Richa Sharma
Phone :408-***-****
E-mail :abiqwq@r.postjobfree.com
Summary:
More than 8 years of experience in Information Technology with emphasis on
Software Testing/Quality Assurance (QA). Experience in testing of
Standalone, Client Server and Web based applications using White box
testing, Manual testing techniques and Automation tools
Skill Set
Testing tools WinRunner 8.0/7.0, QTP 9.2/9.0, LoadRunner 9.2/9.0, Test
Director 8.0, Quality Center 9.0, Bugzilla, Eclipse
QA Methodologies Standards & Procedures Development, STLC, Test plan
Design & Development, planning Automated Testing
Strategy.
Languages and C, C++, Java, SQL,HTML, JavaScript, VB Script, JSP,
Protocols REST/JSON web services, TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP,
Cobol/400,RPG/400
Operating Systems Windows 98/2000/NT/XP, UNIX, Linux, OS/400
Database and Tools MySQL, Oracle, MS Access, MS Visual Studio VC++, MS
Power Point, MS Word, MS Excel, SQL Server
Web App Servers Apache Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere
Web browsers IE, Mozilla, Firefox
Highlights
. Experienced in Automation scripting and Manual Testing skills in Mercury
Interactive Test Suite (WinRunner, LoadRunner, TestDirector and
QuickTestPro) and white box testing skills using junit.
. As a QA participated in development meetings and interacted with
development team during all stages of Software Development stages.
. Proficient in writing Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts to meet
requirements.
. Ability to meet deadlines, work under pressure, prioritize tasks, make
decisions.
. Testing GUI, Client-Server, Web Applications, Business Portals - Manual
and Automated
. Knowledge of software Testing Life Cycle, Quality concepts and
Methodologies and involved in Manual, Functional, Regression and Unit
test review.
. Ability to adapt in new environment, nature of work as per business need.
. Familiarity of full range of web browsers (IE, Firefox, Opera, Mozilla
etc.) across multiple platforms.
. Excellent communication skills.
Professional Experience
QA Lead Jul 2009 - till now
Meltwater Group
San Francisco, CA
Description:
Meltwater News is a popular online media monitoring company. It monitors
and analyzes online news in more than 110 countries, delivering business
and insight to corporations and organizations worldwide which helps clients
to make informed decisions.
Responsibilities:
1. Mentoring, Coordination and delegation of work with offshore team.
2. Working in the capacity of QA Lead.
3. White box and Gray box testing using JUnit and backend test. Eg. API
testing, function testing. In junit testing, do the testing for
various dao's, service routines, controllers. Well versed with Java
code and concepts and use them for testing. Also do some level of
debugging and resolve issues on my own.
4. Executing complex SQL queries.
5. Creating and maintaining QA plan.
6. Extensively working on Unix.
7. Conducting defect walks for bug analysis and prioritization
8. Responsible for deploying builds for the application
9. Mentoring offshore team on the work assigned.
10. Testing Web Services
Environment: Centos(Linux),Windows, Ubuntu, Jira, Test link,mysql05, java -
j2ee, jmeter, hibernate, spring framework, JavaScript, maven for compiling
test code, compiling and deploying application, junit4, Eclipse, Tomcat.
QA Lead Mar 2009 - Till May
MS Momentum
San Francisco, CA
Description:
Microsoft Momentum is a popular business solution website. Momentum has a
distinct feature "News letter" that delivers content especially designed
for growing and midsize companies. Together with its advice on solutions,
applications, modules, Momentum's e-newsletter can help the business
achieve enterprise-class efficiency.
Responsibilities:
. Carried out testing from Unit to UAT testing to check if the product
adheres to all web standards
. Designed and Developed Test plan and Test specifications for the main
module Guest order
. Documented software quality plans, test design specifications, and
test cases
. Performed manual testing on this web based application.
. Performed regression testing using Win Runner
. Performed Positive and Negative testing
. Automated functional testing creating scripts in Win Runner.
. Implemented Data-Driven test through Win Runner
. Extensively involved in GUI, Functional, Integration, Regression and
System Testing & UAT Testing
. Extensively used Test Director/Quality Center for Defect Tracking and
Test Management
. Performed consecutive testing on each build
. Performed Performance, Stress and Load test for system compatibility
using Load Runner
. Executing extensive SQL queries.
. Used Quality center to log all test cases and report all bugs and test
results
Environment: Windows XP, Win Runner 8.0, Mercury Quality Center 9.0, Load
Runner 9.0, VB, C#, SQL Server, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, VBScript, Perl
Script
Client/ Employer: Royal Bank of Scotland (London)/Genisys Software Private
Limited.
Period: Sep 2007 - Nov 2008.
Role: Senior QA Engineer
Projects: Lombard Asset Finance and Debt Manager
London, UK
Responsibilities
. Understanding the system, writing test cases as per requirements,
educating team member who is a late joiner or in need of help.
. Worked closely with QA head to prepare test reports on the daily and
weekly basis using TestDirector
. Writing, Reviewing and executing Unit and functional test cases using
manual and automated testing tools like loadrunner with remaining
features.
. Writing and executing system load bearing test cases to find the
optimal system capacity
. Performing Integration and regression testing of the application under
test.
. Worked through all the features of the system and look for programming
or process flaws or technical bugs.
. Stress/load testing the product to ensure that the product is capable
of handling multi-users and operating at high efficiencies, and to
determine where the bottleneck occur and to find limitations of the
application.
. Integrating QTP with the TestDirector server so that a user can run an
automated test scripts and view the results in TestDirector and
generate Excel Reports
. Effectively performed White Box testing and Back End testing using SQL
statements.
. Setting up cron jobs ans creating scripts in unix.
. Preformed smoke, regression, boundary, Security testing using
Winrunner to set up automation testing process to reduce manual
effort.
. Used Test Director Tools to report and track bugs and verified them
fixed.
. Providing the Analysis and reports of the application using the
Loadrunner analysis tool for the AUT.
. Worked on the Xenu's Link Sleuth to verify for any broken links in the
application.
Testing Env: WinRunner 8.0, Loadrunner 8.0, TestDirector 8.0, Xenu, JSP,
Tomcat, Ubuntu
Client/Employer: DST Health Solutions/ Computer Sciences Corporation
Birmingham, AL/India.
Period: Feb 2005 - Sept 2007.
Role: QA Tester
Project: Power MHS & Power Stepp (Health Plan Administration System)
Noida,India and Birmingham,Alabama
Responsibilities:
. Preparing the test cases and executing them.
. Used the manual testing methodology and the automated testing tools to
perform functional and regression testing.
. Preparing the test cases and maintaining the defects in the Quality
center.
. Participated in bug review meeting for the enhancement of the
application.
. Worked on the script level of the automation tools (QTP)
. Worked closely with the project manager to record, track, prioritize and
close bugs
. Worked closely with Application Developers to fix defects. Punctually
followed up with the regression test and Bug Fixes.
. Extensive use of SQL queries for required data for test cases.
. Verification using the data stored in database
Env: Manual Testing, Java Application Testing, Quality Center 9.0, QTP 9.0
Client/ Employer: CSG, USA/IBM India.
Period: March 2004 - Feb 2005.
Role: Engineer
Project: Integrated Customer Management System
Gurgaon,India
Responsibilities:
. Reviewed and analyzed user requirements, participated in Verification,
Validation and Acceptance Testing.
. Designed and constructed Test Plans and Test Cases according to various
feature requirements.
. Analyzed and implemented Test Procedures and Test Scripts.
. Performed regression testing using WinRunner automated test tool
throughout all the phases of testing
. White box testing using Junit
. Web service testing
. Performed Unit, System, Functional and Regression testing
. Performed Defect Reporting and Tracking using Test Director
. Performed Whitebox testing on the code to determine the cause of defect.
. Worked closely with Application Developers to fix defects.
. Reviewed and analyzed all the test results along with the cause of the
bugs.
. Actively participated in preparing the Test report, prioritizing the bug
list according to the severity of the bug, Effective reporting of the
bugs to the Coding team.
Testing tool/Env: WinRunner 8.0, Test Director 8.0, ASP, IIS
Client/ Employer: Private Mortgage Insurance Group, USA/Keane India
Period: Oct 2003 - Mar 2004
Role: Engineer
Project: Private Mortgage Insurance
Noida,India
Responsibilities:
. Involved in the Analysis of the existing code
. Creating the technical documentation using Microsoft Visio.
. Making changes to the existing code.
. Reviewing the documentations.
Client/ Employer: Fairfax Information Systems VA/Key Management Group.
Period: June 2003 - Oct 2003.
Role: Engineer
Project: WINS
Delhi,India
Responsibilities:
. Develop new program functionalities using COBOL/400.
. Support and maintenance for Production Issues/bugs.
. Trouble shooting for Production issues.
Other Projects :
Client: SHTR Consulting Group
Period: Jan 2003 - May 2003.
Project: Information System for School
The Project was about automating certain aspects of school administration
such as automating library book issue and returns, automating report card
preparation.
Delhi,India
Used VB as the front end programming for the application and SQL Server as
the back End database for the application.
Client: National Informatics Center
Period: Jul 2002 - Jan 2003.
Project: Information System for Land Acquisition
The Project was about the Land Acquisition in Java J2EE technology with
Delhi Government. This project dealt with acquiring land for Metro Rail
work.
Delhi,India
Used Java Server pages, Servlets, HTML, using Jakarta tomcat for running
the application and SQL Server as the back End database for the
application.
Qualification
. Master in Computer Application, Institute of Management studies
Ghaziabad, India
. Bachelors in Applied Sciences(Food Technology) from Delhi University,
India.
These are accredited as Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Applications
as United States degree equivalent by International Credentials Evaluation
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References:
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