More than 6 years of experience as Quality Assurance Professional with hands-on experience and proficiency in implementation of Testing Methodologies. Involved in the various stages of Software Development Life Cycle for projects resulting in good exposure in the Testing methodologies.
Experience in manual testing of web and client/server applications on UNIX and Windows Environments.

Professional Summary:

Exposure of working in the Manufacturing and High Tech , Finance - Banking ,Real Estate and Retail domain with clients in India, and the United States

• Experience working with Agile models
• Performed Web Testing along with Client - server .
• Proficient in Manual and Automated testing.
• Performed Manual Testing of Customized Applications.
• Excellent knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Experience with software development methodologies such as waterfall, Agile/Scrum.
• Experienced in designing, implementing, modifying and testing web-based applications as specified by requirements.
• Experience in Integration, Black Box, Functionality, Regression, Performance, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Extensive experience in reviewing and understanding business and testing requirements and writing and executing on SQL. Familiar with MS SQL Server, PL/SQL, Access, Oracle, MySQL.
• Proficient in analyzing User Requirements, Business Requirements and converting them to test cases.
• Perform a thorough analysis of business requirements, functional requirements and technical requirements to develop robustE2E test conditions, cases and scenarios employing techniques of black box, white box and exploratory testing.
• Knowledge of testing Documents that are submitted as part of the proposal cycle and as project deliverables (monthly reports, change requests) under Section 508.
• Conduct peer reviews and structured walkthroughs of test plan, test framework, testing materials.
• Experience in communicating with Team members, Customers and Technical organizations and participated in project go/ no go decision meetings.
• Ability to make excellent documentation. Good control on MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio.
• Strong Team Player having good verbal and written communication skills. Have acquired strong interpersonal and analytical skills.
• Validated XML files based on XSD schema defined by the client using Altova XML SPY.
• Knowledge of web development technologies including JavaScript, HTML, XML, ASP.NET.
• Experience with testing both web-based Uls and server-side applications
• Conduct Regression testing for web-services to make sure the web-services were working as required between releases.
• Good knowledge of SOAPUI.
• Act as a domain expert and help project team understand the business requirements and clarify all their doubts as and when needed
• Help project team and the testing team by doing functionality testing post configuration and development stage.
• Understand the SOA architecture and work with web-services (WSDL/SOAP

Technical Skills:

Languages: HTML, XML, SQL, VB Script, Perl, Unix Shell Scripting
Databases: MySQL, SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle, DB2
Automation Tools: QTP, Win Runner, Load Runner, XMLSPY, SOAP UI
Test Management Tools: HP Quality Center/Test Director, Rational RequisitePro
Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center, Clear Quest, Bugzilla
Other Tools: Toad, Putty, Clear Case, MS Office Suite, Rational Suite, XML Notepad/Spy, VM Ware/Player

Professional Experience:

Client :Confidential, Richmond VA
Role : QS Test Lead
Duration :April 12 - present.

Confidential, is a U.S.-based bank holding company specializing in credit cards, home loans, auto loans, banking and savings products. A member of the Fortune 500, the company helped pioneer the mass marketing of credit cards in the early 1990s, and it is now the fourth-largest customer of the United States Postal Service and has the sixth-largest deposit portfolio in the United States.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in client interactions as a core team member for Capital One\'s Operational Management system team.
• Responsible for provisioning and patching of servers in linux, windows, java, apache, weblogic, environment.
• Independently handling all the processes for a single, complex project.
• Exposed to performing the entire Test Cycle in a short span of 3 to 4 weeks of sprints per project in an Agile Process Model.
• Responsible for Requirement Feasibility Study, Test Strategy Preparation, Test execution and submitting the Test completion Report.
• Involved in preparing and presenting Business Assurance Test Strategy document.
• Involved in preparing the Test Completion Report at the end of the Test Cycle.
• Logging Defects and Tracking them.
• Tracking the Test Coverage , linkage to the requirements and defects through Quality Centre 10.0.
• Performed Offshore - Onsite Co-ordination.
• Executed SQL and UNIX commands.
• Write SQL queries for Target SQL Server database. Source is from Oracle, Samson Flat files.
• Check the results against to the expected results and check and validate the Data validity.
• Write SQL queries to prepare the Test Data for the Incremental/historical Load testing and validation.
• Work with fact tables and dimension tables to validate the data integrity
• Perform Functional Testing on Jobs. Prepare test data to verify the functionality of the jobs.
• Use TOAD to test various ETL process to meet the Business rules and Technical Requirements.
• Expert in developing complex SQL queries and Unix Shell commands for backend testing of application integrity
• Responsible for overall test plans and system integration tests and reports
• Developed and executed test cases and worked with the offshore team to hand off requirements
• Involved in Database Testing loaded the test data into database by writing SQL queries
• Mentoring the new team members.
• Creating Status Reports and updating the higher management about the various activities being done on a weekly basis.

Environment: Windows 7, QTP10.0, QC 10,Oracle, Visual Source safe. XML,TOAD, VB Script. Ab-Initio
Clear Quest,, Agile/Scrum, Visual Studio, C#, Build, Deploy, UNIX/Linux, SQL, ASP.Net, .Net, C#, Apache Tomcat, TOAD, PUTTY and Windows XP/NT/2003.Visual Source safe, Web Application Testing .NET.

Client :Confidential, FL
Role : QA Analyst
Duration : May 11 - March 12

Confidential, introduces online bidding for Real Estate Owned (REO) homes. AltisourceHomes lists thousands of great REO properties across the country from California homes for sale to Nevada and Florida properties. Properties on site are available through either a Time Limit or No Time Limit bidding method. They leverage customer service and product support professionals with years of experience and success in the real estate industry to help both buyers and sellers.
All offers are submitted through proprietary bidding platform, resulting in greater transparency and a better buyer and seller experience
Altisource improves the performance and profitability of its clients by leveraging a global workforce, integrated technologies and decision models for the real estate, mortgage and financial industries.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business analysis and requirements gathering..
• Reported periodic project status and updates to the QA Lead and QA Manager
• Performed Integration Testing of different modules.
• Analyzed Business Requirements and Developed the Test Plan, Test Scripts and Test Cases
• Developed Reports and Graphs to present the results to the management.
• Performed Data Driven Testing of the Application for different users/data sets
• Preparation of test data for various levels of testing
• Worked on issues with migration from development to testing.
• Preparing the tracking reports for proper validation.
• Meeting the deadlines that all scheduled processing in the test environment is completed in accordance with schedules.
• Manage the interdependencies between the different functional teams
• Involved in creation of data for testing
• Perform Backend Testing to ensure the authentic retrieval of the data from the database
• Conduct Database Testing (Oracle) on Oracle database by writing SQL queries and PL/SQL procedures.
• Ensuring any change of scope are fed into testing scenarios and retesting the script
• Utilized UNIX commands to access back-end environment and checking the process and logs..
• Compared data between source and Data Warehouse, Data warehouse and data Mart, Data Mart and Report.
• Tested various Informaticamaps for Extraction of Data from various source systems and loading into Target SQL server Data warehouse.
• Tested the Parsing process of individual XML file and validation of records.

Environment: Quick Test Professional 10. Mercury Quality Center 10. ,Load Runner 8.2, HTML, SQL, FTP, J2EE, JAVA2.0, Windows XP,T-SQL, TOAD, Oracle 11i, XML-Spy, VB Script, JACL, Ruby, Rails, Python , Unix, HTTP,Informatica, SOAPUI ,Web Services, Visual Studio, JUnit Test Harness Tool, Microsoft Office 2010, UNIX.

Client :Confidential, NJ
Role : Test Analyst
Duration : Oct 10 - April 11

Confidential, is one of the international phone calls and SMS providers. Every customer has to register with Simple Call. A secure site processed the login and payment information. There is no necessity of any subscription. A customer can use it by just topping up his account. Billing information, minutes used, customer support, online payment etc. are inbuilt services

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis, understanding the scope of testing
• Involved in sanity, functional, regression testing and resolved the bottlenecks in the application
• Developing test scenarios, test procedures and executing them using QTP
• Manually tested the application functionality and developed Automation test scripts to perform functional and regression testing and prepared automation test scripts, methods and functions in QTP.
• Project management and Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using Quality Center
• Participated in Inspections
• Ran regression suites ,involved in system testing and acceptance testing
• As a team member involved in developing QA test plan covering functional, regression, end-to-end Testing.
• Read Requirements, and write test cases and execute test cases.
• Developed and executed test scripts and strategies based on new and existing functionality with GUI Features Field Validation.
• Updated Test Cases as per change in business requirements, Sign OFF and execute test cases.
• Worked closely with product, developers, QA and project management team.
• Wrote SQL Queries for data validation.
• Worked with UNIX command-line usage, simple shell scripting, and environment control.
• Performed Smoke testing, Black Box testing and Functionality Testing.
• Documented all the defects correctly and tested appropriately.
• Prepared training documents, updates for end users
• Compare and analyzed the expected results to the actual results and documented the reports accordingly. Write test SQL scripts for different validations
• Verify the data retrieved from the Database using SQL queries. Execute the queries manually to compare the results with front-end values.
• Created Test reports for every build & sent to Project management team for status.
• Conducted walkthroughs, QA meetings and reviews of the documentation.

Environment: Windows 7, QTP10.0, QC 10,Oracle, Visual Source safe. XML,TOAD, SOAPUI, VB Script.
Clear Quest,, Agile/Scrum, Visual Studio, C#, Build, Deploy, UNIX/Linux, SQL, ASP.Net, .Net, C#, Apache Tomcat, TOAD, PUTTY and Windows XP/NT/2003. Visual Source safe, Web Application Testing .NET.

Client : Confidential, NJ
Role : QA Tester
Duration : Jan-10 to Aug- 10
Trax CS Web Reporting

Description:

Trax CS is a desktop based application on HealthCare domain. The project focus on the various therapies as well as the general health related issue. This project is for Matria\'s nurses who perform call to the patient or their healthcare provider and according to their level of care they collect patient\'s information, current status of patient and perform assessments and the interventions by the application. The application mainly uses User controls which are loaded to Main form.
This main objective of this project is to produce HTML reports for patients of Trax Clinical Services.

Responsibilities:

• Wrote test cases and test steps
• Performed functional, integration, system, GUI testing using Agile (Scrum) Methodology
• Developed and Executed the test steps and analyzed the results
• Created automated test scripts using Quick Test Pro
• Created the Test Data for all the scenarios.
• Documented all the defects and re-tested after resolution.
• Web configuration portal database (Oracle) verification using QTP.
• Development of Actuate Reports/ SQL Server Stored Procedures.
• Identify the source tables from which the Data Warehouse extracts data.
• Followed the Software Development Life Cycle in all stages of the project
• Involved in reviewing requirements & test plans
• Created test steps, test data for test cases
• Verify the data retrieved from the Database using SQL queries. Execute the queries manually to compare the results with front-end values.
• Conducted Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Testing, Backend Testing, and Performance Testing
• Developed frameworks using VBScript.
• Execution of Sanity testing for every build.
• Documented test report and defect reports.

Environment: Windows XP, VS 2008, SQL Server 2005, QTP9.2, QC9.2. VB Script, Oracle 9i,.

Client : Confidential, INDIA
Role : SQA Engineer
Duration : Jan-09 to Sept 09

Confidential, Credit Card System is a web-based application for HDFC Bank credit cards. The data presented in the reports will facilitate the Business Analyst to analyze the Cards Business growth and Strategy. Highlights of the reports are Application Analysis, Payment Behavior of the customer etc

Responsibilities:

• Designed different test scenarios to cover all features of applications.
• Planned and reviewed the Test Scripts for Functional, Regression testing.
• Participated in walkthroughs for the evaluation of the Test plan with the QA Lead, design and development team.
• Performed Manual Testing on different Services of the project by executing the Test Scripts.
• Preparing Status Reports on daily basis.
• Worked with SQL and data conversions, Data mapping and data validation.
• Led the team of 4 people.
• Tested the data driven applications with the unit testing and regression testing
• Prepared Test cases and Test Strategies.
• Development of Actuate Reports/ SQL Server Stored Procedures.
• Performed complete black box Testing, Negative Testing .
• Completely involved in identifying errors and verifying end-user compatibility.
• Ensured that the application is performed according to the specified requirements.
• Prepared test scripts and wrote test cases.
• Tested the integration between modules and the accurate flow of data.
• Used Test Director to track the bug reports

Client : Confidential, India (Banking Financial Services and Insurance Division (BFSI))
Role : QA Tester
Duration :June 06 - sept 08

CBS India\'s first and only multi-lingual web based Core Banking Solution that communicates with customers and account holders in their local language and meets all requirements of the mandatory Official Languages ,Financial Inclusion, Mobile and Internet banking.

Responsibilities

• Based on user requirements, documented the test requirements in Test Director
• Generated test plans, test cases and test steps for automated testing using Test Director
• Performed Functional Regression Tests using WinRunner
• Involved in preparing test data required for running the tests and executed test cases.
• Analyzed system usage information such as task distribution diagram and load model to create effective test scenario’s
• Scheduled 1000 virtual users in a stress test scenario to simulate the peak load to identify and isolate system performance bottlenecks
• Performed SQL querying to validate the data in the back end data base, and also to check the data flow between different modules
• Monitored the CPU, memory, and network utilizations on the Unix server using Site Scope monitor
• Determined the source of bottlenecks by correlating the performance data with end-user loads and response times
• Interacting with technical groups to troubleshoot and resolve application quality defects and issues
• Participating in weekly meetings to review Test Plan and documentation details, Test Results, Test Logs and outstanding issues Providing weekly status reports of issues and progress during testing of applications
• Working on Quality Process and good exposure on complete SDLC using Waterfall/Spiral development approach
• Perform multitask for Lending Insurance, Mortgages and PCF/CDCB packages by accessing remote lab machines using CITRIX to meet deadlines with high degree of accuracy
• Coordinating Dummy test to ensure quality norms compliance

Environment: Java, Apache Web Server, UNIX, Oracle, Sun Solaris, WinRunner 7.5, Test Director 7.6(Quality Center). SQL*Plus, MS Office

Educational Qualification:

B(TECH ) in Electronics and Instrumentation Engg

Visa Status: Green Card Holder .