SUMMARY

• More than 7 years of Experience in Quality Assurance with Expertise in Automation using HP Tools.
• Extensive Software Quality Assurance and Testing experience in a wide variety of environments
• Excellent knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle, including requirements, feasibility analysis, design, programming, testing/debugging and Implementation
• Proficient with Test planning, Test Case Writing, Test execution, and Test results analysis
• Extensive work experience in Unit Testing, Functionality Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Volume Testing, Load/Stress Testing and Performance Testing
• Through knowledge of Overall Test Management Process using Quality Center
• Sound experience with automated testing using HP Tools (QTP, QC) for Web based applications, Client Server and Mainframe Applications
• Expertise working with automated software testing using Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Thorough knowledge of Load Runner
• Proficient in back - end testing using SQL queries
• Experience with Data validation in TSYS
• Knowledge of EBS, AP & GL
• Sound understanding of Data Warehousing key concepts
• Extensive knowledge of SQL Server Management Studio for query designing and maintenance
• Excellent interpersonal skills, proven team player with ability to lead or mentor junior QA Testers

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional, LoadRunner

Other Testing Software: Rational Clear Quest, Quality Center, TSYS

Programming Languages: C, C++, SQL

Scripting Language: VB Script, TSLDatabases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access, MySQL

Web Technology: HTML, XML, CSS

Operating Systems: Windows (98,2000,XP, NT, Server, 7),UNIX, MS - DOS, Mac OS

Reporting/ Other Tools: SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 (SSRS 2005), Microsoft Business Intelligence Development Studio 2003/2005, Toad, SQL Modeler

Software Packages: SQL Server Management Studio 2000/2005, MS-Office, MS-Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, DE

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and prepared detailed test strategy documents, test cases and test plans for QA testing purposes
• Enhanced and converted existing manual test cases to automated test cases using QTP.
• Increased overall testing scope by 15% to include various scenarios that can arise from day-to-day interactions on web based applications
• Used modular approach from smoke tests conducted in the QA & SIT environments
• Enhanced smoke test reporting for QA & SIT environments by quantifying progress using graphs & charts
• Widened smoke test scope by 20% by manually writing and automating test cases to include more applications
• Responsible for testing application for functionality in 4 different environments and covering 31 scenarios within a bi-monthly release period
• Performed front end & back end validations in test environments using TSYS & SQL to ensure traceability and thorough validations using both manual & automated procedures
• Worked with Quality Center for overall test management
• Assisted in the development of automated scripting using QTP for web based application validations for test accounts in the QA & SIT test environments
• Integrated auto-update & auto-archive features for test cases and datasheets, flat files for each weekly regression iteration
• Trained and mentored 3 junior testers using a one-to-one training method on various applications with strong foundations on continuous improvement of QA process.

Environment: TSYS, SQL Developer, MS-Office, Java, Mainframe, Windows Server/2000 and Oracle, IE, Chrome, Firefox, Safari

Confidential, NH

Sr. Automated Tester

Responsibilities:

• Conduct meetings with Business Analysts and Online-Offshore Development teams to analyze and review business requirements, specification and Technical Analysis Documents (TAD)
• Prepare Test Strategy and detailed Test Plan for testing Global One -Client Server application and Enhance Custody - Web Based application emphasizing on the scope, approach and effort estimation
• Analyze the Business requirements to formulate design and, document Test Scenarios and Test Cases
• Converted Manual Test Cases into Automated Scripts using QTP.
• Modular approach to develop Smoke, Functional - System, Integration and End to End, and Regression test cases
• Involved in Test case walkthroughs and reviews
• Responsible for testing the application for functionality including Interface, System, Integration, End to End testing covering both positive and negative scenarios using QTP
• Test multiple Reports using SQL Queries on Toad and later added them to QTP scripts for automated testing.
• Execute SQL queries to perform Back-end testing to ensure data completeness and integrity
• Perform extensive integration testing of the application to and from the Client Server and Mainframe systems
• Tested data from Client Server and Mainframe Application on web bases application using Data Tables, Excel Sheets and Flat Files (data driven testing) in QTP
• Designed functions for automation framework from scratch.
• Conduct Regression testing on the system each time a new build comes through
• Overall Test Management using Quality Center.
• Used GL methodologies to create Auto Insurance reports
• Mentor junior testers and provided one-on-one training on the application with emphasis on improvising the overall quality of software process

Environment: Toad, SQL Developer, MS-Office, Rational Clear Quest, Java, JavaScript, Mainframe, Windows Server/2000 and Oracle, IE, Chrome, Firefox

Confidential, Providence, RI

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Review and modify Test Cases
• Convert Manual Test Cases into Automated Scripts using Quick Test Pro(QTP)
• Make sure all scripts are parameterized and are modular for re-usability.
• Perform regression, functional, smoke, positive and negative testing using QTP.
• Perform DDT testing by using Excel Sheets, Data Tables and Data from Database automatically by writing scripts using QTP.
• Design automation Framework and update existing functions.
• Write QTP scripts by using Descriptive programming for objects that keep changing with each release.
• Enter Defects in Quality Center and maintain overall Defect Lifecycle for Defects/failures found using QTP.
• Responsible for weekly status update meetings with Developers to fix defects.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, Java, Web Sphere, SQL Server, Flash, JSP,CSS

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior QA Tester/ Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for converting Manual Test Cases to Automated Scripts using QTP.
• Created and implemented test cases, test scripts (using VB Script (QTP)) and prepared test data
• Tested the application using both Manual and Automated Testing as per the scenarios
• Constructed and maintained Traceability Matrix in Quality Center to Check Requirements.
• Responsible for performing GUI and functional, and integration testing using QTP
• Created automated scripts for performing Regression Testing using QTP
• Analyzed response time of the system under heavy load using different graphical representation in load runner
• Involved in back end testing using SQL queries to ensure that all the data tables were getting populated in their corresponding categories
• Wrote and maintained SQL queries
• Implemented Defect Management using Quality Center
• Interacted with developers and various project members to discuss and resolve defects

Environment: J2EE, SQL Server, Quick Test Professional (QTP), Quality Center, MS-Office

Confidential, New York, NY

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing test scripts (QTP) and cross checking with business requirements
• Created and executed test cases based on business testing requirements and test plans using QTP
• Primarily responsible for Functional Test, and Regression testing using QTP
• Conducted data driven testing to test the application for different sets of data
• Performed backend testing in accordance with ETL-based data
• Provided back-end testing by writing SQL queries to verify the data
• Assisted managers with Oracle EBS applications focusing on inventory and order management
• Used Quality Center for over all Test management
• Entered Defects for failures in Quality Center and coordinated with the development team to get fixes
• Worked as a team with other QA testers to ensure that the testing is executed accurately and completely

Environment: Windows, Oracle, QTP, Quality Center, C, Java