SUMMARY:

• More than six years of experience in automated and manual software testing across the Software Development Life Cycle, including functional, integration, smoke, and regression testing .
• Extensive experience in writing, maintaining, and executing automated tests of web applications.
• Proficient in using VBScript with QTP/UFT to automate web UI tests.
• Experienced in ETL scenarios and data validation with QTP/UFT.
• Adept in SQL queries for back - end testing and data validation.
• Strong appreciation and use of programming techniques for writing high-quality tests, including but not limited to: code reusability, modularity, hybrid frameworks, and DRY principles .
• Extensively experienced with HP ALM / Quality Center, and other ALM applications, for managing defects, stories, tasks, and plans.
• Diligent in reviewing software requirements specifications and product design specifications to create and validate Test Plans, Test Cases, and Automation Test Test Scripts.
• Proficient in writing extremely thorough and professional requirements, test cases, procedures, plans, results, analysis, reports, and retrospectives .
• Experienced in producing defect reports and burn down charts using HP ALM / Quality Center.
• Exceptional understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle ( SDLC ), Software Testing Lifecycle ( STLC ), and the role of Quality Assurance in producing great software on time.
• Adept with development methodologies including Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Waterfall .
• Proficient in effectively handling multiple projects simultaneously, while maintaining high quality and completing work well within deadlines.
• Excellent organizational, prioritization, and communication skills.
• Excellent team player, but also fully motivated and independent .
• Efficient under tight deadlines while maintaining high throughput .

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test Tools: HP UFT / QuickTest Professional

HP ALM / Quality Center and JIRA: SOAP UI

Languages: VBScript, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, CSS, XML, SOAP

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres, DB2

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix/Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, McLean, VA

Test Automation Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for architecting a QA Automation framework in HP UFT.
• Developed a Requirements Traceability Matrix to relate high level requirements to test cases.
• Developed and executed functional, smoke, and regression automated tests using HP UFT.
• Wrote automated tests in VBScript using product requirements and documentation.
• Created new automated scripts and enhanced existing ones, using various UFT features such as Checkpoints, Synchronization Points, and Output Values.
• Tested UI with predefined and generated data using script parameterization.
• Customized object repository and parameters in UFT.
• Created modular scripts, added data-driven tests, and refactored existing linear test code into functions to create a more hybrid test framework approach.
• Wrote and executed SQL queries to test against API calls for backend testing.
• Used HP ALM/Quality Center to create and manage test plans, cases, and scenarios as per specs.
• Analyzed existing manual test cases and converted them into automated test scripts using the hybrid framework that has been developed.
• Organized and categorized test cases into their respective hierarchical components in HP ALM.
• Provided technical assistance to the development team in tracking and reproducing erratic and complex defects and project issues.
• Used ALM reporting to create reports, results, and dashboards for upper management.
• Simultaneously managed deadlines for test activities from multiple projects.
• Thoroughly documented all phases of the QA process.
• Used MS Visio to visualize test flow and use cases with flowcharts and diagrams.
• Actively updated and maintained use case documents and Story Boards to ensure automated tests do not go stale, and ensuring acceptance testing is always valid.
• Worked in a team environment following Agile software development practices.
• Mentored associate QA Analysts with technical guidance and code reviews.

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented data-driven and modular internationalization test automation framework with UFT.
• Analyzed system specification and developed test plans, test cases and test scripts for various internal web applications.
• Handled dynamic objects in a web UI application. Used regular expressions in QTP.
• Used checkpoints and utility functions to implement automated test scripts for functional testing.
• Involved in performing data-driven testing using parameterization in QTP in order to test the application with different sets of data.
• Performed regression testing by executing regression scripts and comparing against baseline runs.
• Coordinated with developers to resolve regressions before the next deployment.
• Executed SQL queries to test and validate pre-populated data.
• Involved in sanity testing of backend, as well as test cleanup, using SQL queries.
• Used both JIRA and HP Quality Center to log and track defects and user stories.
• Used Quality Center for execution of manual and automatic tests, and for analyzing results and reporting on defects with completely traceability.
• Attended daily and weekly meetings with team and manager respectively.
• Attended Scrum of Scrums: review and triage meetings with engineers and business analysts.

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirement spec and formulated a complete Test Plan.
• Created and developed manual and automated Test Cases using business requirements.
• Responsible for the execution of test scenarios for integration testing. Verified results against a historic predetermined baseline.
• Performed regression testing to ensure that changes made to software did not introduce new bugs.
• Created, managed, and tracked the lifecycle of defects by providing continued assistance to development team through log extraction, screenshots, and detailed failure steps to reproduce.
• Used SQL queries to performance database testing and retrievals.
• Implemented data-driven framework in QTP with reusable components and function libraries.
• Implemented data-driven tests using data from flat files and Excel. Stored results back into Excel.
• Developed QTP scripts using various GUI checkpoints and database checkpoints.
• Used HP Quality Center as a central repository for both manual test cases as well as automation scripts and linked defect tracking.
• Involved in attending and giving status updates in daily scrum meeting.
• Regular meetings with Business Analysts, Tech Leads, and Scrum Master to clarify user stories.
• Involved in review, walkthrough and demo presentations.