CAREER PROFILE

• Information Technology Professional with over 8 years of experience in the areas of Quality Assurance and Software Testing, providing extensive support in test designing, test development, test enhancement and test execution of projects.
• Proficient in Manual, Semi Automated and Automated testing tools on Windows and UNIX Environments.
• Highly proficient in Rational Test Suite (Clear Quest, Test Manager, Rational Manual Tester, ClearCase, Requisite Pro and Rational Robot )
• Experience with Mercury Interactive Test Suite (Test Director 7.6,QTP 6.5, Quality Center 9.0)
• Experience with Open source testing tools such as Selenium and Molybdenum.
• Experience with testing Mainframe applications.
• Knowledge of Quality Assurance Methodologies and Strategies with better understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Extensively involved in test designing, test planning, writing test cases, test automation and test execution of Back End, Batch and Web applications.
• Strong skill set in Documenting test cases, reporting defects and generating Test metrics.
• Developed, administered and managed the metrics and reporting used to measure the value, effectiveness and quality of the software testing processes.
• Extensive experience in Functional, Integration, Regression and User Acceptance Testing for Web and Backend / Batch Applications
• Worked closely with Business Analyst team and Development team to analyze requirements and develop Test Cases / Scripts
• Ability to work with aggressive schedules to release product on time.
• Have served as a Subject Matter Expert with a Rational Test Suite implementation and have mentored Junior Testers, providing documentation of the testing processes and assisting in the direction of their testing efforts.

TECHNIAL SUMMARY

Languages:

Java, XML, HTML, CSS, XPath, UNIX Shell Scripts, , VS COBOL II, JCL, CICS, PL/SQL, SQL, SQA Basic

Operating Systems:

Windows (95, 98, 2000, 2003, NT, XP), OS/390, MVS/ESA,UNIX (AIX, Solaris), MS DOS

Database:

Oracle (8i, 9, 10), SQL Server 2000, DB2

Tools:

Rational Test Suite: Robot, Requisite Pro, Test Manager, Manual Tester, ClearQuest, ClearCase
Mercury Interactive Test Suite: Test Director 7.6, QTP 6.5, Quality Center 9.0, WinRunner 7.0, XPEDITOR, SPUFI
Toad 7.3, Eclipse, Websphere 5.0.2.4, MS Office, Selenium, Molybdenum

Other:

SDLC

Masters in Information Technology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential,St.Louis, MO 03/2009 – Till Date
Sr.QA Automation Analyst
Project: Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• Understand the complex requirements of the application with minimal support and no detail documentation
• Worked with BA and Development on a daily basis for Requirements clarification, Test Case walkthrough and bug life cycle
• Proactively worked on User Experience related issues and worked with the rest of the teams to bring consistent UE across the site.
• Automation
• Lead the Design and Implementation for Automation framework for Smoke and Regression testing of AURA applications
• Self enabled on Selenium (Open Source Automation tool) and developed flexible, reusable and modular Smoke and Regression Test Scripts using Automation features like Bricks, Data Driven and Parameterization.
• Subject Matter Expert on Automation and provide mentoring on the tool.
• Created detailed Test Scripts for new Enhancements in the application
• Manual
• Worked as a single manual Testing resource for a critical release and handled all phases of QA
• Worked on Test Plan creation, Test Design, Test Case Development and Test Execution for couple of releases
• Developed detailed Test Steps for every Test Case created such that any tester can do the execution with minimal knowledge.
• Participated in Test Case Walkthroughs and Reviewed others Test Cases.

Environment: Selenium 1.0.2, Star Team (Defect Tracking tool),Sharepoint Toad 8.6, Java, Eclipse

Confidential,St.Louis, MO 11/2008 – 01/2009
Sr.QA Tester/ Requirements Analyst
Project: Confidential,

Responsibilities:
Manage the Test Life cycle of a complex modules (Extraction and Scanning ) in Lockbox application. Consolidate requirements related to Extraction and Scanning by going through 70+ vendor documents. Working with other module testers to cover Integration test cases. SME for modules and provided training on the modules to QA team.

• Module Lead for couple of major modules of Wholesale Lockbox and wrote High level test cases and reviewing test cases of other Testers.
• Study through a lot of Product documentation and consolidate the requirements for several modules and wrote a high level requirements document for couple of modules
• Provided management with metrics, reports, and schedules as necessary and participated in the requirement meetings.
• Understanding the Lockbox Hardware , how the machines work and how user should be interacting with the system and provide training to fellow QA testers on the couple of modules.

Environment: Rational ClearQuest 7.0.1, Quality Center 9.0, Toad 7.3, Java, Eclipse, UNIX

Confidential,04/2007 – 10/2008
Hazelwood, MO
Sr.QA Tester/Analyst
Project: Confidential,

Responsibilities:
Perform multifaceted role as a Senior QA Tester /Mentor / SME in multiple releases. Worked as single QA resource in few releases working with various team throughout the life cycle of the releases. Worked as part of a small QA team on bigger releases and handled responsibilities of test case walkthroughs, making sure that the deliverables are consistent and good. Worked as Administrator for all Rational tools and developed plug-ins that enable the team to provide better metrics.

• Mentorship
• Prepared process documentation for the Junior Testers on how each new functionality worked.
• Documented the steps of the test cases for the Junior Testers, along with the process for writing the manual test scripts with Rational Manual Tester.
• Mapped the requirements for the Junior Testers and created folder structures.
• Created plug-ins for RMT that allows Test Reporting with attachments
• Managed and performed administration of Rational Test Manager, Rational Manual Tester and ClearQuest for the team-specific enhancements issues.
• As the UI Expert Tester for the team, found many existing bugs and worked with Developers to get them resolved.
• Participated in the entire SDLC and worked on design, development and execution of test plans and test cases for several releases.
• Wrote own SQL queries from scratch and from existing queries.
• Developed and executed test scripts for a complex master back-end system that provided support to other multiple back-end programs.
• Worked on the creation and execution of test scripts for several back-end processes and batch programs on a UNIX platform.
• Performed manual and semi-automated testing, and owned the entire process of reporting, tracking, verifying, and closing defects.
• Provided management with metrics, reports, and schedules as necessary and participated in the design walkthroughs and meetings.
• Worked closely with BA team, and development team during the entire SDLC to minimize the scope creep.
• Developed custom plug-ins to enhance the OOTB Rational Manual Tester to improve the productivity of the team.
• Enhanced and integrated Rational Manual Tester into the rest of the existing Rational tools.
• Participated in Use Case and test case walk-through and provided feedback to fellow testers.
• Worked with aggressive schedules to release product on time.
• Worked on test creation and execution for the entire Security module.

Environment: Rational Test Suite (Requisite Pro, Share point,Test Manager, Manual Tester, ClearQuest, ClearCase), Toad 7.3, Java, Eclipse, UNIX

Confidential,Malvern, PA 03/2006 - 04/2007
Sr.QA Tester/Analyst
Project: Confidential,

Responsibilities:
Worked as a single QA resource for Medical Systems Website, performing the QA duties on multiple enhancement releases. Maintained and enhanced the automated test scripts for several modules. Represented QA during status and release related meeting involving other teams.

• Analyzed system specifications, design, development and execution of test plans and test cases for manual and automated testing using Quality Center.
• Wrote detailed, concise and clear test cases that can be used for new testers with little system knowledge
• Performed functional, regression and smoke testing.
• Participated in weekly project status meetings and updated the testing progress.
• Represented QA in product design, functional requirements and code review meetings.
• Performed manual and automated testing, and owned the entire process of reporting, tracking, verifying, and closing defects.
• Developed / enhanced automated test scripts using QTP.
• Wrote own SQL queries from scratch and from existing queries.
• Provided management with metrics, reports, and schedules as necessary and participated in the design walkthroughs and meetings.
• Managed time and priorities in an effort to meet all established testing schedules and deadlines.
• Involved in testing on-line and batch programs in VS COBOL II using DB2 and CICS, JCL and mainframe utilities.
• Wrote JCL to load data to flat files and verify the data using FILE-AID.
• Performed data validation by executing queries using SPUFI to retrieve data from mainframe DB2.
• Tested the mainframe programs using XPEDITOR.
• Generated new SQL basic scripts and modified them to ensure and extensive automation testing.
• Used SQL scripts /queries to verify the data loaded properly in DB2 tables.
• Understanding and analyzing the Business & Financial requirements and system specifications

Environment: Mercury Test Suite (QTP, Quality Center 8.0), Mainframes, JCL, COBOL, Toad 7.3, Java, Oracle 8, WebSphere 5.0.2.4, Windows 2003

Confidential,Kansas City, MO 09/2005 - 02/2006
Sr.QA Tester/Analyst
Project: Confidential,
Responsibilities:
Worked as the Batch Input tester and gained expertise in testing the complex rules of batch input. Got recognition for the work and considered as SME in Batch Input.

• Created test cases for complex batch programs that process huge text files and upload the data into databases based on complex rules.
• Created larges sets of test data that covers all complex rules.
• Tested the records loaded into the system by performing data-driven testing.
• Loaded the referrals and used SQL to generate queries to check data validity and integrity.
• Wrote advanced SQL queries that join multiple tables to validate that the data is populated in DB correctly
• Performed software acceptance testing and regression analysis.
• Used the record and playback feature of WinRunner to automate tests.
• Performed customer tests and generated test reports prior to release to production.
• Worked with various teams to fix bugs and closed all issues.
• Participated in user acceptance test planning
• Performed UAT testing

Environment: Test Director 7.6, WinRunner 7.0, SQL, Java, MS Excel, DB2, AIX-UNIX

Confidential,Providence, RI 05/2004 - 08/2005
QA Tester/Analyst
Project: Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the user requirements by interacting with Developers and Business Analysts.
• Wrote the test plan and test cases by going through the Design, Functional and User (Business) Requirements Documentation.
• Wrote Test Cases and executed Test scripts by conducting System, Functional, GUI, Regression and UAT testing.
• Mentored Junior Testers.
• Lead and directed them on how to execute the test cases.
• Was assigned a particular functionality and was responsible for explaining the process of the functionality to the Junior Testers.
• Wrote test cases based on Use Cases.
• Wrote test scenarios, test cases and expected results and prioritized the tests.
• Wrote advanced SQL queries for verifying the data load into DB
• Knowledge of Lockbox testing.
• Worked on the Rational Test Manager tool to store test cases and test plans.
• Created test suites using Rational Robot for automated testing.
• Used ClearCase for managing requirements and test scripts and used ClearQuest for defect tracking and storing the defects.
• Captured Test Results during the Test Execution and provided the results to the QA management.
• Performed regression testing after each error fixes and system enhancements of batch and online CICS applications.
• Performed data validation by executing queries using SPUFI to retrieve data from mainframe DB2
• Testing batch programs in VS COBOL II using DB2 and JCL
• Developed various Rational Robot scripts to make system testing easier.
• Utilized Toad to perform various SQL operations on a large volume of data.
• Involved in security, performance and functional testing.

Environment: Rational Test Suite (Rational Test Manager, Rational Robot, ClearQuest, ClearCase), Toad 7.3, PL/SQL, SQL, Oracle 8, UNIX Shell Scripts, UNIX (Solaris 2.5.1), JCL, COBOL

Confidential,Boston, MA 11/2002 - 04/2004
QA Tester/Analyst
Project: Confidential,
Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Functional Specifications Document.
• Created, enhanced and executed test cases.
• Prepared Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Prepared test plan.
• Performed functional testing, system testing, and regression testing.
• Reported software bugs to development team through Test Director defect tracking system.
• Performed testing by executing SQL statements in database to verify successful population from front end to back end.
• Wrote own SQL queries from scratch and from existing queries.
• Coordinated with developers for bug fixes.

Environment: Test Director, Oracle, SQL Server, Java, Windows 2000

Confidential,Hyd,India 03/2001 - 09/2002
Software QA Engineer
Project: Confidential,
Responsibilities:

• Wrote the test plan and test cases by going through the Design, Functional Requirements and User (Business) Requirements Documentation.
• Wrote test cases, test scenarios, and expected results and prioritized tests.
• Tested the application with upper bound and lower bound limits.
• Used SQL to perform data integrity testing.
• Modified and created SQL queries and stored procedures for quality assurance and analysis.
• Wrote own SQL queries from scratch and from existing queries.
• Performed integration testing, functional testing, regression testing and system testing of the application.
• Performed comprehensive testing of all programs and network connections.
• Documented the test cases and test scripts in a MS Excel spreadsheet.
• Documented the defect tracking system.

Environment: Test Director, WinRunner, PL/SQL, SQL, HTML, XML, Oracle 8i, MS Word, MS Excel, UNIX Shell Scripts, UNIX, Windows 2000