PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• 5+ years of experience in Software Testing and Quality Assurance in both Manual and Automated Testing.
• Experience in creating and implementing test strategies and detailed test plans.
• Understanding of Internet and enterprise software technologies including web and application servers and testing on multiple browsers.
• Sound knowledge in software development life cycle (SDLC) & software Testing life cycle (STLC).
• Excellent understanding in quality assurance methodologies such as agile and waterfall.
• Experience in Smoke testing, Functional Testing,Integration Testing, Black Box Testing, Regression Testing, Backend Testing and UAT Testing, in Client - Server and Web-based applications.
• Experience in testing applications with VB Script, Java, SQL, PL/SQL.
• Experienced in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office Excel, and POWERPOINT.
• Understanding user requirements, documenting test plans, preparing test cases, execution of test cases to verify application functionality against business requirements, with manual testing and automated test tools.
• Experience in writing SQL Queries in SQL Server for Database Testing and Test Data Preparation.
• Experience in Test Director and Quality Center.
• Excellent analytical ability, strong presentation skills and the ability to communicate at different levels within the organization with Exceptional problem-solving and excellent attention to detail.
• Demonstrated capability to quickly gain a detailed understanding of a process in order to optimize efficiencies, reduces cost, and improves quality.
• Team player, self-starter, multi task performer, ability to adapt new environments quickly.
• Able to prioritize changing responsibilities in a fast paced environment, gained functional skills in analyzing the client requirements: translating new ideas into clients’ solutions including opportunity identification, requirements development, delivery, support & analysis and documentation.

PRIMARY TECHNICAL SKILL SETS

Testing Tools: Test Director, Quality Center 9.2, QTP 9.2

Automation Tools: QTP 9.2

Databases: Oracle 8, SQL Server 2005

Scripting Languages: VBScript

Operating Systems: Windows NT/XP/2000

Bug Tracking: DDTS, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

QA ANALYST

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for reviewing Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specification.
• Used black box testing for working throughout SDLC (software development life cycle) & test environment.
• Analyzed system requirements and involved in creating and implementing test strategies and preparing detailed test plans.
• Performed manual Testing in the application using numerous Test Scripts and executed test cases to test web front end applications and mainly backend
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Integration, Black Box Testing, Backend Testing UAT Testing, positive and negative testing of the application.
• Created and executed tests scripts in QTP for Regression testing.
• Created test scripts in SQL and automated the testing process.
• Performed the back-end testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL queries on the database
• Reported bugs encountered in the application using the defect tracking tool Quality Center.
• Worked together with offshore QA and development team for various testing and gathering testing reports.
• Created process documents, reporting specifications and templates, training material and slideshow presentations for the application development teams and management and maintained share point for QA related documents.
• Participated in QA Team meetings and walkthroughs or weekly QA testing reviews.
• Created daily and weekly status reports on the progress of the testing efforts and open issues to be resolved.

Environment: Java, HTML, SQL server, Quality Center, QTP, Windows XP/2000.

Confidential, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Review business requirements, IT design documents and prepare test plans for all assigned project releases.
• Test new functionalities based on test cases and coordinate with development team in fixing the issues.
• Keep track of defects, assign them to the concerned developer, and retest.
• Perform database testing using Oracle 11g.
• Write test scripts from the use case document.
• Manage one onsite and three offshore resources and helped them to perform their tasks.
• Create the performance matrix for resources.
• Maintain traceability matrix to keep track of the requirements.
• Track, review, analyze and compare defects using quality center.
• Interact with business analysts and developers for discussing the requirements and changes, if any.
• Perform regression, functional and smoke testing of the applications.
• Perform production validation in the release process.
• Performed SQL queries.

Environment: Java, Oracle 11g, UNIX, J2EE, Microsoft Office, Windows XP, HP Quality Center 10.0, QTP 10.0, Mainframes, SQL Developer, SOA Technologies.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed design documents & business requirements to learn the function and scope of the application.
• Involved in writing and implementation of the Test Cases.
• Conducted Functionality testing during various phases of the application using QTP.
• Inserted Check Points to Check for the broken Links, Text, and standard properties of an object using QTP.
• Performed Integration Testing and Batch Testing.
• Used Parameterization for using various data to test the application.
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries, to extract the data from the database.
• Analyzed and Validated test results to ensure existing functionality and recommend corrective action where necessary.
• Interacted with developers, business analysts and discussed technical problems and reported bugs.
• Verified and Validated the Automated Test scripts. * Automated the test cases, which we get from the functional testing team. * Develop the test bed for the regression testing which have to be on every monthly release and maintain the scripts with any new changes to the application.
• Tracked and reported defects using Test Director.
• Participated in all phases of the Software Testing Life Cycle.
• Developed test related documents including Test Plans, Test Procedures, Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Conducted Integration, Regression, Acceptance, Functional, and Performance and Multi-User tests.
• Utilized test Methodologies and automated the functional testing.
• Performed Data Driven test using test data from Excel and created different checkpoints.

Environment: ASP.NET, MS SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, JavaScript.

Confidential, CT

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed requirement analysis, testing and review of the components done by peer team members.
• Ensure that all the test cases are updated in the Quality Center along with Master test plan.
• Conducted functional and regression testing using Quick Test Profession.
• Quick Test pro and by developing/updating the test scripts using VBScript to match changing business requirements.
• Accomplished in test plan formulation, test case design, test script design, test condition design and execution using various structured testing procedures.
• Performed Integration testing on different modules in the application.
• Well organized work habits with meticulous attention to detail and strong SDLC skills.
• For every module followed the process of doing Analysis, Design, Produce, Unit testing and Integration testing.
• Executed SQL scripts Database to validate data which flows to the end user with the actual data in the Database.
• Parameterized and correlated the scripts and enhanced them according to the User Profile using Quick Test Pro.
• Determined the nature and severity of bugs uncovered while testing.
• Maintained a defect tracking schedule describing in close detail bugs encountered during testing and replicating such bugs for the benefit of developers.
• Entered the bugs in a tracker system, which is maintained in a database using Team Track.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using Quality Center.
• Used to arrange meetings to discuss issues with developers and project managers. Worked very closely with developers to recreate defects found and also to verify fixes.
• Involved in creation and enhancement of test scripts by the creation of GUI, Bitmap, Text, Database checkpoints and synchronization points of the application.
• Initiated and participated in Conference Calls, Walkthrough and Review Meetings.

Environment: Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, Apache, Java, J2EE, .Net, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, TOAD, Oracle, Linux, Windows 2000/NT/XP, CSS/XSLT.

Confidential,MA

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supervised and oversaw the testing of new releases as well as the certification on different platforms and databases.
• Participated in design reviews for new features.
• Wrote, revised and verified quality standards and test procedures for software design and product evaluation.
• Designed, created and maintained automated test suite jointly with the automation department, which allowed to automate 95% of existing test cases, resulting in reduced test time and greatly improve overall software quality.
• Trained and supported new team members.
• Recommended design improvements and performance changes to development group.
• Reviewed automation test output to identify program processing errors.
• Successfully coordinated a 5-person team performing manual software testing.