SUMMARY

• Seven years of industry experience as a QA Engineer with solid understanding of SQA Methodologies.
• Extensive experience in Retail, Banking & Healthcare Industry in analyzing and testing internal as well as end - client products.
• Manual and Automated Testing of applications on Windows and Unix Environment.
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Test Methodologies from project definition to post-deployment documentation.
• Expertise in designing and developing strategic Test plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Reports for both manual and automated tests.
• Expertise in manual testing and in automation testing tools like Quick Test Professional, Win Runner and Load Runner.
• Good knowledge of Selenium IDE, RC and Web driver.
• Knowledge to write script in Junit.
• Extensive experience in Functional, Integration, Regression, UAT, and System Testing.
• Well versed with SDLC models like Waterfall, Spiral and Agile.
• Proficient in using testing tools such as Quality Center, Win Runner, Load Runner and Quick Test Professional for web-based and client server applications.
• Strong skills in Batch & back-end testing using SQL queries on various databases like Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, and MySQL.
• Experience working with Digital certificates, PGP encryption, SSL, and SSH keys.
• Protocol and encryption testing on FTPS, SFTP, HTTPS protocols.
• Expert in creating, designing and integrating QA Processes, Agile methodologies, standards and guidelines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: (HP) Mercury Suite - Quick Test Pro, Quality Centre 9.0/9.2, 10.0, Load Runner, Test Director, Win Runner, Rational Clear Quest.

Operating Systems: MS DOS, Microsoft Windows 98, 2000, NT, XP, Window Server 2003, Vista. UNIX, Linux.

Databases: Oracle 8i/9i, SQL Server 2005/2008, MS Access, MySQL.

Development Environment: Web Logic, Eclipse IDE, C, C++, PHP, .NET, Java.

Domain Knowledge: Banking and Financial, Brokerage, Media, Insurance, HealthCare, Manufacturing.

Testing Types: Black Box, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, User Interface, Database.

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla, Safari.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Francisco

Sr. Software QA

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirement documents (BRD) and Functional Specifications Documents to prepare Test Cases and identify test scenario.
• Writing test cases by reviewing FSDs.
• Manually test different releases every month and overnight validation during production time.
• Manually test Wholesale department data transmission web site.
• Developed, executed and documented highly complex test plans and test cases for business-related application running on multi-tiered platforms.
• Reviewing the test cases with other team members so that all requirements were covered.
• Test case creation, review and execution
• ASCII, XML and Binary data validation.
• End-to-End data validation using secure protocols: SFTP, FTPS, FTP with PGP, HTTPS.
• Tracking and testing connections of customers using various protocols.
• Data encryption and decryption validation using PGP desktop.
• Logging and tracking defects on a release basis using Quality Center 10.0.
• Writing and executing script for regression and functional testing using QTP.
• SQL quires for database validation.
• Defects were tracked and prioritized using Quality Center and analyzed the variation between expected result and actual result.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.

Environment: JAVA, SQL, UNIX, Web Logic Sever, QTP, MS Office (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint), QC, IP SWITCH, PGP desktop, Oracle SQL.

Confidential, NY

Sr. QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirement documents (BRD), Software Requirement specification (SRS) to prepared Test Plan and identify test scenario.
• Created Test Plan according to the business requirements. Based on the requirement specifications and functional specifications. Created test cases and executed them.
• Enhanced the test scripts by implementing VBScript functions, inserting Checkpoints to check the results.
• Applied different types of checkpoint using QTP in order to ensure that the actual values meet the expected values.
• Front end and backend validation using SQL quires.
• Development of positive & negative scenarios from the requirements.
• Development of test plan, test case and test scripts in Quality Center after for functional, system integration, Usability, security testing.
• Reviewing the test cases with other team members so that all requirements were covered.
• Setting up test frameworks and creating repeatable, reusablescripts across multiple platforms using VB script in QTP.
• Conducted Performance and Load testing to generate the load on the server by creating Vuser Script, Controller and Analysis Monitoring features using Load Runner 8.0.
• Performed extensive Regression Testing for subsequent versions of the application using QTP.
• Applied different types of checkpoint using QTP in order to ensure that the actual values meet the expected values.
• Used Mercury Quality Centre to track, analyze and document the Test Plan.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.
• Build and manage the overall test process, according to the Agile Scrum methodology.

Environment: Quick Test Professional 9.2, Quality Center 9.0, Load runner 8.0, Oracle 10g, VB script, MS SQL Server 2008, Windows XP, HTTP, ASP.NET, MS SQL

Confidential

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for review of Requirement Analysis and System Design.
• Test Plan and Test case creation, review and execution.
• Environment set up for testing.
• Test data and test accounts creation.
• Used SQL query to test and validate data integrity.
• Automating test cases using QTP for regression and functional testing.
• Performed Agile Methodologies in each phase of Software Testing Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Logging and tracking defects on a release basis using Quality Center.
• Generating load reports for further analysis.
• Performed User Acceptance Test (UAT) on GUI screens to ensure that developers met the user expectations.
• Involved in development of test plan, test schedules, test cases based on high-level and detailed designs.
• Experience as a QA Analyst and responsible for coordinating and performing System Integration, functional and data-related testing.
• Responsible for writing the Test Cases and Test Scenarios based on the Functional Specification and technical Specification and documented in Mercury Quality Center.
• Automate existing manual test scripts from Quality Center using HP Quick Test Pro.
• Defect reporting and tracking using Quality center.
• Defect report generating for management purpose.
• Coordinating QA activities with off shore testing team.
• Create daily statistics reports for high-level managers to track the alerts generated by these models.
• Monitoring web logs for system level errors.
• Participated in QA Team meetings and weekly QA testing reviews.

Environment: JAVA, HTML/CSS, MS SQL, QTP, MS Office, MS Project, Quality Center, Soap UI, Load Runner.

Confidential, CA

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding and Reviewing the BRS and SRS documents.
• Developed and Implemented Test Plans, Test cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, and Test Reports.
• Followed Agile Methodologies in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Created and executed test cases based on test scenarios drawn from Functional requirements
• Responsible in identifying and planning the test scenarios from Test Plans.
• Performed Functionality, System, Integration Regression, and Database testing.
• Performed Web Service Limit Tests which involved tests exercise for each API method using all optional elements and maximum allowable content lengths and/or instances of repeated elements.
• Enhanced the test scripts by implementing VBScript functions, inserting Checkpoints to check the results.
• Prepared Schedule Estimation and Resource Estimation documents on a release basis for applications
• Managed requirements and test cases in Quality Center and executed all test cases from Quality Center.
• Defects were tracked and prioritized using Quality Center and analyzed the variation between expected result and actual result.
• Used SQL queries to verify the data entry transactions.
• Created and executed automated test scripts using QTP for regression testing.
• Logging and tracking defects on a release basis using Test Director.

Environment: Windows XP, JAVA, XML, HTML, Oracle SQL server 7.0, VB Script, QTP, Test Director, MS Office Suite, Load Runner.