Summary

6 years experience as a QA Analyst involved with Testing of GUI and Database oriented applications in the Client, Server environment and 3 tier Web Environments. Experience in Manual and Automated Testing using automated tools using : WinRunner, LoadRunner, Test Director and Quick Test Pro. Experience in the areas of RDBMS, ODBC, Web based applications, Networking and Internet.

Highlights include :
Extensive experience in Automated Testing using : Test Director, Quick Test Pro and Rational Clear Quest, Load Runner, WinRunner.

Strong knowledge of Software Life Cycle.

Strong Experience in writing and executing comprehensive Test Plans, Test Strategies, Test Cases.

Performed front end Testing, back end Testing and involved in Generating SQL queries to get output from different database tables and strong in Unix Shell Scripting.

Performed all phases of Testing Methodologies that included User Acceptance Testing, Functionality Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, System Testing, Stress Testing, Performance Testing, Interface Testing, Alpha Testing, Beta Testing, End to End testing.

Participated in various meetings to discuss Enhancement and Modification Requests. Can interact effectively with all levels of management, technical and non technical

Thorough knowledge on Maintenance and testing on IBM Mainframe using COBOL and SQL.

Strong experience with MS Office Package as MS Word, MS Excel for writing Test Plans, Test Cases, weekly status report

Demonstrate excellent communications skills and effectively liaises with other team members, customer staff, consultants, testers and management. Can interact effectively with all levels of management, technical and non technical.

Perform as a self starter and is able to complete their project work with minimal guidance and supervision.

Dynamic, result oriented and performance driven, with good communication skills, technical skills, time management skills and a commitment to meet project goals. Have excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills.

APPLICATION, AREAS :
Insurance, Banking, Finance and Retail


Employment

2004 -  Present
QA Lead

Customer Accounts and Data Management

Analyzed business requirements, use case documents, functional specs and assisted QA team lead in writing the test plans.

analyze the application made recommendations for automation.

Written functional test cases for manual testing.

performed manual testing of each unit and then each build.

Detailed test cases are written for automation purpose.

Automated detailed test cases by using QUICK TEST PRO.

Used QUICK TEST PRO to write the automated test scripts by using various actions and reusable actions.

Worked in keyword view and expert view of QUICK TEST PRO.

Enhanced the tests by keeping the check points like database check points, page check points, standard check points etc.

Configured QUICK TEST PRO with Quality Centre and Maintained the project information in Quality Centre.

Tracked and reported the bugs in TEST DIRECTOR.

Created projects in TEST DIRECTOR by using project Administrator utility.

Tested complex multi tier applications for KEY Bank Online Banker Project.

Used Load Runner for performance, stress and load testing.

Developed Load Runner scripts in Virtual Visual Generator.

Created scenarios by generating concurrent virtual users in controller.

Analyzer is used to analyze the performance results and generate the reports.

Called WINRUNNER scripts into QUICK TEST PRO.

Create and test installation packages for easy deployment of an application.

Developed manual and automated test cases and WINRUNNER scripts to test the functionality of the applications and generated Test Scripts and automated it for future use in WINRUNNER.

Use object oriented design and development principles to build a scalable, high performance application framework for enterprise N-tier applications

Performed conceptual and detail design, development, testing, deployment and documentation of applications in a production environment

Participated in design reviews, walk through defect meeting.

Performed code reviews validating that all code written conforms to JPMC software coding practices

Provided oversight of technical team members during code development to ensure all development is based upon the functional designs provided from the Business Analysts

Demonstrated an understanding of and experience with full software development life cycle, functional and technical specification, development, documentation, QA processes, source control, maintenance and deployment is essential

Worked with ORACLE database to compare the results from front end data values with backend data values.

Responsible for executing test scripts manually, to ensure that the quality control procedures are implemented and improved.

Attended business meetings to achieve target.

2003 -  2004
Environment : Test Director

As a QA Tester responsible for Online Application'. This application deals with online banking for the bank one's valuable customer. Customer can do login by giving user id and password. After logging it takes you to the secured link. Customer can do online banking with bank like Transfer funds, Order new checkbook, Change address, View account activity and Change account nickname.

Detailed test plans, test cases are written for automation purpose.

Automated detailed test cases by using QUICK TEST PRO.

Used QUICK TEST PRO to write the automated test scripts by using various actions and reusable actions.

Worked in keyword view and expert view of QUICK TEST PRO.

Enhanced the tests by keeping the check points like database check points, page check points, standard check points etc.

Configured QUICK TEST PRO with Quality Centre and Maintained the project information in Quality Centre.

Tracked and reported the bugs in TEST DIRECTOR.

Created projects in TEST DIRECTOR by using project Administrator utility.

Tested complex multi tier applications for Sainsbury Project.

Used LOAD RUNNER for performance, stress and load testing.

Developed LOAD RUNNER scripts in Virtual Visual Generator.

Created scenarios by generating concurrent virtual users in controller.

Analyzer is used to analyze the performance results and generate the reports.

Called WINRUNNER scripts into QUICK TEST PRO.

Developed manual and automated test cases and WINRUNNER scripts to test the functionality of the applications.

Generated Test Scripts and automated for future use in WINRUNNER.

Participated in all phases of the software development lifecycle, project planning, requirement definition, design, code, test and software release.

Responsible in executing test scripts manually, to ensure that the quality control procedures are implemented and improved.

Provided status reports to the Project Manager.

Explained requirements and technical scenarios to non technical people and prioritized project tasks.

Performed functional testing of Retek's retail products under development in accordance with a predefined plan, monitor product changes, initiate defects and record test results.

Worked with accounts payable, receivable Applications to verify results display on the Web interface.

Performed all phases Test Methodologies that include User Acceptance Testing, Functionality, Regression, Integration Testing, White Box Testing, Black Box Testing and Interface testing Alpha Testing, Beta Testing.

Worked with VISA, MasterCard Processing systems Teams to verify the Transactions.

Worked with Oracle database to compare results from front end data values to backend data.

2002 -  2003
Environment : QTP 6. x/8 .x Winrunner 7. x/6 .x Test Director

Inventory Management System

This application was developed to meet their daily business needs to maintain sales, orders and Inventory data. This package facilitates an effective control of the merchandize received from the vendors, supplied to the customers and forecast the inventory at monthly, quarterly and yearly interval. The inventory system includes entry forms for daily sales and orders.

Involved in developing and executing test plan, test cases and test scripts.

Responsible for setting up the standards and procedures for the preparation of Test Plans, Test Cases and their smooth execution throughout the company.

Participating in design reviews, walkthroughs defect meeting.

Developed and executed various test plans and test cases for different applications using Rational Clear Quest, Mercury TEST DIRECTOR and QUICK TEST PRO Tools.

Developed and implemented various Test Scripts using WINRUNNER, LOAD RUNNER for automated testing of each individual functionality of the applications.

Used Rational Clear Quest as Bug Tracking Tool.

Used Rational Clear Case to checkout the approved Requirements from Business Analyst.

Performed all phases Test Methodologies that include Acceptance, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, White Box Testing, Black Box Testing and Interface testing Alpha Testing, Beta Testing and End to-End Testing.

Documenting Defect with complete description for the developers to understand in Rational Clear Quest.

Worked with VISA, MasterCard Processing systems Teams to verify the Transactions.

Worked with SQL to compare results from front end data values to backend data.

2000 -  2002
QA Engineer

Catalog Manager : The Catalog Manager provides the ability to create a classification schema for product information or extend an existing 1. We can use the Catalog Manager to enter product information into the schema quickly and easily. As a result, customers, distributors, dealers, publishers and employees can access product information easily and effectively, reducing the costs of your release process and getting products to market more directly and rapidly.

Analyze application requirements, specifications and test results.

Wrote and maintained test scripts, test scenarios and test plans.

Performed and executed all levels of testing, : regression, integration, functional and end to-end.

Developed and documented Standard Testing Procedures for both manual and automated testing.

Executed Load Testing Scripts using LOAD RUNNER to execute the system performance and load balancing.

Developed and executed test cases and test suites for functionality and regression testing.

Executed test procedures and documented test results. Performed back end database testing using SQL queries.

Performed Test planning and Executed Test Cases for new Healthcare Information System.

Developed automated test cases in RATIONAL ROBOT and maintained them.

Provided testing of GUI consistency against different browsers against various screen resolutions.

Tested broken links, navigation, forms, printing and usability.

Analyzed complains and suggestions coming from customers and reproduced them.

1998 -  1999
Environment : WinRunner 6.0 Test Director

Education

Miscellaneous

Operating Systems : MVS Windows NT/2000/98/95 Solaris, IBM ES9000

Testing Tools : WinRunner 7. x/6 .x, LoadRunner 7. x/6 .x, Test Director 8/7. x/6 Quick Test Pro 6. x/8 .x, SQA suite, Niku, Project Work Bench, e-Spider, e-Manager, e-Reporter

Rational Tools : Rational Clear Quest, Suite Test, Rational Robot, Requisite Pro, Rose

Languages, Scripting : COBOL, JCL, VSAM, SQL, Java 2 C, C++, Visual Basic 5.0 PL/SQL

Java Technologies : EJB, JMS, JSP, JSP Custom Tags, JDBC, ASP,. NET

Software Methodologies : Rational Unified Process, extreme Programming

Databases, Tools : IBM DB2 Oracle, MS-SQL Server, MS Access, AS400

Application Servers : WebSphere3.0/4.0 WebLogic5.1/6.1 Oracle 9i

Web Servers : Apache Web Server, Tomcat

Enterprise Middleware : IBM MQ Series

Web Technologies : HTML, DHTML, XML, XSL, Java Script

Tools : JUnit, JProbe, TSO, ISPF

Configuration Management Tools : CVS, PVCS, Rational Clear Case, MS Visual Source Safe

QA Tester

Analyzed the system specification of the Business Accounts Portfolio developed to perform integration and system testing of the software. The front end of the application was developed in basic and database Server was in Oracle.

Designed Test scripts and test cases in TEST DIRECTOR and MS-word.

Generated automated test cases on first build of the module using WINRUNNER, Rational Tools.

Participated in design reviews, Involved in making recommendations where appropriate.

Participated in development and validation of entrance and exit criteria for each phase of testing applications.

Responsible for developing test plans and test cases using standards defined by the project.

Performed backend testing using SQL queries and various other tests like user acceptance, integration, system and regression testing on the new build of the application.

Documented the modification requests for all the bugs detected and tracking the bug fixing process until they were closed.

Environment : IBM DB2 MVS ISO, ISPF Test Director WinRunner LoadRunner Java HTML, CSS UML Apache Tomcat CVS Oracle 7.3 Windows NT AS400 UNIX