Abstract: Nine years of experience in software quality assurance (QA) and software testing; specialized in Manual and Automated Testing client-server, desktop and web-based application on various platform and industries. Four plus years' experience as a QA instructor. Hands on experience in 21CFR part 11, Verification, Validation, GMP, GLP,SOP's System Analysis, QA Processes, Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and software Test Methodologies. Extensive experience in creating and executing of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Strategy, Test Scenarios, Test data, Test log, Test Summary Report and bug documentation.

Strength:

• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software development methodologies and Software Test Methodologies.
• Experience in analysis of system requirement specification, functional specifications and design documentation.
• Experience in testing reports built in MicroStrategy.
• Expert in Writing, Executing, and Maintaining Test Plans, Test Procedures, Test Cases and Test Scenarios.
• Expertise in problem solving and bug tracking reports using Bug Tracking toolsQuality Center, and Test Director.
• Proficient knowledge of FDA regulations like 21CFRpart11 (Electronic record and Electronic Signature, Check corrupted data, human readable representation, maintenance of electronic records, restricted access, significance of Validation and consequences of falsification.)
• Solid experience in Smoke, GUI, System testing, Integration testing, Functional testing, Performance testing, Stress testing, Backend testing, Sanity testing, and Regression Testing.
• Hands on experience in Tracking and Reporting of defects using Defect Tracking Tools such as HP Mercury Quality Center, Test Director.
• Knowledge of Capability of Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) levels.
• Experienced in maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Experienced in tracking and logging Defects with high level of detail, accuracy and informative recreation steps.
• Expert in analyzing Business Requirements, Functional specifications, Design Documents and other Test Procedural documents for UAT testing.
• Experienced in tracking and logging Defects with high level of detail, accuracy and informative recreation steps.
• Extensively written Test Analyzing Report (TAR).
• Ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical and end clients.
• Performed structured walkthroughs, Peer Reviews meeting, and testing to carry out verification and validation process.
• Performed back-end and integration testing to ensure data consistency on front-end and raw feed by developing and executed complex SQL queries.
• Excellent knowledge and working experience in Test Execution and Test Result Analysis.
• Self-starter, team player working on fast-faced development environments committed to the deliverables.
• Flexible and versatile to adapt to any new environment and work on any project.
• Possess strong communication, presentation, problem solving and excellent interpersonal skills.
• Organized, attention to detail, multi-focused and ability to meet project milestones and deliverable dates.
• Strong team player with excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills

Work Status: US Citizen

Technical Expertise

Version Control Tools : Visual Source Safe
Software Testing Tools: HP QuickTest professional, Quality Center, Test Director and
LoadRuuner
Languages : VB, SQL, XML
Defect Tacking Tools : Quality Center and TestDirector
Operating System : Windows XP, VISTA, UNIX
RDBMS : Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS-Access
Application servers : Web logic, Web sphere

Professional Experiences:

Confidential, VIP 4/2010- Still There
Herndon, VA
QA Lead
As a Lead of the testing team held the responsibility of verifying the overall functionality and also interacted with the real-time users to upgrade and support the end-to-end functionality of the website. Tested the UI, Database and associated web-services of the application for various releases and ensured the application\'s quality. Testing the applications behavior and compatibility on various mobile devices was an additional responsibility.

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and Analyzed Business Requirement Document -- BRD and created detailed test scenarios to validate the application functionality.
  
• Drafted detailed Test Plan to drive the entire testing process and guided the entire team to meet the schedules. Designed detailed test cases to validate the application functionality and reviewed the same
• Performed Validation Testing on the application in accordance with 21CFRpart11.
• Tested the entire application and performed various tests like Positive & Negative, Business Functionality, Integration, and Regression, End to End and also supported User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Used Quality Center for Defect Reporting and Tracking and also for managing the entire test documentation like Requirements Management, Test Case Designing, and Test Execution & Generation of the required reports. Participated in weekly status meetings and interacted with the developer team to discuss technical issues.
• Tested the remote banking functionality that includes, Capturing the Images of the checks to be deposited, and validating the end to end functionality.
• Attended and organized various meeting like, Requirement Review, Defects Triage, Go no Go meetings and effectively contributed for successful application delivery within the deadlines.
• Created automated functional regression test scripts using QTP and scheduled, organized and executed the test scripts in QC-QTP integrate environment and documented the test results.
• Used Quality Center extensively for writing test cases, Execution of test cases, maintenance of test results, defect reporting & Tracking and also for generating detailed test reports.
• Integrated Quality Center with Ms-Office and managed the entire test documentation like Test Cases, Test Execution Results, Defect Reports and Test Status Reports.
• Validated the online application's compatibility on mobile devices like iphone, ipad & other PDA's. Tested App downloads installation, accessibility, navigation, functionality, convenience and end to end functionality of the application.
• Working with various investment products testing actively participated in stress testing of Credit Risk based on Market Events, Historical Analysis, Macroeconomic scenarios and Event Driven scenarios.
• Testing the applications integration with third party software for dynamic data was an additional responsibility. Actively involved in writing comprehensive test scenarios for Risk Management testing, Portfolio setup, Allocation, compliance and regulatory issues and data security.
• Created automated regression test scripts using Quick Test Professional and managed the test beds using Quick Test Professional.
• Coordinated the of

Environment: QuickTest Pro, Quality Center, HTML, Oracle, Microsoft Office, SQL Server, UNIX

Confidential, Washington D.C 05/2009 - 04/ 2010
Software Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating with source system owners, day-to-day ETL progress monitoring, Data warehouse target schema Design (Star Schema) and maintenance.
• Worked with Business analysts and the DBA for requirements gathering, business analysis and designing of the data warehouse.
• Analyzed business process workflows and assisted in the development of ETL procedures for moving data from source to target systems.
• Done extensive bulk loading into the target using Oracle SQL Loader.
• Assisted the team in the development of design standards and codes for effective ETL procedure development and implementation.
• Used Beyond and Compare for data mapping.
• Working with database connections, SQL joins, aggregate conditions.
• Participated in system analysis and data modeling, which included creating tables, views, indexes, synonyms, triggers, functions, procedures, cursors and packages.
• Developed PL/SQL scripts to validate and load data into interface tables (TOAD). The backend was in Oracle and database operations were handled using stored procedures.
• Worked on all phases of multiple projects from initial concept through research and development, implementation, QA, to live production, by strict adherence to project timelines.
• Extensive performance tuning by determining bottlenecks at various points like targets, sources, mappings and sessions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, self-motivated and highly organized with excellent system analysis and problem solving skills.
• Create QA project plan, identify tasks and assign resources for individual project.
• Create testing documentation as needed such as Test Plan/ Test Strategy and how to setup manual or automated test cases.
• Involved in developing Project Test Plans, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios and Test Cases.
• Participated in reviews and walkthrough.
• Performed System testing, functional testing, GUI testing, UAT testing regression testing and ADHOC testing.
• Strong experience in debugging and troubleshooting various applications running in Production and Test environment.
• Experience includes Client Interaction and 3rd party vendors to understand network or system issue. Working with the development team to resolve issues. Implement fixes delivered by development team and retest the issue to ensure the problem is resolved.
• Ensure client satisfaction meets or exceeds established goals, investigating and responding to any customer complaints regarding quality.
• Possess understanding of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and strong interpersonal skills demonstrating the ability to work individually and with a cross functional team.
• Participated in setting up the test environment, building and pushing all the application code to the test environment Created start/stop scripts for application server.
• Updating the managers with day to day testing status.
• Used Quality center for all testing purpose.
• Designed and managed the execution of Test Cases for the multitier trading application. Involved in writing Test Cases and participated in weekly walk through meetings to discuss the status of the project

Environment: Quality Center, HTML, Oracle, Toad, Beyond and compare, Microsoft Office, SQL Server, UNIX

Confidential, Fairfax, VA 10/2008 - 04/2009
Software Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involving in reviewing and analyzing the business requirements, functional requirements and software design document.
• Analyzed & Designed Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Business requirements, technical specifications, and Use Cases.
• Analyzing test results to ensure existing functionality and recommending corrective action.
• Creating Test Scenarios with Negative and Positive Scenarios for all functionalities
• Creating Test Data and performing Functional Testing, Regression testing, End-to-End Testing.
• Participating in User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Documenting procedures and guiding the users in verifying various transactions on the System.
• Creating Regression Test Suites for every Release
• Creating Traceability Matrix between Requirements and Test Cases.
• Creating Separate Test Sets for the Each Release Under Test Lab in Mercury Quality Center
• Involving in changing the Test cases for regression testing according to the new functionality of the application and executing them.
• Involving in Business Requirements, Design and Testing Review Meetings.
• Created test bed in order to accomplish testing efforts
• Mentored test team members in a multi-cultural environment.
• Executed of end-to-end testing to evaluate system testing of the application
• Coordinating testing efforts with teammates and User Acceptance Test (UAT) with business users as well.
• Developed and enhanced automated script using QuickTest Regression testing
• Organized weekly meetings to discuss the issues about the project.
• Gathered test requirements by coordinating with design and development teams
• Developed detailed test cases basing on use cases, requirements
• Prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix to ensure that all the requirements are met for the sprints
• Defects were tracked and reported in Quality Center
• Worked closely with all the business as well as technology stakeholders to analyze complex business processes
• Mentored test junior test engineers.
• Involved in preparation of the test data required for executing test cases.
• Performed Data Driven Testing using QTP
• Managed the testing process, logged and tracked defects using Quality Center.
• Attended the weekly status meetings and create notes for meeting-minutes.

Environment: QuickTest Pro, Quality Center, HTML, Oracle, Microsoft Office, SQL Server, UNIX

Confidential, DC 01/2006- 09/2008
QA Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements, Functional Specifications and the Required Documents for testing.
• Worked closely with the Developers and Business Development Teams (BDT) in the review and Modification of Product Specifications.
• Involved in preparing Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Reviewed Functional and Design Specification documents. Identified Test Conditions, Ambiguities, Conflicts and Risks
• Participated in defect review meetings with the team members and monitor defect status.
• Performed Functional, Negative, Regression and Smoke Tests on the new enhancements added to the web application.
• Responsible for generating of various Test Scenarios & Test Cases, Test Cases Review and Test Execution.
• Used MS Project to keep track of tasks status and prepared Test Status Reports during test execution processes.
• Performed Back-end testing using SQL queries to validate the data in the back-end Oracle Database.
• Used Quality Center for defect management and VSS for version control.
• Allocated priorities to all the test cases and took into consideration the product module priorities.
• Performed Functional and regression testing using quick test pro (QTP).
• Modify the existing QTP scripts based on approved requirement changes.
• Monitor resources to identify performance, bottlenecks, analyze test results and report the findings to the clients, and provide recommendation for performance improvements as needed.
• Developed Base line scripts for Performance, Load and Stress Testing of the application using LoadRunner
• Developed LoadRunner VuGen script and Created LoadRunner Controller scenarios to run the script.
• Analyzed the Business requirements, Performed ambiguity reviews and communicated the inconsistencies between the requirements and application
• Worked with development and QA team to perform root cause analysis for defects found during testing.
• Involved in identify Bugs and problems, analyze test results, and bug reporting and bug tracking.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, loadRunner, Oracle, Toad, Microsoft Office, VSS.

Confidential, Somerset, NJ 02/2003 - 12/2005
Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for documenting Test Plan, Test Cases as per Business requirements for each release.
• Investigated the Software bugs and interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Executed Test Cases using different testing techniques like Positive Testing, Negative Testing, Stress testing.
• Gathered test requirements by coordinating with design and development teams.
• Reviewed QA check lists to make sure that all the requirements are met for the releases
• Define the test strategy for customer requirements to include designing, writing, and executing test cases and procedures.
• Regularly following up with Development Team to discuss discrepancies identified during testing.
• Test Director was used to create the test plan, store test cases and run the test sets.
• Used Test Director for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Created and filed various office documentation using MS Office applications.
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results.
• Performed Functional Testing using QuickTest professional.
• Meet with the developers and technical content writers on a regularly to update the test documents.
• Developed & executed Test scripts and Test cases for Functional and Regression testing using QuickTest Professional.
• Designing and Executing Test Cases in Test Director.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using Test Director.

Environment: VB, Test Director, Oracle, SQL Server, UNIX, Windows 98/NT

Education:

Bachelors of Information & Technology