PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 6 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, Software Testing, Analysis and Documentation of Web based and Client/Server applications.
• In depth undertanding of Quality Assurance Life Cycle, QA Methodology and QA Strategy including Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Extensive experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Quality Assurance, Manual Testing,Automation testing and User Acceptence Testing.
• Significant exposure to manual testing and Automation tools like QTP and Quality Center.
• Experience in Design, Development, Testing and Implementation on technologies like Visual Basic and SQL Server.
• Hands-on experience with writing SQL queries in MS SQL Server, Oracle and MySQL.
• Expertise in preparing test Strategy, test plan, test methodology, test scenarios, test summary reports, test cases and test documents for automated and manual testing based on user requirements, system requirements and Use Case Documents.
• Strong in RDBMS writing SQL queries and PL/SQL programs to perform Data driven tests, Data reports and involved in Database integrity testing.
• Worked on analyzing business specifications to write test cases and strong at complete Quality Life Cycle, SDLC with the client/server and Data warehouse environment.
• Experience in Black Box Testing, Positive, Negative, GUI Testing, Data Driven Testing,Regression Testing, Integration Testing with Client server applications.
• Experience in reviewing test plans and executing test cases, reporting and tracking defects and modifications.
• Experience in writing and execution of user acceptence test cases.
• Have excellent team spirit and good communications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Quality Center,Test Ditrector.

Automation Testing Tools :

QTP, Win Runner

Languages:

C, C++, PL/SQL

Databases:

MS SQL server 2000/2005

Operating systems :

Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista,

Scripting Languages:

HTML, XML, VB Script

EDUCATION:
Bachelor of computer science .

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential,Newark DE Oct 09’ – Till date

QA Analyst/Lead

Project Description: correspondent mortgage banking section is one of the major leading on going projects in JPMC, where different applications are developed for the correspondent users as well as Chase Mandatory Desk group to process multiple loans with the chase in the market. The main purpose of this project is to process the mortgage loans (single/pool of loans) which are generated by the correspondent users.

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in the SIT testing of about five different applications which are used to process different loans for the correspondents.
• Worked for four major releases (including most of the applications) and five small releases based on the applications in this span, where performed Smoke Test, System Testing, Regression testing and adhoc testing of different applications.
• Involved in analyzing the Business Requirements, Functional Requirements andTechnical Requirements documents.
• Prepared High Level Scenarios, by merging different business requirements based upon the work flow in the application in order to improve the scope of the SIT as well as UAT testing.
• Created Test Scripts for integration testing, regression testing, GUI testing and UAT testing in QC.
• Prepared Impact Matrix based upon the business requirements and mapping of the high levels based upon the impact matrix.
• Actively participated in the resource allocation for the future releases and sizing of different applications.
• Gave the estimations based on different levels like concept level, Requirement level and design level estimates, so that management will have the over all idea of the total hours which are going to be burned.
• Prepared Effective Test Strategy for the applications, which cover End to End Functionality in the System Testing Phase. The outcome of this plan was we could successfully reduce the defects which are flowing into the UAT phase.
• Involved in the applications from the planning face and interacted with the BAs and developers in the design and functionality phase. Conducted test plan and high level scenario reviews for all the applications involving all the job families, so that maximizing the test coverage for the applications.
• Prepared the regression bed for different applications which cover end to end testing of an application.
• Proper understanding of the work flows of each application and the over all correspondent mortgage section.
• Prepared the run book for all the applications, and included all the enhancements for each release in the run book.
• Resource allocation based upon their expertise and driving the things from onshore by successfully interacting with the BA’s and Dev.

Environment: Quality Center 10.0, XML, SQL, PL/SQL,MS Excel, MS Word
Confidential,Baltimore, MD Mar’09 – Sep’09

QA Analyst

Project Description: Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP), a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Act (PPACA), provides reimbursement to employer and union sponsors of participating employment-based plans for a portion of the cost of health benefits for early retirees and their spouses, surviving spouses, and dependents. The Secretary will reimburse sponsors for certain claims between $15,000 and $90,000. The purpose of the reimbursement is to make health benefits more affordable for plan participants and sponsors so that health benefits are accessible to more Americans than they would otherwise be without this program.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Analyzing theBusiness Requirements, Functional Requirements andTechnical Requirements documents.
• Involved in writingTest plan,Test strategy, and Test scenariosto test business requirements using word, Excel.
• CreatedTest CasesforRegression,GUI testingandFunctional testing, Back-Endand compatibilitytesting based on the system requirements.
• Tested the functionality of individual component, individualmoduleand thenend-to end functionality.
• Involved inSystem testing, Integration testing, Functionality testing, Regression, End-End testing, User Acceptance testing.
• ExecutedTest casesin bothmanualandautomationto verify actual results against expected results.
• Involved in testing the applicationutilizingScrum (Agile)methodology.
• Involved in writing test scripts to performsecurity testingusingWeb Inspect.
• Involved in designing and development ofKeyword drivenFramework for Test Automation usingQuick Test Professional
• Tested for data in the database by writingSQL queriesbefore testing the module
• Involved in analyzing Test Results & Identify bugs and reporting to the developers usingQuality Center.
• UsedQuality Centerto prepareTest Cases, ProceduresandRequirements Traceability Matrix.
• GeneratedTest Analysis ReportsandgraphsusingQuality Center.
• ConductedRegression TestingusingQuick Test Professionalat various phases of the project.
• MaintainedTest EstimatesandTest Summary DashboardonSharePoint.
• Worked hand to hand withBusiness Analyststo prepare use cases.
• Participated in all phases ofSoftware Testing Life Cycle(STLC)

Environment: Quick Test Pro 10.0, Quality Center 10.0, Java, PEGA, Oracle11gR2, VBScript, XML, SQL, PL/SQL,World Space, MS Excel, MS Word.

Confidential,Inc. Aug’08 – Mar’ 09
QA Analyst
Confidential,is the largest provider ofin the United States.
Project Description: MPS SLID (Member Profile System, Single Login ID).The overall objective of this project is to create a system that will allow the customer to consolidate all of their AT&T IDs, accounts, services and devices under a single global ID and provide customer online access to all consolidated accounts and service through a single logged in experience. (SLID) i.e. single login ID
Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and functional specifications.
• Developed Test strategy and approach for testing.
• Peer review of Technical Specifications, Program Specifications, Unit Test Plans and other project related documents.
• Participated in the System Test Plan Reviews, Test Scenarios, Test Cases Review and modified the documents with respect to the review comments.
• Conducted functionality testing using Quick Test Pro, recorded and wrote test scripts and created user defined functions in scripts.
• Experienced in installation and up gradation and configure with Mercury Suite.
• Experienced in upgrading patches and running old scripts on new version tools and vice versa.
• Developed test scripts using QTP (VBScript) for existing test case and with Unit testing.
• Wrote VBScripts for Data driven testing in Quick Test Pro.
• Performed Regression testing using Quick Test Professional.
• Prepared and executed automation scripts for validating the orders using QTP.
• Involved in End to End testing.
• Performed Business functionality testing, which involved testing of all core functions of the application.
• Performed User Acceptence Testing (UAT) were the test cases were executed and the defetcts were reported.
• Responsible for writing complex SQL queries to find out that the data is correctly populated in each field.
• Involved in all stages of testing process-Development of Test plan, Test procedures and Test cases based upon requirements for Functional Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Entered the bugs on the basis of the severities in the defect-tracking database.

Environment: Quick Test Professional 9.2, Quality Center, Oracle 9i, Java, JavaScript, VBScript, HTML & DHTML, JCL, Windows Server 2003, Unix, SQL Server 2005, AS/400, IE 6.0, XML, TCP/IP.

Confidential,India Aug’06-Jun’08
QA analyst

Involved in Analysis and Testing of Inventory Control System, which keeps track of supplier details, item details, transaction details and stock availability. The applications are Mainframe Applications developed using COBOL.
Responsibilities:

• Performed functionality testing, Regression testing.
• Analyzing the business requirements and functional requirements.
• Developed Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Conducted Application Testing Manually.
• Manually tested the GUI and functionality of the application.
• Involved in analyzing Test Results & Identify bugs and reporting to the developers usingQuality Center.
• Tracked defects using remote Bug Tracking system.
• Wrote SQL queries to query the database.

Confidential,India Jun’05-Jul’06
QA Analyst

Description: The web-based application for online banking enables the bank’s customers and account holders to access and manages their personal or business accounts including checking, savings, money market and credit information through the internet.
Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and reviewed Business Requirement and Functional Requirement documentation.
• Interacted with Developers and Business Analyst to analyze and understand the user requirements, functional specifications and technical specifications.
• Involved in System testing, Integration testing, Functionality testing, Regression, End-End testing, User Acceptance testing.
• Involved in writing test strategies, test plans, and test cases.
• Performed black box testing of the application. Manually tested the functionality and User Interfaces of web application.
• Used Mercury Quality Center for Test Planning, Test execution and Defect Tracking.
• Involved in Unit Testing of some of the sub modules/components of the application as per the requirements with developers.
• Developed automation strategy that defines the test cases to be automated, reusable functions, parameterized functions, and directory structure, naming standards for the functions, test cases, variables and scripts files.
• Performed Data-Driven testing to read test input data from an external source so as to test the application with different positive and negative data and wrote some reusable functions.
• Performed functionality and regression testing using QTP.
• Interacted with developers to report and track bugs using Quality Center.
• Involved in Data Validation using SQL queries.
• Involved in database analysis and Back End Testing using specific SQL queries in Oracle.
• Worked on Web Interfaces functionality and participated in User Acceptance Testing.
• Created standard report, snapshots and full reports using Quality Center.
• Participated in Bugs Triage meetings, Team meetings and Defect report meetings
• Used Quality Center for requirements management, planning, scheduling, and running tests cases and bug reporting
• Compared and analyzed the expected results to the actual results and documented the reports accordingly.

Environment: UNIX, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, Java, JavaScript, XML, MS Office, HTML, Quality Center 9.0, QTP 9.0, IIS.