OBJECTIVE

To be part of a company, where I can make a valuable contribution to their ongoing success with my expertise in software quality assurance and be an asset to the company and achieve professional growth.

SUMMARY

• 6 years of diversified experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing on Client/Server, Windows based and Web based applications.
• Proactive attitude and a willingness to go the extra mile to get the job done well.
• Detail oriented, adept at problem solving, customer focused, analytical, inquisitive,
• self-motivated, organized, and methodical.
• Proficient in Writing, Reviewing and Execution of Test Case Scenarios. Expertise in manual testing using HP Quality Center and Automated Testing using QTP with different testing methodologies like Agile, Scrum, Waterfall models.
• Strong background in Financial Services such as Banking as in bill payment, credit cards, web links and more, Insurance as in home and auto Insurance and exposure to property and casualty domains.
• Proficient in System development testing including Black Box, Functional, System, Back-end/Database, Regression, , GUI and User Acceptance Testing with multiple server domains.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in all phases of application/software development lifecycle SDLC including Requirements, Analysis and Design, Development and Testing, and software testing life cycle STLC .
• Experience in analyzing Business Requirements, execution and reviewing of Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases and monitor the testing status of the projects through regular meetings.
• Worked on data migration process and validated ETL Extract Transfer Load based on mapping documents.
• Experienced in Data and Feature verification, Data validation and GUI verification and testing.
• Executed QTP automation scripts for regression Testing. Used automated test tools Compuware's Test Partner, and Quick Test Pro QTP .
• Documented current test practices and proposed improvements for future test processes.
• Experienced in testing database driven applications including data validation using SQL.
• Ability to work in tighter schedules and on different applications concurrently.
• Exceptional ability to quickly master new software and apply full range of capabilities.
• Expertise in Problem solving and Bug Tracking Reports using Bug tracking Tools.
• Experienced in testing different environments like Client/Server, Web Based Applications, and Mainframes.
• Versatile team player with excellent analytical skills, presentation skills, communication
• skills, interpersonal skills and self-motivated.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Role : QA Analyst

Progressive Insurance is a multi-line provider of business property liability insurance, personal lines insurance including auto, homeowner's and specialty , agribusiness insurance, and surety bonds amongst other insurances.

Responsibilities:

• Have done extensive Regression Testing for different releases. Ran policies for different
• states in Test and Stage Servers for both Personal Lines Home and Auto and
• commercial Lines.
• Screen Scraped the policies and created INI's from the existing policies.
• Handled web content project which is basically testing all the links in the website and checking whether there are any broken links or not and also to check the correct content is available in the right place. Checked for Internal links, External links, Mail links, Broken links, Forms, Error message for wrong inputs, Optional and Mandatory fields
• Used the dynamic GUI maps and tested all the dynamic links in the web page, Created
• GUI map files generated the test scripts using context sensitive mode.
• Actively involved in various meetings to discuss Enhancements and Modifications of the
• existing scripts.
• Performing various types of testing, such as functional, regression and user acceptance.
• Investigated software bugs and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues
• using Quality Center.
• Created or modified automated VB test scripts UFT/QTP to support test cases.
• Used Clear Case source control version control software for updating and modification
• the scripts and GUI's, have created views and used snapshot views in most of the
• scenarios.
• Used Mainframes in checking the quotes whether they are matching with Mainframes or not.
• Conducted various management activities by analyzing test results providing status reports.
• Worked with business analysts, developers, and content department to resolve issues.
• Creating and Generating System test scripts for different test scenarios covering all
• aspects of project functionality and at different rate changes for different states.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, Mainframes, Clear case, Windows NT, Agile.

Confidential

Role : QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Test Plans and extensively built Test Case scenarios to ensure requirements are being covered and are testable for each build of MIS.
• Created, organized and executed the Test sets by Manual and Automation means in the Quality Center Test Lab module.
• Conducted Smoke, Functional, and Integration testing and identified the issues and tracked the defects using Quality Center.
• Used Soap UI for web service functional testing.
• Performed Backend testing using Toad and verified the data Quality and Integrity in the source system Oracle.
• Validated data Loading, Extraction processes and tested various Transformations and Rules.
• Written Automated Test Cases, Test Scripts, and Testing Scenarios, using Mercury Quick Test Professional for Regression testing, implementing the required checkpoints and updating them from time to time.
• Developed SQL queries and created tables which replicated the ETL work flow, and compared table data with the Informatica tables.
• Verified Reports and Extracts to check whether data has been transformed as per the reporting requirements.
• Conducted Smoke, Functional, GUI, System and Regression testing during various phases of application

Environment: Java, JavaScript, HTML, Perl Script , XML , SOAP UI, Quality Center, TOAD , Oracle 11g, Unix, Windows

Confidential

Role: Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on online Banking, testing bill payments with primary responsibility of testing payments, payees and alerts.
• Gathered and Analyzed the Business Requirements Document, modified the Test Plan and prepared detailed Test Cases for the UAT.
• Reviewed Business Requirements Documents to document business rules and Test plans.
• Involved in the development of test cases for Web Application.
• Created Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts for some of the modules of the application under test AUT .
• Performed some database testing using SQL to check successful transaction.
• Provided the management with Test Metrics, reports, and schedules as necessary and participated in the design walkthroughs and meetings.
• Executed the test cases using Quality Center and analyzed the results.
• Involved in various levels of testing like Functional, Integration and Regression Testing.
• Involved in GUI testing, Business logic Testing and Database Testing.

Environment: Windows XP, Microsoft SQL, Quality Center.

Confidential

Role : Quality Assurance Associate

Responsibilities:

• Tested Bank Loan Information web based applications used to request and approve mortgage loan requests.
• Performed smoke testing, functional, integration, and system user interface testing bank loan information web based application.
• Tracked defects using Jira and generated defect summary reports.
• Created traceability matrix between requirements and test cases.

Environment: Windows, MS SQL