SUMMARY

• Over 6+ years of work experience in the field of Software Quality Assurance working with Client/Server, web and windows based applications.
• Extensive experience in preparing Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases for both automated and manual testing
• Expertise in diverse domain technologies like Banking, Retail and Travel
• Extensive understanding of the various SDLC methodologies like Waterfall, Agile Scrum
• Experience in setting up the test environment, installations and on homogenous and heterogeneous environments
• Extensive experience to analyze and document business requirements, system and functional specifications including use cases
• Extensive experience in GUI, Regression, Functional, Integration, System, User Acceptance (UAT), Sanity, Performance, Stress, Reliability, compatibility, Security and Database Testing
• Expertise inQTPin creating and executing scripts for Smoke, Functional and Regression Testing
• Extensive experience in creating automation scripts using descriptive programming
• Expertise in creating hybrid framework along with data and keyword driven framework for test automation
• Solid Experience of backend testing by writing and executing complex SQL queries
• Good knowledge of writing and modifyingUNIX scriptsusing commands and as per the UNIX requirements
• Proficient in using Test Management toolLike Quality Center for Test Planning, Test Designing, Test Analysis, Test Execution, Defect Tracking and Reporting
• Ability to achieve targets and deliver results in a high - pressure environment

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Win (2003/NT/XP/VISTA/win 7), UNIX, Linux

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional, Load Runner, SoapUI pro, Selenium

Test Management Tools: HP Quality Center (Test Director)

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access, MySQL

Languages: C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL, XML, HTML, Java

Scripting Languages: VBScript, JavaScript, Python, PHP

Applications tools: MS Office2003, Visio, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, TOAD

Browsers: Internet Explorer 6/7/8/9, Opera, Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plan and test cases by analyzing requirements, design documents and use cases diagrams
• Prepared test cases and verified the dynamic web contents, HTML pages and compatibility with multiple browser versions
• Prepared test data for testing the application in various test phases
• Monitored and tested batch job alerts and verified the status of batch jobs
• Involved in Manual and Automation testing
• Implemented various Black Box testing like GUI, Regression, Functional, Integration, System, User Acceptance (UAT), Sanity, compatibility, Security and Database Testing
• Identified test cases to be automated and executed them in QTP
• Implemented the Descriptive programming to create the automation test Scripts and created the entire Data driven Framework in QTP
• Developed the functional libraries(.qfl files) and incorporated while creating the reusable scripts
• Implemented the major and most used functionalities of QTP such as Parameterization, Checkpoints, Synchronization while creating the automated scripts
• Tackled dynamic web objects implementing the core concept of Regular Expressions
• Performed GUI, Regression, Functionality, positive-negative testing
• Tracked, Managed and documented the Functionality, Performance and Behavior of the application during UAT
• Extracted log files from the server by using UNIX commands
• Used TOAD to write and executed complex SQL queries including JOINS, Operators and conditions to validate Back-end data
• Documented the errors using QC and tracked them to completion by communicating and co-coordinating with the development as well as the support group
• Supported BA and Business Users during UAT phase
• Contributed to daily status meetings with project management on testing update
• Generated Testing and Defect Status report and communicated to the Project Management Teams

Environment: HP-QTP 10.0, HP-QC 10.0, Oracle 10g, Windows XP, UNIX, XML, HTML, MS Office, C#.NET

Confidential, WILMINGTON, DE

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in manual and automated testing.
• Conducted walkthroughs and reviews with designers and developers to establish quality policy for conformance testing.
• Reviewed the requirements and use case diagrams to write test Cases/test plans that would test various scenarios.
• Involved in the development of system test plans and test scripts using business and system requirement documents.
• Analyzed system requirements, developed & executed detailed test plans and test cases.
• Prepared test data for data driven test cases.
• Created close ties with designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigational flow.
• Performed back-end integration testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL queries on an Oracle database.
• Smoke testing the new builds for QA-acceptance.
• Performed Integration Testing, System Testing and Regression Testing.
• Involved in Functionality Testing for the modules and conducted Interface and Regression Testing during the various phases of the development using Quick Test Pro.
• Developed and executed Data Driven tests using Quick Test Pro.
• Performed End-to-End testing using both manual and regression testing with automated tool using Quick Test Pro.

Environment: QTP 9.5, Oracle10g, SQL, HTML, XML, Quality Center10.0, VBScript, Scrum Methodology SDLC.

Confidential, West Chester, PA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Launch of new web site and involved with the look and feel testing of all the web pages, Top Side, Bottom navigation, category pages, family pages, checkout page. Also, performed extensive Regression testing with each modification.
• Prepared Test plan, Test cases for the Module, Integration and System testing phases.
• Involved in development of Automation Testing Strategies & Test Process; developed automation testing requirements, preparedtestscripts, running tests,collecting test results/ metrics.
• Experienced in preparation of automated test cases with in Key word Driven Automation framework.
• Involved in development of Performance Testing - prepared scripts, running tests, analyzing results inLoadRunner.
• Defect tracking and Status reporting using Quality Center 10.0 defect tracking tool.
• Tested Data Integrity by executing SQL queries against Central databases.
• Validated the CRM functions in the product - managing customer information, cross-channel customer information access,customer history, preferences and profiling
• Involved in setting up the various Review Processes for the QA team
• Order Allocation Redirection.
• Involved in Automated Regression Testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Created invalid request to test Error handling response.
• High level of interaction with Business users / development team.
• Additional responsibilities included working with Business Analyst as the main point of contact between QA, business users and the Project management team.
• Participated in User Acceptance testing (UAT) at the client site.
• Hands on work experience working withoffsiteteam model; coordinate my own efforts with team membersin the offsite team.

Environment: QTP 9.2, LoadRunner 9.1, HP Quality Center 10.0, .Net, SQL Server 2005,Microsoft Windows

Confidential, MN

QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the system Architecture for planning testing activity.
• Preparing of Test plan, Design and Execution of test cases.
• Plan Peer Review of Test Case Documents.
• Developed documentation or test execution results.
• Performed manual functional testing, Regression testing.
• Preparing Test Procedure Document and Test cases from the Use cases.
• Performed LDAP connectivity testing using client tools Auditor and Administer.
• Utilized Test Director for tracking test requirements and communicating them to the team.
• Maintained central repository to determine the readiness of the application by combining planning, Execution and Defect Tracking.
• Executed complex SQL scripts to run the queries using Toad software.
• Cross platform Testing & Defect Tracking.
• Tracking the status of the bugs in Quality Center.
• Involved in Testing the Flat files generated rom the interface in UNIX.

Environment: QTP9.2, Oracle10g, UNIX, SQL, JavaScript, Quality Center, HTML, XML

Confidential, Panama City, FL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved, requirement metrics, test cases for in alignment with business requirements
• Developed test scripts for function, system, regression, end-to-end Testing, Batch Testing and UAT testing
• Performed positive and negative testing to identify the defects and report them to the developer using Quality Center
• Identified test cases to be automated and executed them in QTP
• Wrote and executed automated Data Driven Test Scripts in QTP for different test scenarios, inserted various checkpoints to check web pages, table contents, databases, bitmaps and text
• Implemented the major and most used functionalities of QTP such as Parameterization, Checkpoints, Synchronization while creating the automated scripts
• Performed Integration testing and build verification testing
• Performed web services testing using SOAP UI
• Inserted XML nodes in SOAPUI property transfer which transfers data from one XML request or response to another
• Participated in various meetings and discussed enhancement and modification requests
• Created a table-driven testing for comparing baseline data with current data
• Written SQL queries and Database checkpoints to verify data quality

Environment: QTP, QC, Load Runner, MS VISIO, Windows XP, MS office, J2EE, Oracle, UNIX, XML