SUMMARY:

• 7 years of Proven track record with testing across multiple applications and systems.
• Extensive knowledge in entire Software Development Life Cycle - Business requirements analysis and testing using Agile, Scrum, Waterfall methodologies.
• Extensively experienced in Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Sanity testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Batch Testing, Data base Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Experienced in requirements Analysis & Review, Test Scenarios Identification, Test case Preparation, Test case Execution, Review of Test cases and Analyzing Defects.
• Experienced in participating in all phases of Project Lifecycle as QA Analyst.
• Highly skilled in Manual and Automated testing Techniques using Interactive Tools: ALM/HP Quality Center and UFT/Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Experienced in executing manual/automated test and doing Ad Hoc testing, Black Box testing.
• Well versed with SQL, PL/SQL queries to run the data integrity tests.
• Experienced in using software Management and Bug Tracking Tools like ALM/Quality Center and JIRA.
• Experienced in designing, development and execution of Test cases based on business, functional and system specifications.
• Exposure to Backend Testing using SQL.
• Strong Database (Oracle, SQL Server) testing skills using advanced SQL, PL/SQL.
• Experienced in using HP UFT/Quick Test Professional (QTP) to developed and modify automation scripts.
• Experienced in using UFT/Quick Test Professional (QTP) for Functional and Regression Testing of the application.
• Experienced in developing test scripts using VB script to perform automated test from UFT/QTP environment.
• Expertise in Developing Automation Frameworks for Web Applications using UFT/QTP.
• Excellent analytical, communication, organizational, administrative, interpersonal, communication, leadership, planning and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent in quickly understanding any Business Process Logic and in adapting new technology as required.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

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

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX

Databases: MS SQL Server, My SQL, Oracle and MS Access

Scripting Languages: HTML, XML, VB Script

Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Outlook.

Languages: C, C++, Java, java Script, VB.Net, C#, .Net, SQL, PL/SQL

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jersey city, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Business Analysts for requirements gathering and conducted review meetings for change requests for writing test cases.
• Performed Functionality Testing, Black Box Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Responsible for Automation Scripts & library functions maintenance.
• Used ALM to create Test Plan and Test Cases and executed those using ALM and UFT.
• Involved in using ALM for Bug tracking and Defect reporting.
• Developed Reports in ALM using Excel Report Generator and Graphs.
• Sent the reports to all team members with Daily Status to track the updates in testing.
• Using PL/SQL Queries to perform Back End Testing for Oracle data bases.
• Using SQL queries to access data from different database tables.
• Developed Function libraries, Shared repository, Descriptive programming and Recovery scenarios for UFT using VB script.
• Developed scripts to perform Regression Testing using VB Script in UFT.
• Involved in Hybrid Automation Frameworks using VBScript in UFT.
• Responsible for reporting daily status and progress of testing to the project team.
• Participated in the team meetings to discuss the issues arising out of testing.

Environment: ALM, UFT, VB, Oracle 11.5, Java, HTML, XML, Windows 7, MS Office, Internet Explorer, SQL Server

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended Functional spec, Test strategy, Test plan and Test cases reviews ensuring they met business requirements.
• Involved in estimating the effort required to build the automation scripts.
• Conducted Test plan reviews with cross-functional teams.
• Involved in analyzing and reviewing the business requirements documents.
• Helped to QA groups to copy data from one project to other.
• Collected requirement from business people before and signoff after development complete in QA.
• Involved in Coordinating with development team to create and review test specifications, test coverage, defect discovery and resolution.
• Assisted team documenting functional and regression test plans, test cases with expected results based on the business functional requirements.
• Involved in black box testing and identified, prioritized, and implemented test cases for GUI testing.
• Performed Integration testing and System testing.
• Prepared Requirement Traceability matrix, Test data, Test Coverage Matrix and Test reports using HP ALM.
• Monitored ALM activities to make sure the defects were logged in ALM and were linked to appropriate Test cases.
• Involved in Back-end testing by developing various complex SQL queries.
• Reported bugs into ALM and performed regression tests after the bugs were fixed using UFT.
• Used UFT for debugging & executing scripts, to perform error recovery and integrated some part of the automation scripts with the shared object repository.
• Created VB scripts by recording user actions and writing re-usable functions.
• Involved in Hybrid Automation Frameworks using VBScript in UFT.
• Prepared user documentation with screenshots for UAT (User Acceptance testing).
• Attended weekly status meetings with development and management Teams.

Environment: Oracle, VB, Java, J2EE, Windows, ALM, UFT, Internet Explorer, Linux, SQL Server.

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed requirements, system design and prepared test strategy.
• Documented test plans and test cases based on the solution definition documents and use case documents.
• Analyzed modules and designed test scenarios and test scripts in both Windows and UNIX environment.
• Performed GUI, Smoke, Ad-hoc, Functional, System, Integration, Regression, Back-end and UAT Testing.
• Collaborated with developers as needed to isolate root cause of defects.
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix for the product across different releases and also updating the Requirement traceability matrix timely with the changes into HP Quality Center.
• Posted bugs in Quality Center and tracked them to closure by following up with Development team.
• Documented and reported defects within established process and tracking systems using Quality Center.
• Extensively using PL/SQL Queries to perform Back End Testing for Oracle data bases.
• Developed Automation test scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP) by record and play.
• Executed automated test scripts using QTP.
• Developed scripts using descriptive programming in QTP.
• Created Custom functions, Dictionary objects using VB Script in QTP.
• Created both Data-driven and Keyword-driven Frameworks and maintained those frameworks.
• Analyzed automation packages and provided input into management direction to implement an automation framework utilizing QTP.
• Prepared various test reports and published to Development and QA team.
• Created shell scripts for batch file processing.
• Provided trainings on effective root cause analysis and defect prevention.
• Created documentation for every release including the changes done in that release.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Java Script, Web Sphere, XML, SQL Server, IE, Windows XP, QTP, Quality center.

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating Test Plans, Test cases for new Implementation based on the business requirements.
• Manually test each and every module of the application and verify against expected results.
• Performed both manual testing and automated testing for AUT.
• Performed in Black box, Functional, Integration, Regression, and Backend testing/database testing.
• Managed the requirements using Requirements module in Quality center.
• Developed Test Cases and Test Design using Test Plan module in Quality center.
• Performed manual testing as an ongoing process of the development life cycle using Quality center.
• Provided weekly updates through status report using Quality center.
• Written SQL queries and executed procedures to perform back-end testing for the expected results.
• Performed functional testing and Regression Testing using QTP.
• Generated Test Scripts using QTP, developed VB Script test Object Repositories.
• Scheduled, Interacted, invoked the QTP Scripts using Quality Center.
• Created a startup script using Automation Object Model that Standardizes QTP environment.
• Worked on Excel Files using VBScript with QTP, created data driven QTP scripts.
• Involved in designing a Hybrid Automation Framework using QTP.
• Performed interactive walkthroughs of test scripts with developers, business users and Business Analysts.
• Participated in the team meetings to discuss the issues arising out of testing.

Environment: Windows, UNIX, Putty, Quality center, Oracle, MS Office, Share Point, J2EE, QTP.