PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Over 12 years of experience in Software development, White Box and Black Box testing as a QA Analyst. Done Manual, automation testing in Web-based, GUI and Client-Server Applications.
• Software Testing Life Cycle STLC experiences include Test Planning, Test Analysis, Test Design, Construction and Verification, Testing Cycles, Final Testing, Implementation and Post Implementation.
• Test Design: Extensive experience in drafting Test Flows, Test Plans, Test Strategies, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, Test Specifications, Test Summaries, Test Procedures, Test Cases and Test Status Reports.
• Test Methodologies: Strong knowledge of test methodologies: Object Oriented test methodology, Service Oriented Architecture, Top to bottom and Bottom to top test methodology, QA Validations QA Compliances to ensure the Quality Assurance Control.
• Testing Types: Experience in User Acceptance Testing UAT , Performance Testing, GUI Testing, Functional Testing, System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, End-to-End, Data Driven, Keyword driven Testing and White Box testing
• Test Management tools: Used Test Director, Quality Center and Business Process Testing for management of test plan, test design, test execution and defect log phase. Rational Quality Manager for management of STLC including requirements gathering, risk analysis, project planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking, management, and reporting, SOA
• Industry Standards: Experience with current industry standards such as Six Sigma, Capability Maturity Model Integration CMMI and HIPAA. Strong Knowledge of GMP environment, FDA Rules Regulations and 21 CFR Part 11.
• Database Testing: Proficient in writing SQL queries to perform data driven tests and involved in front-end and back-end testing. Strong knowledge of RDBMS concepts. Developed SQL queries in SQL Server Oracle databases to conduct DB testing. Worked on Data files label parameter of data file, strong in writing UNIX Korn shell scripting.
• Experience in Securities, Trading and Brokerage, Banking, Primary and secondary Mortgage Processes.
• Knowledge of Multi Charts for charting of Trading systems
• Participated in Prototyping, Testing, Implementing, Up-gradation and maintaining various Applications for the Clinical, HealthCare, Insurance, Education and Financial Sectors.
• Excellent analytical, multi-tasking, problem-solving, time-management communication skills with particular emphasis on clearly communicating documenting detailed Test Requirements, Specifications Tests

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Test Management: MS Project Test Scheduling, Test Director/ Quality Center, Rational Quality Manager, Silk Central Test Manager
• Testing Methodologies: Object Oriented, Keyword Driven and Data Driven testing, Top to Bottom and Bottom to Top test methodology, Requirement based, Risk based, Priority based test methodology Mercury Interactive/ HP: QuickTestPro9.5/9.2/8.0, Business Process Testing, Win Runner 8.0/7.5, LoadRunner9.2/9.0/8.0, Test Director/ Quality Center 9.0/8.2/7.5, HP Service Test
• Reporting Tools: COGNOS BI tools 8.0/7.0, SQR for Windows 95, Oracle Reports 2.5, SQL Reports, Crystal Report Writer
• IBM Rational Suite: RationalRobot2003/7.0.2/6.0.0, Rational Functional Tester 8.0/7.0, Rational Performance Tester 8.0/7.0, Rational Clear Quest 7.1/7.0.1, Rational Clear Case7.1/7.0.1/7.0.0 Silk Suite: SilkTest2006/8.5/8.0/7.6/7.5 Bug Reporting: Rational Clear Quest, Test Director, Silk Central Test Manager, PVCS tracker, MS Access, Serena Change Man Dimensions 9.1.3 Version Control: PVCS Tracker, Rational Clear Case7.1/7.0.1/7.0.0, Visual Source Safe 2005, Control Version System CVS Scripting languages: TSL, SQA basic, 4 Test Language, Java script, VB Script, HTML, XML Programming Languages: C, C , Java, Visual Basic 5.0, AS/400 CL, COBOL, .Net Operating Systems: Windows XP/NT/2000, DOS, Mac 10.4, AIX UNIX, LINUX Databases: Oracle 10g/9i/8i/7.3, MS SQL Server 6.5/7.0/7.5/2000, IBM DB2, Sybase12.0/11.0, MS Access Web development: HTML, XML, Adobe Flash, Silver light, VBScript, Java Script
• MS Suite: MS Office 2000/2003/2007 Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook , MS Visio, MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr.QA Engineer- Lead Tester

• Educational Testing Service is the world's largest private educational measurement
• Organization and a leader in educational research has been implementing the Project MS/HSTW and CAHSEE to load Scanned and edited student response data into the Management System for their business requirements.

My contributions/responsibilities:

• Attended the reviews of products from the application delivery life cycle to ensure that they meet established specifications, standards and worked with business, functional requirements, application design specifications and other project components and developed test scenarios to meet the standards.
• Coordinating in the preparation of Test plan for the application after careful analysis of requirements and specifications.
• Worked with Business Analysts and presented the Test Strategy to the entire team in order to obtain the necessary approvals.
• Prepared Test summaries, weekly status of progress and end of Test reports and test confidence level reports.
• Developed and Executed Test Cases for Legacy systems data conversion and conducted Parallel tests on loaded data between Legacy and new systems, analyzed output and reported the errors.
• Test Scenarios and Test Cases were developed in word document as per the template for test plan for different projects
• Performed system testing, system integration testing, user acceptance testing and data driven testing for different cycles.
• Worked with LoadRunner VUGen including parameterization of scripts, performing manual co-relations and adjustments, use of transactions in the script, use of think time settings, testing and debugging of scripts.
• Worked on Configuration and use of LoadRunner Controller, LoadRunner Analyzer and LoadRunner Monitor including creating load scenario profiles, coordinating and customizing multiple load generating agents, creating scheduled batch scripts executions, rectifying steps when scripts yield errors during execution.
• Validated test run log files generated from Controller and created custom drill-down reports.
• Generated various summary Log and Error Log files analyzed and reported the errors
• Reported defects using bug- tracking tool, worked closely with analysts, developers, Functional leads and Users to resolve the problems, and change the status of the defect accordingly on fixing the same.
• Validated different file layout formats which contains OMR records and loaded into Student Admin Database.
• Used Sybase Power Designer for interpreting table properties, keys and identifiers.
• Executed manual and automated test cases during System Test and Regression Test cycles.
• Created and executed various Test Scripts for Identity Management OIM interfaces for provisioning and de-provisioning of enterprise resources.
• Performed backend testing by creating and executing SQL scripts on Oracle database.
• Create, debug and run the test scripts/procedures in QTP
• Validated applications through a full complement of checkpoints using QTP
• Identified objects with unique smart object recognition for every build using QTP.
• Used QC for Test plan creation and Test execution

Environment: Oracle 10.2.04, PowerDesigner 12.1.0, Synchronizer XL 8.0, TOAD8.6.1.0, PVCS Version Manager 6.8.1.0 / Subversion 1.5, Serena ChangeMan Dimensions 9.1.3/ SilkCentral Test Manager 2008, Ultra Edit-32, Microsoft Project 2003,Microsoft Word 2003/2007 , Microsoft Excel 2003/2007 , MS outlook 2003/2007, Visio, Windows 2000/XP Professional, Cognos 8.3- BI/ Analysis studio, Report studio, Query Studio, OIM 9.1, Unix, QTP9.2, Load Runner 8.1/ 9.2, Quality Center 8.2/9.0/9.5 , SharePoint 2007, Java 1.5, J2EE, Web Sphere 6.1, AS/400, Unix, TCP/IP, FTP , Manual Testing

Confidential

Sr. QA Analyst Point-of-Sale systems

Teleflora, the world's largest floral wire service that sends flowers and gifts all over

the world, for all Occasions. The test strategy consists of a series of test cycles for Dove network that uses Point of-Sale systems and fully exercise all transactions that are processed at Teleflora as they enter the Comms Server tier, move through the Front-End Server tier and flow into the back-end Unisys mainframe.

Responsibilities:

• Created various Test Plans for different modules in the application by analyzing business requirements, UI and technical specifications.
• Reviewed Test Cases Scenarios with Business System Analysts to make sure all the requirements are covered.
• Created reliable and maintainable Test Cases that would work on different machines and platforms
• Created and executed various Test Cases which were done Manually
• Updated existing Test Cases as per application functionality
• Constructively interacted with test team members and developers to produce quality applications.
• Prioritize the core tests and execute them for shorter test cycle duration

Environment: Eagle3.0, Lawson 7.3.3.0, VB6.0, PC Link32 Unisys T-27 Emulation , Java1.2, .Net, UNIX AiX , Oracle8i, MS-Access and Windows XP Professional, Windows NT 4.0, PR Tracker system, manual testing

Confidential

Sr.QA Analyst.

Celera's mission is to discover and develop meaningful new therapies that improve human health. Comparative genetics tools, proteomics, genotyping and gene expression platforms integrated through bioinformatics.

Responsibilities:

• Created various Test Plans for different modules in the application by analyzing business requirements, UI and technical specifications.
• Attended the reviews of products from the application delivery life cycle to ensure that they meet established specifications, standards and worked with business, functional requirements, application design specifications and other project components and developed test scenarios to meet the standards
• Coordinating in the preparation of Use Cases for the application.
• Created reliable and maintainable scripts data driven that would work on different machines and platforms
• Performed the regression suite testing extensively whenever required.
• Good experience in modularizing the Scripts.
• Constructively interacted with test team members and developers to produce quality applications.
• Performed DTK- testing using XML APIs
• Created and executed Test scripts for URL Gateway testing
• Modified the automated scripts from time to time to accommodate the changes

Environment: Silk Test 6.0.2, Java1.2, J2EE, UNIX AiX , Oracle8i, VB6.0, XML, JDBC, MS-Access and Windows XP Professional, PVCS Tracker I-NET.

Confidential

Sr.QA Analyst

Covance's purpose is to lead advancements in drug development through science, service, and shaping solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating in the preparation of test plan for the application after careful analysis of requirements and specifications.
• Coordinating in the preparation of test strategy for the application.
• Prepared data uploading spread sheets and data is uploaded with visual basic macros.
• Performed the regression testing extensively whenever required.
• Involved in conducting Black box testing of the application.
• Prepared test cases for different modules.
• Coordinating with developers in white box as well as in black box testing.
• Constructively interacted with test team members and developers to produce quality applications.
• Defect Tracking, Defect reporting and Summary Report Analysis using bug tracking tool

Environment: Rational Test Manager 2001A.04.00, Rational Robot 2003, Java1.2, UNIX, Oracle8i, VB6.0, MS-Access and Windows NT

Confidential

Sr. QA Tester Trading

Prudential Financial offers a variety of products including mutual funds, annuities, asset management, securities brokerage and Trading, banking and trust services and real estate brokerage franchises. The Financial Information eXchange FIX protocol is a messaging standard developed specifically for the real-time electronic exchange of securities transactions to improve the global trading process by defining, managing, and promoting an open protocol for real-time, electronic communication between industry participants. The project involved a Java application server that connects Prudential Services to third-party brokers for the purpose of communicating Financial Information Exchange messages. It provides full FIX functionality for the trading applications of Fixed Income, Equities and derivatives, including Orders, Executions and indications

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the team to develop and implement FIX System utilizing EJBs, Servlets, JSPs
• Maintained numerous On-line edit, browse, log and template screens for Financial Information Exchange System.
• Used FIXML to parse FIX messages and used XML and HTML to display data online.
• Developed and tested Real-time electronic exchange of securities transactions to other trading systems using FIX protocol.
• Verification of test results viewing the log files using VI editor, querying the database using the SQL documenting the defects in bug tracking tool.
• Participated in Testing Methodologies like Planning, Execution, Bug Tracking and Analyzing.
• Design and Executed Test Plans and Test Cases to verify reliability, accuracy and compatibility of application.
• Integration testing, Functionality testing and Performance testing is done manually as per FIX System norms and standards.
• Expertise in error handling system with robust system wide exception handling.
• Reviewed and analyzed new user requirements, program design, coding, and unit testing Participated in production implementation of the modified modules.
• Extensively used Complex SQL queries and UNIX commands to first verify the data at file level and then at database level.
• Created test plans for integrated system test. Assisted the Quality Assurance team in creating the test environment.

Environment: Java 1.2, XML, FIXML, Web Sphere 3.5, Oracle 8i, SQL Server, UNIX, Windows 2000, PERL, C , AIX and PVCS, Win Runner 7.0, Test Director 7.0, LoadRunner7.02 and Manual Testing.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Selectrica is a B2B e-commerce website. This is specially constructed to facilitate the Electric Utility Industry in their procurement process. Using this website any registered user can buy or sell products.

Responsibilities:

• Created various Test Plans for different modules in the application by analyzing business requirements, UI and technical specifications.
• Created Test Suites for different Levels of testing like Smoke test suite, Alpha Acceptance test suite and Beta Acceptance test suite.
• Implemented Automation Framework for different feature areas of the application to run the automation scripts on different browsers and platforms.
• Extensively worked on handling the application response for Positive and Negative set of data using Data Driven Testing.
• Writing SQL queries to test database content.
• Created Load Test Plan and performed load and performance testing using LoadRunner7.02.
• Performed Failover Testing to check the behavior of different third party modules integrated with adobe Store.

Environment: Oracle 8i, Win 2000, Win XP, Sun Solaris2.7, Java 1.2, Servlets, Winrunner7.0, Loadrunner7.02, Vantive Bug tracking tool, Perforce as version control device.

Confidential

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in testing of purchase order processing system. The system handles product details entering Vendor information, transactions and reorder details.
• Generated and executed the automated scripts using SILKPILOT1.2 and updated the Scripts for SILKPILOT2.1.1.
• Updated the scripts from WinRunner5.0 to WinRunner6.0 and executed some more scripts due to some enhancements and modification of the application.

Environment: SilkPilot1.2, 2.1.1, Silk5.0, Java1.2, WinRunner 6.0, Oracle7.3, Visual Basic 6.0, UNIX and Windows NT

Confidential

QA Analyst

Confidential

• The application ePMC was designed to capture, validate and secure pharmaceutical laboratory data while complying with federal regulations. It Consists of Five modules, Security Manager, Instrument Manager, and Report Manager, Procedure Manager and Procedure Execution.
• Created and executed various Test Procedures, test plan and Test Cases
• Created documentation in compliance with the required 21 CFR Part 11 compliance regulatory rules
• Performed different types of testing, Functional, Integration, System, Data Integrity, User Interface and Regression Testing.
• Generated detailed reports of the bugs, the pass-fail reports and the Test results.

Environment: Silk 5.0, Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Oracle 7.x, Visual Basic, and Windows 98

Confidential

QA Test Engineer

• This is Insurance project. Here I involved in testing of various applications like Field Loan, Policy Change, Loan History, Forms Letters, and Field Dividend.
• Involved in writing Test plans and test scripts using functional requirements.
• Performed Business function and User Interface tests.

Environment: Silk5.0, Visual Basic 5.0, PL/1 IBM ES9000 , Novell NetWare

Confidential

Claim Processing, QA Test Engineer

• The application involves registration, modification, policy analysis and claims processing for workers compensation.
• Performed Business Function and User interface tests.
• Defect tracking and Summary Report analysis were done using SQA Manager.
• Verified and analyzed the test results in SQA Test log Viewer by using comparators.

Environment: SQA Suite 6.0, Oracle7.3, Visual Basic 5.0, Unix and Windows NT

Confidential

QA Tester/ Programmer

Involved in testing an application that was developed in Visual Basic

Environment: VB 5.0, SQL Server and Windows NT, Oracle 7.1, forms 4.5, Reports 2.5.