Professional Summary:

• Over seven Years of experience as a Quality Assurance Test Analyst / Quality Assurance Engineer, performing both manual and automation testing of applications in the client server, internet/intranet environments using Mercury Quality Center including Test Director and Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Exposure in Banking, E-Commerce, Managing State School data, telecom, Financial and Health care clients.
• Full life cycle experience in Quality Assurance, including Black Box, Functional, Regression, User Acceptance, Build Acceptance Testing and sanity testing of both client-server and web-based applications.
• Expertise in using innovative test methodologies, test management and bug tracking with Test Director, to manage software testing process.
• Expertise in developing test plans and test cases for both manual and automation testing.
• Experience in Agile, Water fall and V-models.
• Proficient in Design, Development and Execution of Test Plans, Test cases and Test Scripts.
• Coordinator role in creation and execution of Quality Assurance testing processes, Test strategies and bug tracking.
• Experience with both team and individual work environments.
• Working collaboratively with co-testers, developers and other team members in testing complex projects and in the overall enhancement of software product quality.
• Extensive knowledge in entire SDLC, STLC .
• Involved in analysis of the test run output, checking it with the requirements, reporting the exceptions to QA Manager, and also proficient in reporting defects into the defect tracking system and results to the assigned project.
• Excellent analytical, communication and mentor skills.
• Hands on experience with client interactions, requirement analysis, design meetings and demonstrations of the software applications.

Technical Skills:

Testing Tools : Quick Test Professional (QTP) 9.2/9.0/8.0

RDBMS : SQL Server 2000/7.0, MS-Access, Oracle

Microsoft Products : Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Version Control : MS Visual Source Safe

Languages : C, SQL, T-SQL, PL/SQL, VB 6.0, VB Script, HTML

Operating Systems : Windows XP, ME, 98, MAC, Windows 2000/NT Server, UNIX,MS-DOS

Test Management Tools : Mercury Quality Center 9.0, Test Director 8.0/7.6/7.0i,Team Track

Professional Experience:

Confidential ,OH

Sr.Quality Assurance Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Smoke, Functional, System, Integration and Regression Testing
• Involved in executing Automation Regression Jobs and analyzing the results using QTP.
• Involved in developing test cases and executing them in Quality Center based on requirement and technical design document and also tracking Defects.
• Generate Test Data for Positive and negative test scenarios
• Created Test Cases for all the enhancements made and production defects for both the system in the period which supported for these systems based on the Technical Design Document and Requirements Specification Document.
• Responsible for sending daily status reports and test progress reports to the project manager.
• Responsible for test execution, evaluated test results, and follow up with testing team on resolutions.
• Using Query Analyzer SQL query tools for checking the database values.
• Participated in the weekly team meeting to discuss the upcoming work, schedules, and status.
• Attended weekly project review meetings with Project Management and Development team
• Manually testing the functionality, user interfaces and security of various desktop applications.
• Reporting and tracking testing progress in the customized bug tracking system (Quality Center).
• Worked closely with BAs and developers to determine and identify contents, and flow of various business processes. Communicated/worked with applications project managers/developers, support teams to resolve technological problems, hardware/software or environmental issues.

Confidential , NY

Quality Assurance Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Database testing by writing the SQL Queries.
• Involved in team and status meetings.
• Conducted manual and automation testing to ensure deliverables as per client specifications.
• Involved in writing automation scripts .
• Involved in the GUI test cases and Reviewing Test cases.
• Executed test cases and updated the test cases status.
• Involved in Regression Testing & Retesting.
• Modified the test cases according to the change request.
• Interacting with Development Teams and BA’s to ensure overall quality of the software.
• Used Quality Center to log defects
• Documented the complete test process and results with screen shots and Excel spreadsheets.
• Executed the test scripts using quick test professional in the regression testing phase.
• Used Quality Center to log defects and monitored the defects for successful resolution.

Environment: PL/SQL, HTML, VB Scripts, Windows, Oracle, Manual testing, QTP 9.2 and QualityCenter 9.0

Confidential , CT

Quality Assurance Test Engineer

Confidential is America’s Leading Walk-In Bill Payment Provider. Confidential has been processing in-person payments for various billers. With a reliable network of more than 12,000 of agents nationwide, Confidential Processes payments for 50 of the top 100 utilities.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the functional Requirements.
• Involved in analyzing the testing methodology
• Performed system testing, Functional and regression testing in various Billars transactions.
• Involved in writing automation scripts
• Executed test cases and verified the actual results against expected results
• Used Quality Center to log defects
• Identified defects, maintained severity of those defects and reported back to the development team, using the Quality Center.
• Used Informix database for data validation.
• Involved in team and status meetings.

Environment: Informix, SQL Server, Windows XP, Manual testing, Microsoft Office, MS-Access

Confidential , NY

Quality Assurance Test Analyst

.Responsibilities:

• Understanding the business requirements and functional specifications.
• Involved in analyzing and designing the testing methodology.
• Involved in writing automation scripts
• Performed extensive manual testing before doing the automation.
• Involved in writing Test cases, Test plan based on the requirements.
• Involved in Functional and Regression Testing using QTP.
• Used SQL to query the database for Data validation.
• Used Quality Center to log defects and monitored the defects for successful resolution.
• Executed the test scripts using quick test professional in the regression testing phase.
• Documented the complete test process and results with screen shots and Excel spreadsheets.
• Executed test cases and verified the actual results against expected results.
• Prepared release notes to the client and regression testing steps.
• Generated weekly status reports to the team manager and attend the weekly status meeting with Technical team, Team managers, Business analysts

Environment: PL/SQL, HTML, VB Scripts, Windows, Oracle, Manual testing, QTP 9.2 and QualityCenter 9.0

Confidential , Long Island, NY

Quality Assurance Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering functional requirements and business requirements in each release of the application.
• Involved in the preparation of test cases based on functional specifications and business requirements for different modules.
• Maintained and documented the test cases and test plan using Test Director.
• Identified bugs, maintained severity of those bugs and reported back to the development team, using the Test Director.
• Performed smoke testing on all features of the site .
• Performed regression testing, functional testing, system testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing and smoke testing.
• Involved in executing the test scripts and maintained Object Repository using QTP.
• Involved in the manual verification of actual results with expected results.
• Interacted with developers, QA analyst and managers to ensure that the application is tested according to the user and business community.
• Involved in analyzing and reporting the changes made to the data tables by querying, updating the data, using SQL Server.

Environment: Test Director 8.0, Quick Test Professional 9.0, Visual Studio, C++, JSP, SQL Server, Microsoft Office, Flash, Windows.

Confidential , GA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed requirements, Test Cases and Test Scripts using Test Director.
• Execution of the Manual test cases from Test Director, analysis and reports.
• Involved in Integration and user Acceptance testing.
• Developed test cases after analyzing the specifications document
• Tracked bugs using Test Director and performed regression testing of the entire application once the bugs are fixed.
• Tested the website for all the functionalities.
• Involved in Database testing by writing the basic SQL Queries.
• Test Results Analysis and Reports, conclusion of Exit Criteria.
• Actively participated in status reporting meetings, conducted walk-through, and interacted with development to discuss technical issues
• Analyzed Defect Reports and work closely with Application Developers for resolving the bugs

Environment: Windows NT/2000, UML, HTML, VBScript, Test Director 7.0i, WinRunner, MS Word, Oracle, SQL.

Confidential, Texas

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business and System Requirements.
• Designing and developing effective Test Cases
• Performed system testing, integration testing, regression testing, and user acceptance testing
• Involved logging bugs in Test Director that are found during the process of testing and running Defect Reports for status meetings. Interaction with developers to speed up the defect resolution
• Performed the database validation using SQL Queries in order to validate the data
• Interacted with BA’s and developers in gathering the specs. Written queries for verifying the data.
• Responsible for attending the Walkthrough / Inspections to discuss Requirement Specs with BA’s and Developers.
• Interacting with Development Teams and BA’s to ensure overall quality of the software.

Environment: Test Director 7.6, TPAdmin, Visual Studio, C++, JSP, SQL Server, Microsoft Office, Flash, Windows