SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, SDLC and STLC for various Web based, Mobile Based and Client/Server applications in Financial, Healthcare and Insurance industry.
• Experienced in Manual testing with the focus on Black Box testing, White Box testing Functional Testing, Stress Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Load Testing and System Testing.
• Seasoned QA Analyst experience in all phases of life cycle including requirements gathering, risk analysis, project planning, scheduling and mainly involved in manual, automation testing and defect tracking management and reporting.
• Experience in writing test cases and maintaining test scripts as per the business specifications and functional requirements.
• Good understanding of QA methodology, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Expertise in Documentation: Use cases, Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Matrix.
• Strong hands on experience in manual testing and automated testing using Quick Test Professional (QTP), Win runner and Load Runner.
• Experience in using test management tools like Test Director and Quality Center.
• Proficient in analyzing business requirements and functional requirements to better understand the client needs and document using Microsoft tools.
• Good hands on experience in writing and executing complex SQL queries to perform the data validation.
• Strong Knowledge of Mobile testing using various Mobile Technologies including J2ME, Blackberry, Android, Symbian, .Net technology.
• Experience working in different software testing methodologies including Waterfall, Agile, Spiral, RAD.
• Expertise in using Bug tracking Tools like Bugzila, JIRA, Clear Quest.
• Expertise in performing Browser compatibly Testing like IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Netscape
• Involved in the design stages of the Application and participated in the meetings with the BA, Project Managers, Development Managers, Development team and QA Team.
• Extensive hands - on experience in testing large, complex software applications designed to automate common business processes, including automated and manual testing.
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a limited timeframe release cycle.
• Good Analytical and Communication Skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision and perform as part of a team. Ability to work under competing deadlines.
• Ability to learn and adapt to new tools and technologies very quickly.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Win Runner 5.0/7.6
• Test Director6.0/7.0i/8.0
• Quality Center 8.2/9/10
• Quick Test Professional 9/10/11
• Load Runner 5.0/7.5/9.5
• PVCS Tracker and PVCS
• IBM-Rational Robot tools
• Microsoft- Team Foundation
• Selenium
• SOAP UI
• Clear Quest
• Repository Manager
• Designer
• Workflow Manager workflow Monitor
• UNIX (HP
• SUN)
• AIX
• WINDOWS and DOS
• ORACLE
• Microsoft SQL Server
• VB Script
• Unix Shell Scripting
• JavaScript
• SQL
• TSL
• HTML
• XML
• MS Word
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Outlook
• MS Project and Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the requirement and design documents.
• Participated in Test Plan, and wrote the test case and test scenario and execute the test case log the Bug in the bug tracking tool.
• Analyzed System specifications, design, development and execution of Test Plans and Test Cases for manual testing.
• Reviewed the Business Requirements document with the business and development team to understand the architecture and functionality of the application.
• Developed and wrote a suite of Test Scenarios that included Acceptance, Functional and Regression test.
• Involved in testing the booking trades and checking the trades in dashboard.
• Verifying the Test results and reporting the defects to Quality Center.
• Tested web applications in Agile development processes.
• Wrote SQL, queries to access the data from the database tables and crosscheck the results.
• Involved in writing the database queries to find the trade booking flows into the system.
• Design and Executed Quality Test Plans and Test Cases to verify reliability, accuracy and Compatibility of application.
• Used Quality Center to, analyze and maintain test cases, which satisfy both Verification & Validation and Track bugs.
• I have done testing the static data setup for configuring the clients in dashboard.
• Performed Positive and Negative testing manually to ensure the application outputs the expected results given the input.
• Actively involved in meetings and reviews to discuss any changes and impacts of new functionalities that were added during the quality control life cycle with Requirement traceability matrix.
• Tested various reports and verified the data with the dashboard data.
• Analyzed the results for errors and mismatches. Logged defects, attached screen shots to the defect records in the Defect module of Quality Center.
• Involved in Execution of Functional, Regression, Integration, Stress and User Acceptance testing.
• Used Load Runner for stress test and performance/load tests.

Tools: & Technologies: Mercury Quality Center, Load Runner, JIRA, SVN, Java/J2EE, Adobe Flex4.5, HTML, Oracle11g, MS Office2000, Windows NT, Weblogic10.3, Linux.

Confidential, NJ

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensive involvement in reviewing business and functional requirements documents for different modules.
• Close interaction with designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigation flow.
• Participated in meetings and walkthroughs with business analysts and development for better understanding of the system and business logic.
• Generated the test scripts in Quick Test Professional 11.0.
• Perform Mobile Application Testing Using TestQuestPro on Different mobile’s OS like Blackberry, Andorid,i-Phone, Window Mobile
• Involved in the End-to-End testing of the Mobile Applications.
• Performed GUI and Functionality testing, using Quick Test Pro to ensure conformance to requirements.
• Assisting co-workers by proof-reading VB Script Program code.
• Interacted with business analyst and developers in requirement analysis, design reviews, testing and documentation for applications developed in Agile environment.
• Created Manual test cases for each functional module and automated the bug free test cases in Quick Test Pro for regression testing.
• Executed Test Strategies and Test Plans that cover various functional areas of Insurance Operations like Health plans, Benefits &Claims, and Premium Reconciliation.
• Involved in Functional and Integration testing of the application.
• Extensively involved in writing the Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases and documenting the results into the Quality Center by executing manual testing.
• Identified system coding errors for each business unit and communicated the result to the management for resolution process.
• Identified application opportunities for the technical/statistical tools of quality/process improvement. Assisted teams in presenting data and conclusions clearly.
• Analyzed the results for errors and mismatches. Logged defects, attached screen shots to the defect records in the Defect module of Quality Center.
• Successfully performed Regression Testing after each modification and enhancement.
• Performed Positive and Negative testing manually to ensure the application outputs the expected results given the input.
• Involved in User Acceptance testing for the modules and verifying Validation.

Tools: & Technologies: Mercury Quality Center, QTP, Oracle, Java/J2EE, Weblogic8.1, Unix, MS Excel, MS Access, Test Quest Pro, Device Anywhere.

Confidential, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements and functional requirements to better understand the client needs.
• Prepared test plan and test cases.
• Generated the test scripts in Quick Test Professional 10.0.
• Performed GUI and Functionality testing, to ensure conformance to requirements.
• Created Manual test cases for each functional module and automated the bug free test cases for regression testing.
• Performed end to end testing and ad hoc testing to ensure the application is designed according to the requirements.
• Worked with the User Group to document the requirements after analyzing and finding gaps in them.
• Involved in Regression testing using Quick Test Professional after modifying and documenting the existing scripts.
• Involved with working in all the phases of SDLC methodologies.
• Successfully performed database backend testing by creating SQL queries to verify data integrity and consistency.
• Performed positive and negative testing manually to ensure the application outputs the expected results given the input.
• Actively involved in GUI, integration, regression and system testing to verify functionality of the application after defect fixing and added features.
• Involved in Ad-hoc testing of the application.
• Actively involved in meetings and reviews to discuss any changes and impacts of new functionalities that were added during the quality control life cycle with Requirement traceability matrix.
• Maintained test cases, test scripts, defect tracks and reports in Quality Center.

Tools: & Technologies: Quick Test Professional, Quality Center, Oracle 9i, Mainframe, Visual Basic, .NET with ASP.NET, IIS, VB Script, Windows XP, Microsoft Office 2000, HTML

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Plans, Test Cases, Automated Test cases and Test Data. And executed the same.
• Developed and wrote a suite of Test Scripts that included Acceptance, Functional and Regression test.
• Performed GUI, integration, regression and system testing to verify functionality of the application after defect fixing and added features
• Expertise in developing Complex Automated Script framework and utility function.
• Good Knowledge on all performance testing project activities including requirements gathering, planning, designing scripts and creating test data, executing load tests, reporting observations.
• Good at bottleneck identification, End-to-End Root cause Analysis on performance bottlenecks for performance testing usingLoad Runner.
• Design and Executed Quality Test Plans and Test Cases to verify reliability, accuracy and Compatibility of application
• Executed test scripts in Win Runner.
• Used Quality Center for defect tracking Debug the Test Scripts, verifying the Test results and reporting the defects to Quality Center.
• Interacted with the development team to help resolve the defects based on the testing results.

Tools: & Technologies: Win Runner, Load Runner, Quality Center, Java/ J2EE, WebSphere5, WSAD5.1, XML, HTML, SQL, Java, Web Services

Confidential, Boston

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing the application and development of test plan.
• Performed Manual Testing for various modules.
• Developed the Test Cases and executed in Quality Center.
• Penned SQL queries to access the data from the database and crosscheck the results.
• Conducted smoke testing, batch testing and black box testing.
• Performed extensive Load, Stress and performance testing of the web application.
• Prepared the weekly status reports in MS-Excel to report weekly status to senior management
• Performed Regression, Integration and Functional testing using Quality Center.
• Attended Walkthrough and review meetings with Business Analysts & Development team.

Tools: & Technologies: Java, J2EE, Oracle 9i, HTML, Java Script, Windows 2000, Load Runner8.0, Quality Center 8.2.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Requirements and Functional Specifications of the application.
• Involved in test design, test plan, test development and test results.
• Interacted with the client to give an update of testing effort, Understanding any changed requirement and implementing them.
• Participated in identifying the Test scenarios and designing the Test cases.
• Prepared and Executed Test cases as per System Requirements
• Prepare and execute Test cases for Functional testing.
• Prepare and execute SQL Queries for Data base testing.
• Performed GUI Testing and Analyzed the Test Results.
• Document and Report the Bugs in test environment.
• Analyzed the problems found during manual testing and submitted the bugs using Test Director.

Tools: & Technologies: Manual Testing, Test Director, Visual Basic, .NET with ASP.NET, IIS, VB Script, Windows XP, Microsoft Office 2000, HTML