SUMMARY

• Over 7+Years of diversified experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing (80% Manual and 20% Automation) on Client/Server, Windows based and Web based applications.
• Proven success in meeting or exceeding customer needs as an individual contributor and as team member.
• Proficient in Manual Testing.
• Proficient in Understanding Software Development Life Cycle.
• Experienced in Water fall and Agile Methodologies.
• Tested Web Services, XML, WSDL using SOAPUI tool. Modified end points when we worked on different servers and different versions of Web Services.
• Tested Web Services, providing required input data to request XML and validated response XML
• Extensively experienced in analyzing business requirements and specifications, development and execution of Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases.
• Involved in tracking defects using Quality Center.
• Developed Test scripts for automated testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Involved in Writing, Updating and maintaining the Test documents for various stages of Testing for reference and auditing purpose.
• Strong experience in all levels of Testing such as Integration Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Black box testing, Browser testing.
• Expertise in Problem solving and Bug Tracking Reports using Bug tracking Tools like Quality Center, ALM etc.
• Excellent Organization, Analytical and Problem Solving skills and ability to quickly learn new technologies.
• Good Communication, interpersonal, and Teamwork skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP Quick Test Professional, Load Runner

Defect Tracking Tools: Smart bear ALM, HP Quality Center, Bugzilla, JIRA

Microsoft Tools: MS office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Operating System: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, UNIX

Languages: C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL, JAVA, Dot Net

Web Technologies: XML, HTML, WSDL, JavaScript, SOAP UI, Web services

Database: SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Oracle

Other tools: SQL plus, Toad, knowledge of ETL tool Informatica.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Lexington, KY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed business requirement documents and the technical specification.
• Developed detailed Testing Strategy, Test Plan and Test Cases for the entire application.
• Analyzed user requirements, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes.
• Used ALM to manage the requirements and also defects.
• Tested Web Services, XML, WSDL using SOAPUI tool. Modified end points when we worked on different servers and different versions of Web Services.
• Tested Web Services, providing required input data to request XML and validated response XML
• Validated Web Services request and response xml using SOAPUI tool.
• Written test cases and test scripts for the functional testing.
• Written SQL commands to fetch data through queries for testing.
• Tested Oracle database using SQL Statements.
• Monitored ALM to close the bugs/cases as and when developers fix the bugs.
• Involved in performing different types of Testing such as Integration, System and Regression.
• Reported bugs to the development team through Email notifications using ALM.
• Preparing the defect reports and interacted with developers for debugging.

Environment: ASP.NET 2.0, C#, SQL SERVER 2005, JavaScript, Web sphere, J2EE, SQL, UNIX, XML, ALM, Quality Center 9.2,Web Services, SOAP UI.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Procedures from scratch using Business requirements document and Functional requirements document of the system.
• Actively involved in specifications, requirements meetings and development of Test Plan and Test scripts.
• Analyzed and tested code functionality to ensure that it is defect free.
• Writing test cases using the requirement documents.
• Involved in performing Database testing, Functionality testing, Validation testing, Negative and Positive testing, testing manually on the first release of the application.
• All the test scenarios, which have been satisfied with the functionality, are moved to automation testing.
• Used Quality Centre as a defect - tracking tool to keep track of defects during the testing process.
• Used Quality Centre to create, execute and manage the test cases.
• Understanding business requirements and developing Test Plans and corresponding test cases using Quality Centre
• Executing test plans, test scripts, testing for new and existing features.
• Performing integration and system testing
• Involvement with technology forums and industry user groups
• Conducted database testing, passing SQL queries to the SQL Server database.
• Participated in weekly status meeting, Coordinated with the developers and testers to resolve the defects and close them.
• Actively participated in all phases of testing life cycle including document reviews, inspections, and project status meetings.
• Work within an approved testing methodology, tracking functionality and defect cases.

Environment: Quality Centre 8.2, ALM Test Complete, SQL Server,Asp.Net, Windows 2003 Server, TOAD, Quick Test Professional(QTP), ATG Commerce.

Confidential, Chicago

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the user/business requirements, functional specifications and Use Case documents and created the Test Plans, Test cases for System testing.
• Coordinate with the business analysts and developers and discussed issues in interpreting the requirements.
• Actively participated in System testing, integration testing and Functional testing.
• Involved in providing the Testing Effort estimates and provided the timely feedback on progress of the testing activity.
• Generated the execution results and sent it across to the team, by way of gathering and analyzing the Test Metrics for the purpose of reporting.
• Conducted Cross browser testing with IE5, IE5.5, NS4.7 and NS6.
• Attended project meetings, release meetings and QA status meetings.

Environment: Windows NT /2000, QTP, Solaris5.6/8, Web Logic, Oracle, J2EE, Java, JSP, EJB, XML, UNIX .

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Manual and Automated testing.
• Designed Test Plans/Test cases based on Use Cases, High Level Requirements, Design and Detail Design documents covering all positive and negative Testing scenarios
• Development and Execution of Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Functional responsibilities included, Functional Testing, Performance Testing, Load Testing, Stress Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Unit testing and Regression Testing on application.
• Responsible for defect identification, documentation, communication and following through to resolution according to business requirements.
• Executed various SQL Queries to perform the backend testing.
• Ran tests, analyzed test results, and controlled test runs to identify and isolate bugs.
• Identify and track defects using a bug-tracking tool.
• Tracked and reported defects through Quality Center which facilitates workflow issues and helped resolving technical issues with developers
• Coordinated, prioritized, and executed software re-testing of defects.
• Interacted with developers for analysis of the application.

Environment: Java, JavaScript, J2EE, JSP, Struts, XML, HTML, Web Sphere, Windows2K/NT, Quick Test Pro, Quality Center 9.0

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided periodic status of testing for all small enhancement and quarterly projects in QA phase.
• Analyzed user requirements and developed test plans, test cases, test procedures to test the GUI functionality.
• Verifying order in Database in the backend by using SQL queries.
• Involved in Business and Technical Design reviews.
• Used Excel extensively to maintain test cases.
• Monitored Bugzilla to close the bugs/cases as and when developers fix the bugs.
• Interacted with developers to resolve the technical issues.
• Executed test cases and verified actual results against expected results.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Oracle8i/9i, XML Web Services, IBM Web Sphere, Bea Web logic, Bugzilla.