Karthigai Selvi ***********@*******.***
Summary
. Over 8 years of IT experience including Software Quality Testing and
development.
Diversified experience in testing E-Commerce, GUI based client/server
financial
applications using Manual and Automated testing procedures.
. Extensive experience in functional testing, unit testing, integration
testing, regression testing, Black box testing, white box testing, GUI
testing, back-end testing, browser compatibility testing, and load/
performance tests, component Testing on Windows, and UNIX.
Experience in writing Test Plans, defining Test Cases, RTM, developing and
maintaining
test scripts, analyzing bugs, interacting with team members in fixing
the Errors.
Expertise in backend testing using SQL queries on Oracle RDBMS, Sybase and
SQL Server.
A Good team player with excellent communication, interpersonal and
documentation skills.
Ability to handle multiple tasks and work independently as well
as in a team.
Visa Status
Citizen
Technical skills
Testing Tools : Quick Test Pro, Win Runner, Load Runner, Quality
Center and Rational Suite.
Tracking tools : Rational Clear Quest, PVCS Tracker, PVCS Version
Manager
Languages : SQL, PL/SQL, C++, Java, HTML, DHTML, CSS and XML
GUI : Visual Basic 6.0, ASP, Crystal Reports
Operating System : Windows 2000/NT 4.0, Windows 95/98, UNIX
Scripting Languages : Java Script, Applets, and VB Script.
RDBMS : SQL Server 7.0/2000, Oracle 8i/9i, MS-Access
Professional Experience
National Science Foundation Apr 09' - Till date
Arlington, VA QA Functional Tester
NSF, Research.gov is a partnership of federal government research oriented
grant making agencies with a shared vision of increasing customer service
for the research community. while steamlining and standarising business
processes amongst partner agencies. The Research.gov Desktop provides NSF
staff with an integrated place to access the modern applications, services,
and information they need to support their work. The Desktop will help you
manage your portfolios of proposals and awards, support NSF's merit review
process, and easily access new and existing sources to find the information
you need!
Environment: Oracle, Sybase, SQL, Rational Test Manager, Rational Clear
Case, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Functional Tester, Java, .Net, Java
Script, Share point.
Responsibilities:
. Prepared Master Test Plans, Test Strategy and Requirement Traceability
matrix.
. Reviewed Business Requirement Documents, Business process procedures and
the Technical
Specifications and developed test cases.
. Team member of IV & V team to perform manual and automated testing.
Performed Gap
analysis between requirements, use cases and test cases.
. Participated requirement reviews and design reviews with business and
development team.
. Developed Test Scripts in Rational Functional Tester.
. Created and maped the Test Scripts with the requirements by creating
Requirement Traceability Matrix.
. Performed Functionality testing, System testing, Black box testing,
Integration testing, security testing and Regression testing.
. Created the suites in Test Manager to run the Rational Functional
Tester automated scripts from Test Manager.
. Performed Backend validation and verification with SQL Queries in
Sybase and Oracle.
. Reporting the Defects in Rational Clear Quest.
. Analyzing and collecting all the test execution Results and preparing
the reports as required
. Created new and updated existing test cases according to the business
requirements and functional specifications.
FannieMae Sep'08 - Mar' 09
Herndon, VA Test Engineer
CADS, eCommitting is a web-based application designed for ease of use for
browsing live prices, managing commitments and selling Single Family loans
to FannieMae. eCommitting is used by lenders to initiate a standard
commitment with FannieMae. eCommitONE is an easy to use web based
applications that provides automated pricing information and best efforts
committing processes.
Environment: Oracle, Sybase, UNIX, SQL, Quality Center, Quick Test Pro,
Share point, Rational Suite, VBScript.
Responsibilities:
. Performed manual and automated testing on eCommitting and eCommitOne
applications.
. Key contributor to automation process of assessing the quality of the
structure, content, accuracy and consistency of the application as
defined by project documentation.
. Participated in Requirement reviews and Design reviews.
. Conducted and performed Regression Testing, Pre Prod Shakeout Testing
and Production Shake out Testing in various Test environments.
. Customized Quality Center for creating test cases, test sets,
executing test sets and test execution reports.
. Created and Maintained Regression test suite with manual tests and
automated tests.
. Performed Backend validation with SQL Queries.
. Performed regression, Data driven testing, security, system
integration, UAT, security and negative testing.
. Generated and enhanced automated scripts in QTP by using VBScript.
. Created new and updated existing test cases according to the business
requirements and functional specifications.
. Participate in the testing of Production Emergency Bug Fixes.
. Utilized Mercury Quality Center to document issues found during the
test automation process, suggested appropriate solutions and
prioritized defects for resolution in coordination with the
development team.
Capital One Aug'07 - Aug' 08
Richmond, VA QA Engineer
Capital One is a diversified financial services company offering a broad
array of credit, savings and loan products to customers in the United
States, UK, and Canada. In order to support various applications that
support different business processes, an extensive testing process and team
have been deployed.
Environment: Quick Test Pro, VBScript, Win runner, Quality Center, Load
Runner, Web Logic, Unix shell scripting, TCP/IP, ASP, .NET, XML, Windows
NT, PL/SQL, Oracle 9.
Responsibilities:
. Involved in the set up of Automated Testing Environment for creating,
and running automated tests. Designed, developed and executed
reusable and maintainable automated scripts for Regression tests.
. Edited automated scripts with logical commands to handle complicated
test scenarios and user-defined functions to execute automated test
scripts by using Test Script Language in QTP.
. Developed Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts in Quality Center.
. Performed Backend validation with SQL Queries. Verified Oracle
database information by employing SQL queries using joins for data
accuracy and consistency.
. Developed and maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix.
. Developed and executed Unix shell scripts.
. Performed Functionality testing, System testing, Black box testing,
Integration testing and security testing.
. Performed Manual Testing to test the usability of application.
. Conducted Back End Testing manually using SQL. Developed and
Maintained SQL Scripts to extract data from the database for Back End
Testing.
. Handled Back-end testing in Oracle
optimization for data mining used for
reporting on the web.
. Maintained the database of testing activities raising the Issues and
resolving the issues following up with the developing team.
. Participate in the testing of Production Emergency Bug Fixes.
. Helped developers identify the performance issues on the development
stage by conducting various tests.
Prudential Financial Oct 06 - July
07
Newark, NJ QA Analyst
Prudential Financial Insurance business is supported by various web based
as well as PC based applications. The assignment deals with testing
applications that are deployed to maintain and process insurance plans and
policies. The overall project initiative addresses global needs to support
agents and agency management in terms of their day-to-day operations as
well as managing events in future.
Environment: Quick Test Pro, Load Runner, Quality Center, Oracle9i, Java
Script, AS400,
UNIX, PERL, Internet Explorer.
Responsibilities:
. Reviewed Business Requirement Documents,
Business process procedures and the
Technical
Specifications.
. Created scripts and functions using QTP
and Win Runner's TSL (Test Script
Language).
. Conducted functionality and regression
testing using Win Runner.
. Extensively worked on Data driven testing
using data tables.
. Performed Black box testing, Integration testing, System testing, data
validation testing and End-to-end testing of the application.
. Handled Back-end testing for Oracle
performance tuning and optimization for
data mining used for reporting on the web.
. Analyzed additional user requirements
attended Change Request meetings to
document changes and implemented
procedures to test changes.
. Organized the test scenarios, also ran the
Win Runner scripts thro' Quality Center
and captured the results to enter it into
the Quality Center Database.
International Franchise Association, Sep 02 -
Oct 05
Washington DC QA Tester &
Developer
The International Franchise Association, founded in 1960, is a membership
organization of franchisors, franchisees, and suppliers. Our Web site is
dedicated to providing our members and guests with a one-stop shopping
experience for franchise information.
Environment: Win Runner, Load Runner, Test Director, JavaScript, HTML,
PL/SQL, SQL Server, Win NT, PVCS, TIMSS.
Responsibilities:
. Prepared Test plans like Master & detail test plan using the company
Standards
Implemented the SDLC for the testing life cycle and followed the
business
requirement documents.
. Performed manual testing. Understanding the architecture and
functionality of the system.
Identifying key functional test requirements.
. Deriving test cases from Use Cases and Design Document. Test Execution.
Test Result Analysis.
Performed UAT testing. Reporting to Management about test activity
status.
. Walkthroughs. Test Management using Rational Clear quest
. Responsible for developing and maintaining website by using ASP, Jscript,
HTML.
Canara Bank May '00 - May '02
Chennai, India Senior IT
Coordinator
Canara Bank of India was established in 1909, fully undertaken by Indian
Government. They have more than 2641 branches all over India. They regulate
the issue of Bank Notes and keeping of reserves with a view to securing
monetary stability in India and generally to operate the currency and
credit system of the country to its advantage.
Environment: JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, Rational Suite, VB Script, Oracle,
UML, UNIX, Windows NT
Responsibilities:
. Developed the web site using Java and Servlets
. Written stored procedures and triggers for various modules in Oracle
database.
. Creation of tables and indexes to enhance RDBMS database
. Coding of stored procedures, triggers and SQL queries
. Executed test cases using scripts,along with manual testing
. Interacted with development team & Client
. Conducted Unit Testing, Integration testing
Education, Professional Trainings & Certifications
Rational Functional Tester and Adv Java training by RTTS (Real Time
Technology solutions Inc)
Training in Quick Test Pro, Quality Center
Training in SQL Server 2000 by STG (Software Technology Group)
Brain bench Certified Java Programmer
Master Degree in Computer Applications, Madurai Kamaraj University, India
Bachelor Degree in Chemistry, Madurai Kamaraj University, India