SUMMARY

• 7 years of experience in software testing of Web - based and Client /Server applications.
• 7 yrs of experience in different client Domain like Financial (Banking / investement), Insurance, Healthcare and Telecom.
• Expertise in conducting various testing types like Functional, Progression, Regression, Sanity, Usability, End to End, UAT and OAT.
• Experience in providing TEST Estimation and Preparing Test Strategy, Test Plans for Manual, Automation.
• Strong understanding of QA Principles, QA Process, Use Process and Software Development Life Cycle modules (SDLC)
• Proficient in preparing Data/Transaction flow diagrams using Visio.
• Experience in co-coordinating and engaging teams for different test phases.
• Strong knowledge of Entry Criteria and Exit Criteria for application testing.
• Excellent skills in Database Testing. Experience in testing incoming data value and outgoing data value with queries, stored functions and joins. Have Good knowledge of Data conversion testing.
• Hands on experience in Preparing Test Summery Report and Test Analysis Report.
• Good Knowledge in documenting the process related documents like Traceability Matrix, Defect Route Cause Analysis Document, Risk Analysis Document and Gap Analysis.
• Experience in implementing Quality processes and Test methodologies (Waterfall and Agile methodologies).
• Part of the team conducting QA Audits for all test phases.
• Experience in Test Environment Management by booking and maintaining the test environments and connectivity.
• Expertise in RUP(Rational Unified Process) and CCM level processes..
• 3yrs of experience in Quality Center administration. Have experience in setting the Project Templates and making necessary changes according to the project need in QC.
• Worked as a seed for transitioning and training to offshore team and responsible for training the new recruits.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Functional Areas: Analysis, Delivery, Black Box testing, System Integration testing, Manual testing

Operating Systems: Windows NT 4.0/2000, Win 95/98/XP/ME, and MS DOS

Database: MySQL MS SQL, Oracle 7.x & 8.0, MS Access, DB2, MSDE, and SQL

Packages: MS Office 2000/2010

Testing Tools: Quality Center, Test director, Quick Test Pro, Win Runner

QA Mythology: Agile, Waterfall, QA Black Box Testing

Platform Knowledge: C#, Java, J2EE, C, Perl, SQL, HTML, XML, ASP, VBScript, Java Script, VB.net and ASP.net

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Compared the data from student module in new system with legacy system after the migration.
• Tested the application utilizing the agile methodology.
• Developed Test plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases for various test scenarios.
• Compared the financial data in new system with legacy system after the migration.
• Verified GPA calculation functionality with different sets of data (grade) by comparing values in banner with the manual GPA computation using excel sheet.
• Manually executed test cases to verify that data is saved in the database only after the save button is pressed.
• Executed the test cases for different security (access) level. For example admin, registration, academic, financial
• Verified that the person in academic user group do not have access to financial information
• Wrote and executed test cases for print function in different modules (all pages, all fields, custom fields)
• Logged and tracked defect using excel sheet.
• Involved in and responsible for Functional, Regression and Integration testing of the application.
• Prepared Traceability Matrix between Requirements and Test Cases.
• Performed regression testing on fixed defects and basic functionality on each new built.
• Coordinated UAT testing from different departments
• Created testing report for the manager
• Participated in status report meeting and provided the update

Environment: (Test Director, Window, HTML, .NET, Java Scripts, SQL Server 2008, Mercury Suite (QTP 9.0, Load Runner)

Confidential, Grapevine, TX

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Manually executed test cases for different sales transactions such as Sales, Trade In, reservation, return, Void, Post Void, sales data (SLS), signature data(.Sig) and compared the receipts from each test cases with the files created at end of day Closing making sure receipt matches the files and transaction type as outlined in the mapping document.
• Executed all phases of Performance Testing.
• Tested 12 different Credit cards in 4 different processing devices for different POS transactions.
• Executed test cases for employee management module such as new hire, time card, Employee info update in POS with EMF file created by POS at closing process.
• Created automation scripts using Quick Test Professional.
• Executed test cases for new GS functionality inventory movement such as on hand to defective, defective to on hand, defective to field destroy and verified the quantity movement in POS.
• Extensively used Quality Center for defect logging and reporting.
• Executed test cases for Store to Corporate transfer such as defective return to warehouse and compare the shipment data printed in shipment paper with file created by POS at the end of the day polling.
• Execute test cases for promotion file (.PMO) and validated that promotion discount is accurately applying to the sales transactions.
• Validate different promotional discount types such as transaction level, category level, and item level in PMO file by running correspondent transaction in POS front end.
• Process price change file received during the Corp to Store polling process and validate the price change applied in POS transaction.
• Execute test cases for the corporate communication such as email, shipment information making sure that the format and content of such communication is matching to the communication sent by corporate system.
• Developed Perl Scripts for performing backend testing
• Execute test cases for shipment processing and validate that the on hand quantity in POS has increased by received quantity.
• Verified that the product information changes such as description, name, and release date in .SKU file by loading SKU file in POS.
• Extensively developed queries and stored procedures in Sybase, DB2, and Oracle for using them in automation scripts.
• Validated product release date by creating sales transactions making sure that POS allows selling only those products that has release date today or in the past.
• Tracked POS test data to backend database by writing SQL queries against SQL server database 2008 during integration testing.
• Tracked credit card sales data from POS to backend database by comparing POS sales files with SQL result of joining sales tables with credit tables during system integration testing.
• Compared employee time sheet data in .emp file against etimesheet table by running SQL queries after .emp file load in the database to make sure that the data is matching.
• Created automation scripts using Quick Test Professional.
• Compared store to corporate transfer data in .XFR file created by POS with SQL query result against transfer table in corporate system.
• Coordinated with cross team member during system integration testing.
• Coordinated UAT for several POS releases.
• Created daily status report and communicated to the managers and project team members.

Environment: (WIN XP, SQL Server 2000, .Net, ETL: Pervasive Data Junction, Pervasive SQL V8 Mercury Suite, Test director 7.6, Quick Test Professional 8.02, MOM Console, Spotlight, TIDAL, Web Services)

Confidential, Texas

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Scope of testing included Content verification, Navigation & Data driven testing for the web based and client/server application.
• Managing testing activities, preparing and executing on testing strategy, reporting on QA Testing metrics.
• Performed manual testing on all phases, including regression, integration, GUI, Black Box, Smoke testing of the application, its interfaces and Client/Server utilities.
• Various Negative Tests including Invalid Data Tests, invalid links and Bad URL tests were conducted.
• Used Test director for requirements management, planning, scheduling, writing test plans and test cases, and defect tracking.
• Investigated software bugs and interacted with developers to resolve application defects.
• Testing the process as per SDLC Standard.
• Database integrity testing using SQL statements.

Environment: Windows 98/NT/XP, Quality Center, MS SQL Server, Java, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript 1.2, JDK 1.1.6, Win Runner

Confidential

Requirement Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a liaison between stakeholders: financial system users, clients and managers who have a business problem, and software development team to gather requirements.
• Conducted meetings and interviews and JAD sessions with stakeholders to collect business requirements.
• Participated in transforming business requirements into System Requirement Specifications (SRS).
• Responsible for defining and documenting System Requirement Specifications (SRS).
• Created Analysis Model and Data Model and used those artifacts to develop the design model, class diagrams, collaboration and sequence diagrams and state chart diagrams.
• Tracked defects and measured the testing effort and the quality of the software by creating reports in MS Word processor
• Developed System Test plan
• Interacted with the QA team to design test cases from the detailed use cases and the use case diagram, using MS Excel
• Submitted, modified and tracked change requests using MS Excel

Environment: (Windows 96, MS Office, HTML, JavaScript, visual Basic)