SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of IT experience in the QA Methodologies and testing web and Client/server applications.
• Having knowledge of different domains like Utility, Banking, Finance, Insurance and Health care.
• Involved in all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle and experience in verifying and validating software applications
• Excellent understanding of all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Proficient in analyzing Business and Functional Specification Documents and expertise in developing Test Plan.
• Experience in communicating with client and Business Analyst for gathering the requirements.
• Proficient in Manual Testing and Automated testing.
• Knowledge of test management and automation tools like Rational Quality Manager, Quality Center, Test Director, JIRA, QuickTestProfessional,Win Runner, Load Runner.
• Proficient in Smoke testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration testing, Database testing, User Acceptance Testing, Compatability testing, Usability testing and Exploratory testing.
• Worked extensively on different databases including DB2, SQL server and Oracle.
• Experience in backend testing doing data validation and data manipulation via writing SQL queries.
• Knowledge of VB Scripting, SQL Scripting.
• Developed Test data for Test Scenarios as per the functionality of the application.
• Documented the errors using HP Quality Center, JIRA and tracked them to completion by communicating and coordinating with the development as well as the support group.
• Knowledge and understanding of UML activity diagrams, Used cases and Ms Visio.
• Expertise in problem solving and tracking Bug reports using Bug tracking Tools like Test Director, Jira, Bugzilla.
• Experience in developing, and executing quality assurance testing multiple applications developed and using different Technologies ASP.NET, Flex UI, Visual C#.NET, Java and Web logic applications.
• Experienced in Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Have worked in dynamic rapidly changing environment and efficiently interacted daily with Project Managers, Application developers and Business analysts.
• Enthusiastic & initiative to adopt and learn new tools, techniques and approaches.
• Excellent team player with strong communication, interpersonal and analytical skills.
• Ability to meet deadlines with strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Rational Quality Manager,Quick Test Professional 9.2/10.0,Win Runner 8.0,Load Runner 8.0, Quality center 9.2/10.0,Test Director 8.0Languages C, SQL, TSQL, Visual Basic, TSL, UML,J2EE, Java

Operating Systems: Windows NT, Windows 95/98/2000/vista, and UNIX

Databases: Oracle 8i/9i/10g, DB2,MS Access, MS SQL Server

ETL tools: Informatica 8.6.1,Business Objects,Abinito,Data stage

Scripting: HTML, XML, VBScript, Java Script and Shell Scripting

Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, SOAP UI, .Net WebServices and MQ Series

Servers: WebLogic,WebSphere MQ,Apache Tomcat

Browsers: Internet Explorer 6.0/7.0, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Netscape

Tools: Excel, Visual Studio, PVCS, JIRA, Visio, MS - Sharepoint,TOAD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the Scrum Master in outlining the scope of Sprint planning/review meetings as the project incorporated sprint based agile methodology for software development
• Participated in Sprint Meetings and Storyboard sessions as part of requirements gathering and to identify workflow issue and understand the Business Requirement Document and Functional Specification Document.
• Developed and executed Test plan incorporating Testing Requirements, Traceability matrix, Use Case Model, Test scenarios, Test cases and related tasks.
• Active Co-ordination with Team Mangers and Business Analysts to review and understand design and scope document.
• Involved in Data Center Migration (DCIR) on various platforms like Java, Weblogic, Citrix, C#, .Net.
• Involved in preparation of Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Scenarios to cover overall quality assurance testing.
• Used HP Quality Center for overall Test Management, requirements management, planning, scheduling, and running tests cases and bug reporting in Manual Testing.
• Performed manual testing and verified actual results against expected results.
• Export requirement, test cases into the Quality Center, run manual and automation test cases from test lab and log defects from defects module.
• Conducted Smoke/Sanity Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Negative Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Prepared Test Analysis reports, Status reports, and Test Summary reports.
• Coordinating with the developers and testers to resolve the defects and close them.
• Updated the Traceability Matrix and send daily and weekly status report to the Test lead.
• Coordinated my work in a team to work on Functional and Regression Testing automation project using Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Used Checkpoints in test scripts like Standard checkpoints and Database checkpoints.
• Used Parameterization to check how application Build is behaving with multiple sets of data.
• Performed database testing by writing and executing SQL queries.
• Facilitated the automation of smoke and regression testing and used Quality center to execute automation scripts in batch mode or unattended mode.
• Work in Agile development environment with frequently changing requirements and features.
• Reviewed and updated the Test cases covering the various requirements and functionalities of the applications.
• Exhibited exceptional documentation, reporting and problem solving skills in the various meetings of the QA team and reviewing and updating the ongoing testing process.

Environment: QTP 9.2, Quality Center 9.0, Win Runner, UML, Visual Studio, J2EE, Web logic, XML, HTML, TOAD, Shell Scripts, Perl, SQL, Oracle, UNIX, Windows 2000.

Confidential, NY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the Scrum Master in outlining the scope of Sprint planning/review meetings as the project incorporated sprint based agile methodology for software development
• Participated in Sprint Meetings and Storyboard sessions as part of requirements gathering and to identify workflow issue and understand the Business Requirement Document and Functional Specification Document.
• Developed and executed Test plan incorporating Testing Requirements, Traceability matrix, Use Case Model, Test scenarios, Test cases and related tasks.
• Active Co-ordination with Team Mangers and Business Analysts to review and understand design and scope document.
• Involved in Data Center Migration (DCIR) on various platforms like Java, Weblogic, Citrix, C#, .Net.
• Involved in preparation of Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Scenarios to cover overall quality assurance testing.
• Used HP Quality Center for overall Test Management, requirements management, planning, scheduling, and running tests cases and bug reporting in Manual Testing.
• Performed manual testing and verified actual results against expected results.
• Export requirement, test cases into the Quality Center, run manual and automation test cases from test lab and log defects from defects module.
• Conducted Smoke/Sanity Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Negative Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Prepared Test Analysis reports, Status reports, and Test Summary reports.
• Coordinating with the developers and testers to resolve the defects and close them.
• Updated the Traceability Matrix and send daily and weekly status report to the Test lead.
• Coordinated my work in a team to work on Functional and Regression Testing automation project using Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Used Checkpoints in test scripts like Standard checkpoints and Database checkpoints.
• Used Parameterization to check how application Build is behaving with multiple sets of data.
• Performed database testing by writing and executing SQL queries.
• Facilitated the automation of smoke and regression testing and used Quality center to execute automation scripts in batch mode or unattended mode.
• Work in Agile development environment with frequently changing requirements and features.
• Reviewed and updated the Test cases covering the various requirements and functionalities of the applications.
• Exhibited exceptional documentation, reporting and problem solving skills in the various meetings of the QA team and reviewing and updating the ongoing testing process.

Environment: QTP 9.2, Quality Center 9.0, Win Runner, UML, Visual Studio, J2EE, Web logic, XML, HTML, TOAD, Shell Scripts, Perl, SQL, Oracle, UNIX, Windows 2000.

Confidential, NY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Interface with Team Mangers and Business Analysts to review and understand design and scope document.
• Arranged for KT with Development teams adopting agile methodology. Created sprint backlogs and product backlogs.
• Studied Test plan, wrote Test cases and Test scripts based on the business requirements.
• Performed manual testing for various functionalities of the application.
• Performed both Manual and Automation testing and verified actual results against expected results.
• Used HP Quality Center extensively for the Test Management and to post the bugs and made a good interaction with developers to find the bugs.
• Conducted Black box Testing, Smoke testing, Functional testing, Integration Testing, Security testing, Regression Testing, Usability testing, content testing and Security testing.
• Work in Agile development environment with frequently changing requirements and features.
• Enhanced QTP scripts using Parameterization and created various checkpoints for verifying object properties, images, text and tables in QTP.
• Providing weekly builds Regression Support by executing test cases evaluating test results and maintenance of New/Fixed bugs.
• Developed SQL Queries to retrieve or create test data from different Oracle 9i and other test databases.
• Involved in Back end Integration testing reviewing SQL Queries with multi-table joins and nested queries
• Performed database testing by writing queries in Oracle.
• Used ETL methodology for supporting data extraction, transformations and loading processing, in a corporate-wide-ETL Solution using Informatica power Center 8.6.
• Reviewed and updated the Test cases for requirements coverage, ambiguity, and completeness.
• Participated in weekly status meeting, triage meeting coordinating with the developers and testers to resolve the defects and close them.
• Involved in the internal meetings of the QA team and reviewing the ongoing testing process and updating the team with current status of testing.

Environment: Quick Test Professional 10.0 (QTP), HP Quality Center 10.0, Load Runner, Rational Clear Quest, VB Script, Java, Jboss, J2EE, Perl, JavaScript, J2EE, EJB, Win Runner, XML, DB2,Toad, Windows XP, C, C#,HTML, linux.

Confidential, CT

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the Developers and Project Managers to provide Test plans and Test cases for the major Auto Sales and enhancements projects in Manual Testing
• Experienced in defining, creating and implementing testing process and methodology.
• Involved in rigorous meetings with testing team, development and BA team to plan and implement testing efforts.
• Attended the daily Scrum meeting in the Agile environment to discuss all the outstanding Issues.
• Review Test case written based on the Change Request Document with SDLC.
• Experienced in writing test cases, test scripts, test plans and execution of test cases reporting and documenting the test results using HP Quality Center.
• Performing automation of testing using QTP and programming dynamic VB Scripts in Expert view for testing GUI Functionality, acceptance and limit validations.
• Experience in Infrastructure testing using different Technologies (ASP.NET, Flex UI, Visual C#.NET, Java).
• Created reusable actions for the regression test suite using QTP.
• Captured Dynamic data of an application using QTP Output Values option and verified the data integrity testing of the application.
• Used QTP Object Spy and “GetROProperty” to identify the Object Properties in application.
• Establishing test data in Data Table of Quick Test Pro and used it to carry out extensive Data driven test by parameterize the data from the data table.
• Written Test Cases and performed Manual Testing like Positive Testing and Negative Testing for E-Commerce application.
• Performed Smoke Testing to test how well the system protects against unauthorized internal or external access for each system roles.
• Prioritized defects for resolution in coordination with the development team.
• Developed Requirement Traceability Matrix, which maps requirements with test cases.
• Developed Test data for Test Scenarios as per the functionality of the application.
• Documented the errors using HP Quality Center and tracked them to completion by communicating and co-
• Coordinating with the development as well as the support group.
• Coordinated with the Development Team on Defect Analysis arising in Test.
• Generated testing status reports including precise replication steps for the Dev/Project Management.
• Performing the Back-End integration testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL statements and stored procedures on Oracle9i Database also used MS SQL.
• Using TOAD to connect to database and perform various operations such as executing SQL queries.

Environment: QTP 9.2, Quality Center 9.0, Win Runner, UML, Visual Studio, J2EE, Web logic, XML, HTML, TOAD, Shell Scripts, Perl, PL/SQL, Oracle9i, UNIX, Windows 2000.

Confidential

QA Tester (Manual Testing, Bug Tracking)

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Technology Project Requirements walkthrough and understand the business requirements.
• Prepare Test Strategy to identify the overall approach for testing.
• Participate in test strategy walkthrough and document the list of items that require corrective action.
• Baseline the test Strategy Document after getting approvals from relevant stakeholders.
• Participate in detailed design walkthroughs and understand the system functional flow.
• Provide effort estimates for the overall testing activity. Document and baseline the final effort for testing.
• Prepare Test Plan to identify software risks and ways to mitigate the risks.
• Walkthrough the test plan with the project team. Document the list of items that require corrective action.
• Baseline the test plan Document after getting approvals from relevant stakeholders.
• Prepare system level test cases and User Acceptance test cases in Rational Clear quest.
• Execute System Test cases during the SIT (System Integration Testing) phase.
• Participate in SIT to UAT turnover meeting. Share the SIT execution status report with the development teams.
• Execute Acceptance test cases during the UAT (User Acceptance) on web based applications.
• Log defects in Rational Clear quest and track them to closure.
• Prepare Implementation plan for the respective projects. Log into production implementation calls and provide support for the respective projects.

Environment: QTP 8.0, QC 10, Load Runner, Windows XP, UNIX, TSYS CICS (Mainframe), ASP, Java, HTML, .NET and Oracle.

Confidential

Manual QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development as well as manual testing of the application.
• Analyzed of the project requirements.
• Executed Test cases on front-end by using Quality Center.
• Performed Black box testing, White box testing, Functional testing, Integration testing and User Interface testing.
• Responsible for managing the test results and tracking reported defects.
• Executed SQL Queries for data testing.
• Created Test cases by reviewing the use cases for specific functional requirements.
• Reported defects and coordinated with the development team to resolve the issues associated with the application.
• Attended status meetings.

Environment: Quality Center, Windows 2000, SQL Server, Servlet, JSP, Apache Tomcat, JavaScript.