Objective: Seeking a challenging position in Software Quality Assurance and Testing in a progressive organization to demonstrate my self-directed expertise at end-to-end testing, test automation and passion to deliver quality, reliable and user-friendly software.

Summary:

• Around 7 years of working experience in the entire life cycle of software development (SDLC), primarily in the field of software testing and test automation.
• Experience in various SDLC methodologies – Scrum (Sprint), Agile, and Water fall Model.
• Worked on Manual and Automated testing of various Web and Client/Server applications.
• Experience in preparation of Test Plans, BVT’s, Test cases, and Test Reports.
• Experience in Unit, GUI, Functional, Integration, Regression, System, Ad-hoc, Localization/Globalization, Security, Compatibility, Performance, Load, and Cross-Browser Testing.
• Experience in SQL and PL/SQL on testing Stored Procedures/Data integrity/Data mapping/Data conversion /Interfaces.
• Experience in using the automated testing tools Win Runner (GUI Testing, TSL, Web Testing, and Context Sensitive & Analog Recording), Test Director, and VSTS (Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft automation Framework using C#).
• Strong debugging, problem solving and documentation skills.
• Experience in testing on Virtual PC and Virtual Server (Hyper-V).
• Experience in testing Web Services.
• Experience in UAT and Production Support and Interaction with the client.
• Extensive experience in testing applications implemented in .NET, C#, Visual Basic, ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, XML, HTML, SOAP, SQL Server and Oracle.
• Quick learner, hard worker, strong team player with excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills. Good at interacting with people at all levels.

Technical skills:

Testing Tools: VSTS, Test Director, Win Runner, Load Runner
Version Control: Visual Source safe, Visual Studio Team Foundation (VSTF)
RDBMS: SQL Server 2005/2000 and Oracle8i/9i
OS: Windows Vista/XP/2003/2000, Windows Server 2003/ 2008, MS-DOS, UNIX
Languages: C/ C++, C#, VBScript, ASP, Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, PL/SQL
Bug Tracking Tools: VSTF, Product Studio, Test Director, Quality Center, Seapine TestTrackPro
Others: Toad, PL/SQL Developer, Putty, MS Office 2007

Education:

• Masters in Applied Mathematics, India
• Bachelors in Electronics, India
• Postgraduate diploma in computer applications.

SDET
Client: Confidential, April’ 2009 – Aug’2009

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
System Center Operations Manager provides end-to-end monitoring for the enterprise IT environment. Operations Manager can monitor thousands of servers, applications, and clients and provides comprehensive views of their health states. These views are key to a rapid and agile response to events that can impact the availability of services the IT department provides its customers.

Responsibilities:

• Prepared the test environment for both physical (Refreshing machines with different OS settings) and virtual machines (Creation of VM’s with different OS settings).
• Verified the builds on different OS languages both on physical and virtual machines.
• Tested Installation of product on both physical and virtual machines with different configurations on different OS languages.
• Tested the upgrade of product on both physical and virtual machines with different configurations on different OS languages.
• Executed the automated BVT’s on different OS languages.
• Tested the product features (Alerts, Notifications, Reporting, Agent installation etc…) on different OS languages both on physical and virtual machines.
• Bug tracking using VSTS and PS (Product Studio).
• Participated in Triage meetings.
• Daily and weekly reports preparation (Test cases/execution/bugs status)

Environment: C# .NET,T-SQL,HTML/CSS,XML/XSL, Visual Studio .NET 2005/2008, SQL Server 2000/2005, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.

Senior QA Engineer
Client: Confidential, Aug’08 –March’09

GSPS Re-architecture Project

• Involved in Analysis, design, functional spec, and technical spec reviews.
• Analyze the existing business process and prototype for re-architecture project by interacting systems include Human Resource, Payroll, and Brokers and developed the Critical path and functionality test cases for Employee stock portal.
• Reviewed the Interfaces and notifications functional spec and prepared the test cases for all interface jobs.
• Involved in creation and testing of Data mapping doc. by reviewing the existing system with new stock data management system.
• Developed Data conversion test cases.
• Performed the unit testing for all interface jobs (Stored procedures, Triggers, and Cursors etc….).
• Executed all interface jobs on Putty and validated file generation and data transformation between 3(SDM, EV, SB) systems for updates and inserts on source and destination. Also, tested the transformed data both on staging and production systems.
• Executed the data conversion test cases and validated the record counts, check sum, data integrity, and counts by stock plan &Grant type on both source and destination systems.
• Tested email notifications and attached notification docs for updates on HR and job execution events.
• Tested alert messages on employee stock portal by generating different types of alerts on different events.
• Tested grant acceptance and rejection process and validated the data both on UI, Database, and Grant agreement docs. Also, verified the grant agreements and vest templates display in Pdf, and Excel format for updates.
• Tested Purchase and Transaction details for different types of stock options (NQ, RSU, RSA, SAR, ESPP etc…) both on UI and Database.
• Performed the browser compatibility testing for employee stock portal (IE6, IE7, Firefox, Safari, Google chrome)
• Performed the security testing on employee stock portal for different user roles.
• Updated user guide documents with new functionality changes for Employee stock portal and Interfaces.
• Used Seapine TestTrackpro (CCG) and Quality center (Cisco) for bug tracking.
• Involved in weekly status and bug triage meetings.

Environment: Oracle, Toad, PL/SQL Developer, LINUX, Java 2 JDK 1.4, Tomcat 4.1, Eclipse, .Net, Visual Studio 2005, IIS, Putty.

Senior QA Engineer
Client: Confidential, April’08– July’08

Cross Ticker Reporting

This feature will provide the reports across all companies

• Involved in Analysis, design, functional spec and technical spec reviews.
• Prepared detailed test plan for this feature.
• Created the test matrix and test scenarios by reviewing the functional spec.
• Prepared test cases for change requests and some regression test cases by reviewing the existing system.
• Tested Scheduled and delivery of reports (with different schedule options)
• Tested Quick and Advanced find search features by using various filters and operators.
• Tested field selection and sorting features.
• Performed UI and backend testing to compare report data against the corresponding values in the database.
• Tested report output in UI, PDF, Excel, and Text.
• Tracked the bugs in TestTrackPro.

Environment: C#, ADO.Net, PL/SQL Developer, .Net 2.0 Framework, JavaScript, Cross-Browser compatibility (e.g., IE6, IE7, Firefox, Safari), XML, XSLT, and DHTML.

SDET
Client: Confidential, Aug’ 2005 – Mar’2008

Microsoft Partner Portal and Content Management System
Portal is a consolidated global Content Management System (CMS) and platform for Microsoft® corporate, regional, and sub-regional Partners to share and present content in a consistent user experience with common look and feel across several locales. This project Confidential has combined the sixty-eight current Microsoft subsidiaries web presences globally into one Portal with the capability of Localization, to provide a centralized managed platform, and enable distributed content management and Portal functionality for all its subsidiaries. With access to content management functionality, as well as a new portal site, Microsoft subsidiaries are able to share replicated information that is distributed to them from corporate and be able to customize for their regional requirements. This project was developed using .NET and SQL Server as the Back End.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in five major releases (OPEI (Online Partner Experience Initiative), Technical release, Globalization-1, Globalization-2&2.5, and Globalization-3)
• Involved in requirements, design, functional spec, and technical spec reviews
• Developed detailed Test Plan for various releases after analyzing the requirements and design documents
• Estimation of testing efforts
• Preparation of BVT’s, use cases, and test cases for various tests
• Identified the potential automation candidates (BVT/Regression)for automation
• Develop/execution of automated scripts using Microsoft custom .NET framework in VSTS.
• Reviewed test plan/use cases/test cases with Test, Dev, PM and Business
• Executed test cases of various tests for Portal and CMS.
• Functional, Integration, Regression, pseudo localization, Localization, Security, Dog food, Installation, and System Testing for Portal and CMS application.
• Functional, Regression, Integration, Localization, Security and System Testing of Templates.
• Performance and load testing for MSPP application
• Used SQL scripts to validate data and to execute jobs/stored procedures.
• Worked with various groups to resolve pre-production as well as production issues.
• Bug tracking using VSTS and PS (Product Studio).
• Participated in Triage meetings.
• Daily and weekly reports preparation (Test cases/execution/bugs status).
• Planning and allocation of day to day tasks.
• Support/worked with offshore outsourcing vendor team.
• Coordinating with Dev, PM, production support, and business teams for issue reporting/ clarification/resolution.
• Conducted knowledge sharing sessions.
• Created some user guide documents.
• Provided UAT Support.

Environment: C# .NET,T-SQL,HTML/CSS,XML/XSL, Visual Studio .NET 2003/2005, SQL Server 2000/2005, IIS 6.0, Passport Authentication (Upgraded to Passport RPS 4.0)

Test Engineer
Client: Confidential, TX Sep’03 - May’05

Description:
Mary Kay is the largest company that has direct sellers of skin care and beauty products in the U.S. The company has more than 1.3 million independent beauty consultants and their customers in more than 30 markets worldwide. Company allows the registered independent certified consultants to sell their products on Mary Kay’s website by registering consultants own web page. Independent consultants from U.S region sell products to end users using their personal web pages on Mary Kay’s website. Mary Kay’s website also allows the users to find an Independent Beauty Consultant using the consultant locator by entering either zip code or by the First name /Last name of the consultant or by state. Mary Kay website will allow the people to shop online through the consultants’ personal web page. Beauty Consultant can place the products on their personal web page on Mary Kay’s website and sell the products and charge the customers Credit Cards.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Analysis, Design, Functional, Technical spec reviews.
• Developed Test Plan and Test Cases after analyzing the requirement and Design documents.
• Tested the navigation and the User Interface for ease of use.
• Performed GUI and functionality testing.
• Involved in Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Performed Cross-Browser testing on Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.
• Logged and tracked the defects using a Defect Tracking tool.
• Developed SQL Queries for testing Data Transaction and Database Integrity.
• Documented the test results and reported the defects to the development team on a timely basis and resolved the issues by retesting of various builds.

Environment: Windows 2000, Oracle9i, Visual Basic, .NET, ASP. Net, IIS.

QA Tester
Client: Confidential, May’02 - Dec’02

Description:

This application gives customers access to their accounts through the Internet, and facilitates the enrolled customers to manage accounts via web and pay the bills online. Customers can check their account balance, view accounts activity, transfer funds/balances from other accounts.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements, functional, design specifications reviews.
• Understanding of end-to-end process flow, system interface, functional and business validations of the system.
• Writing of Business validations and conditions to be tested
• Prepared Test cases for testing the unique functionalities of the system with the test data, specifying the result for each test case.
• Performed security testing for unauthorized access of the Web application with valid and invalid data.
• Performed Regression testing and verified software errors using WinRunner.
• Involved in back end testing on Oracle database using SQL.
• Involved in Cross-Browser Testing on both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.
• Reported errors to development team through Test Director Defect tracking system.
• Coordinated with developers in reviews and solving the problems encountered in the application.

Environment: Windows 2000, Java, SQL server, and Test Director.

Software Tester
Client:Confidential, Aug’01 - Jan’02

Online Timesheet System: This application is developed as a part of Quality Management System of HCL. Facilitates to enter weekly time sheet online across the network and storing in a centralized database. Also generates reports and project metrics. This tool is useful to estimate the total resources spent on the different projects and activities for better estimation of future projects.

Responsibilities:

• Review of the Test Cases written for integration and functional level testing.
• Conducted Regression testing.
• Performed System Testing Manually.
• Collection of test metrics done every week and involved in meetings with the developers.

Environment: Java, Servlets, JDBC, Oracle, HTML, and Windows 98.

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