SUMMARY

• 10 Plus years of experience in Software Quality Assurance in diversified platforms like Microsoft and Sun technologies and rich experience in Manual and Automation of Functional testing.
• Experience in planning, designing, developing and testing strategies for large - scale Web applications, Client/Server systems and Product based applications.
• Involved in all the phases of SDLC and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Responsible for ensuring top-quality deliverables from client expectations perspective
• Participated in Project Estimation exercises and forecast resource requirements.
• Proficient in Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Testing, Smoke Testing, Workflow Testing, Grey Box, and User Acceptance testing (UAT), System Testing, and Stress Testing.
• Expertise in analyzing and writing the Test Cases.
• Proficient in testing the JAVA based applications with respect to various servers (Tomcat, WebLogic, .NET, Centura, Silverlight, Webservices based applications.
• Developed Driver & Component scripts, Library files, Shared repository files, Configuration files, Recovery Scenario files and Test Data files using UFT.
• Expertise in problem solving and Bug Tracking using Quality Centre.
• Expert in working with various Data Bases like Oracle and SQL Server.
• Experience in Operating Systems Windows NT/2000/XP, UNIX (Sun Solaris2.6, AIX5.2).
• Excellent Communication, Documentation Skills, Analytical and Problem solving Skills.
• Responsible for ensuring top-quality deliverables to the client and interacting with the client on a regular basis to discuss day-to-day matters and issues. He has been participated in Project Estimation exercise and forecast resource requirements.
• Involved in preparing project plans and monitor/track the progress of projects/tasks as per the project plan, tracking issues to closure, ensuring that the projects are completed on time and on budget and also ensuring that laid down procedures and processes are followed by the team.
• Assisted the team understand and project the importance of the processes when and where required.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows Vista/XP/2000/NT/98

Languages: C, C++, Java, J2EE, VBScript, SQL and PL/SQL

Tools: MS Excel, MS Word, TOAD, SQL Server Management Studio and MS PowerPoint

Version Control: SVN, Borland Star Team, VSS, Clear Case and CVS

Web Technologies: JavaScript, CSS, HTML, DHTML, SOAP, XML, ASP and JSP. (Automation Framework)

Databases: Oracle 9i/8i/8/7x, MS SQL Server, MYSQL, SYBASE, DB2 and MS Access

Web/App Servers: IBM Web sphere, BEA Web logic, Apache Tomcat and JBoss

Automation Tools: Quality Center 11, UFT 11.5, Squids, SOAP UI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Louisville, KY

QA Lead/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Support business team during the production issues and system outages and resolve the issues in Pre-Production and Production environments
• Participating in Detailed Business Requirements analysis and identifying the testable requirements and define the testing approaches for ePostRx application
• Prepare the Test Assessment, Test Strategy and Test plan documents for System testing
• Performed knowledge transition on Quality assurance team for all releases
• Involve and monitor daily sanity testing for any issues or blockage.
• Understanding and analyzing the high level requirements (HLRs) and preparing the effort estimate and schedules for all upcoming releases and perform resource planning.
• Review all deliverables and artifacts from the testing team before delivering the same with business team
• Perform webservices testing with SOAP UI tool for the interfaces and ePostRx application.
• Schedule the review meetings with business team for base lining the artifacts
• Create defects in Test Management Tool and carry out activities related to Defect Management Process. Defect triage and follow ups for expediting the defect resolution from the Squids tool
• Prepare test summary reports on the actual results generated during test execution
• Responsible for delivery of test assessment for the release level testing for the ePostRx application.
• Responsible for delivery of test strategies and test plans for the release level testing from project and enhancements perspective and save to Sharepoint
• Involved in the creation of the road map for 2015 RightsourceRx system integration testing deliverables
• Schedule and track defects in Squids through triage sessions
• Follow-up with the Program Managers and PMO for any change requests of the application.
• Measure the monthly metrics with the performance baselines aligned in the road map
• Provided recommendations for the regression suite optimization
• Provided recommendations for the optimization of the test data across all the integrated teams
• Creation of critical action items from a team perspective and follow up on a daily basis for the closure.
• Review the test cases and provide comments for better quality of the test cases.
• Involved and responsible for cleanup of the regression suite by optimizing the functionalities and adding the regular release critical test cases to the regression suite.

Environment: Squids, System Integration Testing, Windows XP, JAVA, J2EE, Servlets, JSP, Struts, JDBC, SVN, Webservices, SOAP UI, Web Application, SQL Server Management Studio and SharePoint

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

QA lead/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for ensuring top-quality deliverables to the client and interacting with the client on a regular basis to discuss day-to-day matters and issues. He has been participated in Project Estimation exercise and forecast resource requirements.
• Involved in preparing project plans and monitor/track the progress of projects/tasks as per the project plan, tracking issues to closure, ensuring that the projects are completed on time and on budget and also ensuring that laid down procedures and processes are followed by the team.
• Assisted the team understand and appreciate the importance of the processes when and where required. .
• Responsible for recruiting/releasing resources for continually meeting the project manpower requirements.
• Analyzed the requirements of the application and created Functional Specification document.
• Involved in developing the System and Integration Test Plans.
• Reviewed the system specifications document and developed test plan in QC.
• Developed and executed test cases and test plan for all modules of the application.
• Developed Test Cases in test plan, executed in test lab using Quality Center.
• Executed the test cases in several phases as the developers fixing the bugs
• Used Quality Center for test planning, defect tracking and building the test hierarchy.
• Involved in writing Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Worked with batch jobs and validated the reports.
• Participated in System, Regression and Acceptance Testing.
• Wrote SQL queries, PL/SQL procedures to ensure database integrity
• Worked with all levels of management and resolved the issues found.
• Discussed extensively with developers, customer care in depth about the problems in design, functionality to make the application more robust and user friendly
• Communicate and work with people of all technical levels in a team environment.
• Maintain excellent performance and exceed Client's expectations consistently throughout project.
• Used Quality Center for bug tracking and test management.
• Made schedules for system and integration testing for each release.
• Created/Tracked defects, deciding their priority and then assigned them to the different developers.
• Regularly involved in monitoring the batch jobs.
• Attended status review meetings, interacted with developers, Architects to resolve the issues.
• Implemented Checkpoints using UFT.
• Attended meetings to outline and present Regression testing strategies and Support UAT

Environment: Quality Center,UFT 11.5, Windows XP, JAVA, J2EE, Centura, Silverlight, Servlets, JSP, Struts, JDBC, CRAFT, SVN, Tuxedo Servers, iFrame, ADPART and Webservices

Confidential, Santa Ana, CA

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the requirements of the application and created Functional Specification document.
• Involved in developing the System and Integration Test Plans.
• Reviewed the system specifications document and developed test plan in QC.
• Developed and executed test cases and test plan for all modules of the application.
• Developed Test Cases in test plan, executed in test lab using Quality Center.
• Logged the bugs in Defects tab in Quality center.
• Executed the test cases in several phases as the developers fixing the bugs
• Used Quality Center for test planning, defect tracking and building the test hierarchy.
• Involved in writing Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Worked with batch jobs and validated the reports.
• Participated in System, Regression and Acceptance Testing.
• Worked with all levels of management and resolved the issues found.
• Discussed extensively with developers, customer care in depth about the problems in design, functionality to make the application more robust and user friendly
• Communicate and work with people of all technical levels in a team environment.
• Maintain excellent performance and exceed Client's expectations consistently throughout project.
• Used Quality Center for bug tracking and test management.
• Made schedules for system and integration testing for each release.
• Created/Tracked defects, deciding their priority and then assigned them to the different developers.
• Executed SQL statements to ensure the data in the backend.
• Regularly involved in monitoring the batch jobs.
• Used TOAD for database validations.
• Attended status review meetings, interacted with developers, Architects to resolve the issues.
• Implemented Checkpoints using UFT.
• Attended meetings to outline and present Regression testing strategies and Support UAT

Environment: Quality Center, Windows XP, JAVA, J2EE, Servlets, JSP, Struts, JDBC, TOAD, XML Spy, Clear Quest, FileZilla, SOA Framework and Webservices

Confidential, Lake Buena Vista, FL

Senior QA

Responsibilities:

• Developed BPT Test Cases and tested the whole application and defects are isolated.
• Prepared test status reports during test execution process.
• Created Integration Test Plan.
• Created System Test Plan.
• Performed Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Performance Testing, User Acceptance Testing, GUI Testing and System Testing.
• Created Business Components and BPT Test Instances
• Created Web Services requests and tested the Web Services responses with SOAP UI tool.
• Extensively used SQL to verify the integrity and consistency of the data in the database.
• Interacted with Developers as needed to isolate the main cause of defects.
• Extensively worked on handling the application response for Positive and Negative sets of data using data driven testing.
• Generated User manual for the project & Program specifications for each script.
• Uploaded the requirements, designed and executed the test cases, tracked the defects through Test Director.
• Performed Positive and Negative Testing, User Interface Testing.
• Performed manual and Automated Regression testing after every build Installation.
• Used Quality Center for bug tracking and test management.
• Made schedules for system and integration testing for each release.
• Created/Tracked defects, deciding their priority and then assigned them to the different developers.
• Executed SQL statements to ensure the data in the backend.
• Attended status review meetings, interacted with developers, Architects to resolve the issues.

Environment: Quality Center, DBVisualizer, SOAP UI, Windows XP, JAVA, J2EE, Servlets, JSP, Struts, JDBC, EJB, SQL Server, SQL, UFT, GoldMaster (Stratus), TicketMaster, Webservices, Opera and Borland Star Team

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Sr QA

Responsibilities:

• Check / Review the Test Cases document for System, Integration and User Acceptance.
• Analyze requirements during the requirements analysis phase of project. Keeping track of the new requirements from the Project.
• Involved in developing and implementing the test plan.
• Developed Test Cases in test plan, executed in test lab using Quality Center.
• Logged the bugs in Defects tab in Quality center.
• Executed the test cases in several phases as the developers fixing the bugs.
• Tracked and reported upon testing activities, including testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines, etc.
• Performed Manual Functional testing with QC and regression testing with UFT for the application as a part of Retail market analysis.
• Developed Test Strategy document and Automation Framework.
• Set up the Automated Testing Environment for creating, and running automated tests using UFT.
• Created Shared Object Repository using UFT.
• Developed Automation Driver & Component Scripts, Configuration files and Recovery Scenarios as part of framework using UFT. Developed common and application common reusable library functions using VB Script.
• Parameterized the scripts with Action parameters, Data table parameters, Environment variables and random numbers.
• Imported Excel sheets into UFT with VB Script library function, implemented data driven testing and exported the excel sheet in desired format.
• Worked with Descriptive Programming to handle the generic properties of the objects and used several runtime-functions to retrieve the properties of the object.
• Attended meetings to outline and present Regression testing strategies and objectives and Support UAT
• Involved in integration testing as a part of Point of Sale application.
• Extensively worked with SQL to perform Data integrity testing for MS SQL Server.
• Checking the integrity of UI data with Database Data; whether any junk data is displaying in UI other than that stored in Database; execution of stored procedures with the input values taken from the database tables and Checking the Data Migration.

Environment: Windows XP, JAVA, J2EE, Servlets, JSP, Struts, SOAP, JDBC, EJB, SQL Server, SQL, UFT, Quality Center and Borland Star Team

Confidential

Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the a/c holder requirements by interacting with developers and business analysts
• Written Test Plan and Test Cases by going through the Design, Functional Requirements
• Used Quality Center for Test Planning, Test Execution and Defect Tracking.
• Participated in Automation of the test cases for regression testing using Quick Test Pro
• Performed GUI and Regression Testing
• Performed Black-Box Testing for each and every module and on the whole system as a whole
• Performed Backend, System, functional, Integration, System and Navigational Testing for the different types of customer transactions for Money Movements Functionality.
• Performed smoke, Regression testing after each build
• Performed data driven test to handle the scenario requiring multiple sets of data
• Developed and Tested SQL Scripts for backend Testing
• Performed Manual testing of the different functionalities involved
• Prepared the Test data for interpreting the Positive/negative/regression results
• Involved in Batch Process and Front End Application Testing
• Created automated test scripts by using Quick Test Pro for data verification and validations
• Used Quality Center to Track the defects and report the defects

Environment: Manual Testing, Quality Center, Oracle 9i, Java, JSP, Web Sphere, SQL Server 2005, IIS, Bug Tracking Manager, MS Office, Windows XP

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Manual Test Cases and tested the whole application and defects are isolated.
• Performed Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, GUI Testing and System Testing.
• Extensively used SQL to verify the integrity and consistency of the data in the database.
• Interacted with Developers as needed to isolate the main cause of defects.
• Extensively worked on handling the application response for Positive and Negative sets of data using data driven testing.
• Uploaded the requirements, designed and executed the test cases, tracked the defects through Test Director.
• Performed Positive and Negative Testing, User Interface Testing.
• Performed manual and Automated Regression testing after every build Installation.
• Made schedules for system and integration testing for each release.
• Created/Tracked defects, deciding their priority and then assigned them to the different developers.

Environment: Manual Testing, Quality Center, Java, Oracle and Windows NT.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Manual Test Cases and tested the whole application and defects are isolated.
• Prepared test status reports during test execution process.
• Performed Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, GUI Testing and System Testing.
• Extensively used SQL to verify the integrity and consistency of the data in the database.
• Interacted with Developers as needed to isolate the main cause of defects.
• Extensively worked on handling the application response for Positive and Negative sets of data using data driven testing.
• Uploaded the requirements, designed and executed the test cases, tracked the defects through Test Director.
• Performed Positive and Negative Testing, User Interface Testing.
• Performed manual and Automated Regression testing after every build Installation.
• Used Quality Center for bug tracking and test management.
• Made schedules for system and integration testing for each release.
• Created/Tracked defects, deciding their priority and then assigned them to the different developers.
• Executed SQL statements to ensure the data in the backend.

Environment: Manual Testing, Quality Center, Java, Oracle and Windows NT.