Objective
To obtain a Quality Assurance Engineer position utilizing my technical knowledge and experience in Manual and Automation testing using my highly developed problem solving skills whether in a slow or fast paced environment.

Professional Qualification

• 5+ years of experience in the field of IT with focus on QA and testing of web based and Client-Server applications, effective use of QA and Testing practice.
• Strong knowledge of all phases ofSDLC and Strong working knowledge of Software testing (Functional, Integration, Performance, UAT).
• Experienced in defining Testing Methodologies, Designing Test Plans and Test Cases, Verifying and Validating Web based e-Commerce applications and Documentation based on standards forSoftware Development and effective QA implementation in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Hands-on White Box Testing and Block Box Testing experience in .Net for 2+ yrs.
• ExpertiseinManual/FunctionalTesting,Automation Testing, User Acceptance Testing.
• Has good Working knowledge of Automation tools and Expertise in QTP, Win Runner and Load Runner.
• Proficient in allcycles of testlife cycle fromtest planning to defect trackingandmanagingdefect lifecycle.
• Extensive experience in coordinating testing effort, responsible for test deliverables, status reporting to management, issue escalations.
• Professional experience in designing Test Cases and Test Scripts for Windows, Java, .Net and UNIX environments.
• Developing and Maintaining Test Scripts, analyzing bugs and interacting with development team members in fixing the defects.

• Masters in Computer Science
• Bachelor in Mathematics

Work Status

• Green Card Holder

Technical Skills:

Testing Tools : Test Director 7.8, QTP 10.0, Quality Center 9.0/11
Defect Tracking Tools : Clear Quest and BugZilla
Programming Languages : Classic ASP, C#.net, VB.Net, C++, Java
Web Technologies : HTML, JavaScript, CSS and XML
Web Servers : IIS and Web logic Server
Data Base : Oracle9i, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, MS Access
Reporting Tools : SQL Server Reporting, Crystal Reports
Version Manager : VSS
ETL Tools : Informatica
Operating Systems : UNIX, Win 95/2000/NT/XP

Professional Experience

Confidential, Fairfax, VA 06/2010 to 12/2010
Software QA Engineer
Projects: Workforce planning tool to process of analyzing, forecasting, and planning talent management activities to ensure that an organization has the right people, with the right skills in the right places at the right time, to fulfill its mandate and strategic objectives. The WFP tool will have the capacity to Analyze, forecast, and plan for talent needs, Conduct scenario modeling and what-if scenarios and obtain information from existing data sources.
Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business requirements, IT Design documents and prepared Test Plans for all assigned project.
• Participated in the walkthroughs and guided the team throughout the project.
• Involved on testing the new functionalities based on test cases and coordinated with development team in fixing the issues.
• Good understanding ofETL testing principles and concepts.
• Experience in testing the ETL tool Informatica Mappings, Sessions, Workflows, Work lets and tasks. (Data Warehouse Testing)
• Good experience in Cognos and Business Objects Reports testing.
• Extensively used SQL Queries to perform Back End Testing.
• Wrote SQL Queries to check the integrity of the data
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using Quality Center.
• Verified test results with the Business Requirements Specifications & reported mismatches to developers.
• Reported the status of the testing of the application to the upper management in regular Intervals.
• Actively involved in the team meetings.

Environment: Quality Center, Informatica, Cognos Business Intelligence, Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Confidential, Fairfax, VA 06/2009 to 05/2010
Software QA Engineer

Projects: Registration system to integrate to make it as easy as possible for Attendees,Exhibitors and Group.An application provides associations and their client websites with a single sign on service, all relevant member/customer information is then seamlessly auto-populated in the attendee's registration record. A centralized database stores and maintains the required registrationinformation for users for each website. Web services interact with this database to provide an internet interface that lets websites request Registration and other authentication data. Housing system to provides innovative housing websites customized to meet the specific needs of each client. Each website is reservation portal information about the host city, maps, hotel descriptions.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business and System Requirements for various modules of the application.
• Developed detailed Test Plan and Test Cases for the application.
• Performed Black Box and White Box testing.
• Involved in Manual and Automated Testing.
• Used Test Director for Bug reporting and Tracking.
• Performed regression testing for the application and maintained a database of regression Scripts.
• Executed SQL scripts and Stored procedures in SQL Server Database to validate data which flows to the end user with the actual data in the Database

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, ASP, ASP,NET, C#, SQL Server 2008/Reporting, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, Visual Source Safe and Windows.

Confidential, Chantilly, VA 07/2007 to 05/2009
Client : PWC, Washington DC
Software QA Tester

Project:Partnership Tax Software (K1 Package Generator)
System allows to user(s) to prepare and File the business taxes easily, does support both federal and states. System has the capacity to customize tax returns, adding additional documents other than system standard statement, ability to handle multi-level business tax and multiple year of tax returns. Incorporates various tax software applications such as Go System RS and Super Forms in preparing tax returns.
Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business and System design specifications and developed test plans for assigned project.
• Handle responsibilities of creating, writing and executing test plans for manual and automated tests.
• Wrote SQL queries to perform back-end testing of the application.
• Attending meetings conducted by BA's and Test Manager.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, ASP, ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server 2008/Reporting, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, Visual Source Safe and Windows.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD 10/2003 to12/2005
Software QA Tester

Activity Based costing tool gives a competitive pricing advantage based on real cost rather than estimate. Experience identifying and evaluating activities that a business performs using activity-based costing to carry out a value chain analysis or a re-engineering initiative to improve strategic and operational decisions. It provides a platform on which to confidently adjust pricing and activities for competitive advantage. System can ability to analyses both direct and indirect costs and guides you through the costing and margin evaluation process.
Environment: JSP, Java, Oracle

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed systems design specifications and developed test plans, test cases to cover overall quality assurance testing.
• Developed and maintained Test Execution Logs during the testing phase. Reported the status of test execution and Test Coverage to Development Team.
• Created Test Scripts and Performed Functional and Regression testing using Manual Testing.
• Created for SQL queries for Back End Testing to correlate data entered through the applications front-end.
• Created Requirements Traceability Matrix to map the test cases with the requirements and to analyze the system functionality during testing.

Environment:Test Director 7.0, JSP, Java, Oracle

Reference
Available on request