Objective:

• Successful Software Test Engineer specializing in Software Quality Assurance including Functional, Performance and Automated Testing, Test Documentation utilizing HP Interactive Products throughout the entire Software Development Life Cycle, seeking a position as Software Quality Assurance Engineer/Analyst where I can utilize my script programming, critical evaluation and debugging skills to enhance overall software quality.Professional Summary:
• Over Eight years of experience as Quality Assurance Tester with Client Server and Web applications in Automation testing using HP/Mercury Interactive Test Suite Quick Test Professional, LoadRunner and Quality Center and Manual Testing.
• Experienced in performing different roles across various phases of Software Development Life Cycle SDLC and Software Test Life Cycle STLC .
• Experience working with Healthcare Medical Coding and billing , Banking, Financial, Insurance, and Telecommunication Company.
• Extensive experience in manual testing and Specialized in writing Test Plans, Test strategy, Test Scripts, Test cases, Test Analysis and Testing Life Cycle and creation of Test data and following SDLC.
• Possess strong SQL skills.
• Experience in analyzing End-User requirements and created solutions in relation to Business and Technical specifications.
• Extensive experience in Functional Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Black box testing and Gray box testing.
• Tested the GUI and UAT of the application to improve the functionality as per the business requirements.
• Capable of conducting User Acceptance testing before the initial release when the project reached the final phase prior to deployment.
• Expertise in Analysis of Problem Severity, Defect tracking, Defects reporting.
• Good Interpersonal skills, commitment, result oriented, hardworking with solid Communication Skills.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, communication skills and a team player. Capability of Handling team and other management activities
• Very good experience with working on Offshore-Onsite model and leading teams.
• Familiar with Software Methodologies like Agile, Waterfall/Classical, and Iterative in relation to development and testing.
• Implemented Knowledge Management and best Practices on Reuse and Tools

Technical Skills:

Professional Experience:

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Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working in different Projects simultaneously in different release.
• Authored Test Plan, Test cases and Test scenarios based on the Requirement Documents
• Responsible for uploading Requirements, Test Cases in QC.
• Involved in preparing Traceability matrix and Test plan templates
• Created and executed test scripts for Smoke/Sanity, Integration and System Testing phases of the software test cycle
• Performed Positive testing, Negative Testing.
• Continuously Enhanced test scripts as per requirements.
• Preparation and review of test scripts and test data for manual testing.
• Involved in Functional testing, System testing and Regression cycles for the entire application
• Sent daily and weekly status reports that helped tracked team progress to Release level test lead
• Participating in QA meetings to meet the testing standards.
• Responsible for Reviewing Test Cases for different modules
• Actively participated in bug triage meetings and interacted with developers diplomatically to ensure high quality
• Involved in Business Requirements, Design and Testing Review Meetings.
• Involved in Knowledge Transfer process, when new employee hired to make them familiar with the Application
• Coordinate Onsite and Offshore team, reviewing the offshore Test Scenarios, Test Scripts and Test results.
• Coordinate Team of 2-4 testing members, Assigning tasks and monitoring testing progress, follow-ups on issues, Generating reports on daily and release basis
• Logged defects using QC and responsible for changing status of the defect following the Defect management process.
• Responsible for executing the Regression Scripts using QTP.

Environment : .Net, QTP, Main Frame, QC, JAVA, Windows XP, Internet Explorer, SQL Server, MS Word, MS Excel, XML

Confidential

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Attended in Project workshop in accordance with SDLC Work-Bench as well as Business requirement and functional specification alone with PM, BA, DEV Team and QA Team in Kick-off meeting for Project Goal, TimeLine and discussed the Project Scope in details.
• Involved in Requirements gathering, Analyzing and Documenting for functional testing with the business analyst.
• Determined testing requirements developed and reviewed scripts for positive and negative test scenarios, conducted baseline testing, and generated reports.
• Involved in writing Manual test cases as well as Automation test cases and Performance test cases and execute them.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM and traced the requirements to the corresponding test cases.
• Coordinated with the administrator, PM and testing lead for the precise scheduling of the test runs.
• Wrote, modified and ran SQL queries to verify transactions and correctness of data posted into the application.
• Created test data for validating scenarios based on functional requirements specifications.
• Worked closely with cross-functional teams including Users, development, validation, and technical writing.
• Used Quality Center for Test Planning, Test Designing, Test Analysis, Test Execution, Defect Tracking and Test evaluation.
• Generated/Enhanced test scripts, executing the test scripts, analyzing test results using Quality Center.
• Involved in writing and executing the Test Cases and reporting the bugs using Quality Center tool for Defect tracking purpose and worked until the issue is resolved, in the process interacted with developers to resolve application defects.
• Added new requirements in the Quality Center and linked them with corresponding test cases.
• Assisted in management of defect tracking using Quality Center, including logging defects, assigning them to developers, facilitating defect review sessions and researching causes of defects in development builds and in production environments.
• Defined performance test strategy, performance test cases, load scripts and documented the issues and re-tested software fixes to ensure the issues are resolved.
• Executed stress, load and /rendezvous scenarios and regression testing for various operations in the application and performed detailed test analysis reports using LoadRunner.
• Created scripts using LoadRunner
• Created Test scripts and UAT test cases and coordinated with the UAT Team and Project manager and performed User Acceptance Testing with the Users.
• Assisted users during the UAT. Conducted and created reports at the end of the UAT test.
• Attending the meetings on daily basis to acquire and update the status, and provided management with daily status reports and discuss bugs and other issues.
• Categorized bugs based on the severity and interfaced with developers to resolve them.

Environment : QTP, Quality Center, LoadRunner, VB Script, Windows 7, Java, DB2, J2EE, .Net, Java, SQL Server , PL/SQL, MS Word, MS Excel.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Users, Business Analysts, gathered business and technical requirements, reviewed business requirements, technical requirements and specifications.
• Created Test strategy, Test plans and Test cases for various phases of migration.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM and traced the requirements to the corresponding test cases.
• Performed extensive back end Database testing using complex SQL queries.
• Wrote complex SQL Joins, Unions and Nested Queries on various data tables for Data validation.
• Wrote, modified and ran SQL queries to verify transactions and correctness of data posted into the application.
• Created test data for validating scenarios based on functional requirements specifications.
• Used the automated tool QTP for Functional Testing and Regression Testing.
• Inserted checkpoints to verify the functionality of page, text string, XML and table objects using QTP.
• Worked closely with cross-functional teams including Users, development, marketing, validation, and technical writing.
• Effectively utilized Mercury Quality Center in creating Test plan, Test Cases and for Defect tracking.
• Used Quality Center to trace the requirements, write the Test Cases in the test plan, execute the Test Sets in the test lab and track the Defects logged in the defects module.
• Added new requirements in the Quality Center and linked them with corresponding test cases.
• Assisted in management of defect tracking using Quality Center, including logging defects, assigning them to developers, facilitating defect review sessions and researching causes of defects in development builds and in production environments.
• Defined performance test strategy, performance test cases, load scripts and documented the issues
• Created scripts using LoadRunner , executed scripts using controller. Analyzed results for bottlenecks.
• Created Test scripts and UAT test cases and coordinated with the UAT Team and Project manager and performed User Acceptance Testing with the Users.
• Assisted clients during the UAT. Conducted and created reports at the end of the UAT test.
• Conduct Execution team meetings and delivery team meetings on daily basis to acquire and update the status, and provided management with daily status reports.
• Conducted weekly Status meeting with Development and Management teams to discuss bugs and other issues.

Environment : Unix, Java, Oracle, PL/SQL , QTP, Quality Center, LoadRunner, VB Script, MS Word, MS Excel.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system requirements specifications, developed Test Strategy, Test plans, Test Cases, Test Data for manual testing of the functionality, GUI, Compatibility, performance, usability and User Acceptance of the application.
• Analyzed application, system, and security errors, and escalated issues to developers and verified fixes.
• Designed test plans and defined cases for functional, integration system, and user acceptance testing.
• Researched analyzed project documentation and participated in project reviews.
• Performed manual and automated testing and maintained documentation on different types of testing Positive, Negative, Regression, Integration, System, User-acceptance, Performance, and Black Box.
• Developed and executed SQL Queries to perform backend database testing.
• Identified and logged defects, if a test fails, using SQL to find out the root cause.
• Supervised development of SQL-queries, procedures for database and backend testing.
• Performed Functional, Regression, and Data Driven testing using QTP.
• Tested functionality of the application by inserting various check points like standard check points, text check points, table check points, image check points, and database check points in QTP.
• Performed Manual Testing and developed automated scripts for the application using QTP.
• Created and executed automation scripts using Quick Test Pro QTP and integrated the results in Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center for Test Planning, Test Designing, Test Analysis, Test Execution, Defect Tracking and Test evaluation.
• Generated/Enhanced test scripts, executing the test scripts, analyzing test results using Quality Center.
• Involved in writing and executing the Test Cases and reporting the bugs using Quality Center tool for Defect tracking purpose and worked until the issue is resolved, in the process interacted with developers to resolve application defects.
• Analyzed and interpreted Reports and Graphs for the Test Cases generated through Quality Center's Document Generator.
• Designed and developed complex performance testing strategy to enhance work load distribution test models.
• Wrote performance testing requirements by considering low and peak real time traffic situations.
• Manage script creation for regression and stress testing using LoadRunner.
• Analyzed results Using LoadRunner Analysis tool and bottlenecks were reported
• Used Site Scope Performance monitors and LoadRunner graphs to analyze the results.
• Involved in submission of bugs through Defect Reports and frequently participated in Defect Report review meetings.
• Generated Change Requests for failed test cases and assigned them to responsible developers.
• Categorized bugs based on the severity and interfaced with developers to resolve them.
• Attended weekly defect report meetings and presented progress updates.

Environment: J2EE/EJB, Servlet/JSP, JDBC, XML, HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, Web Logic, Web sphere, Oracle 8i, SQL, UNIX and LINUX, Putty, Quality Center, LoadRunner, QTP.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business and system requirements, mange development of specifications to create and execute detailed test plans, and verify bug fixes.
• Determined testing requirements developed and reviewed scripts for positive and negative test scenarios, conducted baseline testing, and generated reports.
• Wrote high level Test Plans by incorporating User Profiles, Configurations, Environments, Risks, Test Scenarios, Schedules and Analysis and Presentation of Results.
• Coordinated with the PM and testing lead for the precise scheduling of the test runs.
• Developed, documented, verified maintained Test Plans and associated Test cases to meet the business requirements.
• Configured test environment and created strategy, assured test data, scheduled automated/manual tests, approved results documentation and tracking systems updates.
• Created and executed SQL Scripts to test the data for validations of the database.
• Involved in performing Automation Testing using the Business Process Testing in QTP.
• Created Automated Test Scripts using QTP to perform Regression testing, data-driven testing and for back end testing.
• Performed Data driven tests using QTP to verify database values to ensure transaction accuracy and database integrity.
• Involved in the Defect Tracking and bug reporting process using Clear Quest.
• Used Clear Quest for all types of change requests, including defects, enhancements, issues and documentation changes with flexible workflow process.
• Coordinating with Developers in fixing Defects and ensuring QA processes.
• Logged defects in Clear Quest in addition to recording results in Rational Test Manager.
• Periodically updated the QA Manager and the Team Lead with weekly status reports, along with the progress of testing and the future testing strategy.
• Coordinated with Business Analysts for UAT planning, execution and scheduling.
• Designed UAT Test cases and Prepared Daily status reports and weekly Status reports.
• Participated in Defect Review meetings and Quality Assurance meetings.
• Participated in client meetings, weekly updates and attended training program on Team building and Management .

Environment: J2EE/EJB, XML, HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, Web sphere, Oracle 8i, SQL, UNIX, Putty, Clear Quest, QTP.

Confidential

Test Methodology Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Software Requirements Specifications and developed detailed Test Plans and Test Cases and provided the documentation.
• Designed and developed Test Methodologies, Test Strategy, Test Plans and Test cases, for manual tests.
• Involved in Requirements gathering for functional testing with the business analyst.
• Participated in full SDLC and handled complex projects involving the different phases of SDLC like requirements gathering, design, coding, testing and maintenance.
• Analyzing the Use Cases, preparation/review and execution of Test Case Documents TCD's .
• Conducted System and Functional, User-Acceptance UAT and Sanity testing of applications.
• Performed database testing by passing SQL Queries to retrieve the data.
• Used SQL queries to perform database testing for data integrity of the Oracle tables.
• Created the Automation Test Scripts, enhanced and executed using Quick Test Professional QTP tool.
• Conducted Functional, System and Regression testing of the application using QTP.
• Conducted Regression testing and maintain regression test scripts using QTP.
• Used Test Director for Test Planning, Test Execution and Defect Tracking.
• Created detailed Test cases, executed test scripts and logged defects using TestDirector.
• Identified test cases to be automated and marked them by adding automation field in TestDirector.
• Performed Defect Reporting using TestDirector and linked defects to test cases to provide analysis of which requirements are passing.
• Analyzed and interpreted Reports and Graphs for the Test Cases generated through Test Director's Document Generator.
• Wrote test Scenarios and test scripts for UAT and was responsible to handle UAT testing activities.
• Preparing the final test report and reviewed with the Lead and managers.
• Maintained Test Logs, Test Summary reports and participated in defect review meetings.

Environment: Unix, Java, Oracle, PL/SQL , QTP, TestDirector, LoadRunner, VB Script, MS Word, MS Excel, Netscape Enterprise Server, Netscape Directory Server LDAP .