Summary of experience:

• Over 7 years of experience in Information Technology with focus on Quality assurance.
• Conversant with all phases of Project Life Cycle including Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Testing, Software quality standards and Configuration management.
• Experience in Analysis of Software Requirement Specifications, Development and Execution of Test Plans, Test Scripts, and Test Cases.
• In-depth knowledge of all QA Phases that include Unit, Functional, Integration, System, Regression and UAT testing.
• Experience with QA Methodology and QA Strategies to ensure the Quality Assurance Control.
• Expertise in Manual testing and Automation testing using Mercury Interactive Tools (Win Runner, Load Runner, QTP & Test Director).
• Expertise in Problem solving and Bug tracking using Test Management Tool like Test Director.
• Ability to interact with developers and product analysts for testing status.
• Hands on experience in testing middleware integration components (developed in WebMethods) and also web based applications developed in ASP and .NET.
• Experience in testing database dependent applications of Oracle, MS SQL Server and MS Access.
• Strong working experience with Windows Series environment.
• Involved in review meetings with Project Managers, Business Associates and Developers for Project Planning, Coordination and implementing various QA methodologies.
• Excellent team player with good logical reasoning ability, coordination and interpersonal skills.

Technical Skills:

• Mercury Interactive Tools: WinRunner 7.0, LoadRunner 6.0, Test Director, Quick Test Professional 8.0, Quality center 9
• Defect Tracking Tools: Clear Quest, Jira, Bugzilla
• TestCases: TestLog
• Middleware Integration s/w: WebMethod 7.2
• Version Control: Visual Source Safe, Clearcase
• Scripting: VB Script, Java Script,
• Web Technologies & Tools: HTML, IIS 6 & 7 , IE 6.0/7.0/8.0, Firefox
• Microsoft Technologies: Visual Basic 5.0/6.0, Visual Studio.NET, ASP
• Testing methodologies : Waterfall Model, Agile, prototype
• Databases: Oracle 10g, MS SQL Server 2005/2008, MS Access
• OS: MS Windows 95/98/2003/2008,Windows 7,XP,Vista,x86, x64 processors, VM Ware

Certifications:

• Cisco Certified Network Associate(CCNA)
• Microsoft Certified Professional(MCP)

Confidential,Westborough, MA July’11-Tilldate
Position: Senior QA Analyst

Confidential, is among the premier genetics and oncology laboratories in the United States. It has an excellent clinical reputation, it includes technologies that span the continuum of care, ranging from maternal serum screening and prenatal diagnostics to carrier screening and postnatal testing services to a strong focus on molecular and oncology testing service. Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp) acquired Genzyme Genetics, a business unit of Genzyme Corporation.

• Integrating Genzyme Genetics application into the LabCorp systems.
• Working with integration team for system requirement specification by interacting with LabCorp people
• Involved in executing test scenarios for End to End test process.
• Performed sanity, smoke, positive, negative, regression testing
• Communicating weekly project status reports to QA Manager.
• Created Test scripts and datasets for test execution for ICIS, Gold Connect Integration,GAP and SCC.
• Trained Onsite and Offshore resources while working with one of the module and acted as a SPOC for ICIS, Gold Connect Integration, GAP and SCC
• Created TSR (test Summary Report) at the end of each test execution cycle.

Environment: WebMethods, Siebel(CRM), Xifin, LiveLink, Oracle, Fusion(LMS), MQC, SCC.

Confidential, Southborough, MA Mar’11-June’11
Position: Senior QA Analyst

Confidential, is the world\'s largest provider of data backup, recovery and archiving services. Connected Backup is software that backs up files on users computers and stores the backed up data on centralized data center. If users lose files on their computer they can retrieve the lost files from the stored backup.
Connected® Backup for PC and Mac Software Features:

• Ensures fast, efficient backups without user action or IT intervention
• Users can easily retrieve lost or damaged files
• Enables anytime/anywhere system rollback in the event of data loss
• Streamlines the migration of data to new computers
• You can flexibly manage when and what to back up on your computer

Responsibilities:

• Installed centralized Datacenter on windows servers like Win 2003, 2008, Installed Agent software on windows PC machine on all windows family.
• Involved in Client & Server side testing.
• Check the backed up data through third party software, and also check in SQL database.
• Analysis of Archive data through backend database.
• Used Quality center to maintain the test cases and automation scripts.
• Tested the Client application on FDCC(Federal Desktop Core Configuration) & USGCB (United States Government Configuration Base Line)
• Performed Debugging, Troubleshooting and reproducing the Customer found issues
• Used JIRA for bug reporting tool.
• Testing the application on various windows environment using VM Ware.

Environments: Java, SQL 2003 & 2008, JIRA, Quality Center9, IIS 6 & 7, VM Ware, Windows 7 x86 & x64

Confidential,Westborough, MA Mar’09-Feb’11
Position: Senior QA Engineer

Confidential, is one of the top pharmacy company doing research and development in the field of rare human genetic diseases. Its genetics division is into reproductive, oncology testing and clinical trials. “GEDI” (Genzyme Design & Innovation) project deals with the implementation of replacing the existing legacy system (Fusion) with new CRM system (SIEBEL) and patient LMS (SCC Soft). Project involves manual, integration, automation and performance testing of SIEBEL and SCC-Soft medical module which integrates with XIFIN ( a billing system) and FUSION laboratory management system of the company.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering business requirements from Client, understand the user criteria, communicate the same to WebMethods and other development teams.
• Create functional documents of the system based on the user requirements
• Participated in the JED sessions of the different Interfaces of Siebel which integrates with Fusion and SCC. Discuss functionality of each and every interface, Web method limitations to meet user requirements and finding the alternate workaround to meet that criteria
• Used to organize the meetings with the Webmethod development team and BSA\'s to gather the requirement and pass it on to the team
• Communicated weekly Project status to QA Manager.
• Involved in creating Test plan for transaction testing of interfaces
• Wrote test cases for all interface which deals with Webmethod, Fusion and SCC.
• Performed manual test execution of all interfaces based on test scripts written.
• Used rational clear quest for bug tracking and reporting.
• Used Plan View for bug tracking and reporting also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.
• Performed backend testing of the system by writing and executing SQL queries using TOAD
• Performed sanity, smoke, positive, negative, regression, Webtesting
• Involved in creating test scenarios for End to End test execution.
• Created Test scripts and datasets for test execution
• Trained Onshore and Offshore resources while working with one of the module.
• Involved in Phase-1 & 2 Go live and in Hypercare support for Phase-1.
• Executed End to End test scripts scenarios
• Created automation test plan and test cases for Interfaces which can be automated using QTP
• Implemented Agile development process for initial planning stage, rapid repeats of the iteration stage before release
• Recording of Test scripts and creation of Batch files in QTP, worked with different repositories, different checkpoints and GUI map files
• Involved in Daily and Weekly triage meetings with development teams and vendors to resolve defects.
• Performed Correlation for dynamically generated values and Parameterization for user inputs to avoid data caching
• Created TSR (Test summary Report) at the end of each test execution cycle

Environment: WebMethods, Siebel (CRM), Xifin, LiveLink, Oracle, Fusion(LMS), QTP, MQC, SCC.

Confidential, Sep’07-Dec’08
Westborough, MA – Quality Control Analyst

Confidential, is well known in the industry for its innovative technology. This patented, 64-bit, in-memory OLAP server provides a unique real-time approach to consolidating, viewing—and editing—enormous volumes of multidimensional data. It has a proven track record in the financial performance management market. And IBM Cognos TM1 has received some of the industry’s highest ratings for helping organizations drive better business decisions, yet with faster implementation times and lower IT costs.
IBM Cognos TM1 offers:

• Improved planning, analytics, and "what-if" scenario modeling
• Agile, self-service analysis and optimization of large, highly complex, rapidly changing data sets, with real-time response
• Unmatched abilities to analyze profitability, sales mix, and price/volume variance
• High performance real-time read-write capabilities

Responsibilities:

• Gathering the requirement documents, design specifications in each phase of the application, which involves series of meetings with developers, deployment engineers and business analysts.
• Conducted Installation testing on all platforms like x86, x64, Unix, Itanium and Solaris.
• Tracked and reported defects using Jira, Team Co-ordination, Training and documentation.
• Involved writing test cases in Test Log.
• TM1 Excel Add-in has been tested in Excel 2003 & 2007.
• Involved in TM1 Release TM1 9.1 SP3 release, TM1 9.0 SP4, Cougar
• Involved in conducting Integration, Functional, Regression, GUI, Installation and Web testing.
• Followed up with bugs, worked with senior developer engineer to reproduce and analyze customer’s bugs and provide workarounds
• Performed front-end testing, installation testing, BAT testing on client, web and server ends, functionality and compatibility issues.
• Log and track localization defects, help reproduce customer’s bugs, work with development teams to locate bugs
• Used Agile Process model in our organization.
• Involved in testing the TM1 Web Client module.
• Involved in testing Excel Service for web Module
• Involved in Client and server testing
• Involved in testing of IIS .net 2.0 & 3.0
• Involved in testing of conversion of 32 bit IIS to 64 bit IIS
• Involved in Active Form functionality with both Excel 2003 & 2007
• Uninstall from registry settings
• Involved in testing various environments ( Win XP, Vista, 2003 Server etc.) and localization using VM Ware

Environment:QTP, VB.NET, ASP.NET, Windows x86 & x64 based processors, Vista, UNIX, Solaris, Jira, Test Log, VS 2005.net, MS Excel 2003 & 2007, SQL Server 2005, Web Ex, VM Ware

Confidential,Dec’05-Jan’07
INDIA - QA Tester

This project is developed for Department of Income tax, to authenticate challans enclosed by the Assessees while filing their returns, against standard database provided by banks. This process of authentication uses very advanced searching algorithm based on name. This project includes a provision for disabling challan number to ensure that same challan number will not be used by assessee at another point of time thus checking no place for fraud by assessee while filing returns.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing Test plans, Test cases, creating Test scripts, Team Co-ordination, Training and Documentation
• Involved in the preparation of system requirement specification by interacting with clients
• Derived Test Cases and Executed Test Cases
• Extensively performed manual testing process to ensure the quality of the software.
• Conducted training for users at various Regional Computer Centers of the department in Andhra Pradesh.
• Gathering the requirement documents, design specifications in each phase of the application, which involves series of meetings with developers, deployment engineers and business analysts
• Used Test Director for Defect Tracking and Test Management
• Created and maintained the automated Test scripts using QTP
• Created automated Checkpoints to check for broken links and source content of each page in the business process using QTP
• Involved in conducting Integration, Functional, Regression, GUI, UAT and database testing.
• Interacted with Developers, Database team, Environment Management team and Requirements team for gathering the required info & resolving the various issues

Environment: QTP, Java/Swings, MS-Access, Windows XP SP2

Confidential, Jan’05-Nov’05
INDIA - QA Tester

The project involved matching a name of a person imported from an external data source against standard PAN database of income tax as well as finding out duplicate Pans with in the PAN database having 30 million records. The search criteria not only require fetching exact matches but also true approximate match using complex query building and iterative process.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the preparation of system requirement specification by interacting with clients
• Involved in preparing Test Plan.
• Derived Test Cases and Executed Test Cases
• Extensively performed manual testing process to ensure the quality of the software.
• Conducted various types of testing like Integration testing, Functional testing, Regression Testing and Acceptance Testing
• Done backend testing using SQL Queries

Environment: VB/Java, Oracle 8.0, Windows 2000 Server.