SUMMARY:

• Over 10 years of Professional experience in Information Technology with extensive experience performing Manual, Database and automated testing of client - server and web applications.
• Detailed knowledge of development, test and release processes including Agile test driven development.
• Knowledge of SDLC Agile/Scrum software methodologies.
• Experienced incremental and iterative development using Agile techniques.
• Closely working with Scrum Master following Agile practices.
• Experienced in Design, develop and implemented product with zero defect.
• Expertise in analyzing Business Specifications, Requirements and Design specifications and developing Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts and executed them.
• Extensively experienced in Positive, Negative, Smoke, System, Functional, Integration, Regression, Performance, Load, User Acceptance, 508 Compliance Testing and Automation testing of cross-platform, client/server, web based n-tier applications.
• Expertise in creating end-to-end business test scenarios and defining entrance and exit criteria for Integration testing.
• Experienced in Estimation of Test Effort and coordinate Test Schedule with overall Project Schedule.
• Excellent logical and analytical abilities for understanding and developing system workflows, computing and verifying Software Metrics and well suited for communicating with both technical and non-technical professionals.
• Experienced in different phases of Software development Life cycle including Strategic Systems Planning, Designing, Programming, Testing, Documentation, and Presentation to clients and preparing customer specifications as part of software technical requirements and Customer support.
• Extensively experienced in bug tracking tools like ALM/Quality Center/TestDirector.
• Ability to interact with developers and product analysts regarding Testing Status and Defect & Change Tracking using Quality Center/ALM.
• Used HP Quality Center/ALM for defect management, test planning, and reporting.
• Strong in PL/SQL, developing database queries for Backend Testing, in-depth knowledge of ORACLE and SQL Server, resolved Database Performance issues.
• Experienced in using Automation testing Tools Quick Test Professional (QTP)/UFT, Load Runner.
• Expertise in developing external custom functions using VBScript and using Descriptive Programming for QTP/UFT.
• Experienced in testing jobs in UNIX server and verifying file formats.
• Worked as Configuration Controller to support the versioning of the scripts and maintain the folder structure, taking the backups on weekly basis.
• Approved test cases and procedures for offshore team of 12.
• Experienced in auditing and approving development team documentation with respect to SOX compliance.
• Experienced in working with .Net, VBScript, XML, Java/J2EE, Visual Basic and Oracle applications.
• Excellent team player to work in conjunction with team of testers, developers and QA members in testing complex scenarios and projects and in the maintenance of Quality Standards in Projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP UFT/QuickTest Pro, HP ALM/Quality Center, Test Director

Operating systems: Windows, UNIX

Programming Language: C, C++, VB.NET, Visual Basic, Java

Web & App Servers: Web logic Server, IIS and Java Web Server

Database: Oracle,SQLServer,DB2,MSAccess

Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, XML, VBScript, JavaScript

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Fair oaks, VA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and understood the software Requirement Specifications and development of Test Scenarios.
• Involved in Test Case Preparation and Test Case Execution Manually.
• Analyzed application to find out which part can be automated and which can be manually tested.
• Implemented HP ALM for Test Planning, Test Case writing, Test Execution and Requirement Mapping with Test Cases.
• Performed defect tracking and reporting using ALM.
• Performed Back end testing using SQL Quires.
• Conducted GUI and Black Box Testing using QTP and interacted with developers to resolve issues.
• Used HP Unified Functional Testing ( UFT ) for automating manual test cases for regression testing and for storing, execution of test cases and reporting results.
• Worked on migration of automated testing tool used for creating policies to UFT.
• Used Checkpoints, Parameterization and Data Driven Test Scripts in UFT.
• Designed and developed User defined functions, Generic functions with well-versed VB scripting, Descriptive programming in scripting dynamic objects and Reusable actions in defining scenario flows in UFT.
• Created and executed Automated Test Scripts in UFT using Business Process Testing (BPT) concept, and Key word driven Framework.
• Determined the Entry and Exit Criteria for different phases in testing cycle of the system.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) on behalf of End Users at client’s environment.
• Followed up with the development team as they fix the bug.

Environment: Windows, MS Office, QTP, Quality Center, SQL Server, Java, Visual Basic, J2EE, HTML5, IIS.

Confidential, Fair oaks, VA

QA Engineer/Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in managing projects in an Agile environment.
• Created and managed test cases and detailed test procedures for administered software tests.
• Determined acceptance criteria and recorded software test results.
• Analyzed test results and recorded and reported defects.
• Executed functional, regression, and end-to-end testing as required on GUI and Web-based applications.
• Interacted with business users and stake holders for UAT; prepared test cases and test plan for the execution of UAT scenarios and performed User Interface testing for the web application.
• Created the test plan and test cases to ensure quality in the software using Quality Center/ALM.
• Documented and tracked software defects using Quality Center/ALM .
• Quality Center/ALM was used for management the requirements.
• Used QC/ALM to report defects and test results.
• Performed data validation and database integrity testing; executed SQL and PL/SQL statements, checked database and, with application queried results being equal, used SQL queries to check the data from the database using Toad.
• Extensively used SQL Queries to perform Back End Testing.
• Involved in analyzing and writing test plan in accordance with business requirements.
• Created automated test scripts using QTP.
• Performed Front-End and Functionality testing using QTP.
• Identified tests to be automated and converted to Test Scripts using Quick Test Professional and Regression testing.
• Participated in daily meeting and discussed modification request with management team.
• Documented test results, logged defects and reported the results to the upper management.

Environment: Windows, MS Office, QTP, Quality Center, SQL Server, Java, Visual Basic, J2EE, HTML, IIS.

Confidential, Washington, DC

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements and Functional Specifications to develop Test Plan and Test cases.
• Involved in creating Test Scenarios and Test data by looking at the Requirements.
• Tested entire functionality of the application on different browsers based upon Business and System Requirements.
• Conducted Functional, Integration, Regression and 508 Compliance Testing to verify accessibility standards, and compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act to make sure that the application is a ccessible to people with disabilities.
• Followed Agile/Scrum methodology; Involved in testing of sprint builds and daily scrum meetings; Worked closely with the Scrum Master.
• Compiled test metrics on a weekly basis and tracked the status of the test cycle.
• Used Quality Centre to write and execute detailed test cases as per the Business requirements and Functional specifications.
• Tracked defects using Quality Center through all phases of defect cycle.
• Logged defects using Quality Center and work with business analyst and developer to follow the defect cycle.
• Attended the Bug Triage meetings and reported the testing status to the higher officials, Used Quality Center as Bug tracking tool.
• Followed up on the defects until the issue was resolved using Quality Center.
• Performed Backend testing by checking the updated data in the Database using SQL queries.
• Modified existing automation scripts to meet new business requirements/Changes.
• Developed Manual and Automation Test Plans, and Test cases for newly added functionality and performed regression test using QTP.
• Created and executed automated smoke tests on weekly builds using QTP.
• Involved in modifying and coding VB scripts with conditional statements and loops in QTP testing tool.
• Performed functional testing with QTP, defined various checkpoints to verify results and performed tests using test driven data.
• Involved in Regression testing using Keyword Driven, Data-driven Frameworks using QuickTest Professional during various phases of development.
• Participated in daily stand-ups and project meeting to keep track of project priority and status.

Environment: Windows, UNIX, QTP, Quality Center, SQLServer, Oracle, Visual Basic, J2EE, HTML, IIS, Tomcat.

Confidential, New York, NY

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Scrum Master to understand the scope of Sprints.
• Reviewed Business Requirement and Technical Specification Documents.
• Analyzed System Requirement Specifications and developed test plans and test cases to cover all the requirements.
• Worked with Business Analysts, Programmers and Business users through the life cycle of the project.
• Developed detailed Test scenario, Entrance and Exit criteria for the application being tested and ensured that standards for documentation were followed.
• Modified of existing Test Plans and Test Scripts for regression testing.
• Created and maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix and Test Matrix.
• Worked with Project Management to scope the testing effort and provide status and estimates.
• Enhanced and maintained test scripts for different builds of the application and according to the changing system requirements.
• Performed Black box testing, System testing, System integration, Regression testing.
• Performed negative and positive testing for the application.
• Created Test scripts for the Test Execution and Documented the Reports using HP Quality Center.
• Logged the defects in HP Quality Center and created Test Metrics to analyze the defects.
• Wrote complex SQL queries to perform the backend testing of the Mainframe Database PL/SQL developer.
• Created and enhanced test scripts using HP QuickTest Professional.
• Conducted functional regression testing for each build and version using QTP.
• Analyzed the test results, created reports on defects.
• Furnished weekly status reports to the project team.

Environment: HP Quality Center, QTP, MS Office, MS-SQL Server, Java, JSP Script, J2EE,VB scripting, C/C++.

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Product Requirements in Design and Build phases.
• Created functional, integration and regression Test Cases based on Use cases.
• Analyzed test results to ensure that requirements have been met and worked functionality has not broken.
• Developed both positive as well as negative test cases and entered into TestDirector; Conducted external reviews for the test cases with the Business Analysts.
• Prepared test plans and test cases using TestDirector.
• Analyzed test results based on logs and used TestDirector to log defects.
• Involved in creating Test logs and Test Summary reports using TestDirectorsend them to developers.
• Developed SQL queries to get the data from database and validate the data.
• Performed functional, system, integration, smoke and regression testing using QuickTest Pro.
• Carried out Regression testing using QTP; Parameterized test scripts for data driven testing in QTP.
• Integrated QTP scripts with TestDirector to store and execute regression automation test cases for every release and tracked the regression defects through TestDirector.
• Automated testing was conducted using QTP and VB scripts were modified and rewritten if necessary.
• Performed cross browser testing to ensure compatibility of the application on Internet Explorer and Firefox.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing and prepared UAT Test Scripts.
• Worked with the development team very closely and made sure that all the defects were fixed and closed in a timely manner. Attended weekly project review meetings with Product Management and Development team.

Environment: TestDirector, QTP, Oracle,SQL Server, Windows, Linux.