Resume of QA Analyst / Tester

Title
QA Analyst / Tester

Primary Skills
Quality Assurance, Business Analysis, and Testing

Location
Canada-ON-Toronto (will consider relocating)

Posted
Feb-02-07

Summary
Over 7 years of experience in Quality Assurance, Business Analysis, and Testing, worked through each and every phase of QA Life cycle, beginning with planning to the release of the product. I have implemented QA methodologies, practices and processes in all kinds of environments including Client/Server, Web, IBM Mainframes, LAN, WAN, nTier and UNIX. Furthermore, my strong analytical, communication and interpersonal skills emphasize myexperience and qualification in the pursuit of delivering a quality product on time.
Professional Strengths
• Extensive experience in Business Analysis, Quality Assurance and Business Acceptance Testing using Capstone, and Triad.
• Performed Automated Testing using WinRunner, Rational Robot and Quick Test Professional for Functional testing.
• Involved in enhancement of scripts, check points, in automated scripts.
• Performed Load, Stress, Performance, and Volume testing using Load Runner, and Astra LoadTest.
• Advanced skills in gathering Requirements from End Users, Scope Documents and Business Specifications.
• Advanced Skills in performing automated testing for JAVA, J2EE, Web, and GUI applications using Rational Unified Process (RUP), Rational Suite Enterprise.
• Good experience in creating and executing Test Plans, Test Cases, QA Methodologies for both Manual and Automated Testing environments.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, proven team player with an analytical bent to problem solving and delivering under high stress environment with resource constraints.
• Strong skills in Implementing Quality Assurance Standards, and Testing Methodologies for Large Enterprise GUI, and WEB applications using Use Case Documents, Functional Specifications and Business Requirements.
• Extensive experience in testing Web Applications with J2EE, Java, XML, Oracle 8.x/9i, DB2 and Web Sphere.
• Extensively worked in Client-Server application development using SQL, PL/SQL, C++, and UNIX.
• Good experience in Testing and Quality Assurance practices in Web and Client/Server Applications using ASP. Net, and VB.Net
• Experienced in environments requiring direct customer interaction during Specifications, Design, Development, Testing and product Implementation phases.
Technical Skills
Languages: J2EE, JAVA, VC++, C++, C, ASP.Net, VB.Net, Visual Basic, ASP, SQL, PL/SQL, PERL, SQA Basic, TSL.
Test Tools: WinRunner 6.0/7.0/7.6, Rational Robot 2002.05.20, LoadRunner6.0/6.5/7.0/8.0, Quick Test Professional 6.5/8.2, Silk Tester, Rational Suite Enterprise2002.05.20, Astra LoadTest, Astra Quick Test.
Bug Reporting: Test Director 8.0/7i/7.6/7.02, PVCS Tracker, and Clear Quest.
OS: Mainframe, TSO, CICS, SPUFI, HP Unix/Sun Solaris, AS/400, Linux, Windows95/98/2000Professional/NT/XP, and MSDOS.
Web: J2EE, .NET, EJB, JSP, Servlets, Applets, ASP, COM, DCOM, RMI, CORBA and MQ Series.
Web Languages: HTML, DHTML and XML.
Front Ends: Visual Basic 6.0/5.0, Power Builder 8.0 and Developer2000
RDBMS: Oracle 7/8/8i, 9i, DB2, SQL Server7.0/2000, MS Access and MYSQL.
Scripting: TSL, VBScript, JavaScript, SQA Basic, and Jscript
App Servers: Web Sphere, Web Logic
Network: TELNET, FTP, HTTP, TCP/IP

Professional Experience

Company Name will be told: A telecom company
Description: The billing software was a crucial part of the whole business. It was a Java platform application which was being developed for customers to monitor there usage online after every call.
Responsibilities
• Performed as a Senior QA in testing portion of the billing section.
• Provided Scheduling and Resource Analysis Reports to the Management
• Analyzing the Business Requirements and Functional Requirements
• Implemented Testing Methodologies, Framework, Procedures and Standards.
• Provided Status Reports and Defect Reports in a Graphical Representation
• Created Reusable Test Plan, Test Script, Status Report Templates
• Responsible for Test Planning, Execution and Analysis of Project
• Responsible for Planning UAT Testing


Company Name will be told: A gas company
Description: CUT Application was developed as part of the Customer Utility Tool for gas and oil utilities. CUT UI is a J2EE application deployed on Oracle 9iAS application server. As such the CUT UI is logically divided into presentation logic and business logic. The CUT UI is using the Struts Framework for the presentation logic and application flow and is exposed as six Plumtree Portal portlets. The business logic is handled by J2EE components using common design patterns such as EJBs and / or Java Managers, Value Objects, Data Access Objects.
Responsibilities
• Performed as a Senior QA in testing Customer Utility Tool Project
• Analyzing the Business Requirements and Functional Requirements
• Streamlined the Testing Activities and Process for CUT Project
• Provided Scheduling and Resource Analysis Reports to the Management
• Implemented Testing Methodologies, Framework, Procedures and Standards for CUT project
• Created Reusable Test Plan, Test Script, Status Report Templates
• Responsible for Test Planning, Execution and Analysis of CUT Project
• Provided Status Reports and Defect Reports in a Graphical Representation
• Created Test Automation Strategy and presented it to the Management
• Created Automation Frame work using WinRunner
• Performed Automation using WinRunner and Compuware TestPartner
• Created Transactions for Performance Testing using LoadRunner
• Maintained all the Regression Suits for CUT Projects
• Created UAT Test Plan
• Responsible for Planning UAT Testing
• Provided subset of Functional test cases to UAT test
• Generated reports and analyzed the results using TestDirector


Company Name will be told: A Retail Company
Description: Worked on Procura Buyer side. This system mainly has four functional modules 'Requisition', 'Reports', 'Purchase Order', 'Source', 'Reports', 'Auditing' and 'Administration'. Worked on relating to users profile of customers, cross checking of payments info during purchase.
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for on-going quality assurance of designated sites, including writing and execution of test scripts.
• Involved in gathering Business Requirements and Functional Requirements
• Developed test cases, test plans and strategies; recommend improvements to QA processes
• Interact with internal/external customers to fully understand new features and enhancements
• Created Reusable Test Plan, Test Script, Status Report Templates
• Developed and executed test conditions and test cases, test scripts.
• Analysed the executed test scripts with expected and actual results
• Review technical and systems specifications; review user requirements and work with developers to ensure QA keeps pace with development, and to report development issues
• Maintain good relationship with developers; understand the application system; analyze test results and provide test summary reports to the QA Lead.
• Provide QA recommendations regarding release management; discuss test results with the QA Lead and present risks and recommendations; assure adherence to development standards
• Assist to identify, manage and resolve QA issues; work with the QA Lead for post-launch Quality Assurance.
Company Name will be told: A Bank
Description: This application is designed for the this Bank's customers to manage their finances through Online Banking. It provides variety of services like Capital Investments, Foreign Exchange Trading, Mutual Funds, Personnel banking, Payments and Transfers, Accounts and Accounts Management.
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for gathering Business Requirements and Functional Requirements
• Organized multiple Brainstorming Sessions with the End Users in understanding the Business Requirements and Functional Requirements
• Created test data with test conditions and business rules for Capital investments, Mutual Funds.
• Experienced in testing Fx Derivatives, Fx Direct transactions online.
• Involved in Business and Functional Requirements review sessions
• Interacted with the Development Team to understand the Design Requirements
• Responsible for testing the entire application with Manual and Automated strategies
• Verified the Complex Systems involving Multiple Interfaces, Systems and Databases
• Created Automation Strategy and Framework
• Created Test Plan and Test Case Templates for testing the entire application
• Involved in Planning, Execution and Bug Tracking using Win runner, LoadRunner, TestDirector and QA Run
• Responsible for performing Functional, Integration and Performance Testing
• Created automated scripts for Regression Testing, Stress Testing using Win runner
• Carried out Performance and Load test using LoadRunner
• Involved in Capturing Events and Played Back Scripts
• Interacted with developers and various project members to discuss and resolve defects
• Used complex SQL queries to test the Back End system of the application
• Implemented Defect Management and worked with all the four modules of Test Director
• Used Test Director for requirements management, planning, scheduling, running tests, issue management and project status analysis

Company Name will be told: A health Insurance company
Health Insurance System
Environment: Win Runner 6.0, Load Runner 6.0, Test Director, HTML, C++, Oracle, UNIX, Java, JavaScript and Windows NT.
Description: This project deals with Group Insurance, Individual Health Insurance Quotes and Billing. By implementing this application customers can get quotes from local Blue Companies or agents. HII (Health Insurance System) deals with Individual applications as well as Group Benefits. By providing zip code of the customer provides the listing of the local Blue Companies.
Responsibilities:
• Gathered project Documents, Business Requirements and Functional Requirements
• Interacted with Development Teams and Project Management in explaining the Business and Functional requirements
• Performed Cross Browser Testing to verify the Compatibility of the application to support different Web Browsers like Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer and AOL on IIS and Netscape Enterprise Server
• Tested all the Web pages for data input validations on all Edit fields and Alphanumeric Fields where customers were required to log in their Name and SSN Number as well as Zip Code to view further details of their accounts
• Performed GUI, System, Stress, Performance and Regression Testing.
• Used Win Runner to generate automated test scripts for Regression Testing
• Tested each Business Logic, Application Flow and created Individual Test scripts for each module
• Generated Test Scripts using Vu Gen and monitored graphs using LoadRunner
• Performed testing on the application to find out the Response time and Transaction rate
• Tested the Application under typical working conditions and checked System Performance, Stress and Volume capacity of the site
• Created Scenarios and executed them according to the documentation of Test plan
• Created Rendezvous points to generate the intense load on the server to validate performance of the server
• Monitored Online graphs, Transaction graphs, Web graphs and Network delay graphs
• Analyzed the results using Graphs and Reports
• Performed GUI testing by inserting GUI Check Points and performed Data Driven Testing by Parameterize the data
• Used Test Script Language (TSL) for creating virtual users, instances and debugging
• Used Data Driven Testing technique to test the functionality with multiple set of data
• Performed Test Management using TestDirector
• Used PVCS for Version Controlling

Company Name will be told: A Bank
Description: This bank provides banking services to individuals, companies, governmental entities, and institutions in most states of United States. It offers variety of services like pay bills, Investments/Mutual Funds, Transfer funds, Automatic Bill Payment, Alerts, Monthly Statements and lot many services in online banking. It also provides Interest Calculator, Monthly Payment Calculator and many other tools Online.
Environment: Java, Java Beans, ASP, XML, Visio, Visual Source Safe (VSS), MS-SQL Server 6.5, Windows 95/98/NT, MS-Access.
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for testing User Login and Account Information
• Developed Test Plans to test User Statements, Investments, Mutual Funds , Transfers and History of payments and other functionalities
• Developed Test Cases and Test Scripts in Test Plan Manager
• Created traceability matrix between requirements in Requirement plan manager and test cases in Test plan manager
• Performed Business functionality testing which involved the testing of all core functions of the application
• Performed Smoke Tests after installation of each build on QA servers
• Followed black box methodologies to check the functionality of web pages
• Performed parallel testing, Integration testing and Regression testing
• Performed configuration testing of web pages with different browser versions of Internet Explorer and different operating systems such as Windows 95/98/NT
• Performed Database, Content, Server side, Form, Frame, and Usability testing of an application
• Performed database testing by using SQL queries
• Logged the defects with proper priorities and severities

Education

4 Years University Degree in Computer Engineering (Credential Equivalent to Canadian and American)

Certifications
university degree in computer engineering


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