SUMMARY:

• Motivated and detail oriented professional with seven plus years of experience in software quality assurance and testing, which includes web - based, client-servers and database related application in banking, mortgage, financial industries, and government solutions.
• Extensive experience in full life cycle of software testing including requirement analysis, test planning, test case design, test execution, bug documentation, bug tracking, requirement traceability matrix and test summary report.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Requirements and Defect Tracking: JIRA, HP-Mercury Quality Center, HP ALM

Automation Testing Tools: QTP, Load Runner

Change Management Tools: MS Visual Source Safe

Programming Languages: C, VB, SQL

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access, DB2, MySQL

Office Tools: MS Word, Excel, MS Project, MS Outlook

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,VA

Sr. software test engineer

• Participate in the review of software design, change specifications, and plan against contractual and/or process requirements.
• Ensure all software is developed in accordance with company standards.
• Adherence to Agile Scrum processes.
• Control and manage daily test activities through daily Agile Scrum stand-up meetings.
• Involve in writing Test Plan, setting up the Test Environments and Test Data.
• Prepare and execute the Regression Testing Scenarios.
• Act as a lead in the creation, preparation, and conduct of quality assurance reviews and the development and execution of test plans and test scripts.
• Develop and execute test cases to verify HIPPA regulations.
• Perform Functional and Integration testing of the application and prioritized test cases to meet project specific deadlines.
• Directly handle test related concerns and resolving any issues.
• Develop, modify, and maintain standards for quality operating methods, processes, systems and procedures.
• Responsible for weekly status updates showing the progress of the Automation testing effort and open issues to be resolved.
• Experienced in developing and analyzing Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test Cases and Test Results using HP Application Life Cycle Management .
• Develop test scripts for GUI, functionality and regression testing using Quick Test Professional.
• Maintain the automation scripts for enhancements and modifications to perform regression testing.
• Automate Smoke Test and Regression Test suites using Quick Test Professional.
• Involved in writing SQL queries for Backend Testing.
• Check SQL queries to extract the data from the database. Tested Database integrity by executing SQL statements.
• Utilize Mercury Quality Center to maintain requirements traceability matrix, store test plans, and stores all the test result and analysis reports.
• Conduct Status meeting, review meetings weekly and daily.
• Generate and analyzed standard and customized reports, graphs, and documentation in Quality Center.
• Report software defects and interact with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Work experience on UNIX platform.
• Work experience in XML platform.
• Involve in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with end-users.
• Participate in Team meeting, requirements and design meetings with end user for UAT.
• Create User Acceptance Test Cases (UAT).
• Responsible for overall success of System and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities.
• Coordinate UAT signoff activities.
• Report defects in Quality center/JIRA, work closely with analysts, developers to resolve the problems, and change the status of the defect accordingly.

Environment: J2EE, HIPPA, FDA Compliances HP ALM, SharePoint, JIRA, Quick Test Professional, Quality Center, Load Runner, Oracle, JAVA, Python, SQL.

Confidential,Bethesda, MD

Quality Assurance Specialist

• Analyzed specification and assisted team to create test data, test cases, and test scripts for functional, interface and system testing.
• Investigated requirements and interfaced with developers to resolve issues and reporting the issues to all concerned. Outstanding issues are documented and managed through Quality Center.
• Reviewed the requirement and design documents, ensure that requirements are clear and testable.
• Reviewed software Test plan for defining test scenarios and writing manual and automated test scripts
• Maintained Requirement Traceably Matrix (RTM) after developing and updating Test Cases
• Created, Maintained and Executed Manual Test Scripts in Quality Center.
• Analyzed and identified defects, and logged defects with detailed specification into Quality Center as they relate to Test Cases.
• Analyzes test results to ensure existing functionality and recommends corrective action.
• Worked with Users and Business Analysts to define and design test scenarios and test data.
• Created the Regression Test cases and automated the script using QTP for the purpose of regression testing.
• Write/upgrade QTP scripts (VBScript) and custom functions to validate application functionalities.
• Performed Regression Testing of various releases and enhancements in QTP Data Driven Framework Work experience in XML platform.
• Developed test case for 508 compliance testing.
• Tested FDA compliance for CFR 21 Part 11 ( electronics data and electronics records)
• Used JAWS and WAVE to verify the web accessibility for section 508 compliance.
• Involved in conducting Status meeting, review meetings weekly and daily.
• Generate customized reports, and graphs in HP Quality Center to maintain the client’s applications.
• Report software defects and interact with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Reported defects in JIRA, worked closely with analysts, developers to resolve the problems, and change the status of the defect accordingly.

Environment: FDA, CFR 21 part 11, GMP, GDP, Centricity, Rally, JIRA, J2EE, Quick Test Professional, Quality Center, TOAD, Load Runner, Oracle, JAVA, JAWS and WAVE, SQL.

Confidential,Charlotte, NC

QA Engineer

• Reviewed and analyzed the System Requirement Specs (SRS), Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) and Software design document (SDD).
• Examined, analyzed and model Test plans and Test procedures documents.
• Performed Gap analysis for the modules in production, conducted feasibility study and performed impact analysis for proposed enhancements.
• Generated Test cases and traced them to the relevant FRD (Functional Requirement Document).
• Involved in writing SQL queries for Backend Testing and to verify the database updates, insertion and deletions of the records, and validate them.
• Involved in testing front-end functionality of the application and validated that in the Backend.
• Identifying and logging defects if a test fails and analyze the root cause of the problem for efficient investigation by the development team and log accordingly.
• Worked with Users and Business Analysts to define and design test scenarios and test data.
• Created the Regression Test cases and automated them for the purpose of regression testing.
• Wrote SQL queries to test Data Integrity and data validation.
• Developed Virtual user scripts using Mercury Load Runner VuGen for various business processes; performed correlation, data parameterization.
• Monitored application server, web-server and database server resources using Load Runner.
• Executed Test Procedures and documented the Test Results.
• Verified that the result of execution of test cases was as expected and according to specifications.
• Communicate the status and progress of the project to the senior management and highlight if there are any risk.
• Developed final test reports and communicated sign-off decisions to the Client manager.
• Conducted weekly project meetings with development/design/QA leads to review the development and QA updates.

Environment: Oracle, SQL, Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, Load Runner.

Confidential,Kansas City, Kansas

UAT Tester

• Involved in Complete System Integration Testing of new features added to the system.
• Assisted in preparation of UAT process, review of UAT test scripts, document results and provide feedback to assist the UAT coordinators.
• Executed Backend testing of the application by writing SQL queries.
• Test Director was used to create the test plan, store test cases and run the test sets.
• Involved in writing and implementation of the Test Plan, various Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Experienced in developing and analyzing Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test Cases and Test Results using Quality Center. tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Created and filed various office documentation using MS Office applications.
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results.
• Meet with the developers and technical content writers on a regularly update the test documents.
• Developed & executed Test scripts and Test cases for Functional and Regression testing using Win runner.

Environment: SQL, MS Office, SharePoint, Quality Center, Oracle, Windows