Professional Summary:

• Over 4 plus years of overall experience and with 2 plus years of relevance diverse experience in Information Technology with emphasis on the implementation of test plans, test procedures and test cases involving manual testing.
• Extensively Performed Black box testing, Positive, Negative, Smoke Testing, System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Back end Testing.
• Involved in all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle.
• Hands-on experience working with Software Development and Testing Methodologies such as Agile SCRUM, Waterfall testing methodologies.
• Experience in Requirement Analysis, Arriving at Scenarios from Requirements and Use cases, Test Planning, Test Strategy, Test Case preparation, Test data Preparation, Test Case Execution, Defect Reporting and Documentation.
• Experience in creating the Test Suite to perform Regression testing across various releases and builds and in arriving at the Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Defect Reporting and Tracking using Quality Center
• Experience in Database application testing using SQL and PL/SQL.
• Experience in testing the functionalities across different browsers IE6, IE7, FF3, FF3.5, Safari and Chrome with different databases Oracle, SQL Server
• Experience in using Quality Center during entire testing phase.
• Mentoring and Motivational skills to achieve team's objectives.
• Ability to conceptualize and learn quickly, good analytical reasoning and high compliance to new technologies and tools.

Technical Skills: Testing Tools: HP Testing Tools Quality Center , Clear Case, Clear Quest. Databases: Oracle 8i/9i/10g, MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, MS-Access Operating Systems: Windows XP/2000/NT4.0, UNIX V4.0, Linux 6.2/7.2, MS-DOS Methodologies: AGILE, RUP, Waterfall

Professional Experience:

Confidential

QA Analyst

Confidential based in Bloomington IL is one of the leading Insurance providers. It provides various types of insurance to customers like Home Insurance, Fire Insurance, Life Insurance, and Auto Insurance and so on. This project Agency Office Automation deals with testing the Property Casualty application used by the agents and other internal users of State Farm to provide P C insurance to customers.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the project from beginning of Requirements phase
• Involved in arriving at the Test Estimates, Test Planning and Test Strategy planning of Test Preparation and Execution
• Analyzing the component's functional requirements and writing Functional level Test cases for Quote, NB and Inquiry/Change.
• Writing Test cases / Scenarios for Positive and Negative flows.
• Preparing Requirements Traceability Matrix for various phases of the project.
• Attended Requirement and Design walk through sessions.
• Was logging into the Citrix Server and accessed the Agency Office Automation application to test Quote, New Business and policies.
• Performed Sanity testing as soon as the code was deployed on the server to eliminate the possibility of show stoppers like screen freezes and ensure that the basic functionality is working fine.
• Performed extensive Functionality testing and Regression testing of Quotes, New Business and Policies by adding Coverage's, Limits, sub limits and deductibles against created policies.
• Logged discrepancies in Quality center and sought resolution by coordinating with the development team.
• Extensively tested Defect fixes and made sure new defects were not introduced by regression.
• Reported the bugs and sent email notifications to the developers using QC.
• Used Excel Test Data sheet to maintain data validation and called the excel using VB script.
• Reviewing the testing-related work of peers and providing them with appropriate feedback.
• Guiding the team for their day to day activities and preparing them to reach the deadlines.
• Timely escalation of issues if any.
• Developed Test Summary reports.

Environment: Java/J2EE, EJB, Windows 2000 servers, Oracle 10g, Citrix Server, Quality Center 9.2, QTP 10.0, Internet Explorer, Visual Source Safe, Microsoft office Confidential

QA Analyst

Confidential is a subsidiary of White Mountains Insurance Group an auto insurance company. It follows three important channels for business which are internal sales agents, External sales agents and Web. The web site enables the three channels to access their business and even to send a notification to the customer for the renewal of their policies.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in both manual and automated testing of the application.
• Interacted as required with the business to understand the application functionality.
• Prepared test cases based on software requirements and functional specifications, documenting using Quality center.
• Created test cases to check GUI and functionality features of the application.
• Tested the website for content, comprehensiveness, layout and functionality and involved in positive and negative testing of the application.
• Involved in integration and regression testing of the application.
• Performed back-end testing using SQL queries to make sure that data entered has been uploaded correctly into Oracle Database.
• Reported and tracked defects identified using Quality center. Verified changes and closed bugs.
• Documented all data discrepancies identified during testing and communicate local issues/concerns to the business unit.

Environment: QTP, Load Runner, Quality Center, IIS6.0, XML, ASP, JavaScript, Sql server, Windows 9x/2000/N.T