SUMMARY

• As a Testing Professional having over six (6) years of extensive experience in the field of IT with focus QA and testing, design, development and maintenance of test scripts.
• Expertise in Manual Testing, Automation Testing, functional testing, integration testing, System Testing, performance testing, load testing, regression testing and stress testing.
• Responsible for testing software packages thoroughly and integrated systems to ensure proper operation and the absence of defects.
• Has strong business knowledge and testing skills in the information technology software industries.
• Over Six years of diverse experience in Information Technology Application Development with emphasis on Software Quality Assurance of Client/Server and Web based applications.
• Excellent professional and interpersonal skills developed through experiences as a team member for manual testing. Specific testing expertise includes Test Plan Formulation for System Testing, Functionality Testing, Hardware Testing, and Regression Testing.
• Extensive experience in Manual Testing, Automation Testing and Performance Testing.
• Involved in preparing test cases, plans and testing strategies.
• Written test cases for GUI, functional and integration testing.
• Effective defect tracking and reporting to improve communications and reduce delay.
• An advocate of automation who understands that there are proper times to apply an automation strategy, and there are situations when manual testing is advantageous.
• Adept in using tools like Test Director, Quality Center, JIRA. Familiarity with ALM and QTP.
• Excellent knowledge in MTM (Microsoft Test Manager)
• Excellent knowledge in TFS (Team Foundation Server)
• Used Test management tools like Jira, HP Quality Center for maintaining the Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Execution, Defect Management and Bug Reporting
• Hands on experience with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Proficient in Manual Testing on client/server and web - based applications.
• Proficient in different phases of Testing like Functional Testing, QA Methodologies, Integration Testing and System Testing.
• Ability to interact with developers and product analysts regarding testing status and defect tracking.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/Windows NT/Windows XP/ Windows7/UNIX/Linux

Languages: C/C++/Java

Web Technologies: HTML/DHTML/XML/ASP.Net/VB.Net/IIS/Mainframes

Scripting Languages: VBScript/Java script

Testing Tools: QTP/Quality Center/Load Runner/Performance Center

Databases: MS SQL Server/MS Access/Oracle 11g/DB2/SQL

MS Tools: MS Office suite/MS visual studio 2010/Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, LA

Manual Tester

Environment: Windows XP, windows 7, SQL server 2008, Oracle,.Net, Java, vb.net, MS Excel, MS Word, Internet explorer, PL/SQL, Jira

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing the User requirements.
• Involved in deriving the Test Scenarios and designing the manual test cases.
• Interaction with the product team and taking clarifications regarding application.
• Involved in manual test execution and various testing phases like GUI, Functional, Regression, Exploratory, adhoc and Sanity testing.
• Involved in Browser compatibility testing.
• Involved in generating test data for specific test scenario.
• Involved in Bug reporting and Bug validation through Jira tool.
• Involved in defect review and requirements meetings with the product and development team.
• Imparting Product training to other QA team members.
• Coordinated with business analyst and development team to resolve issues.
• Created overall Test Strategy to cover all the functionality related to particular enhancements.

Confidential, NY

Manual Tester

Environment: Windows XP, windows 7, SQL server 2005, Java,, MS Excel, MS Word, Internet explorer, HP Quality Center.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparing System Test Plans based on User Requirements Document (URD) and prepared the Test Cases and Test Procedures.
• Involved in manual test execution and various testing phases like GUI, Functional, Regression, Exploratory, adhoc and Sanity testing.
• Involved in integration and system testing for the application.
• Tested the application manually by executing test cases.
• Prepared the test scenarios and generated test scripts.
• Prepared test data for positive and negative testing used data for testing the application dynamically.
• Interacted with the business analysts and developers for bug fixes and problem resolution

Confidential, CA

QA Engineer

Environment: Windows 2008 server, Internet Explorer, SQL, SQL server 2008, Java, XML, web logic, windows XP professional, windows 7, MS Excel, MS Word, Internet explorer, Quick Test Professional 10.0 and Test Director.

Responsibilities:

• Participated and Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specification.
• Prepared Test Strategy and Test Plan for multiple short release projects.
• Attended Daily Scrum Meetings.
• Assisted the Business Analysts with requirement gathering and developers with triage, research and validation of system errors and enhancements.
• Analyzed system documentation like Requirements document, User Interface Specifications to develop and Execute Test scripts.
• Extensively used SQL to perform Data integrity testing. Responsible for executing and validating data stored at the back end via using SQL Queries.
• Performed System testing, Regression testing, End-to-End testing manually.
• Scheduling, Interacting, invoking the QTP Scripts are done using Test Director.
• Reported the bugs, Email notifications to the developers using the Test Director.
• Closely worked with developers and System Engineers to nail down the technical problems
• Monitored Test Director to close the bugs/cases as and when developers fix the bugs. Participated in defect meetings.
• Used Visual Source Safe for Version Control of Test case documents.