SUMMARY:

• Over 6 years of professional experience in Quality Assurance and Software testing of various application using both Manual and Automation testing techniques.
• Proficient in Backend(Database) testing, Data Warehouse testing, ETL(Informatica) testing process, System Integration, Functional, Regression and Performance testing of Client Server and Web Based applications across domains like Aviation, Financial & Banking, Environmental and Healthcare.
• In depth knowledge of Software development life cycle(SDLC), Software testing life cycle(STLC) and Software Development Methodologies such as Agile Scrum & Waterfall.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Microsoft Test Manager(MTM), Microsoft - SharePoint & Team Foundation Server(TFS), Microsoft Office, SOAP UI, ETL/Informatica. HP ALM/QC, UFT/QTP, JIRA

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix, Linux.

Languages: C++, Visual Basic, JAVA, SQL, PL/SQL, VB.Net

Scripting Languages: JavaScript, VBScript

Web Technologies: ASP.NET, VB.NET, HTML, XML, CSS.

Database: MS SQL Server, MS- Access, Oracle

Web Server: IIS, Web logic Application Server, Tomcat

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

QA Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Create the required documentation for each QA project, including requirements analysis, development of the test strategy and integrated test plan, system flow diagram, test cases, defect tracking and associated defect reports.
• Participate in developing test strategies, test plans, test scenarios from business and design specifications.
• Participate of Front End and Back End testing using Black Box testing Methodology.
• Manually test each and every module of the application and verified against expected results.
• Perform functional, smoke, regression, user acceptance, and backend testing of the application.
• Facilitate UAT testing sessions with client, business process owners and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).
• Develop Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to trace requirements during the validation phase.
• Develop Test Cases for positive as well as negative scenarios and created test data in .xml,.txt, .csv and .xlsx format.
• Perform in Back-end/Database testing writing and executing complex SQL Queries and data verification using Oracle database environments.
• Extensive experience in testing on XML documents in web applications and data warehouse project.
• Validate the load process of ETL to make sure the target tables are populated according to the data mapping provided that satisfies the transformation rules.
• Experience in ETL testing process, verify source to target database are in sync
• Work on UNIX server with respect to operate system and variety of commands.
• Use Microsoft Test Manager(MTM) to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning, executing tests, and tracking defects.
• Experience using Microsoft Team Foundation Server(TFS) to create and track all testing related tasks (Epics/user stories/Sprints and progress of work etc.)
• Experience in writing UFT/QTP Test Scripts using Descriptive Programming and enhanced the scripts using Parameterization, Synchronization, Correlation, Regular Expressions, Check Points, Customized Exception handling and VBScript for regression testing.
• Attend meetings such as daily stand-up meeting, sprint planning meeting, kick-off meeting with Business Analyst, Business Managers, Project Manager, Developer, and QA Lead.

Environment: Windows, MS Office, HTML, XML, TFS, MTM, SharePoint, Oracle server, SOAP UI, Unix/Linux, ETL/Informatica. SQL,QTP/UFT,VB.NET, J2EE.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements gathering sessions with client end users to get understanding and prospective of client’s business model and created test plan for functional and integration testing phase.
• Attended meetings with business process owners to approve functional and integration test cases and performed gap analysis and Performed sanity, smoke, positive, negative and regression testing.
• Prepared MS Excel sheets for requirements and design steps to export to HP ALM.
• Converted requirements to tests and created Templates in HP ALM for the common steps.
• Generated daily script and defects reports via HP ALM used for daily UAT call and overall testing review.
• Wrote complex SQL queries to manipulate data in database to verify and validate test data.
• Used Informatica to load source file records into database and monitor the ETL loading.
• Executed batch processing and verify the jobs status and data in database tables
• Generated UFT/QTP scripts with Standard, Text, Bitmap, Table checkpoints and also synchronization points.
• Involved in developing scripts using Descriptive programming in UFT/QTP.
• Supported project managers in executing and coordinating QA and defect management activities along multiple platforms and systems to ensure critical applications are delivered with no critical issues.
• Performed backend testing of the system by writing and executing SQL queries.
• Managed defects from submission through resolution with vendors, system analysts, QA and client development teams.
• Provided statistical reports on QA testing and defects resolution progress on a weekly basis to stakeholders and management.

Environment: HP ALM, UFT/QTP, VBScript, MS SQL Server, HTML, XML, Windows, Unix, MS Office, SOAP UI. ETL/Informatica.Java.

Confidential, Washington, DC

QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Generated Test Scripts as per system, architecture and data synchronization requirements.
• Prepared the Manual Test cases and reviewed the test cases.
• Involved in Test Script evaluation along with the Test Manger, Business Analyst, Client and the Development Team.
• Tested Graphical User Interface (GUI) Components.
• Performed UAT, GUI, Sanity, Functional, System, Regression, Smoke and Back-end testing.
• Created Test Cases in HP Quality Center, mapped Test Cases to Requirements using Requirements Coverage, maintained test Cases and reports in Quality Center.
• Investigated and reported software bugs and interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues using Quality Center.
• Created SQL queries for backend testing and data integrity testing.
• Involved in Functional testing of the system using both manual testing and automation tool QTP.
• Performed Integration testing, system testing and Regression testing using QTP.
• Developed automated test scripts using VBScript in QTP to facilitate Regression testing on multiple releases.
• Parameterized QTP scripts for using with varied, controlled test input values.
• Performed test case execution using a Keyword Driven Framework with QTP.
• Generated Weekly Status Reports to the team manager & participated in weekly status meeting with Team members, Team managers, Business Analysts & Technical Team participating in Project review meetings.

Environment: HP Quality Center (QC), QTP, Windows, Unix, MS SQL Server, Java, J2EE, VBScript, VB.Net, HTML, XML.

Confidential, Hamilton, NJ

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Senior Architects, Manager and the developers for issue resolution for critical business related queries and acting as a liaison between the business and the IT teams.
• Involved in Agile model of software development by facilitating daily operational scrums and frequently coordinating across cross-functional team.
• Used HP Quality Center for maintaining the Test Cases, Test Execution, Defect management, Bug Reporting and familiarity with other features of Quality Center and Administration.
• Interacted with development Teams for timely closure of bugs. Tracked and monitored defects using Quality Center.
• Reported bugs into Quality Center and performed regression tests after the bugs were fixed using QTP.
• Enhanced the QTP scripts by inserting VBScript functions and Checkpoints to check for Broken Links, Text, Table, XML and Images, and Synchronization Point to capture upload time.
• Performed Data-Driven Testing, Text Output values by using Global and Local spreadsheets in QTP for testing multiple data.
• Generated standard defect reports and graphs for daily status meeting.
• Involved in communication with the client and worked according to the client schedule for the entire application.

Environment: HP Quality Center (QC), QTP, Windows, UNIX, Java, J2EE, SQL, Oracle Server.