SUMMARY

• Over 5 years of Industry experience in Information Technology and Data Processing field with strong emphasis in Software Quality Assurance.
• Commendable experience in various domains like Financial, Insurance, Banking and Telecommunication industries.
• Testing experience on Client/Server and Web Applications with extensive experience in Manual and Automation Testing of applications.
• Excellent working knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle SDLC and Software Testing Life Cycle STLC in Requirements gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Testing Methods like Waterfall Agile.
• Demonstrable experience on GUI, Regression, Functional, Integration, System, User Acceptance, Sanity, Stress, Reliability, compatibility, Cross Browser, Security and Database Testing, related Test Cases and Test Results.
• Hands on experience on Test Planning, Test Scheduling, Test Designing, Test Estimation, Defect reporting and tracking, Test result analysis.
• Has good experience in writing complex/detailed Test Plans, QA analysis on all test documentation and improve test documentation process.
• Good experience in developing Test Plans, Test Strategies, Test Scenarios, Test cases by reviewing Business Requirements, Software Requirement specifications and creating Gap Analysis for test purpose
• Experienced in documenting defects using the bug tracking database, providing verifications on fixes in multiple environments, and communicating fix success, failures, status updates as appropriate using Bug tracking Tools like Test Director, Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest and Bugzilla.
• Experienced with Test Director and Quality Center for Requirements, Test Plan, Test Designing, Test Analysis, Test Execution, Defect Tracking and Test Evaluation.
• Experience in coordinating and leadership roles in Test Plan, Test case preparation, test case execution, black box testing and grey box testing.
• Strong experience in writing SQL scripts and testing the SQL scripts.
• Strong in defining and executing test scenarios test cases based on system specifications and functional requirements documents provided.
• Good understanding of Data warehouse concepts. Proficient in the environment Windows, UNIX.
• Prepared Test coverage Analysis, Test Deliverables and Test Metrics. Defects tracking systems were used to add and track defects and Management reports were created for Project status updates.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, self starter, quick learner, team player, detail oriented, time bound, maintain effective team relationship.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• QTP, Test Director, Quality Center, Rational Functional Tester, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Test Manager, Clear Quest, Web Intelligence 2.x, Oracle 7.x/8.x/9i, MS SQL Server 2000, MS SQL Server 2005, MS Access, Erwin 4.x, Designer 2000, SQL Loader, TOAD, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Plus, C, C , Java, JavaScript, JSP, SOAP, XML, XML Spy, HTML and DHTML, UML, Visual Basic, ASP, ASP.Net, UNIX, Linux, Windows NT, Windows 2000

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Analyst

Software Model: Iterative Waterfall. Can be considered close to a Rational Unified Process, but is not one in the true sense.

• Clients worked on: Newmont, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, PMI, Coca-Cola
• Worked on client specific customizations of core application to fulfill client business needs. Customizations consisted of customized data import export interfaces to transmit receive data from other applications in various file formats such as tab, csv, fixed width, xml ensuring compatibility with various dates formats to enable internationalization , reports, customized client specific screens, dynamic - user customizable Adhoc reports
• Tasks performed: Manual testing, Regression Testing, Integration testing, Browser Compatability Testing , Bug Change Request validation, Involved in Gap Analysys, created test plans test cases, reporting to management, issue escalations.
• Reviewed Business requirements, IT Design documents and prepared Test Plans for all assigned project releases
• Tested critical bug fixes including critical fixes and coordinated with developers in release of bug fixes meeting tight timeline.
• Involved in Backend Database testing using SQL.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using MS Visual Studio 2010 TFS management system.
• Used Adept SQL to compare Data Base versions.

Environment: Windows XP / Vista / 7 IE 7 / 8 / 9 browsers. Windows 2003 DB server, Adept SQL, Windows 2008 App server 32 64 bit environment.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business requirement documents and Functional requirement specifications of the application.
• Assisted development of data functional specification collaboratively with business and technical teams.
• Responsible for analyzing testing effort, risk assessment, time management, preparing test plans and test strategy documents.
• Worked on Data Migration, Data Conversion testing as part of new supplier data loading and also participated in the validation for the initial load process for several new suppliers.
• Responsible for conducting team meetings to keep track of testing effort, bugs and enhancement request.
• Reported the Issues identified and worked with the client in data cleansing process.
• Created and executed SQL validation scripts, and analysis scenarios to test the functionality of the SSIS ETL data suite, ETL validation rules and transformations.
• Responsible for executing the test cases to produce actual results, working with the Business Analyst to validate actual test results to expected results and ensure the test requirements are met.
• Effectively used Quick Test Professional as automation tool for Regression Testing.
• Developed test scripts and recording tests using QTP
• Developed test scripts for Data Driven tests using QTP.
• Used parameterization, inserted the checkpoints using QTP.
• Responsible for ensuring that all necessary sign-offs have been achieved, understanding and adhering to test planning and execution guidelines, processes, and standards, improving and documenting the testing process, reporting status of assigned test tasks and issues and escalating issues and risks to project management/team lead as required.
• Flexibility in assigned duties. Review data mapping documents and data models to devise testing strategy
• Responsible for interacting with the Team lead to understand user requirements.
• Analyzed the test requirements and writing new Test Plan as per the requirements.
• Prepared new Test Plan and Test Procedures documents from the Requirements.
• Followed Black box testing methodologies to check the functionality of the application.
• Executed the test cases and verified the actual results with the expected results.
• Attended change requests meeting and reflected those changes in test cases preparation and execution.
• Executed individual test cases to satisfy both positive and negative testing and logged the bugs in to the bug tracking system.

Environment: MS SQL Server 2008, MS SQL Server Reporting Services 2008, MS SQL Server Integration Services 2008, Erwin, MS Office, Windows Server 2003, Visual Studio.net, Agile/Scrum Methodology, QTP, Quality Center 9.2.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Functional Testing of Equity Trading and Loan processing applications. Functional integration testing of multiple components validating the end to end functional workflow.
• Documented and executed test approach and test cases for the verification and validation of requirements and software.
• Analytical evaluation of requirements and documentation of test strategy, test plan and test cases for all Front end applications and back end databases.
• Cleared documentation of reported bugs. Follow-up with development team on reported bugs and incorporate in regression testing. Responsible for issue tracking and creation and publishing of timely status reporting to the project team members.
• Approved automation of manual regression testing, using Mercury Suite Quick Test Professional 10 and Quality center and developed the script for the same
• Responsible for test execution and test status reporting.
• Coordination with Business Analysts and Developers in meeting SDLC deliverables and coordinating managing the Offshore India team.
• Efficient status reporting to QA Manager on a regular basis. Managing the test script on QC
• Strong hands on experience in use of SQL scripts and UNIX log validation.

Environment: Mercury Quality center 9.0, QTP, Microsoft Excel, Java Technologies, Windows XP, Microsoft visual studio 6.0, SQL Server 2005, Windows 2000, UNIX, VB Script, Html

.Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with development team to identify functional areas and test scenarios that need to be tested. Preparation of Test Plan and analyze integration system impacts.
• Developed overall Test Strategies, Test Plans for Manual Testing including definition of Test Cycles and Schedules, creating Test Data, executing tests interfaces and documenting.
• Prepared Test Data claims to test the HMO Health Maintenance Organizations , PPO Preferred Provider Organizations and POS Point-of-Service Plans
• Modified and maintained test cases due to changes in the requirements.
• Performed the Regression Testing to make sure that the bug has been fixed and the application is running properly. Executed, analyzed, and verified test results and worked with developers and teams involved Pharmacy groups, Account Managements to resolve issues.
• Communicated project business issues to appropriate business leadership groups and lead resolution or escalation of issues as necessary.
• Debugged the application in Expediter/TSO and made changes to the values according to Test Cases such as Test Condition and Expected results
• Prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM to establish traceability between requirements and test cases. Documented all test results, identifying and summarizing discrepancies.
• Mentored the team members with business functionality.
• Conducted internal and external reviews as well as formal walkthroughs, and participated in status meetings. Lead meetings with Process Owners in developing process documentation.
• Provided initial point-of-contact support for external auditors and internal review teams.
• Involved in analyzing the test plans and test cases for the integration, regression, black box and system tests for the web applications. Execute UAT Scripts internally, prior to delivery of code to customer for User Acceptance Testing. Involved in testing the components of Quoting, Associate Package, Enrollment, Workflow and Blue Track in Business Acquisition project.

Environment: J2EE, JAVA, JSP, Web Services, XML, HTML, SOAP, Linux OS, Java Script, DB2, Quality Center, Manual testing, Apache Tomcat.