Experience CV

.Experience Summary:
• Over 7 years of expertise as a QA Engineer in Manual/Automated Testing of Web
based ,Client/Server and Internet applications
• Defined the test criteria, project schedules and base lined the Test Plan with the help
of project meetings and walkthroughs.
• Worked extensively on creating and implementing Automation Framework using
data driven, shared, customized and Keyword driven techniques.
• Developed Test Plans including Test Analysis, Test Cases, Test Scenarios and Test
Reports
• Worked extensively on J2EE, SOA (Service oriented Architecture) including
SOAP, WSDL, Web Services validation.
• Performed both Manual and Automated testing using HP Quality center, Quick Test
Professional (QTP) and Test Director/Quality Centre.
• Strong QA experience in various stages of all phases of SDLC, including requirements
analysis, risk analysis, project planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking,
management, and reporting (testing metrics).
• Adept at using both manual and automated testing tools to troubleshoot systems,
integration, user acceptance, positive and negative, functionality, object, and
regression
• Experience in working closely with different teams to set up test environments.
• Extensive Experience in Data Analysis, writing PL/SQL Queries for Validation and
Test data preparation.
• Having Strong knowledge of software project development life cycle (SDLC)
methodology. Extensively Experienced in Waterfall and Iterative (AGILE)
Software Development methodologies.
• Worked extensively on Multi-tier and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
using Web Services.
• Backend testing of the DB by writing SQL queries to test the integrity of the
application and Oracle databases using TOAD.
• Generating Test Documentation – Artifacts such as Test Plans,WSRs, Test Results,
Test Metrics
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, Excellent multi-tasking, problem
solving skills

Education: Master’s in Software Engineering

Technical Skills
Languages : C++, C, Java, Perl, Shell Scripting, VBScript
Operating Systems : UNIX, Windows XP/200/Vista, Solaris 5.10, Suse Linux
9.0/10.0,
Testing tools : Quick Test Pro (QTP), Quality Center 9.0/9.2/9.5, SOAPUI.
Other tools : ClearQuest, Bugzilla, ANT build tool, TOAD, Informatica
Power Center.
Network Tools and Protocols : TCP/IP, UDP, Ethernet
Web Technologies : HTTP, XML, CSS, DHTML, Java Script
Microsoft Tools : MS Office, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
RDBMS : SQL Server, MS Access, DB2
Data Warehousing
Reporting Tools : CO>OP 2.14, GDE 1.14, Data Stage 8.x
Business Objects 6.5/XIR2, Cognos 8.0 Suite, Crystal Reports,
SSAS, SSRS,
MicroStrategy 8.x

Client: Capital One Bank, Mc Lean, VA

Duration: November 2009-Current
Title: Sr. QA Engineer/Onsite-Offsite Coordinator
Project Description:
Capital One Bank, a division of Capital One Financial group is a fortune 500 company with 8th
largest deposit portfolio in US. Capital One bank provides retail and commercial banking
services for consumers and businesses. Worked on restructuring of a web based application
where a customer can access the bank accounts of Deposits(Checking, Savings, Money
Market), CD, Small business, Credit cards, Auto loans, Home loans, Healthcare finance.
Another web application enables enrollment of customer for the on-line banking of his
accounts.

Responsibilities

• Reviewed FRD and developed functional test cases and developed automation
scenarios
• Maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure requirement
coverage.
• Performed Ambiguity Analysis on requirement document and Use Cases.
Formulate methods to perform Positive and Negative testing against requirements.
• Performed Manual Testing of the application Front-End and Functionality.
Identified the critical test scripts to be automated.
• Performed Verification, Validation, and Transformations on the Input data (Text
files, XML files) before loading into target database.
• Perform Functional, Data Validation, Integration, regression and User
Acceptance testing.
• Wrote SQL queries for data validation
• Ensured completion of assigned actions.
• Worked on identifying project issues and worked with project team for providing
solutions
• Compiled and maintained project documentation related to quality assurance
• Coordinated implementation and validation activities within the team.
• Involved in Preparing the SDD (System Design Document) based on PRD (Project
Requirement Document), TRD (Technical Requirement Document) and Marketing
Analysis team Inputs.
Reported the daily status of test cases execcuted/failed, worked with business
 analysts to assure new functionality changes were reasonable regarding existing
physical design.
• Mentored new team members to bring them up to speed and helped them with
technical issue resolution
• Coordinating with offshore team and provided technical help to them. Was
handling onsite-offshore communication for shorter lead time on issue
resolution

Environment: XML, XSLT, PERL, WinSQL, Windows NT 4.0, Visual Studios, SQL Server
2008, QTP 9.2, Netezza NPS 8050, NZ SQL, Quality Center 9.2, DTS, T-SQL, SQL,
Teradata V2R6, TOAD, Teradata SQL Assistant 6.0, Oracle 9i/10g, PL/SQL, MVS, IBM DB2,
SAS, Cognos ReportNet8.0, MS Access/Excel/Visio, UNIX Shell Scripting, Hyperion.

Client: Walmart , Brisbane, CA.

Duration: May 2008 – October 2009
Title: Sr. QA Engineer
Project Description:
Walmart is the world's largest public corporation by revenue, the largest majority private
employer, the largest grocery retailer in the United States. Wal-Mart operates under its own
name in the United States, including the 50 states and Puerto Rico. Wal-Mart operates in
Mexico as Walmex, in the United Kingdom as Asda ("Asda Wal-Mart" in some branches), in
Japan as Seiyu, and in India as Best Price. Application Under Test was the new Walmart
Sam’s China website for the first time and starting ecommerce in China.

Responsibilities:
• Agile methodology was implemented in the work environment.
• Used Customized Framework for Action Level and Script Level standardization in QTP.
• Handled Timeout Problems in the script using Synchronization Points in QTP.
• Created and maintained Automation Framework by implementing
documentation and standards using QTP.
• Automated the test scripts for the GUI, Functional, Data Driven and
Regression testing using QTP.
• Created the regular expression, and output values in the application. Checked
for Broken links and number of links using QTP.
• Created Output checkpoints to verify run time values and to use them as input in
actions.
• Created, scheduled and executed many benchmark, performance and other
scenarios to meet specific testing requirements.
• Created Data Driven Tests that randomized the test data, for testing the AUT with
real life test conditions using Excel file and database.
• Designed and developed UNIX shell scripts as part of the ETL process, automate the
process of loading, pulling the data.
• Tested graphs for extracting, cleansing, transforming, integrating, and loading data
using Ab Initio ETL
• Worked with SSIS system variable, passing variables between packages.
 • Wrote the SQL queries on data staging tables and data warehouse tables to
validate the data results.
• Tool.Used Quality Center for reporting the bugs and writing the test cases.
• Fully integrated with Quality Center for Test Management activities, created separate
test sets for each release based on the severity.

Environment:
Ab Initio CO>OP 2.14, GDE 1.14, QTP 9.2, SSIS/SSAS/SSRS, SQL Server 2005, Quality Center
9.0, Load Runner7.0, PERL, Business Objects XIR2, Oracle 10g, Java, Unix AIX 5.2,VB Script,
SQL, Hyperion , SAS, XML, XSLT, XML Spy, SQL, PL/SQL, Stored Procedures, Shell Scripting,
XPath, OLAP,

Client: ABN AMRO, Ann Arbor, MI

Duration: May 2007 – April 2008

Title: SR. QA Test Engineer

Project Description:

ABN AMRO was a mortgage service. According to the Client’s requirement, the application
would calculate mortgage, process a payment for a customer.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Involved in development of test plans, test cases, test scenarios and test strategies
to facilitate the process of testing.
• Performed black box, smoke, functionality, integration, GUI, system,
database using SOAP UI.
• Used Quality Center extensively for storing test cases, maintaining test
documentation.
• Used Quality Center to create, manage, run test suites, generate reports for
percentage of failures with proper Severity, Priority, test case status etc.
• Developed automation Test scripts using VBScript in QTP.
• Validated web services current states and make logical "assertions" against WSDL
and SOAP objects using SOAP UI
• Developed data driven functions using excel files and flat files to perform the
same test with multiple sets of data using Data Table functions in QTP.
• Developed User-Acceptance Test scripts and assisted users in conducting
UAT.
• Worked on Multiple releases on different environments at the same time.
• XML Spy was used for web service testing like mortgage calculator request and
response data.
• Successful replacement of the way mortgage.com gets rate information from a
database based back-end to an XML based back-end.
• Handled dynamic objects by using descriptive programming using VBScript.
• Involved black box testing includes functional testing, Load testing and data driven
 testing using SOAP UI.

Environment

Quick Test Professional 9.5, Quality Center 9.0, Agile methodology, SOAPUI 2.0, XML,
XMLSpy, .Net, C#, MySQL, Linux, UNIX, Windows Server 2003.

Client: Farmers Insurance, Wilmington, DE

Duration: November 2005 to April 2007
Title: QA Engineer
Project Description:
The Project was for Farmers Insurance, Wilmington,DE. This project is called as
Corporate Risk Analysis includes the Clearance, Coverage, Quote Handling,
Security, Entitlement, Rating, Profiles, and Endorsements etc. This application
enables all the new Agent and Agency to register their company with the Farmers
Insurance Company. Farmers Insurance maintains the records of all the Agent and
Agencies Coverage and Benefit involves with their different products.
Responsibilities
• Tested the application utilizing the Agile methodology. Worked on multiple
sprints on the project.
• Managed requirements and maintained test repository using Quality Center
• Performed data driven testing using excel file in QTP
• Created checkpoints and synchronization points in the application to deal with
timing problems
• Used object identification to map custom class to standard class
• Created shared object repository to share all the objects of application
globally
• Supply project managers and developers with updates on the software
development life cycle and obtained their sign-off on all test results
• Created functions and procedures in VBS files for reusability
• Prepared reports and test results after each release cycle for management
and further test planning using Reporter event statements in the script using QTP.
• Performed automated back-end testing by writing SQL queries
• Created and Validated SOAP, WSDL messages using XML Spy.
• Developed user-acceptance test scripts and assisted users in conducting UAT
• Checked the broken links in the application and conducted cross browser testing
• Wrote reusable functions to handle application exceptions locally instead of
passing control to main script
• Responsible for the backend testing of the server log using basic Unix commands
• Performed different types of Customer Acceptance, Functional, Build verification
testing.
• Performed Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Maintained the Requirements Tractability Matrix (RTM).
Environment: QTP, QC, ASP.NET, XML, Windows NT and Unix.

Client: Super Media LLC (Formerly Idearc Media Corp) / Superpages.com

Duration: September2004-November 2005
Title: QA Analyst
Project Description:
Superpages.com is the Internet's #1 online yellow pages directory and a leading
shopping resource. With up to 17 million unique visitors per month, superpages.com
also promotes advertiser goods and services through listings, Web sites and shopping
services according to their specific local, regional and national needs. Superpages.com
visitors search by keyword and categories to get merchant and service contact
information, maps, hyperlinks to Web sites and e-commerce options that help users
evaluates products and services, identify sources for those goods and make purchases.

Responsibilities
• Analyze the Business requirement documents, Functional specification documents to
prepare Test conditions, Test cases, Test Scripts and effort estimation.
• Feature testing in Agile methodology.
• Actively conducted & Involved in monthly Sprint Planning, Review meetings for
various Streams.
• Participated in daily stand up meetings as part of Agile methodology to discuss work
accomplished, planned work and raise issues.
• Gave Sprint Feature Demos to business/product owners.
• Test Activities includes documenting Test scripts from Use Cases in the Quality
Center test case repository.
• Performed Smoke, GUI, Unit, Integration, Functional, Regression, Data
Integrity, System, Compatibility, End-to-End testing, User Acceptance
Testing and Ad-hoc Testing.
• Tested SOA Web services XML provided to the third party vendors.
• Used SOAP UI for creating/configuring tests.
• Used SOAP Request for extensive functional testing and validation of services
through a variety of assertion and scripting possibilities.
• Recorded, customized and executed various Test Scripts according to the business
requirements.
• Developed scripts for testing the test cases and made enhancements for previous
scripts.
• Performed regression testing using QTP.
• Used Descriptive Programming in QTP to eliminate the need of adding objects to
OR and hence decrease the size of it which in turn increases the performance of QTP.

Environment: QTP 8.0, LoadRunner 8.0, Quality Center 8.0, TTP, Wily, WebLogic 8.1
Portal, J2EE, JDBC, JSP, Struts, MicroStrategy, PeopleSoft, Oracle, MySQL , Toad, Windows
XP and UNIX.

Client: Merck & Co., Kenilworth, NJ

Duration: September 2003 – August 2004
Title: Tester
Project Description:
Merck & Co. Inc is a global pharmaceutical giant that manufactures and develops
pharmaceutical products throughout the world. As well as developing new drugs Merck & Co.
which is headquartered in New Jersey is a also a research driven company that discovers
and markets its broad range of innovative products to improve human and animal health.

The project was to develop an automation application system that will automate the entire
ordering system of the company’s supply chain. The system automatically handles the

incoming stream of orders, dispatches them to the warehouse, informs the field
representatives about the status of the orders, performs security and validation checks
on the orders, and sends out shipping details to the field representatives.

Responsibilities
• Analyzed the business requirements and system specifications to
understand the application.
• Instrumental in test document (test plan, test cases, test data, test
scripts) for organization/individuals
• Involved in Functionality testing of the web based application by testing
various modules of the application using Quick Test Pro
• Involved in executing the Test scripts and reporting the Results in Test
Director.
• Used Quick Test Professional. to execute automation test cases after
manually verifying application functionalities.
• Conducted automated parameterization of dynamic content within
application by using Quick Test Professional.
• Performed Functional, GUI, Regression, and System Integration, User
Acceptance, Configuration and content testing for web-based e-commerce
application
• Validated database operations by executing SQL queries and compared
actual database with new database partitions to assure there is no data missing.
• Conducted variance management by analyzing and verifying test results,
provided status, and progress reports using Test Director.
• Performed system and browser compatibility tests on various platforms
such as Tablet PCs, Macintosh, Windows, and Linux Based web browsers.

Environment: Test Director 8.0, QTP 8.2, HTML, Java, Windows XP, Linux, MS Office,
Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox.