SUMMARY

• 7+Years of experience inSoftware Development, Testing &Quality Assurancein all phases of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Strong understanding ofObject Oriented Programming methodology
• Excellent analytical, logical andprogramming skills.
• Expertise inAutomation Testing & Web Application Testing.
• Expertise inCoreJavaand related technologies.
• Working knowledge of Agile and waterfall development models
• Experience in writing test plans, test cases, and test design specifications.
• Expertise in using Bug tracker and error logging tools.
• Expertise in working with analysts, developers and testers during implementation of complex projects.
• Hands onexperience onAutomation testing toolslikeSelenium RC, TestNG and Eclipse IDE
• Expertisein scriptingusingPerl.
• Well versed in writingTest Scenariosfrom the Functional specification document
• Well versed with Compuware tools likeQAPartner&QADirector.
• Practiced excellentQAstandards, metrics and test management process
• Worked closely with Business Analysts, Developers and Users to discuss project updates and documentation details
• Created and Executed Scripts inTest Director.
• Exported and imported test data between Quality Center and MS Excel/Word
• Experienced in SQL 2005,2008 or Oracle 9i,10g
• Experienced in performing Back end testing forDatabase integrityby executing complex SQL queries for validating the data in the back end database tables.
• Knowledge of programming languages,VB, C, C++, Java, HTML
• Ability to work on cross - platform environments like Windows 2000/XP, UNIX.
• Highly motivated, organized and results oriented with excellent communication and presentation skills with capabilityof adapting to new and fast changing technologies
• Excellent team player with good logical reasoning ability, co-ordination and interpersonal skills.
• Good knowledge inQuality Assurance&Quality Control.
• Knowledge aboutCMM&ISOlevels.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Java/JDBC, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, C, Perl

Application & Web Servers: Apache, Tomcat

Tools: Eclipse, Web Developer, Firebug

Databases: Oracle 8i/9i, My SQL 2005

Version control system: CVS

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, Windows XP/7

Testing Tool: Selenium RC/Grid

Bug Tracking Tool: ClearQuest, Bugzilla

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Sr.QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed theBusiness requirements,Functional RequirementandSystem requirement.
• Reviewed and understand theTechnical requirement document.
• DevelopedTest Plan, andTest Strategydocument based on requirement.
• Writethedetailed leveltest casesand map to the requirement.
• Executed the test cases andlog the defectthroughQC.
• Worked onFront endandbackend testing.
• Worked onIntegration testing,System Testing, Joint Testing, Batch Testing, and Database testing.
• Createdtest datafor testing.
• Worked closely with Development team and Business Analyst to resolve the issues.
• Attended the Project status and Release meetings.
• Participated inProduction Releasefor the different project teams.
• Logged defectsin Quality Center, re-tested defects, analyzed defect with Users and Developers.

Environment: Java, MS-Office, MS Outlook, Text Pad, FTP, MS-Visio, SharePoint, SQL, TOAD, Oracle, SOAP UI, Quality Center, QTP, UNIX, Windows XP/Vista, Win SCP, I.E 6/7/8, Firefox, Informatica (ETL tools) .

Confidential, Federal way, WA

Sr.QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in high-paced agile development environment and worked closely with internal groups such as Product Management, Client services and Software development to deliver high quality sprint releases.
• Performed test preparation and test execution tasks as assigned byQAManager.
• Escalated the issues about the User Stories and Acceptance Criteria to theQAmanager.
• Worked as a subject matter expert for one or more functional areas of our applications, typically of moderate to high complexity.
• Act as single point of contact between development team and testers for iterations, testing and deployment activities.
• Designed and implemented functional test plans and test cases based on system understanding and analysis of functional and system specifications.
• Mapped test cases to requirements to ensure complete test coverage.
• Identified test data requirements and generated required test data.
• Prioritized test cases taking into account of business priorities and risk.
• Maintained test management tool for assigned areas of test suite ownership.
• Configured test environments as necessary to support test efforts.
• Executed Functional, Regression, and System testing for web-based applications.
• Filed defects and processed them through the defect life cycle to closure.
• Worked with peers in development and other organizations to troubleshoot and resolve project issues both technical and non-technical in nature.
• Escalated the issues in the application to the Client management team.
• Tested features like sponsorship wizard, CGV,SCO and landing pages.
• Majorly involved in SCO with both manual and automation responsibilities.
• Worked with web data analytics tools like Fiddler, Http Fox and Fire bug.
• Created and executed SQL queries to validate the data in the database
• Used Bugzilla as Bug tracking tool and Jira as tool for user stories and issue navigation
• Testopia for test case management and Silk test for automation..

Environment: Bugzilla 4.0, Jira 4.1, Silk test, ASP.net, VB.net, C#, IIS, Windows 2003, SQL Server 2005.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved inthe projects since the startingof Requirement Phase.
• Prepared completeTest Cases,Test scriptsandTest Data.
• PerformedFunctional, Integration,andRegression TestingusingSOAP UIandWATIRand Selenium.
• UsedSOAP UIto test -SOAP web services
• UsedSOAP UIto developautomatedtest suites forweb servicesanddatabase testing
• Developedautomatedtest scripts usingWATIRto test a HTML5 based online eBook Reader application.
• UsedWatirandSeleniumWebdriver to test the eBook Reader across various browsers.
• MigratedSeleniumtests toWatirtests sinceithas a cleaner API and provides morefunctionality.
• Developed an automated performance test usingWATIRfor the above application.
• Developed automated test scripts foran online eBook management system forScholastic
• Tested SOAP-WSDL web services for ingesting Excel metadata and EPUB files in legacy Data Warehouse and following delivery toApple iStore.
• Observed the Performance of the application by creating virtual user threads
• PreparedPL/SQLscripts toverify the database updates, inserts and deletes of the records.
• Worked in all phases of Testing likeSystem, Business Functionality, Regression, Performance and Security Testingof the application.
• Maintained testcases and test scripts and defect tracking and reporting using Rally.
• Attended daily scrums for multiple projects.
• Tested the application for specificperformance and end user testingon its compatibility on various web browsers like Chrome, Mozilla, Safari, Opera, and Internet Explorer.
• Responsible for taking new dev builds and deploying inQAenvironment on Jboss server in Linux environment.
• Also responsible for creating tickets for Production release of software.
• Involved in providing demos of application to client.

Environment: Rally, SOAP UI, WATIR, Oracle 10g, Ruby, Groovy, Java, JSP, JavaScript, Jboss, IE, Subversion, CentOS.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the client to understand the consumer and business application product requirements and coordinated with testing team to derive a measurable result.
• Reviewed the System use cases to ensure that they are complete and clear.
• Analyzed Business Requirements and System Requirements and involved in developing Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Maintained Test Plans as per the updated Specifications.
• Responsible to identify the test data from production to request Data migration.
• Involved in the review of the test plan, scripts to ensure they match and cover all the requirements in the functional specification document.
• Developed the test coverage matrix.
• Involved in cross browser platform acceptance testing for IE, Firefox, AOL
• Handled dynamic objects using descriptive programming and handled exceptions during the execution of test scripts using Recovery Scenario Manger in QTP.
• Wrote smoke test sets and regression test sets.
• Automated Tests for Smoke, Functionality, Regression Testing using QTP
• Plugged in various check points (GUI, Bitmap, Database, Text) to check whether various GUI and field objects meet the requirement specifications
• Performed Data-driven testing using Quick Test Pro to insert multiple sets of data into the application
• Scripted re-usable scripts by using QTPs call to actions and inserting copy of actions
• Ran the scripts in batch mode by creating various recovery scenarios
• Used UNIX commands to extract the log files from server
• Worked in very fast paced agile testing environment, attending daily standup meetings, providing daily testing status and raising any concerns or doubts
• Documented all the test procedures and test scripts and placed on the shared drive
• Reported the defects to Team Lead and Development Mangers.
• Created Weekly Summary Reports forQATeam.

Environment: QC 8.2, QTP 9.2, ASP.net, VB.net, C#, IIS, Windows 2003, SQL Server 2005.

Confidential, WI

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing requirements from Business and Preparation of Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Test scripts (Positive and Negative Test Scenarios).
• Reviewed the Requirements Specifications and created Master test plan.
• Involved in preparation of Test Strategy Document, Test Plan andQADevelopment plan.
• Created Test Data for testing various kinds of test Scenarios.
• Performed Integration Testing in customer Development environment and System Integration Testing in SIT environment and User Acceptance Testing in Pre production Environment.
• Involved Preparation of Traceability Matrix and mapping the Test Cases with the requirements and Test Metrics in Jira.
• Logged Defects and track them to Closure.
• Performed Regression Testing as part of every build.
• Involved in testing compatibility of software under various Internet Browsers.
• Generated automated test scripts for functionality and GUI testing and further enhancements were done in the script.
• Performed Integration testing, Regression testing and System Testing.
• Developed SQL Queries for testing various Database validation
• Reported bugs in Quality Center with server logs information from Web and DB servers.
• Investigated the poor response time due to inefficient database objects to pinpoint the areas of improvement.
• Involved in facilitating defects call between Business, Production team, Developers,QATeam, System Integration Testing Team and User Acceptance Testing team.
• Involved in monitoring performance of web based SLM application.

Environment: MS-Excel, J2EE 1.4, Web sphere, Windows NT, Oracle9i, Jira, MySQL4.0.