Resume of software test engineer

Title
software test engineer

Primary Skills
Manual testing, Mercury quality center, Test plans , Test cases, knowledge on datawarehousing

Location
US-KY-louisville (will consider relocating)

Posted
Jun-24-08


SUMMARY
• Over five years of experience in the field of Information Technology in various Windows based & Client/Server environments as a QA-professional that includes Strong Functional and Technical experience. Having strong research, analytical, testing abilities and dynamic leadership.
• Performed both Manual and Automated testing of Web/Database/Standalone applications.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Scenarios from business, technical and functional requirement documents using Quality Center.
• Experience in various phases of SDLC such as Requirements and Analysis, Design, Development and Testing with CMM Level quality methodology.
• Well versed in manual and automated testing. Extensively used automated test tools WinRunner, QuickTest Pro (QTP), Load Runner and Test Director.
• Knowledge of different types of testing such as Integration, System, Module, Stress, Performance, business functionality Volume and Data Driven test.
• Well versed in Test Director Use and administration and other in-house bug tracking systems.
• Experienced in back-end testing using SQL queries, Sub queries in various testing environments.
• Validated the data entered by raising SQL Queries against the databases in Oracle, Ms-Access.
• Performed Regression, Black-box and GUI testing for various applications using WinRunner.
• Submitted testing reports for Bug-reporting and Bug-tracking using the test management tool Test Director.
• Excellent analytical and logical skills.
• Effectively worked on the Financial and health insurance domains.
• Capability to adopt and learn new tools and technologies.
• Versatile team player with good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Coordinated communications, meetings, and activities among multiple groups and organizations.
• Good knowledge on ETL tool lnformatica and Reporting tool Business Objects XI R2.
• Develop and test reports within a Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse environment.
• Conduct QA testing of ETL data transformation and data warehouse for reporting solutions

EDUCATION
• B.Tech from J.N.T.U, Hyderabad, India.

SKILLS
Operating System Windows 95/98/2000/XP and MSDOS.
Testing Tools Mercury Interactive Tools like Win Runner 8.2, Load
Runner 8.0, Quality Center 9.0, Test Director 7. 5,
Quick Test Professional 9.0
Programming C++, SQL, PL/SQL, and TSL, HTML.
Web scripts Internet Explorer 6.0/7.0, Mozilla Firefox, HTML, DHTML,
VBscript.
Databases Oracle 9i/10g, SQL, and SQL Plus, MS Access, SQL
Server 2000.
Business Tools MS Office, MS Excel
Bug Reporting Tools Bugzilla, Jaira, Davetrac, Rational Clearcase.
Datawarehouse Tools Informatica 7.1.1, Business Objects XI R2 with Crystal Reports.
EXPERIENCE
Dec 2007 -- present Sr. QA Test Engineer, Qwest Communications Corp. (QCC), Dublin, OH
Qwest OIM
EFlow is a project for QCC (Qwest Communications Corporation) the Qwest national network division, mainly concerning its provisioning processes, QCC provides telecommunication services to business clients all over the USA.

The system starts with OES (Order Entry System) which is generally used by the sales/order entry flocks, Collects sales orders or customer orders. The orders are processed by the provisioning groups which interact with the inventory systems and the provisioning is done.

Then the Fieldwork Assignment provisioning comes into picture from the time its progress is tracked. Once the provisioning is completed the installed/changed circuits are turned on and the billing systems are notified to start billing the customer.
• Wrote Test Plans, which detailed the testing scope, testing requirements, success criteria, milestones and necessary resources.
• Worked on conversion of manual tests into automated test scripts.
• Manually performed Ad-Hoc testing, end-to end testing and System testing.
• Performed manual testing by entering positive and negative values and boundary values to the application. Updated test case document with the results.
• Performed smoke test and sanity testing for the new build.
• Created Checkpoints and did Parameterization in QTP.
• Edited the Test procedures according to the execution requirements.
• Compared SQL results with application results by writing SQL queries.
• Used SQL queries to test the migrated database for Back End Testing.
• Modified required UNIX scripts and other SQL validation scripts, and writing scripts in SQL to validate the outputs.
• Involved in Performance testing of the application Using Load Runner 7.0
• Involved in export the test cases form Microsoft Excel to Quality Center and the running the cases remotely in different hosts.
• For tracking the Defects used the tool Quality Center.
• Performed Black Box, Integration, Regression Testing.
• Conduct QA testing of ETL data transformation and data warehouse for reporting solutions
• Investigating bugs and reporting to the developers.

Environment: Caliber, Web Logic server 8.1, Oracle9i, Quality Center 9.0 ,QTP 9.0,TOAD, Oracle, Java, JSP, XML, Servlets, EJB, UNIX, Windows 2000/NT.

May 2007 - Nov 2007 QA Tester, Barclays Bank, NYC, NY
Online Banking System
BARCLAYS is a financial client/server application to create and maintain various accounts and account types. This application was developed for online transactions like accessing personal accounts, checking balances, payment of recurring bills, transfer of funds between accounts of its customers and also between this bank and other institutions and other products and services.
• Developed Test Plans and a Hierarchy according to the requirements.
• Created tables & Performed Data Driven Test to retrieve items from the Oracle database using SQL.
• Performed Manual Tests on Banking Application as per test cases.
• Implemented an automation strategy that converted manual test cases to Win Runner scripts.
• Enhanced Win Runner Scripts with TSL functions.
• Created data driven Win Runner scripts.
• Analyzed the results of Load runner Monitors. Analyzed the server response time, number of hits per second, transaction response time etc. using the Load runner analyzer graphs
• Identified defects and interfaced with developers to resolve them and provided full support to the development team.
• Created, Defined, Logged, and Run Defects using Test Director.

Environment: Windows NT, MS SQL Server 7.0, Win Runner 7.6, Test Director 8.0

June 2006 -- April 2007 Quality Engineer, Royal Bank of Scotland, Bridgestream, TX
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is one of the world's leading financial services providers and one of the oldest banks in the UK. RBSG provides a trusted source for business role and relationship information across the enterprise through Smart Roles. Through this application, you can maintain important information and relationships, navigate hierarchies. Users in Smart Roles have access to only those business processes and information appropriate to their positions and roles in the company. Depending on your roles, you may have the ability to view only, edit or add data, or you may have no access at all to a particular process.
• Interacting with the developers on a daily basis to discuss the requirement spec.
• Developed Test Plan and Test cases for testing the application.
• Defining and performing the Test strategies and associated scripts for the verification and validation of the application and ensuring that it meets all defined business requirements and associated functionality.
• Performed smoke test and sanity testing for the new build.
• Developed and implemented module level and integrated test plans, acceptance testing, tracking software defects.
• Performed Functional, Unit, and Integration and Regression tests using WinRunner as per the specifications.
• Written and modified required SQL validation scripts to validate the outputs.
• Identified defects, tested and reported to the developers using the defect-tracking tool Test Director.
• Involved in preparing System Test plans based on user requirements document (URD).
• Provided identification of user and system requirements for the application and establishing links for better trace of requirements.
• Tested the application manually by executing test cases prior to automation
• Prepared the test scenarios and generated test scripts for the AUT using WinRunner for Regression testing.
• Prepared test data for positive and negative testing used in Data Driven Testing.
• Conducted regression testing on various builds of the application and reported the defects to the developers using a customized EXCEL spreadsheet utility for the bug reporting and tracking.

Environment: QTP 8.2, Davetrac, TOAD, PL/SQL, Oracle 8i, UNIX, Java, IBM websphere5.0 Wndows2000/NT.

Aug 2005 -- May 2006 Medical Center Development Corporation, Quality Assurance Eng, Louisville, KY
Medical Services Automation System
Medical Services Automation System consists of Appointment with the Doctor, Details of patient and his/her registration with Hospital, Patient problems/symptoms characteristics, past history, family history, drug allergies etc. Patients related images like x-ray, scanning reports etc.
• Was involved in creating a detailed System Test Plan and procedures for System Testing.
• Extensively performed blackbox testing in the application and regularly reported the bugs through bugzilla.
• Conducted extensive Security Testing including alternative user identification and authentication.
• Developed and executed test cases and test scripts.
• Did extensive backend testing using SQL queries and sub queries to check backend data and checked data integrity.
• Developed positive and negative test conditions.
• Reported and tracked bugs
• Analyzed the results of Load runner Monitors. Analyzed the server response time, number of hits per second, transaction response time etc. using the Load runner analyzer graphs
• Was responsible for weekly status updates showing the progress of the automation testing effort and open issues to be resolved.

Environment: J2EE, XML, Oracle, JavaScript, Windows 2000, QTP (Quick test professional), Load Runner and Test Director.

Apr 2003 - July 2004 Quality Assurance Engineer, Accel ICIM Systems and Services Ltd, Atlanta, GA
Activity Reporting and Tracking
This project is to maintain the details of the works done by all the employees in a company time wise. This project helps the higher authority of the company to categorize the employees depending on the jobs, they have done and to watch them closely from remote place. The employees may login with their employee id and the password and can enter the details of the work they have done from their machine. The centralized database stores the data and the higher authority, which is authorized, can view the details.
• Managers able to add people to project codes and allocate them.
• Managers able to add the pre-defined tasks to each employee.
• Employees able to submit their report to managers per day, per week, per month.
• Managers able to view the comparison of estimated and actual hours for employee, for task, for the span up to the existence of project codes.
• Involved in manual testing.
• Business functionality tests done manually.
• Generated Test scenarios based on business requirements.
• Involved in development of test plans, test schedules, test cases based on high-level and detailed designs.
• Analyzed the System Requirements Test Cases.
• Involved in writing the test cases for new functionalities, which are added later.
• Involved in Analyzing test results for different modules and modifying the test cases where in the rules and policies are redefined.
• Involved in the executed of the Test Cases.
• Performed Defect reporting and Tracking and sent to the development team.
• Worked with developers, users and business analysts to ensure the system works according to original design.

Environment: Windows 98, SQL, Oracle, MS-Excel, C++, UNIX, and Win Runner, Test Director.

Certifications
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