SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance of Web and client/server applications on Windows and Unix platforms, expertise in analysis and design of applications.
• Expert in both area of manual and automation testing and currently seeking for a Software Test Engineer position to utilize my skills and further my experience.
• Extensive experience in analyzing the Business Requirement Documents, Functional Specifications and Technical Specifications.
• Experience in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Re - testing, Smoke testing, Sanity Testing, Performance Testing, Volume, Stress, Compatibility Testing, Security Testing and coordinating UAT test efforts.
• Extensively prepared test plans, test case designs, test script designs and execution of various test scripts and Data Driven testing using QTP, Quality Center and Win Runner.
• Worked in code review process of QTP scripts among the team members
• Proficient in the complete and thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile and Waterfall Methodologies.
• Involved in analysis of the test run output, checking it with the requirements, reporting the exceptions to QA Manager and also proficient in reporting defects into the defect tracking system and results to the assigned project
• Reported Bugs to the developers using the Test Director/Quality Center, Clear Quest and PVCS Tracker.
• Prepare and update documents like Environment checklist, Build deployment checklist, Build acceptance checklist, Test Summary Report for build release.
• Expertise in management reporting using the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Daily/Weekly Status Reports, Defect Reports and Project Reports
• Developed and maintained reusable, data driven automated test scripts.
• Strong SQL skills for generating Automation or Manual scripts in order to perform Database testing and Experience in writing SQL queries (using DDL and DML commands) using Joins (inner and outer) and sub-queries.
• Demonstrated initiative, flexibility and adaptability on previous projects.
• Proficient in all cycles of testing life cycle from test planning to defect tracking and managing defect life cycle.
• Extensive experience in coordinating testing effort, responsible for test deliverables and status reporting to management.
• Excellent analytical, communication and mentor skills prove an asset to any group or organization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Quality Center
• Test Director
• QTP
• XML Spy
• PVCS Tracker
• Java
• J2EE
• VB
• ASP
• XML
• Web Services
• VB Script and UNIX Shell Script
• Clear quest
• PVCS Tracker
• MS-SQL Server
• Oracle
• SQL
• Toad
• DB2 & DB2/400
• Agile
• Waterfall
• MS-Office
• Out Look and Power Point
• Windows
• OS/400
• UNIX (HP & Sun Solaris)
• LINUX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the A/C holder requirements by interacting with Business Analyst.
• Prepared test Cases by going through the Design documents and SRS
• Developed and updated requirements traceability matrix and tracked requirements status throughout the project
• Performed Functional, Integration, System test and End-to end testing for the different types of customer transactions.
• Performed Positive, Negative and Boundary Testing
• Prepared the Test data for interpreting the Positive / negative results
• Involved in Credit Card Management in creating credit card profile
• Responsible for identifying the functional test cases for Regression Testing and automate these scripts using QTP.
• Extensively used the SQL queries to validate the backend database
• Discussed the error status with Developers to resolve technical issues.
• Performed User Acceptance (UAT) testing before the initial release when the project reached the final phase prior to deployment.
• Extensively tested on line transactions at remote server using web technologies.
• Organized Test Cases, bugs, tracking of defect in the Quality Center.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, PVCS Tracker, Oracle, SQL, Java, J2EE, Sun Solaris

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirement documents and system specifications.
• Developed Test Plan, Test Cases, and Test Scenarios for testing the application.
• Performed Manual Testing, System Testing, Acceptance Testing and Functional Testing for verifying application functionality.
• Created the Test Execution plan using Quality Center
• Conducted multiple cycles of Regression Testing using the automated scripts.
• Executed the Manual Test cases and logged the defects using Quality Center.
• Developed Defect reports, Test Scenario, Status Report and Test Summary Report after each phase of the execution.
• Wrote SQL queries using TOAD to the Oracle RDBMS to verify the data with Back-End to maintain Data Consistency, Integrity and Accuracy.
• Develop and executed automated tests scripts in Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Enhanced QTP Scripts using different User-Defined-Functions and conducted Data Driven Tests as per the User requirements.
• Enhanced QTP script using checkpoints, parameterization, regular expressions and optional steps
• Helped the developers to track the problem and resolve the technical issues.
• Attended walkthroughs and review meetings with Business analysts and development teams.
• Interacted with the project team and developers to assign priority to Projects based on dependency and criticality and resolve the defects.

Environment: Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, SQL, VB Script, Oracle 10g, Windows 2000

Confidential, Dallas, TX

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specifications
• Developed Test Cases to cover overall quality assurance testing.
• Performed functionality testing, regression testing, system testing and ad-hoc testing as needed.
• Interacted with Developers to follow up on Defects/Issues.
• Tracked bugs and created reports using Test Director.
• Run the automated QTP same test scripts in three different environments while the same application in different environments.
• Involved in the implementation of automation frameworks, developing test infrastructure for Functional and Regression testing of the application using QTP.
• Reported and tracked defects using Test Director.
• Version Control and build management using PVCS Tracker.
• Did negative testing to find how the functions perform when it encounters invalid unexpected values.
• Performed database testing/back-end testing by writing SQL queries in Oracle.
• Involved in Data Ware House testing using DWB tools using SQL queries.
• Tested Application for broken links etc.

Environment: Test Director, Windows-NT, Oracle 8i, SQL, Web Logic, .Net

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all stages of Software Development Life Cycle from requirements gathering to post-production.
• Creation of the Test Strategy, Test Plan, and execution schedule Uploaded Test Plan, Test Cases, Weekly Status Reports, Issue Tracker.
• Participated in weekly Assessment Meetings with BA, QA and Developers and coordinated between Business Team, Development Team, and Testing Team.
• Identified and Documented functional requirements using and mapping them to individual test case requirements in QC.
• Involved in analyzing the applications and development of Test cases.
• Laid down the complete set of processes for the entire Testing lifecycle including, Integration, User Acceptance and System Test along with the Entry and Exit criteria for each phase of testing.
• Reporting, tracking the status of the bugs and assigning severity ratings to them using Quality Center.
• Used SQL statements to validate the quality.
• Extensively worked on preparing test cases for Claims, Report a claim, Quote, Auto Claim, Home owners claim, Vehicle glass claim, New Business Policy, Endorsements, Cancellations, Reinstatements, Renewals in Auto Insurance.
• Regularly used to interact with Functional & Business Experts for issues with Ratings, Premiums Mismatch etc.
• Created Test Cases based on CCR (Change Control Requests) / Functional Specs.
• Performed Manual Testing for Screen Navigation.
• Created Test Scenarios for Positive, Negative, Integration and Regression testing of the application.
• Expertise in designing Automation Framework where test scripts are reusable and easily maintained.
• Extensively used QTP for generating the automated test scripts also used data driven tests.
• Participated in the meetings with the Business suggesting the Change Requests and enhancement requests.
• Maintained Test Matrix for summarized test results information.
• Validated the application against the expected results by inserting Database.
• Participated in defect review meetings with the team members.

Environment: Java, JSP, VB.NET, ASP.NET, SOAP UI, SQL server, Web Services, HTML, Windows

Confidential, NYC, NY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and identified the Test Cases based on requirement document of the application.
• Reviewing and modifying the Test Cases
• Used the Active Screen to set checkpoints after recording, created output values and created steps using Method Argument utility
• Used Quality Center to log and track defects
• Used checkpoints, output values, parameterization using Quick Test Pro
• Performed Database Testing using SQL in order to check the Data Validation and Data Integrity
• Working with development teams investigating and correcting software bugs and deficiencies based on the testing results
• Was involved in the regression testing after each modification and enhancement
• Design test scenarios for different user groups based on system requirements, solution diagrams, help files, and screen mock ups
• Accomplish the Test Case on AUT for different Modules
• Regression testing was performed after each new build of the application

Environment: Manual Testing, QTP, Visual Basic, Windows