Engineer Manager

Gopal

Ph: 949-***-****

***********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

. 6+ years of IT experience with emphasis on Quality Assurance in Manual

and Automated testing in both client/server and web based applications.

. Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle, Testing

Methodologies and Testing Life Cycle

. Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to testing

requirements and creation of Test Specifications, Test Scenarios and Test

Cases.

. Experience in Black-box testing and White-box testing

. Strong in writing SQL queries for data verification and backend testing

. Good experience testing the Web Interfaces and Web Services

. Expertise in identifying defects and Bug tracking

. Good working experience with Business Intelligence tools Cognos & Micro

Strategy

. Strong knowledge of Data Warehousing and OOPs Concepts

. Excellent debugging and problem solving skills

. Extensive experience working with Cross Functional Teams

. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, self starter, quick

learner,

team player

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools : Mercury QTP, Quality Center, Load Runner

ETL : Informatica Power Center

Reporting Tools : Cognos, Micro strategy, OBIEE

Scripting Languages : HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, SQL, XML, CSS

Web Servers : Web Sphere, IIS, Apache, Web Logic, VMWare

Defect Reporting Tools: Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, Jira

Database : Oracle 9i/10g/11i, Sybase, DB2, SQL Server2005, MS

Access

Operating Systems : Windows 9x/NT/XP, Vista, UNIX

Office Applications : MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Paint, MS Project,

MS Outlook), Eudora, MS Visual Source Safe, Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Report Tester

HDMS, Chicago, IL

May 2010 to Present

. Reviewed the Business requirement documents and prepared test scenarios.

. Test Cases were incorporated both positive and negative test conditions.

. Performed System, Integration, Regression and Performance Testing

. Identified and submitted defects in defect tracking tool Bugzilla

. Written SQL Queries and executed them using Toad

. Participated in review, Scrum and status meetings

. Tested different types of Reports

. Performed Functional and Load Testing on Reports

Environment: Micro Strategy 9, Bugzilla, Load Runner 9, Oracle 11g, Toad,

Windows XP

ETL & Report Tester Disney,

Glendale, CA

Jan 2010 to Apr 2010

. Reviewed the Business and functional requirement documents and prepared

test scenarios.

. Created detail Test cases for each Subject Area.

. Test Cases were incorporated both positive and negative test conditions.

. Maintained Traceability Matrix to track the requirements to the test

cases to ensure complete test coverage in the Mercury Quality Center.

. Executed Test cases and Submitted Defects in Quality Center.

. Good experience in testing Source and Target validations.

. Ran workflows created in Informatica by developers then compared before

and after transformation of data generated to ensure that transformation

was successful

. Performed System, Workflow Integration, Regression and Performance

Testing

. Good experience in coordinating with offshore team

. Written SQL Queries and executed them using Squirrel

. Participated in review, Scrum and status meetings

. Tested different types of Reports

. Performed Functional and Load Testing on Reports

Environment: Informatica Power Center 8.1, Micro Strategy 9, HP Quality

Center 9.2, Load Runner, Sybase, DB2, UNIX, Windows XP

Sr. QA Engineer Life Technologies, Carlsbad,

CA

Sep 2009 to Dec 2009

. Reviewed and analyzed the business requirements and Technical Design

documents and prepared Test Plan and Test Scenarios.

. Prepared and executed test cases and documented defects in Quality

Center.

. Performed Smoke, Functional, Regression, Integration and Cross browser

testing on the E-commerce websites.

. Coordinated with the cross-functional teams during the End-to-End testing

. Performed project customizations in Quality Center

. Participated in review meetings, bug-triage and status meetings

. Provided QA management with test case coverage reports and defect metrics

to indicate status of testing efforts

Environment: Java, Cold Fusion 6.1, XML, HTTP, HTPPS, Quality Center 9.2,

Oracle Applications 11i, Windows XP

QA Engineer Dell Financial Services, Round Rock, TX

Sep 2008 to Jun 2009

. Reviewed and analyzed the requirements to understand the

functionality of the application and prepared Test Plan and Test Cases.

. Interacted with developers and users to understand the functional

specifications, Business rules and work flow of the project

. Performed Smoke, Functional, Integration, Regression, Browser

Compatibility(IE, Firefox, Netscape) on the application

. Created and executed SQL Queries for Back-end testing

. Responsible for identifying, reporting and tracking defects using Quality

Center.

. Involved in creating the automation framework and test scripts using QTP

. Actively participated in Defect Review Meetings and Weekly Status

meetings.

. Maintained IT standards regarding documentation and testing

. Created Periodic Status Reports and Test Metrics and reported to the

manager

Environment: C#, .Net, Java, Oracle 11i, TOAD, IBM Main Frame Tandem, HP

Quality Center 9.2, QTP, XML, HTML, HTTP, HTTPS, Windows

QA Engineer Insurance Company of the West, San Diego, CA

Oct 2007 to Aug 2008

. Reviewed the Business Requirements document, System Design document and

prepared the Test Plan.

. Identified and prepared test cases in HP/Mercury Quality Center

. Participated in Design review meetings and Weekly Status Meetings

. Performed Functional, Integration, Regression and End-To-End testing

. Performed Positive, Negative and Adhoc testing

. Performed database testing for verification of data integrity

. Implemented the automate test suite for regression testing using

Descriptive Programming in Quick Test Pro

. Identified and submitted defects in defect tracking tool JIRA

. Reported Test Execution status to the manager on daily basis

Environment: Java, Adobe Flex, Jira, Quality Center 9.0, QTP 9.2, SQL

Server 2005, MS Excel, MS Word, HTTP, HTTPS, Unix, Windows XP

Sr. QA Analyst Vivendi, CA

Nov 2006 to Sep 2007

. Worked closely with business users to define reporting requirements

. Created List Reports, Cross Tab Reports and Drill Through reports

. Created standard and Ad hoc reports using Cognos

. Enhanced existing reports and created interactive reports using prompts.

. Involved in designing of Test Plans, Test Cases, and executed Test Cases

. Identified and logged defects using Rational Clear Quest

. Tested all the reports with Generated SQL and Manual SQL data

. Worked on Oracle Applications AR(Account Receivables) and Account

Payables (AP) Modules.

. Environment: Cognos8 Framework Manager, Report Studio, Oracle 9i, SQL,

PL/SQL, Apache, IBM Rational Clear Quest, Oracle Applications 11i

Software Tester Development Credit Bank, India

Jul 2003 to Aug 2006

. Involved in Functional Testing, Regression and Integration Testing

. Performed back-end testing using SQL queries for data validations

. Logged & Tracked Defects using Test Director.

. Carried out Integration tests to check the interfacing between sub

modules

. Ensured that all Change Requests and defects are tested and approved

before the release.

. Worked with customers to develop user acceptance tests

Environment: Test Director, UNIX, Java, J2EE, Java Script, HTML, XML,

PL/SQL and Oracle8i

EDUCATION

> Bachelors from Kakatiya University, India

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