OBJECTIVE

• Looking for challenging and responsible position in the field of information technology as a Sr. QA Analyst to use my extensive knowledge and have the flexibility to adapt to any new environment and work on any project.

SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of experience as a QA Analyst with good experience in Quality Assurance Process to perform Unit, Functional, Integration, Regression, System, Performance(Stress), Performance(Load), Cross - Browser and User Acceptance testing during SDLC.
• Strong exposure and Experience to the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and extensive experience with QA testing methodologies, Procedures, Processes, standards and activities.
• Expertise in both Manual and Automation tools like Load Runner, SILK, QTP, UFT & Selenium.
• Expertise in developing automation test framework and creating function libraries.
• Good Experience in Insurance, Banking & Telecom domains.
• Experience in writing test cases and maintaining test scripts as per the business specifications and functional requirements.
• Good understanding of Business Knowledge.
• Business knowledge includes brokerage/financial systems (Equities, Bonds/Fixed Income)
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a limited timeframe release cycle
• Experience in software engineering methodologies like Waterfall, V-Model, Agile, Spiral, and CMM.
• Possess Good professional and analytical skills coupled with interpersonal, communication and self-organizing skills describing a committed team player.
• Extensive hands-on experience in testing large, complex software applications designed to automate common business processes, including automated and manual testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/NT/XP, MS-DOS, Unix (Sun Solaris 8, HP, IBM Compatibles)

Programming Languages: C, C++, SQL, VB Script, Java technologies.

Databases: MS Access, MS-SQL, Oracle 8i/9.x/10.x, SQL server

RDBMS: Oracle Developer 2000.

Testing Management Tools: Quality Center/Test Director, Jira, Confluence

Functional Testing Tools: QTP, Selenium WebDriver

Performance Testing Tools: Load Runner

Technologies: HTML, VB script, ASP, XML, Java Script.

Others: Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Visio, Lotus Notes, TOAD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Park Ridge, NJ

Sr. QA Analyst/Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for identifying test case for automation and developing automation test plans
• Integral part of Identifying and Designing the Framework Architecture
• Handle responsibilities of implementing Automation Framework and exporting test results using advanced VBScript
• Coding of Custom Keywords to Function Library of the Framework using VB Scripting
• Created Configuration Files which drives the Framework for executing the regression test scenarios.
• Monitor test execution status
• Created a Macro Driver which Compares the huge Front End Data and The Back End data
• Automated the SOAP Web Services using Excel Macros.
• Automated the JSON web Services using custom made Excel Tool
• Involved in the process development of automation testing and base lining the test standards.
• Assisted in conversion of QTP framework to Selenium.
• Assisted in creating custom KeyWords for Selenium WebDriver Frame Work.
• Used Jenkins for continuous integration testing.
• Used Log4j to monitor test execution.
• Written xpath to identify WebElements in UI

Environment: QTP 11.0, UFT, Web Services, Excel Macros, Java,XP,WINDOWS7, VB script, JAVA, Jenkins

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Sr. QA Analyst, Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared test cases for different scenarios.
• Drafted detailed Test Steps to be followed for Test Automation using QTP.
• Reviewed the Requirement documents and procured the Test data.
• Used Quality Center for Defect Management including mapping the requirements, logging the defects and tracking them.
• In QTP designed Test Schedules and automatically executed test scripts utilizing the available features in Quality Center
• Extensively involved in developing VB scripts for automation using QTP
• Captured huge data from CSA(Customer Service Accelerator) and inserted the data into data base using QTP
• Captured the data from VANTAGE(mainframe application) and inserted them into data base using Terminal Emulator of QTP
• Compared the PC side data and Mainframe side data using QTP
• Configured Terminal Emulator for Passport Web to Host on XP and WIN7 machines
• Executing the test data in Test and Prod code base environments & comparing the results using Macros developed drivers
• Reporting end of day QA status to all management teams
• Interacting with developers, business analysts to communicate the defects

Environment: QTP 10.0, QC 10.0, Mainframes, Microsoft Access, Java,XP,WINDOWS7, VB script, SQl

Confidential - New Haven, CT

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Automated test cases for multiple application technologies and platforms.
• Automated test cases based on the design of the business processes
• Automated YALE HR and Pay Roll Oracle applications using Quick Test Pro
• Upon confirmation of test requirements, conducting test automation concurrently with preparation of manual test cases.
• Participating in frequent releases of applications by reducing the maintenance effort without compromising the quality of testing.
• Involving with Quality Control and Release Management (QCRM) specialists to review application
• QCRM resource to execute scripts
• Development and review of application platform test cases
• Automation of repeatable test cases (our standard automation tool is Quick Test Pro)
• Migration of test scripts from Platform A to Platform B
• Analyzing report including pass/fail status of test cases
• Analyzing report including identification of discovered defects
• Testing of the following platforms
• Conducted performance testing on Hyperion application
• Prepare Status Reports Every Week, which includes Revision History, Test case status, metrics, QA Issues and Defects.
• Tracking test results, categorizing issues and creating/distributing defect reports and managing defect database using Quality Centre.
• Documented bugs, questionable functions, errors, and inconsistencies in application functions, outputs, and content
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• Yale image of XP SP3 IE8
• Yale image of Windows 7 IE8

Environment: QTP 10.0, QTP 11.0, Performance Center 9.5, QC 10.0 soap UI 3.0, Oracle 10g, Java,Unix,Oracle financials.

Confidential, NJ

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Functional, Regression, Load, Stress, and Performance tests of Trading Systems.
• Involved in testing the Fixed Income pricing model.
• Developed Test Conditions from Business Requirements, Scope documents, High Level Design documents in Test Conditions Expected Results (TCER) matrix.
• Assisted in Creating Detailed Timelines, Test Plans and Test Strategies for major releases and organized strategy review meetings.
• Established Traceability between the Requirements and the Tests in Traceability Matrix using Quality Center.
• Analyzed test Conditions and developed Manual Test Scripts for new Functionality test cases in QTP. Performed sophisticated Black Box Testing on the application.
• Designed and implemented Automation Test Frameworks using QTP.
• Customized the QTP Test as per the Test Case by using the VB-Script
• Performed Load, Volume, Capacity and Stress Testing on the application using Load Runner.
• Conducted extensive Smoke Testing, Regression Testing and Sanity Testing on the application.
• Performed detailed test results analysis after each test execution cycle and maintained Test results.
• Performed extensive Web Services Testing using soapUI Pro.
• Provided proposals on proper escalating processes and procedures for quick defect resolution.
• Coordinated defect management calls between various teams (development, support and management) and participate in defect review calls with the development team.
• Developed plan to identify, track and manage all issues and risks associated with responsibility areas with the client management team
• Participated in bug review meetings and Go/No-Go meetings.
• Participated in weekend release testing.

Environment: QTP 9.5, Load Runner 9.5, QC 9.5 soap UI 3.0, ATG, Oracle 10g, Java,Unix, Python,Oracle financials.

Confidential, NH

Sr. QA Analyst\Developer

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Business Analysts, Users and Developers for collecting the Requirements in each phase of the product, to customize design and construct the application modules.
• Employed agile methodologies, especially SCRUM, to ensure rapid iterative software development.
• Actively participated in creating requirements traceability matrices, and test plans.
• Created test suites for functional and regression testing using QTP.
• Developed test cases and test scripts (with reusable actions) for both Manual and
• Used SILK to simplify test activities and for faster test execution
• Automated testing based on functional specifications and design documents.
• Improved the flexibility of the tests by parameterization, checkpoints, synchronization point.
• Developed Test Automation Framework to leverage common functionality and object structure.
• Implemented Custom Automation framework with HTML reporting, detailed logging features, Custom reusable function libraries and various formats of various databases.
• Created Data Driven Tests to validate the same scenario with different test data.
• Expert in Descriptive programming using VB Script.
• Extensively used VB Script for customizing the Automated Test Script.
• Extensively used SQL to validate the data.
• Developed scripts in Load Runner based on the given specifications.
• Designed, configured and monitored scenarios for load, stress and performance testing with customized report generation using Load Runner.
• Used correlation for capturing dynamic data.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using Quality Center.
• Attended reviews and walkthroughs to better understand the requirement documents.

Environment: Quality Centre 8.0, Quick Test Professional 9.0, LoadRunner 9.5, Oracle 9i, Java, UNIX, Windows XP, Windows NT, PL/SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML.

Confidential, Woodbridge, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Was involved in all aspects of testing a Client/Server-based billing system. Main responsibilities included system, functional, regression, database, performance and load testing.
• Performed End-to-End Integration testing with various Back Office systems: Customer Activation Management System, Web Ordering and Web Order Tracking systems.
• Performed testing of Price Plan packages for RIM’s Blackberry instant messengers. Additional testing included payments, adjustments, waivers, discounts and monthly billing.
• Performed database configuration (updates, data insertion and deletion) in the billing system’s configurable tables for new Price Plans and Blackberry devices.
• Generated requirements, test cases, User Acceptance Testing templates, test reports and certification reports.
• Met with business process users to define new service or device requirements.
• Performed conversion of legacy data to be fed into the billing system for testing.
• Review test results and track application anomalies using PVCS Tracker 5.0.
• Generated various Validation/Verification process SOPs for use by QA department.

Environment: Load Runner 9.0, QC 8.2, QTP 9.2, BPT 9.2, Visual Basic 6.0, HTML, VB Script, Java,J2EE, ORACLE 10g, UNIX, MS Windows NT, Manual Testing, MS Office Suite

Confidential

Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and Security requirements.
• Met with developers to resolve identified issues.
• Designed detailed requirements to develop functional specifications.
• Developed test plans and test cases.
• Developed various test cases and test scripts for testing of web pages.
• Performed like Functional testing, Integration testing, User Acceptance testing and Regression testing.
• Used SQL Queries to verify the data from the Oracle database.
• Involved in data analysis and conducted audits for out put data.
• Tested various links of Home Page, text-hyperlinks, image-hyperlinks and Web based applications.
• Created User Defined functions for web based scenarios.
• Re-ran test cases and test scripts for Regression testing, after fixing bugs in the software.
• Developed test procedures and test cases for Regression testing after fixing of bugs in the software
• Tested the entire functionality of the application on different browsers and operating systems based upon system specs.
• Used Test Director/QC for defect tracking.
• Documented and reported bugs found out during the process of testing in the bug database of the QA instance.

Environment: Test Director 6.0, Quality Center, MS-Office Tools, UNIX, Windows 2000, SQL, Java, Servlets, Oracle 8i, I.E 5.0, HTML, XML