Sr. QA/Tester

Priti Parajuli,

**** ****** ********** ****, ********, GA, 334-***-****,

pparajuli2000gmail.com

Senior QA Analyst with expertise in all phases of testing

for client/server and Web applications

Objective:

To progressively develop a career in Quality Assurance targeting

challenging positions of GUI and Database oriented applications in a

Client/Server and three- tier web environments.

SUMMARY

. Over 7 years of experience in the IT Industry specializing in Quality

Assurance and Quality Control projects using Manual & Automated

Testing.

. Expertise in using Automated Testing Tools like Quick Test Pro, Win

Runner, Load Runner, Rational Test Suite and Quality Assurance of

Client/Server and Web Applications.

. Developed and implemented Test Plans, Test Cases, Test scripts for

various applications By Recording and Reporting Results.

. Excellent work experience in Unit, Functionality, Integration, GUI,

System, Usability, Regression, Performance, Acceptance, Security,

Stress, Black Box Testing.

. Strong understanding of SDLC and TDLC to ensure the Quality Assurance

Control.

. Experience in working with Load Runner for Planning, Execution and

Analysis of Load, Performance, and Stress testing and monitoring Tests

in Multi-tier Windows based applications.

. Experience in working with MS-SQL Server, Oracle 8.x, DB2 and MS-

Access Databases.

. Experience in working with UNIX and Windows based application systems.

. Experience in working with different Defect tracking systems like Test

Director, Rational Clear Quest, PVCS Tracker and Bugzilla.

. Experience with Test Script Languages, function prototyping, creating

Data driven tests, error handling, debugging.

. Experience working with SharePoint.

. Ability to handle multiple tasks and work independently as well as in

a team, good team player with excellent communication, analytical,

interpersonal and writing skills.

. Proven success in meeting or exceeding customer needs as an individual

contributor and as team member.

. Involved in Writing, Updating and maintaining the Test documents for

various stages of Testing for reference and auditing purpose.

. Excellent Organization, Analytical and Problem Solving skills and

ability to quickly learn new technologies.

. Over six years of experience in systems and business recovery

planning.

. Demonstrated Project Management Skills.

. Demonstrated initiative, innovation, flexibility, and ability to

manage workload; achieving desired results with minimal supervision.

. Good Communication, interpersonal, and Teamwork skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

. Testing Tools: Mercury interactive WinRunner,

HP Load Runner,

Quick Test Pro, TOAD.

. Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center 9.0, Remedy, Bugzilla,

Clear request

. Microsoft Tools: MS office Suite (Word, Excel,

PowerPoint), Outlook,

Adobe Acrobat Reader.

. O/S: UNIX, 2003 Server, XP

. Languages: HTML, SQL

. Database: SQL Server, Microsoft Access,

Oracle

. Browsers: Internet Explorer, Netscape

navigator, Firefox

. Other Tools: SQL plus, Toad, Rational

ClearQuest.

EDUCATION

Master's Degree in Business Administration

Troy University

Troy, ALabama

BS in Finance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

04/10 - Present Reed Construction Data

Norcross, GA

Sr. QA Analyst/Tester

Reed Construction Data delivers the most comprehensive, timely and reliable

construction project information to support contractors, distributors and

building product manufacturers in identifying, bidding and tracking leads

in both the US and Canada..

Responsibilities:

. Involved in complete QA Life Cycle.

. Analyzed the user requirements and interacted with system architect,

developers and business users.

. Developed test plans, test cases, test scenarios using the Test

Director and prepared test data.

. The whole application manually tested before going for the automated

testing.

. Prepared Test Cases for GUI application.

. Co-ordinate the execution of testing activities.

. Converted manual test scripts to automated test scripts in Quick test

Pro, enhanced the scripts by adding user-defined functions.

. Delegated and reviewed daily tasks for off-shore mapping team

Supervised on-site consulting project as an Analyst.

. Automated test scenarios for GUI, Functionality, Integration,

Database, Boundary, Security and Regression Testing using Quick test

pro.

. Worked on the high-level framework, identifying the functional areas

and created different functions to make the scripts reusable in Quick

test pro.

. Prepared test scripts using Quick test pro with checkpoints using

regular expressions for handling windows with different names.

. Executed the Performance testing Using Load Runner to analyze the

behavior of the application under different load conditions.

. Analyzed results Using Load Runner Analysis tool and analyzed Oracle

database connections, Sessions, Web logic log files. Issues relating

to Indexes, Connection Pools and Garbage collections, Memory heap size

etc and bottlenecks were identified and rectified by changing

configurations, adding Indexes etc.

. Detected Defects, Communicated to the developers using Bug Reporting

Tool and Tracking the Defects using Test Director.

. Analyzed and Reported the Defects to the Developers using Test

Director.

. Extensively used Test Director, for test planning, bug tracking and

reporting.

. Uploaded Business requirements, test scenarios, test cases and defects

for MS Excel to Test Director.

. Memory Leaks were identified in Different components. Protocol to

Protocol Response times, Web Page breakdowns, Components sizes were

analyzed and reported.

. Actively involved in performing functionality, unit and integration

tests.

. Cases to test the backend Database by retrieving the data for the

tables using SQL.

. Expertise in QA Testing in distributed Unix/Windows Environment and

Oracle databases as back end & performed end-to-end testing.

. Reported the bugs, Emailed notifications to the developers using the

Test Director.

. Participated in Walkthroughs and Defect report meetings periodically.

Environment: Java, JSP, Silk Performer HTML, XML, PL/SQL, Quality Center,

QTP and Load Runner.

03/08 - 01/10 T-Mobile

Bellevue, WA

QA Analyst/Tester

T-Mobile is one of the nation's leading Communication service providers and

also plays a major role in local telephone industry. Detailed information

about there billing, services, new features, company information, due

dates, minutes used, and payment information was provided to each customer.

Responsibilities:

. Attending meeting with other groups and explains performance

objective, strategy and progress.

. Work with development, users and support groups to understand the

application architecture, use and current production issues to

simulate the best possible real time.

. Scenarios for load and stress testing.

. Extensively worked on SILK PERFORMER, created Scripts based on

prioritized/critical scenarios and scattered the peak load over the

production like distribution ratio

. Interacted with Stakeholders during testing, isolated bottlenecks at

different levels and suggested Tune-up methodologies.

. Performed Baseline Test, Increasing Load and Steady State tests using

Silk performer to complete set of performance testing.

. Attended meetings to outline and present performance testing

strategies and objectives.

. Analyzed Average CPU usage, Response times, No of Transactions,

Throughput, HTTP Hits and Average Page times for probable scenarios

and created Performance explorer graphs to analyze the CPU and Memory

utilization for different load tests.

. Performed Functional/Regression testing and Performance/Stress/Load

testing.

. Utilized release notes to reflect changes /additions into the scripts

as needed. Conducted regression and performance tests to identify the

impact caused by the release modifications.

. Developed scenarios for Regression/Functional and Performance testing

which covers more than 90% of the Critical scenarios for the

application.

. Responsible for daily and weekly status, attended the bridge meetings

showing progress and future testing efforts.

. Worked closely with developers and the Business team to fully

understand the scope and functionality of the proposed system &

functional requirements.

. Developed High Level Test Plans by incorporating User Profiles,

Configurations, Environments, Risks, Test Scenarios, Schedules and

Analysis and Presentation of Results.

. Created the test strategy document that defines the test environment,

phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria into different phases of

testing and resources required conducting the effort.

. Worked with development, users and support groups to understand the

application architecture, to simulate realistic production scenarios

for Regression/Functional and Performance Testing.

. Designed the Silk Performer scenarios with various user-mix

incrementing in constant ratios, till the peak load is achieved.

Environment: Oracle 8i/11i, UNIX, Java, JSP, Silk Performer HTML, XML, ASP,

IIS, and PL/SQL, QTP.

05/06 - 01/08 KPU Computers, Atlanta, Georgia

QA Analyst Lead

Project: KPU Computers provides industry-focused services for public and

private clients. It provides services for Audit, Tax, Advisory,

Government, Transactions, Private Companies and Law Firms.

Responsibilities:

. Analyzed user and business requirements for the new build and

compared of those with the old build to modify test plans for

positive and negative scenarios for functional and

performance testing.

. Prepared Test Plan and templates to create test cases, test

scripts.

. The whole application Manually tested before going for the

automated testing.

. Implemented and worked on Quick Test Pro for automated

testing.

. Performed the Positive and Negative Testing, User Interface

Testing on the application.

. Performed manual and Automated Regression Testing after every

build Installation.

. Used Test Director/Quality Center for bug tracking and test

management.

. Run Regression Test to ensure that introduction of new

component into application doesn't affect the existing

functionality.

. Developed / Enhanced VB script in Quick Test Pro to add check

points, Parameterize data etc.

. Made schedules for system and integration testing for each

release.

. Kept track of the customer bugs, deciding their priority and

then assigned them to the different developers.

. Attended status review meetings, interacted with developers,

Architects to resolve the issues.

Environment: Mercury's Quick Test Pro, Test Director/ Quality center, SQL,

Oracle, MS Office and Windows 2000, XML, Java Script, JSP

01/04 - 04/06 JP Morgan Chase Bank

Minneapolis, MN

QA Analyst/Tester

Project: JP Morgan is a leading global financial services firm with

assets of $2 trillion. Its major businesses include Regional

Community Banking, Corporate Banking, Private Banking, Mortgage

Banking, Secured Lending, ACH, Deposit Application, Cash Management,

Asset Management and Mutual Fund Servicing. JP Morgan is a leader in

investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business

and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset

management and private equity.

Responsibilities:

. Used Test Director for Planning, Test Scheduling, Test

Execution.

. Detect defects, communicate to the developers used Rational

Clear quest for bug reporting and tracking the defects.

. Used SQL queries to access data from DB2.

. Involved in weekly walkthroughs and inspection meetings, to

verify the status of the testing effort and the project as a

whole.

. Writing and executing software System test plans and Test

cases. These Scripts were developed after reviewing the

business requirements document, and technical specifications

document.

. Analyze user/business requirements and developed various Test

procedures, Test Matrices, Test cases and Test Scripts.

. Used Testing Methodology (SDLC).

. Conducted Functional, Integration, System, Regression,

Performance, Load/Stress, White and Black Box Testing.

. Tested the application manually, Developed automation scripts

using Win Runner.

. Performed Manual Testing for the Deposit Application.

Environment: Windows XP, Java, JDBC, Servlets, JSP, J2EE, JavaScript, XML,

HTML,

DHTML, UNIX, SQL, C++, WinRunner, Rational Clear

quest

References:

Will be provided upon request.

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