6 Years of experience in IT industry with various phases of testing across applications in divergent domains.

• Strong expertise in Software testing the different applications like Sales, finance, Retail etc.
• Experience working with Test Management tools like Quality Center and Test Director.
• Good exposure to different Software Development Life Cycle and Testing Methodologies.
• Experience in testing the application in Finance, Sales and mortgages domain.
• Experience in understanding Requirements handed over by the Business Analyst and work along with the Development team.
• Expertise in preparing test plans, test cases, test case execution, and reporting.
• Proficient in Sanitary, Integration, System, User and Alpha Testing.
• Skilled in generating automated test scripts using QTP. Generated a repository of reusable functions to cut down scripting time.
• Hands on experience in using framework for QTP Automation Scripts.
• Good in Maintaining of Test Scripts, Requirements & management of test suites using Quality Center Tool. Prepared the Test Execution reports using the Quality Center.
• Experience in preparing Test Approach /Strategy and estimation of work along with team lead.
• Excellent Work Experience in Windows NT, 95, 2000, UNIX platforms.
• Experience using various Defect Tracking Tools such as Bugzilla, ClearQuest and Quality Center for defect management throughout the product life cycle
• Independent, self-motivated, flexible to handle changing priorities in fast pace environment. Excellent Team player, strong communication and interpersonal skills, which enabled to interact with Managers, Business Analysts and Developers.
• Strong in performing backend testing to validate data using SQL queries.
• Good understanding of XML, Use Case Diagrams and Content Management Tools (TeamSite), Software Configuration Management tools (ClearCase and Visual Source Safe).

Tools & Utilities

QTP, Winrunner, Quality Center, puTTY, WinSCP, TOAD, Bugzilla, LoadRunner, JMeter

Languages

XML, Visual Basic 6.0, HTML, VB Script, TSL Scripts, C, PERL, Java

Web Related

HTML, DHTML, Web Services

Databases

SQL Server2000, Oracle 10g, MySQL

Operating Systems

Windows, UNIX/LINUX

Reporting Tools

Quality Center, MS Excel, Rational SODA

Packages

MS Office, MS Project

• Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A)

Confidential, Bloomfield, CT Jan’10-current
QA Analyst

Responsibilities

• Reviewed Business requirements with Business Analysts in JAD Sessions to understand requirements.
• Analyzed the transaction workflows, review the change requests to develop Test data and test cases.
• Developing test processes and approaches according to standards.
• Assisted team documenting functional and regression test plans, test cases with expected results based on the business functional requirements.
• Conducted Test plan reviews with cross-functional teams.
• Data received from sources is transformed and loaded into database using Data Stage
• Exposure to functionality of various components in Data Stage
• Conducted testing on Oracle database of size around 10 TB with tables carrying huge volume of data
• Tracked the progress of the test team through weekly status reports.
• Coordinated and managed testing activities as per the AGILE methodology followed by project team members.
• Coordinated the test activities with Quality Assurance team.
• Follow up with developers on issues that were causing problems in testing in QA environment.
• Prepared Test estimation and Test metrics documents using MS Excel.
• Tracked the test cases and defects using Quality Center.
• Presented weekly/daily status reports & Test Metrics using Quality Center.
• Prepared Load Test plan and Analyzed the performance test results.
• Analyzed the reports and graphs generated by Load Runner to check the bottlenecks in the performance.
• Reported bugs into an automated bug management system and performing regression tests after the bugs were fixed.

Environment: Oracle, UNIX, Data Stage, Windows NT/ 2000, HP Quality Center, TOAD, IBM DB2 Command Center, Oracle SQL

Automation Test Engineer

Responsibilities

• Developed Test Plan, Test Cases for complete end-to-end system testing.
• Created manual test cases and test suites for different modules in Siebel Sales application.
• Automated regression test suite and performed smoke test using Quick Test Professional.
• Recorded and ran the automation scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Customized Scripts to incorporate GUI Check points, Data Driven testing using Data Tables, Output Values.
• Created Virtual Objects and mapped to the existing Siebel standard objects.
• Implemented Regular expressions and parameterized checkpoint properties.
• Handled unexpected errors at time of playback using Recovery Scenario wizards.
• Created manual test cases and test suites for different modules in Siebel application.
• Executed SQL queries for Back-end testing.
• Tested the conversion data into Siebel OLTP by running SQL scripts
• Status updates and reporting as agreed and reporting of test results and identified defects.
• Maintained Defects, Test Scripts, Requirements & management of test suites using Quality Center Tool.
• Managed and coordinated offshore team and was responsible for Delivery of the test scripts.
• Verified reports that were all custom in-house build out of the warehouse.
• Implemented testing activities as per AUP (Agile software methodology) followed by project team.

Environment: Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, Unix Scripting, VB Script, Oracle SQL, Siebel testing, UNIX, JAVA

Confidential, New York, NY Apr’07-May‘08
Automation Test Analyst

Responsibilities

• Coordinated business analysts for translating requirements to test cases.
• Execution of Test Case manually to verify actual results against expected results.
• Tested the application manually for a few modules for the functionality of the application.
• Automated test scripts for the GUI, Functional, Data Driven and Regression testing using Quick Test Pro and also developed test harness.
• Identified the high-risk points and the priorities of the application.
• Defined the test criteria and project schedules during project meetings and walkthroughs.
• Documented detail test cases, expected results and traced the test cases to the requirements using Mercury Quality Center (MQC).
• Performed Build Verification Testing, Positive and Negative data testing and Boundary testing.
• Performed Manual testing on different Modules of the Application by executing the Test Cases. Conducted Functional, Regression and Integration Testing.
• Performed regression testing using Quick Test Professional.
• Performed testing activities testing activities as per AUP (Agile software methodology)
• Attended review meetings and made sure the testing is done based on the QA master plan and the deadlines are met.
• Executed SQL queries for validating the data in database.
• Documented the modification requests and defects and their trailing history using Mantis.

Environment: IE, Java/J2EE, Oracle, XML, Quality Center, Unix/Linux, Scrum, Unix Scripting, Mantis, Quick Test Pro, and SQL.

Confidential, Pasadena, CA Jul’06-Mar‘07
QA Teste

Responsibilities

• Reviewed and Analyzed Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) and Business Requirement Document (BRD) and setup meetings to clarify discrepancies.
• Prepared Test Cases and prioritized them as per critical functionality that is affecting the project deliverable.
• Executed the Test Cases and evaluated their Pass or Fail criteria.
• Tracked failed Test Cases and reported Bugs in Mercury Test Director.
• Maintained and Updated Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Environment through Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Performed System, Functional, Regression and Integration testing.
• Integrated Winrunner with Test Director and documented the test results.
• Executed SQL queries for back end testing for the verification of results retrieved with the expectations.
• Interacted with the developers and stakeholders to resolve technical issues.
• Submitted Test Status Reports about Test Coverage and Defect Summary to Project Management Team on weekly basis.
• Analyzed change requests attended change request meetings to document changes, track changes, prioritize changes, and manage changes and implemented procedures to test impact of changes.
• Identified requirement discrepancies and updated them to Business Analyst (BA).
• Participated in Walk Through, Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions and Report Meetings periodically.

Environment: Windows XP, UNIX Shell Script, SQL, Winrunner, .Net, ASP, TCL Scripts, Test Director, TSL Scripts, SQL Server, MS Office Suite

Confidential, Hyderabad, AP, India Jun’05-Feb‘06
QA Tester

Responsibilities

• Prepared Test Cases and prioritized them as per critical functionality that is affecting the project deliverable.
• Executed the Test Cases and evaluated their Pass or Fail criteria.
• Tracked failed Test Cases and reported Bugs in Mercury Test Director.
• Maintained and Updated Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Environment through Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Performed System, Functional, Regression and Integration testing.
• Integrated Winrunner with Test Director and documented the test results.
• Executed SQL queries for back end testing for the verification of results retrieved with the expectations.
• Interacted with the developers and stakeholders to resolve technical issues.

Environment: ASP, VB Script, IIS, MS ACCESS 2003