software Quality Analyst

Srinivas Reddy Cell: 603-***-**** Email: *************@*****.***

• Certifications: ASTQB Certified (American Software Testing Qualification Board)

• Training: Full Manual Testing, Quality Center and Automation testing with QTP

• Work Permission: EAD; No need to sponsor or transfer H1

Overview of Skills

• Over 6 years of experience as software QA engineer.

• Design and develop test cases,

• create test suits,

• execute manual or automated tests

• Excellent in functional, acceptance testing

• Excellent in Experienced based testing

• Excellent in portability Testing

• Expert in manual testing of client/server and web-based applications in Windows, MAC OS and Linux

• Excellent experience with Mercury Interactive tools (e.g., Quality Center/TestDirector, QTP)

• Involvement in the entire QA life cycle, including test design and development of test cases

• Strong analytical skills, meticulous attention to detail and excellent problem solving/troubleshooting skills

• Excellent back-end testing using SQL queries, generating documents/reports to ensure data integrity and to validate reports as per business rules

• Excellent in using MS Office tools: Word, Excel, etc.

• Working knowledge of Visual Basic, XML, HTML

• Team player with good communication and interpersonal skills

• Excellent in verbal and written communication skills

• Self-starter with good understanding and goal-oriented approach to issues

Automation (Quick test Pro) experience

One year experience on Quick Test pro- Skills

• Develop and maintain automated test scripts

• Create check points

• Parameterization of fixed data

• Creating Actions and calling actions

• Identifying the Object Properties by using the Object Spy

• Writing the tests in VB script and run

• Creating Object Repository

• Comfortable with the Expert and Keyword View in QTP

• Creating framework

• Familiarity with VBScript, ASP.NET,

Technical Skills

• Test management tools: Mercury Quality Center

• Script languages: Familiarity with XML, VBScript, HTML

• Databases: MS-SQL Server 2005, DB2

• Automation: Quick Test Pro

Professional Work Experience

Measured progress: Dover, NH, 11/2009- Feb 2010

These company products are software application used in learning and testing the 3-12 grades. The system is used to convert paper based testing to computer based testing (CBT). The module I tested is web based application.

Environment: Window XP, VISTA, MAC OS X

• Browsers: IE7 & 8 , FF 3.5, Safari

• Database: MSSQL

• Test Management Tool : Team Tracker

• Web Technology: ASP.NET

Responsibilities:

• Testing Microsoft-based, web-driven applications

• Reviewing the Requirement specifications

• Writing Test plans and test cases and executing them

• Updating the existing test cases

• Defect management: Isolating the defects and logging them on Team Tracker. Tracking them in all stages of the bug cycle

• Participating in the project status meetings

John Hancock life and health Insurance (Long Term Care Partners) - Portsmouth, NH- June 2008–10/30/2009

Software Quality Analyst

LTC Partners is an administrator of the Federal Employees Long Term Care Insurance Plans sponsored by John Hancock Life and Health Insurance. I have been involved in the analysis of application, creating test plans and test cases, execution and analysis of test results, reporting and tracking the defects.

• Environment: Windows XP, VISTA

• Browsers: IE7, Fire fox, IE8

• Data base: DB2

• Tools: Ontime Defect Tracker; Web Performance Suite, JAWS

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing business requirements, writing test cases

• executing test scripts

• Writing sql queries and executing on DB2 platform to retrieve test data and to test data integrity

• Responsible for performing necessary research and analysis required to resolve testing defects (document errors, communicate with functional business area and IT and retest as appropriate). recommending and implementing improvements to QA policies, procedures and standards

• Reporting any release bugs/issues found during testing utilizing the established bug/issue-tracking process

Aetna Corp., Middletown, CT Jan 2007–May 2008

Software Quality Analyst

Aetna is one of the nation’s leading providers of health care insurance plans. Aetna is dedicated to help people achieve health and financial security by providing easy access to cost-effective, high-quality health care plans. Aetna has several products for delivering strong customer service and providing easy-to-understand information. I was involved in testing the web site application.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business requirements and to develop test plans

• Identify and prepare test data for functional testing as documented in test plan

• Coordinate with developers and business analyst to improve the functionality of the application

• Participate in meetings and reviews of the project

• Automation testing: Recording and running the tests, analyzing the results, Writing the test scripts in VB script, modifying the recorded scripts

Environment: Windows 2000

Tools: Mercury Quality Center, QTP, Microsoft Office

Prudential Insurance Co. of America, Scranton, PA Sept. 2006–Nov 2007

QA Tester

This was a client application, which maintains the payroll of all the employees’ accounts. The application has five major modules.

Responsibilities:

• Proof reading functional test plan and test scripts for Employee Module

• Execute test cases for Employee Module

• Performing functional testing

• Use of SQL queries for data verification at the backend

Environment: Quality Center, Windows

Allstate, Chicago, IL Jan 2005–Sept. 2006

QA Analyst

Allstate is one of the leading insurance companies providing variety of insurance plans.

Responsibilities:

• Develop Test Cases to cover overall functional testing

• Conduct negative testing to find how the functions perform when encountering invalid or unexpected values

• Responsible for functional, and regression testing.

• Use of SQL queries to perform back-end testing of the application

Environment: Test Director, DB2, Windows 2000, MS Office

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