SUMMARY

• 8+ years of experience in the IT industry with extensive skill sets as QA Analyst / QA Tester.
• Proficient in Requirement Analysis, Test planning, Test case preparation, Manual and automated testing, Load/Performance/Stress & Volume testing, Data migration testing, Bug reporting and Defect tracking.
• Good knowledge in Software Testing and Documentation, Analysis of the Business Requirements Documents and the Functional Specification Documents.
• Strong experience in creating System and Performance Test Plans, developing and maintaining test cases/scripts, test procedures, and test matrices, analyzing bugs, interacting with development team in fixing bugs.
• Prepared testing templates for Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Defect Log, Test Case Checklist, various testing metrics, Bug reporting and Defect tracking.
• Documented test results and Managed Defect Tracking process, which included prioritizing bugs, assigning bugs, and retesting bug - fixes and closure.
• Experience with Regression testing, User acceptance testing(UAT), Functional testing, System testing, Smoke testing, Sanity testing, performance testing, Exploratory testing, browser compatibility testing.
• Extensive experience in testing Multi-Tier Web based Applications, Web services, Client/Server and Standalone applications, GUI and databases.
• Experience on Automation tools like QTP/ UFT, Load Runner, Test Director/ Quality Center/ ALM, SOAP UI Pro.
• Hands on experience with data migration testing with ETL testing tools on both Windows and UNIX platforms.
• Experience with WSDL, SoapUI tool, XML, Validating request and response XML.
• Experience with QTP - Object repository, Checkpoints, Actions, Functions, regular expressions, parameterization, transactions, Object spy, function library.
• Experience with HP Loadrunner VUGen, Controller and Analysis tools for performance testing and SAP Testing knowledge.
• Very Good in RDBMS concepts and experience in testing Stored Procedures, Functions, Constraints and Triggers using SQL queries with joins and PL/SQL.
• Good experience in writing Shell scripts to validate the logs and data.
• Good experience with Linux commands, Putty, TOAD, SQL Developer, FTP Tools like WinSCP, Filezilla etc.
• Excellent domain knowledge on Insurance, Healthcare, & E-Commerce Industries.
• Strong hands-on experience with the software development lifecycle (SDLC), the software testing lifecycle (STLC), and various QA methodologies Waterfall, Agile and Agilescrum.
• Well versed in using MS Excel for documentation of Requirements, RTMs, Test Scripts, Test Data, etc using Autofill, Chart wizard, Conditional formatting, Functions, If logic, etc.
• Strong analytical and trouble shooting skills.
• Excellent communications and interpersonal skills, also a very good team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional (QTP)/ UFT, LoadRunner, SOAPUI .

Bug Reporting Tools: Quality Center / ALM, Bugzilla, Jira.

Documentation Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, Visio, MS SharePoint.

Scripting Languages: VBScript, WSDL, UNIX shell scripts, XML, HTML, SQL.

Databases: Oracle10g/11g, MSSQL.

Database Tools: PL/SQL developer, SQL Developer, TOAD, Putty, WinSCP.

Operating Systems: Windows XP/ Vista/ Windows 7, Linux.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr.QA Analyst/ QC Admin

Responsibilities:

• Involved in understanding the requirements from Functional Specification Document, Use cases, Business Requirements Document, meetings and discussions.
• Performed complete System, Performance and Regression testing to effectively assess software quality.
• Worked with testing tools, created Test cases, tracking defects and issues. Performed test coverage, testing progress and bug trends to monitor and report software risks, release readiness, reported issues found and verified fixes to help improve product quality.
• Experience in data migration testing using ETL tools, EDI, OLAP, Oracle, SQL, and PL/SQL.
• Involved in detail testing of Fact Tables, Dim Tables and validated the load Data in the Tables and XML messages.
• Developed the VuGen script for the critical functionalities of the application and done Load Testing and Stress Testing using LoadRunner with the given set of resources.
• Tested Webservices, XML, WSDL using SOAPUI tool. Modified end points when we worked on difference servers and different versions of Web Services.
• Provided required input data to request XML and validated response XML during testing of WebServices.
• Validated the Report GUI for Report testing and Functional testing of the reports by looking against the data displayed in data mart and reports.
• Developed, maintained, and executed test plans, test case, and manual testing using SQL scripts for Oracle with TOAD.
• Created complex SQL, triggers, store procedures and PL/SQL queries and UNIX scripts to perform data validation testing; also utilized ETL, EDI, OLAP, and flat files for data profiling and data validation testing.
• Created functional, regression, and data-driven test scripts, and created batch test scripts in QTP for ETL, SQL and Oracle database with TOAD.
• Wrote tractability matrices based on use cases and business requirements documents (BRDs) using Mercury Quality Center/ALM as QA Status Report, QA Summary Reports, QA Test Logs.
• Used testing tool QTP 10.5/ UFT 11.5 to automate Functional and Regression Testing.
• Used bugzilla for defect logging, tracking defect history, report generation and status tracking.
• Developed user manual for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Performed negative testing by entering improper data to make sure appropriate error messages are displayed.

Environment: Agile/ Extreme Programming, J2EE, Ajax, EJB, VBScript, HTML, XML, Microsoft Office, Windows 7, WebLogic Server, TOAD, LINUX, SQL DEVELOPER, PL/SQL, LoadRunner, QTP 10.5/ UFT 11.5, Quality Center/ ALM, SOAPUI Pro, ETL, Oracle 11g, FTP, Putty, Bugzilla.

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Sr.QA Analyst/ Sr. Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in different phases of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Involved in analyzing business requirements and functional specifications of the application.
• Involved in team discussions to understand the requirements.
• Wrote Test plan and developed Test cases based on technical specifications and business requirements.
• Created scripts and scenarios for automated testing new and enhanced products using QTP 9.0/10.5.
• Performed data integrity/back-end testing by executing SQL statements using TOAD and SQL Plus.
• Created and executed SQL queries to validate the data, and used data manipulation language. (DML) to update the data in the database and verify with front end that application handles the changes correctly.
• Involved in deciding which test cases to be automated and which test cases not to be automated.
• Performed Negative testing to find how the functions and variables perform when they encounters invalid and unexpected values.
• Used QTP extensively for Regression Testing.
• Conducted Functionality testing during various phases of the application using QTP.
• Inserted Check Points to check for the broken Links, Text, and standard properties of an Object using QTP.
• Created User Defined Functions in QTP, Called External functions in VB Script, used Recovery Scenario.
• Used Parameterization for using various data to test the application using QTP.
• Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries, to extract the data from the Database.
• Interacted with developers and business users to communicate and reproduce the defects.
• Performed Security Testing for unauthorized access of the application with Positive and negative testing
• Performed System testing and End to End testing.
• Used Quality Center extensively for test planning, bug tracking and reporting.
• Executed the test cases during weekly batch test and as new builds were rolled.
• Recorded the Test cases using Automation tool QTP and checked the functionality of the application for every release.

Environment: Quality Center 9.5, QTP 9.2/10.5, LoadRunner, Oracle 11g, .NET,HTML, XML, MS Excel, Windows XP/ 7, Linux, VB Script, SOAPUI, PL/SQL, SQL Developer, WinSCP, Putty, Bugzilla.

Confidential

Sr.QA Analyst/ Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements, Functional Specifications, Use Cases and Business Rules to identify Test Requirements, Test Plans, Design Test Cases and Test Data.
• Written test strategy document, test plans, test cases, test scenarios and stored them in Quality Center.
• Performed functional testing using Mercury Quick Test Pro and Performance testing.
• Written SQL scripts to validate the data in the database on the back end and Master Files.
• Written Shell scripts to validate the logs and other data files.
• Reported bugs, reviewed bugs created by Team and Analyzing bugs in Mercury Quality Center.
• Verified bug fixes and testing all impacted modules in application.
• Created & executed Test Scripts & GUI Maps in Quick Test Pro during Regression Testing & after all bug fixes.
• Performed different types of Testing Functional, Integration and Regression during Black Box Testing
• Presenting Bugs & Status Report to the Project Management Team twice a week.
• Created & conducted Load Tests to study the best performance of the application on test for different Scenarios using Load Runner.
• Analyzed Performance (Load/Stress) results identified bottlenecks and presented results to Project Team.
• Involved in Setting and configuring test environment, test data and test scripts.
• Managed Test Director Project instance from allocating user rights, managing flows, requirements, test cases, test scripts and tracking defects for validity, accuracy and clarity.
• Created Excel import templates to speed up the requirements and test cases entry tasks in Test Director. Mapped each testable requirement to test cases as well as each defect back to requirement.
• Facilitated and worked closely with clients to accomplish UAT cycle of alpha & beta testing.
• Extensively involved in back-end data warehouse and data mart testing using PL/SQL scripts to check the data consistency, ETL process, data integrity in the application and database as data was fetched from different databases.
• Developed SQL scripts for all the test cases to be tested manually and automated for functionality, integration, regression, performance and database testing, documented and analyzed test results from test deliverables.
• Tested data storage and retrieval from the back end database.

Environment: Quality Center 9.0, QTP 9.5/10.5, LoadRunner 9.5, Oracle 10g, .NET, HTML, XML, MS Excel, Windows XP/ 7, Linux, VB Script, SOAPUI.

Confidential

QA Analyst/ Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and wrote detailed specification, Scenarios and test requirements.
• Involved in QA project planning, test design, test development, implementation of the test procedures for client server and web based applications.
• Develop detailed test plans from use cases and develop test cases for functional, integration, system testing, regression and user acceptance testing.
• Wrote VB scripts using QTP.
• Performed the data driven tests that deal with different sets of data.
• Prepared Test matrix's to reflect the number of test cases executed, number of bugs found in the application and number of bugs fixed by the developers.
• Track, review, analyze and compare defects using Quality Center.
• Analyzed the functional specifications and discuss and work with business analyst team to gather functionality details.
• Executed test cases developed by self or peer. Compare and analyzed actual to executed results and reported all deviations for resolution.
• Used Quality Center for Test Planning, Test Designing, Test Analysis, Test Execution, Defect Tracking and Test Evaluation.
• Interacted with the developers to sort out the issues and the defects.
• Monitor batch processes: Pending Proposal, Pending Payment, Enrolled account, Status update process and Program Removal.

Environment: Quality Center 9.0, QTP 9.0/9.5, LoadRunner 8.0, SOAPUI, JAVA,HTML, XML, VB Script, MS Excel, Windows XP/ 7, Linux.