SUMMARY

• 10+ years of IT experience in Testing of Web, ERP, Client/Server, Networking and main frame applications operating systems in windows and UNIX.
• Domain knowledge of Banking, Credit, Supply Chain management, Derivatives, Financial and Mortgage industries.
• Extensive Experience in Black Box Testing.
• Expert in both Manual and Automated testing using Win runner, Quality Center, Rational Robot and Rational clear Quest.
• Extensive knowledge about all Rational Test tools like Rational requisite Pro, Rational Administrator, Rational Manager Rational Robot, Rational Performance Studio, Rational Clear Case, Rational Rose ETC.
• Extensive experience in Software development management and bug reporting tools like PVCS Tracker, and Quality Control, Rational Unified Process
• Extensive knowledge of Trading and Fixed income.
• Experience in GUI testing, Functional testing, integration testing, backend testing, and regression testing
• Responsible for Working with developers to resolve problems and managing the MR process to ensure smooth transition between Development team and testing team.
• Worked under various databases including Oracle, DB2/400, SQL Server and MS - Access.
• Protocols: (FIX) Protocol. FPL, HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP.
• Experience in creating Report for the activities and testing that took place in the testing environment as described in the Design/Installation/Operational/ Performance Qualifications.
• Performing Component Test, Assembly Test and Product Test in different stage of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Strong experience in testing Java, J2EE, VB, ASP, HTML, DHTML, XML applications.
• Prepared SQL Scripts using ORACLE SQL, PL/SQL to generate test data.
• Extensive knowledge in Functional and Screen Navigational Testing for Web Applications.
• Proactive and ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Extremely organized, dedicated and enthusiastic professional who is able to Multi-task, Prioritize, and work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows95/98/2000/XP, NT, UNIX, MS DOS OS/400 and LAN

Languages: SQL, SHELL, PL/SQL, C, C++, JAVA, Visual Basic 5.0/6.0,COBOL

GUI: Dev 2000

Internet Technologies: XML, HTML, Java Script

RDBMS: Oracle7.x/8.x, Ms Access, SQL Server, and DB2

Applications: MS Office, Netscape Navigator7.2, and MS Internet Explorer7.0

Testing Tools: Rational suite 2003, Rational Site check, Rational Robot 6.0, Rational Requisite pro, Rational Administrator, Rational manager Rational, rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Case, Mercury QTP8.0, Win runner 8.0, Load-runner 8.0, Quality Center, PVCS Tracker, SCCS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Project Lead

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with onshore and offshore resources.
• Plan test activities according to client schedule and prepare team to write sceneries, test cases against BRD and FRD.
• ERP application ensuring that the product-related changes do not negatively affect how the application supports the business
• Instructing team about daily and weekly targets and tracking the progress of work on daily basis.
• Retrieving data from Oracle DB by using SQL (Through Query analyzer).
• Manual testing and using Excel for test preparation and QC as test management tool.
• Coordinating with offshore and on shore teams and manila (Philippines) DB team to resolve issues quickly at the time of execution.
• Prepared test pan for major releases and published it to client.
• Generating daily/weekly reports by using QC and sending both client and Wipro management.
• Co-coordinating to identify and executing of UAT Scripts.

Environment: - Test management tools: -Quality Center 10 and Excel, Win SQL and putty command editor, lotus notes and share point, Query analyzer.

QA Project Lead

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• To setup bridge calls to close the defects/issues with segregated teams.
• Communicate with high-end management of the project on daily basis to take inputs or report ongoing process.
• Downstream effects on system configuration, business process steps, interfaces, security in ERP application.
• Used share point to upload project related documents and daily/weekly status reports.
• Prepare daily status reports and send to Confidential by 5.30 pm.
• Track daily progress and give advises to respective group or persons to encounter problems instantly.
• Retrieving data from Oracle DB by using SQL (Through Query analyzer).
• Defect resolution is the priority task flowed by tracking every day execution progress.
• Conduct meetings and training classes, which are related to current project.
• Synchronizing with UAT team to finish UAT testing.

Environment: - Test management tools: -Quality Center 10 and Excel, lotus notes and share point. Query analyzer.

Test Team Lead

Confidential, Naperville, IL

Responsibilities:

• Management of testing resources.
• Checking all excel sheets which has generated after running trades in calypso.
• All existing trade data must be checked in legacy, calypso and database.
• Issue escalations are the high priority base in between development, testing and management.
• All Testing activities are prioritizing according to development procedure.
• Interaction with onsite and client on daily basis to resolve the issues and helping team to in corporate change requests in appropriate test sets and test cases.
• Tracking and reporting upon testing activities, including testing results, defects discovered and their status etc.

Environment: - Testing tools: - Excel (Manual testing).

Test Team Lead

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Responsibilities:

• Prepared management deliverable documents like Charge backs, Time sheets, Dash board and Productivity sheets.
• Coordinated for scope, planning and execution of testing effort for web projects.
• Supervision/management of QA resources.
• Extended support for creation of test strategy.
• Written and updated test plans.
• Provided QA and testing to client projects to ensure that they meet and exceed all client expectations and specifications.
• Worked with QA testers to complete appropriate training.
• Working as part of a cross-functional team to ensure products are delivered with high quality.
• Participated in Release Management activities.
• Implemented existing QA processes, procedures and automation strategies.

Environment: - Testing tools: -Quality Center 8.2 and Excel.

Test Team Lead

Confidential, Newark, DE

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Test Plan for this ERP project.
• Check / Review the Test Cases document.
• Reviewed System, Integration and User Acceptance test plans prepared by test Engineers.
• Analyze requirements during the requirements analysis phase of projects.
• Keep track of the new requirements from the Project.
• Arrange the Hardware and software requirement for the Test Setup.
• Escalate the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware, Resources) to Project Manager.
• Escalate the issues in the application to the Client.
• Assign tasks to all testing team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the project.
• Organize the meetings.
• Prepare the Agenda for the meeting, for example: Weekly Team meeting etc.
• Attend the regular client call and discuss the weekly status with the client.
• Frequent status checks meetings with the Team.
• Act as the single point of contact between Development and Testers for
• Iterations, testing and deployment activities.
• Track and report upon testing activities, including testing results, test case Coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance Baselines, etc.
• Assist in performing any applicable maintenance to tools used in Testing and Resolve issues if any.
• Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and maintained.
• Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes and procedures for Testing is established as per standards defined by the organization.
• Review various reports prepared by Test engineers.
• Log project related issues in the defect tracking tool identified for the project.
• Motivate team members and Organize / Conduct internal trainings on various Products.

Environment: - Testing tools: -Test director 8.0.

Test Team Lead

Confidential, Newark, DE

Responsibilities:

• Lead QA ‘Best Practices’ implementation effort and Lead over the QA Live group which is responsible for Train peers on testing methodologies and new techniques.
• Great communication and rapport with other QA engineers, developers, and management and able to manage several projects simultaneously in an organized manner.
• Reviewed Functional and Design Specification documents. Identified Test Conditions, Ambiguities, Conflicts and Risks.
• Created QA Project Plans for all phases of the Life Cycle for Test Resources.
• Defined Ambiguities with the Business and Functional Requirements. Worked with Business Analysts to clarify Ambiguities.
• Verified traceability of Test Conditions to Test Cases and Provided Test Estimates for various phases of the project.
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing activities and Train users in testing process for User Acceptance Testing.
• Verified the Project Goals met current and long-term corporate objectives.
• Oversaw all phases of testing and verified traceability of Test Conditions to Test Cases.
• Created and presented Production Verification Strategies to members of Senior Management, Developers, Production Support, Product Management and Security.
• Facilitated Project Defect Triage Meetings. Provided Senior Management with Defect Management Metrics.
• Report defects, issues, and concerns for review and resolution.

Environment: - Testing tools:-Test director 8.0.

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Responsibilities:

• Involved both manual and automation testing.
• ACBS Confidential Information Services' comprehensive commercial lending and trading system.
• Integrated Requirements with the test cases using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Created test cases for the usage of RAVE components using Rational Test Manager.
• Developed and implemented automated test scripts using Rational Robot as Rational Test.
• Applied UML concepts and created workflows and various views of the system like Use case activity and sequence diagrams using Rational Requisite.
• Prepare Design documents with pseudo-code.
• Created Test Plans using Rational Requisite and the components within the rational suite.
• Tested business functions requiring complex mathematical calculations.
• Created baseline scripts using Rational Robot enhanced them according to the Requirement.
• Involved in business requirements, user requests and bugs Scrubs meetings.
• Wrote test cases and test scripts for the functionality testing.
• Involved to use RUP methodology to implement and execute test scripts.
• Performed End-to-End testing manually and closely worked with developers and System Engineers to nail down the Technical problems.
• Involved in Functional, Regression, and Integration Testing of Conversions, Executed various test cases and updated design documents.
• Written various Test Specs and Test Plans and Involved in the Load setup of data.
• Responsible for Trouble Shooting, resolving the Production issues and involved with the User to get system requirements.
• Working with Requirements analysts to define test scenarios and ensure that Test Requirements are correct and complete.
• Responsible for analyze system documentation, like Use Cases, Requirements, User Interface Specification, etc.
• Used rational clear Quest for bug reporting.
• Responsible for implementation and test Warehouse Management Systems.

Environment: --Rational suite 2003,Rational Robot 6.0,Rational Requisite Pro, Rational manager, Rational XDE and Rational clear quest, Mainframes, DB2, PVCS Tracker7.1, RUP Catalyze, java, J2EE, Web sphere, XML, JSP, win2k, Win XP, Sun Solaris 5.6, Exceed 6.1, PVCS Version control

QA Consultant

Confidential, PA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in manual and Automated Testing.
• Responsible for preparing System Test Plan and Test cases.
• Analyzed user requirements, Setup test environment, prepared test strategy and test cases.
• Developed tests scripts for testing the application using Rational Robot.
• Written and executed test cases and verified actual results against expected results.
• Responsible for performing Smoke testing, Integration testing, and system testing and user acceptance testing. Responsible for writing and executing Rational Robot Scripts for Functional, Regression and integration testing’s.
• Used Rational Manager for writing test cases.
• Conducted Regression testing and interfaced with developers to resolve the issues.
• Detect and repair problems associated with the various elements of website.
• Attended daily status meetings with project management on testing update.
• Reported software bugs using Rational Clear Quest for bug reporting tool.
• Rational Requisite Pro used to enhancement requests, assign work activities and assess the real status of projects throughout the life cycle.
• Responsible to conduct Review Meetings on Test Plan Drafts and Discuss about bug generation and fixing.
• Implementing RUP methodologies in testing process.
• Used Rational Requisite Pro for Enhancement requests, Rational Administer for Assign work activities, Rational Manager for write Test cases, and Rational Robot for create and execute test script and Rational Clear Quest for bug tacking.

Environment: -Rational suite 2003,Rational Robot6.0, Rational clear Quest, Rational performance studio, UP catalyze, java, J2EE, Web sphere, XML, JSP, Oracle 9i,win2k, Sun Solaris 5.6, Exceed 6.1, PVCS Version control.

Confidential, NY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Commentary and News, a message publishing system for Fixed Income and Equity analysts as well as external clients.
• Tested Java classes that published fixed income messages to Bond Hub.
• Analyze system documentation, like Use Cases, Requirements, User Interface Specifications, etc. Develop and implement various Test Plans including system, integrated, regression and test fail over.
• Working with Developers and Requirements Analysts to define test scenarios and ensure that test requirements are correct and complete.
• Coordinated with Equity and Fixed Income Operations staff to define requirements. Using FIX Protocol.
• Involved in Testing of the diff Lobs (My Bear, Fixed Income, Equities, Research, Market Data,) Debt Consolidation and Brochure wares (Asset Management, Individual Investors and Global Clearings etc.).
• Plan, develop and execute manual and automated test cases using rational suite. Identify opportunities to leverage automated test execution in GUI and Oracle environments.
• Extensive experience in the installation, creation and execution of the Rational Robot and Rational performance studio.
• Rational clear Quest used for reporting bugs.
• Created and executed SQA script by using Rational Robot for functional and regression tests. Enhanced to UNIX shell scripts (KSH and BASH).

Environment: Rational Suite2003, Rational Robot6.0, Rational clear Quest, UP Catalyze, C++, java, J2EE, Web sphere, XML, JSP, Oracle 8, win2k, Sun Solaris 5.6, Exceed 6.1, PVCS Version control.

Confidential, NY

QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and prepared Test plan using the company Standards.
• Involved in preparing the Test Plans, Test Scripts and also the Test Data to meet the business requirements.
• Linked Test Cases to Application Functional Requirements ensuring traceability throughout the testing process.
• Developed automated Test Scripts and Test Cases using Win Runner
• Analyzed user requirements, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes.
• Reporting bugs using the tracking system like Test Director.
• Developed Baseline Scripts for testing the future releases of the application using Win Runner.
• Participated in Client / Server & web testing using Win Runner. Performed Integration Testing and Regression Testing using win Runner built-in Functions, Participated in System Testing with reference to requirements document.
• Conducted the Functional, System, Integration, Regression, and performance of the Web application.
• Performed Functionality and Security testing of the User authentication.
• Analyzed the application and decided which parts to be manually tested, and which to be tested automatically.
• Verified and validate that the system functions properly and without error using certain stress conditions using Load Runner.
• Used Performance monitor and Load Runner graphs to analyze the results.
• Prepared test scripts for the automation testing TSL Language.
• Performed back end testing using SQL queries.
• Used methods such as Data Parameterization web checks, Verification checkpoints to ensure that virtual users can iterate successfully.
• Regression and Functional testing using Win Runner and used Test Director for tracking the defects and reporting to the developer.
• Created and executed test cases based on software requirement and test plan using Test Director.
• Escalation of critical problem/issues during testing and reporting them in Test Director.
• Conducted weekly status meeting with team members and coordinating with teams (Development, Business, and QA) for the progress of the work done in application.
• Escalation of critical problem/issues during testing and reporting them in Test Director.

Environment: Manual Testing, Win Runner 7.5, Load Runner 7x, Test Director7.6, Oracle7.3, HTML and Java

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Validation QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparing and reviewing VMP (Validation Master Plan) and Detailed Test Plans.
• Created test cases in Test Director for testing the entire application (Navigation, Integration, Functionality, and Regression testing).
• Performed defect tracking and entering of defects and modification requests into Test Director.
• Imported the test cases from Excel to Test Director via the import facility.
• Performed black box testing of the application manually.
• Performed Data-driven testing using data sources from database, flat files, and Win Runners Data Table.
• Parameterized data in Win Runners TSL scripts.
• Enhanced the scripts be adding control and conditional statements using TSL.
• Created and Configured the GUI map using the GUI map editor, mapping both standard and custom objects as well as Virtual Objects.
• Prepared test data for positive and negative test scenarios for functional testing.
• Followed up development team for defect resolution.
• Carried out validations of the system and tested whether they follow 21CFR Part 11.

Environment: Testing Tool(s): WinRunner6.0, Test Director6.0

Confidential

Software Developer/QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Running Concurrent Programs using Application Object library.
• Generating Oracle Reports and Involved in Customization of Oracle Forms.
• Developed various test plans and involved in preparation and execution of test cases using SQA Automated Tool.
• Loaded Oracle tables using SQL and SQL *Loader.
• Tested different modules and their functionality for system integration and compatibility between different modules.
• Written UNIX shell scripts using KORN shell.
• Designing the build for the transfer of the application from development server to testing server.
• Generated MR (Modified Requests) by using MS Word Templates. Extensively used MS Excel in formulating the test deadlines.

Environment: SQA Team Suite, SQA Robot, Oracle ERP Applications 10.7, AOL, Oracle7, Windows NT and UNIX.