SUMMARY

• Over 6+ years’ experience as QA Tester/Analysts in Manual Testing on Client - Server and Web based applications.
• Experience in Banking and financial services, Healthcare and Customer Relation Management services business processes.
• Worked in SDLC Methodologies of Waterfall, V-model and Agile Methodology
• Experience in different types testing like black box testing, functional testing, GUI Testing, integration testing, system testing, regression testing, UAT testing and Browser compatibility testing.
• Expertise in creating Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases & Test Scripts from the requirement documents and creating Requirement Traceability Matrix
• Have good exposure in performing Verification and Validation activities.
• Experience of writing and executing of test cases on Quality Center.
• Expertise in Analysis and judgment of Problem Severity, Defect tracking system and Defect reporting system.
• Creating automated scripts and data driven tests to test the functionality, Regression Testing, GUI Testing of the application using Quick Test Pro.
• Extensive knowledge of SQL queries to interact with ORACLE database.
• Documenting Test documents using MS Office tools - MS Word, Excel and Power Point.
• Involved in testing of Web services using SOAPUI when we implemented SOA architecture.
• Wrote SQL queries to perform back-end testing of the application.
• Knowledge about CMMI level.
• Familiar with Section 508 specification
• Demonstrated ability to work well with a wide variety of people at various levels, faster cooperation and collaboration among individuals in the work unit, help team resolve conflicts constructively; ability and willingness to communicate when help is needed.
• A Self-starter with a positive attitude, willingness to learn new concepts and accept challenges.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: QTP, Load Runner, and SOAPUI

Operating Systems: UNIX, Microsoft Windows 2000/ XP/Vista

Defect Tracking: Test Director, Mercury Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, JIRA

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, C, C++, Java Script, UNIX

Databases: Oracle 9i, SQL Server 2008, TOAD and MS Access 2003

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

QA Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Performed Functional, System, and Regression testing of a web based application working in an agile environment
• Analysis of the use cases and User’s manual and development of detailed Test Cases using HP Quality Center
• Analyze Requirements and developed the test strategy, Requirement Traceability Matrix and test plan.
• Execution of SQL and UNIX commands.
• Experience in testing the ETL Tool Informatica Mappings, Sessions, Workflows, Work lets and tasks.
• Tested reports and ETL mappings from Source to Target.
• Testing Work flows and mappings with the given business rules requirements
• Involved in the Back-end Integration Testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL queries on database.
• Verify the data retrieved from the Database using SQL queries and execute the queries manually to compare the results with front-end values.
• Tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared defects using ALM and JIRA.
• Use of TOAD to test various ETL processes to ensure the Business rules and Technical Requirements were met.
• Modified and validated the XML schema with the help of XML spy.
• Used Quality Centre for bug tracking and report generation.

Environment: Windows XP, SQL, Informatica, Autosys, ALM Quality Center 11, Altova XML Spy, TOAD 8.6

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QA Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system Functional Specifications and developed Test Plan, wrote Test Cases to cover overall quality assurance testing and performed efforts estimation using Quality Center.
• Used HP Quality Center for Defect Tracking, Organizing, Managing, Planning and Executing the Tests.
• Performed Build Verification testing, User Interface testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Tested all the HIPAA X12 validations implemented as part of project and their validation rules.
• Tested all the Blue Exchange related 5010 rules are based on the Blue Cross Association documents
• Tested the data stored in the database is correct with the help of SQL queries
• Interacted and worked with the development team to solve the problems encountered in the test scenario run
• Tested sending/receiving all transactions through Blue Cross Association's Blue Exchange routing process for out of state member
• Performed web services testing with XML Files for eligibility requests & responses and claims requests and responses
• Conducted walk- through sessions and daily stand up calls with team
• Conducted weekly status update meetings with Project manager to discuss the status of projects and involved Implementation plan for production.

Environment: Windows XP, SQL, Oracle, XML, MS Office, MS Project Plan. Mercury Quality Center

Confidential, VA Beach, VA

QA Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Testing of the entire Accounts and Contact Application Modules.
• Creation of Unit Test Cases for various business scenarios.
• Used HP Quality Center for Defect Tracking, Organizing, Managing, Planning and Executing the Tests.
• Performed Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Black box and Regression testing.
• Handling duplicate objects and dynamic objects using index property and Regular expressions.
• Data validation and Database integrity testing done by executing SQL statements
• Executed automated test cases scripts using Quick Test Pro (QTP) for front-end application testing.
• Enhanced the Test Scripts through Parameterization, Regular Expressions, and adding various Checkpoints to verify the functionality of the application.
• Understand the SOA architecture and work with web-services (WSDL/SOAP).
• Tested the SOAP requests and responses using the tool called SOAPUI.
• Validation of operation like member info based on ssn number, address, zip code, member id.
• Involved in testing of web services where membership info application shares the data using WSDL files.
• Involved in creation of mock responses using SOAPUI tool.

Environment: Windows XP, SQL, Quick Test Pro, Mercury Quality Center 9.0, SOAPUI PRO

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Software Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Function and Technical Requirements walkthroughs.
• Prepared and executed test scenarios and test cases based on business and functional requirements.
• Performed Positive, Negative and Boundary testing around the application
• Testing formulas for various loan, interest calculations, and currency conversions required for reporting purposes.
• Loading of before and after images of the database for functionality testing purposes
• Preparation and execution various test scripts in Mercury Quality Center.
• Performed Functional Testing Integration Testing, Black box and Regression testing.
• Worked remotely on Unix Server for transfer files
• Execution of various SQL queries in TOAD 8.6
• Generating Test Scripts using QTP.
• Worked with various checkpoints by using QTP
• Involved in System Testing and UAT testing.
• Interacted with Developers on the status of Bugs reported on a daily basis
• Ensured Test Sign off from core team members and customers. Coordinate with Business Analysts and developers regarding issues with requirements, functional/user acceptance testing

Environment: Windows XP, SQL, Oracle 8i, JAVA, HTML, MRECURY QUALITY CENTRE9.0, UNIX, SQL, QTP, TOAD 8.6