Nikunj Purani nikunj.purani@gmail.

com
QA Engineer. +91-9998980667

Objective
To have a growth oriented carrier and be a part of a professional team where I can utilize
my experience and learn skills to maximum and register myself as one among the best in
the software industry based on my performance and commitment.

Skill Set

• Total 3 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing using

manual and 8 months in automated testing tools in client/server, stand alone and web
based applications.
• Participation in developing automated test scripts using Quick Test Professional
(QTP) 9.5
• Understanding on the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and models
including Waterfall, V model and Agile (SCRUM).
• Experience in designing Test plans, defining Test cases, performing Verification
and Validation, maintaining test scripts and analyzing bugs.
• Strong experience in Black Box Testing.
• Involved in Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing,
Installation Testing, Compatibility Testing, Database Testing and Data driven
testing.
• Experience in Developing and Analyzing Test Metrics and Bug Analysis
• Expertise in problem solving and bug tracking using bug tracking tools.
• Experience in using SQL Queries for Data Verification and Backend Testing
• Exposure to SEI CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) and ISO Quality
Processes.
• Involved in Browser Compatibility Testing of the product using different browsers like
Internet Explorer, Mozilla Fire fox and Netscape Navigator.
• Having Experience Installation of Patches and Hot fixes on the installed application
• Good interpersonal and customer relational skills. Proven communication, presentation
skills and leadership Qualities.
• Self-starter with ability to adapt and learn new things quickly.

Technical Skill

Functional Testing Tools HP QTP 9.2 and HP QTP 9.5

Documentation Tools MS Word 2007,MS Excel 2007,MS PowerPoint 2007

Configuration Mgt Tool Visual Source Safe (VSS).

Bug Tracking Tools BugZilla

Operating Systems Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/2003/vista
Web HTML, XML

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Programming Languages VB Script
Databases Oracle 10g/9i/8i, DB2, MS Access.

Career Ladder
Organizations Period

 AK Systems Pvt Ltd. February 2008 to till date

 Priya Sharma Software Pvt Ltd October 2006 to February 2008

Education

2006 IGNOU MCA

2002 Bhartiy Vidhya Bhavan’s, Baroda, Gujarat PG in

IRPM

2001 M S University, Baroda, Gujarat

B.Com

Professional Certification

• HP Certified Accredited Integration Specialist (AIS) – HP Quality Center v9.2 Software

Professional Experience in Detail

Software QA Engineer AK Systems Pvt Ltd.

QA Analyst
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
Project Name : Electronic Data Interchange Application
Team Size : 2
Role : Lead QA Engineer
Client : Peter Lang Publications

EDI is a set of protocols for conducting electronic business over computer networks. EDI
defines the electronic exchange of structured business data, such as purchase orders,
invoices, and shipping notices, typically between one organization and another. The
relationship is usually between a vendor and customer. The EDI system coordinates the
transaction, initiates deliveries, and generates invoices.

Peter Lang is a major international academic publisher. It has a window based application
used for recording orders of books through the EDI Application. The EDI application support 5
business documents that will be exchanged with the partner EDI application. (1) Purchase Order (PO-
850) (2) Purchase Order Acknowledgment (POA-855) (3) Invoice - 810 (4) Advance Shipment
Notice (ASN-856) (5) Functional Acknowledgment – 997.

Responsibilities:

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• Reviewed Business requirements, functional Specifications, Solution design document to
Identify Test Requirements, Test Plans, and Designed Test Cases.
• Write test plans, test scenarios & test cases.
• Performed GUI and Functional Testing.
• Performed Black Box Testing from end user perspective.
• Define UAT environment requirements.
• Involved in Bug tracking and reporting.
• Performed Installation Testing to check whether the application is viable on different
systems like Desktop, Laptops.
• Conducted Regression testing during & after all bug fixes.

Software QA Engineer
Sleep Data
Project Name : Sleep Data
Team Size : 8
Role : Software QA Engineer
Client : CLINiLABS Inc

CLINILABS Inc is a private Health Care firm which held life sciences Company that
specializes in providing clinical trials services in the CNS therapeutic area. Project involved
automation of data collection from various sources; validating data using validation rules set
by the administrator, defining validation rules and generating output file reports.

Responsibilities:
• Reviewed and referred Business requirements, functional Specifications, Solution design
document to Identify Test Requirements, Test Plans, and Designed Test Cases, Test
Scripts and Test Data.
• Written test strategy document, test plans, test cases, test scenarios.
• Designed and Developed the Test Scenarios for Renewal System.
• Performed GUI and Functional Testing.
• Performed Black Box Testing from end user’s perspective without knowing the code.
• Involved in Execution of Functional, Regression, Ad-Hoc, Integration, Stress and User
Acceptance testing for the modules and verifying Validation.
• Coordinate UAT review meetings with management, other team leads and with team
members
• Define UAT environment requirements
• Reported bugs, reviewed bugs created by Team and Analyzing bugs Bug Tracker.
• Participated in peer and group reviews of defects.
• Track the work progress and ensure the timely delivery of work products.
• Prepared expected results according to Business requirements.
• Verified bug fixes and tested all impacted modules in application.
• Performed GUI, System, Stress, Performance and Regression Testing.
• Performed Regression Testing to verify whether modifications made in the application
have not caused unintended adverse side effects.
• Identified the Risks, Quantify and Prioritize and mitigate them to minimize the impact.

Software QA Engineer Secure

Electronic Data Transfer (SEDT)
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Project Name : Secure Electronic Data transfer
Team Size : 8
Role : Software QA Engineer
Client : CLINiLABS Inc

The Secure Electronic Data Transfer application allows their worldwide clients to securely
transfer patient data files from their location to Clinilabs’ server. This process is achieved
using stronger security encryption standards and faster transfer speed using data
compression algorithms. The files are decompressed and decrypted at server level by
windows services.

Responsibilities:
• Written Test Plan, Test Strategy, and Test Schedules and delivered the best results.
• Worked on QTP 9.5 take participation in automation Test Scripts to test the
functionality as per the requirement.
• Worked with team members to create a planning of testing on QTP 9.5 and determined
what need to be tested on QTP 9.5
• Hands on experience in creating scripts, recording scripts, modifying scripts, and
executing scripts as per the business rules on QTP 9.5
• Used effectively all the features of QTP 9.5 and enhanced test cases according to the
business requirements.
• Enhanced test scripts in QTP 9.5 by inserting Checkpoints, replacing values with
Parameters to get the desired results.
• With knowledge of VB Script enhanced QTP scripts and debug the code when
needed.
• Worked with teams to coordinate the testing schedule and resolve the critical issues.
• Involved in Meeting with Client for requirements gathering.
• Identifying, analyzing, and documenting defects, questionable functions, errors, and
inconsistencies in firmware and application functions, outputs, online screens, and
content.
• Performed Data Driven test using test data from Excel files and also created different
checkpoints.
• Involved in Bug tracking and reporting.
• Involved in peer reviews and weekly status meetings.

Software QA Engineer
Training for Care for UK e-Business
Project Name : Training for Care for UK e Business
Team Size : 2
Role : Software QA Engineer
Client : e-Business UK

The Web based Solution built in ASP.NET 2.0. Training for Care is the Website which is
providing “Training for the Trainers”; which provides various courses to learn and Role
based site management for Administrator and other type of Members.
User Management:
Application is designed for various types of the users. This contains center mechanism to
handle user information like their registration and payment information.
Course Management:
Training for care provides various courses to learn and for them provides materials and
course details. This module handles all information of the courses like course details, sub
courses, learning materials, course fees etc. It also maintains information of group
registration, dates of the courses and seats available for particular course.
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Content Management System (CMS):
Administrator can handle the site flow by handling “Content Management System (CMS)”
developed for this site from the scratch. This handles designing pages for the different
courses and will be placed on the public site according to shorting order defined by the
administrator.

Responsibilities:
• Gathered project Documents, Business Requirements and Functional
Requirements.
• Interacted with Development Teams and Project Management in explaining the Business
and Functional requirements.
• Performed Cross Browser Testing to verify the Compatibility of the application to
support different Web Browsers like Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer and
Firefox.
• Tested all the Web pages for data input validations on all Edit fields and Alphanumeric
Fields where customers were required to log in their Name and SSN Number as well as
Zip Code to view further details of their accounts.
• Performed GUI, System, Performance and Regression Testing.
• Used QTP to generate automated test scripts for Regression Testing.
• Tested each Business Logic, Application Flow and created Individual Test scripts for
each module.
• Created Scenarios and executed them according to the documentation of Test plan
• Analyzed the results using Graphs and Reports.
• Performed GUI testing by inserting GUI Check Points and performed Data Driven
Testing by Parameter sing the data

Software QA Engineer
Customer Services
Project Name : Customer Services
Team Size : 3
Role : Software QA Engineer
Client : Peter Lang Publications

Peter Lang is a major international academic publisher with its head office in Bern,
Switzerland, and other offices in Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford and
Vienna.
Customer Service is a window based application used for recording orders of books.
Payments for orders are done using Credit Cards and are recorded in the system. Various
reports viz. Purchase Order, Changed Order, Canceled Order, list of books etc are
generated.

Responsibilities:
• Involved in Requirement analysis.
• Involved in Meeting with Client for requirements gathering.
• Developed Test Cases.
• Followed black box methodologies to check the functionality of pages.
• Define UAT environment requirements
• Involved in Bug tracking and reporting.
• Performed Installation Testing to check whether the application is viable on different
systems like Desktop, Laptops.
• Conducted Regression testing during & after all bug fixes.

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Software Test Engineer P S Software Pvt Ltd.

Software Test Engineer

Q Continuum Systems
Project Name : Q Continuum Systems (Medical and Health Management System)
Team Size : 4
Role : Software Test Engineer
Client : CHMack Inc.

Q Care management system is a client server application belonging to the medical domain
developed by CHMack Inc. USA. The application is developed using Visual Basic 6 and
MSSQL Server 2000. The application is used by healthcare agencies, mental asylums and by
agencies providing elder care services. (www.chmack.com)
Responsibilities:
• Involved in Meeting with Client for requirements gathering.
• Developed Test Cases and Test Scripts in Test Plan Manager
• Performed Business functionality testing which involved the testing of all core
functions of the application
• Followed black box methodologies to check the functionality of web pages
• Performed parallel testing, Integration testing and Regression testing
Performed configuration testing of web pages with different browser versions of Internet
Explorer and different operating systems such as Windows 95/98/NT

Software Test Engineer

Visual Lease
Project Name : Visual Lease
Team Size : 3
Role : Software Test Engineer
Client : Visual Lease Inc.

Visual Lease is property management system. It is a comprehensive, powerful and easy-to-

use lease administration solution that enables you to easily control and report on your
leases and other real estate information.

Responsibilities:
• Studying and Understanding Business Requirements.
• Involved in Requirement analysis.
• Written test strategy document, test plans, test cases, test scenarios.
• Performed Integration Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, User Interface
Testing (UAT), Defect Testing, Adhoc Testing and Smoke Testing.
• Bug Reporting and Tracking using BugZilla
• Involved in All stages of SDLC
• Performed Installation Testing to check whether the application is viable on different
systems like Desktop, Laptops.
• Conducted Regression testing during & after all bug fixes.
• Participated in walkthrough and review meetings.

Personal Details

Date of Birth : 18 May 1981

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Gender : Male

Marital Status : Unmarried

Address : B/421, Sector 1, IPCL Township,

Baroda, Gujarat.

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