QTP and also wrote manual Test Cases according to functional documents and requirements.
• Testing, Integration, Data Migration and implementation of customer oriented business applications inSalesforce.com (On Demand CRM), Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Custom Cloud, SFDC API, APEX and VisualForce
• Responsible for managing test data management for different teams and applications.
• Involved in Test Execution for Manual and Automated Test Cases and reported the Test Results.
• Performed various testing processes such as Smoke Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Functionality Testing, Cross - Browser Testing, Security Testing, Regression Testing, End-to-End Testing and User- Acceptance Testing.
• Created test planning and participated in execution for API testing using Test.
• Enhancing the QTP scripts by doing unit testing on the scripts before creating scenario based tests in Test - Lab Module of HP ALM.
• Implement load and stress tests with Mercury LoadRunner, and present performance statistics to application teams, and provide recommendations of how and where performance can be improved
• Used Firebug Tool to identify the Object's id, Name, XPath, link in the application.
• As a member of the Scrum team participated in daily standup meetings, project status meetings as well as retrospective meetings and reviews.
• Created automation scripts using HP QTP for different scenarios, used Smart Identification feature of QTP to identify unique properties of objects, created user defined functions, reusable actions, and managed shared object repositories.
• Used QTP checkpoints for checking web pages, images, texts, tables and various UI elements.
• Collected test data from the data team and tested for different kinds of scenarios (Positive & Negative) for the different fields of UI module.
• Created reusable function library in QTP that can be used across various scripts for provisioning/Billing GUI and API/XMLs.
• Worked on Testing of Payment Web Application which uses Restful Web services, XML, DOM, JSON and AJAX features.
• Performed Oracle tables update and maintenance, extracted information and exported data to other software applications. .
• Involved in Walkthrough and Review meetings to understand the Software Releases.
• Finalized the Test Results and posted them in the Validation SharePoint Site.

Environment: HP ALM, QTP/UFT, MicroStrategy, TOAD, LoadRunner, LINUX, XML, Windows, VB Script, HTML, Agile, Soap UI.

Confidential, Brooklyn, NY

QA tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked with business analysis team to prepare a detailed test plans of the client portal.
• Creating test plans, test cases, test scripts using HP Quality Centre tool for login, user demographic and events module.
• Developed the test cases for Screen UI testing for all the Screen Labels.
• Performed smoke test, integration test, system test and recorded result using HP quality centre tool.
• Created defects using JIRA and QC and followed with developers and business team.
• Involved in functional testing UI testing using manual process.
• Involved in automation of functional front end using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP) tool.
• Involved in web services testing of user creation, login, password management services using SOAPUI tool.
• Performed backend testing using SQL queries and verified data integrity using TOAD tool.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analysed and compared using Quality Centre.
• Developed scripts for functional testing and Data driven testing of the application.
• Performed defect reporting and bug tracking using Quality Centre.
• Developed test cases to perform Regression Testing of different application versions from Vendors or internal developers.

Environment: Java, JavaScript, XML, HTML, SQL, Oracle11g, Windows/NT/2000, SOAPUI 4, Quality Center 8.0, QTP 11, TOAD and Jboss.

Confidential,

Redwood City, California

Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business requirement, Documents and Technical Specification. .
• Created test plan for testing effort, developed test cases for functional requirements and analysetechnical specifications and use case.
• Prepared a best practice automation document for QA reference.
• Analysed the application and prepared a General Automation Framework.
• Developed Driver Script, Start-up Script and utility Functions in QTPspecific to the application under test.
• Used descriptive programming in QTPusing VBScript for selected test cases.
• Worked on preparing external library functions using VB Scripting to create common business
• Functionalities to expedite the automated testing process.
• Incorporated enhancements and changes into Test scenarios and test scripts to attain up to date andacceptable standard.
• Performed functional testing using QTP by feeding valid/invalid inputs to the application under test.
• Developed Smoke Test scripts and administer smoke test on every deployment pointing to different QAand production environments.
• Created data driven test to handle the scenario requiring multiple sets of data.
• Prepared a Regression test scripts, and maintain test labs and run reports in Quality Center/ALM.
• Developed Descriptive Programming and maintained Local and Global Object Repository in QTP/UFT.
• Provided assistance to other team members with testing approaches, application knowledge andtechnical knowledge.
• Configured and maintained centralized Test Lab Environment in Quality Center/ALM.
• Created update and executes efficient database queries to support, perform, or validate the automatedtest cases as needed.
• Worked in automating UI as well as API such as XML, and Web Services test cases scenarios.
• Worked with test team and other groups to identify, create, and maintain test data needed to execute testcases.
• Reported progress and issues to test management and participates in weekly pulse status meetings asRequired.
• Plan and present automated test demos to management team.
• Upon migration from QC to TFS, Worked on Synchronizing TFS (Microsoft Visual Studio Team foundation
• Server) Scenario with HP Quality Center/ALM Requirements.
• Using Load Runner developed and Execute performance tests, analyze report with Service levelAgreement.
• Used SQL Queries to retrieve data from database to validate QTP input data and to trouble shoot analysis.
• Prepared an automated script to support ETL data conversion process and report any discrepancy tomanagement.
• Worked with business analysts, users and development team to discussed requirements, technicalproblems, and defects.
• Used QC, TFS and Footprint for defect tracking & logging application issues.

Environment: Quality Center/ALM, QTP/UFT,C++,.net,, Load Runner, .NET, Ajax, foot print, scripting, SQL,Window XP