SUMMARY:

• Around 7+ years of experience in Manual and Automated testing in various Windows, Client - Server and Web based applications
• Experienced in defining Test Scope and Strategy for a release and managed them based on the change in Requirements.
• Experienced in developing business based test scenarios and excellent understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and role of Quality Assurance.
• Good knowledge on various Software Development and Testing Methodologies such as Agile (SCRUM), Hybrid, Waterfall .
• Extended knowledge on various domains like Banking, Insurance, Retail and Marketing on Windows, and Mainframes Platforms.
• Exposure to different types of testing like Automation testing, System testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, Smoke testing, Database testing, GUI testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Well conversant with software testing methodologies including developing Test plans, Test scenarios, Test cases, Test reports and documenting manual and automation tests.
• Experienced in automation testing using Unified Functional Testing/ Quick Test Professional.
• Experienced in Defect Tracking and Defect Reporting using HP ALM/Quality Center.
• Experience in hand on working with Selenium IDE and Selenium Web Driver.
• Basic Knowledge on Web Services testing using SOAP UI Pro.
• Solid Backend testing experience in writing and executing SQL Queries.
• Experienced in testing Oracle, SQL Server and My SQL databases using SQL Quires.
• Expert in writing VB Script code in Unified Functional Testing/Quick Test Pro (UFT/QTP).
• Experienced in developing Functional Libraries, Object repositories and Descriptive programming using UFT/QTP.
• Expertise in Automation using Data-Driven, Keyword Driven and Hybrid frameworks.
• Experienced in attending daily walkthrough meetings with Business analyst, Developers and Stake holders.
• Experienced in Sprint Planning Meeting, Daily Stand Up meeting, Sprit Review Meeting, Sprint Retrospective Meeting, Work Item Review Meeting, and Defect Assignment Meeting.
• Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills and Enthusiastic to learn new skills with a shorter learning curve.
• Good communication skills and worked under heavy pressure and tight deadlines.
• Proven success in multi tasking, handling multiple projects and responsibilities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Databases: Oracle and MS-SQL Server

Testing Tools: UFT/QTP (Unified Functional Testing/ Quick Test Pro), ALM Quality Center

Office Tools: MS-Word, MS-Excel, Power Point, MS-Access, Outlook

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement Analysis based on the BRD, RDD, TDD and also participated in Business and Technical Review meetings
• Involved in writing Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test scripts and Test Scenarios.
• Involved in creating Test cases based on the gathered requirements.
• Worked with Project Management to scope the testing effort and provide status and estimates.
• Performed negative and positive testing for the application.
• Performed Black box testing, System testing, Integration, Regression testing and UTA testing.
• Performed usability, GUI, Functionality and regression testing of the new builds
• Used ALM/Quality Center for maintaining the Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Execution, Defect management, Bug Reporting and familiarity with other features of ALM/Quality Center.
• Wrote complex PL/SQL queries to perform the backend testing of the Microsoft Management Studio database.
• Developed stored procedures, triggers to check the data integrity.
• Created and enhanced test scripts using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Conducted automation functionality and regression testing for each build and version using UFT.
• Performed data-driven testing using parameterization in UFT.
• Developed descriptive programming, custom function, function library, optional steps, and used recovery scenario using UFT.
• Involved in developing both Data driven and Keyword driven Framework using VB Script in QTP/UFT.
• Documented software Test Plans and Test Strategy for all UAT.
• Prepared and presented Weekly and Monthly statuses reports.
• Participated in regular QA Team meetings and discussions.

Environment: UFT/QTP, ALM/Quality Center, SQL Server, MS Office, Windows.

QA Analyst III

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Steps for Business Requirements.
• Performed Manual Black Box Testing for more than four Web Sites.
• Prepared Test Data and performed Positive and Negative testing.
• Used HP QC for bug tracking and followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.
• Worked with Automation tester to preformed Regression Testing using Quick Test Professional (QTP) and generated scripts for testing.
• Validated Front end validations and Frontend creation (images, Forms & pages).
• Executed Browser Compatibility Testing (IE, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari) for the websites with different versions.
• Coordinated with the developers to resolve defects.
• Review and update Regression Test cases for impacted features.
• Estimate test timelines for each test case and provided to Test Lead and Project Manager.
• Engaged with the Development and Project team and informed QA dependencies and QA deliverables.
• Proficient at GUI, Functional testing, usability (content testing, test for navigation) and performance testing.
• Regression Testing performed at various phases of development life cycle for impacted existing functionality.
• Analyzed Test results with the expected results and behavior of the system.
• Extensively used Quality center for Test case Management, Test execution status and defects management.
• Attended Daily Status meetings and reported the test status and plan for the day.
• Created Traceability Matrix by mapping test cases with business requirements.
• Generated weekly Status Reports for Defects and Test Case status, and shared to project team members.
• Dedicated and motivated team player and a self starter Attended daily defect meeting and weekly update meetings with QA Manager to discuss the status of Projects.

Environment: QC, QTP, Windows, OS, and Oracle SQL, IE, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome.

QA Analyst II

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the user requirements by interacting with developers and business analysts.
• Wrote Test Plan and Test Cases by going through the Design, Functional Requirements and User (Business) Requirements Documentation.
• Actively participated in all phase of testing life cycle including documents reviews, maintaining status reports.
• Performed extensive Functional, Integration, Regression, Multi-User, End-to-End, User Acceptance testing.
• Coordinate with developers to resolve issues and fix defects following Bug Life cycle.
• Identified modules that were impacted by various Change Requests.
• Performed SQL queries to do database testing.
• Worked with Automation tester to preformed Regression Testing using Quick Test Professional (QTP) and generated scripts for testing functional, acceptance and limit validations.
• Worked with Automation tester to developed QTP scripts for Object repository creation and maintenance, regular expression, re-usable actions, data table, checkpoints and recovery scenarios.
• Accurately produced regular test status reports to senior management to ensure on-time project Launch.
• Maintained bug tracking tool to report application bugs and enhancement requests.
• Involved in all kinds of formal as well as non-formal meetings with developers, business analysts, and release managers for defect/bug fixing.
• Participated in bug triage meeting to provide explanation of problems.

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed test deliverables such as Test plan, Test Summary Report for testing of selected modules.
• Used the Screen Based Method and designed a Reusable Action for each Screen of the Application.
• Implemented the concept of Relative path for all the scripts.
• Created XML files from the source files.
• Performed negative testing to find how the functions performed when system encountered invalid, unexpected values.
• Identified the test requirements based on user requirements and design specifications using Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center for defect tracking, reporting reviewing and analyzing test result.
• Wrote SQL quires to perform backend testing.
• Generated test scripts for functional and regression tests using QTP.
• Used various check points and Regular Expressions in Scripts where ever required.
• Used Recovery Scenario in scripts where ever required.
• Designed and Generated Reusable Test Scripts using QTP; designed the Reusable Action for each Screen of the Application.
• Used the Descriptive programming approach for developing test scripts using QTP.
• Used the Output Value functionality for storing the runtime values of the application.
• Involved in development of complex Automation Framework.
• Worked with the development team very closely and made sure that all the defects were fixed and closed in a timely manner.
• Participated in bug review meetings on behalf of the QA team.

Environment: QTP, QC, VB, Oracle, SQL Server, MS Office, UNIX and Windows.