SUMMARY

• Over Six years of experience in Manual and Automated testing of web based and client/server applications in Financial, Health Care and Insurance industries.
• Acquired experience with the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), which includes Planning, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Integration and Support.
• Strong knowledge in analyzing Business Requirements, developing and executing Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scenarios for manual/automated testing.
• Involved in Functionality, Regression, and Black box, Back - end, Integration, User Acceptance, Load, Stress and Performance Testing.
• Strong experience in Database/Backend testing using MSSQL Server, Oracle and SQL queries.
• Proficient in specification based Testing, Integration Testing, Data Driven Testing and end to end testing.
• Experience in Analysis of Business Requirements and Software Requirement Specifications to formulate Test Plans and writing Test Cases.
• Expertise in bug reporting or defect tracking using Test Director and Quality Center.
• Excellent inter-personnel and team player skills and ability to work independently.
• Self-starter with strong work ethic and skills in time management, client relationship and ability to adapt and learn new things quickly.
• Excellent verbal, written and analytical skills with ability to work in a team as well as individually in fast paced, dynamic team environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000/XP, Sun Solaris 2.6/2.7/8.0, MS-DOS, HP-UNIX, LINUX.

Languages: C, C++, Java, J2EE, JMS, SQL, PL/SQL, VB, HTML, ASP, Jscript, Perl, Shell Script, XML.

Testing Languages: VB Script

R D B M S: Oracle8i, MS-SQL Server, DB2, MS-Access 2000.

GUI: Visual Basic, Power Builder, Swing, AWT.

Automation Tools: Win Runner 7.x/8.0, Load Runner 7.x/8.0, Quick Test Professional 8.2/9.0/9.5.

Defect Tracking Tools: Test Director / Quality Center 8.0/9.0/9.2, and Rational Clear Quest.

Miscellaneous Tools: MS Office, Toad, WS FTP, Putty.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

QA Analyst / Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test plans based on testing requirements using Requirements documents in Quality Center.
• Involved in smoke testing, functionality testing, data driven testing, performance testing, Compatibility testing, Screen Navigation testing and regression testing
• Reviewed and analyzed requirement document for writing the Test cases.
• Performed Functionality, Integration, System, User Acceptance Testing, Positive and Negative Testing.
• Documented and reported the defects to developers using the Quality Center.
• Prioritized the defects and the severity levels and discussed with the developers to resolve the issues.
• Formulation of traceability matrix, test plan, test cases, test data and test scripts.
• Responsible for updating existing test cases against the requirements.
• Using Agile methodology to maintain and update Test Sets during testing phase.
• Automated the functionality and interface testing of application using Quick Test Professional (QTP). Executed scripts that used checkpoints using QTP.
• Developed Automation Scripts using VB Script.
• Generating VuGen Scripts, Running Scenarios, Creating Reports and Analysis.
• Production support and maintenance for Performance, Load and Stress Testing.
• Defining various Test Scenarios Tracing business and System Requirements
• Designed & developed the Master & detailed Test plan using the Business specifications
• Participated in meetings to discuss the status and issues.
• Used Quality center for bug tracking and for maintaining the test documents.
• Checked the data flow by using SQL queries to extract the data flow from the database.

Environment: Oracle 9i, VB 6.0, Windows XP, QTP 9.0, Quality center 9.2, Internet Explorer 8.0, Netscape Navigator 7.0 and A0L 8.0

Confidential, St. Charles MO

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed road map by understanding the Business logic and User Requirements for Manual Testing.
• Attended QA meetings in deciding QA Test strategies, defining data requirements for the testing and setting up QA Environment for testing.
• Preparing the Test Plans, Test procedures and Test Scripts from the decomposed requirements and Use cases, using the Test Director/QC.
• Created detailed test cases using Excel and imported them into Test Director/Quality Center.
• Extensively involved in performing manual testing of application's basic functionality
• Performed Manual Testing of the application, interacted with developers to discuss the technical problems and reported bugs using Test Director/QC.
• Executed automated test scenarios for GUI, Functionality and Regression Testing using QTP
• Used Checkpoints and conducted Data Driven testing with the Test Data set and verified the contents of the website using QTP.
• Developed Test Scripts for Regression testing.
• Written SQL queries for retrieving data from database
• Logged and tracked defects using Test Director
• Involved in writing SQL queries for Backend Testing and to verify the database updates, inserts and deletions etc., of the records, and validate them.
• Performed regression testing by executing the baseline scripts, identified software errors and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.

Environment: Test Director/Quality center, QTP 9.0, J2EE, Java Servlets, JSP, JMS, JavaScript, HTML, XML, Oracle 9i, SQL/PL SQL, Windows XP/2000, MS Office Suite

Confidential, Middletown, NJ

QA tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed detailed Test Plan and Test Cases against the requirements for testing the application.
• Performed cross browser testing for multiple browsers, e.g., Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Explorer on different platforms (Windows & UNIX) and interpreted the negative/positive results.
• Tested the application manually by executing Test Cases prior to Automation and reported the bugs to the developers using the Test Director.
• Analyzed user/business requirements and developed a Test Plan and Test Scripts which would cover all the functional specifications in detail
• Created Test data for interpreting the negative/positive results.
• Extensively performed manual testing of the application.
• Tested the application Confidential unit level, module level and system level for the Quality of the software.
• Performed integration testing for system compatibility.
• Various other tests like Positive, Negative, Regression and Integration to check the various business functionality.
• Developed SQL queries to extract data from the source tables.
• Executed SQL commands to perform the Backend Testing on database.

Environment: Java, JSP, HTML, XML, Apache, UNIX, Perl, Oracle, Windows NT, Sybase, SQL, Win Runner 7.0, Test Director 7.2 and Load Runner 6.5

Confidential, Hayward, CA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Helping QA Team to implement testing objectives, studying and understanding the functionality of the application under test
• Involved in Test Plan formulating Test cases from Business Requirements/ Function Specifications documents
• Formulating Test cases from Use case diagrams.
• Executing test scripts to verify most of the Test cases using WinRunner
• Creating and enhancing numerous test scripts to handle changes in the objects, in the Tested application and in the test environment
• Manually perform Functional testing that includes Security, System testing, Smoke testing and Back-end testing.
• Involve with the team to conduct Regression Testing using Win Runner.
• Involved in UAT testing and peer-reviews.
• Using Test Director as the Management and defect tracking tool.
• Analyzing results of the tests by creating reports in Test Director
• Responsible for Functionality and Regression testing.
• Reporting and verification of defects task reports.

Environment: Winrunner7.6, Test Director7.5, Oracle9i, SQL, Java, JSP, Servlets, J2EE, XML, Java Script, HTML, DHTML, Web Sphere, Clear Case, Clear Quest, Bug central, Windows 2000, NT, Unix. TOAD.