PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 8 Years of professional experience in quality assurance testing.
• Involved in whole SDLC process starting from requirement gathering to end - to- end implementation.
• Worked as a Team Lead mentoring junior team members.
• Developed and managed matrices, providing daily defect status, testing coverage and delivery schedule to the customer.
• Extensively interacted with client, Onsite-Offshore development team and testing team for requirement gathering, verifying new requirements and testing effort assessment.
• Experienced in Design and Execution of test criteria, scenarios and scripts from requirements.
• Participated in project design and review meetings
• Created Test Plans based on software requirement that explains testing scope, strategy, resources, schedule and hi-level test requirements.
• Wrote test cases by using QC (ALM) to test the validity of requirements.
• Performed all kind of testing including functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, backend testing by using SQL and user acceptance testing.
• Good in analyzing changes and identifying impacted areas of the application to be regression tested.
• Have Failover/Disaster recovery testing experience. If one machine fails, switch to another machine and resume services.
• Experience in automated testing of web based and client/server applications.
• Validated data integrity for interface testing, tested store procedures, triggers and batch process.
• Experience in defect lifecycle management.
• Ability to engage in multiple projects simultaneously.
• Proficient in utilizing professional communication skills.
• Excellent team member with good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Quick learner, adaptable and flexible to ever-changing technology.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quality Center 9/10, QC/ALM 11

Project Methodologies: Software Development Lifecycle Waterfall, Agile, RUP.

Languages: C, C++, JAVA, C#.Net, VB.Net, HTML, SQL, T-SQL, PL/SQL

Database: SQL Server 2005/2008/2008 R2, Oracle9i/10g.

Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista/2007, Windows Server 2003/2008, Unix.

Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP and HTTPS

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and Fire Fox.

Others: MS Office, MS Excel, SharePoint, Visio and Adobe.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Nashville TN

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in business process discussion and functional specification reviews.
• Discussed work flow to help decide if the requirement is Confidential related or not
• Participated in reviews and meetings to discuss testing strategies and test plan.
• Responsible for keeping meeting minutes.
• Actively participated in status meetings to report issues.
• Analyzed business requirement, created test plan, wrote test cases using HP ALM.
• Moved test cases to test lab and associated them with the requirements
• Executed the tests and submitted status report based on the test results
• Conducted various tests such as backend, Integration, UAT, functional and regression test.
• Discussed test strategy and time estimate for testing and completion of the project.
• Created and executed SQL queries to fetch data from database server and validate and compared the actual results with the expected results.
• Found defects and ran them through defect lifecycle. Looked at their severity and priority and assigned them to the responsible people
• Established the exit strategy.
• Performed cross browser testing to check the compatibility, reliability and scalability of the application in different browsers.
• Developed and tested forms and templates by accessing MS word through epic

Environment: Windows XP, Windows2008, Windows Server 2003, MS Word, Excel, Oracle, HP ALM

Confidential, San Diego CA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in business process discussion and functional specification reviews.
• Working as a team lead mentoring junior team members.
• Participated in reviews and meetings to discuss automation testing strategies and test plan.
• Responsible for keeping meeting minutes.
• Actively participated in status meetings to report issues.
• Analyzed business requirement, created test plan, wrote test cases using HP ALM.
• Conducted various tests such as backend, Integration, functional and regression test.
• Discussed test strategy and time estimate for testing and completion of the project.
• Executed the QTP automated test scripts, verified and reported results.
• Created and executed SQL queries to fetch data from database server and validate and compared the actual results with the expected results.
• Found defects and ran them through defect lifecycle. Looked at their severity and priority and assigned them to the appropriate person
• Established the exit strategy.
• Identified test scripts for test automation for future releases.
• Performed cross browser testing to check the compatibility, reliability and scalability of the application in different browsers.
• Trained users of the application.

Environment: Windows XP, Windows2007, Windows Server 2003, MS Word, Excel, Oracle, HP ALM

Confidential, Columbia, SC

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in reviews and meetings to discuss testing strategies and test plan.
• Prepared test plan and test cases by using MS Word.
• Created traceability matrix against the requirements with appropriate comments as per testing standard.
• Mentored and trained new team members
• Worked with developers to analyze scenarios and results.
• Wrote test scripts to meet the requirements by using business scenarios and business requirements.
• Performed functional, regression, database, smoke and UAE testing.
• Attended daily defect and status meetings.
• Tracked and reported bugs by using load runner and assigned the anomalies to related worker.
• Verified data consistency across different systems.

Environment: Main frame, UNIX, Java, Windows 2007, MS-Office, SQL

Confidential, Tucson AZ

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the project from information gathering stage to user acceptance test.
• Wrote test plan and test cases and executed test scripts to meet the requirements.
• Performed smoke test, regression test, integration test, functional test, backend test.
• Participated in status meetings to report the issues.
• Performed smoke test, integration test, system test and regression test.
• Found defects and ran them through defect lifecycle. Once the defect is fixed tested it again and closed the defects.
• Used QC to manage all the activities during SDLC.

Environment: Windows XP, 2007, SQL Server 2005, QTP 9.5, Quality Center 9, Share Point, ASP.net, C#

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed the test scripts to meet requirements by using business scenarios and business requirements for MRI and CT exam modules.
• Involved in the requirement gathering and business analysis meetings.
• Implemented whole life cycle of QA methodologies starting from planning, capturing, creating, executing, reporting and tracking the defects.
• Executed test cases and logged results in Excel.
• Actively participated in status meetings to report issues.
• Performed smoke, regression, integration and system testing.
• Coordinated with developers to fix the problem and enhancing application.
• Performed web testing to check the compatibility, reliability and scalability of the application in different browsers.

Environment: Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2005, C#, ASP.net, SharePoint, Quality center 9.