PROFILE:

Six plus years experience in the Information Technology Industry with diversified experience in automated, manual, functional performance testing of Web and Client/Server applications on Windows/Unix environment to secure a position of QA Analyst/Software Test Engineer/QA Tester in a progressive company where my resourceful technical and academic skills will add value to organizational operations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Testing Tools: Application Life Cycle Management ALM , Atlassian jira, HP QuickTest Professional QTP/UFT , HP LoadRunner, HP Performance Center, TestDirector 8.x, HP Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, Clear Case, Test Manager, TargetProcess.
• Utilities: Oracle SQL Developer, TOAD and SQL Plus.
• Scripting Languages: VB scripting for QTP/UFT
• Server: IIS, Web Logic, Apache, SharePoint, WebSphere
• RDBMS: ORACLE 10x/11x, MS SQL Server 2005/2008 and MS-ACCESS.
• Languages: C, C , Java, VBScript and Structured Query Language SQL
• Operating System: Windows Server 2005/2008, UNIX and VMS

SKILL SUMMARY:

• Excellent communication skills, versatile team player with excellent interpersonal and technical documentation skills and handling multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong communicator and skilful in working closely with customers to identify and resolve problems.
• Ability to prioritize along critical path and meeting project milestones and deliverable dates.
• Ability to transmit technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Experience in SQL queries to perform Backend testing using SQL Plus, TOAD, and Oracle SQL developer.
• Expertise in testing Performance, Load and Stress for Client/Server and Web application.
• Extensive experience in Functional, Integration, Regression, Positive, Negative, System, User Acceptance, Data Driven and GUI Testing.
• Experience with Visual Basic, VB Script, Java Script, J2EE, TSL, C, C .
• Expertise in using Testing tools: HP QuickTest Professional, LoadRunner, VuGen, Quality Center, TestDirector.
• Expertise in Manual Testing and Automated Testing of applications developed on various Environments.
• Experienced in writing Test plans, Test matrix, Test cases, developing and maintaining Test scripts, and Test Scenarios.
• Understanding and interpreting requirement specifications.
• Expert on Functional, regression, UAT and Performance testing.
• Experience with 508 compliance testing.
• Experienced with QA Methodology to ensure better Quality Control.
• Knowledge of Capability of Maturity Model Integration CMMI .
• Experienced with different stages of Software Development Life Cycle SDLC .
• Understand the impact of functionality changes and/or enhancements and the importance of release management.
• Accurate, precise, and highly ethical in all work-related assignments.
• Possess an Outstanding Problem Solving, and Presentation skills.
• Hands on experience working on citrix.
• Great knowledge on cross browser compatibility testing.
• A dynamic, polished, energetic, and team spirited professional with outstanding core strengths.

Professional EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Software Quality Assurance Analyst

Main Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirement Specification BRS , Software Requirement Specification SRS and User Requirement Document URD .
• Developed Test Plan and Test Approach artifact with resource requirements and time estimates.
• Designed and developed Test Scenario/Test Cases/Test steps for various Business Services/methods covering both positive and negative testing requirements.
• Involved in Manual and Automation testing of Web and Client Server Application.
• Performed Functional, Negative, Smoke, System, Integration, Regression, End to End, UAT and Performance Testing.
• Allocated priorities to all the test cases, taking into consideration the product module priorities.
• Conducted elaborate manual testing on test cases and provided feedback to the development team.
• Validated test to check boundary conditions and error messages.
• Used Quality Center for requirements management, planning, scheduling, running tests defect tracking and managing the defects.
• Wrote SQL statements in script to retrieve data from database in order to verify accurate data stored in database as well as back end testing.
• Analysis of automation tools and usage on their web based application and recommendations for Performance testing lab methodology as well as scripting for intranet/internet.
• Designed Automation Testing Strategies and implemented automation scripts that are linked to, and validated with end user service level requirements developed.
• Developed test approaches /test designs. Wrote test plans, created production simulations, and test data.
• Identified testing methodology functional, load, stress testing based on the business processes and analyzed the business requirements along with Product Manager Project Manager to make Test determine Synchronization points using LoadRunner and QTP.
• Conducted GUI, Data driven, Backend and Functionality Testing using QTP. Installed, configured, and administered the automated test tool.
• Responsible for performance testing script development and analysis reporting for applications as well as testing methodologies and software development lifecycle process improvement.
• Documented the Test Results and presented the daily and weekly report to QA Manager.

Environment: Java/J2EE platform technologies comprising of Enterprise Java Beans EJB , Java Server Pages JSP , Shell Script, C , JDBC, XML, WebSphere MQ, LoadRunner, QuickTest Professional, HP Quality Center, Star Team, SQL, PL/SQL, Windows Server 2005 and Unix.

Confidential

Software QA Analyst

Main Responsibilities:

• Researched and analyzed software requirements, workflows and designs to define detailed test suites, test cases, data and procedures.
• Written test plans, documenting bugs, and communicating with Development, Operations, and Product Management.
• Created test cases, scripts, and data from approved requirement and design documents.
• Reported and entered defects and problems into Quality Center.
• Assisted in Project Management, by accurately reporting testing progress and status over time.
• Tracked defect disposition, test defect resolution along with regression testing to ensure system stability.
• Worked very closely with the Design Team and provided practical feedback to the Designers.
• Performed Manual and Functional testing to test the functionality of the modules.
• Worked with the QA Manager in developing responsibility Matrices for the Team Members periodically.
• Performed functional decomposition of requirements for developing test cases.
• Generated Test cases and traced them to the relevant use cases.
• Worked with users and Business Analysts to define and design test scenarios and test data.
• Wrote and recorded VB scripts for automating the testing procedure using QuickTest Pro.
• Wrote SQL queries to test Data Integrity, Referential Integrity and performed Database Testing for the Application.
• Used Quality Center as the test repository and used it for executing the test cases and scripts and logging generating various reports and graphs for further analysis.
• Maintained Test Matrix for the latest test results information.
• Created detailed periodic status reports for senior management to keep them posted on the progress of implementation.
• Used Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Designed Performance test scenarios using LoadRunner, ran Stress test, analyzed the results.
• Created HP LoadRunner Controller manual and goal-oriented scenario and conducted Load Test using number of Virtual Users Vuser .
• Conducted Load and Reliability testing on Website's workflows to identify and report performance bottlenecks.
• Attended periodic meetings, teleconferences and led discussions on problem resolution.
• Participated in the development of User Manuals for clients.

Environment: ASP, ASP.NET, VB.NET, C/C , HTML, DHTML, VB, SQL Server, TSQL, TCP/IP, Windows Professional, IIS 5.x, MS Exchange Server, QTP, LoadRunner, Quality Center, IE, FF.

Confidential

Software Testing Engineer

Main Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Client interaction. Issue resolution, writing test scenarios based on inputs from business leads.
• Involved in analyzing and writing test plan in accordance with business requirements.
• Wrote and executed Test Plan/Test Cases following Tech-Specs.
• Analyzed business requirements and system specification.
• Worked on the development of Time Tracking System application for the employee management.
• Involved in managing the requirements and assigning priorities with TestDirector.
• Developed Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts for testing the applications.
• Managed the Traceability between requirements and test cases.
• Tested User Interface Inconsistency and application functionality
• Created Test Scripts and assisted in User Acceptance Testing.
• Used TestDirector for managing the defect flow.
• Used SQL statements to insert, update, and delete data within the database.
• Worked with SQL and PL/SQL to test database functionality.
• Involved in documenting Test failures and interfaced with developers resolve technical issues.
• Performed web test using QTP for checking page contents, broken links, web objects, frames and tables.
• Performed Black box testing including Smoke, Functional and Regression testing using QTP.
• Created VB Scripts files as per the test plan requirements.
• Conducted back end testing data driven testing using QTP.
• Conducted End-To-End testing and automated the test using QTP.
• Designed and executed automated test scripts for Functional, GUI and Navigational testing to identify errors within the applications using QTP.

Environment: JAVA, SERVLETS, RMI, JDBC, JSP, Perl, UML, XML, HTML, C , Oracle, QTP, TestDirector, Windows/NT, MS Access, VBA and SQL Server 2005