Summary of Qualifications:

• An accomplished IT professional with referable experience in Manual Testing and Automated Testing of Client/Server and Web-Based applications.
• An energetic, team-oriented, and process-focused professional with excellent communication skills in Software Quality Assurance field.
• Experienced in working closely with users and business analysts, project managers, developers to understand requirements, business processes for testing and attending walkthroughs
• Experienced in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Excellent working knowledge of System Development Life Cycle SDLC and Software Testing Life Cycle STLC with emphasis on Testing and requirement gathering phases
• Experienced in reviewing and understanding business and testing requirements.
• Experienced in working in important phases of Testing Life Cycle
• Experienced in structuring test requirements, test methodologies, test planning, test case design, test procedures, test scenarios, and test scripts in black box testing.
• Experienced in developing test plans, test cases
• Experienced in Mainframe testing
• Experienced in analyzing system and application failures and bugs
• Experienced in using HP Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting the modification requests
• Experienced in using SQL for querying Databases
• Comfortable with UNIX platform, and experienced in Unix Commands and Vi Editor.
• Good Knowledge in ETL process and Data warehouses
• Hands on experience with Java based, .Net based Web Applications, and client-server applications.
• Worked in SCRUM and Agile methodology of project development
• Expertise in Problem Solving and Defect Tracking Reports using Bug tracking Tools like Bugzilla and JIRA
• Sound knowledge of estimates and offshore coordination
• Good knowledge in web servers, application servers, relational database technologies and network components
• Experience with Waterfall, V-Model and Agile process
• Experience in developing and executing queries for SQL server and Oracle databases for back end testing.
• Experienced in creating Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements
• Extensive knowledge in gathering and understanding BRDs Business Requirements Document , FRDs Functional Requirements Document , SRS System Requirement Specifications and Use cases

Technical Competencies:

• Testing Tools: ALM HP Quality Center 11.0, HP Quality Center 10.0, UFT 11.5, Quick Test Professional QTP 11.0, QTP 10.0, QTP 9.0, TOAD, AutoSys, Crystal Report, Business Object, Serena Business Manager SBM
• Programming Languages: Visual Basic, C , VB.Net, Java, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, XML, PL/SQL, SQL
• Databases Tools: MS SQL Server 2003/05, Oracle12g,11g,10g, MS Access, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2012

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Role: QA Analyst

Roles Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business, Functional Requirements and Streamlined the Testing Activities
• Developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and Detailed Test Cases based on the Use Case Documents, Business Requirements, and Functional Specifications.
• Working closely with Business Analysts on ambiguities in the FRDs.
• Responsible for writing the Test Cases and Test Scenarios based on the Functional Requirements and Use Case documents and documenting them in HP Quality Center Excel.
• Extensively involved in Manual/Functional Testing of the Web Based Applications
• Extensively tested Functionality of the Web Based applications, and UI Screens.
• Create and execute test scripts, cases, and scenarios that will determine optimal system performance according to specifications.
• Handled Defect life cycle process independently and handled issues by interacting closely with Business Analysts, Developers, Performance Testers, end users and other members of the Team.
• Performed all phases of End-to-End testing which includes Functional, Regression, GUI, System and Smoke testing of the application and its interfaces Client-Server Utilities
• Performed data integrity and data validation by writing SQL queries in TOAD for RDBMS Oracle.
• Tested various menus, options and utilities and Executed VB Scripts developed in QTP.
• Defect detection, reporting and tracking was done using Rational Clear Quest.
• Tested Functional Requirements manually to check the website performance.
• Used Quality Center for generating Requirements, Test Sets, and Test Plan and for reporting defects.
• Exported Test Requirements and Test Cases from Microsoft Excel and MS Word to Quality Center.

Environment: Windows OS, Oracle 9x, MS Access, VB, SQL, TOAD, RTM, QTP 9.2, Clear Quest, Req. pro, MS Office, Quality Center10, Agile, PVCS, MS-Excel, MS-Word

Confidential

Role: Software Test Engineer

Roles Responsibilities:

• Involved in planning, designing, developing and deploying testing strategies for Web based and Client server Applications.
• Well-versed with all stages of Software Development Life Cycle SDLC , Software Testing Life Cycle STLC for Manual and Bug Life Cycle and Scrum Methodology.
• Having sound knowledge of scripting using VBScript
• Writing, Reviewing Executing test cases for Functional, Integration, System, GUI, and UAT testing.
• Profound working knowledge in defect tracking tools Quality Center.
• Have good experience on testing Web 2.0 and web services using Soap UI.
• Extensively involved in writing execution of SQL statements for backend testing.
• Utilized HP Quality Center QC to log defects and manage changes in requirements.
• Good Exposure on Requirements Analyzing, Preparing the Test plan and estimate Testing Effort.
• Hands on Experience on Test cases, Automated Tests and Test Data and Good expertise in reviews of various Testing Documents.

Environment: Quick Test Pro10, Quality Center10, SQL, J2EE, JAVA, VBScript, Windows XP, LoadRunner

Confidential

Role: Software Test Engineer

Roles Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering Requirements specifications and requirements from development personnel and business prior to System Testing.
• Interacted with end users to obtain specific system requirements and developed test plans, test cases and test Scenarios to cover overall quality assurance testing
• Wrote Test cases for manual testing
• Wrote Test analysis report.
• Went through the application coded in Java to perform backend testing to check data integrity
• Primary responsibility was to perform backend testing and used SQL queries to extract data from the Oracle database and check out for DML anomalies.
• Performed Data driven testing to test financial data in Oracle database.
• Conducted System Testing, Functionality Testing, User Acceptance testing and Configuration Testing including Black Box
• Used Load Runner for Performance Stress testing and analyzed the response times of the business transactions under load.
• Responsible for keeping test schedule and updating weekly status to manager.
• Developed and executed test suites and operation scenarios to detect report and track defects using Test Director.

Environment: Java, XML, Soup UI, Unix, Windows XP, Microsoft Office Share Point, Microsoft virtual PC 2007, QTP 10, VBScript, Mercury Quality Center 10

Confidential

Role: Software Test Engineer

Roles Responsibilities:

• Created new test cases using requirement specifications and use cases, in consultation with business analysts
• Prepared various sections of the test plan
• Tested the application functionalities performed different test procedures for each development release: smoke testing, black box testing, regression testing and User Acceptance Testing
• Reported tracked defects worked with developers to resolve problems
• Prepared Requirements Traceability Matrix RTM
• Worked in an agile environment
• Worked with Quality Center components: test plan, test lab and defects

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, VB Script, XML, AFE, B2C, TRONweb, MS .NET, Java, Oracle, AIX

Confidential

Role: Software Test Engineer

Roles Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing test plans by understanding the User Requirements and business logic to enable manual testing of application
• Discussed and worked with business analyst team to gather detail functionality.
• Performed manual testing considering the base line of developed test plan and test cases Functional, System and Integration testing of the application
• Updated status to the QA Manager as and when needed considering both positive and negative scenarios.
• An executed test case developed by self or peers. Compared and analyzed actual to expected results and reported all deviations for resolution. .
• Performed Integration, System and UAT testing
• Used Test Director to document the test data for all the manual tests
• Identified defects and logged and tracked all new and existing ones

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, QTP 9.2, MS Office, XML, SQL, Internet Explorer, Visio, UNIX and Windows OS