SUMMARY:

• Over 6 years of software QA experience using manual and automated testing tools and processes to perform functional and regression testing.
• Strong understanding of Software development practices and its phases such as requirement engineering, design, coding, testing and deployment.
• Profound Knowledge of Testing standards, Test processes, Test artifacts and Milestones.
• Expert in analyzing Business Specifications and developing Test plans, Test cases and Test scripts.
• Extensively experienced in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies like Waterfall, Rapid Application development and Agile/Scrum.
• Experienced in performing Integration testing, System testing, Functional testing, Smoke testing, Regression testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Proficient in developing automated tests using automation frameworks such as Confidential ALM/Quality Center.
• Ability to independently design, develop and maintain integration Tests in Confidential ALM/Quality Center.
• Proficient in Querying and testing RDBMS such as Oracle, SQL server using SQL, PL/SQL for data integrity.
• Expert at setting up the connection between QTP/UFT & QC/ALM and running the QTP/UFT scripts directly from Quality Center/ALM.
• Expert in creation & implementation of the hybrid framework for automating the manual Test cases using QTP/UFT.
• Skilled in developing Library Functions/User Defined Functions for the Automation in QTP/UFT.
• Efficient in preparing data that to be iterated in the QTP/UFT scripts through data table logic.
• Highly skilled in developing Functional Test scripts using QTP/UFT as a part of automated testing.
• Strong understanding about multiple IT technical platforms, and application development methodologies.
• Experienced in the designing and implantation of Software Quality Assurance standards and practices.
• Proficient in requirements analysis, design, risk analysis, and prioritization skills on multiple or large sized software development projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Scripting Languages: VBScript, SQL, HTML, XML

Database: Oracle, DB2, Microsoft Access

Testing Tools: Confidential QTP, Confidential UFT, Confidential Quality Center, Confidential ALM, JIRA, TOAD

Testing Environment: .NET, SQL, XML, HTML, HTTP, DB2, VBScript, Java, C, J2EE, DHTML, Toad, PL/SQL

Other Applications: MS Office, MS Excel, PowerPoint

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Mt Laurel, NJ

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning and designing of automated Test cases including analysis against framework.
• Responsible for leading Automation Testing
• Work with QA manager and various project managers to estimate automation effort such as time, money and complexity.
• Maintain and update existing automation framework such as monitoring, making change and document change made in scripts, associated test cases and function library.
• Identify the cause of failure of automated scripts, fixed and performed the successful resolution whether rerunning or opening defects accordingly.
• Create Test plan and Test result with Confidential ALM to trace the requirements.
• Write SQL queries to verify the database tables for the data inserted from the GUI.
• Work with automated testing tool such as UFT
• Build automated scripts from manual Test cases and Business requirements using UFT.
• Execute Data driven and Regression Testing on application using UFT.
• Perform functional testing on the application using UFT and revise Automation framework to decrease maintenance of updating automated Test case.
• Facilitate status report on Defect tracking using UFT.
• Participate in daily SCRUM meetings interacting with Project Manager, Develop Manager and members of the QA team.
• Review and verifies bug tickets within ALM.
• Involve in reading architectural diagrams, environment/server management documentation, review end - to-end workflows (technical/business).
• Ensure Test deliverables are prepared per enterprise guidelines.
• Collect and report Test results through various metrics reporting tools and communicated to key stakeholders on a regular basis.
• Produce documentation to support the QA processes.

Environment: Confidential ALM, Windows, Visual Studio, UFT, SQL Server, Oracle, Html, CSS, Java, JavaScript, Linux.

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Built Test result reports, wrote scripts to automate Tests to facilitate repeatable and efficient Software Test Cycle.
• Developed Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases (Functional and Non-Functional), Test Scenarios from System Requirement Specifications according to the Business requirement.
• Worked through Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC) and participated in full life cycle development using objects oriented programming concepts.
• Involved in Code and Design Reviews and did Unit and Integration testing as part of Automation testing.
• Participated in the preparation of TRM (Test Responsibility Matrix) which was defined as mapping between Development stages and Test factors.
• Wrote the complete instructions based on the newly created structure Confidential Quality Center for Testers.
• Performed Backend Testing by writing SQL queries to review the returned data to ensure that the correct data was retrieved.
• Performed Automated Testing in QTP to ensure integration between web- based application and quote & claims.
• Designed and developed Test automation strategy for Quick Test Pro.
• Wrote Test cases in QTP, executed Test cases and reported problems through in-house defect tracking tool.
• Reported bugs through QTP categorizing them on severity.
• Worked with customized objects using object identification in QTP and used Regular Expressions.
• Tested any new software in QTP to ensure integration into company systems meets functional requirements.
• Coordinated with the teams to define the data needed for the project.
• Analyzed the gap between actual and expected results and reported bugs using JIRA application.
• Helped business stake holders to define a cost efficient organizational level Test strategy.
• Made recommendations for improvement of applications to programmers and software developers or Engineers.

Environment: Confidential Quality Center, Visual Studio, QTP, SQL Server, Java, JavaScript, Html, CSS, Windows, Oracle.

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business requirement documents, Functional specification documents to prepare Test cases and effort estimation.
• Developed, maintained and upgraded Test scripts, Utilities, Simulators, Data sets and other Programmatic Test tools required to execute Test plans.
• Created Manual Test cases and Test suites for different modules of the application.
• Worked with the development team to create a suite of test data including both input files and expected results.
• Executed the Tests manually to verify the application functionality and developed Smoke scripts for weekly builds and scripts for installation process.
• Involved in reviewing business requirements and enhancing them before uploading to Quality Center.
• Prepared and executed Test cases as per the documents provided using Quality Center.
• Involved in database testing by writing and executing SQL queries to ensure that data entered has been uploaded correctly in to the database.
• Created Standard checkpoints and Synchronization Check Points by using QTP for validations and performed Data Driven Testing to work scripts for multiple set of data.
• Performed manual testing for functionality testing and developed automated execution of test cases using QTP for Regression Testing.
• Created Standard checkpoints and Synchronization Check Points by using QTP for validations and Perform Data Driven Testing to work our scripts for multiple set of data.
• Researched new open source language/framework for future end to end Test tools across components.
• Participated in project meetings to set the schedules and milestones and completed all the deliverables in the timely manner.

Environment: Quality Center, Visual Studio, SQL Server, JavaScript, Html, CSS, QTP, Oracle, Windows.