SUMMARY

• Over Six years of diversified experience in software Quality Assurance and Project Coordination Activities in Client - Server, GUI and Java/J2EE Web based applications using automated testing tools like Quick Test Professional, Selenium, Loadrunner and manual testing procedures.
• Around 6.3 years of experience in QA including Manual and Automation Testing
• Experience in all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Bug life cycle and Methods like Waterfall and AGILE.
• Experience in analyzing Business Requirement Specification (BRS) & System Requirement Specification (SRS)
• Proficient in development, execution, maintenance of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Specifications, Test Scenarios and Traceability Matrix.
• Worked in Project Implementation, Defect and Test Coordination Activities.
• Creating Requirement Traceability Matrix and Test Execution Matrix for both Automated and Manual Test cases.
• Expertise in performing different types of Testing like Sanity, functional, integration, system, user acceptance testing, performance, GUI, Load and end-to-end testing. Also, involved in Exploratory testing scenarios.
• Performed Sanity, Smoke, and Regression testing on each build.
• Prepared status summary reports with details of executed, passed and failed test cases and Metrics Calculation.
• Extensive use of bug tracking tools like Quality Center, Clear Quest, Trac and BugZilla
• Strong business understanding knowledge of Property & Causality(Auto, Property & Life), Financial, Banking Domains
• Developed Automation scripts using QTP and Selenium.
• Proficient in writing VB scripts to automate Test Cases for QTP.
• Good Knowledge in Loadrunner.
• Proficient over Structured Query Language (SQL).
• Exposure in Data Migration Testing of client data.
• Proficient in Backend Testing and Data Integrity Testing using SQL and PL/SQL Queries.
• Experienced in Onsite-Offshore coordination
• Strong knowledge in UNIX
• Interacted with developers, Business & Management Teams and End Users
• Self-starter and ability to adapt and learn new things quickly.
• Ability to work under minimal supervision.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows 2008/ Vista/2000, MS-DOS

Testing Tools: Quick Test Pro 10.0, 8.2, 8.0 and Loadrunner 8.0, Performance Center, Selenium IDE, RC, Grid, Selenium WebDriver

Programming languages: HTML, SQL, PL/SQL, XML, Java, J2EE, AJAX

Scripting Languages: Java Script, VB Script

RDBMS: IBM DB2, Oracle, SQL Server

MS-Suite: MS-Word, MS Excel, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio

Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center, Trac, BugZilla, Clear Quest

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

QA Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement Analysis meetings with Business Analysts and going through the Business Requirement Document (BRD), prepared Test Plan and Test Strategy documents.
• Prepared Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Conditions based on the functional and Non-functional requirements.
• Involved in System testing, Integration testing, Functional testing, Implementation, UAT and Regression testing.
• Responsible for writing Automated test scripts, execution and capturing test reports using QTP and Selenium
• Tested the application in cross browsers such as Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera and Google Chrome.
• Involved in Technical Checkout, version Rollback Procedure testing followed by Business Checkout.
• Developed Tractability Matrix and Test Coverage reports.
• Worked on Test Data Setup for various business test case requirements.
• Worked for different Sprints in Agile Methodology
• Escalate the issues about the project requirements (Software, Hardware Resources, Resources for testing) to project Lead /Test Manager.
• Executed Regression test Suite on each QA build.
• Test and validate the Web Services using SOAP UI.
• Validate the RESTful Web Service using REST client.
• Performed extensive Database Validations and verifications using Complex SQLs.
• Expertise in DML,DCL commands of SQL (Structured Query Language)
• As Part of End to End testing extensively used UNIX to verify data on UNIX servers between Auto Systems and its middleware applications.
• Modified and reused JCLs and SQLs for data extraction and analysis
• Ran Batch jobs On Mainframes Servers
• Tracked the defects using Clear Quest, Quality Center, Trac and generated defect summary reports
• Involved in opening Software Change Requests (SCR) for the discovered defects and also involved in creating, executing test cases for the SCRs opened for the project for enhancement requests.
• Worked with Requirements module
• Created Test cases in Test Plan Module and traceability with requirements.
• Created Test sets in Test Lab Module and performed Test Execution.
• Created defects in Defects module and linked Defects to test Sets and test cases.
• Written Selenium Scripts to create Business reusable components in Data driven and keyword driven Framework.
• Worked in Selenium RC and Selenium IDE.
• Worked on JUNIT, NUNIT Frameworks in Selenium
• Prepared Driver Scripts in Data driven Framework for specific modules.
• Extensively used Descriptive Programming.
• Prepared Error Handler Functions to deal runtime QTP Errors
• Prepared Automated Regression Test suite using QTP 10.0
• Wrote VB scripts by using descriptive programming
• Wrote reusable functions for regression suite in order to reduce the repetition of code.
• Prepared LR scripts through VUGEN (HTML based recording)
• Performed Parameterization and Manual Correlation for the Scripts
• Prepared manual and goal oriented scenarios according to the requirement.
• Responsible for Performance Testing using Load Runner and monitoring CPU utilizations on AppServer, WebServer, database server and controller machines simultaneously
• Responsible for comparing the results with old version’s baseline results and to find out the root cause of degradation of performance by analyzing various graphs generated by Load Runner Analyzer
• Prepared Automation Scripts using Selenium IDE.
• Ran Selenium Scripts on multiple browsers using Selenium RC.
• Written Java classes to load test data from excel/xml, to run selenium scripts in specific environments and inherited Selenium API to test with the Client Side Framework used in the application.
• Using Clearcase, Subversion for code repositories and Maven for the dependencies.

Environment: Java, EJB, JSP, Windows 2000/NT,HP-Unix,Oracle 9.0,DB2,TOAD, Shell script, Load Runner 8.0,QTP 8.2,EDBA,Quality Center, WebLogic

Confidential, Florida

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Different Sprints of Agile SDLC
• Coordinate the Testing tasks throughout the STLC
• Prepared Test Designs, and Test Cases from Design Document
• Prepared input Test data for execution based on BVA and Equivalent Partitioning strategies.
• Conducted various types of testing like Functionality Testing, Regression Testing, Database Testing
• Written System Test Cases as per the Business Flows and created data for that.
• Executed test cases, and conducting regression and system testing for Multi-Tiered Environment Builds
• Expertise in Build Acceptance Testing and Release Acceptance Testing
• Performed Request and Response Packets Testing between Application and Mainframes.
• Performed data integrity testing (UI Vs Database) using SQL
• Performed End to End Testing from AUT vs MainFrames vs App Database.
• Preparation of Test Plan and Test data (Test bed criteria)
• Script designing and reviewing and maintaining the test ware
• Scheduling and executing the jobs, Load databases
• Interact with the different Operations group concerning the job scheduling, setting the environments, database setup etc.
• Coded/modified JCLs to extract data from Mainframes (DB2, IMS) and FTPd to Unix.
• Tested number of batch programs developed in COBOL, DB2, IMS
• Created and executed test scripts to validate and compare source and target database in SIT Environment.
• Defect management and allocation of defects to offshore development leads as per the application areas.
• Responsible for Deployment of QA Builds in UNIX Environment
• Updated .Properties and .config files on UNIX Servers for the QA Environment Setup.
• Conducted meetings with client and offshore FTA’s for query resolutions.
• Following Daily execution sheets/Metrics sheets/Effort tracking/Review Logs /Query logs/Execution tracking sheet, Minutes of Meeting Sheet, Conference Call Sheet.
• Created Implementation deliverables (Implementation Plan, Communication Plan, and Implementation Test Plan).
• Coordinated with Change Management Group to track Change requests and cleared Pending Request Change Approvals.
• Worked with requirements module Edited requirements add traceability from requirements to tests in test Plan Module.
• Created defects and perform defect tracking using Defects module.
• Prepared Automation Planning and Strategy.
• Worked with Modular Automation Framework.
• Participated in Peer Reviews of automation scripts and documented review comments
• Identify and Automated Regression Test suite using QTP 8.2
• Performed Data setup by using Environment files, Global, Local Data.
• Created Recovery Scenarios for Error handling to deal runtime Errors
• Wrote reusable functions for regression suite in order to reduce the code.

Environment: Windows NT Server 4.0, HTML, XML, ASP, SQL Sever 2000, QTP 9.2Load Runner 8.0, Test Director 7.0, Visual Source safe, JCL, COBOL, SAS, DB2, ORACLE, IMS, VSAM, ISPF, FILE-AID, PANVALET, QMF, SPUFI, CLIST, JOBTRAC, HP Automation Tool - QTP.

Confidential, CT

QA ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing Business requirements and Functional requirements documents.
• Preparing Test Plan and Test cases according to the requirements.
• Extensively worked on SQL (DDL, DML) and performed Backend testing.
• Performed database testing using SQL.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Regularly following up with Development Team to discuss discrepancies identified during testing and performance tuning.
• Involved in Black box, white box testing of the .net application.
• Involved in testing web based and windows applications.
• Performed UAT (User Acceptance Testing) testing.
• Created Test cases in Quality Center - Test Plan Module.
• Used Quality Center as the defect-tracking tool to enter defects regarding the issues found during testing.
• Prepared Automated Regression Suite using QTP 8.0
• Involved in weekly meeting and walkthroughs for project status and updates.
• Responsible for weekly status to show the Progress of the automation testing effort.

Environment: Windows NT, .NET, HTML, XML, TOAD, MS office, SQL Server, oracle, QTP, Quality Center

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Derived Test Scenarios from Business Scenarios and mapped requirements.
• Prepared Regression Test Suite from Functional Test cases based on Business Criticality
• Executed Regression test suite against each QA build
• Involved in Database testing, Functional Integration, Regression and Compatibility testing of the application.
• Checked the Data flow through the front and backend and used SQL queries to extract the data from the database
• Used SQL and PL/SQL for Data retrieval in Back End Testing
• Performed Data Validation of the data flow from the front-end to the back-end.
• Ran PL/SQL blocks in order to rectify data corruption in the database.
• Responsible for Front End testing, Integration testing and System testing on the coded software.
• Participated in Review meetings to discuss Issues with Team Lead and Project Manager.
• Prepared Final Test report after completion of execution.

Environment: JAVA, Java Bean, J2EE,Agile, EJB, JSP, JavaScript, Ajax, Struts, Java Beans, XML, XSLT, Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle Application Server, Avalon,UNIX, UML, Ant, SQL, Oracle9i, SQL,PL/SQL,CVS, Win NT, MVC, JDBC,Hibernate, HTML, Excel, DOM API, XSL-FO