SUMMARY

• 5 years of IT experience as a Functional Test Engineer (QA)
• Have experience in both Manual Testing and Automation Testing(QTP with VBScript)
• Primary responsibilities include Requirement Analysis, Test Plan preparation, Test Case Creation, Smoke/Sanity Testing, Test Case Execution in SIT and UAT, Defect Tracking, Database validation and Production Validation.
• Good experience in testing the application for Regression, Integration, Functionality, and User Acceptance Testing of both client - server and Web-based applications.
• Good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and testing life cycle.
• Have experience in Functionality Testing, Front end testing, UI Testing, Production Validation and Database to verify the test data.
• Expertise in performing different types of Testing like Unit, White box, Black box, Context, Integration, Exploratory, Smoke, Stress, sanity, Volume, System, Regression and functional.
• Experience in developing web based applications using ASP.NET, ASP, C#, VB.net, ADO.NET, XML, Web Services (SOAP) and SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 .
• Experience in writing SQL queries
• Experience in TOAD for validating data and queries
• Experience in using other tools like VSTS (Visual Studio Team System), TFS (Team Foundation Server)
• Good exposure with C#.NET (Win forms, Web Services, XML, SQL Server).
• Excellent Technical, communication and interpersonal skills with strong customer orientation and client interfacing skills
• Strong problem solving skills, extremely reliable, quick learner and able to work independently as well as a team member.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: C#, C, C++, SQL

Internet Programming: ASP.NET, ASP, HTML, Web ServicesJavaScript, XML, CSS, XSLT

.NET Technologies: .NET Framework 3.5/4.0/4.5, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Web Services

Web Servers: IIS

Operating System: Windows XP/7/8/Server 2008/Server 2012, MS-DOS.

Databases & Tools: SQL Server 2005/2008/2012, MS Access, Oracle

Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, SOAP

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, QTP

Testing Methodologies: Agile and Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Carmel, IN

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Agile Scrum methodology is used for project development and testing.
• Developed Test plan, Test cases, test summary documents and defect reports for system and performance testing.
• Used Rational Quality Manager for test case and script development.
• TOAD is used to query tables.
• Developed Test Plan and overall Test Strategy for the program.
• Involved in testing Online and Batch programs developed in EMD modules.
• Tested the User interfaces for web applications.
• Involved in Status calls, Business and Technical design meetings
• Tracked defects and attended Bug-Review meetings.
• Involved in importing the requirements from JIRA into Quality Center.
• Actively participated in walkthroughs, weekly QA status, Defects and SME meetings.
• Developing and executing software System Test plans and Test cases. These Scripts were developed after reviewing the business requirements document, and technical specifications document.
• Delivered thorough QA testing reports that determined product quality and release readiness.
• Check the naming standards, data integrity and referential integrity.
• Worked closely with the application developers who created Database Tables, Indexes, Sequences, and Views and involved in loading test Data via SQL in QA environments.
• Analyzed System Requirement and Functional Requirement from different sources such as Business Analyst, Functional Analyst and Development team.
• Involved in working with interfaces and web services testing.
• Involved in testing the functionality and usability of the system for end user perspective
• Worked with development team and business team to ensure testing issues are resolved.
• Extensively involved in performing the Backend testing with SQL queries for data validation.
• Worked with development teams investigating and correcting software bugs and deficiencies based on the testing results.
• Designed & documented manual QA test plans, Test Strategy and helped management with testing estimates.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis
• Preparation of Test Scenarios and Test Cases
• Test Case Review with the business
• Test Execution using HP Quality Center
• Participated in Business Analysis, Requirement Analysis and Data Analysis.
• Tested Active Reports.
• Validated the data by using SQL queries.
• Coordinated with Business, Providers, Project Managers and Developers.
• Developed Test Summary Reports and participated in GO / NO-GO meetings.
• Responsible for designing, developing and implementing test plans, test cases and test processes
• Participated in meetings with Functional analyst, Business analyst and development team.
• Performed GUI Testing, Smoke Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, End to End Testing, Regression Testing
• Reviewed the Test plan, and Test Approach Document. Managed all phases of testing.
• Strong skills of interacting with Technology, QA and UAT, Development teams and various test environments, Preparation Testing status reports in MS Excel spreadsheets.
• Developed the Test cases to test functionality, interface of the application.
• Documented software defects using bug tracking system and reported defects involving program functionality, output, online screen and content to software developers.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis
• Test Case Review with the business
• Prioritizing the test cases
• Test Execution using HP Quality Center(SIT, Staging and UAT)
• Perform Testing in Production environment
• Regression Testing
• Involved in conducting end to end testing manually.
• Involved in Functionality Testing Various GUI Screens.
• Analyzed, documented and maintained Test Results and Test Logs.
• Responsible in providing regular test reports to the management.
• Development of Test case scenarios for functional testing of web application developed in HTML and XML.
• Write SQL queries to validate that actual test results match with expected results.
• Worked with Business partners and stake holders to gather test requirements.
• Executed, Verified and Validated PL/SQL Procedures and packages
• Created Analysis Results and Reports in Word, HTML and Excel documents.
• Used QTP automation tool for automation and regression testing
• Manual executed test scripts in different test environments QA and Production.
• Involved in testing the functionality and usability of the system for end user perspective.
• Tracked the progress of the defects till end of the defect life cycle, used Quality Center for defect tracking and maintained the workflows and trail history of bugs using Quality Center.
• Conducted weekly Defect Review Meetings with project members and provided the Test Status Reports to the Project Manager.

Confidential, TX

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements and wrote Test plan, Test case and Test scripts.
• Test Case Preparation which covers UI, Functionality, Security and Regression aspects.
• Test Execution using HP Quality Center
• Direct interaction with the Client QA Leads and System Analysts for status tracking and issue resolution
• Perform Testing in Production environment
• Defining and performing the Test strategies and associated scripts for verification and validation of the application and ensuring that it meets all defined business requirements and associated functionality.
• Provided the management with test metrics, reports, and schedules as necessary and participated in the design walkthroughs and meetings.
• Conducted the regression tests to test whether fix has been applied and also to test whether the fix causes another problem or not.
• Involved in Test strategy development, Test Plans creation, Test cases creation, Test cases execution, defect tracking and reporting based on Functional and Business Requirement.
• Validated the data by using SQL queries.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis
• Preparation of Test Scenarios and Test Cases
• Test Case Review with the business
• Prioritizing the test cases
• Prepare Test Plans and Test Case Scenarios for the NetApp Application.
• Documented bug errors, provided feedback on bugs, and worked with engineers to overcome barriers.
• Executed, Verified and Validated PL/SQL Procedures and packages
• Created Analysis Results and Reports in Word, HTML and Excel documents.
• Designed & documented manual QA test plans, Test Strategy and helped management with testing estimates.