OBJECTIVE:

EDUCATION:

Masters in Information Systems

Masters in Statistics
Bachelors in Mathematics

SUMMARY:

• 3+ years of experience in quality assurance and software testing of Jave/Unix, Client/Server and web-based applications.
• Proficient in Manual Testing and in Automated testing tools like WinRunner, Quick Test Pro v 9.0, LoadRunner, Quality Center v 9.0/Test Director
• Expertise in analyzing User Requirements, Functional Specifications, Use Cases, Business Requirements and Business Rules to Prepare Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Data and Test Plans to support quality deliverables.
• Extensive experience in client server and web based application testing, Regression Testing, Load Testing, Stress Testing, Integration Testing, GUI Testing, Black box testing, Java API Testing and Backend Testing.
• Experience in resolving production issues and in assisting clients in UAT.
• Expertise in writing SQL Queries/Unix commands
• Experience in Tracker/Bug Reporting tools like JIRA, Clear Quest & Test Director.
• Possesses strong analytical and communication skills.

SKILLS:

QA Tools

Mercury Interactive Tools (Quick Test Pro, WinRunner, LoadRunner, Quality Center/TestDirector), Rational Test Suite

Databases

SQL Server 2000/2005, Oracle9i

JAVA, C, TSL, SQL, PL/SQL

Technologies

HTML, XML, VB Script, Java Script

Version Control

PVCS, VSS, SVN

Defect Tracking Tools

JIRA, Test Director, Clear Quest

Documentation

Reporting Tools

Crystal reports, Quality Center Reports

Operating Systems

UNIX, MS-DOS, MS-Windows 95/98/NT 4.0/2000

WORK EXPERIENCE:

QA Analyst – Confidential,CA May 09 – Current

Confidential, is the staff agency of the Judicial Council which has policy-making authority over the state court system. The California Case Management System (CCMS) functionally and technically meets the needs of all courts in California. It allows the Staff Agency of the Judicial Council of Administrative Office of Courts (AOC) and Court staff to access the system for record/edit the information about all the cases including FMI, non-FMI and traffic. It provides all the information including hourly activities of the courtrooms and Judges and reports such as number of cases from court wide to State wide. E filing can also be done.

Responsibilities:

• Developed test scenarios for the new functionalities in CCMS in accordance with the Functional Design Document /Technical Design Document.
• Submitted the developed scenarios within given time and got approvals.
• Executed a comprehensive suite of regression testing covering the functionality.
• Written function actions and Batch Jobs
• Developed SQL scripts to verify the batch jobs from the back end
• Identified different scenarios from the regression checklist that can be automated and proposed test automation plan.
• Automated the identified scenarios using Winrunner and saved them in Test Director.
• Ran all the automated scripts from Test Director and presented the results to the management.
• Updated the existing automation scripts and maintained them.
• Logged, tracked, reviewed and analyzed Problem Reports using Quality Center.
• Managing and Analyzing and prioritizing defect lists and defect resolution.
• Monitoring progress based upon schedules and requirements.
• Assessing and reporting on the quality and status of testing deliverables.
• Coordinating with technical leads for determining when fixes will be promoted to test environments.
• Attended weekly test plan/project status meetings and reviews.

Tools Used: Windows-XP MS Access, Oracle 9i, Java, XML, Clear Case, Toad, and Quality Center 9.0, QTP 9.1., Cognos 7.0, Business Object XI.

QA Analyst– Confidential,WA Nov ‘08 –May \'09

Washington Mutual is one of the fastest growing Financial and Banking Company in United States. The banking system developed consisted of four different modules, Online Banking (Savings/Checking/Certificate of Deposits), Consumer Lending (Secured/Non-Secured), Identity Management and Enrollment Services (IMES), and MMC apart from Conversion of customer accounts.

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and Analyzed business requirement documents, technical requirements and functional specification of various functionalities.
• Developed positive & negative scenarios for the requirements.
• Developed test plan, test cases and test scripts in Test Director, after the requirements are signed off.
• Used Test Director to develop Test Sets.
• Performed System testing, Regression testing, functional testing.
• Executed test cases manually & log defects using Test Director.
• Prepared weekly execution, defect report & submit to the test lead.
• Developed automated test scripts using TSL.
• Customized automation scripts to validate functionality using smoke test in six different environments.
• Automated 80% of all the regression testing resulting in an overall 30% saving to the company for associated QA/Testing activities per testing cycle.
• Wrote SQL queries for validating data transfer during database migration.

Tools Used: Test Director, Win Runner, ASP.NET, VB.NET, SQL Server 2005, TSQL, Unix, Shell scripting.

QA Analyst – Confidential,MN Jan ‘07 – Nov \'08

Confidential,is an order and fulfillment system developed as a replacement of Mozart for the B2B Gift cards team. This is a web based application that helps the Guest Representative (GR) to take orders via phone /fax from corporate guests of Target and fulfill them accordingly. B2B Gift cards ordering system also enables the business guests to place orders online at Target.com, reducing the cycle time and enhancing guest experience

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated all the testing activities between offshore and onsite as well as with development team.
• Reviewed all Requirement specification and Functional design documents for completeness testability.
• Assisting the team while Test Case execution.
• Automates the system with Quick Test Pro.
• Written scripts, Function calling, build action, descriptive programming, global object repository and local object repository in QTP automation tool.
• Reported Test Results for each stage of testing.
• Attended weekly test plan/project status meetings and reviews.
• Involved in build verification and release procedures.
• Ran and maintained Regression test cases.
• Coordinated with all the interfacing team (TNB, TFST, Archway, BAS, Lawson, and DAS) while test data preparation and test execution.
• Managed, Analyzed and prioritized defect lists and defect resolution.
• Monitored progress based upon schedules and requirements.
• Assessed and reported on the quality and status of testing deliverables.
• Coordinated with technical leads for determining when fixes will be promoted to test environments.
• Documented all phases of QA process.
• Working with offshore technical lead to assign defects to developers.

Tools Used: Windows-XP MS Access, Oracle 8i, Java, XML, Clear Case, Eclipse, SQL Navigator, SQL server, Toad, and Quality Center 9.0,QTP 9.0.