JOB SUMMARY:

• Certified Automation Testing Professional.
• Experienced in testing Point of Sales (POS), Retail, Insurance, HealthCare, Banking, Mobile (ipad), Financial and accounting applications.
• Good Understanding of ERP (Oracle Siebel-CRM Financials, PeopleSoft FSCM/HRMS) and Warehouse Management Systems (Red Prairie and Manhattan) applications.
• Good understanding of data feeds such as RSS and product feeds for web based applications.
• Experienced in Testing the applications in various capacities on UNIX/Windows platforms in Web Based, Client/Server, Java/J2EE, .Net, Adobe Flex, Share point and Web Services Applications in different environments and multiple Browsers.
• Experienced in developing and maintain overall Test methodology and strategy, Documenting Test plans, Test strategy, Test Cases, Test reports and user guides.
• Proficient with HP QTP, Quality Center, Performance center, Load Runner, and well versed with other tools.
• Experienced in Systems specification analysis, test plan, test scripts, test cases creation and execution.
• Knowledge of Silk Test, silk Center, silk performer, Rational Functional Tester (RFT), Selenium, JMeter, Junit and Rational Performance Tester.
• Developed automated Test Scripts using QTP, Performance center and Load Runner, automated various Business Flows for the applications.
• Working knowledge of HP Business Process Testing (BPT), HP Performance center.
• Extensive experience in Manual, Automation and Performance Testing.
• Knowledge of Web Services Testing, SOA, WSDL, XML, and SOAP Messaging.
• Knowledge of Orthogonal Array ToolandDFA (Defect Flow Analysis) tool.
• Strong experience with VBScript and Descriptive programming in QTP to maximize the script readability and usability.
• Strong expertise in establishing QA Policies, Root Cause analysis (RCA), Procedures, strategies, metrics, developing appropriate process and team to ensure the quality of product.
• Used HP Quality Center for maintaining the Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Execution, Defect Management and Bug Reporting.
• Knowledge of Rational Suite (Test Manager, Rational Software Modeler (RSM), Rational Robot, Clear Case and Requisite Pro).
• Experienced in different kinds of testing such as System, Integration, Regression, User acceptance, Smoke test, Ad hoc test, Load/Performance, Volume and Stress test etc.
• Experienced in creating Automation Frame work such as Business Process Testing, Data driven and Hybrid.
• Created and maintained Object repositories, Function Libraries and Recovery scenarios using QTP.
• Experience in testing Web-based, e-commerce, Host and Client-Server applications on different environments.
• Experienced in different SDLC Methodologies such as waterfall, V-V, Iterative and Agile (SCRUM).
• Good understanding of Agile (XP, FDD, TDD, BDD) Software Development Life Cycle model.
• Good Understanding of programming languages like PERL, JavaScript, Ruby, PL/SQL, Netezza and defect tracking tools rational clear case, TFS, Jira and Bugzilla.
• Developing database queries for Backend Testing, DB2, ORACLE and SQL Server, resolved Database Performance issues.
• Experience in programming, analysis, design, development, data tabulation, cleaning, validation, processing, Calculating statistical trends, and Sales projections.
• Good Knowledge of ETL Tools such as INFORMATICA and Reporting Tools such as COGNOS.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Quick Test Professional Windows XP/ Windows7/UNIX/WindowsNT
Win runner MS SQL Server / Oracle, DB2
Load runner/Performance Center SAP, Siebel/MS Access/Dot Net/ASP.net
Quality center MS Office suite/ MS visual studio 2010
Rational suite SPSS/ SAS/Quantum/PeopleSoft(FSCM,HRMS)
Silk Test/Silk Center VBScript/AS/400/winform clients
Selenium C/C++/Java/DHTML/ XML
Cognos Informatica/PERL/JavaScript/Ruby
COBOL J2EE/Web Sphere/JCL

EDUCATION:Masters

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Richmond VA December 2011 June 2012

QA Analyst/Lead

Project Name: LTC Quote Tool

Description: LTC Quote Tool is Genworth Long term care insurance online and offline applications tools used by the agents to generate product quote online and offline mostly used for the illustration purpose to their customers. Integrated with applications such as e-App/App wizard, eQR for Insurance under writing approvals to the customers and Sales Force Dot Com (SFDC) a CRM application stream lined processes for better manage their relationship with customers, brokers and agents.

Responsibilities

• Managing the onsite and off-shore based Manual and Automation test teams to coordinate all testing activities for all assigned applications
• Preparing Test plan, Test Strategy, Timeline Reports and Weekly Status Reports
• Review the Requirements, Test scenarios with Business Analysts, Users, Dev team, SME’s and QA to get approval.
• Prepare the Traceability Matrices to fill the gap between the requirements and the test cases covered.
• Launching and execution of test cases in test lab, maintaining of test results and test data from HP Quality Center.
• Track defects using HP Quality center and generate defect summary reports.
• Review and Execute the Test cases and QTP Scripts developed by the team members.
• Creation of the object Repositories, Function libraries and the architecture of Automation frame works such as Data Driven, Hybrid and Business Process Testing (BPT) for automation Testing.
• Conducting Daily stand up calls for the project status and Defect triage for the review of defects in Quality Center along with Business Analysts and Developers
• Develop test automation scripts using VB script in Quick Test Professional for regression testing by applying checkpoints, Recovery Scenarios, Regular expressions parameterizations, synchronization points, regular expressions, built in functions and user defined functions.
• Understanding and testing Data Feeds such as product Data feeds which plays important role in e-commerce of Insurance products.
• Testing the Quote Tools on ipad to check functionalities, performance and browser compatibility.
• Prepare and present presentations to senior management on the value of automated testing.
• Verifying and Validating the Insurance premiums, Functionalities, reports and PDF illustrations as per the Requirements against the Application Quote Tools.
• Managing and performing hands on stake holder management, project planning, auditing of system requirements, creation and certification of documentation, tracking progress metrics and defects through HP Quality Center and mentoring the team.
• Follow up with standard Test Methodology such as Iterative, AGILE and software testing life cycle (STLC) to perform different types of testing for the projects.
• Works in Agile Scrum Development Environment with frequently changing requirements and features set.
• Actively participating in Scrum meetings, Sprint Retrospective Meetings, Sprint review Meetings.
• Performing different types of testing like functional, Black box, integration, system, performance, regression and smoke.
• Conduct walk- through for Requirements, Test plan, Test strategy, test cases, analyzing various testing documents and process of testing life cycle.
• Define the “Test Engagement Process” for new application launch and maintenance releases.
• Working closely with the application development and design and testing team to resolve technical issues and interacted with them to ensure overall quality of the software.
• Gathering information, process improvements and working as Teams for the overall achievements of the quality product.

Environment: Windows 2008 server, Apache web server, Apache Jetty Oracle, SQL, SQL server 2008, HTTP, Oracle,Derby,.Net,Java,vb.net, Java Script, Ajax, MVC, xml processor, web logic, vb script, ASP.net, windows XP professional, wintel, windows 7, ipad, Data feed, MS Excel, MS Word, Quick Test Professional 10.0 and Quality Center10.0.

Confidential,Bentonville AR June 2011 November 2011
QA Analyst/Lead

Project Name: Cash Office Management in POS (point of sales)
Description: Cash Office is a POS (Point Of Sales) application used at Wal-Mart and Sam‘s club stores to manage the flow of money into and outside of stores. Cash Office acts as a central point of money management for the stores accounting for register sales, CFTs (including non-sales income, vendor payments, money for store‘s use etc), change fund required for the store, deposits etc.

Project Name: ISDLC Redesign
Description: ISDLC is a Wal-Mart web portal stands for “Information Systems Development Life Cycle” that uses to manage all of its projects and products.

Responsibilities

• Managed onsite and off-shore based Manual and Automation test teams to coordinate all testing activities for all assigned applications
• Participated in Review product requirement documents, functional Specifications Documented Test plans, Test strategy, Test Cases, Test reports and user guides.
• Performed Manual testing and Automation testing using QTP for all POS applications and Web based Applications.
• Executed test cases, test scripts, maintained test results and test data in HP Quality center.
• Reported defects in timely manner and logged the same in to defect tracking tool HP Quality center.
• Developed test automation scripts using VB script in QTP for regression testing by applying checkpoints, Recovery Scenarios, parameterizations, synchronization points, regular expressions, built in functions and user defined functions.
• Created object Repositories and architecture of Automation frame works such as Data Driven, Hybrid and Business Process Testing (BPT) for automation Testing.
• Created Function Libraries and Used Descriptive programming in QTP to enhance the script readability and usability.
• Created Traceability Matrix between requirements and the test cases.
• Worked in Agile Scrum Development Environment with frequently changing requirements and features set.
• Interacted with Business Analysts, Developers and Team members in Requirements Analysis, design reviews, testing and documentation for application developed in Agile environment.
• Participated in Scrum meetings, Sprint Retrospective Meetings, Sprint review Meetings.
• Validated the functionalities, fields, links, images and reports as per the requirements against the applications
• Responsiblefor Exploratory, Smoke Testing, Regression testing, database testing, functional testing and user interface testingofCash office application in UNIX environment.
• Participated in Daily stand up calls for the project status and Defect triage for the review of defects in Quality Center along with Business Analysts and Developers.
• Tracked defectsusing HP Mercury Quality center and generated defect summary reports.
• Prepared and present presentations to senior management on the value of automated testing.
• Worked closely with the application development and design and testing team to resolve technical issues and interacted with them to ensure overall quality of the software.
• Creation of test data, traceability matrix between requirements and test cases for the new enhancements.
• Understands and tested Data Feeds such as RSS and product Data feeds of web applications.
• Worked closely with the application development and design and testing team to resolve technical issues and interacted with them to ensure overall quality of the software.
• Created load test plan, Create virtual user scripts using VU Gen and Load Runner Scenarios to execute load and performance tests of POS applications to Analyze performance Results.
• Created transactions in Performance center to measure response times. Modify run time settings to run various tests with different configurations.
• Performed Typical Ramp-up for max no of V users, stage Ramp-up for 25% of load, 50% of Load, 75% of load and peak load.
• Tested, Analyzed and validated application performance against business requirements using Performance center.
• Prepared Test Summary Reports and weekly status reports for future Testing Practices.
• Ensured that all aspects of testing, such as : manual execution, regression, automation, and performance are completed

Environment: Windows 2008 server, IBM Controller, IBM power6, UNIX, Putty, VT Tester, DB2,SQL, SQL server 2008, HTTP, Win Socket, HTTPs, Linux, Oracle,.Net,Java,vb.net, vb script, Perl ASP.net, windows 7,windows XP professional , Wintel, MS Excel, MS Word, PeopleSoft FSCM, Quick Test Professional 10.0, Quality Center10.0 and Performance center 9.5.

Confidential,Tampa, FL Dec 2010 May 2011
Sr. QA Analyst

Description: Aura is the advisory application that all of the auditors used to perform audits. It is the most significant component of the Audit Transformation Program. The goal of an Audit is to express an opinion on the person/organization/system in question, under evaluation based on work done on a test basis.

Aura Team space: SharePoint based collaboration tool that enables sharing of files between different components of Auditing.

EMW (Engagement Management Website): A WCF client connects to a WCF service meant for design and deploying distributed applications under SOA implementation.

• As an active QA Lead coordinated the test activities and the overall process of testing.
• Involved in QA Automation Testing team for multiple projects like Aura, Aura Team space, Admin website and EMW (Engagement Management Website) for Audit Transformation Program.
• Involved in analyzing system design specifications and developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases to cover overall quality assurance testing.
• Involved in the preparation of test cases, communicating with software developers on quality issues following it with bug reports, developing, running and maintaining test Scripts.
• Designed and developed User defined functions, Generic functions with well-versed VB scripting.
• Descriptive programming in scripting dynamic objects and reusable actions in defining scenario flows inQuick Test Professional to enhance the Test scripts to make more effective and efficient.
• Reviewed the Test scenarios with Business Analysts, Users and SME’s to get approval.
• Reviewed the QTP Scripts developed by the team members.
• Performed both manual and automation testing and created various test results to track the testing results.
• Used TFS & Quality Center as the test repository, run manual and automation test cases from test lab and logging and generating various reports and graphs for further Analysis.
• Follow up with standard software testing life cycle (STLC) to perform different types of testing for the projects.
• Involved in review meetings for create Test plan, test cases and analyzing various testing documents and process of testing life cycle.
• Created standard testing life cycle flow diagram for projects and presented to test team to follow testing process.
• Log the Defects, Generate Test Analysis reports and stored them into the Microsoft Team Foundation Server.
• Performed Functional and Regression Testing using Quick Test Professional.
• Developed automation scripts in QTP to automate smoke, Performance and regression testing.
• Developed the scripts in QTP by applying checkpoints, Recovery Scenarios, parameterizations, synchronization point, data driven tests, regular expressions and creating modular tests.
• Developed Visual Basic scripts for various dot net applications using QTP.
• Defined the “Test Engagement Process” for new application launch and maintenance releases.
• Used SQL Queries to retrieve or create test data from different Test databases.
• Worked closely with the application development and design and testing team to resolve technical issues and interacted with them to ensure overall quality of the software.
• Deployed the Audit Engagements using QTP to test environment and verified it for accuracy.
• Run Performance scripts using QTP, HP Service Test and Load Runner.
• Tested different web services using, Quick Test Professional and Load Runner
• Performed Load testing, Stress Testing using Load Runner to know the performance of the Applications.
• Created load test plan, Create virtual user scripts using VU Gen and Load Runner Scenarios to execute load and performance tests of Audit applications for Analyze performance Results.
• Created transactions in Load Runner to measure response times. Modify run time settings to run various tests with different configurations.
• Performed Typical Ramp-up for max no of V users, stage Ramp-up for 25% of load, 50% of Load, 75% of load and peak load.
• Tested, Analyzed and validated application performance against business requirements using HP Load Runner and HP Service Test.
• Prepared Test Summary Reports for each type of testing for showing progress and future Testing Practices.

Environment: Windows 2008 server, UNIX, Linux, SQL, SQL server 2008, Oracle, Dot Net ,vb.net,ASP.net C#, SharePoint 2010, Winform client, windows XP professional , wintel, vb script, MS Excel, MS Word, Quick Test Professional 11.0, Quality Center10.0, Load Runner 11.0, Test Advantage, sitescope, Microsoft Team Foundation Server(TFS) and Microsoft visual studio 2010