PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Over three years of experience in Software Quality Testing in Windows, Web and Client/Servers applications with great experience in Manual and Automation Testing.
• Strong Business and Domain knowledge of Insurance, Financial-Banking, and Retail verticals.
• Strong knowledge of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) in Requirements gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Testing, and Testing models such as Waterfall & Agile.
• Hands on experience on Smoke, Sanity, Regression, Functional, System, User Acceptance, compatibility and Security testing.
• Hands on experience in preparing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and Test cases by reviewing Business Requirements, Functional Requirement documents and detailed design for testing purpose.
• Preparation of Test Data for positive and negative scenarios and setting up test environment.
• Excellent experience on manual testing, writing efficient test cases using black box test cases design techniques such as equivalence partition, equivalence class, and boundary value analysis.
• Created test cases in external Excel data sheets files and imported back to Quality Center.
• Executed test cases manually and used Quality Center to manage the tests and logging defects.
• Prepared test summery, test analysis, defect reports using Quality Center dashboard tools.
• Developed the Test case Repository that contained the pool of Regression Test cases of the business critical components for building the Automated Regression Test suites.
• Expertise in writing VB scripts for performing automation testing and creating macros.
• Experience in Designing Automation Test Scripts using Data driven and Keyword driven frameworks.
• Experience in developing SQL queries and using different Joins on multiple tables to perform Back-end Testing.
• Excellent knowledge of Application Lifecycle Management, Testing Life Cycles, SQA methodology and test process documentation and End user training.
• Experience in working in agile process environment and excellent hands on experience on SEENOWDO.
• Ability to relate people at any level of business and management, developers and product analysts and maintaining detailed QA documentation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages

C, C++, Java, VB, Assembly, FoxPro, SQL, PL/SQL

Operating System

Windows XP/2000/NT/98, UNIX

Testing Tools

QTP, Quality Center

Web Technologies

Web Sphere, HTML, XHTML, XML, XSLT

Databases

SQL Server 2000, Oracle 8i,9i,10g, IBM DB2

Front End Tools

Visual Studio 2003, Dream Weaver, MS Project, MS Visio.

Agile tools

Seenowdo,

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

• MBA in Accounting & Intl Business,
• BSc in Computer and Information Science,

PROJECT EXPERIENCES

Confidential, Plainsboro, NJ Sep 2010 – Present 
Project Description: E-Staffing
Role: Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Review Business Requirement Documents, Functional requirement documents, Technical review document.
• Preparing test data and test environment for testing modules.
• Responsible for writing test plan, test scenarios, and test cases for requirement, client and submission modules.
• Developed test cases in Excel datasheets and imported into Quality Center.
• Execution of test cases and logging defects using Quality Center.
• Data validation tests were carried out to verify that only valid data could be used for registration.
• Executed test cases manually to verify the expected results for the different modules.
• Performed backend application testing and Database testing by extensively using SQL queries.
• Developed automated scripts in a folder module structure using VB scripts for regression testing.
• Executed scripts using QTP and exported the test results back to Quality Center.
• Parameterized scripts using local and global data sheets, added synchronization points, and various check points in scripts.
• Scripted reusable functions, user defined function with VB scripts and used library functions.
• Preparing test summary report, defects report and status reports using Quality Center dashboard tools.
• Carried out security tests to check that only valid users could access certain sections of the site and carried out compatibility testing to check that the applications work with different browsers without throwing any errors.
• Attended daily scrum and formal walkthroughs with business analysts, project managers, team leaders and developers.

Environment: J2EE, Oracle 9i and 10g, SQL, IBM AIX, Windows XP, IBM Web Sphere, IBM Utilities, HP Quality Center.

Confidential, NJ Jan 2010 – Jul 2010 
Project Description: 
Role: Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Review of Business Requirement documents, Functional requirements document and Technical requirement documents.
• Responsible for writing test plans, scenarios and test cases.
• Imported externally created test cases in Excel sheets into Quality Center and executed.
• Testing included performing required Smoke, Functional, integration, Regression, Security and System testing.
• Used Quality Center to logging defects, assigned severity to the defects those were logged on.
• Interacted with the business users for UAT.
• Prepared test summary report, defects report, and Test status reports using Quality Center dashboard tools.
• Worked in Agile model and used Seenowdo software for managing the process.
• Attended Sprint planning meetings and daily scrums as necessary.
• Preparation of release burn down charts, defect backlog for sprints.
• Created and executed Automated Scripts using QTP for Regression testing.
• Recorded and built manual scripts for different modules in a folder structure and executed in QTP.
• Exported the automated regression test results back to Quality Center.
• Parameterized the scripts, used regular expressions and handled unexpected errors using exception handing mechanism.
• VB scripted reusable functions, and Setting up the startup files for the loading the library functions.
• Enhanced test scripts by adding Synchronization Points and various checkpoints like text area, standard, table and database checkpoints using QTP.
• Static and dynamic User defined functions were written in QTP according to the functionality of the application.
• Extensively worked on handling the application response for Positive and Negative sets of data for data driven using Quick Test Professional.
• Involved in backend validation using Scripts and SQL queries to verify the integrity of the database.
• Interacted with Business Analysts, Developers and QA team members in different defect raising situations.
• Attended in sprint retrospective meetings and inspection meetings, to verify the status and quality of the testing effort and provided feedback for business analysts.

Environment: VB, ASP, HTML, XML, UNIX, .NET, Excel, Oracle, SQL server, Windows/NT, QTP 10, QC

Confidential, Evansville IN, Intern Sep 2007 – Dec 2007
Role: Jr Test Engineer

• Review Functional requirements and technical requirement documents.
• Writing test plan, test scenarios, and test cases.
• Preparing test data and test environment.
• Execute test cases manually and manage tests with Quality Center.
• Logged defects using Quality Center and assigned severity for logged defects.
• Prepare test summery, status and defect summery reports.
• Attended formal walkthroughs and review meetings.
• Executed data validation tests for front end and backend applications.

Confidential, Intern Jan 2007– June 2007
Role: Technical Support Specialist

Description
My role was to provide product support to district personnel in the use of computers and other technological products to enhance the classroom integration.

• Provide teachers with training and ongoing usage of education enhancement products, including coordination of volunteers to assist teachers with technology utilization.
• Done duties such as taking phone calls, taking messages, respond to inquiries and provide clerical and secretarial support to center staff and management.
• Collaborates with building administer to identify building level technology needs and solutions for staff development.
• Assist teachers with implementing integration of technology and education to their students.
• Assist with diagnosing, resolving and reporting operational problems with technology related products.
• Helps teachers identify age appropriate Internet sites to enhance classroom activities.
• Responds to, resolves all technology issues, maintaining problem-tracking logs.

Confidential Jan 2004 – Dec 2004 
Role: Test Engineer

• Analyzed documentation and writing test scenarios and test case documentation for online billing module.
• Executing test cases for assigned areas of product as well as testing proper localization of features.
• Identifying sample Test Data based on the testing criteria provided.
• Reporting, tracking, verifying and regressing of bugs.
• Maintaining status of the Test Results generated.
• Perform functional and compatibility testing on different browsers.
• Worked with program managers, developers and stakeholders to insure the best quality of releases.