PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Around 6 years of experience as a Mercury Suite Admin with Installing ,Configuring and customizing the Quality Center application with a strong software testing and development experience
• Strong experience in administration of mercury suit and well experience in installation of QTP, Load Runner and Quality centre 8.0,9.0, 9.2 & 10 version on a clustering and load balancing environment.
• Customizing Quality Center as per industrial standards.
• Strong Experience Migrating and upgrading from any version of Test Director to Test Director or Quality Center.
• Experienced in setting parameters for Site Configuration
• Strong experience in converting and implementing Quality Center authentication mode to LDAP authentication.
• Experienced in writing VB Macros using OTA API Programming for uploading attachments, Linked defects upload and download list values in the QC in excel and in VB 6.0.
• Experience in Business Process Testing moduleand configuring the QC as per Client requirements.
• Writing custom macros in Excel to import the Test Plan, Requirements, and Defects into Test Director.
• Customizing Quality Center as per industrial standards.
• Setup the e-Mail system with SMTP or IIS SMTP protocols.
• Customizing Test Director/QC Defect tracking module using VB Scripting.
• Experience in installation of all types Automation tool, Add-Ins, and 3rd party connectivity tools.
• Integration between QC & Setup Dashboard
• Responsible for solely setting up the standards and procedures for the preparation of test plans, test cases, and their smooth execution throughout the systems.
• Creating Test Beds to test the application as per group settings.
• Involved in developing, and setup Load Runner Servers, Client machines for different applications based upon the Virtual Users.
• Developed numerous Load Scripts based upon the functionality and to perform the application.
• Experience in creating project plan and test plan, according to business.
• Responsible for test preparation, execution, reporting, and supervising daily activities of team.
• Responsible for preparing the systems overview in text, and graphical to enhance skill in QA environment.
• Experience in using crystal reports, Business Objects and Time Line reports for reporting purpose.
• Partnering with business clients, project managers, and team leaders to ensure quality thorough efficient test planning, and execution.
• Interacting with application project managers to coordinate testing efforts, including resource allocation, strategies, and schedules.

SKILLS

• Operating Systems: Dos,WINDOWS-98/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008, UNIX/LINUX
• Languages: C, C++, VB, C#, VB.net, ASP.net, SQL, Java, J2EE, Perl.
• Database: Oracle 8i/9i/10g, SQL server 2000/2005, MS ACCESS, Sybase, DB2
• Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, XML, XSLT, Java Script
• Test Management Tools: Quality Center 8.x/9.0/9.2/10.0
• Application/Web Servers: BEA Web Logic, IBM Web Sphere, IIS, Apache, Jboss.

PROJECT DETAILS

Confidential, TX April 2008 - Till Date
Quality Center Admin\\ Migration Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for requirements gathering and analysis.
• Analyzed business and system requirements for all Integrations.
• Involved in documentation during various phases of product life cycle.
• Used MS Project for Project scheduling during the entire life cycle.
• Integration between QC & Setup Dashboard.
• Creating Test Beds to test the application as per group settings.
• Setup the e-Mail system with SMTP or IIS SMTP protocols.
• Responsible for Installing, and Configuring TD, QC and Client machines.
• Excellent experience in setting up LDAP Servers and Setup Enterprise Directory.
• As a QC Admin Responsible for Installing, and Configuring QC 10.0 on clustering and load balancing on servers and installing Client components on client machines.
• Responsible for migrating 600 projects from Quality Center 9.2 to Quality Center 10.
• Configured monitoring alerts for Quality Center.
• Setup workflow and setting up the privileges to all users.
• Setup the workflow and do some customizations upon the requirements.
• Developed the tools to upload attachments, Linked defects, Requirements in to QC 10.0 and list Manager Tool to import the list values in to the QC.
• Developed the macros to migrate the data from legacy tool to the QC 10.0.
• Migrate the users in to QC using bulk VB Macros developed tools.
• Develop the Custom Reports as per Client Requirements using excel and Crystal Reports.
• Writing Stored Procedures and functions to retrieve the data according to the client requirements.
• Validating the data in the Test Instance and Move in to the production Instance.
• Conducted Training to all users on the workflow and QC10 features and provided Training Documents to all users.
• Supported day to day production tickets.

Environment: Quality Center 10.0, Windows 2000, VB Script, UNIX, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g2 , QC Dash board ,Quest Foglight management tool, Crystal Reports ,OTA API Programming.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA Oct 2005 - Mar 2008
Quality Center Administrator

Responsibilities:

• As a Technical Lead responsible for handling team and assigning tasks to individuals.
• Scheduling weekly status reports and sending reports to business sponsors.
• Responsible for requirements gathering and analysis.
• Analyzed business and system requirements for all Integrations.
• Involved in documentation during various phases of product life cycle.
• Used MS Project for Project scheduling during the entire life cycle.
• Involve in preparing Test Plan, Analysis Documents and Involving in identifying gaps.
• Responsible for Installing, and Configuring TD, QC and Client machines.
• Migrating Team Track Issues in to Quality Center.
• Configure and implemented LDAP authentication to enable QC to login using HP Group email address for secure authentication.
• Experienced in setting parameters for Site Config
• Experienced in developing and using API(s)
• Extracting the data from different databases (SQL Server, Mysql and Oracle) using complex queries.
• Writing Stored Procedures and functions to retrieve the data according to the client requirements.
• Writing custom macros in Excel to import the Test Plan, Requirements into Test Director.
• Customizing Quality Center as per industrial standards.
• Involved in analyzing System specifications, design, development and execution of test plans and test Cases for manual testing and Automated testing.
• Created criteria for data conditioning needed for Automated and manual testing.
• Reviewed the Business Requirements document with the business and development teams to understand the architecture and functionality of the application.
• Debug the Test Scripts, created Batch tests, verifying the test results and reporting the defects to Test Director.
• Wrote SQL, PL/SQL queries/procedures to access the data from the database tables and crosscheck the results, also been used for Automation Regression Testing.
• Documented bugs, questionable functions, errors, and inconsistencies in application functions, outputs, and content.
• Develop Dynamic Reports using Macros developed in VB.
• Track test results for management, categorizing issues and creating/distributing defect reports and managing defect databaseusing Test Director.

Environment: Team Track, Mysql, Oracle, SQL, Unix, XML, Quality Centre 8.2, QTP 9.0.

Confidential, Hyderabad, India July’04-Sep’05
QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in obtaining requirements, functional design, and internal design specifications documents.
• Developed detailed test cases to exercise product functionality.
• Performed Unit, Build Verification, Positive, Negative, Boundary Values, Functionality, Integration, Regression, System tests and involved in User Acceptance testing.
• Participated in inspections and reviews, project meetings, etc.
• Conducting system testing, sanity testing and regression testing and verifying the results with expected results, which should complain with the predefined requirements.
• Involved in defect reporting and tracking.
• Participated in Tech-talks and brain storming sessions within the team to share the knowledge and also learning new technical areas.
• Preparing the test summary reports.
• Performed GUI Testing by creating GUI checkpoints to verify the functionality of the GUI objects using Winrunner.
• Used Actions and Re-usable Actions in Winrunner, for designing the Automation test scripts.
• Developed test scripts using automated test tools (Regression, Batch and Data Driven tests).
• Executed the performance testing using Load Runner to analyze the behavior of the application under different load conditions.
• Performed manual testing for each system build.
• Performed Backend Testing to ensure the authentic retrieval of the data from the database.
• Worked with the SQL statements to extract data from Sybase tables and verify the output data of the reports.
• Involved in creation of Stored Procedures, Functions and Packages.

Environment: Visual Basic 4.0/5.0, Oracle 7x, PL/SQL, WinRunner, Manual Testing.

EDUCATION: Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science
CERTIFICATIONS: Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist