SUMMARY

• A creative and professional team player with over Seven years of diverse experience in Software Testing and Quality Assurance
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Test Methodologies from project definition to post - deployment documentation
• Implemented whole life cycle of testing methodologies starting from planning, creating, executing, reporting and tracking the defects.
• Experience in writing test plans, defining test scenarios and test cases, developing and maintaining test scripts based on business and functional requirements. Documented all phases of QA process.
• Extensive experience in working with Insurance, Financial, Brokerage and E-commerce Applications.
• Proficient in Manual and Automated Testing of applications developed on Windows and UNIX Environment.
• Extensive experience in running various kinds of tests such as Regression, Functional, Backend, User Acceptance Tests (UAT) for Web (N-Tier) and Client/Server Applications.
• Expert in C, SQL, VBScript and proficiency in Hadoop.
• Ability to interact with developers and product analysts regarding testing status and defect tracking.
• Expertise in Bug tracking using Bug tracking Tools like Test Director, Quality Center, ALM and Clear Quest.
• Self-starter and team player with excellent communication, problem solving skills, interpersonal skills and a good aptitude for learning.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: QTP, Rational Quality Manager, TFS. TestDirector, Clear Quest.

Scripting Languages: Java Script, VB Script, UNIX shell Scripting.

Languages: C, C++, SQL.

Databases: MS-Access, Oracle, SQL Server 2010.

Servers: Apache server, MS IIS, Web Sphere and Web Logic.

Internet Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP/IP, HTTP(s), FTP, SMTP and POP3.

Web Tools: HTML.

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP, UNIX, AIX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, PA

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked for Different Sprints in Agile Methodology.
• Prepared System and functional Test Case Scenario.
• Written Test conditions based on Requirements.
• Worked on Test Data Setup.
• Interacted with Business Partners in Reviews and User Acceptance Testing.
• Updated existing test cases as per Change Requests created and Involved in Peer review of the documents like Test Plans, Test Cases written by Team Lead & Team members.
• Proven experience in writing SQL queries and testing the database.
• Had Discussions with Developers and Analysts regarding Issues and New Functionality.
• Created and Reporting Bugs, involved in every phase of Bug Life Cycle using ALM.
• Escalation of Critical problems / issues.
• Interacted with developers to Report and Track Bugs in ALM.
• Conducting exploratory testing with Business Partners.

Environment: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, SQL, ALM.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements document and developed test plan, test objectives, test strategies, test priorities, test cases etc.
• Performed Cross browser testing for multiple browsers, e.g.,Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, firefox on different platforms (Windows ) and interpreted the negative/positive res
• Involved in functional and regression testing.
• Executed SQL commands to do the Backend Testing
• Executed the Test Cases Manually and reported the defects using Test Director
• Developed manual Test Scripts and Test Cases
• Involved in system integration and validation of populated data
• Prepared test data for positive and negative test scenarios for functional testing as documented in the test plan.
• Involved in weekly status updates showing the progress of the manual testing

Environment: Test Director, Java, HTML, Web Sphere, UNIX, Windows NT.

Confidential, CA

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed functional specifications and developed a test plan for System testing.
• Created Test Cases, Executed Test Cases, Reported defects for all the modules in the project.
• Performed sanity testing for each new build of the application
• Involved in Manual Testing of the GUI with regard to layout, usability and standards.
• Developed automated test scripts using QuickTest Professional for Functionality testing.
• Identified test cases for automation and performed Regression testing using Quicktest Professional.
• Created data driven tests to validate the scenario with different test data from excel files.
• Responsible for preparing of Test Data and importing it into Oracle using SQL loader.
• Performed backend testing to test the validity of the data in the reports using complex SQL queries on the database.
• Identified and reported software defects using Test Director for Quality Center to the team lead.
• Involved in regular meetings with the Development Team to discuss discrepancies identified during testing.

Environment: Java, Java Script, XML, Oracle, UNIX (HP), Windows 2000.

Confidential, NY

Sr. Tester

Responsibilities:

• Gathered specifications and requirements from development personnel prior to application testing.
• Reviewed manual testing methods, developed and executed automated scripts.
• Involved in automated Regression Testing using QuickTest Professional.
• Prepared the data sets for testing the whole application
• Created and executed SQL queries to fetch data from an oracle database server to validate and compare expected results with those actually obtained.
• Involved in testing the application functionality using Regression Testing, modified and documented scripts for regression testing.
• Created batch scripts which call more focused scripts to perform small testing routines for a complete end-to-end functional regression test of the complete business process.
• Developed SQL Queries and Procedures to perform database testing
• Using Test Director created Test outlines and maintained Test scripts.
• Executed test scripts, analyzed the test results and documented reports.
• Mentored junior testers in development of Test cases, test automation and automated testing tools.
• Produced Test Metrics showing the number of test cases executed, number passed, number failed and number left to execute in weekly meetings.

Environment: Test Director, Vb Script, Java, SQL, Oracle on a Windows/Unix Platform.

Confidential, CA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business requirements (Business logic, process flows, and reporting)
• Involved in project planning, processes and procedures to improve QA methodology and setup test data
• Involved in writing and implementation of the test plan and developed test cases and Test scripts in Test Director.
• Validate automated test scripts to ensure that all test scenarios are complete and operating in all test environments.
• Performed Integration testing of overall database application to ensure performance measurement
• Co-ordinate with application developers and business group on Infrastructure test design and architecture improvements and selection of testing tools.
• Responsible for entering bugs into an automated bug management system and performing regression tests after the bugs were fixed using Test Director.
• Maintained detailed test logs and report test results in Test Director.
• Documenting and updating production support team prior to application release.
• Worked closely with business experts and developers in order to perform my duties.

Environment: Win Runner, Test Director, Windows NT Server 4.0, HTML, XML, Visio, Web Sphere, Java, Servlets, SQL, Oracle 8i, TOAD, MS-Office, IE 6.0.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparing Master Test Plan and Detailed Test Plans.
• Created the test cases and test procedures in Test Director for testing the application (Integration, Functionality, and Regression testing).
• Queried the database using SQL for backend testing.
• Performed Data-driven testing using data sources from database, flat files, and WinRunner’s DataTable.
• Created batch scripts which call more focused scripts to perform small testing routines for a complete end-to-end functional regression test of the complete business process.
• Performed defect tracking using Clear Quest.
• Interacted with the development team for defect resolution.

Environment: Clear Quest, TestDirector, C++, Power Builder, HTML, Windows, SQL, Oracle