Summary:

• 5+ years Quality Assurance experience in manual/automated testing of the Web Applications, Client Server and legacy applications.
• Developed test cases for both functional and structural requirements like performance, load and stress testing test cases.
• Excellent understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and experience in all phases of QA documentation like writing Test plans, Test Scripts, Test cases and Testing summaries.
• Extensive experience in Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, System Testing, Black Box Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Ad-Hoc testing.
• Well acquainted with experience in Agile SCRUM testing methodology.
• Extensive experience with HP Quality Center.
• Experience in Automation Testing using HP/Mercury Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Designed SQL queries to meet backend testing requirements and also to collect the required test data to support data driven automated testing.
• Expertise in Defect tracking tools like JIRA, Quality Centre and Clear Quest.
• Generated Test Metrics showing the number of test cases executed, passed, failed and left to execute in weekly meetings and verified the Fixes for the reported bugs.
• Quick learner and excellent team player, good communication skills, ability to meet tight deadlines and work under pressure.

Software skills:

Windows 9x/2k/NT/XP, OS/390

Databases

MS SQL Server, DB2, Oracle

QA Tools

HP Tool -QTP

Defect Tracking Tools

Quality Center, Clear Quest and JIRA bug tracking tool.

SD Methodologies

Water Fall, Agile SCRUM

Microsoft suite

VISIO, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook Express

Certifications:

• Certified Software Tester from Brain Bench.
• Quality Assurance Specialist from Viden Corporation.
• Software Testing Specialist from Viden Corporation.

Educational Qualifications: Chartered Accountant

Work Experience:

• QA Test Engineer as a Consultant at Causeway Capital Management, Los Angeles.
• QA Test Engineer as a Consultant at Capital Group Companies, Los Angeles.
• Software Test Engineer as a Consultant at Health Highway Inc., Milpitas, CA.

Professional Experience:

Project Name : Confidential
Client :Confidential, Los Angeles, CA (Consultant)
Role : QA Test Engineer (From Apr ’10 – Till date)
Project Description:
The application is a portal built for the “Research” group firm. It provides with the Research Analysts with access to following functionalities. This project was implemented in multiple phases and I have been involved in testing the portal. It is used firm wide by all the executive management/ Equity research analyst/ Traders etc.

• Biggest Stock gainers and Losers of the stocks held by the firm.
• Portfolio Surveillance and comparison with corresponding bench mark based on live pricing from Reuters.
• Analyst performance based on their recommendations (1 yr, ytd, 3 yr, 5yr, since inception). This information is sourced from fact set alpha metrics.
• Current trading activity of the Firm.
• Various reports for the users.
• Earnings call information.
• Display the various securities held by the firm in different strategies and portfolios.
• Strategy performance.
• Recent research postings.

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with the Business Analysts, development team as per the changing needs of the deliverables & analyzing requirements and other development documents.
• Attended the walkthrough meetings, defect assessment meetings etc.
• Developing detailed test plans and test cases, entrance and exit criteria for the application being tested and ensured that standards for documentation were followed.
• Tested various functionalities like Securities, Portfolios, Sub strategies, Company meetings, Files, Calendars etc.
• Performed all phases of testing including Functionality testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System testing and User Acceptance Testing of the application.
• Preparing the test scenarios, test cases to cover all the requirements and developed the Requirements Traceability Matrix in Quality Center.
• Manually executed the test cases for positive and negative scenarios.
• Worked on backend testing and has very good knowledge of writing SQL queries.
• Logging and tracking the defects using Quality center.
• Coordinating with the development team to resolve the Defects.

Environment : Quality center, SQL Server, .NET, Internet Explorer, Windows OS/390.

Project Name : Real time Pricing into the trading systems.
Client : Confidential, Los Angeles, CA (Consultant)
Role : QA Test Engineer (From Jan ’09 - Mar ’10)
Project Description:
This Project is involved in migrating Pricing vendor from Bloomberg Data license to
Reuter’s data scope select. This data is used by various trading and analytics systems
in the company. The project involved in developing feeds to fetch the securities of interest and preparing the list for which we need the live prices. We used Agile SRUM methodology in this project.
Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Requirements and Functional Specifications of the application.
• Participated in identifying the Test scenarios and designing the Test cases.
• Created Traceability between Requirements and Test Cases using Quality Center.
• Performed manual testing as per requirement including negative & positive testing.
• Performed Black box testing, Integration testing, System testing, data validation testing, end-to-end testing of the application and involved in white box testing.
• Performed Regression testing after bugs have been fixed to validate product fixes.
• Interacted with Business Analysts, Developers and QA team members in different defect raising situations & as per the changing needs of the deliverables.
• Performed rigorous backend validations and mappings of the source data (Pershing Files).
• Executed various activities like Risk Analysis, Risk Management and Risk Mitigation after having analyzed the prevalent market conditions.
• Created Central repository of all the data comprising of various deliverables like Test Bed, Test set and BRD.
• Wrote SQL queries to extract data from the database for Backend Testing.

Environment: MS-Office, Win2000, Q.C, Clear Quest, Java, Internet Explorer, Firefox4.0, SQL.

Project Name : EMR (Electronic Medical Records System)
Client : Confidential, Milpitas, CA (Consultant)
Role : SW Test Engineer (From Feb ’07 - Dec ’08)
Project Description:
Health Highway developed and released products and services to improve the efficiency, reduce costs, and to increase the profitability of the health care industry. The EMR system is a web application to keep clinical database which includes information about patients, patient diagnosis, case follow-ups, and patient history etc. I tested EMR application. It had information about patient, where he can view his history, lab result, diagnosis, doctor notes, any follow up if required. The application was built in vb.net with oracle as backend. The framework was Asp.net. Order tests, physician consultations or surgical procedures directly from the patient\'s chart. Fully integrated with Health Highway’s Practice Management and Billing software. Additions and edits are automatically updated into other sections of patient chart. upload and manage a variety of patient documents such as scanned images, voice files and transcriptions Inbuilt DICOM Viewer to view and work upon your X-rays and other scanned images. Flag abnormal lab results, using the test reference values. Extensive inbuilt drug database for OTC and prescribed drugs. Write multiple prescriptions for each patient. While checking out, you can print all SOAP, prescriptions, labs, referrals and follow ups. This is overview of my project.
Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing the requirements and developed test plans, test cases, test scripts, and test scenarios using Quality Center.
• Created traceability matrix between test cases and requirements.
• Responsible for GUI Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Installation of QTP and performed necessary environment settings as per the test automation plan.
• Coded some QTP scripts using VB Scripting as per Test Scenarios.
• Inserted checkpoints to compare values between required and resultant Test Cases.
• Tested various functionalities like patient visits, prescriptions, pharmacy, appointments, test results, lab ordering, progress notes, built-in DICOM viewer etc.
• Performed cross browser testing to test the application behavior.
• Responsible for writing the SQL queries to pull the data.
• Participated actively in team meetings with functional and development team for fixing bugs.
• Preparation of test execution plan, scheduling and tracking.
• Reported the defects to the developers using the JIRA, created defect reports and documented test results and involved in writing Test Metrics.

Environment: VB scripting, Oracle, JIRA, QTP, Firefox4.0, MS-Office, Win2000.