SUMMARY

• Around 6 years of experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Quality Assurance which includes both Client/Server and Web based applications.
• Proficient in both Manual and Automated Testing using HP interactive products like - HP Quality Center (QC), HP Quick Test Professional (QTP), Test Director & WinRunner.
• Expertise in System Requirement Analysis, GUI Testing, functionality testing, Integration Testing, Black box Testing, Regression Testing, Security testing, User Acceptance testing, Compatibility testing, Smoke testing and System testing.
• Designed comprehensive automation Test Scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP) to support test automation using potential features like Data Driven Tests, Check Points, Regular Expressions,Functions and Re-usable actions.
• Experience with Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall iterative development methodologies.
• Extensive experience in performing Backend Testing (Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase & DB2 database).
• Well versed with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Logging and Tracking Defects in all the phases with major responsibilities.
• Extensively involved in Defect Reporting and Defect tracking process using Test Director, Quality Center (QC), JIRA, BugZilla and Rational Clear Quest.
• Specialized in analyzing functional specifications and writing Test Plans, Test cases, executing test cases, generating defect reports in Test Director and Quality Center (QC).
• Worked with Requirements Analysts and developers to define Test Scenarios and ensure that test requirements are correct and complete.
• Good exposure in creating documents (QA Status Report, QA Summary Reports, QA Test Logs, issue and defects) to apprise project team members as to the status of meeting defined quality goals.
• Worked extensively on creating Traceability Matrix between Requirements & Test Cases using QC.
• Experience in Banking & Insurance industry with strong Business & Functional knowledge. Strong understanding of software Test Methodologies and knowledge of modern software development processes, including issues/Bug tracking, Release management, requirements etc
• Work closely with other members of the Development Team and Marketing to review the designs of the system, implement test plans, and test the quality of software products.
• Excellent Organizational, Analytical and Problem solving skills and ability to quickly learn new technologies. Good communication, interp
• ersonal and Teamwork skills and leadership Qualities.
• Participated in weekly technological discussion and meetings. Responsible for weekly status updates showing the progress of the automation testing efforts and open issues to be resolved.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, UNIX, Linux, Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP. Languages: C, C++, JAVA, SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL RDBMS: Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2 and MS-Access Web Technologies: HTML, ASP.Net, XML, VB Script, Java Servlets. Packages: MS-Office, MS-Access, MS-Visio and MS-Excel. Application Servers: Weblogic6.0, IIS, Apache Server, Web Sphere 8.0 Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional, Quality Center, Win Runner, Load Runner & Test Director

WORK EXPERIENCE

CLIENT: Confidential LOCATION: Buffalo, New York DURATION: March 2011 - Present PROJECT NAME: PERSONAL MOBILE BANKING PORTAL ROLE: QA Analyst TECHNOLOGY: QC, QTP , SQL Server 2005, ASP.Net, C#, Windows server

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Confidentialis anAmericancommercial bankthat was founded in 1856 in western New York, remains headquartered inBuffalo, NY. Confidential offers a wide array of financial solutions for personal, business and commercial banking needs, designed for ease of banking required today, while helping build financial security for the future.
The project involved the introduction of mobile banking by Confidential, so that customers could access their accounts through Web portals and Mobile Devices. The Application provides the ‘Account Summary' (Check account balances, View recent transactions etc.) for various accounts and ability to transfer the funds between the various accounts using ‘Fund Transfers'. The project involved modules for Accounts, Online Fund Transfers, and Branch/ATM locator.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specification.
• Actively involved in QA process activities, like Creation of test plan, Creation of test case, Creation of Test Matrix, Test Case execution, Reporting the bugs, bug tracking, system defects, retesting the bugs etc.
• Performed Functional, Regression, System, Database, and User Acceptance Testing, to verify application functionality.
• Work with Agile development environment with frequently changing requirements.
• Actively participated in Scrum meetings, reviews and developed test scenario.
• Employed data-driven testing based on Excel tables by parameterize test scripts to check application behavior.
• Performed all phases of end-to-end testing which includes Functionality testing, Regression Testing, blackbox testing, negative testing, system testing of the Application.
• Quick Test professional was used to automate the Regression Testing after every version change of the application.
• Worked on writing test cases using simulating software for various Mobile devices.
• Designed and processed test scripts for manual testing of each application.
• Developed test cases and test scripts for the functional testing.
• Responsible for finding bugs and reported it to development team by Using Quality Center.
• Run SQL queries in SQL Server 2005 for results verification.
• Extensively used SQL to verify the integrity and consistency of the data in the database.
• Participated different meetings and helped resolve the problem in the application.

CLIENT: Confidential LOCATION: Rochester, NY DURATION: AUGUST 2009 - DECEMBER 2010 PROJECT NAME: Time and Labor Online ROLE: QA Analyst TECHNOLOGY: Quality Center (QC), QTP, ASP.Net, C#, Windows XP/Windows 7, DB2 and Toad, PL/SQL. MS-Office.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Confidential handles payroll and human resources services for their clients. A major part of their business is dependent on internal and client facing reports. Reports like Earning and Deduction at a Glance, State/Local Allocation Percent, and rate of Pay Authorization reports provide Confidential's clients information about their employee's wages, deductions and tax information.
The project was an expansion of their previous Time and Attendance product with the addition of Time and Labor Online, an Internet-based time and labor management system that gives businesses an easy and cost-effective way to automate time and attendance processes.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Gathered, analyzed, reviewed and documented design documents & business requirements, functional specifications/requirements and Use case Document relating to business requirements to learn the scope and purpose of the application.
• Understand the requirements from use cases and derive functional test cases.
• Followed the Agile Methodology for the developing life cycle and followed the Standards process in the application.
• Attended daily SCRUMS and adapt agile methodology for project updates, business changes, discuss action items/plan of action for QA.
• Create test scenarios, Requirement traceability matrices (RTM), test cases, test scripts and perform test preparation plan.
• Performed Black box /Manual testing using Quality Center.
• Performed Gap Analysis for new functionality requirements, as well as prioritized them based on actual business needs so as to align them with the product release roadmap.
• Review test cases/scripts with QA manager and project team to make sure all the scenarios are covered (positive and negative).
• Bugs were reported to developers using Quality Center.
• Executed SQL queries in TOAD for extracting policy information from the database.
• Enhanced the QTP recorded code by inserting various checkpoints, synchronization points and parameterizing data to check application behavior.
• Validating information observed in the front end, and verifying them to Backend, after batch processes.
• Developed test matrices to trace various requirements and scenarios to appropriate test scripts.
• Involved in project review meetings and discussed issues, status for tracking the progress with project teams.

CLIENT: Confidential LOCATION: Richmond, VA DURATION: February 2007 - July 2009 ROLE: QA Tester TECHNOLOGY: Java, SQL Server, XML, Mercury Quality Center, QTP, Windows NT, MS-Word, MS-Excel

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Confidential offers coverage for auto insurance, life, home, health, and more. I Tested the Personal lines of Auto/Home, Commercial lines of Auto/Professional Liability coverage. I tested the web based application which is designed and developed for customer needs about the insurances.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Actively participated in testing phase of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) of application.
• Involved in mapping requirements to testing scenarios to ensure that all requirements are covered.
• Reviewed Business and Technical requirements documents to develop Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts.
• Involved in developing and implementation of Test Plan.
• Developed and Enhanced the Test cases.
• Performed Functional, Regression, GUI, System Testing, Integration testing, User Acceptance testing
• Employed Iterative testing practices to enhance the quality of the software.
• Ensured that Traceability matrix is maintained during the testing process.
• Responsible for finding bugs and reported it to development team. Using Quality Center
• Use traceability matrix to find the missing functionalities
• Executed SQL queries for back-end testing.
• Participated in the defect status meetings to discuss defects with developers and tracked till the closure of defects
• Reported the test summary report to the management weekly.

CLIENT: Confidential DURATION: June 2004 - June 2006 PROJECT NAME: Financial Reports Generator ROLE: QA Tester TECHNOLOGY: Unix, Mainframe, MS Access, SQL, VB, XML, XSL Win Runner, Test Director, Oracle, MS-office, Crystal Reports, Rational Tools.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The application handles all the financial transactions, cash management and purchases. The basic project undertook manual functional testing for cash management product to be followed by regression and Integration testing.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Analysis of specifications and functionalities provided by the client.
• Prepared Manual Test Strategy for entire application.
• Develop test cases to test the application manually in Test Director.
• Develop Test Cases from Business and Functional Specifications.
• Performed Black box, Integration, System, Functional and Regression Testing.
• Closely worked with development team to define the testing criteria for Enrollment process.
• Extensively involved in the creation of Test Data, Testing the files for Benefit Enrollment/Maintenance for different clients.
• Also execute and create SQL queries.
• Reported the bugs, Email notifications to the developers using the Test Director.
• Involved in using Test Director to report bugs.
• Participated in business requirements, user requests and bug scrubs meetings.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Master of Computer Application (MCA)