SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years of IT Experience in Quality Assurance of Business applications in health care, media marketing research and webhosting domains. Developed test plans with test cases and test scripts to ensure proper business compliance. I worked closely with users, developers and business managers for better understanding of the requirements, business processes for QA testing. I am a team member with an excellent analytical ability and strong communication skills.
• Excellent working experience in using automation tools like Quick Test Pro (QTP), ALM
• Hands on experience with all phases of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and Quality Assurance methodologies
• Strong exposure to testing in Oracle Applications 9i, Client/Server, and Web - based applications
• Experienced in functionality testing, Black Box testing, system testing, integration and regression testing
• Exceptional skills in writing complex queries, sub queries and joins.
• Expertise in preparing test strategy, test plan, test summary reports, test cases, and test scripts for Automated and Manual testing based on User Requirement, and System Requirement documents for Functional, Performance, White box, Black box, Integration, Regression, GUI, UAT, Security, Load, and Database testing
• Experienced in back-end testing using SQL queries.
• Good understanding of CMMI based testing.
• Good experience with UML diagrams and Use cases development
• Knowledge on understanding PL/SQL programs, triggers, indexes, cursors
• Extensive experience to document User Manuals, Test process plans, Software Architecture Plan, Development, and Environment Process or Procedures and Customer Support Documents.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Test Pro, TestDirector, ALMBug Tracking Tools ALM TestTrack

Languages: C, C++, COBOL, JCL HTML, SQL, PL/SQL, VBScript, Java, JSP

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/2000/XP, Windows NT, UNIX, Linux, OS/390

Databases: MS-Access95/97, VSAM, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server

GUI/Tools: Visual Basic

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Netscape NavigatorOther Software: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, VA

Test Engineer\Lead Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Agile and Kanban environment.
• Participated in Sprint planning, sizing meeting and Requirement meeting
• Worked on the data flow diagram
• Created Test plan and test cases for Testing
• Assigned tasks and Co-ordinated with Offshore Team
• Performed web services testing using the SOAP Tool
• Performed Backend Testing using complex queries
• Identified the scenarios for Automated testing and executed the Automated scripts in Selenium
• Unit tested the store procedures
• Performed ETL Testing.
• Trained the store associates after the Product launch.
• Delivered Demo’s to the entire team after the Product launch.
• Worked on the Order management system for different carriers
• Performed the data set up for the entire team.
• Worked on the production tickets

Environment: .NET, SQL SERVER, TFS, HTML/XML, PL/SQL, Angular Java Scripting, Informatica, SOAP UI, Selenium

Confidential, MD

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended Requirement review meetings and High level design review meetings
• Used Quality Center for creating Test Plans, executing test cases, mapping test cases to requirements and logging the defects.
• Reviewed the test cases with all the stakeholders.
• Developed complex queries before the code is dropped in the QA environment.
• Responsible for backend testing of complicated reports.
• Created stored procedures for user friendliness.
• Worked on the complex queries, created tables for QA testers, ETL packages and tested stored procedures.
• Provide daily status reports to the senior management during the major releases.
• Performed functional, regression, usability and failover testing during the major releases.
• Led the End to End testing effort for all the projects and communicated the results to all the stake holders.
• Trained new team members onboard and familiarizing them with the new application
• Received the appreciation emails from the Project owners for various projects worked on for doing out of box testing and recommending desired enhancements to the project
• Documented the How to’s for usage across various teams within the Confidential .

Environment: Java, JSP, Quality Center, Cognos, Power Builder, HTML/XML, PL/SQL, Oracle9i/10g, MS Office, Windows-NT4.0

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Attended requirement and peer review meeting.
• Unit tested the SQL code
• Created the test cases, executed and logged defects using the ALM
• Worked on the Reverse Engineering projects, by back tracing code and creating the mapping document for the next releases Unit tested the SQL code
• Good Understanding of the Data model, Use cases, Data Flow Diagram
• Created and maintained the database test environment
• Loaded the tables with ETL Files using the SQL Loader, Text importer using the PL/SQL Tool
• Performed ETL Testing
• Mentored Team Members
• Tested the PL/SQL packages.
• Worked rigorously on the backend.

Environment: Oracle 11g, ALM, PL/SQL Developer, MS Access

Confidential, Elkridge, MD

Quality Assurance analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in review meetings and involved in the scrum sessions
• Good Understanding of Agile methodology
• Created test cases and test data for component, integration and system testing
• Tested web applications using xml’s.
• Tested the reports extensively in COGNOS AND SSRS and verified the data with backend.
• Performed model based testing by using the UML diagrams.
• Very Good understanding of the state chart diagrams, sequence diagrams, activity diagrams to test behavior of the system under test.
• Written test cases in xml to test the application covering all states of the application.
• Performed web based, backend, functional, regression, integration, ETL, UAT, OLAP for all the products in Quality Indicator project.
• Good analytical and problem solving skills
• Effectively communicates to the team regarding the status of the work.
• Participated in creating the test plans
• Worked closely with the developers to fix the bugs
• Mentor in training the new quality assurance people.
• Written test cases extensively using in Quality center.
• Performed Backend testing extensively using SQL Developer.
• Performed OLAP testing.
• Participated in stress testing.

Environment : COGNOS, SSRS, Testtrack, VB.Net, OracleSQLdeveloper, HTML/XML, SQL, MS Office, MS project Windows XP

Confidential, Columbia MD

Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the meetings involving requirement analysis, user stories, High level and low level design document, status meetings, and test case review meetings.
• Planned the strategy, approach, procedures, templates required and created the high level and low level test cases
• Involved in Test Plan preparation
• Developed Process Flows using MS Visio Professional 2003
• Created Detail and Design Steps in Test Plan Tab and mapped the requirements from Requirements Coverage tab in Test Director
• Created manual High Level Test Cases (HLTC) and Detailed test cases (DTC) and embedded them into appropriate tabs and levels in Test Director
• Responsible for keeping up with the test schedule and interacting with software engineers to ensure clear communications on requirements and defect reports
• Participated in overall end-to-end testing of entire application.
• Worked in sync with development team to ensure high quality and timely releases incorporating all latest changes
• Performed GUI testing, System testing, Interface testing, End-to-End testing, Smoke Test, Back-End testing for the entire Confidential CBET CODE application.
• Implemented full software development life Cycle (SDLC).
• Performed Back-end testing using SQL queries to validate the data in the back-end Oracle Database
• Proficient in SQL and PL/SQL Programming for testing database integrity, Used SQL queries to verify the data from the Oracle database
• Created Check points and Synchronization points for functional, regression testing using QTP
• Created Objects in Object Repository, data-driven tests and synchronization points in Quick Test Pro to help solve key problems.
• Involved in setting up the recovery scenarios in QTP.
• Tested the performance of the application by analyzing the graphs for both throughput and elapsed time using the transaction performance graphs in Load Runner.
• Used Mercury Quality Center to house all test documentation, reports, track all issues/defects.
• Preparation of Status Reports on a day-day basis and coordinating various status meetings

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, Java, Oracle forms, HTML/XML, PL/SQL, Oracle9i/10g, MS Office, Windows-NT4.0