Professional Summary

• Over 7 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and QA implementation.
• Experience with creating Test Plans, writing and executing Test Cases, Manual Testing, and automated Test Execution.
• Extensive Knowledge of Quality Assurance standards, methodologies and strategies with better understanding of Software Development Life Cycle SDLC .
• Developed, Documented and Executed Test cases manually and generated Automation Scripts using Quick Test Professional, Test Director/Quality Center to ensure proper business compliance and worked closely with users and business analysts, Project Managers, Developers to understand requirements, business processes for testing and attended regular walkthroughs.
• Experience with testing on UNIX and Windows environments.
• Expertise in Black Box testing and White Box testing.
• Expertise in Functional, Regression, User Acceptance UAT .
• Use of the Test director/ Quality Center to manage the software testing process
• Extensive experience working with Databases
• Used SQL Queries to make sure that data was entered properly in the right tables, when the data was entered from front end screen.
• Proficient with tools such as MS Office, Visual Source Safe, CVS.
• Strong Analytical and Problem Solving skills.
• Knowledge of 508 compliance testing.
• Strong organizational and communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Strong team player with good interpersonal skills.
• Worked in different software environments and can easily fit into new environments.
• Demonstrated ability to self-motivate and be flexible within a fast-paced environment.

Technical Skills

• Testing Tools Mercury Quality Center, Test Director, QTP, Rational Tools, Jira, SOAP UI.
• Testing Methodologies Black Box testing, System testing, Regression testing, Integration, End-to-End testing, Data validation and Verification.
• Database Skills Toad, Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata, MS-Access, SQL queries
• Programing language HTML, XML, J2EE, Java, JavaScript, VB Script
• Operating Systems UNIX, Windows
• ETL Tools Informatica Power Center, UNIX Batch Processes
• Reporting Tools Business Objects, Cognos

Professional Experience

Confidential

Role : System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Creating test scenarios and test cases from BRD.
• Ensure all the test cases are updated in the Quality Center along with test plan.
• Involved in implementation of the Test plan, various Test cases and Test scripts.
• Involved in Weekly Defect Status Meetings along with QA team and Development team.
• During System Testing Life Cycle, performed different types of testing, such as GUI,
• Functional Testing, Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, Regression Testing, UAT Testing, Integration
• Testing and Positive Negative Testing.
• Involved in all stages of Software Development Lifecycle such as analysis, design,
• development, testing and documentation and preparing test matrix mapping to the requirements.
• Developed a standard for creating test scripts and ensured that all test scripts were created to test the functionality accurately.
• Creating the test data for testing and test data sets for the data verification and validation of the application by conducting positive, negative and boundary testing.
• Involved on testing the new functionalities based on test cases coordinated with development team in fixing the issues and involved in Integration Testing of modules for the application.
• Executed the test scripts and compared the actual and expected results.
• Use Soap UI for Web Services Testing.
• Used WAVE and WAT toolbar to performed 508 testing.
• Validate the XML file using XSD Schema.
• Conducted database testing using SQL queries in Squirrel SQL Client version 3.3.0.
• Use Linux/Unix for validation purpose.

Environment: Quality Center10.0, Jira, QTP10.0, DOORS, DB2, Squirrel SQL, MS Office, Outlook, Visio, COBOL Drivers, Clover ETL Tool, Informatica, Soap UI, TIBCO MFT , Tivoli Workload Scheduler TWS , BMC Remedy Action Request System

Confidential

Role : QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the user/business requirements, functional specs and Use Case documents from Quality Center.
• Preparing Test Plan / Test Cases for Integration and System Testing
• Created the Regression Test cases and automated them for the purpose of regression testing.
• Involved in performing Functional testing and Regression testing. Performed Integration testing of various modules to verify the interfaces and control flows between the modules.
• Efficiently communicated the testing issues with QA Team, Developers and Client members during the status and review sessions
• Used Quick Test Professional to create and maintain the Test cases and the Test scripts for both System Testing and Regression Testing.
• Check out for all necessary pop-up messages to make the application user friendly.
• Used the SQL's and verified the database for the purpose of data verification.
• Executing Test Cases and Bug Reporting using Quality Center.
• Regression testing, conducting manual Load / Stress testing checking its performance
• Carried out positive and negative testing
• Creation and maintenance of Test Reports Test Data
• Review and analysis of Client Requirements
• Manipulated necessary Recovery Manager steps

Environment: Windows XP, .Net, Oracle 10, SQL Server 2005, Toad, Quality Center 10, QTP, J2EE,Java.1.6.0

Confidential

Role : QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirement Documents, System specification, design documents to formulate Test Plans and Test Cases for manual Testing using Mercury Quality Center .
• Created various meaningful test cases which cover local and national plan coverage.
• Tested the accuracy of Sprint mobile service in order processing and billing by creating and running both positive and negative test cases.
• Took part in testing different types of order like Cancel of order, order submission, upgrade of services.
• Followed the Agile methodology.
• Involved in complete QA Life Cycles
• Extensively tested Graphical User Interface GUI Components.
• Documented the whole testing procedure including Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Results and Test Analysis using mercury Quality Center.
• Manually tested the applications functions before automation.
• Created Trouble Reports Modification Request for software defects using mercury Quality Center.
• Responsible for performing Regression testing by creating Manual and Automated QTP scripts.
• Exercised component checklist to verify each build and performed Smoke and Sanity testing.
• Performed Integration testing of various modules to verify the interfaces and control flows between the modules
• Responsible for performing User Interface testing, Integration testing and part of Acceptance testing using QTP.
• Wrote SQL queries using SQL Plus to perform backend/database testing.
• Ensured traceability between requirements and test cases.
• Maintained defective reports using Mercury Quality Center

Environment: Quick Test Professional QTP , Mercury Quality Center, Oracle9i, ASP.NET, UNIX, XML, HTML, SQL Server database

Confidential

Role : QA Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Team/Review Meetings with the business team to understand the application.
• Helped in preparation of test plan in accordance with the business requirements.
• Developed Test Plan, Test strategy, Requirement Traceability Matrix, Test Coverage, Test Cases, and Test Scripts in Mercury Quality Center for testing the applications.
• Performed front-end testing.
• Analyzed and documented defects using Quality Center.
• Developed Test Cases and Test Scripts using Business Requirements.
• Used SQL queries to perform the back-end testing on Oracle.
• Executed positive and negative scenarios.
• Conducted regression testing after every new build.
• Involved in all phases of testing which includes Smoke, System, Integration, Regression and UAT.
• Performed regression and installation testing to test the application functionality.
• Used CVS for the version control of source code and documents.

Environment: Java, J2EE, XML, Windows XP, UNIX, Oracle, JSP, JavaScript and Quality Center