SUMMARY

• Over 9 years of Experience in Manual/Automation Testing for delivering of quality software products, and applications.
• Hands on experience in Health Care, Financial and Life Insurance industry projects application testing.
• Designed and developed Test Plans, Test cases and Test Automation of multi-layered object-oriented enterprise software applications.
• Involved in preparation of Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM , Defect Tracking Report, Bug Reporting, and Weekly Status Reports.
• Expertise in Preparing Test Plans, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios and Test Cases for both Manual and Automated Testing using application testing tools like Winrunner, Quick Test Professional QTP , LoadRunner and TestDirector / Quality Center.
• Involved in both Front-End and Back-End/Database QA process of the application using Black Box Testing methodologies and performed backend testing using SQL Queries.
• Involved in Smoke Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Installation Testing, Compatibility Testing, Performance Load Stress Testing, Documentation Testing, GUI Testing, User Acceptance Testing UAT .
• Involved in build and release processes, Software Development Life Cycle SDLC Software Testing Life Cycle STLC phases, agile and QA methodologies.
• Experience in UNIX shell scripting and working on various operating systems.
• Experience in testing SAP Business Objects reports.
• Strong knowledge in web service applications by using XML, APIs, and SOUPUI
• Knowledge in Capability Maturity Model CMM, CMMI levels
• Motivated self-starter with exceptional team building, leadership, and interpersonal skills. Hardworking and good team player with the ability to work in time sensitive environments.
• Possess excellent communication and organization skills with the ability to adapt to new environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Languages : C, C , Java, Visual Basic, VB Script, SQL, HTML, XML, .NET.
• Operating Systems : Windows 2000, Windows NT4.0, UNIX.
• Databases : Oracle8i/9i, SQL Server and Ms Access
• Application Servers : BEA Weblogic 8.1, IBM WebSphere 3.5/4.0/5.0
• Reporting Tools : Business Objects
• ETL Tools : Informatica
• Defect Tracking Tools: Test Director, Quality Center, clearquest, Jira
• Automated Tools : Test Manager, Win Runner, Requisite Pro
• Quick Test Pro, Load runner, Microsoft Test Manager
• Packages : MS-Word, MS-Excel, Word-Perfect, MS Project98

PROFFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Functional Requirement and Business Requirement Documents to get a better understanding of the system on both functional and business perspectives.
• Analyzed the user requirements by interacting with system architect, developers and business analysts.
• Involved maintaining requirements and maintained the traceability matrix between the requirements and Test cases.
• Tests were planned and managed using Quality Center and performed Manual Testing.
• Identify the requirements in scope and out of Scope for testing.
• Derived Test Cases from functional requirements and design documents.
• Actively participated in Test Plan preparation.
• Involved in Test Cases Review for multiple MCR's Maintenance Change Request .
• Execution of defined test cases on each build.
• Used Client's Bug Tracking system Remedy to reporting and track the bugs to closure.
• Participated in Test Plan Walkthrough meetings periodically with Development team and SMEs Subject Matter Expert .
• Analyzed Test results on each phase using Quality Center.
• Worked on a Business Intelligence reporting system that was primarily functioning on Oracle Applications OLTP environment with Business Objects for Business Intelligence reporting
• Involved in rebuild testing of the Business Intelligence Reports For Business objects
• Used SQL and PL/SQL scripts to perform backend database testing.
• Checked the reports for naming inconsistencies.
• Extensively tested the Business Objects report by running the SQL queries on the database by reviewing the report requirement documentation.
• Distributed the reports to the users via Business Objects Connection.
• Involved in testing Business Objects Reports and closely worked with operations, and Release teams to resolve the production issues.
• Communicated with development team to resolve the issues, performed regression testing to verify that bug fixes did not break some other functionality.
• Involved in testing the Business Objects Reports which are migrated from 6.5 to XIR2.
• Involved in preparing Test Bed Environments for Integration and Regression testing.
• Planned, Designed, Implemented, Executed and Analyzed tests using QTP.
• Enhanced the Quick Test Scripts using parameterization, checkpoints and regular expressions.
• Divided the QTP test scripts in multiple actions to reduce the complexity.
• Running the existing test scripts for each release using QTP.
• Generated test results report using QTP.
• Prepared Task Schedules, Testing Estimations and Resource Allocation for Integration and Regression Testing.

Environment: Remedy, QTP 9.5, Quality Center 10.0, Load Runner, Business Objects XI R2, Power Builder, Windows XP

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Perform Data Validation of the data flow from the end-to-end.
• Performed Manual Testing for the entire application by executing the test scripts.
• Performed functional and regression testing of the application manually.
• Created Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Condition Matrix for feature testing.
• Developed and executed manual test scripts using test plan and test lab sections of Quality Center for System testing, Integration testing and Regression testing of the application.
• Participated in peer reviews with team and developers to review the test cases.
• Executed feature test cases to verify the functionality of the respective features of the application.
• Responsible for writing test scenarios, test plans and review of those.
• Analyzed test results and logging defects in Quality Center.
• Created SQL Scripts in query analyzer to validate data.
• Used Quality Center to report the defects found during regression testing and followed up until it resolves.
• Clearly communicated and documented test results and defect resolution during all phases of testing.
• Focused on Data Quality issues / problems that include completeness, conformity, consistency, accuracy, duplicates and integrity.
• Used SQL queries and custom programs to perform data validation.
• Prepared test cases by understanding the business requirements, Data Mapping documents and technical specifications.
• Responsible for test planning, test creation, test setup test mapping and exporting them into Quality Center.
• Involved in test cases review to analyze the functional coverage and reviewed defects status in JAD sessions.
• Interacted with users by conducting User Acceptance Testing UAT to ensure that the total functionality of the application was met by complying with all the business requirements.

Environment: Manual testing, Quality Center ,Oracle 9i, SQL, TOAD, Java, J2EE, Java Script, HTML, XML, WebSphere5.1, Clear Quest, MS Office and Windows XP.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in walkthroughs and reviews to determine user requirements and goals.
• Expertise at formulating Test Plan, Test Scripts and Test Cases based on the user requirement and functional specs.
• Involved in analysis of the current QA practices, identifying areas of improvement, provide GAP analysis reports, devise alternate methodologies and implement them.
• Conducted manual test execution and evaluated test results.
• Clearly communicated and documented test results and defect resolution during all phases of testing.
• Focused on Data Quality issues / problems that include completeness, conformity, consistency, accuracy, duplicates and integrity.
• Used SQL queries and custom programs to perform data validation.
• Prepared test cases by understanding the business requirements, Data Mapping documents and technical specifications.
• Verified the Business Objects universe with appropriate Joins, Aliases and Aggregate Awareness tables and built customized Classes and Objects.
• Verified the applied security features of Business Objects like report level object level security in the universe so as to make the sensitive data secure
• Tested reports developed by Business Objects Universes for both Adhoc Canned Reporting users of Business Objects XI R3.1
• Tested the Business Objects Web I Reports are created and deployed through Info View.
• Maintained the test logs, test reports, test issues, defect tracking using Quality Center.
• Involved in preparation of Requirement Traceability Metrics RTM , Software Metrics, Defect Report, Weekly Status Reports and SQA Report using Quality Center
• Created test scripts with check points, Synchronization points for GUI and functionality tests using QTP.
• Used Data Driven Testing concept to test the application with different sets of positive and negative data.
• Performed regression testing to validate addition of new patch to ensure that existing functionality is not broken.
• Extensive experience in XML data validation for secure transmission to EMR.
• Use SQL Developer for running queries to match the data generated by reports.
• Interacted with developers to report and track bugs to completion using Quality Center.
• Documented the modification requests, defects and their trailing history using Quality Center.
• Created traceability matrix to match the business requirements with the functional requirements and the test cases.
• Actively participated in defect review meeting and Test status meeting with detailed test status reports concerning the progress of work and detail defect analysis

Environment: Oracle 8i, SQL Server 2000, , Informatica Power Center 7.1, SQL, PL/SQL, Stored Procedures, QTP 8.0, Quality Center 8.2, Points Portal, Autosys, MS Office Suite, Business Objects, HTML, JAVA, JSP, JavaScript, Clear Case, RUP, TOAD, Requisite Pro.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Performed Manual Testing on the Web Application
• Prepared Test Plan by analyzing the business requirements.
• Written test cases and functions for performing these tests using technical document.
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results.
• Performed integration, system, functional and regression testing.
• Performed backend testing using SQL Queries.
• Performed Data Validation and Data Integrity during Backend testing.
• Figuring out problematic areas of the application that are to be tested to improve quality.
• Designing Automated Test plans.
• Generating Scripts using LoadRunner and script modification in order to make them function as per the test plan.
• Conducting various tests using Load Runner Controller as per the Test plan.
• Comparing Test results Load Runner reports and documenting the find-outs of the test conducted.

Environment: Manual Testing, Loadrunner7.8, Java, J2ee, Oracle8i/9i, HTML, JavaScript, Weblogic and Win2k

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Designed and prepared test cases based on use cases and Functional specification.
• Executed test cases manually.
• Involved in Screen Navigation Testing.
• Functionality testing on all screens to make sure that all the objects, buttons and icons are performing according to all the specified functional requirements.
• Involved in Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Testing, Installation Testing, Compatibility Testing, Performance Testing and Smoke Testing.
• Participated in Functionality and Regression Testing.
• Bug Report generation using Test Director.
• Coordinating with the developer in fixing bugs.

Environment: Manual Testing, TestDirector5.0, Java, JavaScript, HTML, Oracle, Weblogic and Windows NT.