PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 7 plus years of Software Quality Assurance, Software Testing experience in Client/Server and Web based environment.
• Working Knowledge of Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) and Defect/Bug Life Cycle.
• Extensive experience in Manual Testing which includes Black Box, GUI, Functional, System, Integration, Regression, End to End and UAT testing.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Scenarios from business, technical and functional requirement documents.
• Proficient in defect tracking system using Quality Center comprising Requirements, Test Plan, Test Lab and Defects Modules.
• Expertise in Black Box testing and White Box testing.
• Experience in Waterfall, Agile - SCRUM, Iterative and V model testing methodologies and good understanding of software development life cycles.
• Well versed in various testing functions such as - Smoke, Sanity, Functionality, Regression, Back-end, Integration and User Acceptance Testing of applications developed on Windows, UNIX.
• Experienced in Automation Testing using QTP (Quick Test Professional).
• Well-versed in Test Management tools like HP ALM (Application Lifecycle Management), HP Quality Center, Test Director and JIRA.
• Experience in Database Backend Testing using SQL queries.
• Good Exposure to Automation tools like Load Runner and Selenium.
• Extensive experience working with Databases such as Oracle, SQL Server and MS-Access.
• Backend database testing by writing several SQL statements to validate the business scenarios.
• Experienced in working with different operating systems like Windows, UNIX.
• Good experience in Client-Server Application Testing, Web Application Testing and Web Service Testing.
• Working Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), having through understanding of various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development, Testing, Deployment and Maintenance.
• Experience in Object Oriented Programming language like JAVA.
• Experienced in Unit test, Functional test, Integration test, UAT and Regression testing.
• Knowledge in Mobile App (ios and Android) Testing.
• Extensive experience in technologies like Java Script, VB Script, HTML, CSS and XML.
• Very good knowledge in Banking and Financial services, Insurance and Health care domains.
• Strong ability in communicating with Project Development Team and prioritizing workload.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, also a very good team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test Management Tools: HP ALM 11.0, Quality Center 10.0, HP QC 9.2, Test Director, JIRA

Test Automation Tools: Win Runner, QTP10.0

Operating Systems: Windows 2000, 2003, XP, NT 4.0, MS-DOS, Unix

Programming Languages: C, C++, JAVA, J2EE, SQL, PL/SQL.

Web Technologies: VB Script, AJAX, JavaScript, HTML, XML, JSP, Servlets

RDBMS: Oracle (TOAD), MS SQL Server, MS Access and DB2

Markup Languages: HTML, DHTML, XML/XSD, XSL/XSLT

Query Languages: SQL, PL/SQL

IDE and Tools: Visual SourceSafe, Excel, CSS, XML Spy

Project Management: Microsoft Office, MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-Power Point and MS-Outlook

Application Servers: BEA Web Logic, Websphere, Tomcat

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in system specification meetings, analyzed user requirement, coordinated with coders and team members.
• Worked extensively in application testing.
• Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project.
• Worked towards the overall features of the application, Involved in Test case design, review and execution.
• Performed Functional, Regression, Sanity, Ad hoc and System testing.
• Defect Reporting, Communicating defects to Development team, Defect Tracking.
• Managed defects using JIRA.
• Interacting with development team to analyze and find the root cause of the defect.
• Understanding change requests and analyze the impact on existing system.
• Working very closely with the developers to understand the functionality and impact of the changes.
• Involved in giving updates to the superiors regarding the application status.

Environment: Manual Testing, JIRA, J2EE, VBScript, Java 6, JSP, Spring MVC 3.0, Jasper Reports 4.5/iReport 4.5, JQuery, Tomcat, Eclipse, Sql Server Management studio, JIRA, CSS3, Ant.

Confidential, Grand Rapids, MI

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed requirements and specifications documents to develop and execute Test Plans and Test Cases
• Participated in meeting with Release Management and coordinators to manage testing activity.
• Perform functional testing, regression testing, UAT Testing and End to End testing
• Manually created, developed and executed Test Cases for both Negative and Positive testing
• Prepared Test Plan for assigned module as a part of the testing team. Test Plan detail included the testing scope, requirement, strategies and all compulsory resources.
• Executed manual testing for all scenarios on products
• Participated in System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Utilized Quality Center for managing the testing process
• Located, analyzed and documented in detail all defects found for development to review
• Conducted regression and system testing in order to ensure that new code is not causing issues and that defects have been corrected
• Worked extensively with development team and created status reporting
• Created SQL queries for backend database testing
• Utilized Quick Test Professional (QTP) for basic automation testing which included recording and playing tests as well as parameterizing values
• Performed Data Driven Tests to validate the same scenario with different test data

Environment: Manual Testing, QTP 10.0, Quality Center 9.2, JDK 1.5, J2EE, VBScript, Servlets, JSP, Spring MVC, Hibernate 3.0, JQuery, Oracle, Web sphere, ANT, Eclipse, JUnit, CVS.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed functional requirements and use cases to develop Test Plans, Test cases for both positive and negative tests.
• Formulated detailed use cases for increasing core component test coverage to facilitate regression and automation testing
• Managed and maintained test repository using Quality Center
• Developed User-Acceptance Test scripts and assisted users in conducting UAT
• Performed functional, regression and integration testing
• Participated in meetings for documenting Test Plan/Test Cases as per business requirements and Verified data by executing SQL queries
• Performed manual testing and Automated regression testing using QTP
• Developed user defined functions to support the automated scripts
• Updated test cases and actual results in Quality Center
• Managed defects and resolutions using Quality Center

Environment: Manual Testing, QTP 9.2, Quality Center, Java, JavaScript, VBScript, JDBC, JSP, Servlets, Struts, Log4j, Xml, TOAD, Tomcat, Eclipse & Oracle 8i