SUMMARY:

• 10+ Years of Software Testing and Quality Assurance experience working on Client/Server, Multi tier, Web based applications.
• Involvement in various stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience in writing System defining test cases, developing and maintaining test scripts and documenting all phases of QA process.
• Expertise in using Mercury Interactive Automated Testing tools Quick Test Pro, WinRunner, Quality Center and Test Director.
• Used QuickTest Pro checkpoints to automatically capture and verify properties such as the number of links.
• Understanding of Descriptive Programming.
• Responsible for converting and developing QTP automation scripts based on the regression testcases in Quality Center.
• Extensive experience Black Box Testing and in modifying Test Scripts using VB Script.
• Involved in Manual and Automated Testing of applications developed on Windows and UNIX Environment.
• Experience in working on applications developed in Asp.Net, Vb.Net, Java
• Experience in project life cycle of Implementation, Testing, Regression testing.
• Exposure with QA Principle SEI CMM levels, ISO 9001.
• Extensive experience in Functional, Integration, Usability, Regression, Positive, Negative testing, Back End, Smoke and User Acceptance Testing.
• Good working knowledge of major Operating Systems and tested applications on Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, and UNIX environments.
• Have Knowledge of Protocols like TCP/IP and HTTP.
• Knowledge of Unix Commands (File System, Ordinary Files, Grep)
• Experience in testing database applications of RDBMS in ORACLE, SQL Server and MS Access.
• Experience in developing business based functional test scenarios.
• Expertise in Problem solving and Bug Tracking Reports using Bug tracking Tools.
• Experience in interacting with business analysts, developers, and technical support and help them base line the requirement specifications.
• Possess extensive experience in analyzing the Business Requirement Documents, Functional specifications and Technical Specifications.
• Work well under pressure and tight deadlines, comfortable working with teams and dealing with customers.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: C/C++, VB, TSL,SQL

Testing Tools: Win Runner, QTP, Quality Centre, Test Director, JIRA, currently training in SOAP UI

Platforms: Windows 95/97/2000/NT/XP

RDBMS: Oracle, MS Access, SQL Server

Tools and Technologies: VBScript, currently training in Groovy Scripting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. QA Analyst

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for making both the systems interactive, controlled and User friendly.
• Involved in Requirement gathering, interacting with end users
• Involved in Application analysis, implementing changes which includes, User interface changes validations, data pre - population, user management and enhancements.
• Participate in Sprint Planning meetings and Responsible for testing application in 3 weeks Sprint Cycle
• Involved in creating User Stories, Test Plans, writing Test Cases
• Involved in Integration, positive, negative and End to End scenario testing to validate the functionality
• Responsible for reporting bugs in JIRA
• Responsible for Creating Enhancements in JIRA
• Executing SQL queries for data integrity and Report Testing
• Involved in arranging meetings with End Users to discuss changes, enhancements
• Involved in the Test Management tool design which is being developed in Apex and Oracle (Repository for Requirements, Test plans and Cases and Bugs for Traceability Matrix purpose)

Environment: ASP.Net, Oracle 10, TOAD 10.1, JIRA, Apex 4.5

Sr. QA Analyst

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement Analysis
• Involved in developing Test Plan, Test Cases based on User Stories to meet the requirements.
• Involved in Integration, positive, negative and End to End scenario testing to validate the functionality
• Reporting bugs in Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Retesting of those bugs
• Involved in regression testing after bug fixes.
• Appian process model verification.
• Writing SQL Queries to test data integrity and report testing.
• Participate in Daily Scrum meetings, Client meetings
• Post production Customer support, answering Application related customer queries, guiding them over the phone/Emails, presentations / Training to group of people
• Creating productions bugs and prioritizing there fix and release
• Creating Change Requests, Testing Change Requests
• Creating and Testing Enhancements
• Currently participating in requirement gathering for a new reporting module

Environment: Appian - BPM software, Sequel Server, Microsoft TFS

Sr. QA Analyst

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing Test Plan, Test Cases using Test Manager and Test Data from requirement document, technical specification
• Created and Executed Test Cases to verify the expected results on the builds we get for every Sprint in Agile Environment.
• Involved in different types of testing like, Smoke, Regression, Retesting, Integration, UI, validation, positive, Negative Testing
• Reporting defects in Microsoft Visual Studio / TFS, retesting of those defects
• Cross browser testing IE9, Mozilla, Chrome
• Traceability Matrix to keep track of requirement coverage
• SQL Queries for data validation and report testing
• SQL queries for data manipulation to create Test Data
• Conducting meetings with Developer and BA’s to discuss Issues and Requirements
• Arranging training sessions for Internal Associates.
• Arranging reviews with BA’s and Managers.

Environment: Test Manager, Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), APS.NET, SQL Server.

Sr. QA Analyst

Confidential, Clarksburg, MD

Responsibilities:

• Working and coordinating efforts of geographically distributed testing / development team
• Involved in developing Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Data (Using SPIRA Team) from requirement document, technical specification (Using Microsoft TFS as document repository).
• Created and Executed Test Cases to verify the expected results on the builds we get for every Sprint in Agile Environment.
• Performed Manual (Black box) testing which includes Functional Testing, Positive and Negative Testing, Integration Testing, GUI Testing, Smoke Testing, End to End scenario Testing.
• Reporting and tracking defects in Microsoft TFS
• Performed Defect Verification as a part of Retesting and Regression Testing to check the stability of application after defect fix
• Performed Regression Testing and Retesting to verify the impact of bug fixing on existing functionality.
• Created Traceability Matrix to keep track of requirement coverage.
• Cross browser Testing with IE 7 +, Mozilla Firefox 3.0 +
• Documented the results of Test Case execution
• Conducted Manual Performance testing to verify how Application performs for certain number of records (Production data was cloned)
• Used Quick Test checkpoints to automatically capture and verify properties such as the number of links.
• Automating manual test cases using QTP and executing those test scripts.
• Automation testing using QTP and programming dynamic VB Scripts for testing the functionality of Application
• Regression Suite execution for every new build / Sprint and exporting detail report in HTML format to send it to the project team
• Parameterizing the script with different types of input values using data table to check the functionality.
• Create various Excel files to create Test Data and then importing various Excel files as and when needed into data table.
• Often used GetRO and GetTO Property to retrieve the property values of Test and Runtime objects.
• Created Function Libraries to create Public and Private functions to use in Tests.
• Use of Reusable and External actions as and when needed.
• Updating and Adding objects / properties of objects in Object Repository.
• Connecting to Data base through QTP (Using Connection Object and Recordset) to retrieve the values from table and use it as a parameter.
• Have used Regular Expressions for pattern matching.
• Involved in Backend testing which involves executing SQL queries using TOAD 5.0 for Data Verification and Report Testing (Joins, Aggregate Functions)
• Got an exposure on defect Tracking tool JIRA on the project I was temporarily working on
• Conducting meetings with Clients, Developers and BA’s over requirement analysis / discuss issues and release plans.
• Conducted meetings with BA person to verify and finalize requirements.
• Participating in Production Release Testing

Environment: QTP 10.0, Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), JIRA, SPIRA TEAM, APS.NET, SQL Server.

Sr. QA Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Requirement understanding / Analysis, developing Test Plan and strategy
• Created and executed Test Cases as a part of Functionality Testing.
• Used Quality Cente r as a Test Management Tool to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning tests, executing tests, reporting and tracking defects.
• Performed Integration Testing to on different modules of the application to verify Integrity and dependency
• Also performed Regression and Retesting after every new release / build to verify if application works as intended after bug fixes or changes.
• Performed Positive and Negative testing to verify if application performs as per requirements.
• Created Test Data to perform various types of testing
• Reported Defects and verified them after fix by developer as a part of Retesting and Regression Testing
• Used TOAD for executing SQL queries to test the data integrity.
• Created and executed SQL queries to fetch data from an ORACLE database for Reports Testing
• Executed SQL queries on Oracle in order to view successful transactions of data and for validating data.
• Created Defect Reports and Defect Verification Reports.
• Conducted meetings with Automation Team to create Automation Suite for Regression Testing
• Conducted meetings with Developers and Business Analysts to discuss the functionality and impact of defects on the application.
• Conducted reviews for with Business Analysts and QA managers to verify requirement documents and requirement coverage..
• Conducted meetings with Clients to analyze the requirements

Environment: QTP 9.0, Load Runner, Quality Center 9.0, ASP, Asp.net, VB Scripting, Oracle, UNIX

Sr. QA Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created Test Plans for every new functionality / modules that were introduced.
• Created Test Cases with the help of requirement documents / use cases
• Involved in different phases of SDLC, like Requirement, Design, Testing, Maintenance (for Phase 1)
• Executed Test Cases to verify if Application works as intended.
• Created Defect Report with the Defects and its Severity to the application.
• Involved in development of test cases from functional requirements, technical specification and use cases.
• Used Quality Center to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning tests, executing tests, and tracking defects.
• Developed and executed test suites and operations scenarios to find and report defects using Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center to create and run test cases manually.
• Performed Smoke and Functional testing on every build of the application.
• Performed Integration and Regression testing to check compatibility of new functionality with the existing functionality.
• Tested the application manually (Black box testing).
• Fired SQL queries using TOAD for backend testing to check the integrity of data.
• Created and executed SQL queries to fetch data from an ORACLE database server to validate and compare expected results with those actually obtained
• Extensively executed SQL queries on Oracle in order to view successful transactions of data and for validating data
• Worked with the QA / Development team for improving the testing methodology.
• Was involved in discussion with Business Analyst over the requirements.

Environment: QTP 9.0, Load Runner, Quality Centre 9.0, VB.Net, SQL Server 2000, MS Office, BugZilla

QA Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Requirement, Creating Test Plans and Strategies
• Writing and Executing test cases with the help of requirement documents / Use Cases
• Performed Compatibility testing for checking Compatibility of application with various hardware and software platforms
• Involved in different types of testing, Smoke, Regression, Compatibility, Retesting, Integration, End to End
• Involved in Defect Reporting, Creating Defect Report per Module / Test Cases Ratio
• Arranging meetings with Client for requirement analysis
• Arranging meetings with QA / Development Managers for Risk Analysis, Production Releases

Environment: Java, J2EE, Servlets, JSP, Mercury (QTP 9.0, Load Runner, Quality Center 9.0), Web logic, Oracle, UNIX.

QA Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Was involved in Manual Functional Testing (Black Box) to verify application behavior as per user requirements.
• Designing Test Cases from the requirement specifications
• Conducted manual testing for checking Functionality, Security, and Performance testing during the various phases of the development of the online application.
• Test Case writing, Execution of Test Cases.
• Developed and executed test suites and operations scenarios to find and report defects. Using Test Director.
• Used Test Director as Test Management Tool which helped in creating Traceability Matrix, writing Test Cases.
• Used Test Director for reporting, tracking, analyzing and documenting defects.
• Arranging meetings with Business Analyst for requirement understanding and analysis
• Browser Compatibility testing (Internet Explorer (Beta) and Mozila)
• Testing application on 2 different servers for certification before production environment.
• Requirement document updating and verification.
• Interaction with development team to solve issues.

Environment: Java, J2ee, Oracle 8, Appache, IIS as web servers, QTP 8.2, Test Director 7.2, Internet explorer 6.0, 7.0 beta, Mozilla

QA Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created Test cases and participated in creation of Functional and Technical Specifications based on Business Requirements.
• Defect Reporting and Retesting of the defects and creating Defect Reports
• Was Involved in manual testing for checking Functionality, Security, and Performance testing during the various phases of the development of the online application.
• Involved automated testing including Functional Regression Testing, GUI testing using Win Runner
• Perform integration testing and was involved User acceptance testing.
• Performed Black Box Testing of the entire application.
• Executed SQL queries in SQL Server to check the data integrity as a part of back end testing.
• Responsible for weekly status meetings showing progress and future testing efforts to the QA Manager
• Worked closely with engineering team to discuss the design and testing aspects of the applications to design the test plans

Environment: Visual Basic 6.0, SQL Server, Crystal Reports, Win Runner 7.5, Microsoft Office