Professional Summary:

• Over Five Years of experience in Quality Assurance and Testing of diverse applications on various platforms.
• 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 Scenarios, Test Reports for both manual and automated tests.
• Well versed in QA methodologies .Actively participated in all different SDLC (system Development Life Cycle) Phases of the project.
• Expertise in designing and developing strategic Test plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios, Test Reports for both manual and automated tests
• Involved in GUI testing, Functionality testing, System testing, Front end testing, Back end testing and Regression Testing of Client/Server and Web based applications
• Experience in using Testing Tools like QC, TestDirector, QTP and WinRunner .
• Good knowledge of XML and XML Spy
• Experience in writing SQL queries for backend testing using SQL Server Query Analyzer and TOAD.
• Working knowledge of major Operating Systems like:- Windows 9.x/NT/2000/XP.
• Experience in Web technologies like HTML, Web Services, Java Script and VB Script and .Net
• Excellent Analytical skills for reviewing/analyzing requirements/functional specifications and identifying missing, incomplete and inconsistent requirements.
• Inclined towards building a strong team/work environment, and have the ability to acclimatize to new technologies and situations with ease.
• Proven ability to work effectively in both independent and team situations with positive results
• Worked in diversified Domains:-Insurance, Banking, Stock Trading , Virtual Merchandising and Space Management
• Excellent Oral and Written Communication Skills.

Testing Tools: QTP 9.x, WinRunner 7.x/ 8.x, TestDirector 7.x/8.x,Quality Center 9.x
Operating Systems: Win 95/98/00/NT/XP and MS-DOS.
Programming Languages: C, C++,VB, TSQL.
Web Development: HTML 4.0, FrontPage 2000, XML, JavaScript,VB Script
Front End Tools: SQL Enterprise Manager, SQL Query Analyzer, XML spy
MS-Suite: MS-Word, MS Excel, MS-Project, MS Visio, MS Outlook.
Databases: Oracle 8i, MS-SQL Server 7.0/2000/2005, MS-Access
Version Control: MS Visual SourceSafe

Bachelors Degree in Economics with Mathematical Pre-requisites from Confidential College, Pune, India.

Diploma in Software Development from Confidential

Confidential, Minneapolis July’09 Nov’10

Currently working with Wells Fargo Wholesale Technologies as a QA Analyst.
I am currently working on an Insurance Application used by Wells Fargo called Nexsure.
Nexsure is a comprehensive customer relationship management, sales force automation, and business management solution for an insurance agency. From sales and service to accounting and financial management and carrier/third party integration, Nexsure is designed to cover all automation needs.

Born on the web, and architected on .NET and XML, the Nexsure agency management system natively provides rich features including client access, carrier integration, web services, real time transactions, new forms and lines of business.

My Key Responsibilities in this project were as follows:

• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and Functional Specification documents and gave feedback on the same
• Attended Requirement Gathering Meetings along with Business
• Written Test Scenarios before writing Test Cases
• Worked closely with Business in getting the Scenarios Prioritized.
• Written Test Cases & Test Scripts.
• Worked Closely with Business at all times to get a very thorough understanding of the application
• Used Quality Center for Test Planning, Test Designing, Test Analysis, Test case Execution.
• Responsible for System Testing, Backend Testing and Regression Testing.
• Performed data driven tests to ensure unique set of data values are inputted to the
• Application.
• Defined and handled exceptions.
• Performed Quality Review and Performed several Peer-Reviews for test cases
• Used Clear Quest and Quality Center to track defects

Environment: Quality Centre-10, Clear Quest, Java, .Net

Confidential March ’08-December ‘08

Digital River was launched in 1994 with a vision to use the Internet instead of the mail to deliver software. Internet-based software delivery is more efficient, more cost effective and more environmentally friendly. Today, Digital River not only manages half of the digital downloads for the software market, but the company’s business has grown significantly successfully expanding across global geographies and into complementary markets, including high tech manufacturing and consumer electronics.
When Digital River started in 1994, the company set out on a mission to become a leading provider of global e-commerce services. Today, Digital River is living its mission. The company is currently headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with offices and more than 1000 employees located across the United States, Europe and the Asia Pacific.
My key responsibilities were to work on ETL testing for a project that was moving towards ERP.
I was also involved partially in a project that required tax calculation for several ecommerce sites.
Responsibilities:

• Used Quality Center for Test Planning, Test Designing, Test Analysis, Test case Execution
• Exposed to testing methodology used for Data Warehousing
• Responsible for ETL Testing, Back End testing and Regression Testing.
• Written Test Cases to test the data that had been filtered through Informatica Tool
• Performed Quality Review and Performed several Peer-Reviews for test cases written for Testi,, ng the Informatica Tool
• Attended a workshop and involved in a mini-project involving Trillinium Software
• Performed XML validation
• Performed data driven tests to ensure unique set of data values are inputted to the
  application.
• Defined and handled exceptions.

Environment: Quality Centre 9X, Eraid(tool for defect tracking), XML, SQL, Toad, Informatica

Workshops Attended: Informatica, Trillinium, HTML, Excel, Public Speaking,Art of Effective Meetings

Confidential,Minneapolis September ’07- January’08

The Image Viewer Services (IVS ) application uses cutting edge check image technology (Web Services) and serves as a single access point for calling applications to access archived images and all critical information associated with those images. IVS interacts with external systems that include an index application and an image application, to obtain this information and send it to the calling application.

• Written Test plan, Test Cases & Test Scripts.
• Used Quality Center for Test Planning, Test Designing, Test Analysis, and Test case Execution.
• Responsible for System Testing, Regression Testing and Production Validation.
• Performed data driven tests to ensure unique set of data values are inputted to the
  application.
• Defined and handled exceptions.
• Used Clear Quest to track defects

Environment: Quality Centre-9/9.2, Clear Quest, Java, Web sphere, Mainframe

Confidential,Chicago Aug’06 Aug ‘07
QA Tester

This is a leading pharmacy chain, mail service pharmacy, pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), and specialty pharmacy which has operations throughout the continental United States and Puerto Rico.

Customization of JDA Prospace for Virtual Merchandising and Planogramming requirements of the business users The project involves integrating the Product Imaging Application with JDA Prospace inorder to effectively utilize product images for the Plano grams.

• Written Test plan, Test Cases & Test Scripts .
• Used Quality Center for Test Planning, Test Designing, Test Analysis, Test case Execution, and Defect Tracking.
• Responsible for System Testing, Back End testing and Regression Testing.
• While performing database testing used SQL Queries to test the database and automated some of the queries to do regression
• Performed Quality Review on all tests that had been passed by the testers.
• Performed data driven tests to ensure unique set of data values are inputted to the
  application.
• Converted manual tests to automated test scripts in WinRunner, enhanced the scripts by adding user defined functions
• Defined and handled exceptions.
• Perform the XML validation
• Developed WinRunner scripts to capture response times between each transaction
• Used Win Runner scripts across different builds of the application.
• Used Test Director to Log and track the defects.

Environment: ASP.Net, C#, Oracle, JDA Prospace, WinRunner 7.5, XML, Quality Centre-8.2/9

Confidential,CT Apr ’05 Jun ‘06

QA Tester

Pitney Bowes helps customers create, produce, distribute and manage their mail, documents and packages. Their software, hardware and services, integrate physical and digital communications and provide for streamlined operations, enhanced remote commerce, precision marketing, clean and accessible data and more efficient transactions.

Global Shipping Application (GSA) is a web based project. The basic unit of work in GSA is processing an order.This includes creating a new Order, shipment from an order, rating it, assigning tracking numbers to it, processing single piece or a multi-piece shipments, creating labels for it and generating shipping documents.

• Preparing and documenting the test conditions and test cases.
• Responsible for running test cases and posting defects.
• Responsible for Functionality, Integration, System and Regression testing.
• Involved in Usability testing using Win Runner.
• Involved in Web Testing.
• Data validation and Database integrity testing done by executing SQL, PL/SQL statements.
• Involved in other test planning meetings and submitted test matrix daily to the management.
• Involved in GUI, Bitmap, and Database testing by creating checkpoints using Win Runner.
• Involved in Data Driven testing.
• Involved in developing detailed test strategy, test plan, test cases and test scripts using Test Director for Functional, Navigational, Security and Regression Testing.
• Created Test input requirements and prepared the test data for data driven testing.
• Developed TSL scripts in Win Runner to perform end-to-end testing and created a set of re-usable scripts.
• Actively attend meetings with fellow testers and other groups to evaluate the progress and performance of the application.

Environment: Win runner and Test director, Windows NT, MS SQL Server, Visual Basic, PL/SQL, Ms-Excel, ASP, HTML,XML, VB-Script, and .

Confidential,India Apr ’02 Sep ‘04

QA Tester

UTI Bank is one of the leading financial companies of India. iConnect (Net banking) is one of the projects which gives 24-hour online access to current, savings accounts and credit cards, where customers can login and view their account information. They can make online payments, change their contact information and contact customer service representatives for questions.

• Analyzed business requirements and functional documents.
• Involved in preparation of Test strategy document that defines the test environment, phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria into different phases of testing and resources required conducting the effort.
• Involved in development of test plan, test schedules, test cases based on high-level and detailed designs.
• CreatedTest Cases for some of the modules of the application under test (AUT) using Test Director.
• Executed test cases and participated actively in System testing and Regression testing.
• Interacted with Business teams and Developers to understand business requirements and bug fixes.
• Created automated test scripts using WinRunner.
• Defining and performing the test strategies and associated scripts for the verification and validation of the application and ensuring that it meets all defined business requirements and associated functionality.
• Parameterize the script and tested the script using data driven methodology.
• Wrote SQL queries, functions and stored procedure to check proper data population in application tables.
• Participated in status meetings to report issues. Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution.
• Performed System and Regression Testing for new releases.
• Performed Navigation testing and Cross-browser testing with IE and Netscape to test the application behavior.

Environment: Java, VBScript, JSP, SQL , Oracle 8.0, HTML, Windows NT, Winrunner 7 , TestDirector 7, and Apache

Confidential,India Jul ’01 Mar ‘02

QA Tester

The Confidential was developed for a local client and is one like many famous sites like indiabulls.com or icicidirect.com.
It offers services like market news, commentary, live stock quotes from NSE/BSE, market analysis and research, mutual fund management and online trading.

• Performed walkthrough with the development team and system analyst and incorporated modifications in the original test plan before proceeding with the automated testing.
• Documented test cases based on Functional Specification and generated test data.
• Wrote test cases and test scripts for the GUI, functional and performance testing.
• Performed web specific testing like link checking, browser page testing, application testing, configuration and usability testing.
• Involved in the automation of test cases and test scripts using QTP for the regression testing.
• Created and inserted GUI checkpoints.
• Created data driven test so that scripts can be run with different data each time.
• Tests were run in Batch mode in order to surpass messages that would be displayed during execution.
• Performed database backend testing by creating and executing SQL queries.
• Interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues and investigated software faults.
• Developed re-usable library of generic functions to use for further enhancements and builds.
• Participated in walkthrough and Defect report meeting periodically.

Environment:ASP, VB Script and JavaScript,XML,SQL Server 7.0,VB6.0, WinRunner 7., TestDirector 7.0,