SUMMARY:

• 6 years experience in Software Quality Assurance Testing including Software Testing Best Practices, Software Quality Process Consultant, Process Subject Matter Expert, Software Test Automation, Test Planning, Execution and Reporting.
• Extensively involved in creation of Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts and project related documentation.
• Experience in Quality Center for Requirements Traceability, Execution of Test Cases, Defect Tracking for Web based applications.
• Involved in the Phases of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Testing Life cycle and defining the repeatable testing process.
• Expertise in Analyzing Business Requirements, Develop comprehensive Test Specs and execute them.
• Strong experience in Functionality Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing of Web based and Client/Server applications in Windows Environments.
• Well versed with creating manual and automated scripts to perform functional, regression, integration, system testing, Backend testing and User Acceptance testing with Oracle and Java background.
• Experience in Developing Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Defect Reports.
• Developed Traceability matrix to track test cases against the requirements.
• Performed Regression Testing using Selenium Tool and Quick Test Professional (QTP) Tool.
• Developed and executed various VBScripts using QTP for automated testing of each individual Functionality and Regression Testing of the application.
• Good knowledge in the Analysis of Bug Severity, Bug Tracking system and Bug Reporting using Mercury Test Director and Quality Center.
• Having good knowledge in Database Testing (Oracle) and SQL Server (DDL, DML, Stored Procedure, Trigger Constraint, Joins, Views Schemas, and SQL Queries).
• Experienced with Ms Office Tools like Ms Word, Ms Excel, Ms Outlook, Ms Visio and Ms Access.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional(QTP), Selenium, Test Director, Quality Center, HP Project and Portfolio Management Tool

Languages/Software: C, C++, C#,Microsoft Visual Studio, MS - Office Suite, HTML

Databases: SQL Server 2005/2008, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, Query Analyzer, Quest TOAD, SQLPlus

Web Development /Project Environment: Visual Basic, VB.NET, ASP.NET 2.0/3.5, HTML, XML, Web Services, ADO.NET, ASP, VB Script, JavaScript

Configuration Management: Visual Source Safe, WinCVS

Operating Systems: Windows 7, Windows Vista/XP/2000/2003/NT/98 and Macintosh

Methodologies: Agile, Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development, SDLC, Waterfall, Prototyping, Iterative Enhancements, Rapid Application Development, CMMI, ISO, Quality Management System.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Pittsburgh PA

Quality Analyst and Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirement and Software Specification Requirements to achieve better understanding of the Application.
• Involved in the design stages of the Application and participated in the meetings with the business analyst and the development team.
• Translated requirements, use cases & object models into test plan and test cases.
• Ensured all Phases are delivered to schedule, budget & quality.
• Examined and analyzed the requirements to document test cases using Quality Center.
• Performed Sanity testing for each new build of the application.
• Executed test cases manually and reported defects using Quality Center.
• Conducted various types of testing like Functionality Testing, GUI Testing, Regression Testing, System testing, Performance Testing, Backend testing.
• Raised and managed issues/risks relating to project or outside Test Teams control using HP Project and Portfolio Management Tool.
• Designed data driven tests for different combination of data using QTP.
• Responsible for creating weekly, daily status reports, bug reports and sending them to the respective team members.
• Coordinated with the third party vendors effectively for successful system’s integration.

Confidential

Release Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business Model and Requirements of the application.
• Designing & Executing Test Cases, on the basis of Functional & Technical Specifications of the Project.
• Performing Front End and Back End Testing of the Applications with the .net Environment and Oracle Database.
• Created the Test strategy that clearly documents the Test Approach and aligned the same with Application Teams, Business, Third Party Vendors.
• Creating the Defect Sheet using HP Project and Portfolio Management Tool.
• Performing Regression Testing to ensure the closure of all the defects before the final delivery of the software.
• Coordinating Test Cycle Runs with the development team.
• Understanding the Clients Issues with respect to the Quality of the Deliverables and thereby initiated the Process Improvement Activity.
• Provided Project Facilitation to all projects including Monthly Project Health Check, Senior Management Reviews, Defect & Metrics Analysis, and Root Cause Analysis.
• Involved in deploying the code onto the test server and locally testing the application before moving into production.
• IIS management

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performing quality assurance functions covering the full software development life cycle, including development and implementation of test plans, test infrastructure and project plans.
• Writing the Test Plan and Test cases for acceptance, functional and integration testing using Quality Center.
• Performing Back End Testing (Oracle 9i database) of the Applications.
• Created test Scripts in Quick Test Professional for Functional Testing.
• Participated in continuous quality assurance process improvements.
• Integrated the Quality Center requirements with test cases, and defects.
• Performed Bug Tracking by adding, matching and updating defects using Quality Center.
• Analyzed and viewed defect history to identify the bug severity level using Quality Center.
• Maintained requirements, Test Plan and created Traceability between Requirements and Test Cases using Quality Center.
• Conducted Process Awareness Sessions and Implemented Testing Process Tollgate Reviews to check the Adherence and Effectiveness of the Testing process.
• Managing Project Plan, Test Plan, Risk Management Strategy, Resource Training Plan, Disaster and Recovery Plan, Development and Quality Plan, Deliverables and Milestones etc. using HP Project and Portfolio management Tool.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating complete test cases of varying complexity, executing tests, measuring expected and actual results, and reporting status ensuring accurate coverage of requirements and business rules.
• Used .Net framework 2.0,Designing, implementing web based application using Microsoft Visual Studio.Net 2005, .NET Framework 2.0, C#.Net, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, SQL Server 2000, Visual Source Safe
• Involved in the system requirements gathering and developed prototypes according to the requirements.
• Involved in prototyping of the application using HTML and DHTML
• Using Data access application blocks and Exception Handling application blocks.
• Using Visual Source Safe for source version controlling.
• Extensively involved in Designing and Implementing of XML Web Services and using of third party created web services through security authentication for web services.
• Consumption of XML Web Services in the application and presented data in GUI.
• Used Log4net for logging of errors in the application.
• Used Infragistics Controls like Date Chooser, Web Menu, Web Grids, Web Tree.
• Implemented classes for testing the Business and Data Access Layer methods using NUnit Test Cases, TestDriven.NET.

Environment: Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2005, .Net Framework 2.0, ASP.NET, C#.Net, ADO.Net, SQL Server 2000, Crystal Reports 5.0, XML, XML Web Services, XSLT, XSL, JavaScript, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe

Confidential, Brooklyn NY

Software Developer/ Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding and Defining Business level processes for clients.
• Provided Project Facilitation including Monthly Project Health Check, Senior Management Reviews, Defect and Metrics Analysis, Root Cause Analysis.
• Designed and developed the Web Pages using ASP.NET, C# and Visual Studio .NET 2005.
• Prepared business process models and used Visio to create use case diagrams.
• Implemented a custom calendar control for use in the Time management tool.
• Extensive use of Cascading Style Sheets to maintain the uniformity across application and minimum cost style change in future.
• Contribution in developing XML documents for data transmission and used SOAP protocol to transfer message.
• Validation controls were used in every screen to take care of design phase error recognition.
• Used stored procedures, Triggers and views for data manipulation.
• Used SQL Reporting Services tool for report generation.

Environment: ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, AJAX, ADO.NET, Visual Studio.NET, HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, Web Services, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Oracle 8i, IIS, NET Framework 2.0