Professional Summary:

• More than 10 Years of experience in IT Industry in Analysis, Design, Development and Software Quality Assurance in web based, client/server, middleware applications on Windows Environment
• Experienced in manual and automated testing for both front-end and backend
• Extensively used automated test tools of Mercury tools like Win Runner (GUI Testing, TSL, Context Sensitive & Analog Recording), Quick Test Pro, Quality Center and Load Runner
• Good knowledge and experience of working in client/server as well as web applications. Worked closely with Test Analysts, developers, support group to ensure test environment and data readiness.
• Created and executed test plans, test-cases for various types of testing like black-box, system/functional, integration, transaction, backend and regression
• Excellent knowledge and experience in working Software Development Life Cycle
• Sound knowledge and understanding of preparing various documents required in testing environment using my strong documentation skills
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skill, self-motivated, detail oriented, time bound, responsible team player and ability to coordinate in a team environment to maintain effective team relationship

Technical Skills:

Operating Systems:Windows95/98/NT/2000, OS/2, MS-DOS Languages:Java, UML, XML, C, JavaScript, VBScript, HTML, DHTML, PL/SQL, GUI:Developer 2000, Visual Basic 6.0/5.0, Java Swing RDBMS:Oracle 8i, DB2/UDB. Testing Tools:Quality Center, QTP, Load Runner, Rational Test Manager, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Manual Tester, Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester, Rational Clear Quest. Packages:Ms-Access, Ms-Office Application Servers:BEA Web logic, IBM Web Sphere, iPlanet Application Server. Middleware:MQ Series Web Servers:Apache, Tomcat, J Run, Java Web Server. Technologies/ Concepts:J2EE, EJB, JSP, Servlets, OOAD, XML, JNDI, CGI, Internet, Software Development Life Cycle.

Experience:

Lead Test Analyst Confidential, New York

Picasso: Sep 11 - Till Project Picasso is an initiative of the Confidential to develop a client front end technology platform to service the alternative asset managers and funds, including Hedge Funds as well as Private Equity funds. This client facing technology provides a workflow tool that is auditable, platform level dynamic reporting as well as a dashboard user interface. The goal is to provide a single launching point via Confidential Access and to allow for the aggregation of data from both internal and external WSS data sources, including Geneva and Investran into one reporting tool.

• Coordination and execution of User Acceptance Testing, workingwith participants from the businesses throughout the for global compliance / information security products
• Analyzing the Business and Technical Requirements, creating the test scenarios and developing test plan and test cases
• Proficient in the use of Quality Center for Test Planning, Test Designing, Test Analysis, Test Execution, Defect Tracking and Test Evaluation
• Responsible for reporting weekly status and progress of testing to the team
• Reviewing Business and Functional Requirements and developing Business Scenarios, Test Cases, and UAT Handbook to be used by business participants
• Ensuring compliance with policies and maintaining accurate records
• Collaborating with Project and Product Teams and completing project tasks as per test schedules
• Created Functional Libraries by creating subroutinesto call functions in between the script which makes the script more impressive and shorter
• Designed and implemented QTP scripting template which has got all the base work which is defined as automation frame work.
• Performed Test Script Execution by using Quick Test Pro 9.5
• Following Change Control and Quality Assurance processes during planning and execution phases to deliver and maintain high level services through adherence to the SDLC, QA and PMO governance guidelines
• Identify testing dependencies among integrated/concurrent projects and work to resolve any challenges
• Conduct daily checkpoint meetings with UAT participants during execution
• Reviewing and responding to all user feedback with speed and accuracy to ensure all items are addressed on a daily basis during test execution Communicate categorization of feedback and set expectations appropriately
• Contribute to enhancing procedures to achieve excellent testing success rate
• Evaluating and escalating concerns regarding problems in testing and how they are impacting the project

Environment: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, QTP, Quality Center, SQL, Java, MS Office, MS Visio

Senior Test Automation Engineer Confidential, New Jersey

Ferrari: Jan 08 - Aug 2011 This project is created to allow Global Private Clients (GPC) to trade foreign currency as part of their overall relationship with Confidential. The GPC Foreign Exchange business will provide a FX Trading Platform a.k.a. Ferrari Platform that will allow FA to trade "currency pairs", the simultaneous purchase and sale of two currencies. Account Opening System (KD) will be modified in order to support the white-labeled offering of the FX Trading Platform. KD system will provide the ability to indicate that an account is intended to be used for foreign currency trading, a new FX Trading indicator trait will be added in KD.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented QTP scripting template which has got all the base work which is defined as automation frame work
• Formulating detailed test plans, test cases and creating test procedures by actively participating in project meetings and walkthroughs
• Helping in the creation and implementation of a viable testing routine for both the New Business team and the Endorsement team, keeping in mind all the constraints involved.
• Extensively tested the Graphical User Interface components and conducted Functional and Regression testing for each build
• Performing extensive Positive and Negative testing, so as to crack any defect that could exist, thereby helping to create an as-perfect, error-free, end product
• Used SQL Queries o access the corresponding databases
• Performed Test Script Execution by using Quick Test Pro 9.5
• Automated script created are for execution of large number of claims for using the concept of Parameterization by using Data Tables as the base and on the concepts of Regular Expressions
• Created a single huge shared object repository for all the different modules by using the Object Repository Manager.
• Created Functional Libraries by creating subroutinesto call functions in between the script which makes the script more impressive and shorter
• Extensively used the Object Spy for Identification of the Objects and to figure out the methods for the Objects with different properties
• Created External Actions to make use of them in all the different scripts created means for different kinds of claims.
• Extensively used customized functions in the compiled module
• Used Quality Center for updating the status of all the test cases & test scripts that are executed during testing process.
• Proficient use of Quality Center to log and track defects and to keep track of the Business Requirements
• Involved in the tracking and updating of the Requirement Traceability Matrix, thereby linking the test cases with the business requirements as well as other associated test cases
• Assissted in UAT testing, helping logging and tracking of defects

Environment: QTP, Load Runner, Win Runner, Quality Center, Window2000/NT, Unix, SQL, Java, XML, MS Office, MS Visio, Perfmon, Team Quest, Mainframes

Sr. QA Analyst Confidential, New Jersey CARES: Jul 07 - Dec 07 CARES is a system that allows Confidential to proactively evaluate the safety profile of its pharmaceutical products worldwide. This system assists Confidential staff worldwide in meeting its ethical and regulatory responsibilities in collecting, analyzing, tracking and reporting adverse event information.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Involved in reviewing business requirement documents and technical specifications
• Written test plans and test cases and test scenarios
• Performed different types of testing functional, integration and regression, system and UAT during Black Box using Win runner
• Reported bugs, reviewed bugs created by team and analyzing bugs in Defect Tracker using Test Director
• Performed data integrity testing by executing SQL
• Presenting to resolve bugs & status report to the Project Management team twice a week
• Verified bug fixes and testing all impacted modules in application
• Conducted Regression testing during & after all bug fixes
• Created & executed test scripts & using Win Runner during regression testing
• Created & conducted load tests to study the best performance of the application on test for different scenarios using Load Runner
• Entering and monitoring Clear case whenever version changes
• Analyzed performance (load/stress) results identified bottlenecks and presented results to Project team

Environment: Win Runner, Load Runner, Test Director, Clear Case, Clear Quest, Window2000/NT, Argus, Unix, Oracle 9.i, SQL, Java, JSP, Web logic, MS Office

Sr. QA Analyst, Confidential, NY

SOSA: Jun 06 - Jul 07 The purpose of the SOSA Project is to develop, implement and provide production support for a new application that is based on a service oriented architecture. This application will replace the TMX system and enhance the current application that clears approximately half of all trades of US government securities. The TMX system (the software system that SOSA will replace) software was provided by a third party vendor. It is currently used at Confidential to support high performance, highly reliable online transaction processing systems that operate under the OpenVMS operating system. In order to better service its customers, Confidential has decided to replace all software that uses TMX systems software. In replacement of GSCX and CLASS/Data Point will be an enhanced system to support future increases in transaction volumes.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Attended system specification group and team meetings, analyzed user requirements, interacted with developers, middleware support, DBA's and team members
• Participated in design, Use case reviews and quality inspection for each release
• Formulate test scenarios based on business requirements
• Performed manual testing of the applications by using Rational Manual Tester Scripts
• Designed and developed Test Plans, Test Cases, and Expected Results and Prioritized tests for the applications using Rational Clear Quest
• Conducted backend testing by querying databases to synchronize testing databases and checked for data integrity and proper routing based on workflow rules at each step
• Performed testing of various shell scripts used to monitor availability and errors for application Server, Database and Web server
• Prepared the Test data (Input files) for interpreting the Positive/negative/regression results based on the design requirements
• Conducted system and integration testing, debugged the software errors and interacted with Developers to resolve technical issues
• Formulated and executed User acceptance test plans and scripts
• Used Rapid SQL for executing various types of SQL queries
• Performed Integration and portability testing for the entire application
• Performed Portability Testing using different versions of Operating Systems and Browsers
• Performed Regression testing of main functionality of the application using Functional Tester Scripts

Environment: Java, J2EE, JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, CSS, Struts, XML, IBM Web sphere, Apache Web Server, Oracle 8i, Rational Test Manager, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Manual Tester V6.1, Rational Performance Tester V6.1, Rational Clear Quest, Test Director 7.6, SQL, Windows NT/2000/XP, Sun Solaris 2.6, Mac OS, Internet Explorer 5.0/5.5/6.0, Netscape 4.73/6.0, Opera 7.01

QA Tester Confidential, KY

PCC, CHFS: Jan 06 - May 06 The PCC Foster Home/ Facility Registry is designed to capture detailed information on each Foster Home and Residential Facility affiliated with private child care organizations operating with the commonwealth of Kentucky and to provide information on the actual location of children placed with these agencies .in order to accomplish these goals ,The application will provide the functionality.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user requirements document for company wide reports by communicating with end users and developers
• Worked with development team to understand assigned modules/new product features for the purpose of developing test cases
• Created test cases for manual and test scripts for automated testing
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results
• Conducted Functional and System tests by following the standards marked in the design documents
• Created and executed automated test scripts using Win Runner and reported through Test Director
• Conducted Functionality testing and GUI testing
• Done Data Driven Test with Win Runner to test the application for different sets of data.
• Involved in Back-end, Regression, and Security testing
• Used SMS for Configuration Management
• Identified and documented all issues and defects to ensure application software functionality
• Involved in writing the test reports, error reports and returned to the developers describing the problems discovered during user acceptance testing
• Participated in discussion of Enhancement and Modification Request issues
• Developed SQL Queries to perform database testing. Executed SQL queries to check the integrity of data
• Attended weekly meetings and walkthroughs for project updates
• Involved in reviews of Test cases, Test plans

Environment: ASP.NET,VB.NET ,Oracle 8i, Win Runner , Test Director 6.5, SMS, Microsoft Access ,SQL , MS Visio, Windows NT, Internet Explorer 5.0/5.5/6.0, Netscape 4.73/6.0, Opera 7.01

QA Tester Confidential, KY My Help: Jul 04 - Jul 05 My Help project was developed as a Help desk communication tool that can be used by the Confidential Help desk personnel to create and manage User accounts, problem tickets, Software and hardware Installations for the Confidential employees. This application also provides some administrative functionality to theConfidential Help Desk professionals. This application helps to Create ACL (Access Control list) for restricting access to the modules based on the Job Title and responsibilities.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Attended system specification, group and team meetings, analyzed user requirements, interacted with developers, middleware support and team members
• Involved in White box testing by using JTest tool.
• Participated in design, Use case reviews and quality inspection for each release
• Formulate test scenarios based on business requirements
• Designed and developed Test Plans, Test Cases, and Expected Results and Prioritized tests for the applications using tools.
• Prepared the Test data (Input files) for interpreting the Positive/negative/regression results based on the design requirements
• Performed Integration and portability testing for the entire application
• Generated the detailed reports of the Bugs, Pass-Fail report, Comparison Chart

Environment: Java, J2EE, JavaScript, Oracle 8i, Test Director 7.2, Windows NT/2000/XP,Internet Explorer 5.0/5.5/6.0, Netscape 4.73/6.0, Opera 7.01, J test, Beguile , Unity, Microsoft Access, SQL, MS Visio

QA Tester Confidential, KY WCCP: Nov 03 - Jun 04 The project was to add new functionality to the existing Web Contract Loading Process. Earlier the process did not have the capability to create contracts with partial payments option. After adding the new functionality, a new process Web Contract Creation Process was created to replace the existing process. We had to encrypt the credit card details and store it in the database along with the monthly payments information.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Attended system specification, group and team meetings, analyzed user requirements, interacted with developers and team members
• Participated in design, Use case reviews and quality inspection for each release. Formulate test scenarios based on business requirements
• Designed and developed Test Plans, Test Cases, and Expected Results and Prioritized tests for the applications
• Conducted backend testing by querying databases using SQL statements
• Performed site regression testing after the bug fixes
• Performed Portability Testing using different versions of Operating Systems and Browsers

Environment: Java, J2EE, JavaScript, JSP clear quest, Apache Web Server, Oracle 8i, Win Runner , Test Director 6.5, Microsoft Access ,SQL , MS Visio, Windows NT, Internet Explorer 5.0/5.5/6.0, Netscape 4.73/6.0, Opera 7.01.

QA Tester Confidential, NJ Laboratory Knowledge Management: Jul 02 - Sept 03 The project provides a small scale Data repository and necessary supporting user interface for sharing of laboratory related Data / Information among Chemical Development, Pharmaceutical Development Systems and Clinical Pharmaceutical Operations. This application also provides the facility to view Data / Information in the tabular format to the users.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Understood the business requirements for Modules called Drug Product and Drug Substance and Formulate test scenarios based on business requirements
• Participated in Capacity planning and architecture reviews
• Designed and developed Test Plans, Test Cases, and Expected Results and Prioritized tests for the applications using Test Director
• Tested general categories like sanity, regression, functionality, performance and also backend using SQL queries and Toad
• Formulated and executed User acceptance test plans and scripts
• Generated the detailed reports of the Bugs, Pass-Fail report, Comparison Chart
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using Test Director

Environment: Java 1.2, EJB, JSP, JavaScript, Web Sphere Application Server, HTML, Win Runner, Test Director 5.0, WinNT/98, Oracle8, SQL

07/02 -09/03 QA Tester, Confidential, NJ 12/00 -05/02 Developer, Confidential, India

Education: Master's degree Status: Green Card