PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 3+ years of experience as a QA Analyst/Tester both in manual and automated testing of Client/Server and Web based applicatio ns.
• Experienced and well versed in different testing cycles including Unit testing, System testing, Smoke testing, Regression testing and Integration testing
• Expertise in defining and developing quality assurance test plans and test cases after analyzing business/technical requirements (Design Document, Use Case and User Requirement Document)
• Experience in manual and automated testing using industry standard testing tools such as HP Quality Center, Quick Test Professional, Test Director and Load Runner
• Well versed in writing and executing SQL statements for backend testing
• Excellent knowledge of Oracle and SQL Server Database
• Knowledge of Load and Performance testing using Load Runner to validate system response time for designated transactions or business functions by simulating multiple users
• Familiar with Team Foundation Server and IBM Rational tools
• Familiar with Basic Unix commands
• Well Versed with V - Model, Agile/Scrum and Waterfall Development Model
• Solid Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Test Life Cycle (STLC)
• Experienced in review and analysis of Business Requirements, Functional Specifications, and Detail Design of the Application
• Excellent knowledge of HP Quick Test Professional (QTP), Record and Playback, Creating Tests with Multiple actions, Standard and Text Checkpoints, Bitmap Checkpoints, Working in Expert View and Keyword view, Data Driven Testing, Parameterization, Enhance Test Cases with Descriptive Programming, Enhance Test Cases with User-Defined Functions and also familiar with Keyword Driven Framework
• Knowledge of CMMI standards
• Self-starter, positive attitude, strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Enjoy working collaboratively with testers, developers and other team members

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, Quick Test Professional, Test Director, Manual and Automated testing

Defect Tracking Tools: Team Foundation Server, Clear Quest, HP Load Runner, HP Quality Center

Programming languages : SQL, VB Script.

Web Technologies: VB Script, XML, HTML, SOAP

RDBMS/Data base : SQL Server 2008 R2, Oracle

Application Software : MS Office, Rational Tools, Visual Studio 2010

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/2003/2008 , Windows XP, UNIX

Methodologies : Agile, Waterfall, Rational Unified Process

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE;

Confidential, Boston

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

Legacy Migration:

• Develop test strategy for testing and validating data accuracy for Legacy conversion
• Prepare test plan and test cases to compare data between each legacy form table and Batch Upload files.
• Prepare test plan and test cases to compare data between Batch Upload files and Transactional database
• Build and Execute test scripts/programs for data comparison
• Work with development team to create stored procedures to populate tables to store data from BU files
• Log and track defects using Team Foundation Server
• Report test metrics for each iteration of Legacy migration

Case Report Form Processing:

• Test data accuracy for data entered thru Case Report Forms
• Prepare and execute test plans and test cases for testing each attribute entered on the CRF
• Develop Views/Temp tables to aid testing/comparing of data stored in different structures (flat vs. relational)
• Smoke testing after upgrades, enhancements
• Log and track defects using Team Foundation Server

Portal(UI) Testing:

• Analyzed business requirements by interacting with business analyst and developers
• Design test plans, with detailed scope, strategy and test requirements.
• Design and setup test cases
• Write and execute test scripts to test dashboards, reports and interface services
• Conducted Functional, Regression, Integration, Performance and Smoke testing of all Portal components
• Conducted defect review meetings
• Instrumental in automation of Smoke tests for faster approvals for CR deployments and hot-fixes
• Handled development and maintenance testing in parallel in a fast paced environment
• Helped developers with unit test plans/scripts based on defect reviews to better the unit test process.
• Achieved 30% increase in unit test efficiency by incorporating defect review findings
• Test Metrics that get updated in close to real time from service calls to external system

Operational Data Store and Reporting:

• Design test plans and test data setup strategy
• Develop Test cases, test scripts based on Data Transformation requirements
• Conduct functional and performance tests for ETL routines and reports
• Test SAS extracts by comparing against transactional data
• Build views to support testing of SAS extracts against CRF data and verify transformations
• Conduct consistency test for data across reporting/interface components (Portal/Downloads/SAS extracts)

Environment: SQL Server 2008 R2, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio 2010, XML, BizTalk

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing and writing test plan in accordance with business requirements.
• Wrote and executed detailed test cases with step by step procedure and expected result.
• Tested application with different interfaces.
• Performed Regression testing during various phases of development.
• Wrote complex SQL queries to perform the backend testing against Oracle database.
• Interacted with development team for new functionality and reviewed defects.
• Attended review meetings and walkthroughs to discuss the status of the project.
• Used HP Quality Center to write test cases and execute test cases.
• Created Test cases and automated them for the purpose of regression testing.
• Developed User Defined functions to support the automated scripts.
• Worked with users to develop user acceptance plan and test cases.
• Used data driven testing and database accessing techniques to support the scripts.
• Provided quality metrics using software quality assurance standard for determining software release readiness.
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results.
• Used Quality Center for Bug Logging, Tracking and Bug Resolution.
• Participated in team meetings on a regular basis and involved in active discussion in order to improve the testing quality.

Environment: Oracle 9i, HTML, Java J2EE, Windows and UNIX, Quality Center 8.0

Confidential

QA Tester

• Performed Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing and Data Integrity Testing.
• Executed various Test Scripts as per the Software test Plans analyzing Business as well as Technical Specifications.
• Extensively worked on Functional Testing to test each individual Function using Win Runner.
• Involved in testing of various Modules/Screens such as Patients info, Prescription, Medical history, Diagnosis
• Tested and verified the integration of various modules in the application and checking whether the right data is retrieved into their respective fields.
• Worked closely with the Development team to resolve discrepancies in the Technical and Business specifications in the application such as GUI Interface.
• Maintenance and enhancement of existing test plans to accommodate changing needs for the system.
• Developed the Test cases and submitted the weekly Bug Report.
• Used Test Director to track and report system defects and bug fixes.
• Wrote various Test Procedures to test the integrity of the data.
• Extensively used SQL to verify the data in the backend.
• Automated the test cases for regression testing using Win Runner.
• Performed Performance Testing by calculating the duration of the Query Execution time and Co-ordinated with the Developers to ensure necessary indexes are created for faster execution of the Queries.

Environment: Oracle, HTML, VB.Net, VB 7.0, Windows 2000, Microsoft Office Suite