SUMMARY

• Result driven attitude with 8 plus years of experience in Software Quality Assurance & Testing.
• Proficient in Manual Testing & Automated Testing usingMercury Interactive Suite (Win Runner, Load Runner, Test Director, Quick Test Professional (QTP), Quality center) .
• Proficient in Test Cases, Test Scripts for Web - Based, Client/Server.
• Experience in User Acceptance Testing, System Testing, Configuration Testing, Security Testing, Regression Testing, Black-Box Testing, White Box Testing, Performance Testing, Functional and Back-End Testing.
• Experience in Defect Tracking, test coverage and providing metrics to Management.
• Experience in documenting Defects with high level of detail, accuracy, and informative recreation steps.
• Knowledge of ISO 9001, Six Sigma, PCI compliance, and HIPAA.
• Expertise in Querying and testing RDBMS such as Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access for data integrity.
• Conversant with SDLC and QA practices for any application.
• Experience in design reviews and requirement analysis with development team and the business clients.
• Experience in analyzing, Functional and Technical Specifications.
• Excellent Technical, Analytical and Communication skills.
• Quick learner of any new software/tools, can work independently and in a team.
• Attention to detail & ability to work in tighter schedules & on different applications concurrently.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, VB.NET, ASP.NET, VB 6.0

Operating Systems: Windows NT 4.0/XP/2000/ME/95/98, UNIX, Linux

RDBMS: SQL Server 2000, MS Access 2000, Oracle 9i

Servers: IIS 5.0/6.0, Apache, Web sphere, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows 2000/2003 server

Scripting Languages: TSL, JavaScript, VBScript

Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, UDP, HTTP, FTP, SSH, SSL, IPsec

QA Tools: Clear Quest, TOAD, Win Runner, Load Runner, QTP

Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA, Bugzilla, Quality center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York City, NY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Wrote Test Cases in MS Excel for system testing, integration testing, positive/negative testing, and functional testing
• Performed Manual Testing, System Testing, Ad-hoc Testing, Black box Testing, Positive Testing, Negative Testing, Functional Testing, Error Handling Testing, and Performance Testing
• Developed automated Test Scripts in QTP (Quick Test Professional) using VBScript for Functional Testing, and Regression Testing.
• Used Load Runner for Performance/Stress Testing and tracked defects using Mercury Quality center.
• Presented the findings to Federal Home Loan Bank’s management team.
• Manually tested the application before going for the automated testing.
• Developed and executed test cases and verified actual results with expected results.
• Developed SQL queries to perform backend testing of the database.
• Used regular expressions to handle dynamically changing Window names.
• Used Data driver Wizard to create data driven test, for testing the application with multiple sets of data.
• Used recovery manager to recover from unexpected errors.
• Identified the testing objectives, planned Load Runner implementation and performed the simulation.
• Created Load Runner scripts to load test high traffic end user processes for performance and reliability
• Scheduled and configured scenarios to emulate real life conditions and executed them to measure the performance of the application.
• Analyzed the results to identify the performance bottlenecks; worked with various analysis graphs and generated reports for the same purpose.
• Wrote batch scripts for automating the regression testing.
• Used Mercury Quality center for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.
• Maintained Test Matrix for latest test results information & Data Integrity Testing.

Environment: Mercury Tools ( QTP, Load Runner, Quality Center ), HTML, XML, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, VB Script.

Confidential, Boston, MA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Use Cases to highlight different requirements from the SRS (Software Requirement Specification and SDS (Software Design Specification)
• Performed Manual and Automated testing using QTP.
• Performed GUI Test, Smoke test, System test, User Acceptance Test (UAT) and Performance test.
• Involved in Integration and Regression testing using QTP.
• Wrote test cases and test approach documents.
• While recording a test, we inserted checkpoints like GUI, Bitmap, Database, and Synchronization Checkpoints where you want to check the behavior of the application being tested.
• Created part of GUI map file, generated the test script using Context sensitive mode and Analog mode.
• Defects were Tracked, Reviewed, Analyzed and Compared using Quality Center.
• Checking the GUI objects using checkpoints adding functions to invoke applications.
• Created Data-Driven Tests by using Data Driver Wizard and by manually adding data driven statements to test scripts to check how it performs the same operations with multiple sets of data.
• Performed Backend Testing by executing SQL Queries.
• Generated QA Matrix Reports Using Quality Center.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, Manual Testing, Java, JSP, EJB, C/C++, Tuxedo, SQL Server, Windows NT and UNIX.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed test automation scripts using QTP.
• Performed System testing and Regression testing.
• Created test plans in accordance to the Business requirements.
• Performed Functional Testing using QTP.
• Involved in writing SQL queries to check the data integrity.
• Investigated software faults and interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Various documents like Test flows and Test performance were built using MS Word and Excel.
• Extensively involved in testing the application, which was executed in two phases.
• Used Load Runner to measure Stress, Load and Performance of the application.
• Initial testing was conducted manually and later phase was executed using automated tools.
• Involved in the development of test procedures for various stages like Integration, System and User Acceptance Testing.
• Performed Security, Positive and Negative testing.

Environment: ASP 3.0, JavaScript, HTML, XML, MS Access, Oracle, Windows NT, XP QTP, Load Runner, Quality Center.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed test automation scripts using QTP.
• Performed System testing and Regression testing of UAA application
• Created test plans in accordance to the Business requirements.
• Performed Functional Testing using QTP.
• Involved in writing SQL queries to check the data integrity.
• Investigated software faults and interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Various documents like Test flows and Test performance were built using MS Word and Excel.
• Extensively involved in testing the application, which was executed in two phases.
• Used Load Runner to measure Stress, Load and Performance of the application.
• Initial testing was conducted manually and later phase was executed using automated tools.
• Involved in the development of test procedures for various stages like Integration, System and User Acceptance Testing.
• Performed Security, Positive and Negative testing.

Environment: ASP 3.0, JavaScript, HTML, XML, MS Access, Oracle, Windows NT, XP QTP, Load Runner, Quality Center.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in System Testing. Created the System Test plan and test scripts.
• Manually implemented several test scripts and documented the results.
• Performed Functionality Testing, and GUI Testing.
• Used QTP to automate the regression testing process.
• Represented the QA group as a member of the Testing Process Quality Management Team.
• Entered all tracked bugs into Quality Center and Bugzilla then emailed them to developers.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, Bugzilla and Oracle.