QA Tester/ Quality assurance analyst/QA Engineer

TEJAS NANDA

Mail id: *****.*****@*****.***

SUMMARY

 Professional and creative team players with more than 5 years of diversified experience in Software Quality Assurance and Development on various enterprise applications, client-server and web based applications.

 Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Test Methodologies from project definition to post-deployment documentation

 Expert in manual testing and Automated testing using Win Runner TSL (Test Script Language). Accountable for Project Planning, Testing and Implementation.

 Developed test cases and Automation test scripts based on business/functional specifications.

 Formulated methods to perform Positive and Negative testing against requirements.

 Involved extensively in Black box testing like Functional Testing, GUI Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, and Performance Testing, both manually as well as using automated testing tools including Win Runner.

 Created test data, analyzed bugs and interacted with development team members in fixing the bugs.

 Documented the defects using the Defect Tracking tool like Bugzilla and Merrant tracker.

 Conducted User Acceptance Testing

 Performed Backend Testing, by executing the SQL queries. Entered and tracked defects in the system. Knowledge in Analysis of Defect severity and Defect Priority.

 Experience in testing business applications in client server environment.

 Excellent understanding and expert in writing SQL queries to perform back-end testing.

 Accountable professional with excellent communication and logical skills. Offered analytical approach for optimizing system workflows, computing and verifying Software Metrics.

 Ability to perform under deadlines, good individual and team player. Facilitated numerous assignments involving both technical and non-technical professionals.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering, Visveswariah Technological University, Bangalore, India

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: UNIX (HP, Solaris), Linux, Windows XP. Windows 95/98/NT/2000

QA Testing Tool: Win Runner 7.6, Quick Test Professional 8.0

Test Management Tool: Test Director

Bug tracking Tools: Bugzilla, Merrant Tracker

Web Technology: HTML, DHTML, JAVA Scripts

Programming Languages: C, C++, SQL, Visual Basic 6.0

Scripting Languages: Shell Scripting, Test Script Language (TSL)

Databases: SQL Server 7.0, MYSQL

Other Tools: MS Word, EXCEL, MS OFFICE, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Outlook

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

A) SGS Technologies, Jacksonville, Florida (Jul 08- Present)

Position: QA Tester

Project: Employee Portal

The Employee Portal is a content delivery system. The portal provides the information of the employer as well as the company. This portal allows the employee to create or edit information according to the specified role. This tool also allows planning and managing employee related activities.

Responsibilities:

 Involved in a Team size of 3, attended Change Request meetings to document

Changes and implemented procedures to test changes, attended Bug Scrub Meetings

with Developers and with third party.

 Actively participated in requirement gathering and analysis and analyzed business and system requirements.

 Worked with multiple development teams to test and apply QA methodologies to applications.

 Actively participated in creating requirements traceability matrices, and test plans.

 Prepared Test cases and Executed Test cases.

 Performed Regression, functional and System Testing.

 Participated in WALKTHROUGH and Defect report meetings periodically.

 Identified, analyzed, and documented defects (Test Director), questionable functions, errors, and inconsistencies in firmware and application functions, outputs, online screens, and content.

 Reviewed computer logs and reports to identify program processing errors and possible improvements.

 Participated time to time regression testing after each monthly build.

 Investigated software bugs and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues using Defect tracking system Bugzilla.

 Retested bugs after the fix and monitored them until resolved

Environment: Windows2000/XP/Vista, IE, Mozilla, Firefox, Java and Oracle 9i

B) Reliable Financial Technologies, New York, NY (Oct 07– Jun 08)

Position: Quality Assurance analyst

Project: E-Commerce

This Project was developed for a Financial Services Company, to provide web based services to

the clients using the E-Commerce solution. The consumer can use the web interface to apply for the

Loan application and approvals will be communicated using the customized emails. The primary

module is developed using VB/ASP with Oracle backend database.

Responsibilities:

 As a QA Tester carried out both manual and automated testing with Win Runner to verify whether the application is functioning as per the design documentation and functional requirements.

 Worked with the Design Team to develop Functional Specifications.

 Actively Participated in Business Requirement Analysis.

 Conducted manual testing using the Standards, guidelines and structured methodology in testing the application.

 Developed the Test Cases, Test Scenarios and executed them using Win Runner.

 Tested various reports generated by the application like Financial Analysis Reports, Rent Information, underwriting Comments, and Loan Details Reports.

 GUI Testing, End to End Testing, User Acceptance Testing and Performed business process and application functionality analysis.

 Performed Functional Testing and Regression Testing of various modules of the application using Win runner and reported bugs and wrote the test plans.

 Involved in Page Testing, which includes testing of Hyperlinks in every Writing the User Manual.

 Designed the data for interpreting the positive/negative results.

 Developed database test scripts using database checkpoints and TSL statements.

 Developed the test scripts and used various checkpoints such as GUI, Bitmap, Text checkpoints.

 Involved in testing of online business services through web-based applications.

 Participated in meetings on a day-to-day basis with Business, Implementation and Formation of teams to discuss the issues arising from the on-going testing (Functional/Regression).

Environment: Win Runner, SQL, HTML, ASP, UNIX, Visual Basic 6.0

C) Voyager Distributing Company, Brisbane, Australia Nov 06 –Oct 07

Position: QA Tester

Project: Retailer Sales Application

This is a sale application. There are three branches each in Adelaide, Auckland and Christchurch. All three branches have their own individual servers. All the three severs must be kept in synchronization. The three severs are connected to one Master server, which triggers the servers if there is any change in any of the servers.

Responsibilities:

 Analyzed system designs specifications and developed test plan and test cases for overall quality assurance testing.

 Participated in Business requirement, test plan and peer review meetings

 Created Test Cases, Traceability Matrix and Test Strategy documents

 Involved in creating detailed test plans and test cases to verify functionality and adherence to business requirements.

 Actively Participated in Business Requirement Analysis.

 Involved in Test Data preparation for manual test execution.

 Preparation Test cases for Functional testing and System testing

 Performed Functional Testing and Regression Testing of various modules of the application

 Responsible for Test execution & Bug reporting and Bug verification.

 Tested the bugs until resolved

 Participated in developing and implementing QA testing manually

 Monitoring the defects and assigned them to the developers

 Actively participated in Walk through and defect report meetings.

 Worked closely with the developers in fixing the defects and enhancement requests.

Environment: Windows 98 / 2000, VB ASP, C++, Java, HTML, XML, XSL JavaScript

D) LEGO Toy Company, Billund, Denmark Mar 06- Nov 06

QA Tester

Project: Lego Toy Design Tool

Lego is one of the world leaders in Toy manufacturing. This tool helps in building toys like Robots, Dolls, Racing cars etc. We can develop required models of the toys and take print out of the designed toy models.

Responsibilities:

 Facilitated preliminary requirement specification meeting with the core team members.

 Involved in design, development and execution of documents for test plans, test cases, and test procedures.

 Developed Test Cases for Compatibility Testing.

 Modified and maintained test cases with changes in application interface and navigation flow

 Developed Functional and Technical design documents and Test plans.

 Defined input/output sources including detail plan for technical design phase and obtained approval of system proposal

 Involved extensively in Compatibility testing and Performance Testing.

 Participation in detailed reviews of product Impact Analysis to ensure the features being developed matches the product requirements.

Environment: Windows 98 / NT, MS Project, MS Office

E) DivX Networks Inc, San Diego, CA, USA Apr 05-Mar 06

QA Tester

Project: DivX Video Encoder

DivX Networks is a consumer-focused video technology company positioned at the centre of multimedia convergence. DivX is a video compressor decompressor. It compresses lengthy videos to small sizes. Divx is the first and only official Stand alone Divx Encoding application able to convert popular video formats to the high quality. Divx Format maintaining same or enhanced quality while reducing the encoded file size to 1/10th of its original size. Divx allows entire movies to be transferred to single compact discs. It support many video formats (like Avi, Mpeg1 &2, Avisynth) and encodes it into high Quality Divx format.

Responsibilities:

 Analyzed Requirements document from Black Box testing perspective and reviewed the requirements document for testability.

 Involved in creating the Testing plan, Testing resources, Testing strategy, and testing of end-to-end scenarios.

 Performed Regression Testing to daily builds.

 Performed Functionality testing, Validation testing, Negative & Positive testing, GUI testing manually on the first release of the application.

 Configure test environment for specific test cases, create test data, and execute automated or manual tests, document results, and update defect tracking systems.

 Was involved in bug reporting and defect reporting

 Performed Compatibility and configuration testing

 Interacted with developers to resolve the defects. Performed Regression testing to verify that bug fixes did not break some other parts of the system.

 Participated in status meetings to report issues. Communicated with Developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution.

Environment: Visual Basic 6.0, HTML, XML, WinNT, MS Word, MS Excel.

F) Bright point India (P) Ltd, Bangalore, India Oct 04-Apr 05

QA Tester

Project: E- Gurukul

E- Gurukul is a comprehensive software product provides complete automation for an educational institution. This software guides the management, administration, student-community and faculty member for easy and comfortable running of the institution by enhancing the overall efficiency of the functioning of the institution.

Responsibilities:

 Developed and wrote a suite of Test Scripts that included Acceptance, Functional and Regression test cases using Win Runner.

 Developed the Test Cases, Test Scenarios and executed them using Win Runner.

 Involved in analyzing System specifications, design, development and execution of Test Plans and Test Cases for Automated and manual testing.

 Created criteria for data conditioning needed for Automated and Manual testing.

 Reviewed the Business Requirements document with the business and development team to understand the architecture and functionality of the application.

 Performed Data Driven Testing for multiple sets of data.

 Executed the test scripts on different releases and validated the actual results against the expected results.

 Wrote SQL, PL/SQL queries to access the data from the database tables and crosscheck the results, also been used for Automation Regression Testing.

 Executed web tests across various platforms and browsers including NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, IE 5.0 and Netscape 4.6.

 Involved in requirement analysis and creating test documents.

 Performed GUI, Functionality, Unit and Security Testing

 Participated in Bug Review meeting with analysts, users, developers to discuss defect reports.

 Validated the reports to make sure all the data is populated as per the requirements.

 Involved in weekly status meetings.

Environment: VB6.0, ASP, SQLServer2000, Win Runner, HTML, DHTML, MS Word, MS Excel, Win 2000 Server, Win NT.

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