Summary:

• A goal oriented, flexible, IT professional with 6 years of diversified experience in Software Quality Assurance QA testing analysis systems
• Experienced in all phases of software product development including Requirement gathering analysis, system study, specification, design, testing, implementation related documentation like user guides, release notes and end user workflows.
• Extensive experience in peer review documents and creating Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Requirement Analysis Report RAR , Test Analysis Report TAR , Executive Summary, Level of Effort LOE .
• Involved in creating Business Requirements BRD , System Requirement Specifications SRS , Functional Requirement specification FRS , and other Design Documents.
• Extensive knowledge in using data modeling tools like ER-Win, MS Visio.
• Experience in conducting Joint Application Development JAD sessions to develop and agree upon a system that focuses on the business requirements.
• Actively involved in gap analysis and business refinement process.
• Very advance in communication both in written and verbal, strong analytical and innovative problem solving skills in aggressive time schedules.
• Management of large-scale of projects with teams located at multiple global locations, strategic planning, client/server, web-enabled technologies application integration.
• Working experience with diversified team members as well as individual effort
• Experienced with supporting Test Cycles, compiling Test Status Reports, participated Defect Status meetings, Project Status meetings and interacted with Project Managers, Operations Teams and Engineers.
• Working experience of Oracle, SQL Server and MS-Access.
• Expertise in Data validation, Data Manipulation using SQL query tools such as TOAD, SQL Plus, SQL Developer against data bases.
• Expert in Manual Testing, Automated Testing, System Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Back-end testing, Negative Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Performance Testing, Baseline Testing, Stress Testing, Endurance Testing, test metrics, test reports, scenarios.
• Advance in using HP's Quick Test Pro, Load Runner, TestDirector/Quality Center as test management tools
• In depth knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle SDLC , agile methodology and Waterfall
• Extensively worked with Software Development Team, QA Team, and end-Clients/customer to resolve various issues/bugs/instances and updates the testing progression to the Client Project Managers.
• Extensively created naming convention maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM for entire test cases to maximum coverage the requirements
• Experience in setting up test environment.
• Involved in risk analysis, Project Planning, requirement documents other mock-ups , hardware/software specifications.
• Knowledge of Capability of Maturity Model Integration CMMI
• Excellent Oral and Written Communication, Presentation, Analytical and Management skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Work Summary

Confidential

Position: Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Attended the Requirements walkthrough meetings.
• Involved in the test planning, test scripts design and test execution.
• Developed Manual and automation scripts using Quality Center
• Involved in establishing a standard and structured approach to system test planning and execution.
• Communicated with QA team, product development team and PMOs to ensure quality of the product.
• Responsible for weekly and bi-weekly status updates showing the progress of testing and attending Checkpoint meetings.
• Involved extensively in managing the defects using Quality Center which includes Assigning, reviewing and closing the defects.
• Created test scripts using QTP tool and performed functionality and regression testing on new builds of the software.
• Performed Functionality Testing, GUI testing and Regression Testing using QTP.
• Used various check points to test the functionality of the application by using QTP.
• Performed Black Box Testing of the entire application using QTP.
• Integrated QTP with Quality Center and scheduled running of QTP scripts in batch mode from the Quality Center.
• Tested software which was integrated with property management software.
• Involved in all phases of the quality testing process that was designed and developed for this project.
• Created negative test case scenarios.
• Extensively involved in testing, planning and assigning tasks for Regression Testing on various builds of the application.
• Safeguard existing functionality from being adversely affected by the newly added or modified functionality

Environment: HP Quality Center, QTP, TOAD, VB Script, Oracle, HTML, XML, UNIX HP AIX and Windows 2000.

Confidential

Position: Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Manual and automation scripts using Quality Center
• Involved in establishing a standard and structured approach to system test planning and execution.
• Communicated with QA team, product development team to ensure quality of the product.
• Responsible for weekly and bi-weekly status updates showing the progress of testing and attending Checkpoint meetings.
• Involved extensively in managing the defects using Quality Center which includes Assigning, reviewing and closing the defects.
• Involved in regression tests to confirm changes in the application using Quick Test Professional version- 11
• Created test scripts using QTP tool and performed functionality and regression testing on new builds of the software.
• Performed Functionality Testing, GUI testing and Regression Testing using QTP.
• Used various check points to test the functionality of the application by using QTP.
• Performed Black Box Testing of the entire application using QTP.
• Integrated QTP with Quality Center and scheduled running of QTP scripts in batch mode from the Quality Center.
• Tested software which was integrated with property management software.
• Involved in all phases of the quality testing process that was designed and developed for this project.
• Created negative test case scenarios.
• Extensively involved in testing, planning and assigning tasks for Regression Testing on various builds of the application.
• Designed the frameworks Keyword driven, Data driven and Hybrid to automate existing test cases using Quality Center/ QTP
• Worked with Developers, Business Analyst, QA, and other Automation engineers to determine root cause of batch processing problems while generating the Automation Scripts.
• Developed test plans and scenarios for critical functional modules

Environment: MS Office Suite Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook Express, FrontPage, Project , SQL Server, SQL PLUS 2008, QTP v11 and Quality Center

Confidential

Position: QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on full life cycle of the project - gathering requirements, documentation, development of the project, testing, UAT and submission to the production team for installs.
• Responsible for providing Quality inputs to program procedures across the full span of program activities.
• Performed Requirements elicitation, conducted Joint Application Development JAD sessions with stakeholders throughout SDLC to resolve open issues.
• Participated in peer reviews, code and test walk-throughs.
• Prepared the General Requirements document, Implementation Plan, Post Implementation Plan, Test Plan Test Scripts based on user requirements.
• Worked with dev team to get the customizations done and wrote the test plans to test these customizations.
• Testing the project before releasing the system for UAT worked with QA team to design test plan and test cases for User Acceptance Testing UAT .
• Trained the business users on getting familiar with the new navigation and new functionality.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases, Structured System Testing, software documentation from business, technical and functional requirements.
• Performed Integration Testing, System Testing, Positive Testing, Negative Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Load, Performance Testing and Regression Testing.
• Exported Requirements to the Quality Center from Excel.
• Prepared and executed Test cases as per the Business documents.
• Developed Test Cases, Test Plans and produced Bug Reports using Quality Center.
• Documented any discrepancies between test results and test expectations per company standards in Quality Center.
• Maintained bug lists with a summary of critical defects. Coordinated the inclusion of the bug fixes into specific product releases with the development and product management teams.
• Responsible for administration of the Quality Center like adding projects, adding users and maintain the database.
• Assessed impact of user change requests on application and document associated functional requirements and design changes.
• Implemented Managed change requests, document versions, and addendums to the artifacts.
• Performed SQL queries to verify test results and satisfy test cases/ requirements.
• Involved in Database Testing, loaded the test data into Oracle database by writing SQL queries and PL/SQL procedures.
• For the web version of the system, testing the browser's ability of the identifying the various Web objects and hyperlinks created for this system and reporting the broken links found.
• Created QTP Scripts by using custom functions, descriptive programming, dictionary object techniques for Regression, Functional, Data driven testing.
• Performed Performance, Stress, and Endurance test using LoadRunner.
• Monitored/analyzed server performance in various virtual users load.
• Using different browsers in different platform conducted User Acceptance Test.
• Participated in installation implementation reviews, walkthroughs group meetings.
• Prepared System Test Report prior to product release/delivery.
• Participated in customer Test Readiness Reviews and Software Qualification Testing, which requires the ability to interface with software build, integration and test team as well as customer representatives.
• Submitted weekly status reports to Manager as per assigned schedule.

Environment: MS Office Suite Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook Express, FrontPage, Project , Visio, SQL Server, SQL PLUS 2008, QTP, LoadRunner, Quality Center.

Confidential

Position: QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in weekly Assessment Meetings with BAs and Developers and coordinated between Business Analysts, Development Team, and Testing Team.
• Worked under agile methodology and worked with project team throughout the Lifecycle to assist and support the analysis, design, development, and implementation of developed systems/applications.
• Analyzed System Requirements, Business Requirements and generated Traceability Matrix, Test Plans and Test Scripts accordingly.
• Performed path analysis, and developed and executed test cases, and test scenarios that included Acceptance, Functional and Regression test cases using HP Quality Center.
• Wrote SQL queries to access the transactional data from the Inter-systems Cache database tables and crosscheck the results with the database.
• Extensively used QTP for automated testing and VB script.
• Developed VB scripts in QuickTest Pro to perform end-to-end testing and created a set of re-usable scripts.
• Extensively used TOAD database tools for the Data Validations.
• Used Business Objects to generate the end user Reports based on data source code, business units, balance sheet group.
• Involved in identifying, analyzing, and documenting defects, questionable functions, errors, and inconsistencies in application functions, outputs, and content.
• Tracked test results for management, categorizing issues and creating/distributing defect reports and managing defect database using HP Quality Center.
• Worked as Admin for Quality Center to add the new project member, password reset, change the properties of existing members and remove the users.
• Worked and communicated with programmers, project managers, and application rollout groups in order to set and meet quality standards and deadlines.
• Created Test Report and uploaded it to the document library after final approvals.

Environment: HP Quality Center, QTP, TOAD, VB Script, Oracle, HTML, XML, XML Spy, UNIX and Windows XP.