Background Summary:

• Over 6+ years of extensive experience in Information Technology in Software Testing Life Cycle and Quality Assurance Engineering.
• Good knowledge in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) such as Requirement Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Deployment.
• Experience in Black Box Testing (Equivalence partitioning & Boundary Value analysis), Integration Testing, Usability Testing, Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Batch Testing, Regression Testing, Database Testing, Performance Testing & User Acceptance Testing.
• Solid understanding of Agile Scrum model that allows us to focus on delivering the highest business value in the shortest time.
• Experience in identifying bugs, analyzing, prioritizing and generating reports by creating queries using defect management tools like Mercury Quality center and Rational Clear Quest.
• Ability to interact with the developers to resolve issues using Defect Tracking tool Rational ClearQuest.
• Experience in Manual Testing in creating Test cases and raising defects using Mercury Quality Center.
• Experience in Automated Testing using Selenium and Quick test Profession, & SoapUI.
• Experience in creating test plans, designing test cases covering all test conditions and eliminating redundancy and duplications.
• Experience in Test Effort Estimation, Executing Test Cases, Recording Test Results, Reporting defects and Test Metrics and handling multiple projects within the timelines.
• Experience in maintaining all the documents in centralized repository called as MS-Share Point.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly identify and evaluate viable alternatives to resolve issues and mitigate risks in a logical manner.
• High level of work commitment, ability to handle multiple tasks and work independently as well as in a team.
• Excellent written/verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, decision-making and presentation skills with ability to co-ordinate activities in a fast paced team environment.

Technical Skill:

Testing Tools :Soap UI, Test Director, HP Quality Center, QTP.
Languages : SQL, HTML,XML.
DBMS :Oracle11g, DB2, MS SQL Server 6.5/7.0/2000, MS Access.
Operating Systems : Windows, UNIX.

Career Profiles

Hewlett Packard, Houston,TX

Project: Software QA
Jan 2012 - Till date

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, design and build testing procedures that deliver the client’s goals and provide our clients with maximum value.
• Analyzed the Functional Requirements and Design Specifications documents to ensure that the system met all of the technical and business requirements of the applications.
• Manually generate and implement templates for Test plan, Test Cases, and Test Scripts and performed Manual Testing on the entire application.
• Worked closely with software developers, business analysts, Sys admin, and other project management personnel involved in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Performed back end testing by verifying the data in the Oracle Database.
• PVCS Tracker is used to investigate software bugs and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Participated in requirements and design specification reviews and technical documentation reviews as essential to performed assigned duties
• Executed manual and automated tests, documented results, communicated issues, and verified issues resolved.
• Focused on usability, functionality and installation.
• Prioritized defects to be fixed using an understanding of the business requirements and the needs of the customer.
• Established and maintained documentation of all products and automated tests.

Environment: Windows, MS-Office, PVCS Tracker, Web sphere, TOAD, Oracle.

Sprint Overland Park, KS
Project: Mobile Billing System, QA Tester
Feb 2011 - Dec 2011

Responsibilities:

• Participated in creating Test Plans, created Test casesfor each release for testing the business rules and functionality of the application.
• Perform end to end, functional testing, Regression testing.
• Used Quality Center for the management of Test cases and tracking the defects in each testing cycle
• Documented the test results and the test data.
• Developed Automation scripts to fix and repair live system orders that failed due to Human error or system errors
• Enhanced the script by inserting check points for checking the objects, pages, text and tables in the website using QTP
• Automated Test scenarios for GUI, Functional and Regression Testing using QTP.
• We used Agile methodologies.
• Verified the data by executing the SQL statements
• Reviewed the defects with development team and reported the defects in Test Director

Environment:QTP, Test Director, Java, Web Sphere, SQL, Oracle 10i, Java, XML, UNIX, Windows.

GEICO, Cherry Hill, NJ
Project: Systems Test Engineer
April 2010 - Jan 2011

Responsibilities:

• Performed Smoke Testing, Functional testing, and System integration testing, Regressiontesting, Database testing, and black box testing at various Phases of the development and test cycles.
• AnalyzedRequirements, functional design and detail design documents.
• Involved in developing the TestPlan based on Functional Specification and Technical Specification of the application.
• Developed and executed test cases.
• Working as a team member in requirements mapping and preparing a RequirementsTraceabilityMatrix (RTM).
• Involved in developing the test Cases, test data, and test scripts.
• Performing Functional and Regression testing manually and using automation tool QTP.
• Performed query operations on Oracle to do database validation.
• Used Quality Center for requirements management, planning, running tests, defect tracking and manage the defects and executing the test cases.
• Created security access matrix and tested the user privileges.
• Verified if the application is installed correctly on windows, and UNIX.

Environment:Windows, Java, Oracle, Web logic, QTP, Quality Center, XML, UNIX

Xceed Technologies Inc, Vienna, VA
Jr. Software QA Analyst
July 2006 -Mar 2010

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirements Documents, Functional Design Document and Technical Design Document.
• Involved in developing Test Plan, Test Strategies and Test Cases.
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix to map the test cases with the Requirements.
• Performed Sanity Testing to check for the initial application stability.
• Used TestDirector for uploading requirements, creating Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Sets and updating Test results.
• Performed Test bed setup in different platforms.
• Performed Installation/Upgradation, Regression, UAT, and Functional testingon various platforms.
• Performed Manual Testing and identified the Test Cases to be automated.
• Enhanced Quick test professional Scripts using different User-Defined-Functions.
• Conducted Data Driven Tests as per the User requirements.
• Provided back end testing for data validation using SQL Queries.
• Defects were tracked, analyzed, and documented using Quality center.
• Extensively used MS-Excel for creating QA reports.
• Worked with cross functional team, and participated formal/ informal meetings.

Environment:Windows, UNIX, Java, SQL, Oracle, QTP,TestDirector, MS Word, MS Excel, XML, HTML.