PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• QA Consultant with 8 years of experience in Testing of software applications, with major emphasis on Software Quality Assurance Life Cycle, Validation Verification and Load Testing in Windows and SQL Environments.
• Extensive experience in reviewing Business Requirement Documents, Software Requirement Documents.
• Skilled at driving development teams based on the test-driven strategies and successfully executing the same throughout the SDLC.
• Have Good experience in the creation and maintenance of Master Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Experience in analyzing Functional Requirement Specifications FRS and System Design Specifications SDS .
• Proficient in understanding the objectives behind Black-box testing and expending the efforts accordingly for optimal results.
• Test expert at various levels/stages - Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing.
• Expertise in developing automation test framework and creating function libraries.
• Experience in sanity, backend, front-end, functional, integration, regression, smoke, cross browser, cross platform, QTP/UFT, performance and stress testing
• Experience in enhancing manual test cases according to the Functional and Business requirements
• Excellent skills in Bug Tracking and Reporting using Quality center
• Experience using query tools like SQL for Oracle
• Experience in Performance Tuning of SQL and Stored Procedures
• Extensive experience in Functional testing, Regression testing and User Acceptance testing
• Well versed in Application testing, Database testing and Front-end testing
• Experience in Financial, Banking and Securities industries
• Proficient experience in different Databases like Oracle, SQL Server
• Strong Problem Analysis Resolution skills and ability to work in Multi-Platform Environments like Windows and UNIX
• Has expertise in Test Case Design, Test Tool Usage, Test Execution, and Defect Management
• Analytical ability combined with extensive experience in conception and execution
• Team Player with excellent interpersonal communication skills technical documentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Operating systems : Windows 2000/NT/XP, and UNIX
• Languages : C, C , C , JAVA, HTML, VB, PL/SQL
• DBMS : Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2008, DB2, MS Access
• Test Management Tools : Test Director, QTP 9.2/9.5/10.0/11.0, Quality center 9.0/10.0, and HP ALM
• Web Technologies : XML, HTML, Java Script, Vb script
• Others : UNIX Shell Scripting, Perl, TOAD, MS Office, MS Access

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Client: Confidential

Role: Quality Assurance Analyst

The Project is functioning under the Confidential category of the software whichhandles the database of all the students and staff. It uses object oriented programming technology to develop the system. The school management process can easily find out the student record, fee, profile, time table, examination result and also the staff profile.

Responsibilities

• Participated in project meetings and used leadership, analytical and problem solving skills to contribute to the quality of the product
• Execute Browser Compatibility Testing Chrome, Safari of a Web based application
• Interpret application architectures and identify areas for automation.
• Actively involved in automating test cases using QTP 11.0
• Parameterized test scripts in QTP to pass data from different data sources like Excel spreadsheets, XML files and database.
• Performed data-driven testing by developing data-driven tests to validate the same test with multiple sets of test data.
• Create and execute End to End Use Stories for User Acceptance Testing
• Gather requirements from Business Analyst and analyze the requirements for testing prospective
• Ensure test data is properly identified, setup and availability of stub before execution of a test
• Execution of smoke tests on each build using QTP and reporting the results to management
• Replaced fixed values with parameters, to check the functionality of the application with multiple sets of data using QTP 11.0
• Generate reports on daily and weekly basis for defect reports and execution status
• Execution of smoke tests on each build using QTP and reporting the results to management
• Performed integration testing data validations using QTP for various interfaces.
• Performed database testing to test data migration from different test environments
• Participate in daily and weekly scrum meetings
• Executed test cases to compare the actual result with expected results in accordance with business, technical and functional specs of the applications.
• Drafted detailed Test Steps to be followed for Test Automation using QTP 11.0

Environment: Manual Testing, Agile, HP Quality center 10.0, Microsoft Office, XML, QTP 11.0, C , Vb script, Windows 7.

Client: Confidential

Role: QA Analyst

Confidential is a new initiative for the Confidential, it's a new product introduced by Confidential, This Charge card is introduced for the first time users to choose the facilities as per the need of the User. From testing point of view tested the end to end flow like functionality, content, and field validation for the entire end to end flow validation of the Application.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Functional Requirements Specifications, System Design Specifications and interacted with Business Analysts and developers for changes in requirements, if any
• Designed and developed detail Test Plan and Test Cases using functional requirements, Design Specifications document
• Walkthrough with Business Analysts and developers on the Test Plans that were designed
• Executed Test cases in the timely manner and Reported defects in Quality center
• Managed scheduled all Manual and Automation scripts from HP Quality center 10.0
• Involved in converting manual test cases into automated scripts on HP QTP 9.5
• Created and maintained automated tests using QTP by coding in Vb script
• Involved in Functionality Testing Black Box , Integration Testing, Regression Testing, End-to-End Testing and User Acceptance Testing UAT
• Documented major business processes and developed training material for knowledge transfer to end user
• Writing Data Driven Tests to validate the same scenario with different Test Data Performed tests on various features of Agile development process/Sprint testing
• Attending stand - up meeting and reporting the progress daily basis to the project owner
• Writing Data Driven Tests to validate the same scenario with different Test Data Performed tests on various features of Agile development process/Sprint testing
• Attending stand - up meeting and reporting the progress daily basis to the project owner.
• Involved in post-production validation
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries to extract the data from the database
• Used Vb scripting in QTP 9.5 to automate all the scenarios
• Created reusable Smoke test scripts for all UI flows, and Created Reusable actions for the regression test suite with QTP 9.5
• Developed a separate test script for payroll driver to make sure necessary payroll area and correct personnel number and schema have been populated for payroll run and for 3rd party posting.

Environment: SQL, XML, JAVA, UNIX, HP Quality center 10.0, QTP 9.5, Oracle, Windows 7, MS Office.

Client: Confidential

Role: QA Tester

Description: The application is a web- based application mainly used by the Claims Processing Department. Confidential provides online enrollments in Health plan for Confidential customers. The health plan enrollment and claims data is shared with Confidential application on daily basis. Application then establish eligibility of insured for discounts in premium in case of no claims, claim validation by establishing interfaces with pharmacy and clinical data processing applications and calculating the claim amount to be provided to insured. Application supports the eligibility checks for individuals as well as family group insured plans. Application also provides claim processing reports to users.

Responsibilities

• Extensively involved in developing Vb scripts for automation using QTP 9.5
• Parameterized test scripts in QTP to pass data from different data sources like Excel spreadsheets
• Drafted detailed Test Steps to be followed for Test Automation using QTP 9.5
• In QTP designed Test Schedules and automatically executed test scripts utilizing the available features in Quality center 9.0
• Interacting with Peers and Developers to clarify the issues related to Test Data, Test cases design Flow, Features and Functionality of application
• Performing the tasks of running test and defining test results
• Creating and modifying functions for different functionality and add in Function library, Load this function library in each test
• Creating different Recovery scenarios and add it to in Recovery scenario folder in Quality center Test plan. Add recovery scenarios with tests.
• Performing responsibilities of object identification and performing Data Driven Testing
• Handling the tasks of running test, debugging, and enhancing applications.
• Handling unexpected events that occur during the Test Run.
• Performing Backend testing by creating and executing SQL queries.
• Performed browser IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and platform Windows 7/Vista/ XP compatibility testing in virtual machine environment.
• Developing test cases, test scenarios and user flows for various platforms.
• The bugs detected were recorded and notified to developers and managers using HP Quality center
• Closely interacted with developers to fix bugs.
• Participated in Code Review, QA meetings, Project status meetings and Defect tracking meetings.
• Evaluated and implemented QA process improvements for ongoing testing.

Environment: Vb script, QTP 9.5, HP Quality center 9.0, SQL Server 2012, Agile, Windows 7, Windows XP, Vista, MS office

Client : Confidential

Role: QA Analyst

Description: Confidential. is an Confidential information technology research and advisory firm providing technology related insight headquartered in Confidential.

Responsibilities

• Expert in Descriptive programming using Vb script
• Understanding geo spatial and GIS concepts to review business and functional requirements
• Extensively used Vb script for customizing the Automated Test Script
• Analyzed system requirements and involved in developing test plans, test cases, test harnesses and test schedules based on high-level and detailed designs
• Performed manual testing for various test cases for various module functionalities
• Performed functional, integration, regression and user acceptance testing
• Coordinated testing resources and end-user testing activities including publish testing schedule, defects logging as well as monitoring progress throughout completion
• Involved in creating defect reports using Microsoft Excel spread sheet and sent them to developers
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using Quality center 9.0

Environment: SQL Server, Windows XP, HP Quality center 9.0, QTP 9.5, Vb script, Firefox/Internet Explorer 8

Clients: Confidential

Role: Manual tester

Description: Charges, one of the largest sources of income for any bank, are also a tool that can be used by the bank to differentiate itself in a competitive business. By offering various combinations of charges that are based on customer segments, transactions and access channels the bank can use the charging system as a tool to promote new businesses or channels and to reward customers who respond to such promotion.

Responsibilities

• Analyzed the business requirements and the site specifications.
• Developed detailed testing strategy for the entire application and developed various test cases.
• Initiated, implemented the QA Process and Methodologies.
• Involved in the manual testing
• Executed SQL queries to perform database testing using SQL Plus
• Used SQL Queries were to retrieve data from tables and to perform Back-End testing
• Write SQL Query to extract data from various database tables for testing purpose
• Inserted various check points like bitmap check points, text checkpoints and database check points to check the functionality of the application
• Used Clear quest for repository, reporting bugs, tracking bugs and updates on resolved bugs
• Used Clear case for Version Control. Each version of the application is stored in Clear case and necessary modifications, updates and analysis had been done
• Extensively called test scripts from driver script, data driven scripts into main scripts
• Generated data driven scripts that access the backend database

Environment: Windows XP, Vista, MS office, SQL, UNIX, Agile, Html, UML, Test Director, UNIX, Toad, Edit plus, Sun Solaris.

Company: Confidential

Role: Manual Tester

Description: It is a networking product of Confidential. It is an online book portal created for providing Indian Literature in print as well as in eBook format. Confidential is a software tool used for reading secured eBooks provided by Confidential, the tool is used to download, authenticate users, encrypting Confidential, securing eBooks from piracy.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparing High Level Test Plan based on user requirement documents
• Involved in defining test objectives for the application and performed Manual Testing. Ability to design and manage test metrics and familiar to testing life cycle
• Conducted Functionality and Regression testing using QTP during the various phases of the product development
• Created and executed data driven test scripts in QTP 9.2
• Created automated scripts by including timers for recording response times, and test checks for confirming the retrieval of the correct page using QTP 9.2
• Customization has been done for regression testing by modifying QTP scripts using loops
• Also Enhanced the QTP Scripts by Parameterization and Library File
• Used Mercury Quality Center to run and scheduling the QTP test
• Participated in enhancement meetings focused on making the product more effective in real time scenario

Environment: HP Quality center, Vb script, QTP 9.2, HTML and CSS, JavaScript, SQL, UNIX, MS Office.