SUMMARY

Over 7 years of experience in Software Testing, Quality Assurance, Client/Server and Java Web based applications testing. Experience in testing applications within domains including Viz., Banking, Insurance, Health Care industry. Experience in drafting test plans, test cases, designing test Strategies and test case automation.

QA Expertise

• 7 years of strong working experience in the IT industry as a QA/Automation Engineer.
• Hands on experience in HP-QTP 10.00 and knowledge of HP-Quality Centre.
• Knowledge of Performance Testing like Load, Stress, Volume testing.
• Knowledge in using test management tools such as Quality Center.
• Extensive experience in Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Performance Testing, GUI Testing, Unit Testing, Back-end Testing.
• Experience in Automating Test Scenarios and Test Cases using QTP 10.00.
• Proficient in writing Test Plans/Cases/Scripts with full scale execution Defect management.
• Created various Testing Metrics, Monthly Dashboard, Test Summary Reports from various status reports like Daily/Weekly Status Reports.
• In-depth knowledge of Software Testing Life Cycle STLC , Defect Life Cycle.
• Involved in Waterfall Agile development methodologies.
• Expertise in Analyzing Business Requirements, Design Specifications, Use Cases to prepare Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts.
• Exposure in Test Automation life cycle Automated Scripts Maintenance.
• Knowledge in Configuration Management Tools such as VSS, TFS.
• Expertise in Manual Testing, Web Based Testing and Client/Server Testing.
• Knowledge of VB Script, Java Script.
• Experience in Writing SQL for various RDBMS like Oracle, MY SQL SQL SERVER.
• Experience in Windows and Unix Operating System Environments.
• Ability to work independently and as team member.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills, proven team player with an analytical bent to problem solving and delivering under high stress environment with resource constraints.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr.QA TEST Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked with Group of the organization on Agile software development methodologies.
• Leaded the integration testing process.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment to deal with constant changes in SDLC with exceptional team building, leadership, test management, excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills.
• Well versed with Testing like Functionality problems, Cosmetic GUI related problems, Performance related problems, Database related problems, Browser compatibility problems
• Testing GUI related issue like links buttons, Login functionality, Navigation related issue, Data Integrity to validate whether data is stored correctly at back end.
• Involved in Functional testing, Regression testing, Smoke Sanity testing, Positive Negative testing, Security testing, Ad hoc testing, compatibility testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing.
• Manage defect tracking and defect maintenance and perform defect root cause analysis.
• Continuously asking questions of both developers and business users to ensure the test suite is comprehensive.
• Heavily worked with ETL data warehousing testing applications.
• Progressive experience in developing Test Plans/Strategy, Writing Test cases/Scenarios, Test scripts, Test metrics and Test procedure documents.
• Performing manual exploratory testing of new and existing features
• Held daily meeting to get project status update and communicate to the stake holders.
• Extensive Experience in SQL server 2008/2012 platform.
• Extensively work on SQL Queries, Stored Procedures, Functions, Views, Joins, Triggers, and Cursors to retrieve data.
• Write test case based on business requirement .
• Automated script for performance tuning using LoadRunner.
• Well versed in verifying data loaded in tables by ETL process.
• Worked with processing data available in Flat Files and Relational Databases with Transformation rules.
• Extracting data from tables, formatting and dumping in files for validation.
• Writing SQL queries for various scenarios like count test, primary key test, duplicate test, attribute test, default check.
• Created processes to ensure the data quality of the information collected.
• Analyzed, Reviewed Business Requirements and Functional Specifications of the application.
• Interaction with business analysts and developers to resolve the technical issues so as to meet the requirement for a better quality software product.
• Tested improved SQL queries and stored procedures.
• Attended periodic meetings, teleconferences on problem resolution for on time delivery
• Recommended test automation tools and bug tracking tool and created many documentations to standardize QA process.
• ETL Data transformation rules, and able to validate principal totals.
• Performed various types of testing such as: Functional, Integration, Monkey Testing, Exploratory Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Load, Performance and User Acceptance testing and analyzed TEST RESULTS.
• Monitored and communicate status of showstopper and high severity defects and
• Tracked the status of testing coverage Traceability matrix
• Performed root cause analysis of System Test defects and review with Test Team.
• Performed final regression of the project code and application before it was integrated with maintenance release or other project code releases at the time.
• Extracting data from tables and formatting and dumping in files for validation. Involved in writing SQL queries for Backend Testing and to verify the database updates, inserts and deletions etc., of the records, and validate them.
• Interaction with business analysts and developers to resolve the technical issues so as to meet the client's requirement for a better quality software product.

Environment: SQL Server 2008/R2, Windows Server 2008, SSIS, SSRS, ORACLE 11g,.NET, PL-SQL, XML, Dataware House.

Confidential

Sr. QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development of test cases from functional requirements, technical specification and use cases.
• Developed manual test scripts for performing functional tests.
• Create processes to ensure the data quality of the information collected.
• Developed and maintained test scripts to support regression testing and participated actively in system testing and regression testing.
• Testing GUI related issue like links buttons, Login functionality, Navigation related issue, Data Integrity to validate whether data is stored correctly at back end.
• Involved in compatibility testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing.
• Involved and responsible for creating weekly status reports regarding the progress of testing process.
• Heavily dealt with Web Service Testing like Functionality patient health data validations, Security payroll related testing, Cosmetic GUI related problems, Performance related problems.
• Involved in development of test cases from functional requirements, technical specification and use cases.
• Developed manual test scripts for performing functional tests.
• Involved in testing of Customized HTML pages as per the requirements.
• Developed and maintained test scripts to support regression testing and participated actively in system testing and regression testing.
• Involved in Functional testing, Regression testing, Smoke Sanity testing, Positive Negative testing, Security testing, Ad hoc testing, compatibility testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing.
• Used HP Quality Center as the test repository and used it for executing the test cases and scripts and logging generated various reports and graphs for further analysis.
• Reviewed FDD's, Test Plan and Test Scenarios to understand application scope, requirements and functionalities.
• Created positive and negative test scripts to cover all the requirements that are deemed testable and assigned risk level to the scripts Critical, High, Medium and Low .
• Iterative peer reviews performed throughout the test planning phase to identify gaps within the test scenarios and scripts and to ensure accurate and full test coverage.
• Responsible for conducting internal reviews of reviewing test plans, test scenarios and test cases.
• Responsible for developing test plans, test scenarios, and test cases using the Software Requirements Specification Documents.
• Wrote and executed manual test cases and automated the test scripts. Developed test metrics weekly that reflected the current status of the test execution and the state of the defects.
• Prepared test data for positive and negative test scenarios as per application specs and requirements.
• Performed backend testing and wrote advance level complex SQL queries to extract the data from DB.

Environment: SQL Server 2008/R2, Windows Server 2008, SSIS, SSRS, ORACLE 11g, C , PL-SQL, XML, Dataware House.

Confidential

Title : Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered test data requirements for data conditioning from business units to test total application functionality.
• Interacted with SME'S Subject Mater Expertise to better understanding of the application functionality.
• Involved in writing detailed test Strategy and Test Plan documents as well as develop Test Cases through Quality Center.
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix RTM to develop End-To-End mapping of Requirements and test cases to ensure project implementation within given timeline.
• Involved in all phases and stages of software testing life cycle including System Testing.
• Created test scenarios for system testing and regression testing.
• Prepared test cases for positive and negative scenarios against requirements matrix.
• Extensively wrote SQL queries for backend testing of all test cases and validated data accuracy for various functionalities of project.
• Performed Automation of various test cases for sanity testing and functional testing using QTP.
• Used data driven framework for automation using QTP.
• Created and re-used functions from function library QTP.
• Used JIRA to track defects and attended meetings with developers in resolving the same.
• Executed test cases before and after bug fixes for each build for User Acceptance Testing.
• Interacted with developers regarding priority update the status of bugs once they are fixed
• Perform the appropriate documentation of testing techniques/Scenarios for future reference.
• Functional Walkthrough Peer Reviews of test scenarios and test plans among the team.
• Organize, prioritize, track and control requirements using requirements module in Quality Center. Associate test cases to requirements in order to ensure that all the functional requirements have been covered in the Test cases.
• Involve in the testing of Modified Condition/Decision Coverage and Change Controls for the Business Rules and Edits of the application.
• Written shell scripts to copy code from dev to test and validate log files.
• Analyze various Graphs and Reports to make decisions about requirements coverage, test readiness and overall application quality.
• Perform GAP Analysis to analyze the current system and worked with internal users to help define requirements or enhancements.

Environment:

QTP 11.0, VB Script, SVN, JIRA, QC, Java 1.6, JSP, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, HTML, CSS, Java script, Websphere 8.0, Oracle 11g,Unix, SQL Developer.

QA Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Business/Development meetings to understand user requirements for various interfaces.
• Involved in understanding the 360 degree UI wrote test cases
• Created Test Plan document that defines the test environment, phases of testing, timelines for different phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria into different phases of testing.
• Involved in User Interface, Functionality, navigation, Performance and Security testing.
• Involved in requirement analysis and Gap analysis of Business System Design and Use cases Responsible for maintaining test environments.
• Performed Sanity testing for each new build of the application
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM to trace the requirements in every phase of the SDLC.
• Executed test scripts in Manual and Automation tool, analyzed the result and reported the bugs using Quality center
• Performed User Acceptance Testing to determine that the system is ready for operational use
• Participated in iteration planning session, review the prioritized items in the backlog, selects and review the modules for the current iteration
• Used Quality Center as repository for maintaining test cases, execution and tracking the defects.
• Responsible for working with development and system analyst to analyze data, detect bugs and verifying fixes
• Integration testing was done to ensure data processing, interface validity and proper communication among components of each application
• Prepared test data for positive and negative testing used in data driven testing for testing the application dynamically
• Attended project meetings, release meetings, and QA status meetings

Environment: SQL Server 2008, HTML, Visual Studio .Net 2010, Cascading Style Sheet CSS , Visual Source Safe, MS Visio, Windows XP