Professional Summary:

• 5 years of experience in IT as a Software Tester and QA Analyst with extensive experience in performing Manual testing as well as Automation testing.
• Involved in entire STLC and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) – Requirement, Design and Analysis, Development, Testing, Deployment and Support phase.
• In-depth knowledge of software QA methodologies and Strategies, like Waterfall, V-Model, Spiral Model, Prototype Model, RUP and RAD.
• Strong knowledge of Black box testing (Static and dynamic).
• Experience in creating Traceability Matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements.
• Expertise in conducting and participating different Types of Testing - Integration, System, Functional, GUI, Regression, Performance, Load, Sanity, Smoke and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Strong in analyzing and understanding Business specifications, testing requirements and Developing detailed Test plans, Test cases, Test scripts, Test Scenarios and Traceability Matrix.
• Experience in developing, trouble shooting and customizing Manual as well as Automation scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Experience with version control, configuration management and change control procedures.
• Extensive knowledge of HP-Mercury tools: Quick Test Professional (8.0, 9.2, and 9.5), Load Runner (8.0).
• Expert in writing SQL (Structured Query Language) Queries.
• Experience with software engineering standards like CMM (Capability Maturity Model).
• Good knowledge of programming in C, C++.
• Expertise in Bug Tracking system and Process using Quality Center
• Dynamic and assertive team player with a strong inclination to improve and optimize process development and implementation.
• Possess excellent analytical skills with good communication and self-organizing skills, assertive and a committed team player.
• Experience in Microsoft technologies like C#.

Bachelor’s Degree (Computer Science & Engineering)

Testing Tools

(HP) Mercury Suite - Quick Test Pro 9.0/9.2/9.5, Quality Centre 9.0/9.2, Load Runner 8.0. IBM Rational Robot, Open STA.

Databases

Oracle 8i/9i, SQL Server 2005/2008, MS Access, MySQL.

Development Environment

C, C++, PHP, .NET, Java, Visual studio 2008.

Domain Knowledge

Banking and Financial, Brokerage, Media, Insurance and HealthCare

Testing Types

Black Box, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, User Interface, Database.

Browsers

Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla, Safari.

Programming Languages

C, C++, C#, VB

.Net Technologies

VB. NET

Confidential

March 2011 to Present

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business and System Requirements of the Events and Online Application.
• Validated functionality and business rules in calculation, financial planning and reporting engines, based on requirements and use cases.
• Manually tested the mortgage loan originating system functionalities like Loan Information, Get Rate Quotes, Tools & Calculators, Servicing and its integration with main website.
• Updated Test Plans, created Manual Test Cases and Test Reports during different releases of this application.
• Performed multiple Load and Stress capability test scenarios as part of Performance Testing using controllers to acquire response times, expose system capabilities and report to QA lead.
• Involved in Functional testing using Quick Test Professional.
• Tracked, Logged and reported Defects Using Quality centre.
• Kept track of defects being fixed by testing the modified build.
• Developed automated test scripts from manual test cases for regression testing based on the requirement documents using Quick Test Professional. Created descriptive program for regression testing throughVB Script in QTP.
• Also, used Regular Expression to handle dynamic objects in the application.
• Tested the application by inserting checkpoints and synchronization points in test scripts using Quick Test Professional.
• Used Database Check Points to confirm values stored in the databaseand ensure transaction accuracy, as well as the data integrity of records that have been updated, deleted and added by writing SQL Queries.
• Added XML checkpoints and parameterize the captured data values in order to verify that the data and structure in XML documents or files has not changed unexpectedly.
• Interacted with programmers to identify and resolve technical issues.
• Used Accessibility Check Points whether it adheres to the standards of W3C.
• Used Page Check Points to verify the characteristics of a web page.
• Used Image Check Points to capture and compare the pre-defined properties of the image in AUT.
• Conducted Performance, Volume and Load testing in order to generate the load on the server by creating Vuser Script, Controller and Analysis Monitoring features using Load Runner 8.0.
• Created Scenarios and inserted Rendezvous points and Transaction points in Load Runner 8.0
• Made use of MS Office tools to create and maintain documentation such as test planning documents, test execution documents and test results documentation.

Environment:HP Quality Centre (9.0), HP Load Runner(8.0), HP Quick Test professional(9.5),XML, VB.NET, MS SQL Server 2008, Oracle 9i.

ConfidentialNJ

March 2009 to Feb 2011

QA Analyst

The objective of this project involved testing the online Credit Card module. It is a web Based application. This application gives customer access to their account. Customers can Check their account balance, view accounts activity, transfer funds/balances from other accounts, etc. Our Task was mainly to ensure Functional testing and data validating using Quality Center and SQL.

Responsibilities:

• Studied Functional specifications and requirement documents to categorize the units in testing and managed requirements in the requirement tab of Quality Center.
• Involved in Test Plan and created Test cases as per the business requirements in Quality Center.
• Used Table Checkpoints to check values of object properties, Image checkpoint for property values of an image and information in a table respectively using Quick Test Professional 9.2.
• Actively involved in Bug Life Cycle and reported bug through Quality Center.
• Created descriptive program for regression testing through VB Script in QTP.
• Extensively performed data driven testing and parameterized data for data driven testing.
• Manually executed test cases for each testing cycle and conducted functional, integration, system and regression testing.
• Creation and Execution of Test Cases and analyze results including Black box and Regression testing with the help of Mercury Quality Center 9.0.
• Maintained the repository for regression test cases and updated the same based on change requests initiated by the users.
• Created test scripts using QTP and enhanced the script by putting various checkpoints
• Identified, prioritized and designed Test Scenarios by grouping the test cases for Batch Testing
• Participated in walkthrough and defect report meetings periodically.
• Used SQL queries for Database Testing.
• Actively involved in entire SDLC and STLC of an application.
• Performed Test life cycle and bug life cycle through potentially shippableproduct increment with estimated framework.
• Performed Build Acceptance testing for application once build comes in test environment.
• Reviewed Report Module with positive and negative test case and performed negative testing.

Environment:VB, Applets, JSP, Oracle8.0, Toad, PL/SQL, XML, UNIX, DB2, VB script, SQL, Quick Test Professional 9.2, HTML, VMWARE Server, Windows XP, Quality Center 9.0, Oracle 9i, ASP.NET.

Confidential,INDIA

June 2007 - Jan 2009

Quality Analyst Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development and implementation of all Testing Cycle Deliverables and documentations for System, functional, Integration, Regression, and Load testing.
• Performed document analysis for Test documentation & test strategy using UML diagrams, Use Case documents and Functional specification documents.
• Followed Waterfall QA methodology for entire STLC and SDLC.
• Developed qualitative and effective Test Scenarios, Test Cases and update the Test Plan.
• Manually executed test cases for each testing cycle.
• Tracked, logged and reported bugs using Bugzilla.
• Developed Test flow diagram using MS Visio for the entire testing cycle.
• Worked closely with the development team to resolve discrepancies in the technical and business specifications.
• Involved in developing the defect management procedure for the project and defining the Priorities and severities for the defects.
• Extensively used SQL Query and advanced MS EXCEL functions to verify data in the backend.
• Performed Manual Testing to check flow of the application.
• Application development using C# Programming

Environment: SQL, MS EXCEL, VC ++, VB 6.0, Windows XP, MS Visio, Microsoft Office 2003, Bugzilla.