Summary

• Around 6 years of experience as a Quality Assurance specialist in designing, testing and implementing customer oriented business and web applications.
• Around 2 years of experience in Automation Testing using Selenium and Loadrunner.
• Experience working in the Financial, Medical and Insurance Industry.
• Worked extensively on HP Quality Center for creating Test Cases, Test Plans and Defect Management.
• Made extensive use of automated testing tools such as Mercury Quality Center, Load Runner and Test Director for Client/Server and Web-based applications.
• Experience working in web services and SOA Testing.
• Experience in Unit Testing, Integration Testing, GUI Testing, Stress Testing, Performance Testing, Regression Testing and Functionality Testing.
• Expert in Negative, Positive and Black box testing.
• Strong understanding principles of Data Warehouse using Fact Tables, Dimension Tables and Star/Snowflake schema modeling.
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite Including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, Visio, MS Project .
• Experienced in analyzing project requirements and designing software applications.
• Performed UNIX shell scripting and FTP to check whether data import/export done correctly.
• Expertise in all types of Test Documentation and preparing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases both manual and automated and Test Script.
• Tracked and Reported Defects Using Jira and HP Quality Center/ALM.
• Executed Test Scripts using Load Runner for performance testing.
• Good knowledge in understanding the Software Development Life Cycle SDLC methodologies and Bug Life Cycle.
• Experience with administration of testing tools like HP Quality Center and HP Load Runner.
• Worked under different projects where Scrum Agile waterfall development/Testing methodology was used.
• Involved in Release support - Release to QA, involved in environment setup, testing the release process.
• Good interaction with developers, managers and team members to coordinate job tasks.
• Excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work under pressure on tight schedules.
• Efficient and versatile team player with a positive approach to all tasks.

Technical Skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

ETL/Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed test cases and helped in creating the test plans based on Requirements specifications and business requirements.
• Interacted with business analysts, users and developers to prioritize user functionality issues.
• Worked under the environment where Agile/scrum Test driven methodology was used and documenting the requirements as stories in the project management tool JIRA.
• Attending daily scrum standup meetings and participated in sprint planning meetings.
• Used Quality center to create, update and maintain test cases, test steps and test results to validate data in System test Environment and defect management.
• Worked with developers in resolving the defects and maintain test evidence to further support the test results.
• Tested the reports generated in Hyperion.
• Extensively validated data using Microsoft Excel Formulas and checked whether filters and sorting are applied to the data in the report
• Involved in testing the Claims processing reports, Facets and EDI transactions.
• Tested data entry into FACETS4.7 application in the test environment for creating groups, subscribers and Claims validation.
• Performed tests on xml files and checked for the xml tags and corresponding values like Header and Footer notes.
• Performed WebTesting on the application to maintain the cms/jcaho quality measures.
• Prepared and Execution of test scripts using Selenium.
• Recorded and play back test in firefox using Selenium IDE in the form of Selenese Script.
• Performed Web Application Testing and Regression Testing using automated test cases with Selenium IDE.
• Updating Framework functions when needed
• Extensively used Toad, MSAccess for the SQLqueries.
• Involved in Handover meetings and designing reviews for each release.
• Worked closely with project managers in resolving upstream data issues, cross functional internal teams, actively participated in managing change requests and help manage the progress of projects smoothly.

Environment: Oracle 9i/10g, HP Quality Center 10.0, Hyperion, SQL Server 2005, MS Access 2003, MS Excel, Jira6.1, ASP.NET, Java, UNIX, XML, Selenium IDE, Toad, SQL Developer.

Confidential

Backend Tester/QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Wrote Test Cases and Test Scripts in Mercury Quality Center 9.0 for Basel II Management Reporting.
• Involved in Manual and Automated Testing of the application.
• Performed Smoke, Integration, Performance, UAT for Reports validated.
• Tested the reports generated in Hyperion.
• Wrote SQL Queries in order to Validate Data from source to Staging.
• Executed Test Scripts in Quality Center.
• Verified Fact and Dimension tables.
• Extensively used SQL INNER JOIN, OUTER JOIN, MINUS, UNION, UNION ALL, and INTERSECT COMMANDS to validate data.
• Performed row by row validation and count validation between source and target table using PRIMARY KEY and FOREIGN KEY.
• Executed ETL jobs and verified logs in UNIX environment.
• Involved in identifying test conditions and test cases for UAT.
• Reviewed the Data mapping documents Excel sheets and the requirements to write UAT Test Cases/ Test plan that would test various scenarios.
• Used rational clear Quest to create and track the defects.
• Reviewed the test cases and compared them with requirements to make sure all the functionality is covered and will Sign-off.
• Improved performance of an application, which is used to make adjustments.
• Involved in Project Plan review, Design SRS Document and Code reviews, and acceptance testing of different modules.

Environment: Oracle 10G, Sybase 15.x, Informatica 8.1, Share Point, Hyperion Essbase 9.x/7.x/6.x., HP ALM.

Confidential

ETL Tester/Database Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test scripts from the use cases and business requirements for different modules of the web service application and mapped the test scripts with requirements for the requirement traceability matrix.
• Prioritized the test cases based on the projected metrics and project deadlines.
• Performed GUI interface testing on the client side.
• Extensively used Toad, SQL Developer for the SQL queries.
• Executed Test Cases and performed Manual Testing, Regression Testing and Integration Testing.
• Prepared the test cases and test procedures using Quality Center.
• Extensively used SQL scripts to confirm the data transfer from source to target.
• Worked with Image checkpoints, Text checkpoints in Load Runner while doing the functional test on the WebApplication.
• Used Quality center 9.2 suites for complete test case planning, test execution.
• Participated in the production smoke testing.
• Reported bugs and tracked defects using Quality Center and generated defect summary groups.
• Documented the defects found and changes made accordingly to remove the bugs.
• Retested the data once the changes are made and reported the bugs found if any.
• Responsible for providing regular test summary and status reports to the management.
• Liaison with the Global Infrastructure teams to ensure appropriate levels of SLA and OLA's are met.
• Involving in Handover meetings, Business Analysis and designing reviews for each release.

Environment: HP Quality Center9.2, SQL server, Java, Informatica 8.1, Jira 4.1, TOAD, UNIX, MS-Excel, C , MS Access 2003.

Confidential

Manual/QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed test cases and helped in creating the test plans based on technical specifications and business requirements.
• Interacted with business analysts, users and developers to prioritize user functionality issues.
• Performed web based testing, manual testing and data integrity by executing SQL statements.
• Interfaced with developers in resolving the defects investigated in the application during testing.
• Used Mercury Quality center suite for complete test case planning, test execution.
• Prepared test metrics and plan for various modules and co-ordinate with the team members.
• Manually tested the web services.
• Document and monitor defects using Test Director.
• Executed SQL statements to extract data from Database to verify the output of the reports.
• Also performed User acceptance testing on completion of integration testing before installation of the application on user environment.
• Document and monitor defects using Test Director.
• Participated in user training and Submitted status reports weekly.

Environment: Mercury Quality Center, QTP, SQL Server, MS Word, UNIX, XML, Java, MS Access 2003

Confidential

Jr. QA Tester

Employee Information Systems

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the business requirements and functional specifications.
• Designing test plans and test cases.
• Manually conducted Front-end and Back-end testing.
• Performed Back-end testing by extensively using SQL queries to verify the integrity of the database and analyzed the server performance on UNIX.
• Created test scripts and converted manual test cases to automate test scripts using WinRunner.
• Parameterized the Scripts and the values were taken from the Data Table of WinRunner.
• Regression testing was performed using WinRunner by creating verification points e.g., objects data, object properties, window and image verification, database verifications.
• Investigated software bugs and maintained reports, tracked defects and also interfaced with the programming team to resolve technical issues.
• System Integrity and Regression testing was performed using Win Runner.
• Participated in project review meetings.

Environment: WinRunner 6x, Load Runner, Test Director, UML1x, ORACLE 9i, Windows2000 and Windows NT, UNIX, Java.