SUMMARY:

• Certified QA Test Engineer with overall 7+ years of experience in Quality Assurance/Quality Control including 5 years of extensive experience in Point - Of-Sale (POS) applications testing .
• Experience in using both manual and automated testing (QTP) across different domains: Retail Banking, Finance, and Healthcare.
• Extensively worked in Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Volume Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing and Web service testing.
• Thorough understanding of different phases of Test Life Cycle, especially creation of Test cases, Test execution, Defect reporting and tracking.
• Expertise in creating, modifying, and enhancing test cases in HP Quality Center, Mantis, and IBM Clear Quest.
• Excellent skills of identifying defects and managing those defects during the testing cycle.
• Experience in implementing the testing assurance activities and efforts for Client-Server and Web based applications.
• Thorough understanding on Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and different Testing Approaches / Methodologies, Software Validation and Verification.
• Good Experience in working with different operating systems (Windows and UNIX) and different databases: Oracle, MS SQL server.
• Strong analytical and trouble shooting skills, excellent team player, quick learner, hard working and reliable. Possessing high levels of energy and a strong passion to excel.
• Strong sense of ownership and proven delivery record. Self-motivated and flexible, solid organizational skills and strict attention to detail.
• Excellent communication, presentation, inter-personal and collaborative skill set coupled with strong analytical skills with high performance quality results.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

QTP: 9.2/10.0, Mantis, Quality Center 9.2/10.0, IBM Clear Quest, and Win runner

MS: Dos, Windows XP, UNIX

MS: Access, Oracle, SQL Server

Scripting Languages: HTML, XML,VB Script

Languages: Core Java, .Net, and C

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Test Engineer

Environment:: Java,Sql Server,SOAP UI

Roles& Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain test coverage in POS (Point of Sales) application for Sanity, Functional, Regression, Performance, and volume testing.
• Worked in both QA and QC teams and involved in all the stages of the Software development products or enhancements to existing products.
• Schedules and performs functional, integration, regression, and release testing; submits errors and issues to development for correction, and retests once errors have been corrected.
• Good functional knowledge on Payment Transaction, and Award Mechanism for Smart cards using POS Terminal / Web services.
• Reviewed functional specifications/ documents, developed test cases for the above clients and also post implementation support service is given to all the software applications.
• Usability testing is done by setting up Campaign Awarding mechanism, Card holder verification, Card Renewal/Replacement, Imports/Exports for EMV cards and documented release documents to the client projects.
• Hands on experience on Web Service testing using SOAP UI for POS transactions and played key role in Campaign configuration set up for production environment.
• Support production deployment of applications and perform validation testing for multiple Banks projects.
• Database verification testing done to check Customer card status and Transaction activity reports.
• Import, and test volume customer data in DB to verify the System performance after Query Optimization/SQL Tunings.
• Ability to use basic commands in Unix to deploy Java/DB patches, isolate and document Pre and Post patch deployment test results.
• Analyze defects/test results, and able to deduct the chain of events leading to a failure.
• Communicate critical issues, and validate status updates in a timely manner.
• Improved the quality of project deliveries by performing Quality Assurance tests, ensuring closures of the issues

using MANTIS testing tools, drafting, circulating Quality Verification Reports, and follow ups.

Confidential

Automation Test Engineer

Environment:: AJAX, Oracle E business suite

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Involved in Keyword Driven Framework.
• Created Automation scripts for Oracle EBS (E-Business Suite) application- Oracle forms of Order Management System.
• Review functional documents to develop test scenarios,later identify test scripts which can be automated to decrease the time and effort
• Participated Functional, Regression and Re-testing.
• Involved in creation of automation suite for regression testing using QTP for user validations, user transitions, and application authentication.
• Exececute test cases and automation test scripts.
• Involved in Agile testing process to meet the Customer needs.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Environment:: .Net and SQL Server

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Involved in testing Login and authentication of existing users, activation of new user accounts on first login, transition wizard functions and coordination with enterprise platforms to trigger emails to end users. Also, involved in test automation using QTP.
• Reviewed all business requirements and prepared test scenarios & test cases for all the assigned project releases.
• Performed Functional, Regression, Browser compatibility, Security testing.
• Functional testing experience in Fixed Income, Derivatives and Trading.
• Performed test execution and verified the Fixed CRs, tracked the same to closure.
• Reviewing the documents to understand the LOB applications business logic and attended review sessions to understand the business flow.
• Involved in the creation of the architecture of Automation framework by using modular approach undertaken for automation.
• Automated test scripts using QTP 10.0 for creation of new users in CDSN tool.
• Involved in creation of automation suite for regression testing using QTP for user validations, user transitions, and application authentication.
• Managed all phases of testing ensuring test plan, test cases are completed and met as per the business requirements.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed, and compared using Quality Center 10.0
• Good coordination with functional leads to know the business requirement as well as issue resolution.
• Proactive participation during production releases.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Environment:: Java/ J2EE and SQL Server

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the functional drafts to design the manual test cases.
• Attended walkthroughs and coordinated with the onsite client to resolve the change request issues.
• Involved as a part of team in developing automation scripts using QTP.
• Developed automation Framework- Data driven Framework architecture.
• Ensure that all the test cases are updated in the QC along with the test plan.
• Performed backend testing and GUI testing.
• Conducted regression test execution using QTP and logged the defects in QC.
• Involved in user interface, functional, and regression testing.
• Consolidation of Team Bugs and maintain the Team Bug report.

Confidential

Automation Test Engineer

Environment: Oracle ERP

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirement documents and the Technical Specification documents.
• Conducted Functionality testing and Regression Testing using QTP.
• Involved in Descriptive Programming framework.
• Implemented test techniques like Parameterization in QTP to do boundary value testing for different sets of data.
• Created functions and reusable Actions which were then called by various other actions.
• Ecexute test scripts, report bugs in QC bug tracking.

Confidential

Environment: VB.NET, SQL Server

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business requirements, Performed ambiguity reviews and communicated the inconsistencies between the requirements and the application.
• Thoroughly analyzed Use Cases and Wire Frames in developing Test scripts and Test data.
• Involved in writing the test cases for new functionalities, which are added later.
• Performed Smoke testing of the whole application to make sure the application is stable to perform functional and regression testing.
• Performed Negative and Positive testing, Integration testing, functional testing, Regression testing to find the premium generated is same as the quote.
• Created and managed all the test scripts in Clear Quest.
• Created SQL queries to retrieve application data from AS/400 database using iSeries Navigator tool and extensively used these queries in Regression test scripts.
• Analyzed and thoroughly understood the new change requests and work requests in corporate them into test scripts at the appropriate place.
• Tracked and managed all the bugs in Clear Quest tracking system and generated reports and defect metrics.