SUMMARY

• 7+ Years of successful career in Quality Assurance and Software Testing.
• Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Test Life Cycle (STLC), Bug Life Cycle.
• Involved in QA Life Cycle, which includes Designing, Developing, and Execution of the entire QA process and Documentation of Test Plans, Test Procedures and Test Scripts.
• Expertise in QA Testing/Technical Testing and Ware House Testing
• Complete Knowledge of GUI tools.
• Experience in development and testing database applications of (PL/SQL) Oracle 9i, SQL Server, DB2, and MS - Access.
• Extensive experience in Waterfall, Iterative, and Agile methodologies.
• Hands on experience in Manual Testing using Quality Center and Microsoft Excel.
• Analyzed the requirements by contacting the business analysts and data mapping teams, followed the design closely to improve the vision towards the project.
• Extensive experience in writing Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts for Manual testing for various business Applications and also with the generation of SQL queries to test database functionality.
• Experience in developing Quick Test Professional (QTP) scripts for Regression Testing of applications with varied data.
• Worked in important phases of testing life Cycle like Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, and Business Functionality Testing.
• Hands on experience with Java based, .Net based Web Applications, and Mainframe Applications.
• In-depth knowledge of all QA Phases that include Manual, Functional, System, Unit, Integration, End- to-End, Business Process Testing
• Adept in testing techniques - White Box and Black Box Testing
• Created Test Cases using Microsoft Excel, Quality Center and generated Traceability Matrices to ensure that 100% Requirements coverage by the test cases.
• Expertise in reporting bugs using Bug Tracking tools like Quality Center, Silk Central Issue Manager, and Excel and Jira.
• Created generic, reusable test functions and scripts, Extensive use of bug tracking tools for reporting the modification requests.
• Involved in the preparation of Daily Test Scripts Status Report, Weekly/Monthly Status Reports.
• Experience testing Web Service Applications and Mainframe applications.
• Diligent worker with an eye for detail.
• Dynamic and assertive team player with a strong inclination to improve and optimize process Development and Implementation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000/XP, UNIX, MSDOS

Testing Tools: Quick Test Pro 8.2, Quality Center.

Programming Languages: C, C++, java (J2EE), PERL 5.0, COBOL

Database: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, MS-Access.

Languages: Java, Shell, Perl, Xml.

Technologies: HTML, DHTML, ASP, JSP, Java Script, VB Script, Servlets.

GUI: Visual Basic, Developer2000

Web Server: Web sphere, Web logic, Tomcat

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Bloomington, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Review and understand the ETL processes, functionality & identify test requirements and coverage.
• Involving in System Test Planning and Test estimates
• Preparing Test case design and development
• Test case Data preparation
• Test ware Formally document
• Developed Automation Test Plan on every release of product
• Managed and reviewed HP QTP scripts on HP Quality Centre.
• • Participated to execute HP QTP scripts for every releases of product
• Participate in test ware formal review
• Test the ETL Informatica mappings
• Experience in backend database testing SQL server.
• Test defect trouble shooting and documentation
• Worked on Microsoft Excel spread sheet to write and execute test cases.
• Monitoring testing process
• Coordinate with the project team for defect tracking and resolution
• Providing testing status and Test Metrics to the project team and Test Manager/Test Lead
• Reported defects according to Defect Life Cycle.
• Coordinated with the developers on Defects Status on a regular basis.
• Participate in various meeting and discussed Enhancement and Modification request.
• Daily and weekly test Status reporting

Environment: Microsoft Office Suite, Windows XP, SQL, UNIX, HP Quality Center, Informatica ETL Tools, Clear Track, QTP.

Confidential - Chicago, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Verifying systems solutions to meet functional and technical requirements.
• Determining testing scope and Testing Approach
• Participated in design reviews
• Involving in System Test Planning and Test estimates
• Preparing Test case design and development
• Test case Data preparation
• Test ware Formally document
• Participate in test ware formal review
• Object Repository, Synchronization, Check Points, Recovery Scenarios & Error Handling used during Automation Scripting
• Worked on few QTP scripts (Recording web and window based Applications and debugging errors in script)
• Test case execution, results analysis and documentation
• Monitoring testing process
• Experience in backend database testing, on oracle and SQL server.
• Coordinate with the project team for defect tracking and resolution
• Providing testing status and Test Metrics to the project team and Test Manager/Test Lead
• Conducted User Acceptance Test (UAT) with Users and Customers and wrote issues log based on Outcome of UAT.
• Participated In QA Status and Bug Review Meetings.

ENVIRONMENT: QTP, Oracle (SQL/PL, SQL), Rational Clear Quest, Quality Center.

Confidential - Stamford, CT

QA Lead/QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Verifying systems solutions meet functional and technical requirements.
• Determining testing scope and Testing Approach
• Participated in design reviews
• QATP Creation and test strategy creation
• Conduct Lead review for test cases, test scenarios, Performance test scripts
• Maintain QI sheet and Daily tracking sheets.
• QA effort estimation for performance test and functional testing
• Coordinate the offshore project team and work allocation
• Attend to requirement elaboration sessions and provide feedbacks
• Evaluate project team members (MBO Score Cards)
• Test Case writing and Test Execution
• Analyzed the problems found during manual and automated testing and submitted the bugs using Quality Center.
• Experience with various testing methods such as Functional testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Database Testing, End to End Testing.
• Analyzed all reported bugs for continuous process improvement.
• Used Quality Center to store all Testing results, Metrics, Implemented Test Plan Document, Created Test Cases, Defect Tracking and Reporting.
• Prepare and Maintain project plan
• Experience in backend database testing SQL server.
• Providing testing status and Test Metrics to the Test Manager

ENVIRONMENT: Windows NT4.0, Quality Center9.0, QTP, UNIX, VB Script, SQL Server, HTML, MS SQL Server, Microsoft Excel, MS Word, Internet Explorer.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop Manual Test cases for Scan, Index Query and Route, View Route Box and Reassignment modules.
• Develop Automated Test cases for Scan, Index Query and Route, View Route Box and Reassignment Modules.
• Generated Manual and Win Runner test scripts for functional testing.
• Performed Positive and Negative testing to check the behavior of the Application
• Responsible for manual Functional and Integration testing for above modules.
• Regression testing of applications for each patch/change request and new releases.
• Participated in weekly meetings to verify the requirements and the issues under revision.
• Involved in the internal meetings of the QA Team and reviewing the ongoing testing process and updating the team with current status of testing.
• Logged bugs and discussing with the Development team for fixation.
• Worked with the Development team to ensure testing issues are resolved by using defect reports
• Worked with SQL Server 2000 to determine test case data.
• Defects encountered were reviewed and reported. using Bug Tracking tool Test Director
• Raised defects using Clear Quest with exact re-creation steps and reported them to developers to fix the bugs.

ENVIRONMENT: WINDOWS 2000 Server, Test Director .NET (C#), SQL Server2000/2005.

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Review Business requirements, functional specifications.
• Involved in writing Test plan and test procedures.
• Development of Functional and System test cases and execution of test cases manually.
• Created automated Test Scripts using Win Runner.
• Performed Positive and Negative testing to check the behavior of the Application
• Performed database testing by scripting and executing SQL queries on Confidential tables.
• Run test scenarios and log test results.
• Log issues using Test Director, prepare and update issue status reports.
• Interacted with developers and other QA team to ensure delivery of a quality product.

Environment: Toad, Win Runner, Test Director, SQL

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Development of System and Integration Test Cases.
• Generation of automated Test Scripts using Win Runner.
• Execution of manual test cases and automated test scripts.
• Performed Integration and Regression testing for different builds
• Conduct Database testing by executing SQL queries.
• Performed White box Testing and Black Box Testing and User Acceptance Testing(UAT)
• Documented and communicated test results.
• Tested the Modules Products and Order entry.
• Coordinated with Developers for Defect Analysis
• Used Kintana tool to monitor build process - performed Software builds.
• Logged and monitored Defects using Bugzilla.
• Continuously checking the Defect status report and get the defects fixed.
• Testing included verification of Data in the Database, using SQL Commands.

Environment: Java, Java Script, HTML, Test Director, and Oracle on Windows NT. Win Runner, Bugzilla