Summary:

• 6+ years of QA life cycle experience in testing Web based applications.
• Experience with IBM Rational test tools Rational TestManager, Robot.
• Experience in Rational ClearQuest, Rational RequisitePro.
• Actively involved and was part of the QA team’s transition from IBM Rational Robot and Rational Test Manger to Rational Performance tester (RPT), Rational Functional Tester (RFT)and Rational Quality Manager (RQM).
• Familiar with the Eclipse based IDE for the development, execution and maintenance of functional and performance scripts.
• Working knowledge of maintaining RFT and RPT scripts in ClearCase for source control.
• Experience in creation and execution of automated test scripts in RFT.
• Experience in HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Experience in creation and execution of automated test scripts.
• Experienced with writing Test Plans, Test Cases and Developing & Executing of Test Scripts.
• Well versed with Black Box testing, Functional testing, GUI testing, System testing, Integration testing and Regression testing.
• Experience in writing and executing SQL queries.
• Familiar with Agile methodology of software development.
• Experience with full Project/QA Life cycle (SDLC) from Requirement analysis to User acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Experienced in testing SOA based web applications.
• Familiarity with section 508 compliance testing using AccVerify and JAWS.
• Experience with all MS Office Tools like MS Word, MS Excel and MS Access.

Technical skills:

TESTING TOOLS: Rational TestManager, Rational Robot, QTP

BUG TRACKING TOOLS: ClearQuest

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows 95/98/NT 4.0/2000/XP, UNIX and Linux

OTHER: Rational RequisitePro, Microsoft Office, Telelogic Doors.

Experience:

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Project: FastLane

QA Analyst (Manual/Automation)

FastLane is the National Science Foundation (NSF) online website through which they conduct their relationship with researchers and potential researchers, reviewers, and research administrators and their organizations.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Determined types of tests based on the requirement documents Functional, Performance, Usability, Data Migration, GUI, etc.
• Analyzed user requirements, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes.
• Interfaced with IT and Business Leads/Managers for testing engagements.
• Involved in analyzing test cases, defining quality metrics and recommending process improvements.
• Involved in testing accessibility features on the application using section 508 compliance tools AccVerify and JAWS.
• Involved in creating Functional as well as Performance Test plans
• Verified portions of the application which was web services enabled using SOAPUI.
• Maintained traceability matrix to track the requirements to the test cases as well as the defects.
• Track deliverables and ensure all are kept on schedule by coordinating with designers
• Involved in creating test cases based on requirements of varying levels of detail and quality.

Environment: Rational Robot 7.0.1, Rational Test Manager 7.0.1, ClearQuest, DataStudio, JAWS, AccVerify, Sun One Web Server 6.1, Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.1, Weblogic, Sybase, Oracle.

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Project: Loan Origination System

QA Analyst (Manual/Automation)

The Loan Origination System is Chevy Chase Bank’s one stop shop for their Mortgage Systems Department to keep track of the loans from initiation to Closing and Post Closing. The application was developed by Fiserv which needed customizations, configuration and core changes which were to be implemented and tested.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Involved in QA activities - status meetings with management and provided complex test design metrics.
• Determined types of tests based on the requirement documents Functional, Performance, Usability, Data Migration, GUI, etc.
• Analyzed user requirements, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes.
• Involved in analyzing test cases, defining quality metrics and recommending process improvements.
• Requirements review, management and analysis on Compuware Reconcile.
• Participated in review sessions with the Business Analyst team.
• Involved in creating procedures and creating templates for various deliverables of testing process.
• Involved in creating test cases based on requirements of varying levels of detail and quality.
• Involved in identifying automation scenarios for both functional and regression testing.
• Assisted in Compuware QA Center (QA Director, Reconcile, Track record) implementation.

Environment: Compuware QADirector 05.02, Reconcile 2.0, Fiserv Unifi Loan Origination System, Microsoft Project, .Net, Java, WebLogic,DB2, and Microsoft Visio

Confidential, Mclean, VA

Project: Project Enterprise/Pricing Manager/Selling System

Senior QA Analyst (Manual/Automation)

The project involved system/regression testing of the Freddie Mac’s Selling System and also creation of an automation framework for the Pricing manager application which was previously tested manually.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Played an active role in the QA cycle during the major release of 6.1 for the sourcing (selling system).
• Generated test cases and regression tested the Selling system for both 6.0 and the 6.1 releases.
• Analyzed user requirements, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes.
• Performed regression, functional testing, integration testing, back end testing, and positive /negative testing.
• Created an automation framework for the Pricing manager application which was never automated at Freddie Mac.
• Requirements review, management and analysis on Telelogic Doors.
• Created and executed automation suites in test manager enabling scripts to run in unattended mode.
• Created scripts to auto-promote, export and e-mail test manager logs enabling ease of use on remote PCs.
• Back end testing through SQA Basic scripting was done to verify and validate data on the DB2 database.
• Involved in reviewing and fine-tuning the existing scripts.
• Involved in code walkthrough and peer review sessions to improve automation scripts.
• Involved in identifying automation scenarios for both functional and regression testing.
• Maintained the hybrid (data/keyword driven) automation framework at Freddie Mac.
• Wrote reusable functions in SQA Basic and created re-usable libraries which were used across applications and releases

Environment: Rational Test Manager, Rational Robot, ClearQuest, Rational RequisitePro, Doors, .Net, Java, WebLogic, DB2, Rational Rose (UML Modeling),and Microsoft Visio.

Confidential

QA Engineer (Manual)

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing test plans based on SRS.
• Involved in Functional, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance and GUI.
• Involved in Bug tracking and reporting in ClearQuest.
• Performed positive and negative testing of the application for identification of bugs after fixing of errors in each subsequent build during the process of development.
• Involved in creating and executing automated test scripts on Quick Test Professional.
• Worked with the functional and regression teams to pick constantly executed manual scripts and automated those for thereby considerably reducing the test team’s turnaround time.
• Testing theBackend with SQL manipulations on database for data validation.
• Documented test results and provided status reports to the QA Lead.

Environment: Server side Java Script Pages, Rational Test Manager, QTP, ClearQuest, Rational RequisitePro.

Confidential, KochiJan

Project: Employee Regulatory Framework

Developer

Cyber Prism Limited is an ISO 9001 certified company with software exporting centre at the Software Technology Parks of India STPI, Kochi, India.

The project included automating the entire process of employee attendance which hitherto was carried out manually keying into an excel sheet, by reading in the information from the access card reader and recording the in and out time of every employee in the company. Finally it would give the company a per day report which could be used as a timesheet tracker as well as by the payroll department thereby helping them to maintain the salary details.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Involved in code developing and testing
• Created screens in the front-end.
• Performed validations in the front-end.
• Created stored procedures, cursors and triggers in Oracle.
• Involved in PL/SQL coding.

Environment: Visual Basic 6.0, Oracle 8(SQL, PL/SQL) and Windows NT.