PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 7 years experience in Software Quality Assurance and QA Implementation Testing Web based Application.
• Experience with creating Test Plans, writing and executing Test Cases, Manual Testing, and automated Test Execution.
• Extensive Knowledge of Quality Assurance standards, methodologies and strategies with better understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experienced in Manual Testing and Automation scripting skills in Mercury Interactive test Suite (WinRunner, Load Runner, Test Director and Quick TestPro) and Selenium (Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Selenium Core and Selenium Grid).
• Experience in Documenting and Executing Test cases manually and generated Automation Scripts using WinRunner, and Quick Test Professional, Test Director/Quality Center to ensure proper business compliance and worked closely with users and business analysts, Project Managers and Developers to understand requirements, business processes for testing and attended regular walkthroughs.
• Expertise in test strategy design for various types of testing - unit testing, integration testing, functional testing, system testing, UI testing, security testing, load testing, stress testing, performance testing, smoke testing etc.
• Extensive experience in implementing QA methodologies, test plans, test cases, test scenarios and test deliverable.
• Expertise in Functional, Smoke, Regression, User Acceptance (UAT) and Black Box testing.
• Familiar with testing on full range of Web Browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc.) across multiple platforms.
• Involved in Black Box in UNIX and Windows environment.
• Experience working with Databases such as Oracle, SQL Server and MS- Access.
• Expertise in Problem Solving and Bug Tracking Reports using Bug Tracking Tools.
• Proficient with Tools such as MS Project, MS Vision, MS Office, Visual Source Safe and Rational Rose.
• Sound Knowledge of Medical Device Industry, Financial, E-commerce, Securities, Mobile and Banking Industry.
• Proactive Person with Logical approach to challenges, who can perform effectively as an individual or within Team even under a high Pressure.
• Used SQL Queries to make sure that data was entered properly in the right tables, when the data was entered from front end screen.
• Programming experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Ruby on Rails.
• Attended Big review meeting as well as walkthrough meeting whenever required.
• Strong Analytical and Problem Solving skills.
• Strong organizational and communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Strong team player with good interpersonal skills.
• A consistent performer with track record of consistently setting performance benchmarks and being appreciated for dedication towards work, completing assignments within specified timeframe
• Demonstrated ability to self-motivate and be flexible within a fast-paced environment

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Automated Testing Tools

Selenium IDE, RC, Grid and Core, QTP, WinRunner and Load Runner.

Test Management Tools

Test Director 8.0,Quality Centre 9.0/10.0.

Tracking Tools

BugZilla, JIRA.

Languages

Ruby (along with Ruby on Rails), Visual Basic, Java, SQL.

Scripting Languages

VBScript, Java Script, CSS.

Web Technologies

HTML, XML, DHTML.

Application Software

MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-PowerPoint and MS Outlook.

Databases

Oracle, MS SQL, MS- Access.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,San Francisco, CA. Mar 11 – Till now.

Sr QA Analyst

Williams Sonoma, Inc is a high-end American consumer retail company that sells kitchenware, furniture and linens, as well as other housewares and home furnishings, along with a variety of specialty foods, soaps and lotions.

Responsibilities:

• Closely worked with business analyst and project management to help make technical decisions.
• Participated in planning and directing quality assurance schedules and assignments, and monitoring project status.
• Prepared test cases by analyzing functional requirement specification document.
• Involved in Black Box, Manual and Automation Testing and prepared Test Suite for all Test cases
• Developed and executed various scripts using Selenium for automated testing of various functionalities.
• Analysis and automating test scripts using Selenium.
• Involved in testing compatibility of software under various Internet Browsers.
• Responsible for developing Automation Framework, Automation Test Plan and Test Scripts.
• Generated automated test scripts for functionality and GUI testing and further enhancements were done in the script.
• Performed Integration testing, Regression testing and System Testing.
• Extensively used PL/SQL, functions, procedures, packages to validate business rules and security.
• Involved in Compatibility testing using various browsers.
• Involved in Black Box Testing method.
• Used Selenium IDE for generating test scripts.
• Identified software defects and interacted with developers to resolve them and provided full support to the Test team using the QC.
• Extensively involved in writingSQL and Select Statement and also used where clauses to the specific outputQueriesfor Creating, Updating, Deleting, Inserting, Searching.For Contact, Account, New registration, Profile_ID. Etc.
• Performed GUI, Functionality and Backend Testing.
• Involved for creating weekly status reports regarding progress of testing process.
• Participated in various meetings, discussed Enhancement and Modification Requests issues.
• Reported the bugs using an in house bug-reporting system, which was developed using MS Excel sheets.

Environment: Selenium IDE, Selenium RC , Selenium Core, HTML, Java, Agile, Perl, JIRA.

Confidential,NY Jun 10 – Feb 11

QA Analyst

Newsweek offers comprehensive coverage of world events with a global network of correspondents, reporters and editors covering national and international affairs, business, science and technology, society and the arts and entertainment. Newsweek.com offers the weekly magazine online, daily news updates. Newsweek re-design project involves Adobe CQ5 Web Content Management to easily create and publish the content. Author once, publish many, with design templates and inherited content, while allowing for author and publish of local content.

Responsibilities

• Extracted high-level use cases, test scenarios in interaction with development team.
• Set up development and QA environment using CQ5 WCM.
• Automated web navigations using selenium IDE.
• Involved in authoring of Newsweek design templates and publishing the content on to CQ5 pre-production, UAT environments.
• Maintained daily maven build releases and source code changes through SVN and pushed the changes on to CQ5 Newsweek instance.
• Performed manual functional testing of re-designed site across cross browser and cross platforms on pre-prod, UAT environments.
• Executed User Stories of the projects available in Rally implementing agile methodology.
• Participated in Scrum meetings and analyzed backlogs in Rally.
• Debugged web traffic using fiddler, sorted issues using firebug, IE developer, web developer tools.
• Extensive look up of JavaScript, CSS, XML and HTML code as part of Ajax web testing.
• Involved in Unit, Regression, Smoke, Upgrade and UAT on Pre-Prod.
• Tested re-designed site on Amazon’s cloud EC2 instantiated servers involving the cloud computing.
• Tracked QA issues using Jira, Rally along with defect logging that includes technical, logical, functional, UI, Server, CQ5 Sling issues.
• Expertise in testing the web pages on MAC OS X, WIN on various versions of IE, Chrome, Firefox, Safari browsers along with the use of Virtual Machines.
• Performed testing of CQ5 WCM editor with Newsweek components and involved in analyzing the code structure.
• Authored functional design changes, design style guides, CQ5 training and deployment instructions to Newsweek dashboard on atlassian Confluence.
• Co-ordination with uTest team on QA issues as part of Newsweek site functional testing.

Environment: Day CQ 5.3 WCM(CRX 2.0 based on JCR-283 ), AJAX, Java 1.6, Apache 2.2, Jira, Rally, MVN, SVN, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, jquery JavaScript Library v1.4.2, Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3), Echo/JS-Kit (for comments), Bright cove (video), Firebug, Fiddler, Web developer

Confidential,VA Apr 09 - May 10

Sr. QA Analyst

Advanced Health Media LLC, provides a fully integrated suite of products and services to address diverse marketing, operational and compliance management needed in the highly specialized and increasingly regulated health care industry.
AHM used an Abbott client site which is a means by which sales representatives will schedule speaker engagements, venue, and event attendees. In addition, this site will provide sales management (district managers and regional directors) visibility and approval responsibility to the programs taking place in their area.

Responsibilities:

• Tested New Features and their impact on existing functionality before each release.
• Conducted Functionality testing during various phases of the application.
• Developed and maintained the Traceability matrix between requirements and test cases.
• Validated date checks to test Trade dates and Settlement dates for designated transactions.
• Used Quality Center to develop test cases, and executed them in test lab.
• Performed the data validation to meet all test condition requirements.
• Involved in testing activity like functionality, regression and integration testing of the application using Black box.
• Prepared Test Metrics and generated monthly status reports for upper management review.
• Analyzed Results with Business Analysts.
• Created automated scripts usingQuick Test Proand developed test suites to execute the scripts usingQualityCenter.
• Documented problems found during test on theQualityCentersystemand communicated recorded problem to the responsible QA Manager.
• Provided feedback to the developers and the QA team on top priority issues.

Environment: Quality Center 9.5, QTP 9.5, MS Office Suite, Agile, Windows 2003, Java, SQL server 2000, ASP .NET , C#, VS.NET 2005

Confidential,PA Jul 08 – Mar 09
QA Analyst
This project is for re-filling the prescription online. The data is sent to database (DB2) for staging (Calling the stored Procedures).
Responsibilities:

• Automated test cases for GUI, Functionality and Regression testing using QTP
• Analysis of the Use Cases and Case Specs provided by the client.
• Developed test cases
• Facilitated weekly bug meetings with the updates on the bugs
• Worked with DB2 stored procedures sending the data to mainframes
• Created Test plan, Test cases and Test Scripts using Quality Center
• Defining and performing the test and associated scripts for verification and validation
• Performed backend regression testing with SQL Statements to review the returned data
• Perform manual and Selenium testing of a web based application.
• Participated in weekly Review meetings and walkthroughs

Environment:DB2 ,XML, JUnit , IPSwitch, Qc 9.0,QTP 9.2,Junit,Java, Selenium, RC,WebDriver.
Confidential,India. Mar 07 – Feb 08

Quality Analyst.

Evoke Technologies is established Offshore development center for New York (USA) based Corporation Service Company. As a Quality Control Engineer, I was responsible for writing Test Requirement, Test Scripts, Test Cases and Test Execution for verifying the data. Also involved in documenting test results and creating Bug reports for fixing Errors.
Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Functional Requirements and Use cases to developed Test Plans, Test cases and Test scripts.
• Involved in Black Box Testing.
• Created Test Cases and test data from the functional requirements specifications.
• Interacting with Developers and Business Analyst regarding requirements, test scenarios, and defects.
• Develop and maintained Test Cases from Functional Requirement documents.
• Identified and update the test cases as per the new functionality of the application.
• Documented test plans / test scripts for references.
• Performed black box, smoke, functionality, integration, GUI, system, database, regression, acceptance and load testing.
• Develop and Execute the QTP Automation Scripts for Regression Testing.
• Inserted Checkpoints, Synchronization points using QTP.
• Performed manual testing of the application at database level, and the integration level.
• Conducted Compatibility testing on variety of browsers and operating systems to ensure that users with different browsers don’t experience problems.
• Used SQL, to test the backend Database for retrieving the data from the tables.
• Perform end to end testing manually.
• Detecting bugs and reporting them in Microsoft Excel Sheet.
• Attended Bug Review Meeting.
• Responsible for updating and maintaining the Quality Center for all the defects found during functional and regression testing and follow up the bug life cycle.

Environment: Quick Test Professional, Load Runner, Java, HTML, Visual Basic, Windows XP, Quality Center, etc.