PROFILE SUMMARY:

• 6+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, Testing methodologies and strong experience in SDLC and overall testing approaches and earned reputation for meeting testing deadlines and delivering the critical solutions.
• Experienced in creating and understanding Test strategy document and then preparing the test approach documents, test plan documents, and test summary document also.
• Extensive experience in testing methods like Regression testing, Functional testing, Ad-Hoc, GUI, Security testing, Systems Integration testing, System testing, User acceptance testing, and Deployment testing.
• Expertise in testing SOA based integrated applications running on various platforms. Proficient in QTP, QC, WinRunner and LoadRunner tools.
• Experienced in test plan preparation, designing test cases, reviewing Change requests, Maintenance requests and preparing analysis documents for them.
• Expertise in testing web based applications and running on different application servers like IIS, Apache,Weblogic etc.
• Experience working with open source testing tools like SoapUI, LoadUI, JMeter to perform web application testing and load testing.
• Expertise in working with the BA in analyzing and examining the business workflow scenarios and developing the test cases.
• Preparing and executing the Regression cases, Integration cases and performed Systems Integration testing.
• Developed Test cases and Test scripts.
• Extracting defect status reports and managing defect status using the Quality centerand also conducting defect status calls.
• Strong working experience in preparing the test plan, test run and managing the test run effectively using the HP Quality Center.
• Knowledge of Software QA standards and methodologies.
• Extensive experience with function libraries, Key word driven approach and best practices in Automation with QTP.

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:

Testing Tools Quick Test Pro 10.x/8.x, Quality Center 9.2/8.0/Test Director, SOAP UI, Jmeter, Bugzilla, Microsoft Team Foundation Server

Databases Oracle 8i/9i/10g, DB2 8.0/7.0/6.0, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, MySQL, MS Access, MS Excel, Sybase

Utility Tools TOAD 8.5, SQL Assistant, SQL Query Analyzer, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL* Plus, SQL* Loader, SQL Developer, Rapid SQL

Operating Systems Windows 7/Vista/95/98/2000/XP, Linux and Unix

Web Programming HTML, XML

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla Fire Fox, VMware.

Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP and HTTPS.

MS Office Word , Access, Power Point, Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential Jan 2010 – Dec 2011
Court Case Management SystemSenior QA Analyst
Ecommerce Suite

Rapid Online Access Method (ROAM) is a web based enterprise search application which makes available a line of business application’s structured databases (irrespective of underlying technology) much like an Internet Search Engine does with unstructured data. It is a search tool – it is also an integration tool, a data mining tool and a business intelligence tool. ROAM Ecommerce suite helps purchase documents and access its premium features. It also acts as a payment gateway to process ecommerce transactions from external applications. The features include but not limited to accept credit cards from Over the Counter terminals sending encrypted (Magensa) and unencrypted track data, ability to manage transactions, ability to run reports, prevent fraud, risk management, check generation, quick fund transfers.

Courtcase Management System(CMS) is a windows based case management system designed to streamline complex court processes. This .Net based smart client application serves as a end-to-end solution providing clerks and judicial officers the ability to enter, update, calendar, query, report cases in one central environment. The solution provides Courts and Clerks many benefits including minimizing redundant data entry, streamlines workflow processing and paperless processing.

Responsibilities:

• Followed Agile methodology and used SCRUM, in SDLC projects.
• Worked with the Business Analysts in analyzing Business and System requirements and provided feedback during Requirement review sessions.
• Attended daily Scrum meetings and weekly QA status meetings and reported weekly status to the Project Manager.
• Used HP Mercury Quality Centre to document and maintain Test Plan and Test Cases throughout the SDLC.
• Performed manual testing and used QTP to run automated test scripts.
• Performed configuration/ compatibility and user interface testing manually.
• Performed Integration and system testing of different modules of the application.
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to track requirements during the QA Testing Phase.
• Conducted Load testing on web applications using LOADUI and JMeter.
• Performed SOAP and Webservice testing using SOAPUI.
• Performed Data Integrity and validation testing by executing SQL statements to make sure the data is correctly integrated and functional on SQL Server Database.
• Extensive experience in testing the application on iPad and ensured that client’s application, data and infrastructure needs are met on the iPad.
• Used HP Mercury Quality Center for creating and tracking defects.
• Evaluated and released multiple application development initiatives with respect to Quality Assurance.
• Working experience in testing both manual and automation in agile environment and using the simple agile tools and testing short iterations etc.
• Worked with Users during UAT and coordinated with the technical team in defect resolution and tracking.
• Generated Defect Report using Quality Center

Confidential Aug 2009 – Dec 2010
Wholesale Application ETL Tester

Wholesale application is an enterprise web application that provides loan mortgage services to GMAC broker and Corresponding companies as Get Quote, Loan Registration, Locking, checking loan status etc. The application supports different types of loans such as Conventional, FHA, VA loans etc. I am actively involved in testing the whole application and developing test cases for the same. 
Responsibilities:

• Followed Agile methodology and used Scrum, in SDLC projects.
• Worked with the Business Analysts in analyzing Business and System requirements and provided feedback during Requirement review sessions.
• Attended daily Scrum meetings and weekly QA status meetings and reported weekly status to the Project Manager.
• Used HP Mercury Quality Centre to document and maintain Test Plan and Test Cases throughout the SDLC.
• Performed manual testing and used QTP to run automated test scripts.
• Performed configuration/ compatibility and user interface testing manually.
• Performed Integration and system testing of different modules of the application.
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to track requirements during the QA Testing Phase.
• Performed Data Integrity and validation testing by executing SQL statements to make sure the data is correctly integrated and functional on Oracle Database.
• Participated in CCB meetings and discussed enhancement and change request.
• Extensive experience in testing the application on iPad using Citrix Client and ensured that client’s application, data and infrastructure needs are met on the iPad.
• Used HP Mercury Quality Center for creating and tracking defects.
• Evaluated and released multiple application development initiatives with respect to Quality Assurance.
• Working experience in testing both manual and automation in agile environment and using the simple agile tools and testing short iterations etc.
• Worked with Users during UAT and coordinated with the technical team in defect resolution and tracking.
• Generated Defect Report using Quality Center.

Confidential NJ Aug 2008 – July 2009
Claim File Virtual Office QA Analyst

Involved in testing of CVO (Claim file Virtual Office) application, which is a Client-Server integrated environment used by Adjusters, Call Center representatives. This application was developed for Claims department .The application helps the Call center representatives to enter customers’ Primary Claim Information thru file navigator, which will generate Claim number.Adjusters are assigned to a claim by region and availability, by the call center representative. CVO maintains all the documents, payments and the entire scenario up to claim finished. These are the major modules in the application Summary, Parties, Documents, and Payments I was involved in testing of Parties, Documents and Payment modules for Auto Claims, Workers compensation claims, property claims.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing system requirements and developing a test plans for the projects based on SDLC
• Analyze user/business requirements and developed various Test procedures, Test Matrices, Test cases and Test Scripts.
• Writing and executing Test cases and Test Scripts after reviewing the business requirements and technical specifications
• Performed Functional testing, Integrationtesting, System testing, Data Validation testing, end-to-end testing of the application and also involved in white box testing.
• Enhanced scripts by putting standard, bitmap, and databasecheckpoints using Quick Test Pro.
• Prepared Test cases for each module and tested the application using Quick Test professional
• Used Automatic Recovery Capability of Quick Test Pro which specifies one or more operations that enable the test run to continue after an exception event occurs.
• Constructed Test Design, Test Cases and involved in creating/updating Test Summary Report and Defect Summary Reports.
• Developed Master startup scripts by using Reusable Actions and did the regression testing for each major release of the application.
• Extensive use of Shared Object Repository by maintaining the naming conventions
• Used Test Director for Planning, Test Scheduling, Test Execution
• Expertise in Mercury Quality Center 8.0 (Test Director 8.0) for scheduling the automated Test Scripts.
• Create XML request files for test scenarios and test cases for the claims control web services
• Used SQL queries to access data from different database tables
• Presentation of the QA Status report and the Defect Status reports in the weekly meeting
• Involved in weekly walkthroughs and inspection meetings, to verify the status of the testing effort and the project as a whole.

Confidential May 2007 – July 2008
Clinical Data Management QA Analyst

Worked as Junior QA Analyst at Dr.Reddy Laboratories. During this period I was primarily involved in testing their Clinical Data Management(CDM) system. CDM is an on-line application which will help researchers and users manage the clinical trials data, share and run reports. Worked as a test engineer and involved in face to face interaction with the design and development team of CDM.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparing the functional specification using the requirement specification.
• Prepared Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Involved in Manual testing of the Web Pages by executing the Test Cases.
• Involved in conducting Unit, System, Functional and Regression Testing.
• Interacted with developers regarding bugs.
• Executed SQL queries to perform the Backend Testing.
• Wrote Test cases for Functionality, and Acceptance testing of the software.
• Performed Integration and Regression Tests using test plans and created the regression test suite.
• Prepared test data for positive and negative scenarios to ensure the functional testing as documented in test plan.
• Performed Parameterization for using various data to test the application.
• Dealt with technical issues in production.
• Created Traceability Matrices (RTM) by associating the requirements with test cases.
• Created bug reports, verified bug fixes, logged bugs into Bug Tracking System, and presented progress of the testing process at status meetings.
• Prepared documents for the QA managers and project managers regarding the progress in the testing effort.
• Performed End to End test to ensure quality of the User Acceptance Test (UAT).