SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience in the field of IT with emphasis on Quality Assurance of Web based, Client-Server applications and E-commerce applications in Manual Testing and Automation.
• Professional experience in Healthcare, E-Commerce and Media.
• 6 years of experience on System testing.
• Worked extensively on Manual and Automation testing tools like Quality Center, Test Drive, QTP, Test Director, TFS, MS VSTS and Microsoft Test Manager.
• Experience in Waterfall and Agile process methodologies.
• Experience in testing Legacy Applications manually and using Automation Tools.
• Involved in all phases and stages of Software testing life cycle including end-to-end system testing and business requirements analysis.
• Deep knowledge of the SQL procedures and scripts to facilitate Database testing.
• Extensively used MS Office for documentation
• Extended knowledge on various domains like Insurance, Banking and Retail.
• Knowledge of SDLC, STLC and Test Methodologies.
• Experience in different types of testing like Application Integration, Functional, Performance, Regression, System Testing, Security Testing, User Acceptance Testing UAT and End-To-End testing.
• Experience generating tables, graphs, charts, etc., to represent, analyze and communicate data and information, and presenting complex issues and data to management of varying levels
• Proven ability to manage work load under extreme deadline situations
• Goal oriented, superior organizations skills, and extremely detail-oriented
• Involved in Functional Testing during ST, SIT UAT phases in Regression Testing
• Outstanding track record as an innovative problem solver, highly skilled in reviewing existing processes and procedures to develop streamlined practices.
• Strong interpersonal skills and team player, very adept at supporting others to achieve goals and objectives
• Committed, result oriented, hard working with a quest and zeal to quickly assimilate new technologies and to undertake challenging tasks
• Self motivated team player with strong analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Testing Tools : Test Drive, Test Bench, QTP, Test Director, Quality Center, TFS, Selenium
• Databases : Oracle 9i/8i, IBM DB2, OS/400, SQL, MS SQL Server
• S. Languages : VB Script, Java Script, HTML, DHTML, XML, XSL, Shell Script.
• Operating Systems : Windows 95/98/2000/XP/Vista, AIX, HP-UX, UNIX.
• MS Office Suite

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr.QA Analyst Automation

• HMS delivers integrated hospital information systems and services as a single source for community and specialty hospitals.
• The HMS Clinical applications are comprehensive information systems, which facilitates in the increase of efficiency, enhance decision-making, and support patient safety and satisfaction. Enhance the care delivery process with solutions that streamline the flow of information between departments and third-party providers.

Responsibilities:

• Sending daily status report during test execution with details of planned vs. actual progress and defects outstanding vs. closed etc.
• Extensively used Test Drive, a test automation tool to automate AS400 IBM iSeries applications.
• Actively involved in Converting existing Manual test cases into Automated test scripts for functional, regression, data driven testing.
• Involved in Testing Screen changes in AS400.
• Verify and validate application data and Extract reports for auditing using Test Bench.
• Worked in Agile methodologies.
• Worked closely with higher management for setting up the standards and procedures, best practices and checklist for automating the test scripts.
• Responsible for the maintenance of Online scrum board Updates
• Responsible for running the completed tasks on a daily basis and updated the results.
• Maintained the Automation backlog scripts and validate them periodically.
• Develop and maintain library of testing scripts for maintenance, new functionality and regression testing of software applications.
• Involved in validating the MTRs manual test required after the automation test is run for each build.
• Aided in the Preparation of various reports on Daily, Weekly and Monthly basis for project managers and test managers.
• Attended Status meetings Updated the management with Daily Weekly Status report of all the Testing activities.
• Participated regularly in Bug Triage, Walkthroughs and Inspection meetings.
• Involved in the internal meetings of the QA team and reviewing the ongoing testing process and updating the team with current status of testing.
• Participated in review meetings with Project management and business analysts. Conducting Incident/defect meeting with development teams.
• Involved in Onsite, Offshore coordination, review meetings and release readiness meetings
• Coordinating and mentoring onsite and offshore testing teams.

Environment: Test Drive, Test Bench, Quality Center, AS/400, DB2 400, SQL,Toad, Java, J2EE, HTML, UNIX, Agile Methodology, Automation Testing

Confidential

Sr.QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain library of testing scripts for maintenance, new functionality and regression testing of software applications.
• Used Quality Center to prepare Test cases, procedures, Requirements Traceability Matrix and managing the Defects
• Involved in Testing Screen changes in AS400
• Ensure that all the test cases are written and updated in Quality Center along with master test plan
• Responsible for the System Testing, Regression Testing, Usability Testing, Performance Testing and stress testing of the Application.
• Conducted product testing after each release, Open trouble tickets based on Customer Issues.
• Aided in the Preparation of various reports on Daily, Weekly and Monthly basis for project managers and test managers.
• Sending daily status report during test execution with details of planned vs. actual progress and defects outstanding vs. closed etc.
• Attended Status meetings Updated the management with Daily Weekly Status report of all the Testing activities.
• Responsible for following procedures to ensure that all information systems products and services meet organization standards and end-user requirements
• Participated in Daily scrum meetings / Agile meetings to update the various phases of Testing.
• Participated regularly in Bug Triage, Walkthroughs and Inspection meetings
• Involved in the internal meetings of the QA team and reviewing the ongoing testing process and updating the team with current status of testing.
• Participated in review meetings with Project management and business analysts. Conducting Incident/defect meeting with development teams.
• Involved in Onsite, Offshore coordination, review meetings and release readiness meetings
• Coordinating and mentoring onsite and offshore testing teams.

Environment: Manual Testing, Quality Center, AS/400, DB2 400, SQL, Java, J2EE, HTML, UNIX, Agile Methodology.

Confidential

Sr.QA Analyst

Sales CRM :

• DIRECTV delivers outstanding content, technology, service and value to our more than 16.8 million customers, delivers satellite-based television services to confidential customers in homes and businesses.
• Using Sales CRM we can Create customers, Perform Order actions like Suspend, Cancel, and Upgrade of services. As well as Make payments.

Responsibilities:

• Used Quality Center to prepare Test cases, procedures, Requirements Traceability Matrix and managing the Defects.
• Extensively involved on planning, Gathering requirements, reviews on Test cases, Writing Test cases
• Ensure that all the test cases are written and updated in Quality Center along with master test plan.
• Used QTP Checkpoints GUI, Database and Bitmap for the Current behavior of Application.
• Performed Data Driven Testing using QTP.
• Participated in the peer review meetings for Test plan and Test Approvals.
• Responsible for Daily scrum meetings / Agile meetings to update the various phases of Testing.
• Conducted product testing after each release, Open trouble tickets based on Customer Issues.
• Perform ad-hoc testing on the application to test how it performs when it encounters unexpected data
• Developed and executed SQL queries for backend testing using Toad.
• Maintained the databases and analyzed the requirements and performed tests accordingly.
• Responsible for weekly status updates showing the progress of the performance testing effort and open issues to be resolved.
• Participated in Bug triage meetings.
• Co-ordinate with offshore and onshore team.
• Verify Different Data plans for Mobility users.
• Actively participated to identify the critical business transactions in different applications.
• Analyzed user requirements, business rules in coordination with the project team and prepared test plans for system and load testing.
• Responsible for the System Testing, Regression Testing, Usability Testing, Performance Testing and stress testing of the Application.
• Scheduling and running the Jobs on daily basis
• Co-coordinated with Project Managers, Business Analysts and System Analysts to set up the pre-validation and validation environment to execute the scripts.

Environment: Java, J2EE, HTTP, HTML, VBScript, Windows Server 2008, UNIX, Toad, Oracle, QTP, Quality Center10.0, Agile Methodology.

Confidential

QA Tester

• Marks Spencer is one of the Confidential top retailers. It sells General Merchandise, Food, Flowers and Gift Cards online to its customers. Below are the projects worked for M S Direct.
• Food Ordering Management System
• Color Flowers
• Stored Value Gift Card

Responsibilities:

• Review Functional Requirement Specifications and create test cases based on test scenarios drawn from functional requirements.
• Identify the test requirements by decomposing the user requirements and design specifications.
• Planning the Testing activities for system testing and semi System Integration Testing.
• Participated in the peer review meetings for Test plan and Test Approvals
• Executing Test Cases.
• Perform negative testing to test the application for invalid data, verify and validate the error messages generated.
• Perform ad-hoc testing on the application to test how it performs when it encounters unexpected data.
• Developed and executed SQL queries for backend testing using Toad.
• Defects reporting and follow-up
• Integration Testing.

Environment: Java, J2EE, HTTP, HTML, Unix, SQL, Toad, MS Office, Manual Testing

Confidential

Test Engineer

• Confidential is a highly parameterized and flexible package solution, suitable for different life insurance companies, targeted for life insurance market. LIS Life Insurance solution provides efficient service delivery across all lines of business in Life Insurance segment in the Individual Life, Group Life, Individual Pension, Group Pension areas.
• It is a Web-enabled application with fulfillment of Multi-user needs. The product supports Multi-Country, Multi-Currency and Multi-Channel requirements. It helps to achieve strategic objective of the customer through seamless integration across different modules in the system.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding business requirement
• Preparation of test Scenarios, Test Scripts
• Reviewing of Test Scenarios test scripts.
• Execution of Test Cases.
• Defect Reporting and Tracking
• Regression support before the Production delivery
• Preparation of Execution planning and scheduling.
• Defect Analysis
• Coordinating with Business Support and client.

Environment: Java, DB2