PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of experience in Software quality assurance / testing.
• Working knowledge on requirement analysis and Test Scenario derivation.
• Experienced in Agile methodology and Waterfall methodology Testing.
• Gained expertise in the areas spanning various phase of STLC - Test Planning and management, Requirements Management, Test Design, Run plan preparation, Execution, Defect Management and Test Reporting using dashboards.
• Strong knowledge of SOAPUI testing
• Experienced in UAT, writing test cases, execution and defect management.
• Experienced in Test Planning using Microsoft project plan.
• Expertise in setting up test environment to perform QA activities.
• Experienced in Functional test case design, execution and defect management using ALM/Quality Center.
• Extensively experienced in using Confidential Quick Test Professional and VBScript for automated functional and regression testing.
• Experienced in developing reusable test automation framework, which can be used throughout all web applications.
• Extensive experienced Manual Testing and Created test cases including Functional test cases, Acceptance test cases and Regression Test cases for applications on the Mainframe system & Web Services application.
• Experienced in System Integration, UAT and Regression Testing.
• Have extensive experience in complete life cycle of testing from Test initiation phase to test closure in functional testing.
• Experienced in executing VB Scripts in QTP and managing the data in ALM.
• Experienced in writing VB script for creating Descriptive programming, Function library, Optional steps, Capturing values using QTP.
• Experienced in writing SQL queries for database using different tools.
• Experienced in Test Management and Defect Management Tools like Confidential ALM, Quality Center and JIRA.
• Experienced in handling project teams in terms of assigning task, guiding, motivating and meeting project deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills enabling effective interaction with Business Managers, QA Managers, Testing Team and Developers.
• Demonstrated experience in working in teams as well as solo responsibility projects.
• Experience in Web Services testing using SOAP UI.
• Good team player strived to improve customer satisfaction and have ability to work independently.
• Possess excellent oral and written communication skills and pleasing interpersonal skills.
• Self-motivated and have ensured execution of tasks across multiple customers and priorities
• Expertise in using ALM/Quality Center / Test Director for defect tracking and reporting bugs and also expert in coordinating with team members in debugging effort and Root Cause Analysis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, Windows

Database and tools: Oracle, SQL navigator, Toad, AQT, SQL tools, Winscp

Test Management Tools: Confidential ALM/ Quality Center/InformaticaTesting tools: UFT, QTP, JIRA, ALM, Quality Center, SOAPUI

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Analyst, QA Testing

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Functional Acceptance Testing, User Acceptance Testing, End-to-End Testing, Performance Testing and Regression Testing.
• Wrote SQL queries to test the application for data integrity and verified the contents of the data table
• Professionals Skilled in analyzing business context and requirement for UAT purpose.
• Created, executed tests; generated the test reports and created graphs using Quality Center.
• Performed Manual Testing and Created test cases including Functional test cases, Acceptance test cases and Regression Test cases for applications on the Mainframe system & Web Services application.
• Developing test strategy and test approach documents to cover all the requirements in the testing.
• Maintain automation scripts for Cucumber BDD framework to test key Business Processes scenarios
• Continues to develop more advanced knowledge of data sources and requirements; retrieves and manipulates data to better serve the Pricing application
• Manage Pricing rate reviews and communicate with regional and IT partners.
• Participated in Business Requirements elicitation, development, and design
• Reported software and applications defects using the defect tracking system, and verify the fixes.
• 5+ years testing Web Services using SOAP UI.
• Created and ran functional and load tests on Web Services prior to implementation
• Experience in mainframe application and have used TSO screens.
• Interact with other groups to analyze and interpret Business Requirements into executable test case and Test scripts.
• Actively participated in Scrum meeting , reviews and developed test scenarios
• Perform manual testing for new functionality of the software release and update.
• Conduct backend testing to insure the changes made in the database is getting reflected in the application.
• Participate in release preparation and validation
• Experience in Web Based Application as well as Client Server Applications
• Excellent Written/Verbal communication skills. Experience in working in a team and independently to resolve technical issues of a project.
• Extensive experience in time management and working in multiple teams with different project.

Environment: COBOL, Mainframe, Windows, Linux, Oracle DB2, ALM, AQT, SOAPUI, Ruby Mine

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for UAT project planning like creating testing scenario, test plans, and test scripts.
• Handle the tasks of explaining UAT scope, criteria and entry/exit strategy to less trained
• Reviewed the business requirements and developed test cases to test the complete functionality of a Medicare insurance based application.
• Designed and Reviewed of the Test Cases, Scripts and Test data and sent it to the Business Analysts for Sign off.
• Designed the efficient manual test cases based on analysis of Business Requirement documents, Functional Specs, Technical design documents, Use Cases, supporting documents.
• Maintained Traceability Matrix to ensure all conditions are covered in the Test Cases.
• Executed test cases and analyzed the test results.
• Responsible for performing Functional testing, Regression testing and Sanity testing.
• Coordinated with on-site persons regarding documents, requirements, and discussions about the functionality.
• Created and executed both load and functional tests for Web Services using Soapui.
• Executed test cases before and after bug fixes for each build for User acceptance testing.
• Carried out User Acceptance Testing to validate customer acceptance criteria.
• Used ALM for updating the status of all the test cases & test scripts that are executed during testing process.
• Conduct backend testing to insure the changes made in the database is getting reflected in the application.
• Participated in scrum meetings held by weekly to address the status of testing.
• Involved in writing Business Process Testing Manual Components.
• Executing test cases and identifying mismatches and reporting defects into ALM and tracking them till they are fixed.
• Responsible for Running the QTP Regression Test Suite whenever there is a production move using ALM.
• Identified manual test cases for automation.

Environment: Java, Windows, Linux, Oracle DB, ALM, Confidential Quick Test Professional/UFT, XML, SOAPUI, Plan View, Microsoft Project Plan

Confidential, Washington, D.C.

Test Engineer (Automation)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in reviewing and analyzing the Requirement documents for insurance based application.
• Responsible for making Business Process mapping documents to make team understand are being followed and what/how systems are linked.
• Performed Smoke, GUI, Functional, Regression, System, UAT, Interface, Integration, and Backend Testing.
• Involved in calling test with parameters, creating requirement coverage and importing test cases in the Test Lab of Confidential Quality Center.
• Created, executed tests; generated the test reports and created graphs using Quality Center.
• Coordinated as a Quality Center support to ensure efficient services to the team members and the client.
• Good experience in XML and Unix is essential
• Prepared Tool Mentor documentation & PowerPoint presentation of Quality Center for the client and for the team members.
• Used Quality Center to communicated defects encountered during Regression Test and followed-up with developers until all issues were resolved.
• Good experience and knowledge in Web services testing using SOAP UI tool.
• Involved in writing SQL queries for Backend Testing and to verify the database changes.
• Developed functional test cases for Regression Testing and automate test scripts using QTP.
• Converted manual test cases into automation using QTP.
• Worked with Standard checkpoints, Page checkpoints, Table checkpoints in QTP while doing the functional test on the web application.
• Used Text checkpoints to compare the current behavior of the application being tested to its behavior in the earlier version using UFT.
• Worked with data types, variable and variable declaration, naming convention, constants and assigning values to the variables in VB scripting.
• Wrote Descriptive Programming and enhanced the scripts using Parameterization, Synchronization, Correlation, Regular Expressions, Check Points, and Customized Exception handling using VB Script in UFT.
• Automated the application using Data Driven Framework using VB Script.
• Updated Traceability Matrix regularly.
• Posted the decision of using Agile methodology, participated in Agile SCRUM stand up meetings and communicated test plans and testing tasks.

Environment: Java, Oracle, Windows, Linux, Oracle, Quality Center, Confidential Quick Test Profession

Confidential, McLean, VA

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing the Business requirements and System specifications to understand the Application.
• Created test cases from user stories.
• Test case execution and defect management in QC.
• Defect Tracking and Reporting using QC.
• Preparation of Test Automation Strategy.
• Preparation of Test Automaton plan document.
• Development of Test Automation Framework using QTP.
• Identification of Test Scripts for Regression testing.
• Design and execution of test automation scripts for Regression testing.
• Preparation of Weekly Status reports.
• Responsible for training the Business users on each release.
• Performed UAT testing, involved in test case design.
• Participated in design sessions and provided feedback on requirements and design specifications.
• Maintained high customer satisfaction through the delivery of high-quality, timely, and thorough solutions to customer problems.

Environment: Quality Center, Quick Test Professional, SharePoint