SUMMARY:

• Over 6+ years of IT experience in Software Manual Testing for Windows and Web - based applications.
• Experience in creating, executing and maintaining Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test cases and analyzed Traceability Matrix.
• Experience in Black Box testing.
• Good Exposure to Testing Life Cycle and Bug Life Cycle.
• Good working knowledge of Databases.
• Experience in GUI testing, Regression Testing, Data Driven, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Performance Testing, Database Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Very good exposure to the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) from ground-up planning, strategy, collecting specs and data, interacting with users and dept, coding, developing, testing all phases to final implementation.
• As a Team Player, having a high-level of communications, consulting and client relationship skills. Participate well within a team and work diligently to share skills and information with other team members.
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team.
• Experience in Manual Testing by executing SQL queries to perform a back-end testing.
• Create and maintain quality test metric and expertise in test management tools like HP/Mercury Quality Centre 9.2/9.0, Test Director 7.2 for logging, tracking, and verifying defects. Smart defect analysis i.e. functional integration point failures analyze and prioritize defects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Selenium, JMeter.

Programming Languages: Java, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, C

RDBMS: Oracle 9i/10g, MS Access

Database Tool: Toad, Oracle SQL Developer

Bug Tracker: Test Director, HP Quality Center, JIRA

Version control system: MS VSS, CVS, SVN

Operating System: Win XP/ 2000/NT/98, UNIX, MS-DOS, MAC OS.

Office tools: MS Office - MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio

Browsers: Windows IE, Mozilla, AOL, Netscape Mac Safari, AOL, Mozilla

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Manual Tester

Confidential, Mechanicsburg, PA

Responsibilities:

• Studying and analyzing requirement specifications and application documentation to plan and create automate test cases and define system test strategy.
• Involved in the creation and Review of the Test plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases. Interface with business analysts clarifying user's Requirements during the test design and test execution phases to resolve outstanding application problems.
• Involved in the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Involved in System Regression, Usability, Smoke, Performance, Interface and User Acceptance Testing.
• Create accurate and comprehensive testing estimates.
• Involved in end-to-end manual and automated testing of the application.
• Involved in System, Regression, Usability, Smoke, Performance, Interface and User Acceptance Testing.
• Involved in writing the positive and negative test cases and execute manually.
• Involved in Database Testing and written several SQL Queries to test the Functionality of the conversion.
• Handling the Environment Issue by communicating with the other teams.
• Logged Bugs, Enhancement and Performance issues in JIRA.
• Participated in daily scrum meetings.
• Working closely with the developers to resolve the defect, Issues and understanding the Functionality.

Environment: Windows, HP Quality Center, HP QTP, Manual Testing, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SQL Server, VB Script, Java, Agile Scrum Methodology.

Automation Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user requirement document and developed test plans, which includes the objectives, testing strategies, test environment and others.
• Attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes.
• Wrote test cases and test scripts for the functionality testing.
• Closely worked with developers and System Engineers to nail down the technical problems.
• Tested Application with Development, Staging, and Production Environments.
• Enhanced and Maintained test scripts in Test Director according to changes in the application.
• Involved in preparing test data and data validation.
• Prepared and authored various user levels, system level documents.
• Logged Bugs, Enhancement and Performance issues in JIRA.
• Performed Manual Testing on the Web-based application.
• Performed Backend Testing by writing SQL statements to review the data to ensure that the correct data was retrieved.
• Performed System Testing before the application went into staging & production.
• Performed Integration Testing as and when new modules were developed.

Environment: PHP, SQL Server, Manual Testing, Microsoft Office, Jira, Test Director, Internet Explorer, Firefox.

Automation Tester

Confidential, Owings Mills, MD

Responsibilities:

• Studying and analyzing requirement specifications and application documentation to plan and create test cases and define system test strategy.
• Reviewed the test cases prepared by the pear team member.
• Participated in meetings with team members to know the known and unknown issues from the team.
• Involved in the creation and Review of the Test plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases.
• Interface with business analysts clarifying user's Requirements during the test design and test execution phases to resolve outstanding application problems.
• Involved in the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Create accurate and comprehensive testing estimates.
• Involved in end-to-end manual testing of the application.
• Involved in System, Regression, Usability, Smoke, Performance, Interface and User Acceptance Testing.
• Involved in writing the positive and negative test cases and execute manually.
• Performing full tasks of maintaining and documenting test results.
• Involved in Database Testing and written several SQL Queries to Test the Functionality of the Conversion.
• Implemented and worked on Agile methodologies completing releases ahead of schedule.
• Responsible for analyzing test results to ensure proper functionality of application.
• Handling the Environment issues by communicating with the other teams.
• Reporting bugs in HP Quality Center.
• Preparation of Test Report and Bug Report on weekly basis.
• Working closely with the developers to resolve the defects, issues and understanding the functionality.

Environment: Waterfall/Agile Scrum Methodology, JIRA, Java J2EE, DB2 database, WebSphere, Excel

Manual Tester

Confidential, South San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Review Business requirement document and carried out pre-testing activities such as collecting test data, writing test cases, and manual testing.
• Create Test Plan for the Functional, Usability, and Smoke testing to check the application developed has no high and medium severity bugs.
• Execute SQL statements for the backend testing.
• Test data and control flow to ensure that the consistency of business logic is maintained on version upgrade.
• Prepare Test data for the Entrance and Exit Criteria in Acceptance to check if the development team has completed coding the application and whether all the modules have been tested by developers
• Involve in the complete QA Lifecycle activities like Pre-testing phase, Acceptance Testing Phase, Testing Phase and also in User Acceptance Testing
• Involved in Database Testing and written several SQL Queries to Test the Functionality of the Conversion.
• Analyze bugs using Quality Center and reporting those bugs to the development team.
• Link defects to requirements, tests, test sets, test instances, runs, run steps, and other defects to determine the status of defect using Quality Center.
• Use Quality Center for defect tracking and maintained defect repository and followed defect life cycle until it was closed.
• Interface with business analysts clarifying user's Requirements during the test design and test execution phases to resolve outstanding application problems.
• Plan, coordinate and delegate various types of tests amongst team members
• Create users and assigned them proper rights so that they will get the correct privileges on the testing database.
• Prepare Test Summary Report and weekly Bug Reports.
• Working closely with the developers to resolve the defects, issues and understanding the functionality.

Environment: HP Quality Center, Manual Testing, JIRA, SQL, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Windows XP.

Manual Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user requirements and software requirement specifications documents.
• Based on use cases translated the information to test cases.
• Involved in preparing test data and data validation.
• User Interface testing was done to validate the application, to check that the application properly reflects business functions and requirements.
• Performing backend/database testing to ensure data validity by running SQL queries.
• Involved in testing the Client- Server application.
• Performed Manual Testing on the Web-based application.
• Performed System Testing before the application went into staging & production.
• Performed Integration Testing as and when new modules were developed.

Environment: ASP. Net, SQL Server, Test Director, Waterfall model, Agile Methodology.

Manual Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user requirements, participated in business requirement walkthroughs/change request meetings to understand the scope.
• Created test plans, which detailed the testing scope, testing strategy, high-level testing requirements, and necessary resources.
• Developed and implemented test methodologies, test specifications, test cases, test scenarios, test scripts as per the requirements.
• Worked on Quality Center for Designing Test Cases based on Requirement documents and Use Case documents, and also for defect management.
• Wrote queries using SQL to retrieve data from the database for various customer requirements.
• Involved in testing, debugging and trouble-shooting code related to database.
• Involved as a team member in Software installation & integration of all different third-party software

Environment: Java5, Servlets, SQL Server, Test Director, JIRA. Agile, MS Visio, MS Office, Rational Rose, SQL Server, Toad.