SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience in Manual & Automated testing onclient - server & web applications.
• Good understanding in QA methodology,Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC) and experienced in completeSoftwareTesting Life Cycle(STLC) andBug Life Cycle.
• Proficient in analyzing the Business Requirements, SystemRequirement Specifications, Functional Requirement specification, Design Documents to formulateTest Plans, Test Strategies, andTest Cases.
• Performed System Testing including Functional, Regression, and Performance Testing using automated software testing tools such as QTP, Win Runner, Quality Center, Test Partner and Test Director for web based applications.
• Expert in writing, executing test cases, usage of various databases, tools for bug tracking and generating reports using Test Director, providing verifications on fixes in multiple environments, and communicating fix success, failures, status updates as appropriate..
• Database skills that include build/maintain tables and indexes; build/maintain SQL scripts, Stored Procedures and Functions.
• Ability to work with minimal direction - taking concept to analysis and potentially lead in QA through development, debugging, testing, defect documentation, regression and conclusion.
• Formulated Test Plans based on the User Requirement Documents and System requirement documents for the Functional, Regression, Load, Performance and User Acceptance Testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Win Runner, Load Runner, Quick Test Pro 10.

Operating systems: Windows 95/98/2000/XP, UNIX

Defect Tracking Tools: Test Director, Rational Clear Quest

Languages: C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, VB, ASP.NET, ADO.NET

Databases: Oracle 9i/10g, SQL Server 2000/2005, TOAD, MS Access.

Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed and executed test plans, test cases based on the requirements and also responsible for creating and updating user-defined functions to meet the current business requirements.
• Helped the Lead create Traceability Matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements identifies all the test conditions and the test data need.
• Designed test data using MS Excel sheet and created data driven tests to test the application with positive and negative inputs.
• Performed System and Regression testing for every modification in the application & new builds using QTP.
• Created VB script to load Add-ins, Object Repository, Functional Library (.vbs), and Data file using Open Test Architecture method.
• Tested the functionality of the Insurance application which includes Personal home Insurance and Auto Insurance.
• Categorized defects based on severity and reported them assigning the appropriate priority to developers for resolution.
• Wrote and executed test cases using Test Plan, Test Lab Modules respectively and reported defects using Defects module in Mercury Quality Center and actively participated in code review meetings.

Environment: Mercury QTP, BPT, Quality Center, Java, Oracle, SQL Server, Unix, Ms Office Suite

Confidential, Farmington Hills, MI

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning, implementing, and executing the phases of SDLC by RUP methodology. Developed and executed Test cases by understanding the System Requirements and Functional Specifications modified the Test cases by collecting Change Requests. Created Traceability matrix between Requirements to Test Cases to Scripts.
• Performed black box testing- System, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance testing on web based application.
• Developed automation testing framework for day-to-day regression using QTP and performance testing using Load Runner.
• Tracked the Defects, followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and closed the defects in Quality Center and executed Test cases manually in QC. Uploaded Business requirements, test scenarios, test cases and defects from MS Excel/Access to Quality center.
• WrittenSQL Queriesfor Database Testing to make sure that front end operations are being stored into the right tables at the back end.

Environment: J2EE,HTML,CSS, MS Excel, Access, Visual Studio, VB Script, XML, Oracle 10g, UNIX, PL/SQL, HP QTP, Load Runner and Quality Center.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and Reviewed business and functional requirements, and created Test plan, Test Cases.
• Performed Black Box Testing based on the functional requirements and product specifications of the application including smoke, regression and functional testing using QTP and Quality Center.
• Perform web test using QTP for checking page contents, broken links, web objects, frames and tables. Developed and executed various VBScripts using QTP for Regression Testing of the applications. Developed the scripts using regular expressions and handle unexpected errors using exception handing mechanism of QTP.
• Maintained load, scalability and performance monitoring scripts using Load Runner. Designed performance test suites by creating workload scenarios, setting transactions, rendezvous points and inserting them into suites using Load Runner.
• Reported tracked defects with reference to severity and types using Quality center.
• Prepared several SQL Updates/Inserts to manipulate the testing data and prepared SQL queries to retrieve data from database.
• Interacted with developers and discussed technical problems, reported bugs, supported the development team and involved in training and documentation.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, Load Runner, Windows NT, Excel, Word, HTML, J2EE, VSS, UNIX, Visual Studio, TOAD and Oracle

Confidential, Irving,TX

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in complete Software development life cycle (SDLC) and developed the System Test Plan and manually implemented multiple test scripts and documented the results.
• Developed and managed automation functional, performance and GUI testing for .NET applications.
• Created an effective automation testing framework for day-to-day regression and performance testing.
• Worked with functional project teams that include Development, Marketing, Usability, Quality Assurance, Customer Learning, and Support and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues and investigated software faults.
• Represented the QA group as a member of the Testing Process Quality Management Team.

Environment: .NET, ASP.Net, VB, SQL Server 2000, Window 2000, Requisite Pro, MS Access, Clear Quest.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed and executed of test plans, Prepared work schedules, Resource planning and bug reporting
• Documented test plan and test cases using Clear Case. Created a Test Plan according to the Test Strategy selected and smoke test template. Created Workbooks and Plans of various Chain and Location Department In & Pre Seasons. Documented Traceability Matrix for Defects on Daily, Weekly and Module basis.
• Involved in regression testing, Functionality, Navigation, Volume, Security testing, Data validation and Database integrity testing of the Merchandise Planning module and tested the main functionalities of the application manually and validated data using Excel Sheets.
• Wrote and execute SQL scripts and stored procedures to validate data which flows to the end user with the actual data in the Database.
• Executing test cases and identifying mismatches and reporting defects into Bug Tracker and tracking them till they are fixed and analyzed the results using various graphs and reports and using Bug Tracker.
• Scheduled weekly meetings with office staffs, developers and QA team to discuss about quality issues. Developed documentation for User Acceptance Testing and trained the users about the system.

Environment: SQL, HTML,, Bug Tracker, API,, Rational Clearcase, UNIX, Microsoft Excel, QTP, Quality Center, and Test Director

Confidential

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing and translating the requirements and involved in preparation of test plans and test cases.
• Performed Black box testing including integration, system, functional, regression and User acceptance testing.
• Reported detailed software problem reports, defect tracking and verifying corrections using Test Director.
• Facilitated formal review meetings with users and developers to report, demonstrate, prioritize and suggest resolution to issues discovered during testing cycles.
• Responsible for communicating the performance bottlenecks to the QA Manager and opening defects using Test Director.

Environment: Java, HTML, Java-script, Test director7.0, VSS, Win Runner7.6, MS Access, TOAD, Windows 2000.