SUMMARY:

• Expertise as QA in all phases of life cycle, including requirements gathering, risk analysis, scheduling, testing, defect tracking, management, and reporting.
• Expertise in Designing Test Strategies, QA Methodologies and QA guidelines in concurrence with Industry Standards, Methodologies and Best Practices.
• Extensively experienced in Functional, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance testing, System, GUI, Load, Black Box, Stress and Performance Testing, for Web (N - Tier) and Client/Server Applications.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and QA Methodologies like Agile, Waterfall, Rapid prototyping, Spiral model, Incremental model.
• Expertise in writing Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases from requirements and Use Cases.
• Expertise in the concepts of Data warehousing, Data Marts, ER Modeling, Dimensional Modeling, Fact and Dimensional Tables.
• Expertise in using HP Quality Center/ALM for creating test cases, bug tracking and reporting and for generating Various Reports for preparing Artifacts documents.
• Expertise in using Quality Center/ALM for various requirements and finding the defects in the developed code.
• Experienced in creation of mapping in HP ALM for the Requirements and the test lab from Iteration to Iteration.
• Expert at performing Database testing of back-end tables and data manipulation using SQL.
• Expertise in designing and building efficient and reusable test cases and test scenarios for functional and regression testing using VBScript in UFT.
• Experienced in creating Custom functions, Dictionary objects, Data Driven Framework, Keyword Driven Framework and Hybrid Framework using VB Scripts in QTP/UFT.
• Experienced in maintaining Automation framework in QTP/UFT.
• Expertise in writing UAT Plans and UAT Cases, executing & interacting with End Users.
• Experienced in using MS Excel and Quality center dashboard feature to generate test reports on weekly basis.
• Very Good Experience with Agile, Waterfall, Rapid prototyping, Spiral model, Incremental model Methodologies.
• Highly dedicated to produce professional work with highest quality and creativity.
• Excellent Communication skills, Documentation Skills, Team problem solving ability and analytical skills in high speed, quality conscious, multitasked environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Rational Test manager, UFT/QuickTest Pro, Quality quick test pro, HP ALM, Quality center, SOAP UI, TOAD and Crystal reports

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, MS-DOS

Languages Known: C, C++, SQL, JAVA and PL/SQL, XML, HTML

Databases: MS Access, Oracle, SQL Server

FrontEnd GUI: Visual Basic, Developer 2000, Power Builder, Power Point, MS Project

Web Technologies: JDBC, EJB, MTS, JSP, Web Logic, Web Sphere, IIS and JWS

Other Tools: MS Word/Excel and Lotus Notes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Morgantown, WV

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the identification, analysis and documentation of Test cases.
• Involved in detailed documentation of Test results together with the development of automated regression test framework.
• Developed functional Test scripts from FRD.
• Prepared manual test cases to test the GUI application and also to perform data testing.
• Implemented Automation process in manual testing environment using Test Suite.
• Prepared Test Data for Positive and Negative Testing used in Data Driven Test.
• Involved with V Model, Agile and Scrum models.
• Performed Black box testing, GUI, System Testing, Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Positive and Negative Testing.
• Exported Test Cases using Excel add-in into HP ALM and converted them into Test Scenarios for automating in Test Plan and Test Lab module.
• Used HP ALM as the defect tracking tool to track, review and generate report on bugs.
• Generated Project status reports through HP ALM and Document Generator for team meetings and Management review.
• Performed back end testing using SQL Query to verify the integrity of the database.
• Used SQL queries to perform data base testing.
• Developed Functional Libraries for cleanup, setting up test environments and application for Regression testing and Importing Production data for Validation using UFT.
• Developed Automation Scripts that runs around the test cases in a single run without any exceptions for regression testing.
• Tested new Test cases and automated them to reduce testing effort and time using UFT.
• Worked with Standard checkpoints, Page checkpoints, Table checkpoints in UFT while doing the functional test on the web application.
• Developed and maintained a Hybrid Framework using UFT.
• Discussed the defects found with developers.
• Participated in regular daily Agile Scrum Stand-up Team meetings.

Environment: & tools: HP ALM, HP UFT, JIRA, ASP.Net, Java Script, VB Script, PHP, Windows, Java, SQL, C, C++, C#, HTML, XML, MS Office, MS Excel, MS Visio, UNIX.

QA Analyst/ Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user requirements, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes.
• Involved in preparing Test Plans, Test Scripts, and Test strategy documents.
• Checked system configuration, confirmed and modified server configurations, updated servers, created and revised reports.
• Worked on various aspects including Custom Reports of Progress and Test Plans on a major test scripts.
• Communicated with project manager, stake holders, DBA and the user by providing reports and status of the test procedure.
• Involved in writing Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Wrote Regression and Functional test plan and migrated all in ALM.
• Involved at version control and defect management at ALM.
• Used ALM to report defects and test results.
• Created script to pull the metrics from ALM like elapsed time for defect cycle.
• Involved in Back-end testing using SQL quires and reporting defects in ALM.
• Involved in developing scripts using descriptive programming UFT.
• Created Custom functions, Dictionary objects, Keyword driven and Hybrid automation framework using VB Scripts for UFT.
• Involved in executing and maintaining UFT Automation frameworks.
• Created and implemented a data quality plan, this makes sure that any bad data is flagged as such and remediated.
• Involved in production support Team and handled the defects.
• Actively used VSS (Version control) for all the releases.
• Participated in weekly meeting and discussed modification request with management team.

Environment: XML, VB Script, HTML, SOAP, Web services, Windows, ALM, MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Project, UFT and UNIX.

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing requirement specifications, developing test plans, test cases, test scripts and planning for QA methodologies and Rational Unified Process.
• Conducted Black Box Testing, Database Testing, GUI testing, Functional Tasting, Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Load and Performance Testing, User Acceptance Testing.
• Tested entry and exit criteria for the application screens and checking their contents.
• Tested the application for browser compatibility using Internet Explorer (IE), Netscape Navigator.
• Reviewed User Requirements, Use Cases and Detailed Designs to develop Test Cases in HP Quality Center.
• Specified testing requirements using Quality Center that describes in detail the needs to be tested in application.
• Imported Test cases from Excel sheet to Quality Center and validated in the application.
• Interacted with developers to resolve application defects using Quality Center.
• Tracked defects, which include adding defects, repairing open defects, testing a new build of the application, and analyzed defect data using Quality Center.
• Performed Backend testing using PL/SQL statements for oracle server; Wrote SQL queries in validating test results and for troubleshooting.
• Performed regression testing using Quality Center and QuickTest Professional.
• Replaced fixed values with parameters to check the functionality of the application with multiple sets of data using QTP.
• Tested the whole application for Broken Links using QTP.
• Reported defects in the application under test generated due to the failure of Checkpoints, Error messages, System messages or User messages using QTP.
• Involved in creating automation scripts using QTP by writing VB scripting for Functional testing which was executed during the build cycle.
• Performed (UAT) User Acceptance testing exclusively in an Agile environment.
• Involved in setting up and troubleshooting LAN, WAN, Wireless Area Network, Windows Server, Active Directory and recovering data from physically and logically damaged hard drives.
• Interact with developers, business analysts, and user representatives in application testing and issue resolving.

Environment: Windows, UNIX, J2EE, ASP.NET, VB.NET, HTML, Apache, XML, SQL Server, Oracle Web services, MS-Office, QTP and Quality Center.

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement gathering and analyzed business and system requirements.
• Involved in Walkthroughs with the Analyst in order to ensure that the Test case meets its objectives.
• Worked with development team to ensure testing issues are resolved by providing defect reports using Quality Center.
• Involved in creating Test logs and Test Summary reports using Quality Center send them to developers.
• Involved in creating test scenarios from the product stories and created test cases for them and uploading them in Quality Center.
• Wrote and tested SQL statements and PL/SQL Procedures.
• Saved QTP scripts in Quality Center. Scheduled the scripts for Regression testing to run overnight.
• Created detailed Test cases for each functionality and automate them using QuickTest Professional.
• Wrote and updated VB scripts in QTP expert view and analyzed the Test Fusion report to check for application failures.
• Developed Reusable actions based on the application using QTP.
• Prepared QTP data tables to importing the stub test data maintained in excel format.
• Tested the source to target mappings and verified the data.
• Documented all the mappings and reports that were tested.
• Generated test scripts for different users logging into the system with different user roles.
• Involved in Managing and distributing the work among the testers.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Quality Center, Windows, UNIX, MS Outlook Express, SQL Server, Web Services, Excel.