SUMMARY:

• About 6 years of professional experience in Information Technology with extensive experience in performing Manual and Automated Testing.
• Experience in testing Web-based / E-Commerce and Client-Server applications on different environments.
• Extensive experience in various domains like Healthcare, Insurance, Turbine Industry and Communication.
• Good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle SDLC , Software Testing Life Cycle STLC and QA Methodologies.
• Strong experience in developing Test cases using Requirements, Design Documents and Use Cases.
• Experienced in Business analysis, Requirements Management, Quality Assurance, Configuration Management and Change Management.
• Experience in Mercury Testing Tools WinRunner, Load Runner, Test Director, Quality Center, QuickTestPro and Rational Suite Robot, Test Manager, Clear Quest
• Used Quality Center, Test Director, Clear Quest as a bug tracking tool
• Expertise in performing different types of Testing: Functional, Integration, Regression, Black box, Stress, Volume, System and Performance.
• Good understanding of Relational Database Management Systems.
• Involved in testing Java, J2EE, VB.Net, Oracle applications.
• Technical knowledge of VB, Java , .Net.
• Proficient in SQL and PL/SQL Programming for testing database integrity.
• Expertise in writing SQL Queries to perform Backend Testing
• Excellent interpersonal and customer relational Skills. Proven communication, Presentation Skills and Leadership Qualities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, UNIX , Windows NT/2000/XP,

Languages: C, C , COBOL, JCL, JAVA, SQL, PL/SQL, and TSL

RDBMS: Oracle 9i/8i/7.x, MS SQL Server, Informix and DB2

.Net Technologies: VB, VC , VB.Net ,Asp.Net

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, ASP, Java Script, Java Servlets, JSP, FrontPage, Web Logic, and Websphere,

Packages: MS-Office, MS-Access, and MS-Excel

GUI Tools: Oracle Developer 2000 and Visual Basic 5.0/6.0

Testing Tools: WinRunner 6.x/7.x, Test Director 7.x/8.x, Quality Center 9.x, QTP 9.x, Load Runner 6.x/7.x, Rational Suite Robot,

Test Manager, Clear Quest, ClearCase

GUI: VisualBasic6.0, Developer2000

Networking Tools: UNIX, FTP and TCP/IP

Reporting Tools: Business Objects 6.x/5.x

Source Control Tool: Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, Rational Clear Case

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Analyst

Confidential is an open innovation company helping various organizations to bring their ideas into reality. NurturEnergy developed a web portal called iNurtureEnergy. This web portal is developed for organizations to extend their internal capabilities and can come up with new collaboration strategies to solve various challenges faced by them or provide ideas to the challenges faced by various other organizations. Using iNurtureEnergy, the organizations can post their challenges to various registered innovators and/or Academia's, maintain their projects and patents. The other important aspect of iNurtureEnergy is, organizations can configure each and every screen functionality based on their requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Worked on complete life cycle of QA including Test Planning, Test Execution, Defect Resolution etc.
• Analyzed business requirement documents and developed test plans, which includes the objectives, testing strategies, test environment, test scenarios, test conditions and others.
• Written and reviewed Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scenarios.
• Involved in various testing types like GUI testing, User Acceptance testing, Integration testing and Regression testing of the application.
• As a QA analyst carried out testing, to check whether the application is functioning as per the use case and functional specifications.
• Worked closely with the developers to resolve the design and development errors and to get the software released for system testing.
• Involved in Back end testing.
• Extensively worked with Quality Center to create and execute test cases.
• Reported defects to appropriate developer / business analyst using Quality Center and follow up accordingly until the issue gets resolved.
• Developed maintained the traceability matrix between requirements
• Involved in status review meetings regularly with team members.
• Reported defects and interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues.

Environment: Windows 2000/NT, ASP.net, VB.net, ADO.net, IIS, MS Visio, Sql Server, Quality Center, MS Office

Confidential

QA Analyst

Confidential Farm has remained the largest automobile insurer and insures more cars and homes in Confidential than any other insurer. Confidential EPM application. It provides State Farm with a web based Cognos tool to enter their budget information by their respective budget department, by minor element, by month for an 18 month time scale. Confidential other EPM application. It provides State Farm with a web based Cognos tool to keep track of SF's employees Salary, Benefits, taxes and so forth. Budget and Salary Estimate applications are sub divided into sprints Agile process .

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts and Test Data for System testing the Budget and Salary Estimate applications
• Executed the Test scripts for all the sprints and validated the results against the expected results
• Participated in Requirements review and Design sessions
• Performed Functional, System and Regression Testing on the applications
• Performed Manual Testing of the Web applications
• Document all the defects from start to end for all the sprints
• Validated actuals loaded on Budget and Salary Estimate applications
• Performed a huge amount of Calculations for Salary Estimate to determine the taxes, benefits and Incentive values were calculated correctly on the Cognos tool.
• Used Quality Center to track all the defects
• Investigated Software defects and interacted with Analysts to resolve technical issues.
• Made extensive use of MS Office tools to create and maintain documents such as test plans, test execution and test results documents
• Performed backend testing using SQl queries
• Developed maintained the traceability matrix between requirements
• Developed Test Summary Reports and Test Log Reports
• Verified the results on Cognos IBM tool.
• Performed the Integration testing between the Budget and the Salary Estimate application

Environment: Cognos, Quality Center , COBOL, SQL Server, MS-Word, MS-Excel, Windows XP.

Confidential

QA Tester

Confidential Power Systems is a United Technologies company engaged in Design of Aircraft engines and Ground based Turbine engines based in Confidential Connecticut. Pratt Whitney Power Systems group re-engineered GE Gas Turbine Engine parts. The parts are developed through Supply Chain where process starts from casting to machining followed by heat treatment, grinding and coating. These parts were to be tracked and quality tested at various suppliers. Application was developed to track the parts for various operations and quality tests. These parts were qualified after going through all process Quality inspection steps. The application was intended to organize the parts data i.e. set numbers, serial numbers, weight data and quality level. Some parts were to be salvaged due to process deviations.

Responsibilities:

• Documented Requirements based on Use Case Documents and Business Requirement documents BRD .
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scripts for testing the functionality and Performance requirements of the application.
• Executed Test scripts for monthly releases and validated actual results against expected results,
• Prepared test scripts and system test plan for manual testing
• Performed Functional, System and Regression Testing and end to end System Testing.
• Participated in the Requirements review and Design Sessions
• Used Test Director as a bug tracking tool
• Document all the defects from start to end
• Developed metrics to find out the testing phase
• Performed migration of current builds form dev region to QA region
• Performed Manual Testing of the application.
• Created SQL Queries for verifying Insert/Update and deletion of data from the Sql server Database
• Involved in the User Acceptance Testing, Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancements and Modifications Request issues.
• Updated test cases in Test Director with change request
• Performed SQL queries and ran stored procedures as per requirements
• Created monthly and Quaterly reports

Environment: VB.net, Sql server, ASP.net,Webservices, Test Director, Ms-Project, Visio, MS-Word, MS-Excel, , Windows XP/00.

Confidential

QA Tester

Confidential for healthcare address Benefit Administration, Claims Adjudication, Member services, Provider Services, Utilization Management, Call Tracking, Premium Billing, Web-based Claims processing software, EDI translation and more. Plexis solutions are HIPAA-compliant and automate a wide range of healthcare insurance plans: Mini Med, Health Care Reimbursement Accounts HCRA , Consumer Driven Healthcare, Medicaid and Medicare, Oregon Health Plan as well as long-term care administration.

Responsibilities:

• Documented Requirements based on Business Requirement Specifications documents BRD .
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scripts for testing the functionality and Performance requirements of the application.
• Executed Test scripts for monthly releases and validated actual results against expected results, Verified test results and reported the defect status to the development team.
• Prepared test scripts and system test plan for manual and automated testing
• Performed Functional, System and Regression Testing.
• Data driven and Back end testing using Winrunner
• Active participation in the dev meetings with possible suggestions and deliverables needed from teams perspective
• Used Quality Center as a bug tracking tool
• Regression testing is performed and additional test scripts are generated for each version
• Developed metrics to find out the testing phase
• Performed migration of current builds form dev region to QA region
• Performed Manual Testing of the application.
• Interacted with Developers to resolve user needs, Found bugs in the software
• Created SQL Queries for verifying Insert/Update and deletion of data from back end database tables
• Involved in the User Acceptance Testing, Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancements and Modifications Request issues.
• Updated test cases in Test Director with change request
• Performed sql queries and ran stored procedures as per requirements
• Conducted Production readiness tests on weekends
• Developed SQL Queries to load and check the database
• Understanding the Concepts of the ETL Tools
• Decision making to launch new builds

Environment: WinRunner, Test Director, ASP.Net, VB.Net, DHTML, XML, XML Web Services, JavaScript, SQL Server, VSAM, Crystal Reports, MVS Unix, Ms-Project, Visio, MS-Word, MS-Excel, COBOL, Windows XP/00.

Confidential

QA Tester

Confidential team, analyzed and tested Account Maintenance system. This WEB based application is designed to maintain customer accounts and support the business functions and financial transactions.

• Fully involved in analyzing Business Requirement Documents and writing Test Plan.
• Responsible for performing Functional Testing on the application by creating Automated Test Script Language TSL scripts using WinRunner.
• Analyzed the Test plan, which detailed the testing scope, strategy, test requirements and necessary resources.
• Developed Test Cases to cover overall quality assurance testing.
• Involved in Manual testing using Test Director to develop test cases, test scripts, executing the scripts and logging the defects.
• Developed automated test scripts using Test Script Language TSL to perform Functionality and Regression Testing.
• Involved in Functional, Regression, Performance and User Acceptance Testing UAT and Access Online applications.
• Performed Manual Testing on different modules of the application.
• Worked on Pivot tables and Pivot Charts.
• Responsible in developing Test Cases with Test Director using it as a Test Management Tool.
• Extensively used SQL scripts/queries for data verification at the backend.

Environment: C , VC , UNIX, MS-Word, MS-Excel, SQL Server 2000, T-SQL, Windows XP/00.