Professional Summary:

• 2 + years of IT Industry experience in Testing and Quality Assurance, and Having extensive experience in the field of Software Testing with emphasis on Manual Testing, Automated Testing that includes Functional, Performance, Unit, Stress, Usability, Regression, VRU, System Testing of Web based, and GUI based client/server applications using Mercury Interactive tools like Load Runner, Test Director, Quick Test Pro (QTP), WinRunner, and Quality Center.
• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Quality Assurance (QA) process, Software Test Methodologies and Software Test Life Cycle (STLC).
• Experience in working with V-Model, Agile and Waterfall development methodologies.
• Ability to develop and deliver effective Quality Assurance training programs
• Highly organized with excellent time management skills
• Detail-oriented and possess excellent evaluation skills
• Ability to read and interpret engineering concepts as well as design plans and specifications
• Possess excellent analytical and perception skills
• Very good knowledge and hands on experience working in Healthcare Domains, Accounting and Reporting Financial reports and Testing Applications.
• Familiar with networking management, SQL and application installations
• Extensive knowledge of quality assurance and control
• Highly skilled in major computer applications
• Possess excellent leadership skills and ability to handle multiple tasks
• Experience in testing of Web-based applications and Client/Server applications.
• Expertise in developing test scenarios, test cases, test scripts and creating bug documentation.
• Expertise in automation testing using industry standard testing tools - HP Quality Center, Quick Test Professional, TestDirector.
• Specialized in various types of testing like Functionality, GUI, Regression, User Interface, Integration, User Acceptance, Installation, Smoke, System, Localization, and Backend testing of Client/Server and web based applications on various browsers and operating systems.
• Extensively involved in writing & execution of SQL statements for backend testing.
• Excellent knowledge in Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server.
• Self-motivated, team oriented, have strong communication skills and the ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Experience in working in highly dynamic and challenging environment.
• Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision, establishes priorities, meet project milestones and deliverable dates.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with a strong ability to influence others.

Technical Expertise:

Testing Tools: QTP , Quality Center , Win Runner, Load Runner
Bug Tracking Tools: Mercury Quality Center, JIRA , Bugzilla
Software Testing: Unit, Functional, Integration, Regression, Load (Stress), User Acceptance Testing, White Box Testing, Black Box Testing, Smoke test.
Management Tools: MS Project, IBM Clear Case
Database: Oracle 8x/9x/10g, MySQL 5.1, SQL Server 2005/2008, MS Access
Languages: C, C++, Core Java, SQL, VB Script, HTML, XML
Web Server: Apache/Tomcat
Internet Protocol: TCP/IP, HTTP
Operating Systems: Windows 9x/2000/NT/XP, Unix.
Packages: MS Word/Excel/Power Point/Outlook
Project Methodologies: Rational Unified Process, OOD, UML, SDLC, Waterfall, Agile – Scrum, V – Model.

Professional Experiences:

Client: Confidential, Herndon VA. Mar 08 –Aug 08
Role: QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing the system specifications, business requirements for full understanding of the business.
• Assigned the tasks of conducting quality testing and evaluating the results with the help of supervisors..
• Responsible for generating Quality Assurance Programs for trainees to maintain the standard of testing
• Handled the tasks of monitoring and supervising production policies and activities to ensure compliance with the guidelines of quality control.
• Involved in ensuring the quality of test scenarios and test cases for different types of testing like functional, system, integration, and regression testing as per the requirements of the site.
• Assigned the tasks of documenting conducted tests on production line.
• Responsible for updating the results of Quality Assurance testing to production supervisor.
• Ensured that quality assurance inspections are completed in a proper manner.
• Handled the tasks of providing assistance to QA departments to ensure compliance with the quality standards of the organization.
• Responsible for monitoring production testing to identify major problems.
• Maintained technical files and documents to establish quality standards throughout the production line.
• Monitor and evaluate all QA outputs and provide the review results to the developer/project manager.
• Created Traceability Matrix to ensure that all the requirements are covered by the test cases.
• Closely worked with the Systems team, Business Analyst, Developers and UI team to resolve the requirement issues, deployment issues, change management etc.
• Coordinated with end-users to schedule and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Performed data validation and analyzed its result for data comparison reports.
• Create and execute SQL queries to fetch data from Oracle database to validate the user interface (UI)
• Developed and enhanced automated scripts using QTP for Functional and Regression testing
• Automated Smoke Test and Regression Test suites using QTP
• Participated in peer reviews of functional specification, application previews, and test plans/test cases.
• Responsible for entering, Tracking bugs in QC to resolve bugs.
• Verification of fixed bugs using and generated weekly quality progress reports through QC.

Environment: Quick Test Pro 11, QC, QTP, VBScript, Oracle, SQL, J2EE, TOAD.

Client: Confidential, India Feb 07 – Jun 08
Role: QA tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for documenting Test Plans, Test Cases as per Business Requirements for each release.
• Define the test strategy for customer requirements to include designing, writing, and executing test cases and procedures.
• Developed & executed Test scripts and Test cases for Functional and Regression testing using Quick Test Professional.
• Performed various testing types with inserting sync points, check points (GUI, Bitmap, text check points), enhancing using Quick Test Professional.
• Performed Functional Testing using Quick Test Professional.
• Developed and executed Error Handling and Exception cases to run the automated scripts uninterrupted using Quick Test professional.
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results
• Executed Test Cases using different testing techniques like Positive Testing, Negative Testing, and Stress Testing.
• Tested Internet Application on different browsers using previous and current versions.
• Regularly following up with Development Team to discuss discrepancies identified during testing.
• Investigated the Software bugs and interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Created and filed various office documentation using MS Office applications.
• Meet with the developers and technical content writers on a regularly update the test documents
• Designing and Executing Test Cases in TestDirector.
• Used TestDirector for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using TestDirector.

Environment: Quick Test Professional, TestDirector, Oracle, SQL, Windows NT/2000.

Client: Confidential, Mar 06– Sep 07
Role: Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing, development and review of Test Plan, Test Design, Test cases, Test Script and Execution of the testing process.
• Worked on various Testing including Integration testing, Functional, Regression, Usability, Performance / Load, UAT and Smoke Testing.
• Used SQL queries for Database testing.
• Identified and documented defects and issues with defect tracking implementations using Test Director.
• Involved in checking out the code using cvs for builds and deployed the application in the WebLogic environment.
• Tested performance of the application on different platforms like Win95/98/NT/XP/2000.
• Coordinated in User Acceptance Testing.
• Attended weekly meetings with the QA team to analyze the overall status of the testing and offered suggestions for improvement.
• Coordinated with developers, Implementation team in reviews/meetings.
• Provided proven processes that can be used over and over again by testing team and to produce quality work that is consistent throughout the project.
• Review Business Requirement Documents, Technical Specifications and interacted with Business Analysts/Users/Project team to ensure effective test scenarios.

Environment: QTP, JSP, Struts, SQL Server 2000, Windows 2000, Web logic server.

Education:

• Bachelor of Science (Computer Science)

Reference available upon request