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Quality Assurance Engineer

Location:
United States
Salary:
8 lakhs CTC
Posted:
June 20, 2012

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Resume:

Vijayaragavan TE

Ph: +91-953*******

Email: Personal id: **.*******@*****.***,

Official id: *************.**********@*****.***

Experience Summary:

• Around 3 years of IT experience working with Wipro Technologies, Bangalore as Project Engineer from January 2010 till date specializing in Software Test Engineering (Manual Web Functional Testing) and, Performance testing.

• Experience in working with the automated testing tools like HP Load Runner and HP Quality Center

• Involved in Business Requirement Analysis, and writing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts for web - based and Client/Server applications.

• Undergone 3 months of WIPRO Corporate training on Performance Engineering.

• Knowledge in Testing Web and client-Server applications using HP Load Runner 9.1

• Knowledge in creating the performance test scripts as per the requirement.

• Exposure in creating the Performance Test Plan

• Knowledge in identifying and creating scenarios to test the application.

• Good knowledge in generating Vusers scripts, developing scenarios for various types of Loads, analyzing the results, generating final execution summary reports.

• Created performance testing environment and installed all the necessary components of Load Runner on the remote machines as a Load Generators.

• Conducted Dry Run testing after setting up the environment for the optimal performance.

• Created the performance scripts to load all the Test Data

• Knowledge in handling Correlation as well as Parameterization using Load runner Vugen, executed Manual scenarios using Controller and analyzed the results using Load runner Analyzer.

• Performed Load test up to100/250/300 Vusers.

• Knowledge In analyzing different types of graphs like Running with Vusers, Throughput Graph, Hits/Second graph, Transactions per second graph and Rendezvous graphs using LR Analysis tool

• Also, 2 years of experience in BFSI domain as a functional system web testing engineer.

• Experience in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Performance Testing and End-End Testing

• Efficient in Bug Tracking and Reporting using automated testing tools (Test Director/Quality Center/Clear Quest/TFS)

• Extensive experience with securities market including NSYE.

• Worked as a production support test engineer to support securities during market hours and non-market hours.

• Extensively used the Mercury Quality Center for Test cases designing, tracking the Defects, organizing, managing, Planning and executing the Tests.

• Interacting directly with USERS while in UAT & UCT phase.

• Actively performing the e-Business /e-Servicing QA team with the offshore team of different sizes

• Specializing in validation and Quality Assurance testing cycle in creation of Test plan, Test sizing, Test cases and implementation of test procedures.

• Extensive knowledge of QA methodology, standards and procedures such as creating test plans, regression and user acceptance testing.

• Experience with the project documentation and the life cycle for web application testing.

• Specialized in testing web site for design, content, functionality, data driven testing operations – cross - platform and cross-browser comparison.

• Experience in all phases of testing including system testing, regression testing, functional testing, UAT and Production verification testing.

• Strong communication skills and willing to learn and implement challenging technologies along or apart testing

Educational Qualification:

• Master of Engineering in Power Electronics and Drives, 2009, PSG college of technology, affiliated to Anna University, Coimbatore

• Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2005, Park college of Engineering affiliated to Anna University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

Training and Certification:

• ISTQB certified in Foundation level software testing ( Certification number: ITB-CTFL-0034982)

• QC 11 ALM Certified by prometric HP center.

• Fair knowledge on SIEBEL CRM call center and Sales application

• Corporate training in Performance testing using Load Runner, Team Quest.

• Corporate Training on Perl, UNIX, RDBMS, QTP.

• Corporate Training on testing methodologies like SDLC and TDLC.

• Corporate training on Testing techniques like white box testing, Black box testing,System

• Testing, Performance testing, User acceptance testing.

• Training in C and C++ from CSC Computer Education.

Professional Membership:

Member of National Skill set Registry NSR ITPIN: 791*********

Skills:

Vertical Competency:

BFSI-Securities:

1. Design test Plan, Test Scenarios, test cases, ensuring the Quality Assurance towards the process and documentation of the deliverables and Support Web testing.

2. US NSYE (National Stock exchange) trading Systems, Brokerage and Banking systems.

Technical Skills:

Operating System UNIX, Windows NT / XP,

Programming Languages C and C++

Scripting Language VB Script

Test Management Tool HP Quality Center/ MS Excel

DB Query Language Oracle 9i SQL

Tools & Utilities HP Quality Centre (QC), Rational Clear Quest (RCQ), MS Excel, Team

Foundation Server (TFS) for Defect tracking purposes.

Automation Testing tool Quick Test Professional 9.2, HP Load Runner 9.1

Office Utilities MS-Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook.

Professional Experience:

1. Performance testing using Load Runner Ver. 9.1 (Jan 2012 till Date)

Title : Open Cart Online shopping Application

Team Size : 4

Role : Performance testing Engineer using Load Runner 9.1

Project description:

Open Cart is an online store application where many users can login and shop online by viewing the item, comparing them and adding it to the cart concurrently.

Responsibility:

• Created test scripts to meet the performance test requirements.

• Used the best practices inside the script and make the script simple and effective by deforestation technique.

• Usage of RTS to execute the script.

• Gathering the Non functional Requirements from the clients.

• Executing the smoke/dry tests for 5-10 users just.

• Used web_reg_save_param functions to correlate the scripts manually.

• Verifying and analyzing manually for the Load test for the system under test at normal loads, Peak loads, etc.from the test plan.

• Created performance testing environment and installed all the necessary components of load Runner on the different host machines and used as a Load Generators.

• Performed Load test up to100/250/300 Vusers.

• Analyzed Throughput Graph, Hits/Second graph, Transactions per second graph and Rendezvous graphs using LR Analysis tool.

• Generated graphs and reports using LR Analysis to pinpoint the bottlenecks.

• Generating the execution summary reports and communicating it to the Manager.

2. Manual Functional Web Testing:

Prospect site Redesign (June 2010 to Jan 2012 -- Client: Charles Schwab, U.S.)

Responsibility:

• Understanding SRS and Functional Documents.

• Review on Master Test Plan, Requirements Baseline, Change Requirements

• Participating in the one–one technical call and secured meeting with the onsite co-coordinator and with business clients for daily updates and co-ordination.

• Preparing and Executing Test Cases in Quality Center

• Handling System Testing, End to End Testing.

• Preparing Regression Test Cases.

• Co-ordinate with development team to resolve the defects.

• Defects were tracked using Quality Centre and Clear Quest and Team Foundation Server(TFS)

• Interacting directly with USERS while in UAT & UCT phase ( UAT & UCT support for users )

• Preparing the Defect Lists, Test reports, Daily status report and Weekly Reports.

• Providing Demo for USERS.

• Supporting UAT and Production phase.

• Requires QA interaction with every back end activities and requires continuous tracking and verification of the bank accounts and features.

Project details – Prospect Site Redesign

Brief Description: Module 1

Title : Prospect Site Redesign- AMP (Alternate Mortgage Provider)

Team Size : 1 (worked independently at offshore)

Role : System Application Testing and Quality Assurance with banking website

AMP (Alternate Mortgage Provider) features an included enhanced account over the current existing account in to the Charles Schwab Bank Module. Quicken Loan Home loan and Quick Loan Mortgage account is added as an enhanced functionality in to the existing Schwab.com Client site.

Project description:

• Schwab provide Quick Loan Home loan and Quick loan Mortgage loan to be available for the secured site customers and thereby they can view their existing loan accounts apart from their savings or investors checking account.

• The quick loan accounts data’s are managed by the banking team and it’s a very critical enhancement for the Schwab.com secured site.

Brief Description: Module 2

Title : Prospect Site Redesign- Email Subscription

Team Size : 4

Role : System Application Testing and Quality Assurance

Email Subscription features is an easy way to keep up with Schwab securities news and updates. When you subscribe, you will get an email update when changes have been made to your selected pages. You can add or delete subscription items at any time and you have the option to password protect your account.

Project description:

• Schwab provide Email subscription features to keep the latest information updated for the clients subscribed by them and allow receiving instant alerts through email about the required watch lists and updates.

Subscription Categories are listed below. You may subscribe to an entire category and automatically receive related new items if added under that same heading.

a. Careers

b. Schwab Securities

c. Schwab features and updates

d. News and Events

e. Regulations and Policies

f. Schwab Brokerage and Bank services.

• Your email address and mobile phone number will be used to deliver the Instant alerts and requested information or to give you access to your profile of subscriptions.

Brief Description: Module 3

Title : Prospect Site Redesign- Quick Quotes

Team Size : 4

Role : System Application Testing and Quality Assurance

Quick Quotes Application:

Charles Schwab prospect/Client site offers Quick Quotes application feature which helps the user to see the Quick Quotes for different securities. Quick Quote feature gives the overall idea at the first look about the market fluctuations in regard with positive or negative growth.

Quick Quote feature provides the quotes for the security symbols and provides statistics for the Market indices for the NYSE during Market hours and closed hours. The quotes which are reflecting in the Market hours are very dynamic and change every possible second. Closed hours, is the last latest quotes closed during the market hours.

Project Description:

• The Quick quote features provides quick quotes for different type of securities like,

a. Stocks,

b. Preferred stocks,

c. ETF’s,

d. Mutual Funds,

e. Market indices,

f. Market index,

g. Options,

h. Money Market,

i. Ranking Indicators,

j. Corporate Bonds.

• The Quick Quotes can be seen for different above securities mentioned on the Quick Quote Bar, fixed at the bottom of the Prospect site. The user has the option to watch out for the Detailed Real Time Quotes (Market hours) and Detailed Delayed quotes (Closed hours) by selecting the security symbol on the Quick Quote bar.

Brief Description: Module 4

Title : Prospect Site Redesign- Ratings and Reviews

Team Size : 4

Role : System Application Testing and Quality Assurance

Ratings and Reviews Application:

Charles Schwab prospect/Client site offers Ratings and Reviews application which helps the user to see the ratings and reviews provided by the clients for various products and services provided by Schwab and also provide the option to rate and review about Schwab features and services only for the Schwab existing or new clients.

Project Description:

• A Prospect who is not a client of Schwab can also see all the reviews and ratings posted by the Schwab clients about the features and services provided by Schwab. So, this gives clear understanding and judgment for the prospects who wanted to join as a Schwab client by seeing the ratings and reviews provided by other clients.

• For a prospect who wants to rate and review about a product or service about Schwab should be a Schwab client already or he has to take up the sign up process as a Schwab client.

• Once the ratings and reviews are provided by the Schwab client, the ratings and reviews are collected and allowed to verify in a Schwab back end third part vendor. Once, the ratings and reviews are approved it is seen in the prospect site for the other users to see.

Brief Description: Module 5

Title : Prospect Site Redesign-Branch Locator

Team Size : 3

Role : System Application Testing and Quality Assurance.

Branch Locator Application:

Charles Schwab prospect/Client site offers an application which helps the user to recognize and find out the nearest branch.The branch type is of two types namely, the Brokerage branch and Bank branch.Branch locator Application finds out the nearest branch to the user only within USA.Branch Locator application uses the Google maps functionality and developed on the basis of Google map functionality.

Project Description:

The Branch Locator application aids the user with other features like Get directions, Workshops, Hours and information and Request an appointment along with the find out the nearest branch.

• Get directions- Get directions feature aid the user to find out the possible directions to reach out the required branch.This is directed and shown using the Branch locator Google maps features and along with the distance,and road directions as how to reach the branch.

• Workshops- Workshops feature gives the possible information about the Branch like, the Branch manager details along with photo, Workshops conducted for that particular branch, and street address of the branch from the user terminal.

• Hours and information- Hours and information feature gives the possible information about the Branch like, the Branch manager details along with photo, Hours and information about the branch work timings including public holidays if any, and street address of the branch from the user terminal.

• Request an Appointment- Request an appointment feature gives the possible information for requesting an appointment for a particular branch. It provides an inbuilt form to the user which asks for the required and contact details of the user along with the information and details which the clients or the prospects looking for from Schwab Branch .As soon as the user submits his request an auto generated email along with the request information and details, will get triggered and sent to the prescribed email id by the user.

Brief Description: Module 6

Title : Prospect Site Redesign- Internal Search

Team Size : 3

Role : System Application Testing and Quality Assurance

Internal Search Application:

Charles Schwab prospect/Client site offers an internal Search application which helps the user to search the keywords internally well within the Charles Schwab website. It does not offers a global search feature just like Google or Yahoo does. Instead offers an internal search feature. The internal search functionality is developed and similar to the Google search functionality.The search is performed and the results are provided based on the relevancy.

Project Description:

• Internal search application provides the results based on the relevance and it uses the functionality of the Google Search Appliance (GSA). Depending upon the selection of the different domains which Schwab has, the results are provided for the user.

• The search functionality offers three types namely, html type of file, PDF type of file, Video format type of file and only maximum of 10 results per page is displayed and if the results exceeds more than 10 results, it has to carry forward to the next page and this transition from one page to another page is done with the help of pagination functionality similar to the GSA.

• The search results displayed to the user has the Result Title, Description of the Title, Location of the result, and the type of result displayed. It also displays the Bread Crumbs of the internal path of the file, to give idea and navigation facility to the user through the bread crumbs.

• The internal search application provides features like suggested term functionality up to 5 suggested terms maximum displayed, did you mean functionality, related term functionality.



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