Summary

• 6 years of experience as Software QA Analyst.
• Accomplished QA Analyst with strong technical background and experience in all phases of Software development life cycle SDLC and in Agile Methodology.
• Experience in writing Test plans, defining Test cases, developing and maintaining test cases.
• Experience in Black box testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Smoke testing and other types of testing.
• Experience in testing tools Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case and PVCS.
• Extensive experience in testing client-server applications and J2EE applications.
• Expertise in writing SQL queries to perform data driven tests and execute backend test cases.
• Participation in Review Calls Walkthrough with business product and engineering team to gather requirements.
• Experience in reporting and tracking bugs using tools like Rational Clear Quest, PVCS Tracker.
• Experience using databases like Oracle, MS SQL Server and database query tools like TOAD, Rapid SQL, and SQL Developer.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with particular emphasis on creation of clear and detailed Test Plans, Test Cases and Status Reports.

Technical Skills

Professional Experience

Pharmacia is a top-tier global pharmaceutical company whose innovative medicines and other products save lives and enhance health and wellness. It has Clinical Trials Research center IT divisions in Kalamazoo, MI. This project is to validate the Clinical applications of Pharmacia.

• Responsible for writing test plans and test cases for the release.
• Used Test Director to create and maintain the Test scripts for the agile releases during release iteration.
• Extensively used SQL queries to perform back end testing to check the Data Integrity on an Oracle Backend.
• Participated in daily scrum meetings and organized walkthroughs of test plans test cases.
• Used Rational Clear Quest to report bugs on the releases along with Rally to co-ordinate tasks in the project.

Environment: Windows, UNIX, Apache Tomcat 6.0, Oracle 11g R2, Java, HTML, CSS, XML, Hibernate, HP Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, SQL.

The application was designed and developed to create monthly, quarterly and yearly financial and accounting statements, payrolls inventory. Front end of the application was developed in Visual Basic and the backend was developed in Oracle.

• Participated in daily scrum meetings and was part of the agile team executing releases in Sprints.
• Developed test scenarios and test procedures based on the test requirements.
• Participated in preparation of Test Plans.
• Data driven testing to process the payroll for different employees with same data.
• Developed test cases and scripts for functionality testing using QTP.
• Performed integration testing, regression testing and system testing.
• Performed database testing.
• Documented bugs and verified their resolutions.
• Participated in user training and submitted status reports weekly.

Environment: UNIX, Web sphere Application Server, Oracle 10g, Java, HP Quality Center, Rational Clear Case, BugZilla, and SQL.

is an online store that provides pharmacy needs to customers. The website sells both over the counter and prescription medication. It also has an eye care section through which it sells glasses, contact lens and other eye care needs. The eye care system is hosted on a different system and drugstore.com is consolidating both the systems into one through LensCraft project.

• Involved in testing drugstore.com website's backend by writing SQL queries using Rapid SQL.
• Responsibilities included writing test plans and test cases for the release.
• Identify the repeatable steps and processes for regression and build automation test scripts using QTP for functional testing.
• Wrote independent test cases-oriented and automated scripts for Regression Testing using QTP.
• Executed test scripts to test the Lens Craft functionality that was part of the release.

Environment: Windows Server 2008, Apache Tomcat, Oracle 10g, Java, HP Quality Center, Rational Clear Case, PVCS tracker, SQL.

mobility is a leading wireless solution provider in US. Enterprise billing applications consolidate bills for enterprise customers of AT T to provide one single bill packaged in helpful reports on a user friendly CD ROM disk called WIN. The applications provided various functionalities that helped Cingular provide state-of-the-art customer service to their enterprise customers.

• Responsibilities included not only writing test plans and test cases for the release but to do so within the aggressive timelines.
• Written and implemented test plans and coordinated the test case execution for both regular and maintenance releases.
• Involved in project planning, coordination and implementation of all the activities pertaining to the release.
• Used Test Director to create and maintain the Test scripts for the normal and Sustainment releases.
• Extensively used SQL queries to perform back end testing to check the Data Integrity with the help of Rapid SQL.
• Used Rational Clear Quest for bug tracking and reporting.
• Participated in daily meetings with the management team and organized walkthroughs of test plans.
• Responsible for generating reports using internal Cingular tools to report the daily status and Test Summary.
• Loading files into the BEST system using UNIX scripts and debugging problems that arise during execution of processes within BEST.

Environment: Linux/Unix, Windows XP, Apache Tomcat, Oracle 10g, Java, HP Quality Center, Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest, SQL.