Project Testing

Mahesh

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

. 8+ years of experience in Software Testing, Quality Assurance and

Development of various Business Applications.

. Extensive Knowledge in Manual Testing as well as Automation Testing.

Well versed with all stages of testing and QA Cycles.

. Experienced in designing and executing Test Plans, Test cases and

documentation Manual Preparation of Test data.

. Demonstrated ability to lead a team of quality assurance analysts and

co-ordinate between onsite and offshore.

. Demonstrated skills in backend, mid-level, integration, large-scale

application testing.

. Financial sector experience with Retirement Plans and Online

Contracts.

. Expertise in Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, GUI testing,

Functional testing, Regression testing, BP Testing, Database testing

(SQL. PL/SQL), Load testing and Performance testing.

. Extensive working knowledge on Management tools like Quality Center

and Test Director.

. Substantial Automation experience using Mercury Interactive Tools -

QTP and Load Runner.

. Experience in various testing methodologies including Agile.

. Expertise in web application and web forms testing.

. Extensive experience in defect tracking and reporting systems in

Quality Center.

. Experience in Windows and Mainframes plat form.

. Well acquainted with the SDLC and STLC processes.

. Excellent interpersonal skills, analytical, problem solving skills and

can interact effectively with developers and business analysts

. Worked with Product Management and Development personnel to ensure

testing is comprehensive.

. Personal skills include strong sense of Organization and effective

time management and ability to work in a team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools : QTP 10.0, LoadRunner8.x, Jira 4.2.2

Languages : C#, C, C++, VB.Net, VB 6.0, SQL, PL/SQL

Scripting : HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, Shell

RDBMS / DBMS : SQL Server 2000 / 2005/2008 R2, Oracle10i, DB2.

Operating Systems : WINDOWS 7/XP/2000/2003/Vista/, UNIX

Web Server : IIS, WebLogic, Tomcat, Cloud

Management Tools : Quality Center 10.0, Test Director

8.0,Bugzilla,Test

Link, Team Foundation

Server, Microsoft SharePoint, Excel

Testing Techniques : BVA, ECP, Path Flow, Decision Trees,

Pairwise Testing,

Orthogonal Testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client: WA State DEL\ Cayzen

Apr' 11- Till Date

Project: ESIT- DMS

Role: QA Lead

WA State Department of Early Learning's ESIT-DMS project is a program

designed for Children aged 0-3, this program helps children with

disabilities and/or developmental delays. Agencies around the state use

this web application to Refer, Evaluate, Enroll, Provide Service and Track

there progress. This application integrates with Parent Portal application

where Parents can access limited version of children's case status and

interact with service providers. ESIT application help generate reports for

Federal Government.

Responsibilities

. Design, implement, enforce, and evangelize standards for consistent

practices throughout the testing process.

. Analyzed business requirements, System requirements, and Functional

requirements.

. Contribute to project planning prior to formal project start (i.e.

schedules, equipment

needs/costs, strategy).

. Develop and contribute to the test plan, test and regression strategy

and configure the test beds.

. Direct all types of testing, including functional, systems

integration, user acceptance, performance, browser, disaster recovery,

help documentation, and security.

. Assisting the new QA resource with on boarding and project

walkthroughs.

. Support the Dev team in debugging issues; isolate root cause of issues

and partner with design/development team on resolution.

. Ensure QA resources are working at a high functioning level.

. Assist in the maintenance of appropriate processing flow charts,

diagrams, tables, and other supporting documentation to convey

proposed or updated testing approaches.

. Reviewed test cases to ensure they met client standards.

. Assigned daily work to QA resources and help them in accomplish the

task.

. Used Team Foundation Server to track and report System Defects.

. Responsible for the Traceability of all business requirements.

. Review the defects logged before assigning to Tech Lead.

. Participated in for defect reviews with the developers, Project

managers and presented the daily reports in the defect review

Meetings.

. Attended daily scrum meeting and discussed the QA status.

. Prepare weekly test results, Defects reports and reported test

results.

. Tested Role based access to the application for set of persons with

different roles and security access.

. Developed the integration test cases for the different applications in

the project.

. Facilitate QA Analysts interaction with Project Managers, Business

Analysts, Developers, Architects, and Technical Infrastructure

resources.

. Perform end to end testing of applications in coordination with

various teams.

. Involved in writing SQL queries to help Database testing.

. Responsible for the data migration testing.

. Performed the Browser compatibility testing (IE, Safari and FF).

. Validating the build on cloud server before releasing it to the

business users.

. Coordinating the UAT efforts and triaging the UAT defects.

. Responsible for all test deliverables maintained on Microsoft

SharePoint.

Environment: Team Foundation Server 2010, Excel, Microsoft SharePoint 2010,

C#.Net, Microsoft Silverlight 4, SQL Server 2008 R2.

Client: JP Morgan Chase, Kansas City, MO Mar'

10- Apr' 11

Project: Non-Qual

Role: Test Lead

JPMorgan Chase is one of the biggest banks in US having a wide range of

products like Saving account, Credit cards, Asset Management, Investments

etc with a total assets of 2.1 Trillion. Non-Qual is an application

developed by the retirement plan services of JPMC for its clients. Its has

different modules like ROL, CCI, Recordkeeping, Etools which integrates to

help drive the Non-Qual application, in serving the participants to choose

Non-Qualified retirement plans where they can invest apart from there

regular 401(k) plans. Using the application participants can make elections

for there Contributions, Current investments, Future investments and

Distributions.

Responsibilities

. Analyzed business requirements, System requirements, and Functional

requirements.

. Lead the cross-functional test team of a product initiative throughout

the entire development lifecycle utilizing established standards and

guidelines.

. Able to assist Quality Assurance Team Lead in assigning Quality

Control Analysts to various projects and delegating work assignments.

. Involved In developing Test Plan, Test Requirements, Test Cases and

detailed test cases.

. Involved in Functional approval meetings to analyze the requirements.

. Leading a onshore team and coordinating a offshore team.

. Responsible for the BR-FR-TR mapping in Quality center.

. Responsible for the coordinating with offshore resources on daily

basis to help them in understanding the requirements.

. Involved in estimating testing efforts and designing the QA estimate

report.

. Reviewed test cases to ensure they met client standards.

. Involved in creating test sets for Functional, System, Integration,

User Acceptance and Back End Testing.

. Assigned daily work to onsite and offshore resources and help them in

accomplish the task.

. Prepared Test Data and created test input requirements for Data Driven

Testing

. Designed the SIT playbook to help coordinate the testing effort.

. Review the defects logged before assigning to Tech Lead.

. Used Quality Center to track and report System Defects.

. Participated in for defect reviews with the developers, Project leads

and with managers and presented the daily reports in the defect review

Meetings.

. Participated In Test planning meetings and submitted Test case status

during the meetings.

. Data validation and Database integrity testing done by executing SQL,

PL/SQL statements.

. Participated in Daily scrum meetings and discussed the testing status.

. Responsible for setting up security access to each tester to help test

role based access testing.

. Performed the Browser compatibility testing (IE6, IE7, IE8 and FF).

. Involved in designing and verifying business process testing and

Client Visibility testing.

. Prepare weekly test results, Defects reports and reported test

results.

. Tested Role based access to the application for set of persons with

different roles and security access.

. Verified the Log files to find out the failures in the testing.

Environment: Quality Center 10.0, DB2, DB2 Command Editor, SQL/PLSQL, JIRA

4.2.2, Tomcat 5.5.9 web server, Java 1.5, J2EE, MS Office

Client: AITS, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL Oct'08-

Feb' 10

Project: HR Front End

Role: Senior QA Specialist/ QA Lead

The University Office of the Administrative Information Technology Services

(AITS) is a part of the Office Planning and Administration Department

within the University of Illinois Administration. HR Front End project

being developed at AITS, University Of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a

massive human resource department project that includes different modules

like Employee Search, Employee Record View, New Hire, Add a Job,

Reappointment, Separation, Job End, Time Line View, User Preferences,

Document Attach/Detach, Transactions, Inbox/Outbox and Permissions. This

project is used by all the Human Resources Departments of University of

Illinois based at Urbana-Champaign, Chicago and Springfield.

Responsibilities

. Analyzed business requirements, System requirements, and Functional

requirements.

. Involved In developing Test Plan, Test Requirements, Test Cases and

detailed test cases.

. Performed Functional, System, Integration, User Acceptance and Back

End Testing of the application.

. Involved in writing detailed test cases for the Integration testing

and system testing.

. Involved in Writing Functionality Test cases, Summary Test Cases and

Details Test cases for different modules of the application.

. Prepared Test Data and created test input requirements for Data Driven

Testing

. Used Quality Center to track and report System Defects.

. Participated in for defect reviews with the developers, Project leads

and with managers and presented the weekly reports in the defect

review Meetings.

. Participated In Test planning meetings and submitted Test case status

during the meetings.

. Data validation and Database integrity testing done by executing SQL,

PL/SQL statements.

. Written the QTP scripts using VB scripting for WEB application

testing.

. Worked with Synchronization points and database check points using QTP

for web testing.

. Performed Data Driven Tests with different data sets from databases

and files Using QTP.

. Performed the Browser compatibility testing (Firefox and Internet

explorer) for HR Front End.

. Involved in designing and verifying business process testing and

Client Visibility testing.

. Executed manual test cases and automation test cases using QTP 10.0.

. Documented test results, Defects and reported test results through the

MS access automation tool.

. Product validation in all phases of lifecycle including requirements,

design, implementation, integration and delivery.

. Tested the post production defects to make sure the defects are in

production or not.

. Did test the fix for the production defects in the UAT environment.

. Enhancing QTP Scripts with Checkpoints, Parameterization.

. Conducted Functionality Testing, Regression testing and Re-testing

using QTP.

. Performed the documentation modification and deleting of documents on

the MS Share point.

Environment: Quick Test Pro 9.1/10.0, Quality Center 9.0, Oracle10g, TOAD,

SQL/PLSQL, Banner 8, CVS, Tomcat 5.5.9 web server, Java 1.5,

J2EE, MS Access, MS Office

Client: Merck, Whitehouse Station, NJ

Feb'07- Jul'08

Project: Visual Management Tool

Role: QA Lead

Visual Management Tool: The basic objective of the VMT (Visual Management

Tool) is to show the efficiency of the sub-ordinates for a Director.

Director of Services (DoS) will be having many Field Engineers (FEs)

working under them. This tool will be useful as a dashboard for the pending

activities of the Field Engineers. DoS can monitor the performance of his

FEs with the help of completed/pending activities that are against various

FEs working under him. FEs can ask for the help of their DoS by raising a

case against a pending activity. DoS can see all the cases waiting for his

feedback and can answer them in the tool which reaches the FEs in a

workflow manner. Data from more than 30 sources from various systems are

integrated into this tool. It contains Admin module for restricting the

access to FEs and various DoS.

Responsibilities

. Analyzed business requirements, and Functional requirements.

. Involved in writing detailed test cases for the Integration testing

and system testing.

. Performed Functional, System, Integration and Regression testing of

the application.

. Prepared SOAP message Test Data

. Participated in defect review meetings.

. Data validation and Database integrity testing done by executing SQL

statements.

. Tested Business processes

. Performed data driven test by passing parameter from xml files.

. By using SOAP messages we prepared the XML data files.

. Managed entire quality process like creating test cases, submitting

defects in Mercury Quality center.

. Extensively used QTP as automation tool for in Regression testing.

. Written scripts for Functional and system testing using QTP for the

web site testing.

. Extensively verified the Business process through manual testing.

. Worked with Synchronization points and database check points using

QTP.

. Performed Data Driven Tests with different data sets from databases

and files Using QTP.

. Involved in Smoke, System, Integration, and Regression testing.

. Responsible for making Defect status report and Project status report

every week.

Environment: Quality Center8.2/9.0, QTP 8.2, Oracle9i, TOAD, SQL, Business

Objects5.1.8, Visual SourceSafe, Remedy ARS, Peregrine Asset

Center, J2EE, Junit.

Client: Swingvote, Atlanta, GA

Oct'06- Jan'07

Project: Exception Management System

Role: Senior QA Analyst

Project Description: EMS is an Exception/ Issue management system used by

Swingvote customer service. The Internet and Tele customer care unit uses

this application to create, manage and close Issue/Exception. The Issues

are created for different application codes and are associated with one or

more different exceptions. There is a feasibility provided to create as

many exception codes as required for different application codes depending

on the nature of Issue. The Issues move from one state till it is closed

based on the laid business conditions. Customer is intimated by the status

of his Issue by auto-generated emails, which depends on the state and

number of Exceptions associated.

Responsibilities

. Understand Functional Requirements and Change Requests.

. Prepared the test plans for the change requirements and enhancement

requirements

. Prepared use cases and test scenarios for the manual and automation

testing

. Modifying the existing Test cases and writing New Test cases based

on the provided Functional Requirements and Change Requests.

. Modified the existing QTP Scripts using change requirements

documents

. Written the new QTP test scripts based on the new functional

specifications.

. Executed manual test cases and automation test scripts

. Written the SQL queries for the database testing

. Document test results and report test results using Quality Center

. Conducted Functionality Testing, Regression testing, Retesting and

System testing

. Prepared the test data for the data driven tests and database

testing

. Conducted the GUI and Usability testing

Environment: Java, VC++, UNIX, Windows NT,IBM MQ series, SOAP, Tomcat

server, Quality Center, QTP8.2 and Oracle.

Client: Telution Inc, Chicago, IL

Oct'05 - Sep'06

Project: Order Management System

Role: Senior QA Tester

Project Description: The Order management system provides online customer

center, a customer self-service web center for customers to register their

accounts, order service, view and pay bills, request information or file

complaints.

Responsibilities

. Performed Manual Testing of this Web based application and

automated by using QTP.

. Performed Acceptance testing, Functionality testing of the

products.

. Testing compatibility of software under various Internet Browsers.

. Testing was done to verify the integration of various modules in

the application and if it is accepting only the valid data in

various fields

. Performed integration testing, regression testing and System

Testing.

. Identified software defects and interfaced with developers to

resolve them and provided full support to the Test team.

. Maintained and executed test scripts by using Test Director and

analyzed the results.

. Performed regression testing to validate the baseline by executing

the developed test scripts.

. Testing was done to verify the integration of various modules in

the application and if it is accepting only the valid data in

various fields.

. Tested UNIX shell Scripts / UNIX Commands extensively for writing

the Test Scripts.

. Extensively used SQL to verify data in the backend.

. Reported the bugs using an in house made bug-reporting system,

which was developed using MS Excel sheets.

Environment: Java, VC++, Windows NT, QTP 8.2, Quality Center and TOAD,

MSQL.

Client: AT&T, Chicago

Nov'04-Sep'05

Project: Value Bases Search Engine Marketing

Role: QA Tester

Project Description: VB-SEM is an Integrated Product used for Internet and

Tele order Management. The order data is collected in keystone for Store

front profile and Web UDAC's. Order Items are generated in eGateway after

the order data is validated. The Order item moves on in eGateway as per the

pre set business conditions, changing its state and status as defined.

Responsibilities

. Involved in developing QA Test plan for covering functional,

integration, regression and end-to-end Testing.

. Manually tested the whole application before going for the automated

testing.

. Guided the team of testers for completing the testing phase of the

projects.

. Developed and executed test cases and verified actual results with

expected results.

. Developed and several SQL queries to perform backend testing of the

database.

. Wrote and recorded VB Scripts for Automating the Functional testing

procedure using Quick Test Pro.

. Involved in testing all backend processes using UNIX scripts, SQL on

different servers.

. Used SQL Queries for data verification.

. Used Data driver Wizard to create data driven test, for testing the

application with multiple sets of data.

. Used exception handling in the scripts to recover from unexpected

errors. Applied pop-up, object and web exception handlers for the

same.

. Scheduled and configured scenarios to emulate real life conditions and

executed them to measure the performance of the application.

. Analyzed the results to identify the performance bottlenecks. Worked

with various analysis graphs and generated reports for the same

purpose.

. Wrote batch scripts for automating the regression testing.

. Used Test Director for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up

with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.

. Maintained Test Matrix for latest test results information.

. Data Integrity Testing.

Environment: Windows NT/XP/2000, QTP, Test Director, C#.Net, Win Forms,

TOAD, GUI and SQL Server 2000

Client: Capital One Financial, Richmond, VA

Sep'03-Oct'04

Project: Online Contract Management

Role: QA Tester

Project Description: Online Contract Management is a pilot application for

managing the contracts online. This tool is developed in Java as front end

and backend is Oracle. OCM is an integrated application which interacts

with other applications of Cisco to synchronize the information related to

Cisco Contracts.

Responsibilities

. Created and maintained Automated Test Scripts QTP.

. Execution of the Test Cases and generating Reports

. Conducted the functional, Regression, Retesting and System testing.

. Prepared test data and validated the test data

. Developed Load test scenarios

. Developed and executed the load test scripts for the application using

LoadRunner.

. Reporting bugs in the Bug Tracking tool TestDirector

Environment: QTP 7.x, Test Director, Windows 2003/2000, Oracle 8i, Java,

Java Script, HTML, DHTML, XML

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