Summary:

• Software Quality Assurance Engineer with 7 years of IT experience in Analysis and Testing of different applications that include Banking, Healthcare and Financial industry applications, which are Client/server and Web-based applications.
• Experience in Quality control, Quality Assurance, System Testing.
• Extensive Experience in Manual Testing and Automated Testing using Mercury Testing Tools.
• Extensive Experience in writing System Test Plans, Defining Test Cases, Developing and Maintaining Test Scripts.
• Extensively used Web and Client/Server application testing tools like Mercury interactive tools Test Director, and Quick Test Professional.
• Excellent command over implementation of SDLC phases and validation of functionalities.
• Experience in complete project life cycle of Analysis, Implementation and Testing
• Expertise and experience in performing different kinds of testing like Black box testing, White box testing, Functionality testing, GUI testing, Unit testing, System testing, Integration testing, Reliability testing, Regression testing, Front-end testing, Back-end testing, User acceptance testing, and Bug tracking system on Windows.
• Expertise in writing SQL Queries, Stored Procedures.
• Interaction with users, programming team and network team to ensure quality of the product
• Well versed in conducting Manual Testing for different kinds of tests such as functionality, positive, negative, integration, user acceptance, storage, performance, load, security, etc.
• Participated in Requirement analysis, reviews, working sessions to understand the requirement and system design.
• Participated in Requirement gathering.
• Involved in Automation Testing using Winrunner.
• Involved in good VB programming skills.
• Knowledge on Automation testing tool Test Partner.
• Ability to interact with developers and product analysts regarding testing status and maintain detail QA documentation.
• Self motivated team player, with excellent inter-personal and communication skills.
• Exceptional thinker and team player with excellent analytical and good problem solving skills
• Positive attitude towards all aspects of the role and performs at high level.
• Maintain consistent status reports with QA Manager and Project Manager.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:

• Masters in Computer Science
• Bachelor of Computer Science

Technical Skills:

Testing Tools:

Test Director, Quick Test Professional, Test Partner, Clear Quest

Programming Languages:

C,C++,C#, VB, ASP, ASP.NET, VB.NET, ADO.NET

Databases:

T-SQL, SQL Server – 2000, 2005 and 7.0, PL-SQL, Oracle 8 and MS Access, Stored Procedures

Software & Tools:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2003,2005, SQL SERVER

P.M Tools:

Clear Case, Visual SourceSafe6.0, Subversion

Server :

IIS 5.0, IIS 6.0, PWS, MTS

Scripting Languages:

Java Script, VB Script, ASP

GUI’s:

Visual Basic 6.0

Web Tools:

HTML, DHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, ASP

Operating Systems:

Windows 98/NT/XP Windows Server 2003.

Projects Handled:

Client: Confidential,CA Apr 2008 to Till date
Role: Tester
Title: Administrative Office of Courts (AOC), CA

Confidential,is an enterprise application developed for the Association of Courts for the state of California. The system automates the complete cycle of thecourt cases. The whole idea is to make the process paperless, easy to use, cost effective, secure, fast and reliable. This system takes care of the completelife cycleof a case from start to end. Initiation of case, filing of documents, payment of fees, court room, announcing judgments and sending notices are some of the activities to mention. The application involves interaction with various other departments such as DMV and other agencies to get information, store and generate reports, forms and notices.

Responsibilities:

• Performed manual testing and automated testing of the application.
• Involved in Testing the Accounting Module of the application.
• Review of Business Requirements document and the Technical Specifications.
• Study and analyze the application architecture for which the functional, regression and system testing is to be done.
• Involved in writing test Scripts by taking Functional Specification as reference document in Test Director.
• Involved in executing the Test Scripts from Test Director and hence logging/linking defects to specific Test Scripts if the script is failed.
• Responsible for development of Test Plan for Manual Testing and System Test Cases for Functional and Regression testing.
• Executed functionality and regression test cases manually.
• Wrote test scripts in QTP for automation and performed data driven test where testing with multiple inputs was required
• Selected the test Cases for Regression testing and automated the test Cases using QTP
• Exclusively used the Mercury Interactive Test Director to write test cases and executing and also logging the defects.
• Responsible for documenting the testing process, results and summary document in the project collaboration database.
• Execute the Test script suites as per the project requirement at different levels of testing.
• Responsible for collecting and analyzing the functional test results and prepare a test summary document that contains Summary and Measure reports.
• Responsible for Defect Management (creating, assigning project defects to the developers) in the project using Mercury Test Director and document the results after the defects have been fixed.
• Interacted with the developers to sort out the issues and the defects.
• Performed test management using Test Director.

Environment
Java, Oracle 10g, Business objects, Adobe Live Cycle, Tibco, HTML/DHTML ,Clear Case, Clear Quest, Windows XP, Quick Test Professional and Test Director.

Client: Confidential,New Zealand Aug 2006 to Mar 2008
Role: Quality Assurance Engineer
Title: Confidential,

Confidential,is oriented towards the consumer credit, asset finance, and fleet management markets.42 enables lease and loan profiles to be developed at asset level, allowing user to generate multiple asset categories and track individual contracts with maximum control now and in the future. This product has mainly four modules Main, Cash Management, Communications and Reporting.
Through Main module user can enter and maintain parties, party accounts, contracts, Assets. Whereas Cash Management functionality, enables users to process the contract-based cash transaction information both to and from the Bank, Communication Desktop provides access to outbox view enabling users to review and output documents. Basically both Communications and Reporting modules are for reporting purpose.

Responsibilities:

• Knowledge of Quality Assurance methodologies and strategies with good understanding of SDLC.
• Developed test scripts and test cases by using positive and negative testing scenarios.
• Involved in functional testing of different Menu options
• Designed the test cases in Test Director by indicating the actual steps that need to occur in the test, also specified the pre-conditions, post-conditions and acceptance criteria
• Wrote test scripts in QTP for automation and performed data driven test where testing with multiple inputs was required
• Selected the test Cases for Regression testing and automated the test Cases using QTP
• Extensively used SQL queries/Unix commands for data verification and backend testing
• Used Test Director for Defect management
• Worked closely with QA lead and Developers to clarify/understand functionality, resolve issues and provide feedback to nail down the bugs
• Participated in daily project meetings during releases, reporting status, attended inspections, Test case Reviews and discuss issues discovered while testing

Environment
QTP, Test Director, Microsoft .NET Framework, ASP.NET, SQL SERVER 2000, IIS, Visual SourceSafe, XML, HTML, DHTML, VBScript.

Client: Confidential,USA Jan 2005 to Apr 2006
Role: QA Engineer
Title: Confidential,

Confidential,is a modular information solution that helps physician to perform various activities like prescribing medicines, capturing charges, dictating patient’s information, etc. Physician can perform these activities by using wireless handheld device, or a Tablet PC, or a desktop workstation. System is also capable to audit user activities as they perform various actions in the system. This helps administrators to restrict particular users from accessing sensitive data about patient. System allows or restricts users to perform certain actions based upon the privileges that user have.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed, documented & tested the Business Rules.
• Responsible for preparing the exclusive test plan to execute the test cases on different environment.
• Responsible to drive the testing Process/Procedure to reduce errors and ensure products are delivered accurately and promptly.
• Used Test Director for writing Test Plans and Winrunner for Executing them.
• Used Test Director for Defect management
• Wrote SQL Statements to extract data from tables and to verify the output data of the reports.
• Involved in running scripts to perform insertion, updating the data and also stored procedures.
• Involved in functional testing, unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, black box testing, GUI testing, back-end testing, browser compatibility testing, and load/ performance testing on multi platforms.
• Conducted user acceptance testing using use case scenarios and Performed User Acceptance Test (UAT) on different modules.
• Developed and executed PL/SQL (Functions, Triggers and Procedures) for Backend testing.

Environment
Test Director, .Net, ASP.NET, C#, Visual Source Safe, SQL Server 2000, HTML/DHTML, Windows XP.

Client: Confidential,India Mar 2004 to Dec 2004
Role: Quality Assurance Engineer
Title: Confidential,

The Wires Icon application is a system that handles wires (money transferring) between bank and the customer account (through a bank). So basically it handles incoming and outgoing wires in this applications. There are two parts in this called as Wires Engine (Incoming Engine and Outgoing Engine) and the Wires Icon application. The Engine takes care of the wires that are coming into the bank or going out of the bank.
On the Wires Icon side, the wires which come into the bank or going out of the bank has to under go through a series of monitoring process and approvals. These things are done on the wires icon side with the user interfaces.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing and understanding the application using the given Business requirements and Functional requirements.
• Developed Test scenarios and Test cases using Test Director.
• Executed some Tests manually using Test Director.
• Performed Automated testing using Test Partner.
• Performed the execution of the test cases to verify the expected results.
• Involved in manual testing of System, Functional and Regression Testing.
• Conducted Walkthrough, Participated in bug review and requirement analysis meetings.
• Used Test Director to track and report system defects and bugs, writing modification request for the bugs in the application and helped developers to track the problem and resolve the technical issues.
• Executed SQL Queries on database for Back End testing.
• Reported the bugs, Email notifications to the developers.

Environment:
Test Director 7.0, Test Partner, VBScripts, Windows 2000, Internet Explorer, Java, XML, SQL Server 2000, MS- Office

Client: Confidential, Nov 2001 to Mar 2004
Role: Software Test Engineer
Title: Confidential,

Confidential,is100% browser based product for project management in software industry and provides a comprehensive solution for planning, tracking, generation of reports and knowledge management. It also supports team software process and personal software process approaches. Softrack Net’s unique features are providing process centric information, integrated process and team, objective measurement of every process, supporting top down and bottom up approach, tracking defects across processes and teams, and providing cross project team analysis.

Responsibilities:

• Developed functional test cases for manual testing and created automatic testing scenarios using mercury quality center.
• Involved in Manual testing of the Global electronic trading application.
• Executed SQL statements to validate the data.
• Used SQL scripts to verify the Integrity of the data and to perform database testing
• Test Director is used to store the test plan, test cases and to report bugs.
• Tested the various scenarios for users, clients.
• Interacted closely with developers, environment people, client, team manager, team lead and team members for feature issues and discussions
• Wrote test cases for positive and negative scenarios for functional, GUI and security testing.
• Executed test cases manually to verify the actual results against expected results.

Environment:
Test Director, Windows 2000.Net, C#, SQL SERVER 2000, Visual SourceSafe, HTML, DHTML.