Summary of Experience

• 7+years of extensive experience in QA Methodologies and QA Testing of various Application Systems using both Manual and Automation Testing techniques for Web-based, Unix-based and Database applications.
• Highly proficient in Manual Testing and Automation Testing tools like Mercury Quick Test Pro (QTP), Test Director, LoadRunner and Quality Center (QC).
• Strong expertise in performing different types of testing like Integration, Functional, Regression, User Acceptance, , GUI, Load, Stress, Performance Testing and Post-Production Validation Testing.
• Excellent knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Good knowledge of Software Testing Methodologies like Agile, V-Model and Waterfall.
• Knowledge of software engineering standards like CMM (Capability Maturity Model) and AGILE.
• Experience in developing and executing Test Plans, Test Cases, Defect Status report, Requirement Traceability matrix, and Script Status Report.
• Proficient in analyzing, and identifying gaps in Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and System Requirement Specification (SRS) documents.
• Experience in testing RDBMS Database applications in Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server and DB2.
• Knowledge in testing web based applications developed inASP.NET, JAVA, J2EE.
• Fair knowledge on scripting languages like VB Script and HTML.
• Expertise in creating Bug Reports using tools like Test Director/Quality Center and PVCS.
• Excellent ability in analyzing and understanding Requirements and Design specification documents.
• Very efficient in Test Execution and capturing test results.
• Strong exposure to testing in multiple phases and multiple test environments at the same time
• Ability to interact with developers and product analysts regarding application analysis.
• Can learn and adapt to new technologies or domains at ease.
• Proven ability of working under minimal supervision and guidance.
• Excellent in prioritizing own work and time management.
• Good analytical and interpersonal communication skills.
• An efficient self-starter, quick learner and excellent team player, ability to meet tight deadlines and work pressure.
• Skilled in cultivating positive relationships with clients, colleagues and project teams.

Professional Education

• Msc in Information Technology
• Masters in Commerce

Technical Summary

• Operating Systems : Windows (98, NT, 2000 and XP), UNIX and LINUX
• Testing Tools : QTP11,9.2, QC,LoadRunner
• Test Management Tools : Quality Center, SharePoint.
• Defect Management tools : Clear Quest, Bugzilla, JIRA
• Scripting Languages : VB Scripting, Shell, Perl.
• Web Technologies : HTML ,XML ,WEB SERVICE, CASCADING STYLE SHEET(CSS)
• Database : SQL Server 2000, Oracle 10g, Sybase ASE 12.5
• Browsers : Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Netscape, Safari

Project Summary

Confidential, Providence, RI Jul2010 – Present
Sr.QA Analyst
Description:
The project was to onboard all the UNIX based applications on CyberArk’s product Enterprise Password Vault (EPV). The EPV enables an organization to enforce an enterprise policy that protects our most critical systems, managing the entire lifecycle of shared and privileged accounts across data centers. In other words EPV acts as a password repository for the various sensitive applications across the board.
Responsibilities:

• Created Functional Test Cases.
• Created Test scenarios by reviewing through IBM BPM process flow.
• Used Mercury Quality Center for Creating Test Plans, Test Cases and Defect status reports.
• Wrote test cases in Quality Center and performed manual testing of Various Modules including Claims, Quote policy, Premium and Endorsement.
• Analyzed application to find out which part can be automated and which can be manually tested.
• Created test scripts and automated them.
• Experience using advanced Business Process Management (BPM) to reduce time to market, improve quality.
• Performed manual and Regression testing to check the BPM flow goes correct for different plans.
• Used Quick Test Professional for automating manual test cases for regression testing.
• Used Check Points, Output Values, Recovery Scenarios, Regular Expressions, Object Repository Administration extensively in QTP.
• Responsible for creating automated performance scripts for load testing using LoadRunner.
• Database testing using SQL executed various DDL and DML statements.
• Experience writing SQL scripts and analyzing PL/SQL scripts for effective Data validation and Data Integration purposes during Backend Testing.
• Involved in discussions and meetings with implementation team to verify the proposed functionality.
• Run the SQL queries to fetch test data and backend (database) testing to validate the database.
• Performed Automation testing on Claims Processing using QTP and Mercury Quality Center.
• Interaction with developers, users and management to speed up the defect resolution.
• In-depth testing of the application enhanced scripts using Checkpoints and Synchronization points.
• Debugged the application to identify and check that the scripts run smoothly.
• Uploaded QTP test scripts into Quality Center for automation.
• Used Standard check points to test the GUI application of the Login and various screen modules in QTP.
• Captured values of various fields using Output check points in Quick Test Pro.
• Used Descriptive Programming extensively creating Description Object
• Performed Worked with File System Object(FSO)
• Created Database Checkpoints in QTP for database testing
• Extensively queried the database to prepare test data.
• Worked closely with the Developers and BA for bug fixes and problem resolution.
• Generated Bug Reports and Test case coverage reports for Bug Review meetings and participated in weekly meetings with management team.

Environment & Tools: TOAD, Oracle10g, Ms Office, QC, QTP11, UNIX, Java, HTML, XML, JIRA, FileZilla, LoadRunner. 

Confidential Apr 2008 – Jul 2010
Test Analyst BNS -Compliance Reporting System 
Description:
The Compliance Reporting System at Bear Stearns (now JPMC) takes care of the Regulatory OATS submissions laid down by the Securities and Exchange Commission, NASDAQ and NYSE for the firms within the stipulated SLA. The Project provides an insight into the applications that are used by Bear Stearn to meet these regulations. On the technical front, Perl has been used for Application level programming whereas the database is on Oracle 10g. Other fringe applications have been developed using Java for providing the users with a front end view of the data being reported. This application uses Clearcase version management system, CA Autosys V4.5 for Batch scheduling and Quality Center as the test management tool.
Responsibilities:

• Created Performance and Functional Test Cases.
• Reviewed Business Requirement document and System specification document
• Understanding the test plan and closely following the steps provided by the team to test the UNIX processes.
• Created Used Mercury Quality Center for organizing Requirements, Creating Test Plans, Test Cases and Defect status reports.
• Performed Manual testing of the application.
• Traced Requirements using Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Worked in an Agile technology.
• Coordinating with different teams/groups at Bear Stearns and the external clients as and when needed.
• Extensively using the JIRA issue/bug tracking system.
• Manual testing of the issues fixed by the development team.
• Created Test Cases and scenarios for Unit, Regression, Integration as well as Back –end and System testing.
• Performed Positive and Negative testing using valid and Invalid data on Development, Test Database Environments on MS Access and SQL.
• Involved in creating LoadRunner scripts, executing LoadRunner scripts and Analyzed results.
• Providing status of each step in the test case and adding appropriate comments.
• Logged the defects in QA Defects module
• Writing Shell/perl scripts to automate the manual testing steps.
• Querying the database and preparing the test data for different scenarios.
• Run the SQL queries to fetch test data and backend (database) testing to validate the database
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries, to extract the data from the database.
• Analyzed user requirements attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes.
• Created Test sets in Test lab based on Test requirements for further execution
• Providing the QA signoff

Environment: Oracle 10g, XML, Mercury Quality Center 9.2, Windows NT, MS-Word, MS-Excel, UNIX shell/Perl scripting, JIRA bug tracking system, CA Autosys V4.5, fileZilla,LoadRunner9.50

Confidential, MI Aug 2007 – Mar 2008 
QA Tester 
Description:
Confidential is one of the largest health and dental insurance provider company in the US. The Global technology group at BCBS is in the process to migrate the existing web based application to a new software plateform, with a view of achieving potential financial benefits andoperational efficiencies in addition to replacing the outdated current software.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing Test Plan and Test Strategy document for execution of designed test scenarios
• Reviewed the Business Requirements document and Functional specification document with Business Analysts.
• Designed and developed SQL Scripts for Database testing
• Developed Test Scenarios in MS Excel and reviewed with Business Analysts and development team
• Upload the Designed Test scenarios to Quality Center – Test Plan Module
• Documented Functional Requirements in QC and map the test cases for traceability and coverage of requirements.
• Created Test sets in Test lab based on Test requirements for further execution
• Logged the defects in QA Defects module
• Reviewed defects with Development and Business Analysis
• Used Quick Test Professional for storing, execution of test cases and reporting results.
• Used Check Points, Output Values, Recovery Scenarios, Regular Expressions, Object Repository Administration extensively in QTP
• Executed Regression Test Scripts
• Generated Test Coverage, Test Execution and Defect Status reports from Quality Center.
• Test Cases and scenarios for Unit, Regression Created, Integration as well as Back –end and System testing
• Involved in system-to-system functional, regression, integration and performance tests and tested numerous SOA XML web services project.
• Validated the SOAP output backend results by writing SQL queries and executing them
  Experienced working with end_to_end system testing in distributed SOA enabled environment.
  Experienced testing Web Services using SOA, SOAP UI, REST & Custom Based Approach.
• Involved in maintaining and updating automation scripts for every release based on business changes and new functionality
• Implemented and executed several SQL queries for backend testing
• Prioritized and documented bugs in JIRA that are found during the process of testing.
• Involved in testing daily, weekly and monthly reports, which are generated after batch run.

Environment: Java, MS SQL Server 2005, XML, Mercury Quality Center 9.2, QTP 9.2, Windows NT, MS-Word, MS-Excel, HTML, CSS,Apache,JIRA

ConfidentialJan 2007 – Jul 2007
QA Tester ECM WEB technology 
Description: 
ECM Web technology deal with Enterprise content management system of Confidential. As Confidential is having range of products with series and models, each product contains lot of documents related to that like white papers, data sheets, technical documents etc. Confidential is using an automated system which can organize and manage the content in the Confidential.com as it is required for customers and partners of Confidential. 
This Automation project is implemented for doing a regression on the existing functionality for new implementation of Task based navigation, Collaboration, Personalization and DVD (Decentralized Vocabulary Development)

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and understand the requirements documents shared by the client
• Involved creating Test Plan.
• Created and executed test cases.
• Tested the web site for Broken Links.
• The application is tested in different Browsers like IE, Netscape Navigator.
• Involved in designing and maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix
• Verify the existing test cases and defining the scope for automation
• Perform automation feasibility on stable modules and assist team lead in preparing estimates
• Assist team lead in building the Test plans for the automatable features.
• Involve in design the framework and identifying the reusable functions.
• Develop functions and test scripts in VB scripting using QTP9.2
• Involved in writing Procedures & Reports.
• Created Test Cases and scenarios for Unit, Regression, Integration as well as Back –end and System testing
• Debugged the application to identify and check that the scripts run smoothly.
• Creating test suites and executing the scripts on the modified build on weekly basis
• Interact with the client on weekly basis and update the automation status.
• Participate actively in improving the process of the project

Environment: MS Word, MS Excel, Oracle, VB, XML, Quality Center, Windows XP, Java, PEGA, SQL, Toad, QTP9.2, HTML.

Confidential Mar 2005-Dec 2006 
QA Analyst 
Description:
Confidential is a pharmaceutical and medical supplies company. They provide products with high quality, economical, "green" products as well as health care equipment. They even provide shipment to doctor’s offices, hospitals, medical facilities, cities and counties from Michigan facility. Bluco is open to non-medical individuals as well. Being QA Engineer for this company I worked on product catalog and order processing modules.
Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, Functional Specifications and Design documents
• Interacted with Business analysts and build team to prepare Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases.
• Created the test plans, test cases and test scenarios and assigned the tasks to the Functional Performance and Regression testers and also involved in creating the test Scripts.
• Worked in an Agile technology with Scrum
• Developed Test Scripts for Acceptance test, Maintenance test and Regression tests and executed them
• Used Mercury Quality Center for organizing Requirements, Test Cases and Defects
• Communicated between different teams across different systems for the smooth running of Integration testing.
• Involved in walkthroughs with developers, customers and shared different testing methods of testing.
• Created documents using MS Office products for the users and customers.
• Validated the XML data.
• Extensively involved in supporting UAT and third party integration efforts
• Used Quality Center for writing Test Cases and creating Test execution reports.
• Create and verify the reports so that they match the business requirements using MS Office products.
• Involved in Onsite/Offshore coordination for smooth execution.
• Performed Smoke testing and Regression testing to check whether the build is stable.
• Conducted positive, negative, system, integration, functional, regression and user acceptance testing
• Participated in Walkthrough from Test Plans and Test Cases development.
• Validated different custom defined reports of business purpose.
• Tested the application on different browsers
• Performed all test assignments to ensure the application meets business requirements
• Created LoadRunner scripts to load test high traffic end user processes for performance and reliability
• Analyzed user requirements attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes.
• Assisted the team lead with daily QA tasks, coordinated and assisted in project meetings.
• Participated extensively in release meetings and QA status meetings.

Environment: .NET, Java, J2EE, Windows XP, LoadRunner, XML, HTML, Java Script,