OBJECTIVE:

• To resume working in a global competitive environment of software testing (QA) where there is a big scope for learning, innovation and to keep pace with cutting edge technologies and tools in demand.

SUMMARY

• Around 5 years of experience in all areas of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as a Sr. Software Quality Assurance Analyst in Legacy systems, Client/Server, Windows and Web based applications.
• Proficient in different types of testing that includes Black Box testing, Smoke testing, Functional testing, System Integration testing, End - to-End Testing, Regression testing, Flow-through testing, Accessibility Testing, Metrics/Analytics testing and User Acceptance testing (UAT) & knowledge about Load Testing, Performance Testing & Stress Testing.
• Excellent Functional knowledge on various domains like Finance, Banking, Derivatives, Equities, Fixed Income, Insurance and Telecommunication.
• Working experience with various delivery modals including SAFe, Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, TDD/BDD.
• Extensive Knowledge in requirement understanding in form of Agile User Stories (US), SRS (Software Requirement Specifications) and AUC (Application Use Cases).
• Experience in designing, documenting, and executing test plans, test scenarios/scripts & test cases for Manual, Automated & bug tracking tools.
• Knowledge about software automation using Selenium.
• Extensive experience working with Mercury’s Interactive Quick Test Pro, WinRunner, Quality Center, and Test Director.
• Expertise in use of Quality Center & Test Director for writing test cases, test execution, defect management, defect tracking and Bug Reporting.
• Experience in developing, trouble shooting and customizing Manual as well as Automation scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP); extensive experience with QTP 11/10.
• Experience with version control, configuration management and change control procedures using tools such as SVN, CVS & VSS.
• Experience in creating Traceability Matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements.
• Responsible for collection of metrics/ reporting on metrics/ design preventative and corrective measures for senior management consideration.
• Good working knowledge of major Operating Systems and tested applications on windows 98/NT/2000/XP, LINUX & UNIX environments.
• Experience in interacting with business analysts, developers, technical support & help them base line the requirement specifications along with Onsite/Offsite modal.
• An effective communicator with strong analytical abilities combined with skills to plan, implement & presentation of projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional (QTP) 11.0/10.0/9.2/9.0 , Load Runner 8.1/9.1, WinRunner7.5, Test Detector 8.0

Defect Tracking: HP Quality Center (QC) 11.0/10.0/9.2/9.0 , BugZilla, JIRA, Test Director 8.0

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Safari

Databases: SQL Server 2005/2008, Oracle 8i/9i/10g, MS Access, MS Excel

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, V&V, Scrum

Configuration Management: SVN, CVS, VSS

Operating System: Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/7, Unix, Linux

Project Tools: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), MS Project, MS Visio, Toad, VSS, SVN

Testing Skills: Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Sanity Testing, Performance Testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated all QA activities and enhancements using Agile Methodology.
• Conducted Smoke testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Data validation Testing.
• Reviewed the Business Requirement Document to understand the process and write Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Developed and maintained multiple project deliverables such as Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Writing and Reviewing Test Cases written by Peers Uploading Test Cases in QC.
• Involved in execution and logging defect in HP QC and Verification of defects.
• Seeded test cases into Test Plan module of Quality Center.
• Devised the Exhaustive Test data for Functional testing.
• Created and executed automated tests for functional, and regression testing using Quick Test Professional
• Created QTP scripts with reusable and external Actions and, called functions in Actions.
• Inserted various types of check points including text checkpoints, text area checkpoints and Image checkpoints.
• Escalation for unresolved bugs to the concerned developers and module leaders.
• Used Unix Commands to access and trouble shoot Errors by accessing the Error Log files.
• Participated in Design Phase, together with members of the Product team, developers, and DBAs.
• Developed SQL queries to check the database automatically and checking the data integrity in accordance with business standards of the company.
• Executed SQL queries for validation of data and used TOAD for SQL Server to write SQL queries for validating constraints, indexes.
• Developed strategies for ensuring complete test coverage of AUT
• Created the Functional Traceability matrix (Requirements Traceability Matrix) based on the test coverage from the Quality Center.
• Participated in User Acceptance testing (UAT) and involved in UA test cases, executed test cases, Documenting Defects, resolved defects and Signed Off from Application.
• Good knowledge of Financial Products like Derivatives, Equities and Fixed Income.
• Conducted meetings with QA Manager and members of Product team in order to receive approval on Test case coverage of requirements
• Hands on work experience working with offsite team model; coordinate my own efforts with team members in the off- site team.
• Reporting daily status to client and attending daily status meeting.

Environment: Windows - 7, Vista, XP, UNIX, QC 11.0, QTP 11.0, TOAD, SQL, PL/SQL, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Visio, MS Project, Firefox, IE, Chrome.

Confidential

Sr. QA/Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Attended meetings (walk through) with assigned application teams to get details on Application overview, Business requirements and Functional Requirements.
• Responsible for reviewing Requirement Specifications and Design Documents.
• Developed Test Plan and created Test Cases from the Business Requirements.
• Involved on testing the new functionalities based on test cases and coordinated with development team in fixing the issues.
• Built and performed test cases for END to END testing using Quality Center.
• Performed Manual Testing to check usability of the system.
• Performed tests for Functionality, GUI and Backend.
• Prepared and executed scenarios for the Regression testing on new ETL process builds.
• Performed Regression test to ensure product integrity after modification and enhancements.
• Performed load testing for checking the application’s performance under various capacities using various strategies such as, Burst.
• Executed Batch tests using QTP.
• Used SQL Queries to verify and validate Data populated in Front-End is consistent with that of Backend, used Insert, Update, Aggregate and Join queries.
• Filed defects using Quality Center as the defect management and reporting tool.
• Collaborated with Project Manager and QA Lead to monitor and communicate status of showstopper and high severity defects.

Environment: Windows - 7, Vista, XP, NT, 2003, UNIX, QC 10.0, QTP 10.0, SQL Server 2005, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, HTTP, HTTPS, XML, 3-Tier, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, MS Visio, MS Project Firefox, IE, Chrome

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the Review of Requirements Specification with functional manager and technical specialists of the application.
• Participated in requirement Walkthroughs and creation of test plan.
• Developed and executed Test Cases, Test Scenarios and followed-up defects using QC.
• Developed automation Test Scripts for performing Regression Testing on the application using Quick Test Pro.
• Tested User Interface and navigation controls of the application using Quick Test Pro.
• Worked with Functions and Library Files in Quick Test Pro.
• Performed Back-End Testing for reusability by writing UNIX Shell Scripts and using QTP.
• Handle exceptional situations in test scripts using Recovery Scenario Manager in Quick Test Pro.
• Verified the application’s functionality on different Configurations with QTP.
• Handle dynamic Objects using regular expression in Quick Test Pro.
• Responsible for Black Box Testing of the application.
• Involved in Functional Testing using various checkpoints.
• Wrote and Enhanced VB Scripts to validate the application by inserting checkpoints, conditional statements, and functions.
• Parameterized Steps, Checkpoints and Variables in the script with the help of the Data Driver property.
• Used stored procedures and Triggers using Oracle.
• Created automation scripts for the Load, Performance and Stress Testing using Load Runner.
• Created Load Test Scenarios using Load Runner to load the server with virtual user’s requests and test the performance under stress conditions and by varying the load.
• Involved in creation and maintenance of Test Matrix, Traceability Matrix and Gap Analysis
• Submitted change requests, ran charts and created reports using QC.
• Formatted reports using QC to conform to management standards.

Environment: Windows XP, NT, 2003, 2000, UNIX, C, Test Director 7.0, UML, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Visio, MS Project, QC 8.2, SQL Server 2005