Summary:

- Over ten (10+) years of experience in the field of IT with focus on QA and testing ofweb based, Client-Server and legacy applications, effective use of QA and Testing practice. Strong knowledge of all phases of SDLC and working knowledge of Software testing (Functional, Integration, Performance, Quality Metrics)
- Experienced in defining Testing Methodologies, Designing Test Plans and Test Cases, Verifying and Validating Web based and legacy applications and Documentation based on standards for Software Development and effective QA implementation in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Strong aptitude and experience in software quality process, change management and release management
- Proficient in all cycles of test life cycle from test planning to defect tracking andmanaging defect lifecycle
- Extensive experience in coordinating testing effort, responsible for test deliverables, status reporting to management, issue escalations
- Have good Domain Knowledge of telecommunication industry
- Professional experience in designing Test Cases and Test Scripts for Windows, Java and mainframe environments

Technical Skills:

Defect Tracking Tools: BugZilla, Test Director
Operating System: Windows XP/2000/Vista, UNIX
Web Servers: IIS, Tomcat
Programming Languages: Java, C, VB Script,JavaScript, Shell Script and COBOL
Testing Types: Black Box, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Load, UAT
RDBMS/ Database: Oracle 9i/10g, TOAD, MS SQL
ETL Tool: Informatica 8.6, SAP BI 7.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL April 2011 - Present
QA Tester

Responsibilities:
- Review Business requirements with business and prepare a test Plans for all the features/functionalities specific to each iteration
- Document the test cases
- Perform peer review of test plan/ test case
- Execute the smoke and functional tests in QA environments
- Automate the tests in Brio using selenium
- Log the defect in rational clear quest
- Re-test the functionality once the defect has been fixed
- Create change request for any missing functionalities
Environment: J2EE, UNIX, Tibco, TOAD, Oracle 9i, IBM Rational suite, Clearquest, Windows and Selenium

Confidential,Lisle, IL May 2005 - March 2011
Technical consultant

Responsibilities:
- Evaluate the requirements for testing and design, develop test plans and cases based on the business/software requirements
- Participate in design review
- Document the mapping of test cases to requirements to come up with traceability matrix
- Create regression test plan/cases
- Execute smoke, functional and regression test cases
- Performed regression test using QTP
- Document the defects in defects management tool and create defect metrics for review
- Maintain the automated scripts
- Experienced in planning, estimating and scheduling of tasks
- Coding and executing complex SQL queries to retrieve data
- Assigning work to team members, tracking and reviewing the work products
- Coordinate and migrate code to test and development environments
- Follow the change management processes to deploy code to production environment
- Consolidating the status reports on weekly basis
- Mentoring and coordination team for the successful test deliverables on time
Environment: J2EE, Cobol, JCL, SPUFI, Expeditor, CICS, IDMS, TOAD, MS SQL, Oracle 9i, J2EE, XML, JSP, Test Director, QTP, Windows XP, UNIX, Visual Source Safe, Bugzilla

Confidential,Boston, MA Sept 2004 - April 2005

Responsibilities:
- Reviewed Business requirements and prepared Test Plans for all applications which were moved
- Created test strategy/plan and test cases for the applications server move
- Execute the test cases and log the defects
- Ensure that all the test cases are updated in master test plan
- Developed data driven tests to easy maintenance of the scripts and to test with various data including positive and negative test data
- Tested the critical fixes and coordinated with developers in release of bug fixes meeting tight timeline

Confidential,Chicago, IL Feb 2000 - Aug 2004

Responsibilities:
- Designed and developed test cases for putting the application on manual testing
- Ensure that all the test cases are written and updated in Quality
- Involved on testing the new functionalities based on test cases and coordinated with development team in fixing the issues
- Involved in testing the priority functionalities
- Involved in reviewing the test cases and executing the same
- Analyzed automated test results, documented and reported through Test Director
- Verified the Fixed CRs and tracked the same to closure
- Coordinated with developers, testers and other individuals involved in the project to resolve the identified issues
- Involved in Release support - Release to QA, involved in environment setup, testing the release process
- Review tests specifications, cases and performed manual testing.
Environment: Oracle9i/10g, J2EE, Cobol, JCL, SPUFI, Expeditor, CICS, IDMS, TOAD, SQL, J2EE, XML, JSP, Test Director, Windows XP, UNIX, Quality Center and Visual Source Safe.

Confidential,Dallas, TX May 1999 - Jan 2000

Responsibilities:
- Involved in testing the applications for GUI, Functionality and Database Testing with manual and automated Testing Processes
- Involved in developing test plan and test cases based on the requirements document
- Participated in walkthroughs and reviews with designers and developers establishing quality policy conformance
- Analyzed system requirements, developed & executed detailed Test plan, Test cases, Test data, and Test scripts for testing the functionality, GUI, security, and usability
- Performed the Back-End integration testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL queries on the Oracle database
- Involved in Functionality Testing for the modules and conducted Interface and Regression Testing during the various phases of the development
- Involved on testing the new functionalities based on test cases and coordinated with development team in fixing the issues
Environment: Win runner, Test Director, Windows 2000/XP, Jbuilder, Java and Oracle

EDUCATION:

BS in Engineering