PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• More than 5 years of professional experience in information technology, specifically in Software Testing.
• Strong hands on experience in developing Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Scripts for manual as well as for automated testing for various applications to ensure proper business compliance. Testing expertise includes formulation of Test Assets and Strategies.
• Expertise in the areas of Requirement Gathering, Business Analysis, Business and Functional Specifications, Use Case Specification, Data/Object Modeling, Development and Quality Assurance Testing.
• Extensive experience in performing backend testing on Oracle and SQL server databases using SQL.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows Vista/XP/2000/98 Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional, Quality Center, Test Director Programming Languages: Visual Basic, SQL, Java Relational Database Management Systems: Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MI Mar 2010 - Apr 2011 QA Tester Confidential is one of the top five mortgage lenders in USA. Apart from Michigan, they also have retail banking centers in Indiana and Georgia. The website Confidential provides online banking access for the Bank's retail customers. It provides a more efficient way to organize information and cut down traffic in banking centers for balance inquiries, transfer of funds, mortgage payments etc. Responsibilities:

• Participate in requirement gathering and QA testing walkthroughs and reviews.
• Involved in designing and development of overall test strategies/test plans for automated and manual testing including definition of test cycles and schedule.
• Interacted and coordinated with business team for UAT (User Acceptance Testing) with the different business scenarios.
• Developed Test Cases and Test Scripts and Use Case Diagrams.
• Performed Manual Testing and Automated Testing on different modules of application.
• Tested navigation within the JSP pages for various workflows defined within use case documents.
• For tracking and reporting defects, used Mercury Quality Center. Created, prioritized and tracked defects. Generated Defect status reports and participated in defect review meetings.
• Performed Regression Testing for various versions and helped in rectifying the defects.
• Used QTP for certain modules and generated scripts.
• Executed automated test scripts using QTP for Regressions Testing.

Confidential, IL Sep 2008 - Feb 2010 QA Tester Confidential is one of the leading insurance companies providing auto and home insurance. Worked as QA Tester for testing the Financial Modules of the project developed to meet the on-line insurance requirements of automobile owners. Confidential's insurance products include standard commercial lines, specialty lines, surety, marine and other property and casualty coverage. Confidential's services include risk management, information services, underwriting, risk control and claims administration. Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements documents and Functional Design document.
• Major responsibilities included writing Test Plan and Test Scripts and team co-ordination.
• Followed software testing methodologies and plans to ensure software product quality.
• Used Quality Center for documenting requirements, view, modify requirement tree and converting requirements to tests.
• Created test plan, wrote design steps, copied test steps, called a test with parameters, linked tests to requirements and automated manual testing.
• Tracked changes made to the requirements, tests and defects using Quality Center.
• Analyzed testing process by creating reports and graphs.
• Parameterized test scripts to ensure comprehensive Positive and Negative testing with unique data.
• Conducted Functional Back-End Testing by breaking the test data into finite number of testable pieces based on the application's functionality on both input and output criteria.
• Developed test data to meet the requirements.
• Provided the management with Test Metrics, reports, timelines and schedules as necessary and participated in the design walkthroughs and meetings.
• Documented Daily Defect Status with the help of Test Metrics.
• Identified defects and reported them using Quality Center.
• Created Modification Requests for defect reporting, and suggestions in the documents and applications.

Confidential, NJ Jun 2007 - Aug 2008 QA Tester Confidential provides paychecks for 29 million workers worldwide, processes securities transactions for clients in 25 countries. Confidential Exchange Work Station (AEWS) Project:

• AEWS is a web-based application that helps set up new Confidential clients. Client companies participate in the set up process by using XML Portal. The developed XML Portal was integrated into the existing internet applications where the clients can log in and put their information. This information can easily be imported into other ADP applications.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business requirements identified testing requirements and formulated Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts and documented them in Test Director.
• Worked with Agile Team as Test Analyst and followed Agile Methodology to ensure the product quality.
• Developed manual test cases for Positive, Negative Functional and Performance Testing.
• Involved in functional, GUI, database and performance testing of “AEWS”.
• Executed manual test cases using Test Director.
• Conducted GUI testing, Functionality testing, Interface testing and Regressions testing, Database testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Participated in Integration, System, Functional, GUI, Regression, Security, Negative, Smoke, End to End and User Acceptance Testing.
• Associated Requirements to Test cases.

Confidential, India May 2005 - Jun 2007 Manual Tester Confidential provides online banking solution to the customers. The online banking application was divided into several modules, of which this project focused on Billing module and GOI Bonds module. The customers have the facility to access their accounts, view balance, schedule and make payments, order checks, change personal information and also to invest his/her savings in the form of fixed income securities such as bonds. Responsibilities:

• Creation of Manual Test cases using the Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Execution of Test cases and Documentation of Test results.
• Creation of SQL queries for the backend testing of the applications under test.
• Creation of the Test results documents and Defects log documents.
• Created daily defect reports for the project management teams.
• Involved in preparation of Requirement Traceability Metrics (RTM).
• Prepared Test plans, Test Cases and Test Data.
• Performed manual testing for data transmission for different parity and frequencies.
• Tested for both polling and interrupt modes except for overrun errors.

EDUCATION B.S., Computer Science