SUMMARY

• 7 years of experience working as a QA analyst
• Strong financial domain knowledge inequities and fixed income
• Experience in testing applications built using Java, C# with Sybase, Oracle, SQL Server databases
• Experience with test planning, test execution and test results analyses
• Expertise in performing functional testing, smoke testing, regression testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing and end to end system testing
• Working experience with major clients - Confidential
• Experience in analyzing business requirements, business rules/processes, system requirements to derive scope of testing by interacting with end users
• Experience in various test management and defect tracking tools like Quality Center
• Good understanding of QA life cycle, defect management life cycle and software development life cycle
• Experience in working with projects built using various SDLC methodologies including Waterfall, Agile and RUP
• Extensive experience in functional testing using black box testing, GUI testing, back-end testing on Windows and Unix environments
• Good understanding and knowledge of QTP
• Excellent SQL experience in writing queries and sql scripts to perform back end testing with various relational databases like Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server and DB2
• Possess strong communication and interpersonal skills. Can quickly master and work on new concepts and applications with minimal supervision

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Packages and Tools: Test Director, Quality Center, QTP

Tools: DB Artisan, TOAD, SQLdbx

Scripting Languages: JavaScript,Perl,Shellscripts

Query language: SQL

Markup Languages: HTML, XML/XSL

Database Applications: Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase, DB2

Operating Systems: MS-Windows 95/98/NT/2000, Unix, Linux

Other Tool: Falcon, Rational Clear Quest, Exceed, Putty, JIRA

Version Control Tools: Visual Source Safe, Rational Clear case, Perforce

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

QA analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in testing the buying and selling of government bonds. Developed test plan and test cases using functional requirements, technical specification and use cases.
• Organized requirement review meetings with the business analyst to develop test strategies and test plans. Involved in all stages of agile three-week life cycle.
• Performed manual regression testing for changes in the application and new builds. Analyzed test run data by generating reports and graphs in quality center.
• Set up defect tracking in quality center by setting automatic alerts, e-mail notifications and traceability alerts based on severity of the defects.
• Used quality center for defect tracking and maintained defect repository and followed defect life cycle until it is closed.
• Involved in system testing, user acceptance testing, integration testing, performance testing and release process.

Technologies: Agile methodology,Java, Swing, Spring, Sybase, DB Artisan, Quality Center

Confidential, NY

QA analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in the different phases of SDLC starting from requirement/design to the maintenance phase.
• Created test cases based on business requirements and use cases. Used quality center to map the requirements with test cases.
• Executed test cases manually from quality center as part of the functional testing of the application.
• Performed various types of testing such as black box, functional, integration and user acceptance testing.
• Used quality center for defect tracking and maintained defect repository and followed defect life cycle until it is closed.
• Interacted with developers to explain and resolve defects in a timely manner. Wrote SQL scripts for back-end testing.
• Executed UNIXshellscripts to run batch jobs. Performed regression testing for every modification in the application and new builds.
• Provided data to the business analysts during UAT.

Technologies:Java, JSP, Servlets, HTML, XML, Sybase, DB Artisan, Quality Center

Confidential, NJ

QA analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in developing test plan and setting up test environment.
• Used quality center to develop test cases, test scripts and logging the defects.
• Involved in unit testing, system testing, user acceptance testing and regression testing.
• Did GUI testing by verifying screen navigation, hyperlinks to match the requirements.
• Wrote and executed SQL queries, functions and packages for backend testing.
• Reported defects with reference to severity and types using quality center.
• Tested critical bug fixes and coordinated with developers in getting bug fixes resolved in tight timelines

Technologies:Java, JSP, Servlets, Struts, HTML, DB2, Quality Center

Confidential, NY

QA analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created test cases based on business requirements and use cases. Created and maintained the requirement traceability matrix.
• Involved in all stages of agile three-week life cycle. Actively mapped all the requirements to test cases in the first week of the life cycle.
• Coordinated with the quality assurance and user acceptance testing teams for defect tracking.
• Participated in user acceptance testing (UAT) by closely working with end users and developers.
• Performed sanity testing, functional testing, regression testing, system integration testing and user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Wrote SQL queries to setup and validate test data and results.
• Actively participated change requirement meeting and reviewed change request documents.
• Organized and managed test cases effectively with quality center.

Technologies:Java, JSP, Servlets, JavaScript, HTML, Oracle, Toad, Quality Center

Confidential, NY

QA tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plan and test cases using functional requirements and use cases. Involved in test plan meetings and user meetings.
• Performed positive and negative testing. Involved in cross browser testing of the application on various browsers to ensure that it functions similarly on all browsers.
• Determined the nature and severity of bugs uncovered while testing and documented the defects.
• Used quality center for defect tracking and maintained defect repository and followed defect life cycle until it is closed.

Technologies:Java, Servlets, JSP, HTML, MS SQL Server, Quality Center