SUMMARY

Accomplished Senior Quality Assurance Analyst with 7+Years experience analyzing functional and business requirements, preparing test plans, test scripts, test matrices and test cases for manual and automated testing.

Highlights of Expertise

-- Test Scenario Design
-- Test Case Design
-- Test Set Design
-- Testing Strategy Development
-- Test Plan Development

--Experience with multiple Software Development Life Cycle projects
--Requirements Gathering
--Requirements Analysis

Technical Proficiency

Testing Tools Quick Test Professional (QTP), WinRunner, LoadRunner, TestDirector, HP Quality Center, TOAD, SQL Server
Operating Systems Windows 2000/NT, UNIX, LINUX
Programming Languages C++, C, TSL, SQL and PL/SQL
Databases MS Access 2000, MySQL, Oracle 8i/9i, DB2,
MS SQL Server 2000
Web Technologies HTML, XML, JavaScript, VBScript, Perl, CGI, ASP, ASP.net, VB.net, C#, JSP, CSS, PHP
Application and Web Servers Apache, IPlanet, JBuilder 6/7, MS Visual Studio 6.0, Visual Studio.net, Visio, IIS 5.0, Visual Source Safe (VSS)

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst (JANUARY 2007 to PRESENT)

• Confidential,
• Preparing detailed test plans and test cases by understanding the business logic and user requirements
• Responsible for creating the test cases and test sets for different modules in HP Quality Center
• Responsible for executing test sets in HP Quality Center
• Involved in performing Sniff, module, System, regression integration testing and UAT Testing

Wrote and executed SQL queries to verify the database for any front end updating

• Worked extensively with Business SMEs to understand various scenarios to cover major business rules of the system and to create Integration scripts
• Responsible for coordinating the testing effort with the onsite and offshore team
• Identified and logged defects using HP Quality Center
• Responsible for sending daily status reports to the manager
• Involved in weekly status updates showing the progress of testing
• Worked with end users while performing UAT Testing
• Responsible for sending training status reports to management
• Responsible for assisting technical writers update user manuals and technical specifications
• Handled requirements traceability and version control in HP Quality Center
• Working with the business team to create a suite of test data (both input and expected results) that fully exercises the calculations of the desired functionality
• Involved in on-boarding new members of the QA team
• Involved in Production and Maintenance support
• Worked on .net platform applications
• Worked extensively with Business SMEs to understand PGW’s automated work management system (AIMS) and functionality.
• Tested the applications on laptops for the end users.
• Worked on Multiple Projects

Environment: Quality Center, VB .net, Microsoft Office, Oracle 9i, .Net Remote Web Server, Toad and PGW’s AIMS system. AIMS allow PGW’s management to manage, validate, and audit the daily activities of PGW’s Distribution and Field Service Dept.
Quality Assurance Analyst (2006)
Confidential,Horsham, PA (Consultant) – Financial/Mortgage Services

• Analyzed various test cases in excel spreadsheets and entered them into Test Director
• Prepared and executed regression workflows to test releases of its flagship software program
• Worked extensively with Business Analysts to understand the mortgage Loan Life cycle and create various types of loans
• Automated various regression test cases using Automation Testing Framework (ATF) of WinRunner and executed the scripts in UAT, Assembly & Mock environments
• Created automated test scripts to validate list boxes in various LendScape screens using WinRunner
• Created various data sets and stored in excel spreadsheets which were used by ATF to perform high level testing
• Performed Functionality Testing of Loans and identified various bugs while executing various regression test cases
• Modified and maintained Test cases to make them up-to-date and easier to execute
• Performed backend testing using Toad and SQL queries provided by developers
• Used PVCS Tracker to log defects and worked with developer to complete the testing once the defects were fixed

Environment: Test Director 8.0, WinRunner 8.0, Windows NT, Oracle, Java, JavaScript, SQL, MS-Office Tools, PVCS Tracker I- Net 7.5.2.0, Toad

Quality Assurance Analyst (2004 to 2005)
Confidential,Horsham, PA (Consultant) – Financial Services

• Analyzed user requirement documents and developed test plans which included test objectives, test strategies, test environment, test priorities, test cases etc.
• Tested GUI and application functionality using multiple browsers, e.g., Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Explorer on multi platforms and interpreted the negative/positive results.
• Functionality and system testing was initially done manually for compatibility of using multiple browsers.
• Conducted Functional, Interface and Regression Testing.
• Performed Functionality Testing of the web page objects such as HTML links and HTML images.
• Performed backend testing on Oracle Database using a set of SQL statements.
• Modified and maintained Test cases due to changes in the application screens and flow.
• Conducted security, user interface and regression testing, identified bugs and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Used PVCS version control to store test scripts and test documentation.
• Performed User Acceptance Test (UAT) by executing a set of test scripts.
• Investigated software bugs and categorized based on severity using Remedy Software, interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Involved in weekly status updates showing the progress of the manual testing

Environment: Windows NT, UNIX, Oracle, Java, JavaScript, XML, HTML, SQL, MS-Office Tools, Remedy
Quality Analyst (2003 to 2004)
Confidential,Cincinnati, OH (Consultant) – Health Care/ Insurance

• Analyzed Business requirements, created Test Plans, and prepared detailed Test Cases.
• Performed Manual Testing to ensure the application is stabilized using Test Director
• Integrated Test Director with WinRunner
• Responsible for developing test scripts for Regression Testing
• Worked with end-users to understand the functionality and features of the software to ensure a complete and all-inclusive script development
• Identified defects and logged defect reports using a Test Director Defect Module
• Provided management with test metrics, reports and schedules on as needed basis and participated in design walkthroughs and meetings

Environment: Test Director, Java, Sybase, Windows NT

Bachelors of Science, Computer Engineering