SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of experience in Information Technology for Software Testing, specialized both in Manual Testing and Automation testing. Well versed in using automation tools such as QTP, QC, Selenium, and SOAP UI. Experience in using various client server and web based applications.
• Implemented theSoftware Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for the testing life cycle tofollowthe standards process in the application.
• Good knowledge of various bug tracking tools.
• Expertise in writing test plan, test cases and test scripts.
• Solid understanding of manual testing process and experience in logging defects using Quality Center (Test Director).
• Preparation of Release plans and Post monitoring plans.
• Extensive hands - on experience in Manual and Automated testing -White Box, Black Box, Smoke, Integration, Functional, End-to-End, Regression, GUI, UAT, Interface, Web services, Back-end and Performance testing.
• Experience using automation tool QTP 11, Selenium, SOAP UI.
• Experience using defect tracking tools such as Bugzilla, Jira and Quality Center.
• Experience in handling incident reports.
• Testing applications developed on JAVA, J2EE, .NET framework.
• Extensive experience in developing and execute Test Plans, Test scenarios, Traceability Matrix, Test cases and Test Scripts based on requirements and functional specifications.
• Experience in interacting with developers, leads, onshore and off shore teams.
• Participated in walk through, audits etc.
• Good in using Microsoft Office applications like Word, Power Point, and Excel etc.
• Good knowledge on various inserting check points and frameworks using QTP.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Very methodical and well organized with excellent bottom-line for work.
• A capable and resourceful team member possesses excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Can handle multiple tasks at a time.
• Performed Smoke Testing of the application as entrance criteria for development build.
• Experienced in Designing, Testing Web Applications in multi-tier, Client-Server, Object-Oriented technology.
• Defect management, Bug fixing and Bug reporting through Bug tracking tools for Business application Software & WEB Applications.
• Knowledge of Writing VB script manually.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing & Defect tracking Tools: QTP, HP Quality Center, Selenium, SOAP UI, Bugzilla, TestDirector

Operating System: Windows 98/Windows 2000, Unix/ Linux

RDBMS: Oracle 10g/8i, DB2 UDB 7.1, SQL Server 5

Programming Languages: C, SQL, Visual Basic, VB Script, XML, HTML, CSS, Java, .Net

Packages: MS Project, MS Office, MS Visio, Sharepoint, X-Planner, EPIC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Manual Tester/Automation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developing detailed QA status reports and tracking key QA milestones.
• Communicating with business analysts, development team and the stake holders for defect management.
• Analyzing the business requirements and functional specification documents.
• Analyzing and refining incomplete and ambiguous requirements.
• Creating test plans, requirement traceability matrix (RTM), test cases based on the requirements documents.
• Performing integration testing and database testing.
• Performed different kinds of manual testing like Functional and Integration and End-to-End tests during different phases of testing.
• Testing notifications in iOS and Android devices(smart phones and tablets) and Blackberry smartphone.
• Scheduling batch test, log and track defects using IBM Clear Quest.
• Working in regression automation QTP scripts, fixing regression failed cases.
• Doing feasibility analysis for automation selenium webdriver

Environment: Manual Testing, Quality Center ALM/10.0, Windows, Oracle 11g, SRM, Java2.0, Selenium RC, ESB, JSP, JavaScript, VB6.0, Web logic6.0, TOAD, QTP 11.0/10.0, Clear Quest, Putty, WINSCP, Autosys, MS Office

Confidential, Dublin, CA

Manual Tester/Automation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Developed automation script using Selenium.
• Automation of functional testing framework for all modules using Selenium.
• Verified requirements coverage by conducting walkthrough meetings of Test plan and scenarios with business analysts, project manager and test supervisors.
• Created Test plan, critical scenarios and Test Scripts and schedule for testing.
• Created traceability matrix and mapped requirements to Test Cases.
• Executed test cases manually to verify the expected results.
• Worked with technical designers and architects to understand the requirements for a test environment setup.
• Created scripts for Regression, Security, GUI, Integration and Database testing.
• Interacted with developers and management to identify and resolve technical issues.
• Conducted Functional, Front end, back end testing and reviewed pages for content problems, andlink verifications.
• Performed Smoke Testing to make sure all the Test Channels and Test Environment is working as desired.
• Performed back end testing using SQL queries and created SQL scripts to test the stored procedures by sending different sets of input parameters.
• Ran SQL queries to performed database validation according to the business logic.
• Developed Integration and System testing cases using Quality Center.
• Tracked and reported defects into Quality Center and notified management with details.
• Written, executed Test cases, and documented defects in the Quality Center.
• Solved day to day problems of the team arising due to functionality and validation issues.
• Analyzed root cause for defects and documented them accordingly.
• Partnered with the Software Development and Program Management teams to investigate and resolve product defects.
• Managed software defect information, interacted with Business users to fix severity and priority of issues.
• Attended daily Scrum Meetings.
• Participated in weekly project status meeting and updated the testing Progress.

Environment: Selenium, QC, Java,Oracle, MS Office, Quality Center 11.0, UNIX, MS Excel, Java script, PL/SQL, and Oracle 8.1, Agile Methodology

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

QA Engineer/Automation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Wrote Test Cases and executed them from Quality Center.
• Logged and kept track of all Defects till their closure using Quality Center.
• Created and maintained Test Data on Excel sheets.
• Performed Backend Testing using SQL.
• Conducted Cross Browser Testing on different versions of IE and Firefox.
• Generated automated test scripts for functional and regression testing using QTP and Selenium.
• Responsible for Functional and Regression Testing of all aspects of the application.
• Performed, Functional, Integration, User Interface testing manually.
• Performed VB Scripting in QTP for automating the testing process.
• Used Recovery Scenario Manager in QTP to recover from unexpected events that happen during a run session, like multiple windows or pop-ups.
• Used Customized Objects in QTP to deal with fields for data and phone number.
• Used Regular Expressions in QTP for pattern-matching.
• Used Ordinal Identifiers in QTP to deal with multiple numbers of radio buttons and checkboxes within the same page.
• Carried out Testing of Webs services or SOA Testing using SOAP UI.
• Used Data Source and Data Source Loop test steps for doing Data Driven Testing in SOAP UI.
• Used different kinds of Assertions for validating the response again some expected response in SOAP UI.
• Validated WSDL’s using WSI-Compliance and Schema Compliance Assertion in SOAP UI.
• Maintained continuous interaction with the Business Analysts and Developer’s to make the software development process efficient.
• Attended Defect Resolution Meetings.

Environment: .NET, Quality Center 9.0, SQL, QTP 9.5, SOAP UI 1.6, VBScript, Groovy Script, UNIX, Oracle 10g, java, MS Office 2007.

Confidential, NY

Automation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked with test Management using Quality Center.
• Developed reusable functions using shared repository in QTP
• Created and executed automated test scripts using QTP for functional, integration and regression testing.
• Defined types of tests and identified the objectives.
• Created test plan, test cases and test scripts and followed agile development process.
• Defined test goals for sprints (Agile Process).
• Verified Process flow by writing and executing SQL queries and stored procedures using Oracle PL/SQL developer.
• Conducted functional, integration and regression testing of Web Services using Soap UI.
• Performed Database testing by writing and running SQL queries.
• Presenting the Test Reports and Status reports on a Weekly/Monthly basis to the Project Team and discussing the next release cycle.
• Interacted with the Developers and Business Analysts on a regular basis to resolve issues.
• Completely involved in test management in Quality Center.
• Involved in defect management and defect reporting.
• Coordinated testing activities with testing team members.
• Identified all major Defects prior to End to End Testing.
• Open defects and work closely with development of getting issues resolved in timely manner.
• Work on data preparation for different test scenarios including negative testing to provide accurate delivery of overall functionality of the product.
• Attended weekly Status Meetings and presentQAstatus to the Manager.
• Ability to collaborate withtesters, developers, project managers and other team members in testing complex projects.
• Participated in automation development review meetings.

Environment: Oracle 10g, Java, UNIX, Soap UI 2.5, QTP 9.0, QC 9.0

Confidential, Scottsdale, AZ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business processes according to specifications and work flows and identify key areas concerning application functionality and behavior.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases for both Functional and Regression Testing in multiple projects.
• Executed test cases (Adhoc/Smoke, Functional, GUI, regression and database ) and submitted Test Matrix
• Performed back end testing for data integrity, by writing SQL queries
• Wrote test cases, executed them and wrote automation scripts using selenium.
• Performed manual and selenium testing of a web based application.
• Wrote SQL scripts for test data creation and verification.
• Intensively used ALM/QC/Test Director for developing test plans, test cases, to execute test cases, for defects tracking, defects reporting and to analyze the test results and defects.
• Validated back end data by interacting with databases using SQL Queries.
• Conducted Regression Testing, Integration Testing, and End-to-End testing, Functional Testing, Black Box Testing, Cross Browser and User Acceptance Testing. Used ALM/ Quality Center for developing Test Scripts, Executing the Test Scripts, Defect Tracking and Management.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP 9.2, HTML, Oracle 10g.Manual Testing, JAVA, J2EE, UNIX, XML,.NET, XML, SQL, ETL, VB script, MS - VSS,Quality Center, SQL Sever

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Automation/Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved and reviewed the Requirements and design documents and understood the system implementation, including process flows and screen layouts.
• Prepared Test plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts, and Test Steps for all the modules and stored in quality Center.
• Maintained Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to track the requirements to the test cases to ensure complete test coverage in the Mercury Quality Center.
• Setting Test plan and test Lab in the Quality center for the projects to create and access requirements, defects, test cases and reports for the status.
• Created and executed detailed test cases with step by step procedure and expected results and maintained the test logs, test reports, test issues, defect tracking using Quality Center.
• Performed Functional testing, System, Integration, Regression, Usability, compatibility flow through testing in testing environment.
• Used Quick Test Professional (QTP) for regression testing and running the automation suite
• Conducted test case reviews and presented the test cases/test scenarios to the team members for all iterations
• Inserted checkpoints where needed, to compare the current behavior of the application being tested to its behavior in the earlier version using Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Executing Test Cases to validate the Functionality and Transactions.
• Worked with development team to understand assigned modules/new product features for the purpose of developing test cases.
• Performed Functional Testing, Integration Testing, End to End Testing and user acceptance using QTP.
• Created Test Cases and developed Tractability Matrix and Test Coverage reports.
• Performance of the application is tested by testing load, volume tests using load runner.
• Provided testing the GUI consistency against different browsers (running on windows) against various screen resolutions.
• Provides UAT support during Formal Acceptance Testing
• Tracked software bugs using Quality Center and communicated the same to developers to resolve technical issues.
• Involved in weekly status meetings to notify the status and performance of the application.
• Enables detecting and removal of defects at a much less cost compared to other later stages of testing in the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Functional Validation of the application for the iOS Devices (iPhone, iPad)

Environment: HP Quality Center 9.2, QTP 10, load runner 11, ETL tools, MS Excel, HTML,XML, Java, SQL, Unix, Windows, WAS 5.0 applications, MQ 5.3,SOAP UI.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Junior Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Performed extensive testing of manual test cases
• PerformedGUI Testing,Functional, Testingmanually
• Worked with SQL to do the backend testing, reading logs and server commands
• Design/review test scenarios,test data and test cases for different financial user groups based on system requirements, solution diagrams, help files, and screen mockups.
• Participated weekly team meetings with business users, developers and updates on the status and raise any issues to the management.
• Analyzed the log files to verify the transfer of data and check the flat files for missing data while calling to the third party applications
• Wrote test cases using Quality center and logged defects
• Involved in testing all backend processes using SQL

Environment: Mercury Quality Center, QTP, SQL Anywhere 9, ASP. Net, C#.NET, XML, Java script, ASP, Share point, Oracle, VBScript.