SUMMARY

• Accomplished, highly motivated professional with more than Seven years of experience on diversified Platforms & Environments
• Proficient in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) including Test Strategy preparation, Test plan Development, Test Case creation, Test Execution and Bug Tracking.
• Good experience in Software Quality Assurance Process, and Software Testing in various Methodologies like Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Analyzed Business Requirements, Software Requirement Specifications to create Test Plan and Test Case for Manual and Automated Testing.
• Experienced in Functional testing, System testing, Integration testing, GUI Testing and Regression testing using both Manual and Automated testing tools including Win Runner, Load Runner.
• Extensive experience in Manual and Automated testing with Interactive tools like QTP, Selenium IDE, Test Director and Quality Center on Legacy, Web - based and Client/Server applications.
• Good experience in using SQL queries to interact with SQL Server and DB2/400 databases to perform backend Testing.
• Good knowledge of Internet/Web technologies like SOA, XML and HTML.
• Expertise in Bug Tracking and Reporting using Team Foundation Server (TFS), Test Director/HP Mercury Quality Center.
• Created detailed QA documentation using Microsoft Office Tools (MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Access) including QA reports and Project Status Meetings.
• Possess excellent oral & written communication skills along with interpersonal skills and Capable of working in groups as well as independently.
• Self-motivated and excellent team player with good team based management skills and ability to motivate the team for quality deliverables.
• Strong communication and analytical skills with very good experience in approach & problem solving.
• Maintaining the Traceability Matrix, Test Data Matrix and Status report related to project.
• Establish and Maintain testing milestones to ensure on-time completion of assignments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: QTP 9.2, Load runner8.0, Selenium IDE / Web Driver.

Defect Reporting: Team Foundation Server, Test Director, Quality Center 9.2

Databases: Oracle 10g/9i, SQL Server, DB2 and MS Access.

Web Design: HTML, XML

Scripting Language: VBScript, UNIX shell scripting

Languages: Java, C# and SQL, PL/SQL.

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP, Linux/Unix/As400

Documentation Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business requirements and use-cases to prepare high level Test Strategy for the application.
• Analyzed the existing work flow and functional accepts for preparing the Automation frame work
• Performed Test Data set up a pre-requisite to executing use cases during system testing from various input files formats using XML and Excel.
• Worked on Developing, Executing and Maintaining Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases Document based on Business Requirements using QTP, TFS and Load Runner.
• Performed Functional, Regression, and backward compatibility and Database test cases for Performance Testing.
• Designed automation test cases for Performance Testing using TFS.
• Involved in Sanity Testing, Regression and Functional Automation Test Scripts using QTP.
• Involved in database testing by writing and executing SQL Queries to validate the data integrity in the application.
• Mapped the custom objects to the standard objects where necessary, and inserted GUI, Bitmap and Text checkpoints where needed, to compare the current behavior of the application being tested to its behavior in the earlier version using Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Involved in Bug grab meetings to discussed bug issues.
• AttendedQA Walk through meetings with Team Members this includes reviewing Application Functionality, Functional and Technical specifications and Defect Tracking.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Production testing
• Used Mercury Quality Center 10 to store all Testing results, Metrics, implemented Test plan, created Test Cases, Defect Tracking & Reporting.
• Assigned bugs to Developers using "Quality Center" bug (Defect) tracking tool and interacted with them in fixing the issue
• Followed the testing progress during status meetings and prepared contingency plans when required.
• Acted as a point of contact regarding Defect Status / Resolution for the Development team, QA team.

Environment: QTP 9.2, Quality Center, Load Runner, TFS, Clear case, As/400, SQL, Unix, XML, Windows XP.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements and functional specification to develop Test plan, Test cases and Test scripts.
• Developed Test scripts and Test cases using QTP, Quality Center.
• Worked with Business Analysts for preparing the Test cases.
• Performed Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Performance Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Ad hoc Testing, Smoke Testing and Effective Regression testing.
• Performance and Scalability testing.
• Prepared reports for Go-No-Go meetings.
• Performed Legacy, GUI testing and Web based Testing
• Involved in each stages of test documentation with Test Policy, Test Strategy, Test Methodology, Test Planning, Test Case Specification, Test Procedures, Test Scripting, Test Logs and Defect Reports.
• Helped enhance usability of the system by suggesting changes in the front end.
• Done Extensive Testing using Manual Testing, Automation Testing and Black box testing
• Develop manual test cases to verify intermediate releases.
• Worked with development team to resolve defects.
• Assisted in configuring Mercury Quality Center, as a project management and Bug Tracking System to report and track all errors.
• Conducted walk through for test scripts and test cases.
• Thoroughly tested application along with bug reporting, bug tracking till bug closure. Followed a change control process for managing changes as and when they occur during the project life cycle.
• Assisted in preparing reports of Effort variance, Schedule variance, Defect density, Defect removal effectiveness indicators with the senior management.

Environment: QTP 9.2, QC, Load Runner, TFS, AS/400, DB2/400, Oracle 10g, VB Scripting, SQL, XML, UNIX, Windows XP.

QA Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plan and Test cases and performed Manual Testing and Automated Testing.
• Prepared the Test data (Input files) for interpreting the Positive/negative/regression results based on the design requirements.
• Developed automated test scripts from manual test cases for Regression testing based on the requirement documents using Win Runner8.0/Quick Test Professional.
• Created the test scenarios used to effectively test the various processes that were developed in the As400 programs.
• Created test data, test cases, test plans and promotion checklists during the testing stages before successfully moving the developed RPG programs to production for As400
• Extensively used SQL statements to test the DB2 database
• Conduct weekly status meetings to discuss the testing progress and weekly activities
• Developed test scripts for GUI, functionality and regression testing using Win Runner.
• Done Data Driven Test with Quick Test Professional (QTP) to test the application for different sets of data.
• Created Reusable actions and Functions by using QTP.
• Used Component based approach to develop automation scripts, this approach reduce the cost of maintenance and maximize the re-use of existing test scripts.
• Used XML to set up the Application Environments for automation scripts.
• Prepared the Manual test cases that weren’t covered under Automation process.
• Reported defects to Test Director.
• Assisted in preparing reports of Effort variance, Schedule variance, Defect density, Defect removal effectiveness indicators with the senior management.

Environment: QTP, Test Director, Windows, As/400, VBScript, SQL, XML

QA Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements and functionality specification to develop Test plan, Test cases and Test scripts.
• Developed test scripts and test cases using QTP, Quality Center.
• Worked with Business Analysts for preparing the Test cases.
• Performed Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Performance Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Ad hoc Testing, Smoke Testing and Effective Regression testing.
• Performance and Scalability testing.
• Prepared reports for Go-No-Go meetings.
• Performed GUI testing in Calypso and web based testing for DerivClear.
• Involved in each stages of test documentation with Test Policy, Test Strategy, Test Methodology, Test Planning, Test Case Specification, Test Procedures, Test Scripting, Test Logs and Defect Reports.
• Helped enhance System usability by suggesting changes in the front end.
• Done Extensive Testing using Manual Testing, Automation Testing and Black box testing
• Develop manual test cases to verify intermediate releases.
• Worked with development team to resolve defects.
• Assisted in configuring Mercury Quality Center, as a project management and Bug Tracking System to report and track all errors.
• Wrote VB script for data driven testing using Test data from Excel sheets.
• Conducted walk through for Test Scripts and Test Cases.
• Thoroughly tested application along with bug reporting, tracking and closure.
• Followed a change control process for managing changes as and when they occur during the project life cycle.
• Attend weekly status meeting with the Development Team to give them test updates and discuss issues and resolutions that come up in migrations

Environment: QTP 9.2, QC, Load Runner, Oracle 10g, VBScripting, SQL, XML, Windows XP.

QA Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepared test cases by analyzing functional requirements and documentation.
• Performed Manual Testing of this Web application and automated it by using Selenium.
• Performed GUI testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Ad -hoc testing, Negative testing, End to End testing, Load testing, User Acceptance testing on multiple projects.
• Expertise in running Selenium tests against multiple browsers using different browser profile.
• Used SQL to validate backend database changes, deletes and update.
• Wrote queries to extract data for testing purposes.
• Used IBM Clear case for tracking.
• Identified software defects and interacted with developers to resolve them and provided full support to the Test team using Quality Center.
• Execution of nightly run automated scripts.
• Participated in various meetings, discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues.
• Worked under Agile Scrum Methodology.
• Reported the bugs/defects through Quality Centers
• Participate and contribute to lessons learned sessions and prepare the documents
• Logged and reviewed Defects, documented the whole Bug life cycle using Quality Centre
• Continuously improve test models, test data, and test processes based on lessons learned

Environment: QTP, Test Director, Windows, VBScript, SQL, XML