SUMMARY

• I am a technically sophisticated and business savvy professional seeking a fast paced dynamic environment to apply my professional skills in the field of Information Technology.
• I have been known to always deliver on timelines and to expectations.
• About 7 Years Professional Experience as QA Analyst.
• Strong knowledge in Banking, Retail, Healthcare etc
• Strong experience in Quality Assurance and Software Testing.
• Experienced in developing Test Plans, Test Cases based upon the business requirements.
• Extensive knowledge of SDLC methodologies.
• Experienced in testing Client/Server and Web - Based Applications.
• Experience in Black Box, Positive, Negative, Data-driven, Unit, Integration, System, Front-End and Back-End Testing.
• Extensive experience in Manual and Automated testing using Mercury Interactive Tools like QTP, Load Runner, etc
• Performed Sanity Testing, Smoke Testing, Usability Testing and Security Testing of various applications.
• Experienced in Regression and Functional Testing.
• Experience testing of FDA compliance applications.
• Proficiency in interacting with Oracle, SQL Server and DB2 databases using SQL.
• Expertise in developing QA Test Plan, Test Conditions, and Test Cases; ensuring adequate testing of software both before and after completion; conducting and documenting UAT.
• Experience in writing queries/scripts for Data analysis and QA report testing.
• Used Quality Center for Bugs reporting and communicating to developers, product support and test team members.
• Expertise in Oracle table data manipulation using SQL queries and UNIX commands/UNIX scripts.
• Participated in design Walkthroughs and Inspection meetings to review Test scripts and results.
• Extensive working experience in Oracle on UNIX Environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Modeling/Methodologies: Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile

Testing Tools: Win Runner, QTP, Rational, Load Runner

Bug Reporting Tools: HP Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest

RDBMS: MS SQL, SQL Server, Oracle

Operating Systems: INUX, UNIX, Windows 98/2000/XP/2003

Other Tools: MS (Word, Excel, Power point, Visio)

Web Browser: Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed Test Plan.
• Help review and contribute to product documentation
• Work closely with development team to resolve various issues.
• Worked on a UNIX platform and experience in backend testing by executing SQL queries
• Manually tested the web application to ensure the flow of the application functionality
• Developed and maintainedTest & Traceability Matrices
• Performed Manual Testing.
• Performed validation of the values that are entered on the front side is passing to the back end.
• Black Box, Negative, Regression, and Integration & Security Tests
• Performed security testing, system testing, positive and negative testing
• Backend Testing using SQL.
• Participated in weekly meeting with the management team and walkthroughs
• Tested applications and documented results and bugs including documentation of information useful in the debugging process
• Performed Sanity and Smoke Testing manually
• Maintained the Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix.
• Documented and reported defects within established process and tracking systems using Mercury Quality Center.
• Performed Data Driven testing.
• Quality Center was used to create the test plan, store test cases and run the test sets.
• Interacted with developers to report and track bugs using Quality Center.
• Detected and reproduced the defects, and logged defects using HP Quality Center.
• Generated the test execution report in HP Quality Center to be reviewed by the QA Manager and development team
• Used Quality Center for reporting and tracking bug and generating reports.
• Participated in release meetings.

Environment: Oracle/UNIX, Windows 2000, Agile, Quality Center, QTP

Confidential, Bentonville, Arkansas

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirement document and Business Use Cases in development of Test Plans
• Participated in the work-scope meetings and peer review meetings to evaluate Use Cases with Business and Design team
• Developed and created Test plans, test cases and testing scenarios and conducted Integration testing in all areas of SAP.
• Developed data loading scripts and performed data loads from legacy to SAP.
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Regression, System and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) in Web application.
• Provide support and data as and when needed to the performance Team.
• Performed automated testing using QTP application.
• Performed Positive and Negative testing to test response of the application under test by creating Data Driven tests.
• Performed Unit testing in SD and MM SAP modules.
• Use BW SAP module database handling at file level.
• Reported Defects in Defect tracking tool of Quality Center by assigning Defects to development that are encountered during testing phase based on application teams.
• Coordinate with Operations team to make sure that new platform has robust testing processes.
• Make sure to trace test cases to operations use cases.
• Recommend and implement naming convention for Test Cases, Test Sets and Defects.
• Perform Gap Analysis
• Coordinate with Test Coordination Center to set up and follow up on daily, weekly and monthly reports.
• Attended Weekly status meeting in reporting and provided a weekly report that includes test metrics consisting of status reports.

Environment: DB2, Quick Test Pro, MS Windows Server, MS Excel, Web Application, HP Quality Center and Windows XP, SAP.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases to test the Screens and workflows for Quality Assurance.
• Expert in writing test scripts manually.
• Created and managed system testing schedule
• Provided test team status reports on weekly basis to the project manager.
• Tested manually as per the specification documents.
• Reviewed extensive SQL Queries with complex multi-table joins and nested queries.
• Involved in reviewing complex SQL queries, views, functions and stored procedures and spotting issues before/during code migration.
• Created and maintained SQL Scripts and Unix Shell scripts to perform back-end testing on the oracle database.
• Performed Database testing using SQL queries
• Created and executed scripts manually for Functionality testing
• Executed test cases through Quality Center and reported defects in HP QC.
• Conducted GUI, Backend, Data Driven and Security Testing.
• Conducted regression testing on new builds/versions.
• Developed and executed test cases test Scenarios and followed-up defects using Quality Center.
• Tracked defects using Quality Center.
• Involved in preparing the Automation Design document, identifying the test cases to be automated for Regression Testing using QTP.
• Performed Functionality testing during the various phases of the application and analyzed the results using QTP.
• Inserted Check Points to check the broken Links, Text, and standard properties of objects using QTP Involved in creating output values using QTP.
• Arranged weekly team meeting to assign testing tasks and acquisition of status reports from individual team members.
• Conducted Bug review meeting to discuss resolution of issues.

Environment: Windows 2000, Quality Center, SQL, QTP

Confidential, Louisville, KY

SR.QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plans and Test Cases for the test.
• Developed automation test scripts for performing regression testing on the application using QTP.
• Tested user interface and navigation controls of the application using QTP.
• Inserted Checkpoints to check for broken links, Text and standard properties of an object using QTP.
• Good Understanding of theEDI (Electronic data interchange), Implementation and Knowledge of HIPAA code sets.
• Worked onHIPAA Transactions and Code Sets Standards according to the test scenarios such as 270/271, 276/277,837/835 transactions.
• Tested the interface between database and the application.
• Participated in requirement walkthroughs and creation of test plan.
• Involved in bothManual and Automated testing.
• Worked onUNIX Platformand experienced inback end testingby executing SQL Queries.
• Checked the data flow through the frontend to backend and usedSQL Queries to extract the data from the database.
• Involved in writing extensiveSQL Queriesforback end testing oracle database.
• Retrieved files usingSQL statementsandUNIX commands.
• Maintained Traceability Matrix and Test Matrix.
• Enhanced Test Scripts using various utilities provided in Quick Test Pro like check points and parameterization.
• Created and maintainedSQL Queries for back-end testing.
• Maintained various versions of Test Scripts.
• Performed Sanity Testing and Smoke Testing.
• Performed somebackend testing using DatabaseCheckpoints in QTP.
• Investigating software bugs and reporting to the developers using Quality Center Defect Module.
• Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed test plan for testing.
• Performed Usability Testing.
• Generated defect reports using Quality Center for the developers.

Environment: Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, Load Runner,HIPPA, Oracle/UNIX,SQL, Windows 2000, IIS

Confidential, Ashburn, VA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Performed Black Box Testing.
• Created and maintained Rational Repositories using Rational Administrator.
• Involved in preparing Test plan and Test cases based of functional requirements using Rational Test Manager.
• Used Rational Robot for GUI Tests and tested GUI standard for application.
• Performed Functionality & Appearance testing by inserting verification points for Object Properties and Object Data Properties.
• Performed Smoke Testing and Regression Testing using Rational Robot.
• Analyzed Business Analyst surveys and gave inputs in Business meetings.
• Developed Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to track requirements during the QA Testing Phase.
• Performed Back-End-Testing on Sybase SQL anyware database by using SQL queries.
• Performed Data Driven Testing using SQA basic with Data Pool commands.
• Reviewed manual testing methods and developed and executed automated scripts using Rational Robot to perform Regression Testing.
• Involved in preparing user manual and online help for ease of use of the system.
• Coducted data integrity testing using SQL commands.
• Tracked, Detected and Reported bugs to Lead Tester using Rational Clear Quest.

Environment: Rational Team Test, Rational Clear Quest, UNIX, Oracle, Database, Tomcat Web Server.