Nithin Kumar Email: nithin.gply@gmail.

com Phone: 8584054954

Summary: Over 3 years of experience in Information Technology with specific experience in Software Testing using Mercury Interactive Tools, and various applications like Client Server and Web based applications. Testing expertise includes: Experience with QA Methodology to ensure the Quality Assurance Control. Proficient with automated test tools like Quality Center for testing Client/Server and Web based applications. Have extensive experience in Black Box testing. Performed Functional, Integration / System Testing, Regression Testing and Acceptance Testing. Performed Smoke Testing of the application as entrance criteria for development builds. Defect management, Bug fixing and Bug reporting through Bug tracking tools for Business Application Software & WEB Applications. Implemented the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for the testing life cycle to follow the Standards process in the application. Extensive experience MS office tools Like MSWord, PowerPoint, Excel and Access. Excellent communication skills, Documentation Skills, Team problem solving ability, analytical and programming skills in high speed, quality conscious, Multitasked environment. Good knowledge in functional testing tool QTP 9.2. Knowledge of Writing VB script manually.

Technical Skills:

Testing Tools: Defect Tracking Tools for QC, Test Director. Microsoft Tools MS office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Adobe Acrobat Reader Operating System Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7, Languages HTML, XHTML Bug Tracking: Test Link, Bugzilla Experience with QA Methodology to ensure the

Quality Assurance Control Browsers: MS Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera

Professional Experience # Oct 2011to April2012 Health Highway, Milpitas, CA Responsibilities:

Worked as Quality Analyst,

Test Management through Quality Center. Defect management (logging, tracking and retesting defects). Maintain, and upgrade automated test scripts using QTP Write and test improvements to existing test code Designed modular and reusable automated testing solutions. Knowledge in carrying out Functional Testing, UI Testing and Regression Testing of Web based applications on Windows. Analyzed the business requirements and functional specification documents Developed High Level Test Cases based on the Functional Design Specifications or other supporting documents. Preparation of Use Cases and Test Scripts. Preparation of Unified Review Reports. Execution of test scripts and analyzing Test Results Test Management through Quality Center. Defect management (logging, tracking and retesting defects). Good expertise in peer reviews.

GLOBAL TECH POS ATLANTA, GA Developed test plans and test cases based on business requirement document (BRD), system requirements document (SRD),and technical design documents. Created and executed manual test cases using quality center. Used quality center for defect tracking and reporting. Tested GUI based application using functional, regression, and user acceptance testing methods Reviewed test plans and test cases submitted by colleagues. Estimated testing timelines. Maintained client labs and production system with up-to-date software/hardware and code overlays. Maintained internal database with updated information and status of all costumers. Updated clients with weekly progress reports.

Costumer support for soft openings and go lives. Trained new employees. Consulted with project managers, business analysts, and development during design phase concerning functional requirements for documentation. Trained new and existing clients on available features.

All State Financial, Chicago, IL QA Analyst All State Financial, one of the nation's leading distributors of insurance and financial services through independent advisors, brokers and financial marketing organizations, offered a variety of services like annuities, Life Insurance, Nonqualified Plans, Pensions and Profit Sharing to meet the diverse needs of individuals, families, businesses, and organizations. Responsibilities: Managed requirements in Requirements Plan Manager of Test Director. Involved in testing the Web Applications and Client Server Applications. Experience with Black Box, System, Integration, Regression and GUI Testing during the testing life cycle of the product release. Involved in all the quality assurance phases of Software Development Life Cycle. Ran Smoke tests on QA environment for every build from development. Developed Test Cases from System requirements specification and Functional requirement documents. Created Traceability between Requirements and Test Cases. Participated in Integration, System, GUI, Smoke and User Acceptance Testing. Tracked defects using Defect Manager of Test Director and generated defect reports. Performed interactive walkthroughs of test scripts with Developers, Business users and Business Analysts. Participated in Team meetings and Defect report meetings. Environment: Quality Center, HTML, Web Sphere, Oracle 8i, MS Access. Education: Bachelor of pharmacy, India