SUMMARY:

• More than 6 years of extensive experience in Software Quality Assurance.
• Strong experience and understanding of various stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Methodologies. (Planning, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Integration, and support) such as Waterfall and AGILE methodologies
• Very good knowledge in Client Server Applications and Web Applications.
• Experienced in reviewing the Software Requirements Specifications, Functional Requirement Document and Business Requirement Document under Software Engineering.
• Demonstrated excellence in creating, developing and maintaining Test Plans, Test cases Test scripts and Test Scenarios for multiple projects.
• Extensive working experience on System Testing, Functionality Testing, Web testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), GUI Testing, Integration Testing, Database Testing
• Performed Backend testing involving Oracle databases using SQL programming using TOAD.
• Used UNIX extensively for Batch Testing, Back-end testing for multiple projects.
• Highly comfortable working with JAVA, J2EE, HTML, Oracle, XML, C#, VB based applications.
• Extensively used Quality Centre for requirements tracking, defect tracking, results and status reporting.
• Knowledge of using Automation tools such as Quick Test Professional, Load Runner within Automation Framework for multiple applications.
• Experienced in working in multiple domains with excellent verbal, written and analytical skills with ability to work in a team as well as individually.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Atlanta, GA August ‘2011 - Present
Role: QA Tester
Description: This project includes the implementation of the following systems: Inter-mediate, Centralized Error Management System, Billing System and Usage Data Repository application. The project enhances customer usage events from any service delivery network, processing data with the reliability and security needed for revenue management and other business-critical applications.

Resposibilities:

• This project followed a modified waterfall model for their SDLC enhancing validation and client requirements in between various stages.
• Involved in the project from the planning phase and played a key role in base lining the requirements, preparing the Test Plan, Test Strategy and Traceability.
• Developed test cases based on Requirement documents, functional specifications and design documents
• Involved in System Testing, Interface Testing and Back-End testing.
• Strong understanding of the application and lead various team members in creating test data as per testing needs.
• Verified and validated the flow of files through various modules and the guiding operations that take place during the mediation process.
• Extensively used UNIX for file structure, modifying files and configuring the system for guiding operations along with SQL to verify the integrity of multiple databases after every major process or test.
• Strong participation in various review meetings, walkthroughs throughout the various stages of the project including representing the test team in a tri weekly Defect review meeting

Environment: UNIX, Remedy, Java, SQL, Oracle, MS office, Quality Center 10.0

Confidential,Atlanta GA Feb ‘2011 – July ‘2011
Role: QA tester
Description: The project involves testing an integrated system for various client site reporting applications. It helps the trade analysts to plan forecast and implement the plans and track the actual performance to the plan. It helps in decision making of the analysts to decide when to have a promotion with a particular retailer and how did retailer perform in selling the product.
Responsibilities:

• Part of an agile implementation of a supply chain application in the retail industry.
• Maintained requirements and created Traceability between Requirements and Test Cases on a daily basis.
• Coordinated with various teams and prepared tests cases and ensured that all new functionality and enhancements were thoroughly tested.
• Ensured that this application supported different operating systems (Windows 2000, Windows 2000 server, Windows 2003 server, XP, Windows 7) and different browsers.
• Performed System testing, Web testing and end-to-end system test.
• Testing included front-end and back end and involved extensive use of UNIX and Database testing along with web based testing methodology.
• Created daily status reports and distributed with the stake holders and the project team

Environment: JBoss , Struts , Spring , Ajax , Dojo , iBatis , Oracle , PL/SQL , HP Quality Center 10.0 .

Confidential,New York Feb ‘2010 – Jan ‘2011
Role: QA Analyst
Description: Project involved a global event management application for NYSE EuroneXt, out of which the major parts included event contents, events repository. Content Producer/Events editor can add individual events to a centrally hosted system and have display on various client sites as specified according to business rules.

Responsibilities:

• Part of an agile implementation of a global B2B application in the financial industry.
• Participated in planning, review and daily meetings to evaluate requirements and specifications, to ensure accurate and complete coverage of system testing
• Created, developed and executed test cases and test scripts manually including positive and negative.
• Performed GUI, XML and Web testing to ensure an accurate event management according to the business rules on a weekly basis.
• Designed, executed Load testing scenarios using Loadrunner and developed scripts with HTML protocol
• Analyzed potential performance bottlenecks based on Load tests using various tools such as Introscope, UNIX monitors etc
• Involved in daily review meetings and Interacted with developers on a daily basis to understand new functionality and events along with resolving current issues in the application.
• Used JIRA to report/track all issues including software bugs to resolve technical issues and defects.

Environment : Unix , TOAD , Oracle , PL/SQL , MS-Office , PHP 5.3.3 , JIRA 4.2 .

Confidential,Philadelphia April ’09 – Jan ‘2010
Role: QA Tester
Description: This project involved testing a legacy billing and customer service application which includes system management, order processing, field service management, Personnel Maintenance, inventory and reports. This application allowed managing day-to-day operations of provisioning services and managing customers throughout their life cycles.

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plans, test cases based on Requirements Specification, Design and technical specification documents.
• Performed GUI based testing for Account and Customer Service Management in parallel with back end validation and verification using UNIX, SQL, shell scripting throughout the project lifecycle.
• Performed XML testing to validate data transfers and code changes in the API servers using the in house built API tester.
• Created working XML Api’s for various services, layers and components in a request response methodology.
• Created user documents on API tester and provided training to different teams on the various components of the project.

Environment : Unix , HP Quality Center 10.0, Java , XML , TOAD , MS-Office , Oracle , J2EE , Windows XP , SQL server , Weblogic , SOAP , Websphere , Siebel , HTML

Confidential, Kansas July’08 – March ‘09
Role: QA Analyst
Description: E-Bill is a front-end web application that enables customers to view, analyze and pay their bills within a single application, regardless of the billing system that produces the invoices and included integration of the Billing system, hierarchy, Billed Usage Presentment along with E-Bill for an enhanced user experience.

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases documents for every major release and ad-hoc project involving new architecture and design.
• Manually prepared data for testing all the services in different environments and involved in the up gradation of the data through various builds and versions.
• Performed Functional testing during various stages of the project.
• Performed testing of various development frameworks including Soap Receiver Framework (SRF), Service Access Framework (SAF), Logging Framework, Configuration Framework, and Security Framework.
• Testing involved modifying files and configuring the system for the input and output of files and writing scripts on UNIX boxes to enable faster regression testing
• Used SQL for testing various databases for services which involved certain back-end testing for the verification and modification of tables.
• Used HP Quality Center to report/track all testing issues and defects along with other documentation

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, UNIX, TOAD, SQL, Oracle, PL/SQL, MS-Office, vss-6.0