Professional Summary

Overall 5 years of IT Industry experience in Quality Assurance Testing and Web Analysis. Specialized in analyzing functional specifications and involved in execution of test scenarios, analyzing the actual results versus the expected results, creation of test data and execution using Quality Center. Experience and knowledge in working with business requirements, business rules, functional specification documents and other relevant documentation for UAT/QA planning, design, and execution. Experienced and knowledge of Software Development Life Cycles and Software Testing Life Cycle in various environments. Experience in White Box, Web testing, Java, Dot Net applications, Client-server, SQL and Oracle database and related projects.

Professional Expertise

• 5 years of experience in software industry with emphasis on Quality Assurance of both Client-Server and Web based Applications in Manual Testing and Automated testing.
• Strong understanding of Test Methodologies and Testing Types in Project Life Cycles.
• Experience in analysis of Testing Artifacts like Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) and System Design Specification (SDS) .Proficient in System Integration, Functional, Negative, Regression and User Acceptance Testing, Data warehouse Testing.
• Worked in an agile software development environment.
• Developed the Test plan and implemented the test plan.
• Defined, Developed test cases in MS Excel for multiple projects and uploaded the final test cases to Quality center.
• Executed the test cases in Quality Center and Generated Test execution/Summary Reports, Defects Report and tracked defects using Quality Center.
• Involved in designing and maintaining Requirements Tractability Matrix.
• Experience in Quick Test Professional (QTP), Quality Center, Winrunner, LoadRunner, Test Director.
• Strong aptitude in implementing Quality Assurance Standards and Testing Methodologies for Large Enterprise GUI and Web Application using Use Case Documents, Functional Specifications and Business Requirements.
• Co-ordin ated worked and supported to the performance team using the Load Runner.
• Experience in Micro Strategy to develop the Reports.
• In depth knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle, Waterfall, Iterative, Agile and V-Model test methodologies.
• Robustly experienced in developing and testing Web Application with XML, Oracle, SQL and Web Logic.
• Good working knowledge of Databases like Oracle, MS SQL Server with PL/SQL and TSQL, Teradata.
• Organized, attention to detail, self-motivated, personable and able to meet project milestones and deliverable dates.
• Self-starter with strong work ethics and skills in time management, client relationship and ability to adapt and learn new things quickly.
• Ability to multi-task, motivating others, work efficiently and demonstrate excellent customer service skills.
• Strong team player with excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills.
• Enjoy working collaboratively with testers, developers and other team members in testing complex projects and in the overall enhancement of software product quality.

Environment details

Test Planning, Test effort estimation, Test Strategy, Test Lab Setup
Test processes definition, implementation and improvement, Test process assessment and Test Documentation Review.

Testing Types:

Functional Testing, Non-Functional, Compatibility, Configuration , System Testing, User Interface & Usability Testing, Installation Testing, Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing,Data Warehouse Testing

Languages:

C, Cobol, C++, Java, VB, .Net, SQL, PL/SQL

Tools:

HP Quality Center, QTP, WinRunner, LoadRunner,Micro Strategy

Configuration Management:

Visual Source Safe, Team Foundation Server, SharePoint

Web Languages:

HTML, XML, ASP.Net, VB Scripting

Database:

Oracle9i, SQL Server 2005/2008, MS Access and MySQL,Teradata

Web and Application Servers:

Apache Tomcat, JBoss, Web Logic

Operating System:

Windows NT/XP/Vista/7, UNIX, Linux

Network:

TELNET, FTP, HTTP, TCP/IP

Others

MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

Professional Experience

Confidential,
NJ Jan 2009 - Present
QA Analyst
Project Overview:
Involved in testing the Enterprise Edition of LPI Online. LPI Online is a web-based interactive tool for administering the Leadership Practices Inventory. Developed by bestselling authors James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, this premier leadership assessment instrument approaches leadership as a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors. LPI has three products, LPI Online, Self, and Student; eLPI is a common enterprise assessment solution for all LPI Online products. eLPI was developed to make LPI online easier to use for LPI’s customer base by implementing the most common requests that have been made by previous customers and market he product more user-friendly. The website is developed on J2EE, Java Platform.
Responsibilities:

• Analyzed BRD’s, system specifications, design documents to formulate Test Plans and Test Cases for manual testing.
• Participated in the Application Document Review meetings to understand the functionality of the application.
• Closely interacted with designers and software developers to understand application internal features, error messages and log file analysis.
• Performed Functional and Integration Testing Manually.
• Designed and executed manual and automated test cases through QC by integrating QTP
• Tested all the new and updated webpages checking for layout discrepancies, navigational flow and script errors.
• Wrote SQL Queries to retrieve Data from Database.
• Actively Participated in QA meetings to provide status of test plan execution, defect summary based on severity and priority.
• Used Mercury Quality Center for managing the overall testing effort to define and store information about test documents, requirements, scripts, schedules and sessions.
• Tracked all bugs and severities with log snippets in Quality Center.

Confidential,
Dec 2007 - NOV2008
Senior QA Analyst

Project Description:
Wells Fargo is a diversified financial services company that provides a broad range of banking. The web application was developed for allowing account holders to perform on-line transactions like accessing Personal Accounts, Transfer of Funds (between accounts), Pay Bills, Checking Balances, detailed transaction reports and business solutions like International Trade, Foreign Exchange and International Corporate Banking. The application updates the account details of the account holder daily and automatically prints monthly statement.

Responsibilities:

• Developed the Test plan and implement the test plan.
• Able to understand Business Requirement Document, System Requirement Specifications and Use Cases.
• Worked in an agile software development environment.
• Defined, Developed and executed test cases using Test planning and Test Management tool Quality Center.
• Responsible for Prioritizing and Sizing the Test cases developed for the application.
• Performed Negative, Positive and Black Box testing.
• Developed System Testing, Functional and Regression Testing.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing of the Application.
• Performed compatibility testing in different OS and browsers.
• Preparation of Test environment.
• Document the Test results for the existing and new software products.
• Developed and executed SQL queries to perform backend testing of the database.
• Worked with the off shore team.
• Designing and writing, executing the manual test cases to validate new functionality.
• Performed Manual Testing.
• Maintained Requirements Traceability matrix.
• Submitted Test Summary Report, Status and Progress reports to Test Lead, Manager.
• Effectively interacted with product and development teams to point out Bugs and Retest fixed Bugs.
• Presented the Defects in review meeting & assigned priority.
• Worked with the Performance Engineer using the Load Runner.
• Assisted in the preparation of Test Estimates and Project Schedules.

Environment: Quality Center 9.2/9.1,QTP,Oracle10g, SQL Server 2005, HTML, Java, Linux, SQL, Windows Server 2003, MS Office Tools

Confidential,
MO May 2007 - Oct2007
QA Analyst

Project Description:
Charter Communications is one of the largest service providers of internet, cable television and phone services in United States offering an unparalleled range of products and services. Worked as QA Analyst on different front end billing applications and extensively worked in Biller environments. The main functionality of the project is to test the end-to-end process of the wireless air card along with all other services provided by Charter Communications.

Responsibilities:

• Developed a road map by understanding the business logic and User Requirements for Test execution.
• Able to understand Design Artifacts like Database Diagrams, Architecture Model Diagrams and Work Flow Diagrams.
• Developed Test Plan and Test Cases by using Quality Center.
• Developed and executed the manual test cases for User Acceptance Testing and System testing.
• Performed User acceptance, Functional, System and Regression testing.
• Done Verification and Validation Testing.
• Extensively developed DB Queries, PL/SQL procedures to retrieve the required data from database and validate the business requirement.
• Configured the Runtime settings as per the test scenario requirements
• Used Quality Center for defect logging and test management.
• Responsible for Test Reports and Test Execution Summary to the management.
• Attend the Test case review meetings and requirements walkthroughs.
• Initiate QA Requests, determine test Requirements, create Test Plans, perform Testing and close out.
• Define and mange QA Team deliverables like Test Plans, Test Strategies, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Reports and Defect Metrics.
• Coordinating and communicating the status of the testing efforts to Project team while ensuring QA best practices were followed.
• Evaluate and prioritize defect corrections, bug tracking and retest issues.
• Effectively interacted with development teams and communicated the issues to them.
• Maintained the Requirement Traceability matrix.
• Tracked and report the defects and retest the application after resolving the issues.
• Assisted in the preparation of test estimates and project schedules.
• Submitted the Test Summary report and Defect reports to the Manager.

Environment: Quality Center 9.1, MS SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2003, MS office tools, ASP.Net, XML, HTML