SUMMARY:

• 6 years of progressive Quality Assurance experience in testing Web-based / PC-based and Client-Server applications on different environments with extensive experience in developing and implementing Test Plans and Test cases using BRD's, ITR's and design documents while specifying Testing Overview, Approach, Strategy, Scope, Roles and Responsibilities including Agile, System, Integration, Regression, Functional, Black box, White box, Load, User Acceptance Testing, Web Services, Database Testing and Message Queuing .
• Strong Knowledge and experience of Agile methodology.
• Strong knowledge on Software Development Life Cycle SDLC , Testing Methodologies and Techniques.
• Analyzed System Functional Specifications, Business Rules to Prepare Test Schedules, Identify Test Requirements, Design Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Data, Test Plans and Execute Test Runs.
• Experience working as Senior QA implementing Test automation and mentoring testing team.
• Extensive Experience in Manual Automated testing using Mercury testing tools QuickTest Pro, WinRunner, Load Runner and Knowledge of IBM'S Rational Robot.
• Extensive Experience in Test Management tools Quality Center, Test Director, Rational Clear Quest and Bugzilla.
• Good knowledge of Relational Database Management Systems RDBMS .
• Experience in working with users, excellent organizational skills, Ability to work independently and as part of a team, Solid analytical, dynamic troubleshooting skills, and written and verbal communication skills.

Project Management:

• Excellent Budgeting skills
• Exposed to different modes of SDLC.
• Project Planning and Controlling
• Task allocation, Status Tracking
• Effort and Cost Estimates.
• Documentation Preparation
• Risk Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Operating Systems: Windows XP/2000/ME/NT/98, MS DOS
• Defect Tracking Tools: TestDirector8.0/7.x, Quality Center 9.0/9.2/10.0/11.0, TFS,Rally
• Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, XML, VB Script, JavaScript
• Databases: DB2, MS Access, Oracle9i/10g, and SQL Server 2000/2005/2008.
• Operating Systems: Windows NT/XP/2000, UNIX Solaris, Linux , MS DOS.
• Application Software: MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-PowerPoint and MS Outlook
• Others: Agile methodology, SharePoint, DOORS, UML, RUP, MS server,
• Visio, Documentum.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on 2 week sprints and presented the DEMO to the Upper Management at the end of each sprint.
• Worked on Developing, executing and maintaining Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases Documents in Quality Center based on business requirements.
• Created and executed the test cases for various scenarios, and participated actively in system, integration, performance and regression testing for every new build released.
• Used Quality Center to develop test cases, and executed them in test lab.
• Created the UAT Test Plan by entering high-level requirements from the Statement of Need and Functional documents, as well as identified test scenarios, into the UAT Test document.
• Ensuring the execution of UAT Test Cases and documentation of test results.
• Entered the defects in Rally and managed the resolution and documentation of these defects.
• Performed Positive Negative Testing for system validations.
• Involved in application security testing for securing the application with proper authentication authorization.
• Involved in Database testing by writing executing SQL queries to validate that data is being populated in an appropriate tables manually comparing the results with front-end values.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participate in daily stand ups
• Update the management on the proceedings of the QA tasks.
• Worked on Developing, executing and maintaining Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases.
• Created and executed the test cases for various scenarios, and participated actively in system, integration, performance and regression testing for every new build released.
• Used Quality Center to develop test cases, and executed them in test lab.
• Created the UAT Test Plan by entering high-level requirements from the Statement of Need and Functional documents, as well as identified test scenarios, into the UAT Test document.

Confidential

QA tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for requirements gathering, analysis and also interacted with business users in analyzing the requirements.
• Worked on Developing, executing and maintaining Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases Documents in Quality Center based on business requirements.
• Created and executed the test cases for various scenarios, and participated actively in system, integration, performance and regression testing for every new build released.
• Used Quality Center to develop test cases, and executed them in test lab.
• Created the UAT Test Plan by entering high-level requirements from the Statement of Need and Functional documents, as well as identified test scenarios, into the UAT Test document.
• Experience in Signs off on the SIT Test Plan and SIT Test Requirements and Cases documents.
• Ensuring the execution of UAT Test Cases and documentation of test results.
• Entered the defects into Quality Center and manages the resolution and documentation of these defects.
• Performed Positive Negative Testing for system validations.
• Involved in application security testing for securing the application with proper authentication authorization.
• Involved in Database testing by writing executing SQL queries to validate that data is being populated in an appropriate tables manually comparing the results with front-end values.
• Analyze all Report Bugs for continuous process improvement and keep tracking on the SDLC critical path.
• Reported defects using Quality Center Verified fixes and closed bugs during regression testing.
• Performed the web testing of the application for browser dependency.
• Conducted User Acceptance Test UAT with users and customers and wrote issues log based on outcome of UAT
• Initiated and participated in conference calls, walkthrough and review meetings.
• Performed Reviews and Summarized review results for the projects
• Did Story testing for the new Project
• Ensuring maintenance of highest level of service standards for clients and maintaining minimum turn-around-time for meeting ad-hoc request from the test leads
• Ran the Script Test Cases tracked and reported Bugs and entered it in to TFS and communicated the same to the developers.
• Compiled and executed manual test scripts Test Cases and performed Adhoc testing on those test cases
• Performed End to End testing for the Product from the end User perspective, which varied from GUI Testing, Content testing, Link testing, functionality testing, Regression Testing, Smoke testing, etc.
• Worked on RC scripts Release candidate and helped the team to work on it.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the application under test, writing test plan, defining test strategy designing the test matrix and developing scripting.
• Created the test strategy document that defines the test environment, phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria into different phases of testing and resources required conducting the effort.
• Setting up the test lab and updating the result in quality center.
• Created Functional requirements that were easily decomposed into test cases.
• Performed functional, Integration, Smoke and Regression testing.
• Created and executed test cases using tools such as HP Quality Center.
• Created weekly defect status report and presented the report in a very detailed manner to the development and business teams during weekly meetings.
• Involved in gathering, analyzing, distilling and clearly conveying complex information to business and project.
• Planned the performance test plan document.
• Involved in running different Scenarios Baseline, Benchmarking, Smoke etc based on client needs.
• Running the scripts under various scenarios and generated the results and provided the team for analyzing the results.

Environment: Quality center9.0, Load Runner 9.5, 10.0, UNIX, NT, Java, Oracle 8i, SQL Server, J2EE, Xml, Toad, Html, IBM rational quest

Confidential

Tester Responsibilities:

• Helped writing and Executing clear concise Test Plans, Test Codes, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Defect Reports
• Conducted functional tests for the application using manual testing
• Created test frames using test specs and automated the test cases using WinRunner.
• Written Generic functions that deal with different sets of data.
• Involved in the development of Test cases and Test scripts to automate the Testing process using WinRunner.
• Entered defects and reported bugs found in order to resolve them
• Involved in Testing Reporting functionality.
• Carried out test activities as required, testing cases beyond the pre-existing situations
• Involved in writing and modifying required Unix scripts and other SQL validation scripts, and writing scripts in SQL/PLSQL to validate the outputs.
• Provided assistance and directions to team members
• Conducted detailed Analysis of Test Results to detect defects like incomplete, inadequate test cases
• Met the daily, weekly, monthly project deadlines
• Coordinated with the developers on defect status so as to fix them.

Environment:

WinRunner 7.6, ASP, Java Script, Oracle 8.0, HTML, IIS, Oracle 7.3, Developer 2000, SQL Net 2.1, PL/SQL, Netscape navigator