SUMMARY:

• Over six years experience as Quality Assurance Analyst/Quality Assurance Tester in various organizations and industries. Experience in QA testing in unit, integration, functional, system, validation, performance and regression testing
• Expertise in creating and executing application functional and performance test plans in client/server, web, client script and API testing environments
• Experience in Agile and Waterfall software development environment
• Experience includes business requirement analysis, test plan creation end to end manual testing, and quality assurance testing of a vast variety of client/server and web based applications
• Advanced knowledge and expertise in use of HP Quality Center for testing and defect tracking. Self motivated, trustworthy and independent in creation of test scripts, test data, test plan, test cases with well - defined expected results, test execution, results validation, defects management and test results reporting
• Regularly interacted with business analysts and application developers in requirement analysis, design reviews, all phases of testing and documentation for application developed
• Identified performance bottlenecks and reviewed with development team for resolution
• Good organizational skills with the ability to track and prioritize numerous simultaneous tasks
• Proven self-starter and, motivated team player with leadership abilities and excellent communication and interpersonal skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating system: Windows, UNIX, Linux

Environment: Web and App Servers, Web Logic, Web Sphere, MQ Series, SQL Server

Databases: Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, MS Access

Languages: Java, VB-Script, PL/SQL, C, SQL, XML

Testing tools: LoadRunner, Performance Center, TestComplete, SOASTA

Monitoring Tools: dynaTrace, Wily Introscope, Red Gate

Utilities: Confluence, Fiddler, Charles, HttpWatch, MS Office products

Defect Tracking Tools: Rally, Test Director, Lotus Notes, HP Quality Center, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Carmel, IN

Automation Tester

Environment: TestComplete, Rally, UNIX, Windows, JAVA, Apache, Oracle, XML, SQL Server, AJAX VB, .NET, HTML

Responsibilities:

• Automated complete test suite of EBC (Electronic Billing Center) application
• Worked in an Agile software development environment
• Developed automated test scripts from manual test cases for regression testing using TestComplete based on the business requirements and functional requirements
• Executed automated software test plans, cases, scripts to uncover, identify and document software problems and their causes
• Performed regression testing of the entire application according to requirements
• Prepared and submitted regression updates and software defect tracking reports to stakeholders as appropriate
• Performed execution of test cases to verify the expected results and tracked bugs
• Executed SQL queries for testing functionality of the application
• Attended project meetings, release meetings and QA status meetings

Confidential, Somerset, NJ

Quality Assurance Tester

Environment: HP Quality Center, Windows, UNIX, DB2, JAVA, Apache, Toad, Oracle, XML, SQL Server, HTML

Responsibilities:

• Created detailed test cases for both Manual and Automation according to business requirements and functional requirements
• Worked in an Agile software development environment
• Performed execution of test cases to verify the expected results and tracked bugs
• Performed GUI, functional testing and end-to-end testing on the entire system
• Performed positive and negative, Security testing to make sure application is according to requirements
• Executed SQL queries for testing functionality of the application
• Attended project meetings, release meetings and QA status meetings
• Worked closely with the QA manager, developers and SQA engineers to understand needs, preferences, workflows, priorities and schedules to execute test strategies
• Conducted User Acceptance Test (UAT) with users and customers and wrote issues log based on outcome of UAT

Confidential, Chicago, IL

ETBS Test Engineer

Environment: LoadRunner, Performance Center, HP Quality Center, UNIX, Windows,DB2, JAVA, Apache, Oracle, XML, SQL Server, AJAX VB, HTML

Responsibilities:

• Completed certifications like HIPAA, PHI(Protected Health Information) and SPI(Sensitive Personal Information) as part of the requirement
• Worked in an Agile software development environment
• Developed Load/Stress scenarios for performance testing according to test specifications
• Loaded test scripts using VUGen and enhanced scripts by including transactions, parameterize constant values and correlating dynamic values
• Identified quality issues, analyze, document, track and resolve using HP Quality Center
• Performed in-depth analysis to identify points of failure in an application
• Defined and configured SLAs for hits/sec, throughput, transactions per second in LoadRunner
• Compared and analyzed actual to expected results and report all deviations
• Analyzed tests using summary analysis, average transaction response time, throughput, windows resource, network delay and HTTP codes
• Set up automation regression suites
• Performed backend testing with SQL queries for DB2 and SQL Server database
• Identified performance bottlenecks and made recommendations to developers to resolve bottlenecks
• Conducted troubleshooting of business and production issues

Confidential, Charlestown, MA

Quality Assurance/Performance Tester

Environment: JIRA, HP Quality Center, UNIX, Windows, DB2, JAVA, Apache, Oracle, XML, SQL Server, AJAX VB, J2EE analysis, HTML

Responsibilities:

• Performed load testing of the client server applications
• Maintained various monitoring graphs such as throughput, hits/Sec, transaction response time and windows resources while executing scripts
• Prepared detailed performance test analysis reports with graphs identifying application bottlenecks from scripts execution
• Extensively worked on client tools and monitored performance
• Involved in data migration testing
• Performed Backend testing by integrating SQL queries within scripts and validated backend workflow under load testing
• Monitored load test performance through dynaTrace
• Client side performance was monitored using Fiddler and Charles
• Performed root cause analysis on critical defects
• Developed and executed SQL queries and procedures to perform database testing
• Bugs were tracked and updated in defect tracking tool JIRA

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

Quality Assurance Tester

Environment: HP Quality Center, Windows, SQL Server, XML, HTML

Responsibilities:

• Created test cases according to business requirement
• Worked in a Waterfall software development environment
• Provided input and insight to software design and architecture process
• Implemented and updated bug tracking procedure
• Worked with cross functional project teams to define acceptance criteria
• Prepared quality assurance reports
• Conducted before and after studies for deployment, reviewed test results with management and obtained sign-off from management and other technical groups