SUMMARY

• A Professional Quality Assurance with 7 years of experience in the Healthcare and Banking industry.
• Expertise in all phases of SDLC from requirements analysis to design/development and testing in Windows and Web applications.
• Automation and manual testing experience with extensive knowledge of Software development lifecycle and Test methodologies like Waterfall and Agile (SCRUM, Sprint).
• Experience using Testing tools like Quick Test Professional, Load Runner and HP Quality Center.
• Expertise in performing Black box, White Box, System, Functional, Unit, Integration, Performance, Security, Regression, Ad - hoc, End to End, (UAT) User Acceptance Testing and bug tracking system.
• Strong at analyzing the Business Requirements and Software Requirement Specifications to create Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Execution.
• Extensively involved in analyzing business and system requirements by conducting walkthroughs to baseline test deliverables.
• Involved in test case design and test scenario identification for functional, integration, system, regression, security, end to end and UAT testing.
• Extensively used quality center for creating and executing test cases and to add defects.
• Used QTP to develop automation test scripts for system’s core functionality and GUI’s of the application.
• Worked with SQL queries for data verification and validation
• Strong Interpersonal and communication skills, ability to work in a team as well as independently with minimal supervision.
• A quick learner, punctual and trustworthy
• Effective team player possessing strong analytical, organizational and Problem solving skills.
• Excellent verbal, written and inter-personal communication skills with a desire to achieve specified goals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing tools: Quality Center, Quick Test Pro (QTP), Bugzilla, Selenium IDE, Tool, HP Load Runner

Languages: VB Script, JavaScript, C, C++, JAVA, HTML, SQL, .NET

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 , DB2,PHP Backend

Operating systems: MS-DOS, Windows 98/2000

Methodologies: Agile, V-Model, Waterfall Model, Six Sigma, ALM framework

Documentation tools: MS Office Suite, MS Visio, MS Project

Other skills: Mapping tools (ESRI Arc-GIS, ERDAS Imagine, Multi-spec, Map-Windows GIS), Statistical package (R, SPSS)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Analyst

Confidential, Baskin Ridge, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Defined and presented overall testing strategy for the project, including testing phases for system, user acceptance, performance and end-to-end testing.
• Coordinated testing readiness effort, including creation of test plans, test cases and test scripts, for multiple testing phases.
• Involved in the Effort estimation process of various upcoming projects and current ongoing projects.
• Involved in UAT and End to end testing designed, scheduled and executed test plans within the predefined timeframe
• Performed Acceptance, Unit, Integration, Usability, Positive, Negative Functional, Sanity and Regression testing during different stages of the application development.
• Involved in UAT and coordinating with users while performing User Acceptance Test.
• Creating Test Plan and Test cases using Mercury Quality Center.
• Developed test automation scripts usingQTPfor Regression, Functionality, and GUI testing.
• EnhancedQTPscript using VB Scripts and checkpoints to check information is displayed in the application.
• Uploaded and executed all test cases from Quality center.
• Conducted DataDrivenTesting inQTPby creating multiple sets of data.
• Performed load test by creating virtual users using Load runner 8.0.
• Used Test Director for Defect Tracking and for logging, evaluating and reporting Defects.
• Generated reports from Load runner.

Environment:, Mercury Quality Center, QTP, Load Runner, Oracle 10g, VB script, JavaScript, HTML, XML, UML, MS Office, Windows XP/2000, Java.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• System met all of the technical and business requirements.
• Created the Test Strategies, Test cases in Quality Center and organized the meetings to review these documents.
• Worked closely with software developers, business analysts, IS operators, and other project management personnel involved in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Investigated software bugs and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues using Defect Tracking system Quality Center.
• Involved in the team meetings with representatives from Development, Database Management, Configuration Management, and Requirements Management to identify and correct defects.
• Used Quality Center to develop test cases, test scripts, executing the scripts.
• Performed Regression, Integration, Data driven testing using HP Quick Test Pro.
• Created QTP Script for Functionality and Regression testing for the web based and for the XML Web service using XML as input and output.
• Developed automation Hybrid Framework (mixture of keyword Driven and data Driven framework) in QTP.
• Extensively worked on Quality Center for bug reporting/tracking.
• Documenting and communicating test results using Quality Center.

Environment: Windows, Oracle, Microsoft Project 2000, UNIX, MS Access, Test Director, Rapid SQL, Mainframe, QTP, Load Runner, QC.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Palm Beach, FL

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed detailed Test Plans and Test cases which specify testing overview and testing approach depending on the Business and Technical Requirements.
• Performed Functional Testing on different modules, System Testing, Regression Testing on the entire application, Integration Testing of all the systems and end-to-end Testing.
• Fulfilled all the Ad-hoc integration testing requests received from Trusted and Un-trusted sources and delivered the processed data to the Target systems.
• Used Mercury Quality center for executing Test cases, Defect Tracking and Test Management. Entered defects with error details, steps to reproduce, screen shots that explain the errors.
• Extensively worked with databases like Oracle, Db2 and application servers like Web Logic Server.
• Developed required SQL scripts for database testing and Performed Backend Testing, by executing the SQL queries. Wrote SQL Queries to extract data from the Tables.
• Executed the Test Scripts on different releases and validated the actual results against the expected results.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing by providing test data for users and by testing UAT defects in test environment before promoting the new code to UAT environment.
• Created test Execution Report, Test Completion Report for Test Sign Off, documented the testing process and Test evaluation summary at the end of Iteration.
• Coordinated with off-shore and on-shore testing teams.
• Involved in Test Case Review meetings with business analysts and developers to constantly improve the testing efficiency and to increase product reliability.
• Performed Web Service testing using Load Runner.

Environment: Windows XP, Mercury Quality Center 9.2, Oracle 9.2, Web Logic 6.0, Unix Shell Scripts, Putty, SQL.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system requirements, prepared Requirements Traceability Matrix, and developed Test Cases for system testing in Test Director.
• Involved in preparation of Test procedures, test data for testing the application.
• Involved extensively in conducting integration, performance and stress testing. Performed smoke test for internal releases.
• Executed manual and automated test scripts and verified results with actual results.
• Created automation test scripts to carry out Functional and Regression Testing using Win Runner Test Scripting Language (TSL).
• Recorded the GUI operations in the record mode using Win Runner.
• Created automated test scripts in context sensitive and analog mode as per the business requirements.
• Created GUI checkpoints, bitmap checkpoints to compare actual and expected results.
• Created the GUI checkpoints to check the behavior of the GUI objects in the application.
• Database check points are used to verify the database entries and to ensure data consistency and integrity.
• Generated the test reports and analyzed the defects using Win Runner.
• Integrated Win Runner with the testing management tool Test Director to automate many of the activities in the testing process.
• Ran the scripts in debug mode to check the logical and syntactical errors in the script and then ran the scripts in verify mode from the top. Executed the scripts individually and in Batch mode.
• Batch Testing performed for Automation scripts.
• Performance Testing done using Load Runner.

Environment: VB, SQL Server, Windows2000, .Net, Oracle 9i, Test Director 7.0, Win Runner 6.0, Load Runner, QTP.

QA Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed, created, and revised test plans according to business requirements.
• Developed Use cases and Activity Diagrams.
• Helped the Customer in defining the high-level Functional Requirements and needs.
• Gathered the Business Requirements, developed Process Model and detailed Business Policies, and modified the business requirement document.
• Wrote numerous test cases based on test strategies.
• Performed Functionality and Regression testing during the various phases of the development.
• Validated the system End-to-End Testing to meet the Approved Functional Requirements.
• Utilized UML to create use cases, activity, class diagrams and workflow process diagrams.
• Participated in User Acceptance testing.
• Used Test Director to report defects and test results.
• Conducted the Final Customer Acceptance Testing, System Acceptance and End-to-End testing.
• Created VU Gen scripts using Load runner and ran different Scenarios.
• Categorized bugs based on the severity and interacted with developers to resolve them.
• Actively participated in Status meetings and interacted with development team to discuss the technical issues.
• Reviewed test results for the compliance and reported any discrepancies to the management.

Environment: UNIX, Load Runner 7.5, UML, Test Director 7.6, DB2, QTP, SQL plus, JAVA, JAVA Script, Windows 2000/NT.