OBJECTIVE

• An enthusiastic, goal oriented, flexible, self - motivated individual with exceptional interpersonal and analytical skills, seeking a challenging position as a Quality Analyst with growth opportunities.

SUMMARY

• Over 10+ years of diverse experience in the field of Information technology with emphasis on Software Quality Assurance
• Expertise in developing Software Test Plans, Test Case Design, and Test Scripts based on User Requirements Specification (URS) and System Requirements documents (SRS).
• Experience in Software Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, configuration and usability testing.
• Gathering Business Requirements, Automation Testing, Manual testing using various testing Tools including; Quick Test Professional, Defect tracker and Test Director
• Performed Black Box, Manual testing and Automation testing of the application to test the system for both the functional and user requirements for positive and negative scenarios.
• Able to apply broad technical and functional expertise to organize and implement white and black-box test efforts and to analyze requirements for software design, development, and validation.
• Well Versed in GUI application testing, Back End testing, Database testing, Front-end testing, Functional Testing, System testing, Trans Browser Testing, stand alone, and web based applications with multiple server domains.
• Represent QA in all phases of product development including requirement, design, construction, testing, implementation, code reviews and support.
• Active role in requirements review, functional document review, Testing review and key resource for UAT phase and production roll-out.
• Excellent knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC), and Defect Management Lifecycle.
• Participated in Defect management and Bug Reporting using bug-tracking tools for business software’s and web applications
• Organized weekly calls with the clients, weekly status meetings with the team and was responsible for meeting the project deadlines.
• Ability to learn new technologies and challenging concepts quickly and implement them.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, decision-making and presentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

QA Tools: Quick Test Professional 8.2, Test Track Pro, Quality Center

Programming: COBOL/COBOL II, CICS, C, Oracle 7.3, Visual Basics 5.0, ACCESS, POWER BUILDER 5.0, Micro Focus COBOL

IBM Mainframe: IBM 3090, OS/JCL, VSAM, TSO/PDF, DB2, IBM Utilities, TSO/PDF, VSAM

Database: SYBASE, PL/SQL, Oracle forms and reports SQL Adaptive Server Enterprise V5.0 and 7.0, SYBASE Fast Track to Adaptive Server Enterprise V.5.0 and 7.0

Applications: Table handling, data validation, random and sequential files updating, sorting, multi-level control breaks processing, calling/called structures Static and dynamic calls. Data modeling, SQL

Concepts: Problem analysis, structured programming, programming debugging, editing functions, and documentation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. QA Analyst

Confidential, Bluebell, PA

Responsibilities:

• Performs validation and verification of baseline software systems for assigned projects.
• Performs validation and verification of software modifications for all assigned projects
• Analyzes functional requirements, creates appropriate test plans and traceability matrices
• Creates and executes test scripts, originates and tracks resulting defects
• Reviews and signs off on software testing to ensure that the testing requirements have been met when performed by another testing specialist
• Aids in the update or development of various required documentations to meet industry standards
• Assists in the development and update of validation documentation
• Following Electronic Signatures (21 CFR Part 11).

Sr. QA Analyst

Confidential, Berwyn, PA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to develop and Manage QTP scripts using Quality Center
• Worked on Functional Testing and Regression testing
• Used QC,QTP extensively to create the BPT’s and Application area
• Involved in creation of Manual test cases and Test Scenarios.
• Documented the Automation Test Plan and Release documents.
• Involved in Platform testing for XP, VISTA and MAC.
• Worked closely with development team to monitor the UI changes.
• Reviewed the Test cases and Test Strategy documents.
• Involved in consolidating the defects and involved in meetings.
• Used SQL queries for retrieving the data from the database.
• Created the list of Possibilities for automating the product.

Sr. QA Analyst

Confidential, King of Prussia, PA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for entire testing process and creating test scripts for the web based application. These applications were developed with ASP.NET, VB.NET.
• Analyzed business requirements and functional design specifications.
• Responsible for writing Test Plans from the Functional Requirements and Design Specifications.
• Periodically tested the web interface functionality according to the guidelines of the test plan. Created various negative and positive tests.
• Written Manually Functional Test cases for manual testing.
• Did the system testing to test the whole business process of the application manually
• Written test cases in Test Director manual testing.
• Extensively worked on Quick test pro to automate the entire business process in the application.
• Created actions and reusable action by using quick Test Pro.
• Configured Quality center with Quick test pro as per the client requirements.
• Used Quality Center for management and bug tracking purpose.
• Used Load Runner for performance, load and stress testing.
• Wrote and executed SQL queries to insure data integrity to meet user requirements for manual testing.
• Responsible for entire process of Release Management.
• Managed the QA Log Defect Tracking process, which included prioritizing defects, assigning defects to developers and following through the testing process.
• Performed defect analysis, tracking and investigation through manual defect tracking.

Environment: Test Director 7.6/8.0, Win Runner 7.5/8.0, Load Runner 7.6, QTP 8.0./8.2,, Oracle, PL SQL, VB.Net, ASP.Net, PVCS, C# Java, VBScript,, XML, HTML, DHTML, Java Web logic Server, UNIX, Windows NT/XP, MS Office Tools

Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for functionality, integration and full regression testing of the following Mainframe and Client/Server Insurance applications: Claim Tracking System, Quality Auditors System, Service Provider Search, Viking. Applications were developed utilizing Visual Basic, Sybase and SQL Server 2000.
• Responsible for functional, data, and regression testing for each release of the application.
• Wrote test plans that detailed testing scope, strategy, hi-level test requirements, and required resources.
• Quality Assurance Training program: Manual Software Testing, Win Runner.
• Identified functions in the application to be tested based on importance.
• Planned and coordinated multi-user testing. Assisted developers in redesigning GUI front-end to provide a more accurate representation of abstract data.
• Executed manually written test cases to test end to end of application.
• Manual testing is done for validation of data in the application.
• Mercury Quality Center is used for managing the manual tests.
• Used TSL scripting to automate the application by using win runner.
• Used various check points in win runner for effective automation test strategy.
• Called win runner scripts into Quick test pro.
• Successfully executed win runner scripts in Quick test pro.
• Used Quick test pro and VB scripting to automate web and .Net applications.
• Extensively worked with Quick test pro in expert view and keyword view.
• Mercury Quality Center is used for management, administrative and bug tacking purpose.
• Prepared the requirements in Mercury Quality Center and build the test plan tree based on it.
• Discussed the problems and verified usability issues with users.
• Reduced the testing time by streamlining the testing process.

Environment: Test Director 7.6/8.0, Win Runner 7.5, Load Runner 7.6, QTP 6.5/ 8.0., Oracle, PL SQL, VB.Net, ASP.Net, PVCS, C# Java, VBScript,, XML, HTML, DHTML, Java Web logic Server, UNIX, Windows NT/XP, MS Office Tools

Programmer/Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, Collegeville, PA

Responsibilities:

• Created test environment for CMF-Extract Project.
• Modified existing test-scripts for testing account receivable file update.
• Wrote several new programs to extract and validate updates to database.
• Developed expertise in handling tables, JCL, PROCS, GDGs and using symbolics.
• Created test files and transferred files from mainframe to UNIX and SYBASE, using FTP through the JCL. Created complete JCL library using PROCs to execute jobs.
• Assisted in writing functional specification, design specifications and Test Plans.
• Worked extensively on Y2K system testing and implementation.
• Analyzed Business Requirement Document and Analysis & Design Document.
• Involved in entire QA Life Cycle, which includes Designing, Developing and Execution of the entire QA Process and documentation of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Scripts.
• Performed GUI Testing by creating GUI checkpoints to verify the functionality of the GUI objects using Win Runner.
• Automated Test scenarios for GUI Functionality, Regression, and Integration Testing using Win Runner.
• Executed the automated Test Cases and Test Sets in Mercury Quality Center.
• Parameterized key elements to verify the Database Integrity.
• Enhanced Testing Scripts (TSL) to increase the performance of the application.
• Defect Tracking and Reporting was done by using Mercury Quality Center.
• Worked with System Test Review Team and Developers to resolve system test issues and re-test.

Environment: Test Director 6.5, Win Runner 7/01, Load Runner 7.6, QTP 6.0/6.5,, Oracle, PL SQL, IBM 3090, MVS/ESA, COBOL II, MVS/JCL, TSO/ISPF, Oracle, CICS, VSAM, FILE-AID, VB-Scripts, EXCEL and MS-WORD, VBScript.

Application Analyst

Confidential, Abington, PA

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a clinical trails application where the application is used for electronic data validation and testing. This clinical trails application was developed in VB 6.The main application test was a client server application where the patient data is stored for the scientific testing.
• Created manually functional test cases for manual testing.
• Created detail test cases for automation and used Win Runner to automate.
• Used various check points to test the functionality of the application by using Win Runner.
• Used Mercury Quality Center for Test Management and Maintained the Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Installed Mercury Quality Center and configured it with Win Runner.
• Administered Test Director by using Admin utility.
• Created users and User Groups by using Mercury Quality Center.
• Extensively involved in performance testing by using Load Runner.
• Created scripts in VUGen, did sanity check to test the scripts.
• Performance Testing is done by creating controller Scenarios.
• Attended Business meetings, discussed the issues and reported in time.
• Assisted the team lead with daily QA tasks. Attended project meetings, release meetings, and QA status meetings.
• Test Director: Test Director 6.5, Win Runner 7/01, Oracle, IBM 3090, MVS/ESA, COBOL, VB-Scripts, EXCEL and MS-WORD, VBScript.