SUMMARY

• 10+ years of experience in the field of IT with focus on testing of Automated, Manual and client - server applications in Agile Methodology. Strong knowledge of all phases of SDLC and strong working knowledge of software testing (GUI testing, Regression Testing, Stress Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Database Testing, Black Box testing, Web Services Testing), IBM Rational Functional Tester, Selenium IDE, Groovy script writing, XML, HTML, DB, XPather, Debugger, IBM ClearCase and IBM Clearquest.
• Exposure to various domains (Drop Ship Management, retail, health, Insurance, travel, and, e-learning).
• Experienced in defining testing methodologies, designing test plans, test strategies and test cases. Verifying and validating web based e-commerce applications and documentation based on standards for software development and effective QA implementation in all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Have strong skills in implementing the testing process life cycle, test requirements, design test cases, test data, test plans and execute test cases.
• Have automation testing exposure using Selenium IDE and writing batch test case in groovy language. Experience on ETL.
• Good debugging skills and troubleshooting skills.
• Good knowledge on testing business rules hosted on iLog, and, TIBCO Foresight EDISIM.
• Good knowledge on various IDE like NetBeans and Rational Application Developer.
• Good exposure to EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) files.
• Extensive experience in coordinating testing effort, responsible for test deliverables, status reporting to management, issue escalations.
• Good experience in preparation of test bed, installation testing, replication of problem and generation of bug report.
• Hands on experience with, Rational Functional Tester, and, Rational Manual Tester.
• Developing and maintaining test scripts, analyzing bugs and interacting with development team members in fixing defect.
• Possess good knowledge of testing Web Services using SoapUI. Preparing web services testing suite using SoapUI.
• Have hands on experience on writing complex SQL queries including Inner, and, Outer Joins SQL statements.
• Possess good hands on experience with IBM Rational ClearCase and IBM Rational Clearquest, HP Quality Center 9.2, Bugzilla 2.0, Wiki, CMS (Interwoven Team Site 6.5.0 Service Pack 2, Microsoft product share point), Result Space, SQL tools-SQL Tool 1.4.
• Exposure to various Application Servers, IBM WebSphere Commerce, Apache Tomcat, JBoss Application Server.
• Expertise in MS-Office Suite (MS-Word, MS-Excel, and, MS-Access).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows NT/XP/2000/7/8, MAC OSx, iMac

Language: Groovy, XML, HTML, XPather, SQL, HTML, XML, EDI

Database: Oracle 11g

Software Testing: SDLC testing, ETL; Designing and developing test cases and test strategy

Application Server: IBM WebSphere Commerce, Apache Tomcat 7, JBoss Application Server, and, Glassfish Server.

Testing Tools: Selenium IDE, NetBeans, HP Quality Center 9.2, Bugzilla 2.0, Rational Manual Tester 7.0, SoapUI, Toad, CVS, FTP, Rational Functional Tester v7.0Education B.E. with First class distinction from KITS University, Orissa.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understanding client requirements and translating them into test cases.
• Preparing the Requirement Traceability Matrix which maps the requirement to the test cases.
• Preparing the test cases and the test plan document.
• Followed Agile Method during the testing
• Automation test scripting on Selenium web driver
• Providing the entry and exit criteria of different milestones.
• Logging and monitoring QA defects.
• Conducted formal and informal product design reviews.
• Created and executed automated software test plans, cases and scripts.
• Created test cases for testing the data in the database.
• Created test cases to test the web service using SoapUI test suite.
• Performing Unit, Integration, System, Acceptance, Regression, Functional and Performance testing.

Confidential, Albany, NY

Associate QA

Responsibilities:

• Handled all the project single handedly right from gathering requirement till UAT .
• Understanding client requirements and translating them into test cases.
• Participated in preparing test plan and test strategy document.
• Authoring and executing the test cases in Groovy.
• Preparing test cases for module, integration and system testing.
• Preparing test data using EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) files.
• Preparing test environment to execute the test cases.
• Reviewing the test cases prepared by other team members.
• Logging defect with appropriate severity and priority in Rational ClearQuest.
• Providing test case estimation to the test lead.
• Handling test cases and defect tracking for multiple clients.
• Coordinating with the developers and providing the appropriate information in order to fix the defect.
• Preparing test coverage reports.
• Preparing suggestion documents to improve the quality of the application.
• Communicating with Test Lead and Test Manager on a regular basis.
• Conducting review meetings within the team.

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding client requirements, Function Requirement Document, Scope Matrix, Visual Design and Wire frames and followed Agile method during entire testing
• Execution of Test Scenarios/Cases in order to verify the accurate functioning of the software Implementing Black Box Testing
• Hands on experience in IBM Web Sphere commerce tool (Accelerator, Administration Console, Org Admin Console, Web Studio)
• Identifying and categorizing bugs as per the priority and track in HP Quality Center 9.2
• End to end testing of Order placement.
• Tracking day to day activities assigned to owners, assigning owners to the activities identified and reviewing the defects raised by the team.
• Tracking defects and rectifying errors to their closure
• Coordinate testing related activities with Program Management Team, User Acceptance Testing Team and with client.
• Test cases executed on different browser as a part of browser compatible testing.
• Interfacing with client on a regular basis.
• Also involved in taking ramp up sessions for the new joiners.

Environment: IBM Rational Functional Tester, IBM Manual Tester, HP Quality Center 9.2, IBM WebSphere Commerce (Accelerator and Administration Console).

Confidential

Quality Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understanding client requirements, Function Requirement Document, Scope Matrix, Visual Design and Wire frames
• Execution of Test Scenarios/Cases in order to verify the accurate functioning of the software Implementing Black Box Testing
• Business Orchestration testing
• Followed Agile Method during the testing
• Identifying and categorizing bugs as per the priority
• Tracking day to day activities assigned to owners, assigning owners to the activities identified and reviewing the defects raised by the team.
• Tracking defects and rectifying errors to their closure
• Coordinate testing related activities with Program Management Team, User Acceptance Testing Team and with client.
• Test cases executed on different browser as a part of browser compatible testing.
• Interfacing with client on a regular basis.
• Also involved in taking ramp up sessions for the new joiners.

Environment: .Net, HP Quality Center 9.2

Confidential

Quality Associate

Responsibilities:

• Direct interaction with the client to understand the complete web application.
• Understanding Scope Matrix, VD, and Wire frames and based on those documents preparing, estimating and planning of tractability matrix, test strategy and execution of test scripts.
• Followed Agile Method during the testing
• Identifying and categorizing defect as per their priority.
• Involved in testing pertaining to CMS (SharePoint) workflow.
• Tracking day to day activities assigned to owners, assigning owners to the activities identified and reviewing the defects raised by the team.
• Coordinate testing related activities with Program Management Team, User Acceptance Testing Team and with client.
• Test cases executed on different browser as a part of browser compatible testing.
• Transition to new joiners.

Environment: .Net, Microsoft SharePoint, Sapient ResultSpace, AAA Compliance

Confidential

Quality Associate

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Function Requirement Document, Scope Matrix, Visual Design, Wire frames and based on mentioned documents preparing, estimation and planning of test strategy and test scripts.
• Identifying and categorizing bugs as per the priority.
• Related to CMS (Team Site) testing creating DCRs (Data capturing records), Passing through workflow, and making it live to reflect on website and Ramp up to peers.
• Tracking day to day activities assigned to owners, assigning owners to the activities identified and reviewing the defects raised by the team.
• Coordinate testing related activities with Program Management Team, User Acceptance Testing Team and with client.
• Test cases executed on different browser as a part of browser compatible testing.
• Transition to new joiners.
• Conducting various QA workshops.

Environment: J2EE, Java, Badboy 2.0, Bugzilla, PMWiki, Content Management System (Interwoven Team Site 6.5.0 Service Pack 2), Toad 9.0, Spaient ResultSpace, Rational Manual Tester.

Confidential

Software Tester

Kingsway Tyres

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing SRS document.
• Prepared test Cases for the above all modules and created GUI Map file and maintained it for future versions.
• Security Testing for Login was done using Data Driven Wizard.
• Used SQL Queries to verify the data from the Oracle database.
• GUI functionalities were tested according to the guidelines of the test cases using Win Runner.
• Created TSL test scripts for various testing stages like Functional testing, Integration testing and Regression testing.
• Validation of EDI files generated by EasyLink.
• Developed User defined functions in TSL and added to Function Generator
• Created various data tables, Parameterized the test scripts for data driven testing.
• Worked extensively with Process-Based test management system tool Test Director to manage and execute the test scripts.

Environment: VB, Oracle 8i, PowerBuilder, Mercury TestDirector, IBM DB2, Bugzilla.

Confidential, VA

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the scope, and, requirement specification document.
• Created Test plan, and, authoring the test cases using Rational Manual Tester.
• Involved in testing the Online Portal for Cross Browser Testing.
• Executing the Test Cases using the Rational Manual Tester.
• Defect reporting and preparing using Bugzilla.
• Developed and implementedBack-End testingprocess by developing Test plans and test scripts for Oracle based databases.
• Coordinating with the developer to help the re-produce the defect, and, helping them understanding the rationale behind the severity and priority of the defect.
• Performed Integration, system, regression, performance, and, User Acceptance Testing.

Environment: J2EE, Java, Bugzilla, Toad, Rational Manual Tester, Oracle BEA Weblogic, XML, XSL, and, Adobe Flash.