Experience Summary:

• 6 years of experience in Quality Assurance/ Software Testing.
• Domain knowledge in Banking, Insurance, Telecommunications
• Hands on experience in designing automation scripts in order to eliminate excessive repeatable manual cycles.
• Experience in manual testing and automated testing through QTP.
• Involved in the DDS Review meetings with the Stakeholders, Product Management Team, Developers and Test Teams.
• Experience in handling multiple projects independently as well as in a team and successfully drive them to closure as an analyst.
• Experience in analyzing the changes and identifying the risks involved.
• Participated in Test case reviews and prepared the review reports.
• Experience in mentoring freshers, experienced peers and also served them as a single point of contact for all the testing methodologies, bug life cycle/reporting tools, application, domain and subject matter related queries.
• Well versed in all testing methodologies including functional, compatibility, acceptance/smoke, ad-hoc/exploratory, database, sanity, regression, staging, installation and localization testing.
• Regular interaction with the remote teams involving Business Analysts/Project teams/ Implementation Managers/Cross-application team though out the process of the release.
• Extensive in creating Test Plans based on the FSD/Impact Analysis documents. Thorough experience in creation of test cases based on the Test Plans involving complex Banking Business logic to test all the conditions with the maximum coverage without any redundancies.
• A good team player, detail oriented, self-motivated individual with strong communication, analytical and leadership skills.

Technical Skills:

Testing Tools : HP- Mercury Quality Center 9.0, HP UFT Formerly QTP Rational Clear Quest,

TOAD, JIRA

Defect Tracking Tools : Rational Clear Quest, Itrack, Team Track and JIRA

Operating Systems : Windows 2007, Windows XP, and UNIX

Scripting Languages : VB Script, JavaScript, XML and HTML

Databases : SQL Server 2000/2005, MY SQL, MS Access

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Title : QA Specialist

Tools : Quality Center, Clear Quest, Microsoft SQL Server, GH Tester, XML Spy

Project : Credit Card and Business Services

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis and engineering for the projects assigned and drive them to closure within the release cycle.
• Log defects using ClearQuest application and communicate the defect status updates to the responsible analysis and implementation teams.
• Responsible for various testing activities including the Build Acceptance/Smoke, Functional, Negative, Regression testing, Staging for the Production servers and QA checkouts on the Production Servers.
• Documentation of test plans using the FSD, Design documents and IA documents, conduct internal and external walk-throughs for the same and the other impacted teams/applications.
• Design test cases based on the use-cases and the complex business logic defined for each web-service or a message.
• Perform analysis to the projects assigned and allocate them to the engineers and monitor the progress of the execution and communicate to the responsible stake holders regarding the project updates and completion status.
• Create the test data and request for the test data dependent with the other applications to be used in the testing activities for the current release.
• Attend the weekly review meetings for the projects assigned, Release readiness/Interdependencies meeting calls, conduct the key learning meetings during each release cycles and document them.
• Create QA sizing estimated based on the changes to the web services for the scope defined in a particular release cycle.

Environment: VB Script, .Net, SQL Server, XML, RUP, QTP, Load Runner, Quality Center

Confidential

Sr. QA Analyst

Role Responsibilities:

• Coordinating with teams like business, brokers, and external customers, which are involved in the interfacing of the application
• Peer review of the documents like Test plan and test scripts developed by the Team
• Developed Test plan for System, Detail over All Test Plan using the Business Specifications
• Created the System Requirement Specifications and released the Specs
• Optimized QTP scripts for Regression testing of the application with various data sources and data types
• Developed regression automation scripts in QTP with VB Script to analyze system
• Manually performed the functionally testing and also was responsible completing the regression testing
• identified an object by matching its test object and run time object properties by using QTP
• Conducted the System integration testing of the application manually for different Modules.
• Performing queries to the database using 'SQL' to check successful Transaction to create particular test cases
• Worked on Payments application - where users can register and download their Pay statements and previous year statements in PDF format
• Presentation of the QA Status report and the Defect Status reports in the weekly meeting.
• Parameterized the test scripts to perform Data driven Testing using QTP.
• Performed Security Testing for unauthorized access of the web application with Positive and negative testing

Environment: VB Script, .Net, Oracle RUP, QTP, Load Runner, Quality Center

Confidential

Title : Quality Assurance Engineer

Tools : QTP, Quality Centre, QADIGM, SQL Server

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for preparing the QA Test Plan for the assigned functionality after attending the DDS and BRS review meetings.
• Responsible for automating using QTP and owning a module for all the maintenance of scripts in a timely fashion by assessing the impacted areas.
• Involved in creating a Windows Clustered Environment and had DB Server SQL 2005 clustered on the same environment to test the product computability.
• Handled the task of automating complete set of test cases in the assigned functionalities.
• Conducted cross- functional training for the team members in providing KT on relevant areas.
• Responsible for installation of the product on various flavors of OS and also integration testing of the product with the other CA products like Service Desk.
• Handled the customer issues with the SE Team to closely look into the issues and drive them to closure.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended several walkthrough meeting with the Business Analysts, Project Manager and developers and provided feedback accordingly.
• Involved in Integration Testing and made used of STUBS and DRIVERS for testing.
• Performed Compatibility testing for Different Browser and different Operating System
• Involved in doing User Acceptance Testing and collected the feedback from the end users.
• Performed Smoke, Reliability, AD-Hoc testing.
• Experience in Java based applications.
• Worked with V-V Model and Agile methodology in Testing environment.
• Performed tests based on Agile Environment to increase revenue of Amica.
• Worked with Apply, Hogans, ACAPS, OLB/MM features and performed End to End testing on each of these applications.
• Analyzed the business requirements divided the test features among the members of the team.
• Involved in writing Test Plan. And developed in Traceability Matrix. Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed Test plan, Test scenario, Test cases and Test scripts for testing the Application under Test AUT .
• Set up, execution and maintenance of the testing environment platforms to ensure the Quality for All Valuable customers.
• Performed Data Driven testing in QTP and checking the behavior of the application and analyzed the results.
• Performed GUI, Smoke, Sanity, Regression, System and Backend testing.
• Interacted with developers and users to resolve major bugs.
• Prepared test data for positive and negative test scenarios for functional testing as documented in the test plan.
• Inserted check points to check the consistencies of the links in the webpage.
• Created and Executed Automated Test Scripts / Test Procedures using Selenium IDE based on the Use Case Scenarios.
• Performed ETL testing to validate data is transformed correctly from OLTP to data ware house.
• Experience in Data Warehouse testing.
• Performed SOA Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Simulation and validation for web service integration.
• Successfully designed, developed and implemented a complete regression testing for the entire system.
• Logged and tracked defects in Rational Clear Quest and assigned to developer.
• Database testing was done to see whether the correct data is being retrieved.
• Created, Updated and maintained Test Scripts for different builds and releases

Environment: Java, Java Script, J2EE, QTP 9.0, Quality Center 8.2, Web logic Server, MS SQL Server, VSS, Oracle 10g database, DB2 10.0, MS Access, Linux RedHat , Load Runner.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the applications to gather the business requirements.
• Prepared Test Plan that provides a detailed list of conditions under which the system will be tested using Test Director.
• Extensively involved in the Manual Testing of the applications.
• Conducted Unit Testing, Integration Testing and organize User Acceptance Testing UAT
• Got involved in Regression testing after bugs been fixed.
• Actively participated in various meetings like defect resolution meeting, QA status, Knowledge transfer meeting.
• Conducted User Acceptance Test UAT with users and customers and wrote issues log based on outcome of UAT.
• Worked on writing and executing unit test cases using Visual Studio.
• Debugged code using Visual Studio debugger.
• Performed Backend testing to validate the data using Toad, added SQL queries to the required Test cases.
• Report and review the defects in Mercury Quality Center.
• Attended several walkthrough meeting with Business analysts, Project Manager and Developers and provided feedback accordingly.
• Wrote and maintained test automation using Visual Studio 2008 Team System as well as developed quality assurance standards for the development team.
• Analyzed test cases for automation and used Quick Test Professional QTP to automate manual test scripts for Regression and Functional testing.
• Writing manual test cases.
• Prepared Test Plan wrote Test Cases and executed test scripts as well as tracked bugs and generated defect report using Quality Center QC .
• Testing Methodologies Involved in manual testing that includes functional testing,
• Involved in designing process/ methodology to identify the opportune areas for automation.
• Tested Web Services call for their working and functioning and parsing XML documents.
• Responsible for Quality Assurance of validation of Target data in Data Warehouse and Data Marts which are Transformed and Loaded using Informatics Power Center.
• Hands on experience in IBM Rational Clear Quest
• Experienced in preparation of automated test cases with in Data Driven Automation framework.
• Extensive experience in executing Automation Test tasks automation requirements, automation test scripts, running tests, monitoring/ analyzing results.
• Administered Quality Center partly by creating the user groups and assigning privileges to Users.

Environment: Java, Windows NT / 2003, Oracle 9i, SQL Server, HTML, XML, Web Logic, Test Director 8.0