Quality Assurance Test

PREETHA SARA PHILIP

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OBJECTIVE

To attain a competitive position in an organization, where I can implement the requirements of the given tasks and enhance my skills, which can capitalize on my background and provide me with a path to succeed. Exceptional ability to achieve immediate and long-term goals and meet operational deadlines to work with innovative techniques, complimented by proven ability.

CAREER SUMMARY

• Professional with diversified experience in programming and teaching in the field of information technology.

• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Testing methodologies from project definition to post-deployment documentation

• Strong knowledge of Quality Assurance and Analysis with emphasis on Front End Testing (Functional Testing , GUI Testing)

• Hands on working experience on Testing Tools like Clear Quest and Quality Center.

• Extensive experience in running various kinds of test such as Integration(White Box),System Regression, User Acceptance Test(UAT), Performance, Load, Stress, and Backend(Black Box).

• Created test cases to support usage of GUI and Text/Bitmap Checkpoints, Synchronization, statement and creation of Data Driven Tests. Written test cases covering both positive and negative scenarios for UAT.

• Extensive experience working with Business and Functional Requirements analyzing and creating test plans for different applications.

• Proficient in creating UAT Test Plans, Test cases and Test Scripts based on business requirement documentation for the testing of application software.

• Documented test results and managed Defect Tracking process, which included prioritizing bugs, assigning bugs and verifying “bug-fixes” using “Web Tracking” software: Mercury Test Director, HP Quality Center.

• Ability to communicate effectively with different individuals of various internal and external groups –Users, Business Analysts, Development, Technical Support, Testing team and Project Management .

• Proficient in SQL Server database and UNIX/Windows operating systems.

• Dedicated self-motivator with the abilities to multitask provides thorough analysis of data, and solving problems.

• A team player with strong leadership, organizational, verbal and written communication skills.

• Motivated leader with demonstrated success in the development and implementation of new processes that improve efficiency and productivity.

• Proven leadership skills involving managing, developing and motivating teams to achieve their objectives.

SKILL SET

Automation Tools : Quality Center (Test Director), Clear Quest, Has knowledge about

Quick Test Pro, Win Runner

Languages : C/C++, Basic Java Programming, HTML, DHTML, SQL.

Tools : MS Office Suite (all applications)

Scripting Languages : Visual Basic, Java

Operating Systems : MS Windows 2003/2000/XP/CE/NT, DOS 6.22, UNIX (basics of

shell scripting)

EDUCATION

Masters in Computer Science ( Dec 98 – Dec 01) P.K.R. Arts College for Women, Erode, TamilNadu, India

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (Aug 95 – Aug 98) College of Applied Sciences, Kerala. India

Nest Cyber Campus in India Certification Course – Java and Internet Programming (June 01 – Dec 01)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Summary:

Company Duration City/Country Position

Merrill Lynch Oct ’06 - Dec ‘09 Ewing NJ USA QA Analyst (as contractor)

NeST Cyber Campus Dec ‘03 – Sept ‘06 Kerala India Software Quality Controller

M2 Software Technology Park Jan ‘02 – Oct ‘03 Kerala India Software Developer

Detailed:

Merrill Lynch (Contractor) Oct 06 – DEC 09 QA Analyst

Merrill Lynch is one of the world's leading financial management and advisory companies, providing financial advice and investment banking services.

The Client Data Hub, a central repository for Client information, is being established as part of the Client Experience Data Program for the unique identification of Merrill Lynch clients across Global Private Client. This involves the migration of Client data from existing legacy systems to the Client Hub. The data from the source systems is transformed based on pre-defined business and data rules for loading into the Client Hub.

a) Client on Boarding and Data Governance (CODG) is the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Department that is focused on defining a business strategy that delivers a complete, integrated Wealth Management experience for clients and makes it easier for FAs (Financial Advisors) and CAs (Client Associates) to conduct business with Merrill Lynch.

Responsibilities:

• Spearheading the User Acceptance Testing effort by performing requirement analysis for test automation and preparing the test strategy and test schedule.

• Performed User Acceptance Test (UAT) for the application.

• As part of UA Test Team Created Manual Test Cases, from specifications design document and user perspective business requirements to ensure the delivery of a quality product.

• Good functional knowledge of relational database structure, design, and SQL query commands necessary to satisfy advanced trouble-shooting.

• Performed Back End Testing using simple and direct SQL queries

• Developed comprehensive quality assurance documentation including test plan, test scenarios, and test scripts for UAT.

• Wrote test cases by which product quality is compared with the applicable standards, and defects were logged when nonconformance is detected.

• Designed test plans and test cases, verified and validated the system and documentation based on standards for software development and effective QA implementation in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

• Presented test cases to the client to ensure completeness.

• Worked closely with the developers on the interfaces, reports, and application to clarify and help resolve any incidents and issues that had been identified during UAT.

• Worked with development teams investigating and correcting software bugs and deficiencies.

• Lead production validation testing for the main application modules.

• Conducted defect validation and regression testing.

• Prioritized and classified bugs. Generated and tracked the defects using Quality center.

• Gathered business rules and scenarios from end users to ensure that accurate business scenarios were tested in UAT.

• Created test cases for the application under different releases, included SQL Queries to check with the database.

• Enhanced and modified the scripts according to the Change Requests.

• Documented and communicated test results.

• Performed regression testing after each new build of the application.

• Generated additional scripts for each version of the application after performing regression testing.

Environment: Java, XML, Web Sphere, Sybase, Windows, Quality Center, Clear Quest

NeST Cyber Campus Dec 2003 – Sept 2006

Software Quality Controller

NeST Cyber Campus a division of NeST group provides programming solutions to various clients that approach NeSt Group. Industrial Process Automation is a package that was done to automate Thermal Power Plant Monitoring which worked manually. It included tracking of various runtime parameters and taking those parameter values in decision making process of the section engineers of various departments.

Responsibilities:

• Formulated detailed Test Plan, Test Cases and Testing Procedures which included Test Cases/Scripts, capturing Test Results and capturing and resolving Test Anomalies

• Documented and reported the progress to the management on an ongoing basis and updated the requirement and defect status’ as per the current status of the testing

• Maintained Test Plans, Test Cases, Test scripts in MS Office products (Excel and Word)

• Manipulated the database by SQL queries from various table and views.

• Parameterized the specific field with negative or positive values for validation.

• Modified test case and test script as per requirement.

• Performed Positive, Negative and Black box testing on the application.

• Was part of the User Acceptance Test team (UAT) to deliver a high quality application.

• Provided demonstration on the functionality of various modules.

• Coordinated efforts between customer needs and group personnel. Interaction with a wide variety of personalities in meetings/appointments.

• As a result of good product knowledge and presentation skills, was responsible for providing training to users

Environment: Java, Windows NT, Oracle MS Office Suite

M2 Software Technology Park Jan 2002 – Oct 2003

Software Engineer

This package is developed to automate the administrative work in a school environment. It maintains the details of students from the time of their admission till their graduation. It maintains the classification of classes, their division and complete information of each class. Mark Sheets are generated and performance of each student is compared with whole class through Bar and Line graphs. Fees for both month wise, terms wise are calculated and accordingly receipt bills are issued. The highlight of this system is it simplifies tedious task of manual generation of timetable. The input contains the number of teachers available, the number of sections, number of periods per day and subjects taught etc., and accordingly timetable is generated for each student

Responsibilities:

• Data Collection, Data modeling using E-R Diagram

• Created ActiveX Controls such as About Dialog box, Data Control

• Filter Dialog box for flexibility for generating the Reports.

• Handling validations and taking care of error handling.

• Preparation of Documentation of the user Manual

• Writing batch of SQL scripts to create new Tables, Rules, Views, Defaults, User-Defined data types, clustered and non-clustered indexes in the database.

• Scheduled the backup of database using SQL Server 6.5

• Wrote stored procedures and triggers using SQL-Server 6.5

• Involved in performing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for the application under test.

• Also involved in User training.

Environment: VC++, Windows 95, Ms-Access.

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