Professional Summary

• Over 8+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, with solid expertise in testing software applications on Microsoft, Java platforms using Manual and Automation tools - HP Tools (QTP, Quality Center, and LoadRunner), IBM Rational Tools (Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Test Manager Silk 9.2) for Client Server and Web based applications.
• Strong understanding of SDLC and STLC methodologies and involved in all stages of the life cycle through different releases of product.
• Proficient in Analyzing System & Functional Specifications, Use Cases, Business Requirements, to Identify Test Requirements, track the requirements
• Experience in different phases of testing life cycle like Planning and Analysis Documenting the Testing Procedures, Design Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Data, and Execute Test Case.
• Participated in all aspects of SDLC testing including Functional, Integration, Compatibility GUI, Regression, Configuration and Regression Testing , Smoke Testing, Ad hoc Testing, End-to-End, User Acceptance (UAT), System Integration and Database (Back end) testing using SQL.
• Proficiency in providing Metrics to management, Defect management including Defect creation, modification, reproducing (wherever necessary), tracking, prioritizing and reporting using Industry standard Tools like IBM Rational Clear Quest, Quality Center, Bugzilla, Team Foundation server and manually using excellent detailed formats in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience in the Quality processes involving Defect Prevention, Metrics collection, Software Configuration Management and Version Control Management – Visual Source Safe, IBM Rational Clear Case.
• Have extensive experience in testing applications in like Unix, Redhat Linux4.0,5.0, MAC 10.4.x,10.5.x,Ubuntu and windows 2000/NT/95/98, Weblogic, Websphere and Main frames. Worked on databases Oracle 10g,11g,SQL Server 2008,DB2, Oracle 11g RAC.
• Excellent Communication, Leadership and Interpersonal skills with clear understanding of business logic.
• Experience working in Agile environment, like scrum and involved in sprint planning meetings.
• Strong understanding of QA test methodologies and process standards

Certifications

• International Software Testing Qualifications Board(ISTQB)

Awards

• Axeda shared Success award for best performance.
• Accolades from client for posting good number of high priority defects in AVIS.

Education

• Bachelor of Technology in Computer science engineering

Testing Tools : Quality Center, TEMA, Test Director, QTP, Silk, Bugzilla, Team Foundation server, PVCS, Rational Clear Quest, Load Runner, Winrunner.
Operating Systems : Windows-XP,Vista,Windows7,MAC 10.4,10.5,UNIX, Red HatLinux ,Ubuntu, Windows 2003 Server, Solaris10, AIX
Languages : C, SQL, VB Scripting, HTML, JAVA, Java Scripting
Application Servers : Weblogic9.0,10.0, JBoss 4.0.5, 4.2, WebSphere 6, Apache.
Database : Oracle 10g,11g,SQL Server 2008,DB2, Oracle 11g RAC
Version Control Tools : Visual Source Safe, Perforce, Clear case
Domain Knowledge : E-Commerce, Travel, Project Management, Banking, Health
SAP Tools : Infoview, Business Objects Dashboards,Designer.

Professional Experience

Confidential,Richmond VA Oct\'11 - Oct\'12
Project : MMIS
Role : Senior Quality Analyst/Tester
Environment : J2EE, Mainframes, DB2, Quality Center 9.5, QTP 9.5, Perforce, Weblogic 9.2, Websphere 10.0.

Description :
The Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) is a claim and benefits processing system maintained by ACS for Department of Medical Assistance services (DMAS) and are part of the federal Medicaid program. Medicaid Eligibility is primarily for individuals falling into particular categories, such as low income children, pregnant women, the elderly, persons with disabilities and parents meeting specific income thresholds.

Responsibilities :

• Experience working in Agile environment like attend scrum calls, sprint planning and sprint Retrospective meetings
• Involved in Analysis and understanding of functional requirements from user stories and high level functional specifications.
• Involved in estimating the time required for authoring test cases, test case execution with the help of test metrics
• Experience in setting up the test environment used for testing the application.
• Involved in preparing the Test Plan with Team Lead, which detailed the testing scope, strategy, Risk factors and necessary resources.
• Extensive knowledge in test case authoring Test case Execution and Defect Reporting using Quality Center.
• Responsible for preparing the Daily status reports, Weekly status reports, Test summary report and Project closure reports.
• Extensive knowledge in System, Functional, Adhoc, Smoke, Integration, GUI and Regression Testing.
• Used Quality Center 10.0 for exporting the test cases from Excel, Mapped the requirements to test cases, defects tracking and reporting. Retesting the fixed defects and tracking them to their closure
• Involved in testing the claims related data in mainframes environment by creating/updating/deleting claims, querying the data in database DB2.
• Involved in software configuration management activities and actively communicated issues in the testing with developers.

Automation

• Preparation of test cases specific for automation based on functionality
• Modification of Object Repository, test scripts and function libraries as per new changes in the functionality using Quick Test Pro 10.0
• Experience in execution, debugging and modifying the automation scripts in Quick Test Pro for Regression Testing
• Participated in code reviews to ensure software quality by implementing coding standards and best practices
• Involved in preparation of test data and also in formulation of the automation test strategy for effective use of Quick Test Pro.
• Good understanding on adding the objects and merging the objects in object repository.

Confidential,New Holland, PA Mar’11 – Oct\'11
Role: Senior Quality Analyst
Project : Commercial and Reporting Systems
Environment: QTP 10.0,Visual Source safe,J2EE, Oracle 10g,11g, Weblogic BEA 10, WebSphere9.0, Oracle 10g, 11g, JIRA, Linux, AIX, Visual source safe, SAP XI 3.0, Load Runner.

Description :
Case New Holland (CNH) is a global company in the agricultural and construction equipments businesses. Commercial land Reporting Systems is an internal project in CNH and deals with applications like Common Management Reporting (CMR), Sales Performance Reporting (SPR),Equipment Manufacturers Institute (EMI) and Dealer Communication System (DCS)etc. These applications collect Wholesale, Retail and Dealer Inventory information from many systems on different platforms to facilitate easy of reporting of summarized information.

Responsibilities :

• Experience in test case authoring, Test case Review and Test case Execution
• Involved in testing the Module at Development, Production and Maintenance stages in different configurations.
• Responsible for checking the data flow through the front and backend and used SQL queries to extract the data from the database.
• Used the defect tracking tool JIRA for bug reporting and tracking.
• Experience in using Rational Quality Manager for test case creation and execution.
• Responsible for updating existing Test Cases against the change of requirements.
• Involved in reports testing using the BO tool Infoview by gathering the requirements from the end user
• Experience in analyzing , preparing and displaying the data from different sources for different years in BO Dashboards tool.
• Manage individual tests, report bugs and coordinate with the developers to resolve the bugs.
• Interacted with developers to report software bugs and re-tested the fixed versions.
• Used LoadRunner for testing the maximum load and Performance that the application can handle as well as the response time for read, write and update transactions.

Confidential,NY Sep’10 – Feb\'11
Role: Sr. QA Tester
Environment: Windows XP/98,Vista,Unix, Linux (RedHat, suse), Unix, Oracle 10g,11g, Weblogic 8.1,9.2,10.1 JBoss4.0, Visual Source safe, PVCS

Description:
Device relationship management (DRM) is Enterprise Software that enables the monitoring, managing, and servicing of intelligent devices (any type of equipment, instrument, or machine that has built-in computing capability) over the Internet. The Axeda DRM system is composed of a software agent (Axeda Agent), resident at the device that communicates its device’s data to an enterprise server (Axeda Enterprise) via the Internet using Friendly Firewall.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in different phases of testing life cycle for new functionality, QA practices and principles and functional traceability matrices
• Handled critical functionality like Administration, Axeda Policy Server.
• Involved in test environment setup and tested the application on Unix/Linux Environment. Involved in Migration testing
• Involved in Requirement analysis deriving test scenarios, authored, modified and reviewed test cases using Quality Center 9.2
• Involved in working with application servers (WLS/WAS), Web servers (Apache, IIS), Windows Server, IBM WebSphere application server.
• Involved in System, Regression, Compatibility, Adhoc, Functional and UI testing.
• Involved in Defect Reporting, Defect retesting in the client provided tool PVCS
• Involved in I18N testing and tested application in Japanese, French and German languages
• Remote sessions with onsite coordinator and Application developers for resolving issues in the functionality.
• Involved in all the major and minor versions and in service packs of the product
• Acted as recorder for FDR Level1 meetings of the project.
• Responsible for SQA and SCM activities and involved in internal audits.
• Involved in creating the reports using the web intelligence tool Infoview.
• Involved in activities related to Risk Management, Configuration Management, Facilitating Standard QA activities: Adherence to QMS Standards, Procedures & Policies and Metrics Analysis.
• Involved in updating the test scripts as per new functional changes using QTP 9.5.
• Involved in Alpha testing at the developers site before the product is ready for beta testing.
• Involved in executing and debugging the test scripts, Merging the objects in the object repository
• Involved in testing the Module at Development, Production and Maintenance stages.
• Involved in preparing the time estimates for writing the test scripts as per the new functionality.
• Involved in executing the scripts as a batch and also in the nightly runs.
• Involved in developing the test scripts in QTP using Object Repository and Descriptive programming