SUMMARY

• Over 10 years of diverse experience in Software Testing and Quality Assurance.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Testing Methodologies and Techniques.
• Extensive experience in the areas of GUI testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing, Regression testing and Performance testing of Client/Server and web applications.
• Has expertise in Manual and Automation testing concepts, preparation of RTM, Test case designing, Testing, generating various types of reports and managing the testing team.
• Hands - on experience with Mercury Interactive suite, which includes QTP, WinRunner and Test Director/Quality Center/ALM.
• Strong experience in interacting with business analysts and developers to analyze the user requirements, functional specifications and system specifications.
• Proactively studied various kinds of testing concepts and templates from various sources and effectively implemented them across the organization.
• Proficient in black box testing, build verification testing, user acceptance testing and integration testing.
• Experienced in distributed testing, multi-user testing and database testing.
• Strong skills in back-end testing using SQL queries on Oracle 8i/9i, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 and MS Access.
• Expertise in analysis of Problem severity, Defect tracking and Defects reporting system.
• Hands-on experience with java and Dot Net applications.
• Ability to work independent or as a team member, excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work in a cross-functional environment.
• Excellent problem solving and multitasking. Quick learner and able to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
• My core domain skills include Financial, Health Care, Capital Market, Legal, and Educational domains on Web and Client/Server environment.
• Successfully handled the testing of Legal Smart Client applications like DA/DR which will plug-in to an TIDE (Truly Integrated Environment)
• Successfully handled the testing of health care products like MedComm, MEDITECH, WMS, Optiflex, Confidential (Electronic Health Record) and ReadSoft.
• Successfully handled the testing of Educational product like MathAmigo for Palm in Palm/Dana handhelds, for WinCE in PPC & Win95/98/2000/XP.
• Achieved good career growth, learned and successfully implemented new testing concepts.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: Windows 95/98/2000/XP/VISTA/7, Unix & Linux.

Programming Languages: VB, VB Script, Python, Perl, C, C++, C# XML, Java, Java Script, HTML & COBOL.

Databases: Oracle 8, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, MS Access & DB2

Automated Testing Tool: Quick Test Professional (QTP) 8.x/9.x/10.x, WinRunner 7.x/8.x, LoadRunner 7.x/8.x, Test Director/Quality Center/ALM 8.x/9.x/10.x & Silk Test.

Version Control Systems: Source of site (SOS) Version 3.5.3, CVS, SVN & Perforce (P4Win Version 2005.2.93627).

Bug Tracker Used: ALM 11.0, JIRA, Bugzilla 2.0, Mantis, Star Team and QC /ALM 10.0.

Browsers: IE 6, IE 7, IE 8.0 & Fire fox 3.5.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Nashville TN

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Analysis for new enhancements
• Preparing required Test Plan & Test Strategies to provide directions to the offshore team members.
• Coordinating and attending Workshops & Sessions for Integration requirements
• Test Development & Test Execution activities
• Preparing Automation Framework based on the project need and review and approves of test automation frameworks.
• Writing Automation Scripts based on the system functionality and automation framework.
• Enhancing the Automation Scripts based on the functionality changes in the application.
• Involve in Functional and Technical flow documents preparation
• Performing activities to the respective product group.
• Conduct system/regression test and ensure tests are conducted as per plan.
• Review of test scripts/code which is written by offshore team and providing review comments.
• Resolves technical issues for the product group
• Wrote SQL statements for backend testing.
• Experience with an Agile development approach.
• Performed Data Warehouse testing, Database Migration testing, Change Request and ETLTesting for supply chain EDW.
• Verifying data transformation from source to destination works as expected.
• Verifying all DB fields and field data is loaded without any truncation
• Verifying data checksum for record count match
• Verify that for rejected data proper error logs are generated with all details
• Reporting the issues/defects by using ALM Bug/issue tracking tool and tracking of the same to closure.
• Interacted with developers, users and various members of project team to discuss and to resolve defects and their priorities.

Environment: Core Java, J2EE, .Net, XML, HL7 messages, EPIC, Citrix, Java Script, HTML, XML, Cloverleaf, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, Oracle, Teradata, Quality Center 10.0, ALM 11.0, QTP 11.0, SMART 12.0, ReadSoft v 5.5, MedComm v 6.7.5, MedComm v 7.1.2, WMS v 3.9, WMS v 10.1, Upside v 5.0/ 6.0, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Python, Team Foundation Server, Informatica, Business Objects XI 3.4, DMExpress HP Performance Center, Sprinter, Optiflex v 9.0 & Meditech 5.6.2/ 5.6.4/ 6.0.

Confidential, Atlanta

Sr QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed the automation strategy and framework to support the card system application.
• Developing the automation scripts using QTP to validate the application functionality.
• Leading the offshore team and involved in onsite client interactions during the test execution.
• Involved in functional, Regression and Web Services testing.
• Developed Test Plan, Test cases, Test data and Test Specifications as per user’s Business requirements.
• Reviewing of integration, GUI & regression test cases written my team members.
• Verified the Web services using SOAPUI.
• Writing complex SQL queries to extract data from various source tables to perform database testing.
• Analyzed system issues as defined by the clients related to system functionality, evaluated issues to verify the corrective action to the system functionality implemented by the development team.
• Involved in preparing test data for invoicing module and to verify the card system functionalities.
• Verified the online payment processing functionality as part of the card system.
• Interacted with the QA managers for the regular update of the project.
• Worked with Business Analyst regularly for developing test cases from the Business Requirements.
• Involved in Reviews and setting up process for Testing.
• Interacted with developers, users and various members of my team to discuss and to resolve defects and their priorities.
• Reviewed weekly project builds on glassfish server to make sure the deployments are good for conducting tests.
• Logged and tracked defects using JIRA.
• Coordinated the Defect Disposition process with Quality, Technology and Business teams.

Environment: Core Java, J2EE, Glassfish, QTP 10.0, VB Script, Perl, Java Script, HTML, XML, DB2, SOAPUI, JIRA & SVN.

Confidential, Atlanta

Sr QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed the automation strategy and framework to support the card system application.
• Developing the automation scripts using QTP to validate the application functionality.
• Leading the offshore team and involved in onsite client interactions during the test execution.
• Involved in functional, Regression and Web Services testing.
• Involved in writing Test Strategies, Test Plan, RTM, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios and Test Specifications.
• Reviewing of integration, GUI & regression test cases written my team members.
• Verified the Web services using SOAPUI.
• Verified the manual and automatic transactions processing functionality.
• Writing complex SQL queries to extract data from various source tables to perform database testing.
• Analyzed system issues as defined by the clients related to system functionality, evaluated issues to verify the corrective action to the system functionality implemented by the development team.
• Interacted with the QA managers for the regular update of the project.
• Worked with Business Analyst regularly for developing test cases from the Business Requirements.
• Interacted with developers, users and various members of my team to discuss and to resolve defects and their priorities.
• Logged and tracked defects using JIRA.
• Coordinated the Defect Disposition process with Quality, Technology and Business teams.

Environment: Core Java, J2EE, Java Script, QTP 10.0, VB Script, WinSCP, Putty, HTML, HTTP, XML, DB2, TOAD, UNIX, Python, SOAPUI, JIRA & SVN.

Confidential, Atlanta

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed the automation strategy and framework to support the card system application.
• Developing the automation scripts using QTP to validate the application functionality.
• Enhancing the Automation Scripts based on the functionality changes in the application.
• Involved in functional, Regression and Web Services testing.
• Developed Test Plan, Test cases, Test data and Test Specifications as per user’s Business requirements.
• Customized QTP Scripts using VB Script.
• Reviewing of integration, GUI & regression test cases written my team members.
• Involved in preparation of Test Data and managing data requests.
• As a Software Tester, analyzed system issues as defined by the clients related to system functionality, evaluated issues to verify the corrective action to the system functionality implemented by the development team.
• Assisted in designing and development of automation framework.
• Involved in writing integration, GUI & regression test cases & executed the test cases on AUT.
• Performed parameterization of the automated test scripts in QTP to check how the application performs against multiple sets of data.
• Involved in Black box testing (Functional, Regression, Integration, Performance & Backend testing)
• Verified the Internet banking applications functionality. (Book Transfers, Positive Pay, Money Transfer, Recurring payments, Previous day & Intra day Transactions)
• Write and execute SQL queries to perform back-end testing.
• Interacted with the QA managers for the regular update of the project.
• Worked with Business Analyst regularly for developing test cases from the Business Requirements.
• Performed a regression test using the QTP automation scripts and analyzed the test results.
• Verified the ACH payment transactions as part of the cash management system. (CCD, PPD.. etc)
• Logged and tracked defects using Quality Center.

Environment: Java, Java Script, HTML, QTP 10.0, VB Script, SQL Server, Oracle 9i, IBM WebSphere, SQL, UNIX, RDBMS, Star Team, Quality Center & QTP 9.2.

Confidential, CA

Sr. QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed User Requirements to develop effective Test Requirements.
• Actively participated in creating requirements traceability matrices, and test plans.
• Based on user requirements documented the test requirements in Quality Center.
• Generated test plans, test cases and test steps in Quality Center for Automated Testing.
• Involved in Black box testing (Functional, Regression, integration, Performance & Backend testing)
• Reviewing of integration, GUI & regression test cases written my team members.
• Attended test case review meetings and walk throughs.
• Used QTP for functional and regression testing
• Conducted Data Driven Testing using different sets of external data.
• Executed SQL statements to perform Backend Test.
• Created User Defined Functions in Functions Library to re-use them in different tests.
• Prioritize projects and plan for their movement from Development to QA to Production.
• Work with end users and their teams to resolve users-specific problems on a timely basis.
• Test results were analyzed and suitable corrective actions were suggested.
• Reported the defects in the Quality Center.

Environment: Windows XP with SP2 and .NET Framework 2.0, C#. Net, MS-SQL Server, Web Services, Quality Center 9.0, QTP9.2, Bugzilla Version 2.20 & Perforce (P4Win Version 2005.2.93627)

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with software developers and users to understand functionality and navigational flow of the application.
• Reviewed business requirements documents, functional requirements documents and technical specifications of the application.
• Involved in validating software change requests for existing customers and participated in new implementations as a Quality Analyst Tester.
• As a Software Tester, analyzed system issues as defined by the clients related to system functionality, evaluated issues to verify the corrective action to the system functionality implemented by the development team.
• Involved in the development of test plan using business and system requirement documents.
• Involved in project development activities.
• Performed manual testing for the test cases execution.
• Developed and conducted system and user acceptance test plans on completion of system testing before installation of the application on user environment.
• Performed functional testing, GUI testing, regression testing.
• Preparation of Test Report.
• Reporting the issues/defects by using mantis Bug/issue tracking tool.

Environment: J2EE, IE 6.0, MySQL, RDBMS, Macromedia dream-weaver, QTP 8.0, Apache Tomcat server 4.0 & Mantis.

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Business Analysis, Requirements Review and Technical Specification Inspection.
• Involved in writing test plans and developing test cases from Business Requirements.
• Responsible for doing Black Box Testing.
• Responsible for doing System Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Load Testing and Smoke Testing.
• Participated in testing various web interfaces.
• Testing is done both manually and by using WinRunner.
• Developed automated test scripts using WinRunner.
• Defining scenarios and procedures to test the performance, security, recovery and reliability of the application.
• Developed Test logs and Test Summary Reports.
• Wrote SQL statements for backend testing.
• Reporting the issues/defects by using mantis Bug/issue tracking tool and tracking of the same to closure.
• Interacted with developers, users and various members of my team to discuss and to resolve defects and their priorities.

Environment: Manual Testing, Automatic Testing using WinRunner, Test Director, Oracle, MS Office, Java, J2EE, HTML, JavaScript, Web logic, Windows 2000.

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirements Documents and the Technical Specification documents
• Identified and Documented functional requirements and mapped them to individual test case requirements
• Managed and executed test cases and logged defects in defect tracking tool
• Documented test cases corresponding to business rules and other operating conditions
• Performed Ad Hoc testing on the application
• Analyzed user requirements, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented test procedures to test changes
• Written test plans, with detailed testing scope, test strategy and hi-level test requirements.
• Performed Regression Testing with help of Silk Test automation Tool.
• Performed functional, Integration, regression testing, analyzing results, risk assessment and defect tracking, defect reporting and documentation.
• Reporting the issues/defects by using mantis Bug/issue tracking tool and tracking of the same to closure.

Environment: Windows 95/98/2000/NT, C, C++, VB, Access, Crystal Reports & Mantis.