Software Quality Analyst
Objective
To work with an organization where I can apply my technical and creative skills up to the best and achieve organizational goals & customer satisfaction. Also having an objective of becoming a competent Software Tester & Quality Assurance Analyst and build up a promising career.
Education & Professional Certifications:
M.S Bioengineering Aug’05-May’07
B.E Electrical and Electronics Engineering Aug’01-May’05
SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9.1 July’08
Summary:

• 4+ years of experience in the field of IT with 2+ years of focus on QA and testing of Web based and Client- Server applications, effective use of QA and Testing practice. Good Domain Knowledge of Technology, Health Care and Learning industries.
• Strong knowledge of all phases of Software Development Life Cycle and effective QA implementation in all phases of SDLC.
• Involved in all phases of software testing life cycles,Analysis of Business Requirements, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Manual & Automation Testing , Verifying and Validating Web based applications, Pros and Cons meeting and Documentation review meetings, Team meetings, Defect review meetings and Test case review meetings.
• Excellent knowledge of Automation tools and Expertise in Load Runner, QTP, Test Director.
• Expertise in Manual/Functional Testing, Automation Testing. Involved in integration testing, System Testing including Smoke, Functional, Regression Testing, User Acceptance and Data Migration testing.
• Expertise in Problem solving and Tracking Bug Reports using Bug tracking Tools like Test Director and Quality Center.
• Developing and Maintaining Test Scripts, analyzing bugs and interacting with development team members in fixing the defects.
• Very strong mathematical, analytical and excellent oral and written communication skills. Proven track record in academics.
• Strengths include excellent interpersonal skills, strategic planning with optimum utilization of resources, analytical ability, team leadership and collaboration.

Software Quality Analyst

Technical Skills Functional Testing Tool: QTP8.2, WinRunner7.5,Rational Robot 2003, Vbscript,VSS
Performance Testing Tool: Load Runner8.0
Defect Tracking Tools: Test Director 7.2 and BugZilla
Operating System: Windows XP/2000
Programming Languages: Asp.net, SAS
RDBMS/ Database: Oracle 9i/10g, TOAD, SQL
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential,
New York
Senior SQA/ Consultant Nov’08 – Nov’ 09

• Reviewed Business requirements, IT Design documents and prepared Test Plans for all assigned project releases.
• Designed and executed manual and automated tests to ensure proper operation and
• performance of software applications.
• Involved in testing the new functionalities based on test cases and coordinated with development team in fixing the issues.
• Conducted Data-Driven Testing, Parameterization of Data for the credit card approvals and denial process in the application automation.
• Created Checkpoints and synchronization points by recording using QTP for user login Page, transaction page and administrative page.
• Ensured that all the test cases are updated in the Test Director.
• Manual Functionality Tests of web pages including HTML Code Check, Browser
• Compatibility Tests, Browser Page Testing, Transaction Testing and Application Testing.
• Tested the Load and performance testing of application with Load Runner tool.
• Used rendezvous points to better control and generate peak load on the server thereby stressing it, and measuring its performance on the transaction applications.
• Tested critical bug fixes including critical fixes and coordinated with developers in release of bug fixes meeting tight timeline.
• Involved in Release support - Release to QA, involved in environment setup, testing the release process.
• Documented test results and logged errors, recreated them as needed and tracked errors
• through to resolution (used HP Quality center-Test Director, Bugzilla).
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using Test Director Report.

Environment: QTP, Oracle10g, Loadrunner8.0, Test Director, Bugzilla, Vb script, Windows XP and Visual Source Safe
Confidential,
India
SQA Oct’07 - Sep‘08

• Created Test Plans, Test Cases using Test Director by analyzing the Functional Design Document based on Agile Methodology.
• Interacted with the Business Analysts to get the business requirements and functional
• specifications.
• Scheduled Test Plan review meetings with the client reviewed the test plan document and made sure the test plan has met the requirements in the Functional Design Document.
• Developed automation scripts effectively using Quick Test Pro.
• Provided the Project Test Summary document for all projects, explaining the major
• activities performed, the list of defects found and the assumptions made on the project.
• Performed Manual Testing on different modules of the application.
• Preparation of Test Summary Reports/ Test Execution Reports/ Weekly Reports etc
• Coordinated with Developers for Defect Analysis and their Fixes.
• Performed Configuration, Smoke and UI Testing
• Involved in Performance testing using LoadRunner (developed VUGen Scripts,
• Measure performance and analysis graphs).
• Analysis the LoadRunner report and prepare performance report.

Environment: QTP, Loadrunner8.0, Test Director, Vb script, Bugzilla, Windows XP and Visual Source Safe Software Quality Analyst

Confidential,
Texas
Research Associate Aug’05 - Jul‘07

• Developed protocols to monitor and conduct Phase 0, I & II trials in accordance with IRB to test the efficacy of the diagnostic tool on prostate and kidney cancers and guidance to explore new non-invasive diagnostic techniques for tumor detection.
• Developed statistical algorithms to process the data using SAS a tool.
• Prepared poster presentations, abstracts for conference and manuscripts for publications.
• Manual testing of end-to-end application.

Environment: SAS, Manual Testing, Oracle 9i, Windows XP and Visual Source Safe