SUMMARY:

• Over 3+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing.
• Performed various tests like Ad-hoc, Smoke, Functional, Regression, Database Testing, System Integration, User Acceptance Testing(UAT) and Compatibility Testing of Web applications, E-Commerce, and Client/Server applications on Windows, MAC OSX and Unix platform by applying Black Box Testing techniques
• Good knowledge of SDLC and Agile methodologies.
• Good Knowledge in Testing Web Applications with Java/J2EE, .net, ASP, XML, Oracle 9i, VBScript.
• Developed and Executed Test Plans and Test Cases as per Business requirement followed by Bug Tracking and reporting.
• Knowledge and experience of automation test tools QTP and Selenium
• Experience working with onsite/offshore model.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks as well as work independently or in a team.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Performed tests for GUI, Regression, Usability, Functionality, Security, System Configuration and Backend.
• Experience in testing Web based applications; Windows based applications on client / server and n-tier architectures.
• Good knowledge in Testing Strategy, Testing Techniques and Bug Life Cycle.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing, Usability testing.
• Tested web applications in Waterfall and Agile/Scrum development processes.
• Experience in Defect tracking and reporting using tools like HP Quality Center, Bugzilla, and Red Mine.
• Sent screen shots of the bugs to development.
• Experience in executing automation tests using Selenium IDE, HP QTP.
• Experience in writing and executing SQL queries for backend.
• Proficient in MS Office Suite like MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word, and Power Point
• Quick learner and team player with strong communication and analytical skills.
• Ability to adapt in a dynamic work environment, learn quickly and solve problems.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks as well as work independently or in a team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools:

Quick Test professional, Load Runner, Quality Center 9.0, Selenium and Firebug.

Bug Tracking(Reporting) Tools

HP Quality Center 9.0/ 9.2, Jira, Bugzilla, Red Mine.

Browsers

Fire Fox, IE, Google Chrome, Safari, OPRA.

Other Tools

Oracle Sql* plus, Power Builder, SQL Navigator, TOAD

Mobile Devices

iPhone, ipad, Android.

Languages:

C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL, XML, HTML, VB .Net, JAVA, JAVA Script, JUNIT, JSP, VBScript ,CSS, AJAX

Operating Systems:

Windows XP/7, Windows Vista, MAC OSX 10.7, HP-UNIX, Linux and PHP,APACHI, My SQL

Database:

ORACLE 9i, MySQL, SQL Server

Version Control:

CVS, VSS, SVN, Perforce, Tortoise

CAREER PROFILE:

Confidential, CA July 2010 Present Test Engineer

Working as a Software Tester for Hair and Skin Care Product projects.
L’Avant Garde is a company which offers the largest and most diverse selection of hair care products on the internet. Its products are designed to provide professional hairdressers and their clients worldwide with effective tools to improve all aspects of salon services. It provides exciting new concepts in hair care and creative hair design to salon professionals and their clients worldwide with the deep involvement in research.

• Maintained Traceability Matrix to track the requirements to the test cases to ensure complete test coverage in the Mercury Quality Center.
• Tested Various Url’s on multiple release cycles of the product involving Smoke, Functional, regression and integration on different browsers.
• Involved in creating Test Plans and Test Cases for Static, Dynamic Web applications.
• Created detail Test cases for each test phase to ensure complete coverage.
• Involved in Front-end testing includes Functionality, navigation, Alignments, links validation, Session management, cookies, Authentication, company specific colors, privacy policy using different web browsers in both Windows and Mac environment for different web sites.
• Logged in Subversion and notified the changes made in PHP code and prepared test plans.
• Conducted Navigational testing by clicking on various hyperlinks and verifying that it is redirected to the correct page.
• Performed data driven testing on multiple accounts set, Login, multiple products checkout functions using Selenium.
• Utilized Quality Center test management tool to create and run manual test cases and as well as generate daily status reports.
• Performed Manual testing on the entire applications with Positive and negative testing.
• Involved in identifying risks in site features coverage and prioritizing them to test.
• Logged and tracked bugs using Red Mine.

Environment: Windows XP/7, Fire Fox, MAC OSX, Oracle 9i, Firebug, Red Mine, PHP, MS Office 2007, Subversion, Java Scripts, HTML, CSS, Red Mine, Selenium.

Confidential,CA May 2009 June2010 QA Tester

Worked as a Test Engineer for Investor’s Business Daily (IBD), which is a stock market (such as stock, bond, market and prices) newspaper subscription company that offers variety of products to help investors to find the best stocks in the least amount of time. Each product is designed to alert investors to these stocks showing similar characteristics today.

• Involved in developing test plans, and manual test cases for Order Management module where all the customer orders will be fulfilled.
• Developed test cases for Functional, Usability, and System and User Acceptance tests.
• Tested the functional features like complimentary offers, donations, events, cancel subscriptions, auto renew, courtesy issues, hold on vacation, credit issues for customers
• Conducted Regression testing for testing the functionality of the Application.
• Executed test cases compared with Expected values and pass/fail reports updated through Quality Center.
• Performed database testing by passing SQL queries to retrieve data records.
• Tested the functional features like complimentary offers, donations, events, cancel subscriptions, hold subscriptions, restart subscriptions, auto renew, courtesy issues, hold on vacation, credit issues, log complaints for both domestic & international customers by using manual and QTP automation data driven techniques.
• Executed VB Scripts for all business requirements and prepared Daily test execution reports.
• Categorized bugs based on the severity and interfaced with developers to resolve them.
• Interacted with developers and Users to resolve critical and major bugs.
• Provided daily status report to the management.
• Fixed bugs scheduled for regression test for new releases.

Testing Tools: Quality Center, Manual Testing.
Environment: Asp.net, SQL Server, HTML, XML, MS Office,QTP.

Confidential,CA Jan 2009 April 2009 QA Tester
Worked as a QA Tester forGMON (Credit Card Fraud Monitoring System) Project.
G-MON is an on-line real-time fraud and performance monitoring system for various credit cards. This system has mainly three functions DETECTION, ACTION and PREVENTION. Rule Configurator is used for detection, Case Manager for action. Rule Configurator provides the predefined set of rules used for fraud detection. Case Manager automatically prioritizes, assign and track cases.

• Created test cases from the Business Requirement document, Analysis and Design Documents.
• Conducted Smoke, Non Functional, Functional, System and Integration testing.
• Tested all the Functional specifications, Program specifications, and Database design.
• Conducted Regression testing after the bugs have been fixed by the development team.
• Interaction with the developers for understanding the requirements and ensuring timely delivery.
• Performed Functionality testing manually as per the test case and evaluated the test results.
• Defect Reporting and Tracking using Bugzilla.

Environment: Oracle 8i, SQL, JSP, Java Scripts, HTML, Bugzilla, Manual testing.

EDUCATION:

• Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications.
• Bachelors of Science in Computers.