SUMMARY:

• E xperience in all phases of the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and good exposure to Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Participated in requirements analysis, reviews and working sessions to understand the requirements and system design
• Hands on experience with HP’s test suite - UFT/Quick Test Professional (QTP ) and Quality Center/ALM
• Experienced in Manual and Automated testing techniques, such as Black box, GUI, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Back end and User Acceptance Testing
• Experienced in creating, executing tests and generated the test reports and created graphs using ALM/Quality Center
• Experienced in using ALM/Quality Center to communicated defects encountered during Regression Test and followed-up with developers until all issues were resolved
• Experienced in Developing Automation Framework and User Defined Functions Library with reusable VBScript functions using UFT/UFT
• Ability to work with all levels of management, willingness to learn and implement new ideas quickly and to be a collaborative team player
• Excellent analytical, communication, documentation and interpersonal skills
• Highly motivated resourceful team player that takes a positive approach to problem resolution Expert in industry standard software development methodologies and life-cycles
• Ability and desire to work in a spirited, collaborative environment
• Ability to identify and prioritize important tasks independently
• Self-motivated, willing to learn new concepts, technologies, and ability to produce quickly

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

STLC Tools: Quick Test Professional, Load Runner, Quality Center, Test Director, Selenium, Jmeter, ALM Performance Center, Sprinter, Unified Functional Testing

Programming Languages: Java, ASP, JSP, J2MEE, Visual Basic, JavaScript, VBScript, HTML, XHTML, XML

Application Software: Microsoft Vision, VSS, Mercurial Hg, Excel, Word, PowerPoint

Databases: Oracle, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server

Tools: SQL*Loader, TOAD, SQL Analyzer, SQL Profiler

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 2007, UNIX, Linux, MS-DOS

Others: IIS, Tomcat/Apache, UML, Web Services, IE, Firefox, Opera

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Richmond,VA

Software Automation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in Automated Testing and Manual Testing of applications developed on various Environments.
• Requirements Analyst.
• For functional and non-functional requirements, requirements traceability matrix and defect tracking by using Test Director, Quality Center / ALM.
• Used Selenium WebDriver to identifying elements and performing operations on elements.
• Used Eclipse IDE to create Selenium scripts.
• Involved in preparing Test Plans, Software requirement specifications, and Design Documentation.
• Experienced in setting up test environment.
• Experienced with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Expertise in Test Methodology, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Proficient in Black Box, Functionality, Positive, Negative, Integration, System, Performance, Stress, Regression, User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Expertise in Database Testing, Data Manipulation using SQL queries and establishes Database connection.
• Keen attention to detail, an enthusiastic, goal-oriented, problem solver and dependable team player.
• Conduct extensive regression and usability tests on relational and non-relational databases test design functionality to identify system glitches and bugs for IBM server-based applications
• Automated test cases using Selenium TestNG Framework
• Production Support: Smoke testing on all production update in various environments. Script writing, plan and executing test including Automation with Selenium
• Automated testing tools such as Junit and Selenium to conduct systems, integration, user acceptance, positive and negative, functionality, object, and regression tests.
• Design, create, and customize scripts using various scripting language and testing tools, such as JavaScript, Selenium with Java, JUnit, TestNG, and QTP 11, for data-driven network systems and others using JAVA Language
• Worked as a Automation Tester, responsible for development and maintenance of Automation Frameworks, tools and solutions. Managed and coordinated onsite/offshore functional test efforts and Automated functional testing
• Write and execute automation test script for UFT and Selenium
• Participate in the automated testing tool vendor selection process. Conduct a Pros & Cons analysis of HP QTP and Selenium
• Performed manual and light selenium IDE script-driven sanity and regression, cross-browser testing to ensure consistency.
• Create solutions to improve scripts by designing new functions, synchronization threads and processes, and check points
• For functional and non-functional requirements, requirements traceability matrix and defect tracking by using Test Director, Quality Center / ALM.
• Review system specifications for design functionality and user documentation ensuring functionality coordinates with user instructions
• Work closely with development team to identify and resolve any system-related problems; discuss solutions and make recommendations to senior leaders; implement and test these solutions

Confidential,Raleigh,NC

Quality Assurance Analyst

• Perform quality assurance, quality control, and security tests for system designs, processes, and security features
• Worked as a Automation Tester, responsible for development and maintenance of Automation Frameworks, tools and solutions. Managed and coordinated onsite/offshore functional test efforts and Automated functional testing
• Write and execute automation test script for QTP
• Participate in the automated testing tool vendor selection process. Conduct a Pros & Cons analysis of HP QTP
• Performed manual and light UFT script-driven sanity and regression, cross-browser testing to ensure consistency.
• Create solutions to improve scripts by designing new functions, synchronization threads and processes, and check points
• For functional and non-functional requirements, requirements traceability matrix and defect tracking by using Test Director, Quality Center / ALM.
• Test system requirements for bugs and glitches using various web-based test management software such as ALM/Quality Center 11.00
• Analyze system designs, requirements, and documentation to effectively develop test scripts, and test specific scenarios for required levels of security and quality-control testing
• Analyze and verify data requirements and layout reports for various database designs and other systems
• Collaborate with business users and customers to clarify system requirements to improve the user interface and the design and development of the system processes
• Work directly and independently with customers to perform usability testing to thoroughly review and test scripts
• Perform complex analysis and testing support for government clients by executing regression and system testing and manually integrate system improvements
• Analyze physical system designs to develop system test plans and outline an estimated timeline for test schedules
• Examine business and operational requirements for new and modified systems
• Review system specifications for design functionality and user documentation ensuring functionality coordinates with user instructions
• Work closely with development team to identify and resolve any system-related problems; discuss solutions and make recommendations to senior leaders; implement and test these solutions

Confidential,Cleveland,OHIO

Automation Test Engineer

• Extensively involved in writing, executing and analyzing UAT, Regression, Database Checkpoints, and Data Driven Test Scripts for all the projects using Quick Test Professional.
• Worked on Quality Center for creating and documenting Test Plans, Test Cases and registered the expected results.
• Communicated with Application Developers, Project Manager and other Team members on Application testing status on an ongoing basis when necessary.
• Used Correlation and Parameterization to enhance Web Vusers.
• Developed Web V user Scripts to capture end-user activities for Web based application using LoadRunner.
• Generated the volume, time, stress graph to support performance tuning of Web Server, Application server and Database server.
• LoadRunner Analysis used to Develop Microsoft word Report, where higher management can easily understand LoadRunner results.
• Worked on finding the system resources usage, Network & application Bottle necks by using LoadRunner Analysis Reports.
• Involved in writing SQL queries, Database Checkpoints to verify data quality and calculations, reviews.
• Coordinated subsystem and/or system testing activities. Performed analysis of test results and prepared comprehensive subsystem and/or system level evaluation reports which verify and validate system performance.
• Prepared and delivered periodic status reports on the progress of individual projects to customers and internal program and project managers.
• Used LoadRunner for performance and stress testing of the application to improve its efficiency and scalability, measured hits per second and response time.
• Installed and configured LoadRunner, recorded Vuser scripts for various scenarios and
• Responsible for implementing LoadRunner, Performance center, JMeter based infrastructure including: Architecting the load testing infrastructure, hardware & software integration with LoadRunner
• Prepared Test Cases, Vugen scripts, Load Test, Test Data, Execute test, validate results, Manage defects and report results