SUMMARY

• 5+ Years of Experience in Manual Testing for Software Quality Assurance (SQA)
• Knowledgeable in Open - Source Automation Tools (QC, Mantis Bug Tracker, Bugzilla)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, MS-DOS, UNIX

Testing Tools: IBM Rational Functional Tester/Manual Tester, Rational Robot, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Test Manager

Mercury Tools: Aplication Lifecycle Management (ALM 11.0), Quality Center 11, 9.2, QTP, Test Director 7.6/ 7.8, Win Runner 7.6/7.0Other Tools WSFTP, PSFTP, putty, Data Feeder, DSF Monitor, MapForce, DOM Toy, Toad, Beyond Compare, XSQL, VSS, TortoiseSVN, Confluence, JIRA, Fast Test, SOAP Client, Eforge and SharePoint

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

RDBMS: SQL Server, Oracle 8i/9i, and MS Access, Main Frame

Web Technologies: XML, HTML, DHTML, VB Script, ASP, JSP and Java Script

Application Servers: Web logic 6.0, IIS, Apache Server and Web Sphere

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Orlando, FL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Agent Desk Top application, Web application and Integration testing.
• Involved in developing the Test strategy documents, Test Plans, and Test Cases.
• Create Test cases and test execution based on the change requests.
• Raise defects while test set execution for each build/release as necessary.
• Retest the defects when resolved by the development team upon build deployment and assign the status to close/reopen as appropriate.
• Perform Regression Testing, Service Applications generating the Test Execution Scripts.
• Involved in Server side testing for database validation using SOAP Client and Data Feeder tools.
• Participate in Requirement meetings and Defect Review Board meetings.
• Use TOAD for database validation involving integration testing.
• Execute test cases manually and generate reports.
• Generate weekly status reports and acceptance criteria sign off reports.
• Created test data and test files for applications.
• Coordinate with offshore team (India teams) for test cases execution.
• As a Team Lead, coordinate with offshore team of 4 members in India.

Environment: Quality Center version 11, Java, XML, SQL Developer, UNIX, MS Office, API Web Services, .Net, WinSCP, FTP, Agile methodology

Confidential, Duluth, GA

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing the Test strategy documents, Test Plans, and Test Cases for Media Corp project applications, validating live TV functionality
• Worked with Magna Quest application for creating subscriber accounts and adding Set Top Box (STB) connection configuration to the subscriber accounts.
• Worked on the Content Management System application that involves creation of metadata for VOD (Video on Demand) packages; worked on using putty for file transfers and ingesting VOD files in Development/Test, Integration and Production environments.
• Create Test cases and test execution based on the change requests
• Raise defects while test set executions for each build/release
• Perform Regression Testing, Service Applications generating the Test Execution Scripts.
• Involved in Server side testing for database validation using SOAP Client.
• Participate in Requirement meetings and Defect Review Board meetings.
• Use TestLink extensively for creating and executing test cases.
• Execute test cases manually and generate reports.
• Used Confidential ’s internal application called Eforge for documentation purposes of the testing project.
• Generate weekly status reports and acceptance criteria sign off reports.
• Created test data and test files for applications.
• Coordinate with offshore teams (Brazil and Singapore teams) for test cases execution.

Environment: TestLink, Java, XML, SQL Developer, UNIX, MS Office, API Web Services, .Net, REST Client, WinSCP, FTP, Eforge, Agile methodology

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Functional Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing the Test strategy documents, Test Plans, Traceability matrices, and Test Cases for Vendor Collaboration application and Supplier Buying Agreement applications.
• Worked in the Supply Chain and Retail IT operations and testing group
• Perform defect and data base validations
• Raise defects while test set executions for each build/release
• Coordinate with offshore team of four resources on the assigned projects.
• Perform Regression Testing, Service Applications generating the Test Execution Scripts.
• Participate in Requirement meetings and Detail Design meetings.
• Use Quality Center extensively for creating and executing test cases.
• Execute test cases manually in the Test Lab (QC).
• Use Share point for Documentation.
• Generate weekly status reports and acceptance criteria sign off reports.
• As a Test Lead, coordinated with the offshore team of four members (India) to overview the project testing.
• Coordinate with offshore team (four members) as a team lead to oversea test cases and test execution.

Environment: Quality Center 10.2, Java, XML, SQL Server Oracle 9i, UNIX, MS Office, API Web Services, .Net, Agile methodology

Confidential, Reston, Virginia

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements, Functional Specifications, and Business Rules to identify Test Requirements, Test Plans, Design Test Cases and Test Data.
• AttendedRequirements Review Meetings and provided feedback to ensure that the system meets all primary requirements.
• PerformedFunctionality Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, Performance Testing, Load Testing, Security Testing, Transaction Testing, Usability Testing.
• Responsible for developing test plan and test cases.
• Involved in automated testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Checked for navigational flow and broken links using Automatic check Points.
• UsedSQL plus to check the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries to extract the data from the database.
• UsedHP Quality Centerto capture requirements, create test plan, test cases, also used Quality center to log defects, track and generate defect reports and graphs.
• Involved in testing HIPAA compliance requirements pertaining to CFR 21 part 11
• Communicated bugs status well to across all engineering teams
• Worked with developers to resolve defects and issues.
• Participated in technical team meetings, from the beginning of the project through entire lifecycle.
• Coordinated with UAT team by providing them with test cases and test data.
• Actively participated in enhancement meetings focused at making the application more reliable.
• Prepared Defect Report, Weekly Status Report, and Bug Tracking.
• Involved in preparation of Traceability Matrix.

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, Java, XML, SOAP, SQL Server Oracle 9i, UNIX, MS Office, API Web Services, J2EE, .Net, Agile methodology, TFS

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business and functional requirement documents and identified test scenarios.
• Prepared test cases and test data based on FRS for the Client-server application.
• Supervised to make sure they are testing the bugs/new enhancements precisely.
• Performed system testing to check the functionality of the application according to the user requirements.
• Performed Integration Testing of various modules to verify the interfaces and control flows between the connected modules.
• Performed End to End testing manually.
• Performed testing using Test Director and involved in defect resolution.
• Performed back-end testing on DB2 database and verified the data between CC central and the mainframe verb.
• Verified the data stored in the DB2 database with the help of SQL queries.
• Interacted and worked with the development team to solve the problems encountered in the test scenario run.
• Worked in close coordination with software designers and business analysts in performance and failure analysis of detected problems.
• Reported test defects to Manager using defect tracking tool Test director.
• Conducted various training sessions on the usage of the asset.
• Performed ad-hoc testing, Integration testing, End-to-End testing, Functional testing, User Acceptance testing (UAT).
• Knowledge of SDLC and methodologies.
• Interacted with developers and Manager to know the status of project.
• Maintained strategy document and collected metrics.

Environment: Test Director, Microsoft Visual Basics, XML, Windows, Java, WinSQL, DB2, CSS, HTML, MS Excel.