SUMMARY

• Having 7+ years of Professional Experience in QA Testing (Manual & Automation) with solid understanding QA Principles & Testing Methodologies.
• Experience working in Web Based applications.
• Extensive experience working in Banking & Finance, Healthcare and Telecom applications.
• Expertise in preparing the Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Cases, Traceability Matrices, Test Scripts, Test Procedures and Test Summary Reports based on the User requirement Document, System Requirement Document and Functional requirement document.
• Good hands - on Experience in writing UAT Test Cases, Integration Testing, positive and negative, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, Black Box Testing, End to End Testing and UI Testing.
• Experience working in an Agile and Waterfall environment.
• Execution of automation test script using Mercury Tools (Test Director/Quality center, Load Runner and QTP).
• Experience in working onKeyword Driven and Data Driven frameworkusingQuick Test Professional.
• Having Good Knowledge on SDLC, STLC and Bug Life Cycle.
• Conducted and Participated Standup Meetings with QA Team Members in Agile Environment.
• Hands-on experience in Documentation of all Stages of Testing using QC.
• Coordinating with the Project Manager, IT BA and IT Developer for Test Case Review and Escalating Risk that impact the Timelines and Deliverables.
• Responsible for the completion of all deliverables within schedule and quality constraints.
• Responsible for defect management Using Quality Center and Atlassian JIRA (defect logging, defect Tracking, Troubleshooting, Documentation, status updating and defect reports).
• Good hands-on experience in testing the applications both manually as well as Automation tools.
• Mentor and educate the Team Members on existing technologies and provided the deeper insight of the new tools.
• Diligent worker, self-starter, consistent performer, exceptionally well organized, adaptable to work both as a team member as well as independently.
• Strong analytical, problem solving in Implementing Quality Assurances and Testing Methodologies for large enterprise and Web Applications.
• Highly capable in analyzing the things as required and Expertise in identifying the solutions for complex requirements.
• Excellent Technical, Communication and Time Management skills
• CCNA Certified professional (Certificate No. CSCO11579286).
• ITIL certified professional.
• Expertise in Network monitoring, Device discovering, configuring, Client interfacing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Modelling Software and languages: Unix, Shell scripting, My SQL,OOPS

Testing: Manual Testing and Automation Testing (QTP), Selenium, Shell Scripting, Load Runner.

Defect Management Tools: HP Quality Center, JIRA

COTS Product: Infovista

Platform and Packages: Windows XP, Windows95/98/NT/2000, MS-DOS, Solaris 5.10, UNIX, Linux

Networking Packages & Tools: NAGIOS, SMTP, MRTG, Apache, Tomcat, Bridge clarify

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Troy, MI

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in implementing detailed test-plans and test-cases according to the Acceptance Criteria provided by Business Analyst (BA).
• Prepare the Analysis report on each business scenario and given the recommendations
• Design and develop test cases based on different scenarios for Positive and Negative Testing and UAT.
• Conducted functional, system, regression and smoke testing as a Black Box Tester.
• Managed the Traceability between requirements and test cases.
• Developed many reusable functions using QTP.
• Evaluated QTP for automation & created various GUI checkpoints using QTP.
• Executed QTP scripts for regression testing.
• Developed Custom Function Libraries and created test scripts withDescriptiveProgramming using VB script (QTP) to perform test automation.
• Worked closely with various teams to discuss the design and testing aspects of the applications to design test plans.
• Involved in Preparing Test Plan from business requirements and Functional requirements in Agile Environment.
• Involved in Design, developed, Execution and maintenance of test cases using HP Quality center.
• Directed the walk-thru efforts of the system test plan with other IT group.
• Developed SQL scripts to extract the data from database.
• Performed XML web service testing in Soap UI.
• Performed configuration testing on different platforms and hardware.
• Involved in Preparation of daily status reports and submitted to the test lead

Environment: HP Quality center 10.00, SQL Server, Windows XP, Soap UI, QTP 11.00, VB Script and XML.

Confidential, Louisville KY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared test cases based on Design documents & Requirement documents.
• Involved in writing Test plan, Test cases and responsible for executing the Test Scripts.
• Performed Smoke, Integration, functional, Regression, and system testing.
• Interacted with Business users and Technical team in providing clear solutions to requirements.
• Bugs were reported to Developers using Quality Center and after rectification from Developers regression testing was performed.
• Prepared Test Cases and executed test cases using Quality Center.
• UsedSeleniumWebDriverAPIto automate tests oncross browserandcross platformenvironment.
• Regression test cases were written and automated usingSeleniumWebDriver.
• Created and enhanced numerous test scripts to handle changes in the objects, in the tested application’sGUI and in the testing environment using SeleniumWebDriver.
• Performed Browser Compatibility testing on different platforms and data validations for all reports usingSelenium
• Prepared RTM document to make sure each requirement is covered in test cases.
• Prepared test Data for the Requirements.
• Backend/data validation testing using SQL queries.
• Identified bugs in database and created reports for modification requests and resolved all issues.
• Effectively interacted with end users, development personnel, QA team and various subject matter experts.
• Involved in documentation, setting up the Test Data, Test environment/Scenarios.
• Facilitated weekly team meetings between business users, developers and tester where test status and defects were discussed.

Environment: Oracle, Quality Center, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Server, UNIX, MS-Office, Windows NT/XP, Selenium.

Confidential

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understand Functional and Design Requirements
• Executing the test cases and reported bugs using JIRA.
• Involved in Integration testing, System Testing and Regression Testing.
• Analysis of Change Requests and developing Requirements specification, technical specification, test plan, test evidence to complete the ad-hoc CR’s.
• Establish “Best Practices” and plan for continuous improvement of processes.
• Involved in designing and developing test plans in Quality Center and automating scripts in QTP.
• Design and develop test cases based on different scenarios for Positive and Negative Testing.
• Develop test data for regression testing in QTP.
• Involved in writing QTP automation scripts from the manual test cases using VB script.
• Designed, Updated & Reviewed Test Cases and QTP Scripts for the Change requests.
• Identifying the reusable modules in the application and designing them in QTP.
• Used Quality Center to manage requirements.
• Automated applications using QTP for reusable functionality.
• Involved in checking database connectivity using shell script.
• Scheduled crontabs for some periodic checks.
• Designing and executing the Scenario in Controller.
• Monitoring the graphs while running the scenariosand analyzing the Reports.
• Identifying the Bottlenecks and reporting the conflicts against the SLAs.
• Involved in weekly team meetings with Onsite coordinator.
• Closely interact with the development team and the Business analyst for clarifications.
• Update daily and weekly status in the status reports and meetings.

Environment: UNIX, Shell Scripting, Windows 7, HP Quality Center, DBArtisan, QTP, VB script, Load runner, QTP 9.5.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in end-to-end performance testing activities.
• Created performance test plan, performance strategy & performance test design.
• Identified business case scenarios for load testing and prepared effort and estimation plan.
• Enhanced the virtual user scripts by various transactions and executed the scenario’s in controller
• Designed load mix scenarios with different think times and executed Load Test.
• Generated scripts by using Vu Gen (Virtual User Generator).
• Designed scenarios in controller machine to meet the load testing requirements.
• Interaction with Product team for requirements and review meetings based on results.
• Ensured execution results preparation in coordination with onsite team like Performance Test environment Setup.
• Monitored different graphs like transaction response time and analyzed Server performance status, hits per Second, throughput, windows resources and database server resources etc.
• Identified bottle necks at code and database level.
• Worked closely with developers and system engineers to nail down the technical problems.
• Identifying thresholds latency, memory leaks and profiling.
• Design and Developed automated functional Test suite usingSeleniumIDE, WebDriver.
• Performed functional and regression testing usingSelenium

Environment: Windows XP, SQL Server 2005, Load Runner 9.52, HP Quality center, Selenium.

Confidential

Technical Associate (Team Lead)

Responsibilities:

• Lead the whole project and managing a team size of 10 people.
• Reportal administration activity (Schedule job management, provisioning and troubleshooting)
• Analyzed Business Requirements and prepare test cases in Excel sheet.
• Prepared RTM document to make sure each requirement is covered in test cases.
• Prepared test Data for the Requirements.
• Design and Developed automated functional Test suite usingSeleniumIDE, WebDriver.
• Executed Test Cases, report defects, investigate and document results in Quality Center.
• Defined test cases for functional, integration system, and user acceptance testing.
• Involved on testing the new functionalities based on test cases and coordinated with development team in fixing the issues.
• Generated the defect reports for active, resolved, re-test pending defects.
• Participating in issues when any server or application goes down and getting it resolved by continuous interaction with Infrastructure team located in Italy.

Environment: - Unix, Perl, MySQL 5.0, SNMP (Perl Libraries and OS Tools), Apache Tomcat, PHP, Nagios (Alarm Dashboard), Selenium IDE.

Confidential

Technical Associate

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing the requirements of the users
• Proactively written shell script for backup activities to make it automatic
• End to end Test execution, Defect tracking and Validate requirements coverage.
• Discovered new devices as per the user requirements
• Involved in adding new customers and also interacting with them to get end-to-end support.
• Reporting of execution progress and bug status to various stakeholders, Lead Development Director and senior management.

Environment: Solaris, SQL developer, Infovista, Shell Scripting