SUMMARY:
Over 6 years of experience in Information Technology with specific experience in Software Testing, and various applications like Client Server and Web based applications.

• Extensive knowledge and experience in different stages of the Software Development Life Cycle with specific focus on Testing.
• Proven expertise performing extensive testing efforts, manual and automation, for both Client/Server and Web based applications under very tight schedules.
• Proficient in Manual as well as Automated testing.
• Expertise in performing UI testing which includes, but not limited to, Smoke testing, Integration testing, GUI testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Configuration testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Experience in developing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Reports.
• Strong experience in using Quality Center as Test Management tool and bug tracking tool.
• Ability to test backend applications by writing/executing SQL statements.
• Proven ability to interact with developers and product analysts regarding testing status, defect logging and tracking.
• Experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) such as Waterfall model and Agile methodology.
• Assist developers with reproducing defects and providing additional information as needed.
• Personal skills include Excellent Communication, analytical skills, strong sense of Organization and effective time management and have the ability to work in a team as well as independently.
• Excellent ability to learn things quickly.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

MS-DOS, UNIX,Linux and Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/7.

Languages:

VB.NET, Visual Basic, VBScript, COBOL, TSL, C, C++, Java, J2EE, Java Script, XML, HTML, CSS, PL/SQL,Flash,Mainframe

Databases:

MS-Access 97/2007, MySQL, Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2000/2005

Testing Tools

Quick Test Professional 10.0/9.2, WinRunner 8.2, Quality Center 10.0, Load Runner 9.0

Test Management Tools

Quality Center 10.0

Bug Tracking Tools

Quality Center 10.0,JIRA

Performance Testing Tools

LoadRunner 9.0

Configuration Management Tools

Visual Source Safe(VSS), CVS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis (MN) Feb 2010 – Oct 2011
Sr. QA Analyst

SLP (Softlines Line Plan): A Line Plan consists of a collection of programs and a program is represented by a unique numeric identifier and is mapped to a single department, class and subclass. A program can be created, maintained and copied to another program. Programs are initially set up with some mandatory attributes and as they worked through various stages new attributes are added and updated. Integrating financial reporting within SLP will provide merchants the ability to simplify the gathering of historical financial results for assortment planning and provide correlation of these results with planned rack counts.

SDS (Style Development Sample): The Style Development Sample (“SDS”) application will serve as a technical solution for the Style Development Sample process. The technical solution will map back to the three Product Design & Development (“PD&D”) Business Process Owner (“BPO”) goals of producing a better quality product, improving speed to market, and improving workload efficiency. The end users of the system will be Designers, Garment Developers, Fit Engineers, TSS and non-TSS Vendors and AMC Offices.
Responsibilities:

• Involved in the development and execution of test cases .
• Performed Manualtesting tasks that required planning, scheduling and testing to assure that developed products met design specifications and quality expectations under tight schedules.
• Documented problems found during the testing phase in Quality Center and communicated the problems to the development team and the QA Manager.
• Involved in UI testing as per business requirements by mapping requirements, creating test plan, and test cases.
• Maintained and modified the Manual test cases to suit the changes in the application.
• Involved in Intensive Testing of Interfaces.
• Performed Smoketests on new builds, before implementing complete test cycle.
• Worked closely with the other testers on the team and assisted them as needed.
• Preparation of test data for various levels of testing.
• Conducted regression testing for newer versions of the code base to ensure no new defects are found.
• Worked closely with the development team to resolve critical bugs.
• Proven Expertise at Prioritizing test cases for the level of testing needed.
• Performed Backend testing and Data Integrity testing at every stage of business flow using SQL queries.

Environment: Java, JSP, J2EE, XML, Oracle, DB2, Windows Vista, MS-Visio, MS-Word, MS-Excel, Quality Center.

Confidential Jul 2007 - Dec 2009
QA Analyst

One Touch Purchasing System (OTP): Confidential is the leading distribution company in the areas of music, books, videos and CDs With headquarters in Amarillo, TX, and a network of distribution/return centers in various other locations. Using One Touch Purchasing (OTP) application, system will enter the new titles into AM database. Various outside vendors can upload new titles which can be accepted / rejected by Anderson to provide better business control. Based on the inventory buyer will do the replenishment, distributions and place the purchase orders.
Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the user/business requirements, Blue prints, functional specifications and use case Documents.
• Developed and updated test scenarios in accordance with the functional requirements.
• Participated in daily Scrum meetings.
• Prepared huge data for the parameterized values in the Test scripts for multiple scenarios
• Converted the complex business logic, which includes many rules and sub rules into Meaningful test cases covering all the requirements.
• Responsible for documenting and executing Test cases.
• Worked on SQL statements in checking the validity of the backend data.
• Executed the existing QTP scripts.
• Used Quality Center for repository, reporting bugs, tracking bugs and updates on resolved Bugs.
• Tested the application and informed the developers, if there are any show stopper defects and entered the defects in the Quality Center.
• Captured the screen shots of major defects and make sure that the respective developer understands the severity of the defect.
• Discussing with the development team for any functional clarifications and ongoing testing related issues.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, Java, J2EE, Weblogic, JSP / Servlets, Oracle 10g, SQL Sever,WinCVS, MS Office and SoapUI

Confidential, Madison, WI Sept 2006 - Jun 2007 
QA Tester

The web application had four modules: Insurance, Health, Protection and Financial. Each module had subcategories. Insurance module offered different types of insurance: Auto, Annuity, Home, Life and HealthCare. The scope of the project was to develop a web application using HTML and Java, which enables potential customers to perform searches for the financial module offered Annuity, Life Insurance, Mutual funds, Investment and financial services.
Responsibilities:

• Analyzed System Specifications and developed Test plan ,Test Scripts and Test Cases.
• Managed requirements in Requirements Plan Manager of Quality Center.
• Involved in testing the Web Applications and Client Server Applications.
• Experience with Black Box, System, Integration, Regression and GUI Testing during the testing life cycle of the product release.
• Ran Smoke tests on QA environment for every build from development.
• Developed Test Cases from System requirements specification and Functional requirement documents.
• Created Traceability between Requirements and Test Cases.
• Participated in Integration, System, GUI, Smoke and User Acceptance Testing.
• Tracked defects using Defect Manager of Quality Center and generated defect reports.
• Performed interactive walkthroughs of test scripts with Developers, Business users and Business Analysts.
• Participated in Team meetings and Defect report meetings.

Environment: Quality Center, Java, JavaScript, XML, HTML, Web Sphere, Oracle, PL/SQL, MS Access.

Confidential Sept 2003 - Jun 2004 
QA Analyst

My responsibilities included handling various activities of the project like information gathering, analyzing the information gathered, documenting the functional or business requirements. I also wrote test plans and test cases of the business process or application. As a member of QA team, analyzed and tested the Account Maintenance System. This Web based application is designed to maintain customer accounts and support the business functions and financial transactions.
Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed and executed Test Plans and Test Cases based on business requirements and functional specifications.
• Functional, System-Integration testing, Regression testing, Black Box testing at various phases of the development and test cycles.
• Involved in extensive DATA validation using SQL queries and back-end testing.
• Reviewed the Functional Specifications documents for the enhancement of existing functionality.
• Created the process for Defect management.
• Tested and validated the data which is generated with reports in Crystal Reports and Enterprise Report Writing (ERW).
• Created status reports for the Manager and for the defect meeting.
• Organized System Testing kick off meeting to set the procedure for the testing.
• Actively attend meetings with the team and other groups to evaluate the progress and performance of the application.
• Worked as a team to set goals and achieve them.

Environment: Java, HTML, SQL Server, Visual Basic, Oracle.

EDUCATION:

• Masters in Computer Science
• Bachelor of Engineering