PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Over six years of experience in the field of Quality Assurance in various client/server and Web based applications
• Involved in all the phases of Software Test Life cycle, which includes gathering test requirements, setup test environment, write and execute test cases, report and follow-up defects.
• Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Worked in Agileenvironment.
• Involved in user meetings to gather test requirements.
• Proficient in creating and executing test plans, test cases and change request documentation
• Experienced in both manual as well as automation testing.
• Expertise in Black Box, Data-Driven, Functional, Integration, Regression, System and User Acceptance Testing
• Involved in developing automated test scripts using Mercury Quick Test Professionaland Smart bear’s Test Complete.
• Experienced in creating VB Scriptsto automate test scripts.
• Worked on .Net and Java applications.
• Proficient in using Quality Center,Team Foundation Server, and Test Manager
• Extensive experience in coordinating testing efforts, responsible for test deliverables, status reporting to management and issue escalations
• Involved in Bug Meetings and Go-No-Go meetings
• Experience working directly with users / Customers and business analysts to identify and analyze defects and develop workable solutions
• Experience in testing critical applications those developed in web, client/server, and object oriented architecture.
• Experienced in writing SQL Queries for Backend Database Testing
• Proficient in working on operating systemsWindows(XP, Vista, 7), Linux and MACOS(Leopard, Snow Leopard).
• Expertise in testing cross-browser compatibility.
• Worked on multiple browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, RockMelt.
• Experienced in using web traffic inspecting tools such as Firebug, Fiddler, and Charles web proxy.
• Proficient in using VMware and Lab manager.
• Possess excellent verbal and written skills along with interpersonal, presentation, and self-organizing skills to remain highly focused in fast paced and highly stressful environments

ACADEMIC PROFILE

Bachelors in Computer ScienceEngineeringMBA Graduate (Specialization: International Business Management)

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Languages: C, C++, Java and VB.Net, C#
Testing tools: Quality Center, JIRA, Team Foundation Server, Test Manager
Automation tools: QTP, Test Complete
IDE tools: Visual Studio 2010 
Database: Oracle, MySQL
Operating System: Windows XP/2007/Vista, Mac OS X, and Linux
Packages: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power point, MS Project, MS one note 
Scripting Languages: HTML, XML, JAVA Script, VB Script, Perl and python
Virtualization software’s: VMWare workstation, VMWare Fusion, Lab Manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Diego, CA, USA. May’ 2011 – May’ 2012
Sr. QA Engineer.Confidential is a global, medical technology companyserving the healthcare industry with products and services that help hospitals measurably improve the safety and quality of care. Confidential improves patient care by focusing on two of the biggest issues affecting healthcare:Medication errors and hospital-acquired infections.Project details: Worked in multiple projects in the company,

• Customizing Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server according to the company’s requirements.
• Customizing and generating multiple TFS reports to serve company needs.
• Developing an in-house add-ins called ‘Team for word’ to integrate MS-word to TFS and ‘Team Explorer’ to integrate MS-Excel to TFS.
• Testing multiple content controls that are created and incorporated in to TFS work item types.
• TFS infrastructure migration project

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Closely working with software developers to gather information about the application.
• Involved in daily stand-up meetings and weekly sprint meetings to discuss workflow and project specifications.
• Actively participated in weekly sprint meetings and daily standup meetings as part of Agile methodology.
• Used Lab Manager to test the application in multiple environments
• Expertise in using TFS to open bugs, create tasks and user stories, initiate change requests.
• Used TFS source control to deploy application.
• Created test plans, test cases usingTest Manager.
• Executed test cases using test manager.
• Proficient in creating queries in TFS to validate results of TFS reports.
• Conducted regression testing to validate the functionality of the application
• Performed backend database testing.
• Used MySQL to validate data in the reports
• Worked in coordination with anoffshore team.
• Proficient in generating SQL Queries using DML commands.
• Worked on SharePoint website to communicate project release notes and technical documentation.
• Conducted functional testing, positive and negative testing on word add-in.

Environment: TFS, Test Manager, C#, Lab Manager, MySQL, SharePoint, IE, and MS Office (2010, 2007), MS Excel.

Confidential, Carlsbad, CA, USA. Sep’ 2009 – May\' 2011
QA Engineer.Confidential is a software company that has pioneered in creating Yontoo layers that can work on Windows, Linux and Macintosh systems. Confidential layers enhance user’s web browsing experience by making improvements to the existing websites. The “layers” technology is a web browser add-on that creates virtual layers within existing websites. Buzzdock, Pagerage, Overapps, Drop Down Deals, Best Video Downloader, ezlooker, banner gadgets are some of the web applications developed by Yontoo.

Project details: Delivering quality applications developed by the company. Perform testing on company’s and individual application’s websites. Perform testing on multiple installers that were developed by the company. Testing functionality of all the applications. Have to go through a list of websites such as Google, Bing, MSN, Yahoo, Amazon.com, Facebook, YouTube, etc. to test the visibility of applications on those websites.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Performedmanual testing on the applications and verified the functionality of all modules in the application.
• Conducted testing on different application servers to verify application’s performance.
• Actively participated in daily stand-up meetings, go-no-go meetings, and bi-weekly sprint meetings as part of Agile methodology.
• Involved in writing Test Plans and Test Cases in Microsoft’s Test Manager, based on system requirements.
• Communicated inconsistencies between System Specifications and Test Results to development team.
• Involved in team meetings, commitment meetings.
• Involved actively in Defect Review meetings escalating and prioritizing issues effectively.
• Used TFS to report bugs and to maintain product backlog items.
• Performed regression test using Test Complete.
• Generated and executed VB scripts using Test Complete.
• Experienced in using VMware for testing the application in multiple browsers and OS’s.
• Created multiple virtual environments using VMware to test the application in multiple environments.
• Worked extensively with multiple versions of browsersChrome, IE and Firefox to test the application’s compatibility.
• Tested applications onWindows (XP, Vista, 7),MAC (Leopard, Snow leopard)and Linuxsystem.
• Performed testing on the applications on a big list of websites such as Google, Bing, MSN Yahoo, Amazon.com, Facebook, YouTube, etc to verify the appearance of the company’s products.
• Trained fellow employees on Test Manager
• Used Fiddler’s Wcat extension for load testing on the web application.
• Used Fiddler, Firebug to inspect the web traffic in Windows system and used Charles web proxy to inspect web traffic on Mac

Environment: TFS, Test Manager, Test Complete,Fiddler, Firebug, Wire Shark, Charles web proxy, VM Ware,Windows (xp, Vista, 7),Mac (leopard, Snow leopard), Firefox, IE, Chrome and MS Office

Confidential, San Diego, CA, USA. May’2009 – Aug’ 2009
QA Consultant,Confidential is a leading software provider that develops financial and tax preparation software, personal finance software, and supports small business services. Main products and services at intuit includes, TurboTax, QuickBooks, Quicken and payroll services.

Project Details: The ‘print and E-file’ module in TurboTax project allows customers to file either by submitting their printed copies or filing electronically.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Gathered user requirements and designed Test Plans and Test Scenarios.
• Performed end-to-end testingmanually before automation testing.
• Performed database validation, XML validation testing.
• Involved in positive and negative testing, functional, regression testing, and GUI testing on each builds of the application.
• Used QTP in running the client and server automation for regression tests.
• Recorded and edited test scripts and created user defined functions in scripts.
• Developed data driven scripts using QTP built in functions like parameterization,Checkpoints and output values.
• In functionality testing, developed and executed test cases, produced problem reports, suggestions, system test logs, and test incidents reports.
• Reported, documented and followed-up on the change requests using the defect-tracking tool JIRA

Environment: Java, J2EE, C++, Oracle, QTP, Quality Center, VB Script, JIRA,HTML,and XML.

Confidential.
Software Testing Associate,Confidential is a growing IT solutions and Products Company. It aims to provide the best in bringing cost effective solutions with highly qualitative software solutions. The projects delivered from Nihar are mainly related to banking, educational and welfare organizations.

Jul’ 2007 – Aug’ 2008 
Project details: Kaiser is an online curriculum resource tool developed for an educational organization where students and professors can interact with each other online. Through Kaiser,educators can provide resources and information like every day lectures, quizzes and grades to the students.

Sep’ 2006 – Jul’ 2007 
Project details: The Project was based on the online banking system with an objective to create secure and user friendly online banking system, so that customers could securely operate their accounts with appropriate Login Credentials. The system maintains multiple accounts and their money transactions accurately.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design, Use-Case analysis, Initial Summary, Risk Analysis and Documentation.
• Prepared detailed document of test cases using User Requirement Document.
• Managed Requirements and developed Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases using Quality Center.
• Performed manual testing on the application and verified the functionality of all modules in the application.
• Conducted functionality testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Recorded and edited test scripts and created user defined functions in scripts.
• Performed data driven testing in Quick Test Pro.
• Used QTP in running the client and server automation for regression tests.
• Involved in Release support-Release to QA, involved in environment setup, testing the release process.
• Used Quality Centeras a repository for all of the testing efforts to record and keep track of the defects.

Environment: QTP 8.0, Quality Center, XML, VB Script, Oracle 8i,Windows 2003, Linux, MS Office

Confidential. Jun’ 2005 – Sep’ 2006
Test EngineerConfidential strives to be Earth\'s most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online.

Project details: ‘Arizona’ is the company’s internal tool that manages emails received from customers and sellers. Replacements, returns, promotions, etc., are processed using the tool.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Used Test Director to manage the project
• Performed manual testing on the application and verified the functionality of all modules in the application.
• Closely worked with software developers and business analysts to gather information about the application.
• Involved in writing Test Plans based on system requirements documents.
• Communicated inconsistencies between System Specifications and Test Results to development and/or analyst team.
• Involved actively in Defect Review meetings escalating and prioritizing issues effectively.

Environment: Manual testing, Test Director, Java, Oracle, HTML.