PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS

• Skillful Software Quality Assurance Analyst with diverse Information technology experience in various domains as Healthcare, Mortgage ,Retail and Transportation with emphasis on GUI Automation Testing, Functional Testing, Manual Testing, Black Box Testing, Backend Testing and Web-based applications.
• Successfully participated in all phases of the Software Test Life Cycle STLC .
• Strong background in Software Development Life Cycle SDLC processes and test methodology.
• Comprehensive understanding of various software testing methodologies V-Model, Water-fall, Agile, RUP .
• Ability to collaborate with developers and product analysts regarding testing status and maintaining detail QA documentation.
• Solid analytical and dynamic troubleshooting skills.
• Proficient in preparing test plans, test inventories, test scripts, test scenarios, test designs, test coverage matrices and test cases for both manual and automated testing.
• Capacity to perform manual testing and automated testing.
• Thoroughly used Web and Client/Server application testing tools namely HP interactive tools Quick Test Professional,ALM/Quality Center and Test Director.
• Able to support UNIX and Windows environment.
• Broad experience in User Acceptance Testing, Functional, Module, Black Box, Integration, Regression, System, Parallel, Security, Disaster Recovery and Smoke Testing.
• Disciplined in automated and quick testing scenarios using HP tools QTP, WinRunner and LoadRunner.
• Proficient in SQL for testing database integrity.
• Hands on experience in implementing QA methodologies on the basis of Quality standards such as ISO and CMM levels.
• Solid aptitude in implementing industry standard testing methodologies and tools.
• Testing skills include performing Regression, Integration, volume and stress testing as well as development, execution, maintenance of test plans, test specifications and test scenarios.
• In depth expertise in reviewing and validating technical documents and user guides.
• Ability to work independently or as an active member of a team and meet deadlines consistently.
• Diligently plan, document, analyze and use quality assurance management techniques.
• Collaborative team player with resiliency in a time sensitive environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer relational skills.
• Noted for communication, presentation, organizational and leadership qualities.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Tools Utilities QTP, WinRunner, ALM/Quality Center, puTTY, WinSCP, TOAD, Bugzilla, LoadRunner,
• Languages XML, Visual Basic 6.0, HTML, VB Script, TSL Scripts, C, PERL, Java
• Web Related HTML, DHTML, Web Services
• Databases SQL Server2000, Oracle 10g, MySQL
• Operating Systems Windows, UNIX/LINUX
• Reporting Tools Quality Center, MS Excel
• Packages MS Office, MS Project

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Confidential

Automation Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Conducted weekly meetings, conferences and walk-troughs to understand the business and testing requirements and to plan the testing process on a regular basis.
• Coordinated with project team for test data, setting up test environment, backend interfaces and test data maintenance.
• Communicated test strategy and approach for testing the 4 modules Alerts, Programs, Reports and Tools to project team for each iteration.
• Analyzed BRD, FRD and wrote test plan and test scripts.
• Executed test plan and test scripts using ALM/ Quality Center to ensure that proper security measures were in place for access to the system.
• Provided users correct access levels for assigned role and users were able to successfully upload relevant data into the system.
• Verified that users were able to manage their portfolio within the system.
• Reviewed test assignments, developed test plan and test scripts and conducted tests.
• Documented the test plan and test cases using ALM/Quality Center, associated change requests with versions.
• Used Quality Center to keep track of requirements and test plans.
• Designed summary reports and traceability reports using Crystal Reports from MSSQL database of Quality Center.
• Executed different phase's scripts to perform the automation testing using QTP.
• Developed automation test scripts for functional and regression testing of the application using QTP.
• Created automation test cases and scripts and performed data driven testing using QTP.
• Created automation script using VB Script in QTP for Regression Scenarios.
• Wrote user-defined functions using QTP that were used as Global Functions.
• Performed Load, Stress, Performance and Volume testing using Load Runner.
• Tested client/server application using Load Runner for business rules and coordinated with 500 VUsers to test the application.
• Used ETL to extract, transform and load the data into data warehouse.
• Used OLAP to create cubes/reports for business analysis from data warehouse.

Environment/Tools: UNIX, PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management, Oracle, OLAP, Java, J2EE, XML, WebSphere, SAS, Solaris, Toad, Quality Center, QTP, Load Runner

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in requirement reviews and team meetings to understand requirements and provided key inputs for test strategy.
• Reviewed test cases and test plans of other team members.
• Presented open issues and discussed it with team leads, development lead and business analysts.
• Presented test cases to development team.
• Reviewed business requirement documents and technical specifications.
• Developed and executed test cases and test procedures.
• Developed and maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM .
• Performed Functional, Regression and UAT manually and automatically.
• Created test scenarios for Integration testing.
• Tracked and reported defects using Quality Center.
• Presented bug log and status of bugs to developers, project management and leads.
• Documented test results and prepared test reports.
• Developed automated test scripts for testing new functionality of application using QTP.
• Tested web pages manually and used automated tools as QTP for image positioning and display quality.
• Created and executed test cases based on business testing requirements and test plans using Quick Test Professional.
• Performed Data-Driven Testing and Parameterized Data and created compiled modules and worked towards Synchronizing Test Run.
• Performed automation testing using QTP and coordinated with development team for immediate hot fixes.
• Conducted Load testing, Stress Testing and Performance Testing using LoadRunner.
• Monitored various scenarios in Load Runner by using various Online Monitoring Graphs.
• Performed SQL querying to validate data in the back end database where condition was used to filter data, JOIN tables, in, between and calculation functions.

Environment/Tools: Quality Center, QTP, Load Runner, J2EE application, Windows2003, Apache, SQL, Oracle, JIRA

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with developers and stakeholders to resolve technical issues.
• Conferred with developers to discuss issues and to reproduce issue.
• Supported Agile process which involved in business requirement meetings to gather requirements and store them in Quality Center.
• Prepared test cases and prioritized them as per critical functionality that was affecting the project deliverable.
• Maintained and updated test plan, test cases and test environment through Software Testing Life Cycle STLC .
• Wrote test conditions as per the business requirements.
• Developed and executed test cases in Quality Center.
• Executed test cases and evaluated their Pass or Fail criteria.
• Integrated WinRunner with Test Director and documented test results.
• Tracked failed test cases and reported bugs in Test Director.
• Logged defects and communicated with team through JIRA.
• Prepared test data needed to execute scripts.
• Ran Regression scripts using QTP.
• Analyzed results in QTP.
• Performed System, Functional, Regression and Integration testing.
• Used Oracle SQL and PL/SQL queries to ensure integrity of database.
• Used UNIX to check logs and copy or move files from server to local system.
• Executed SQL queries for back end testing for verification of results retrieved with the expectations.

Environment/Tools: Quick Test Pro QTP , Quality Center, Win Runner, Test Director, Java, PL/SQL, Oracle, DB, UNIX shell scripting,