SUMMARY

• A professionally qualified Software Test Engineer with strong analytical skills with over 7.5 years of experience, in design, development and implementation of test plans, test procedures.
• Good Hands - on QA experience on the applications developed on both Unix and Windows environment. Strong experience in Functional testing, Automation and Performance testing.
• Strong quality assurance skills, especially in the area of automated testing and performance testing
• Expertise in meet with client groups to determine performance requirements and goals, determine test strategies based on requirements and architecture, create and implement performance tests using Load Runner and Silk Performer
• Excellent in testing the application Structures and Functionality's for testing.
• Knowledge in writing test cases and performing Unit Testing using Junit
• Involved in Web Services testing using SOAP UI.
• Knowledge in Unix and PERL and Shell Scripting
• Strong experience in testing Client-server software and web-based applications
• Demonstrated ability to succeed and learn quickly in challenging environment
• Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PL/SQL
• Operating Systems experience - DOS/ Windows 9x/NT, UNIX
• Thorough knowledge of Hardware and Software interaction and interfaces
• Experienced in working Agile methodology.
• Good in mobile testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Web: WebSphere, BEA Web Logic, EJB and iPlanet

OS: Windows NT 4.00/3.51, UNIX (Sun Solaris, HP-UX)

Languages: C/C++, Java 2, C#, .Net, Visual Basic

RDBMS: Oracle, MSAccess, PL/SQL, JDBC, and SQLServer

Scripting: Shell, Perl, JavaScript, and JSP

Tools: Mobile Anywhere Studio, AutoCAD, Arc-GIS, Water CAD

InstallShield 5.1: Custom DLL, Cluster install and registry replication.

Testing tools: JMeter, Load Runner, Selenium, Quality Center, Soap UI, Jira JUnitSoftware Configuration Clearcase3.2, Quality Center, and Bugzilla, ClearQuest Management

Mainframes: Hogan, Ageletics, Stagecoach, CICS, QADISOSS, QACTL4

Management Tools: SharePoint, PlanView, ARS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Lead QA/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Manages all the projects assigned to me per release.
• Analyze & review business & functional requirements for the project
• Outline high-level project activity plans and schedules
• Coordinate & establish communication with Clients, Project Managers, Business experts and Application analyst, developers for all testing activities on a project on-site and off-shore.
• Schedule & facilitate project meetings.
• Map requirements to functional or business requirements
• Identify testing constraints/limitations
• Create test plans, and develop test cases and scenarios which includes data and environment set-up.
• Perform testing and validation
• Monitor the test progress and create & manage test defects which includes trouble shooting, debugging & creating trouble tickets.
• Perform detailed analysis and validation of the testing results
• Schedule & facilitate daily project status meetings & provide status report to management and project members.
• Documents all phases of testing activities & all other pertinent information.
• Assist in identifying process improvements after each release based on issues and defects encountered.
• Team documentation coordination. SharePoint maintenance. PlanView for project status
• Performed manual testing on smart phone devices of real or by using simulations through the tool called DeviceAnywhere Studio

Environment: IBM Mainframe, Clear quest, CICS, QACTL4, QADISOSS, DB2, COBOL, SQL, JCL, TSO, Quality Center, Hogan, Agiletics, Stagecoach, Devise Anywhere Studio, ARP & Other In-house Testing Tools

Confidential

Systems QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business and system Requirements, scope, assumptions, dependencies, Use cases and design documents.
• Tested the application Structures and Functionality's for White Box, Grey Box & black box testing.
• Involved in the development and implementation of Test cases, Test plans, Test data and Test scripts according to requirements in the Use Case and Requirement documentation
• Used advanced knowledge of applications to provide technical assistance in identifying, evaluating, and resolving highly complex testing problems.
• Setup the test environment for the web applications and web servers.
• Made web-services request using SoapUI. Good understanding of XML, Xml Schema etc.
• Performed unit tests in java by using Junit for the regressions tests.
• Create Library to of reusable smoke tests and functions that were frequently used.
• Prepare reports and test results after each release cycle for management and further test planning.
• Participate in a weekly Bug Meetings, presenting new bugs and test plan for coming weeks
• Defects were tracked using Quality Center.

Environment: Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, Java, HTML, Oracle, MS Office, TOAD, Windows XP, UNIX, Junit, Jmeter, SoapUI, Selenium.

Confidential, Pleasanton, California

Systems QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Functional Requirement and Business Requirement documents to get a better understanding of the system on both functional and business perspectives.
• Involved in writing and implementing the Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Procedures, and Test Sets using design document and functional specs.
• Analyzed the application and decided, which parts were to be tested manually.
• Maintained requirements and created Tractability Matrix between Requirements and Test Cases using Mercury Quality Center.
• Created and executed manual test cases using Mercury Quality Center.
• Performed Sanity testing for each new build of the application.
• Tested the application compatibility on various versions of Mozilla Fire Fox and Internet Explorer browsers.
• Created automated test scripts using QTP for Functional and Regression Testing.
• Improved the flexibility of the tests by Parameterize entire test and ran the scripts for multiple sets of data by data driving the test using Quick Test Pro.
• Enhanced the recorded scripts by adding Standard, Bitmap, Database Checkpoints and Synchronization Points to perform regression testing using QTP.
• Involved in checking the HTML text content, hypertext links, images, image links, frame, tables, navigational flow, broken links and standard properties of a web page.
• Utilized Object Spy to view the properties of an object in the Application under Test (AUT).
• Performed backend testing using SQL queries.
• Involved in Functional, System, Integration and Regression Testing of the Application.
• Participated in Defect Review (DR) and QA status meetings to discuss the issues arising out of testing with Developers and Business analyst.
• Wrote recovery Scenarios to handle and created virtual objects in QTP.
• Created and maintained Object Repository by using Object scenario manager.
• Arranged meetings to discuss the defects with the software development team and the business analysts.

Environment: Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, Java, HTML, Oracle, MS Office, TOAD, Windows XP, UNIX

Confidential, Marlborough, MA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Functional Requirement and Business Requirement Documents.
• Analyzed the user requirements by interacting with system architect, developers and business analysts.
• Involved in writing the test cases to test the user interface, which usually consisted of the screens and various GUI objects of LMM modules.
• Maintained requirements and created Tractability Matrix between Requirements and Test Cases using Test Director.
• Involved in Manual Testing of the GUI with regard to layout, usability and standards.
• Involved in Regression testing of various functionalities using the automated scripts.
• Tested the components of application individually as well as a whole integrated application.
• Worked with various checks points (GUI checkpoints, Database checkpoints, Text checkpoints and Bitmap checkpoints) in QTP to perform Regression testing.
• Performed backend testing using SQL queries.
• Involved in GUI, User Acceptance, System and regression testing.
• Identified and reported software defects using Test Director.
• Participated in Walk through and Defect Review (DR) meetings periodically with client.
• Imported and Exported Test cases and defects via Mercury Test Director for review meetings.
• Generated detailed test status reports, for higher management.
• Participated in Modification Request meeting to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes, attended bug scrub meetings with Developers and with Clients.

Environment: Quick Test Professional, Test Director, Java, XML, Oracle, SQL developer, Windows, Apache web server

Confidential

QA Testing Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on testing the tools such as Water CAD, hydro flow, AutoCAD and ArcGIS.
• Worked on cost estimation for design projects.
• Verifying the plans for city and county standards before submitting to the city.
• Reviewed and analyzed the requirements.
• Involved in development of test cases from functional requirements, technical specifications and use cases.
• Created and executed manual Test Cases using Test Director.
• Performed Sanity testing for each new build of the application.
• Involved in Manual Testing of the GUI with regard to layout, usability and standards.
• Involved in regression testing after each build of the application.
• Created data driven tests to validate the scenario with different test data form Excel files.
• Attended the Bug Review meetings with results and was actively involved in planning for the next build and the changes to be brought into it.
• Participated in QA Status Meetings, Defect Review Meetings with the development team and Business Analyst.

Environment: Bugzilla, Visual Basic, Water CAD, Hydro Flow, Auto CAD, and Arc GIS