OBJECTIVE:

Obtain a position as a QA Team Lead /Sr. Software Test Engineer / Software Test Analyst in the information technology industry.

SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years extensive experience in Software Quality Assurance and Quality Control on various levels of Quality Assurance and User Acceptance Testing for Client/Server and Web based applications on Windows and UNIX.
• Expertise in Manual/Automated Testing of Web - based and Client/Server applications.
• Solid knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and its methodologies - Waterfall, Iterative and Agile (SCRUM).
• Experience in working withUFT 12 /Quick Test Pro, Quality Center(ALM), Test Track Pro,Jira and PVCS Tracker
• Proven expertise in creating Test Plans, Test cases, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, andreviewing Requirements.
• Performed all types of testing such as Functional Testing, Black-Box Testing, Smoke Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Ad hoc Testing, and Back-End Testing.
• Vast experience in writing SQL Queries on different Relational Data Base Management Systems (RDBMS) - ORACLE, MS SQL Server, DB2 and performed data verification and validation.
• Developed automated test scripts and performed script-enhancement.
• Used Quick Test Professional (QTP) extensively for automation testing and Quality Center for manual testing.
• Experience in using SOAP UI for testing (SOA) and Web Services
• Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and interacted with client/ end-users to support UAT sessions.
• Good understanding in business processes and development of various Test documents.
• Familiar with Git repository, Jenkins Continuous Integration environments.
• Experience in Data Analysis, Developing Source to Target Mappings and ensure data integrity.
• Deep understanding in .NET Technology, AJAX, Web Services, HTML, XML.
• Excellent communication skills in expressing ideas clearly and effectively, and ability to maintain positive work relationships with supervisor and co-workers
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple concurrent tasks with deadlines, and adapt to changing priorities.
• Vast experience in Testing mobile application,e.g Android, IOS and Windows Phone and Tablets, Browserstack and Monkey Talk.
• Actively participating in the daily scrum meeting, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective.
• Experience in working and co-ordination with distributed teams across both on-site and offshore.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: ALM QC, UFT-12/QTP, Rational Suite, SOAP-UI

Bug Tracking Tools: Quality Center/Test Director, PVCS Tracker

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, C, Java, J2EE, ASP, C++, Visual Basic

RDBMS: Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2

GUI Tools: Visual Basic, Toad, SQL Developer, Oracle Express 10/11g, SQL Server 2014, PVCS

Internet: HTML, DHTML, XML, VBScript, Java Script

Browsers: Netscape, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari

Web Servers: Web Logic, SOA, Web Sphere, Windows 2000 server, IIS and Apache Tomcat.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SR. SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Focused on: Automation and manual testing, backend testing, mobile testing, On Call QA, release support, agile team member.
• Involve in reviewing the Business Requirement documents(BRD), Functional Requirement Specification (FRS), Stories and design documents.
• Provides technical expertise in Agile methodology for more efficient and quick results.
• Use Modification Requests (MR) and Enhancement Requests (ER) to generate and implement templates for Test Cases, Test Scripts, Business Analysis and Test Defect.
• Work with other members of the test team to execute the Test plans and document results with tight deadlines and limited supervision.
• Write and enhance Test Cases and Test Scripts to meet new functional requirements as per the new business requirements on modules and business process.
• Work with Product Managers, Analysts, and End-users to define and document Test Acceptance Criteria in Test Plan, Tests within HP ALM / Quality Center (QC) and in MS Outlook.
• Provide the customer and development team support on Client/Server and Web-Based applications to include.
• Effectively use Manual Testing to verify software functionality and business process meet business requirements and recorded all execution steps using Rational Jazz Application Lifecycle Management Suite.
• Perform all phases of end-to-end testing which includes Smoke testing, Functional testing, Regression testing and System testing, UAT testing and Backend testing.
• Responsible for identifying the functional test cases for Regression Testing and automated these scripts using UFT/QTP.
• Perform Database Testing validating data purse from Web transactions and business rules by writing SQL queries using SQL Developer
• Attends daily Sprint planning meeting, Standup meeting, Story tasking meeting, Story Estimation meeting, Sprint review meeting, product demo meeting and retrospective meeting and make discussions on modification request with the management team.
• Gather QA tasks and follow up from Daily Standup Meeting
• Actively work with Scrum Master and Project Manager in planning, executing, monitoring & controlling test activities.
• Use ALM Quality Center and JIRA board to track, review, analyze and compare Defects.
• Test software to ensure that developed products meet required specifications and are within the established Quality criteria and standards.
• Responsible for quality of software, including troubleshooting and performance enhancements
• Use Real Devices, Browserstack and Monkey Talk to Perform mobile testing for the websites on IOS, Android and windows phone platform .

Environment: VB Script, C++, J2EE, Microsoft Project, Microsoft office, Mozilla Firefox, SQL Developer, SQL Server, Agile, ALM Quality Center, UFT /Quick test Pro,SOAP-UI (SOA).NET, Jenkins, Fiddler,Firebug, Chrome Developer, SAAS, HTML, XML.

SOFTWARE TEST ANALYST

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Focused on: Manual, functional, backend and automation testing, writing SQL queries, VBScripts and installations.
• Extensively involved in all phases of Software Development Lifecycle, followed Waterfall methodology as well as Agile methodology.
• Provided technical expertise in analyzing Software Requirements Specification (SRS), Functional specs, Design Specs and User Requirements Specification (URS).
• Analyzed the requirements for the new build and made recommendations.
• Manually generated and implemented templates for Test Plan, Test Cases, and Test Scripts and performed Manual Testing on the entire application.
• Performed all phases of end-to-end testing which includes Black box testing, Functionality testing, Regression Testing, Positive testing, Negative testing, System testing and Smoke testing of the Application.
• Used Quality Center for developing and maintaining Requirements Traceability Metrics (RTM).
• Conducted Regression testing for the subsequent versions of the application using QTP.
• Used QTP to Write, generate, and customize VB scripts, Object Repository for calling a framework of user defined functions to automate assigned test cases from Quality center.
• Enhanced the scripts by Reusable Actions, Checkpoints, Synchronization points, parameterization and modular test in QTP/UFT
• Wrote SQL queries to test Data Integrity, Referential Integrity and performed Database Testing for the Application.
• Used MS SQL Server (RDBMS) to retrieve data from the application database
• Used SQL queries for data accuracy and consistency to verify database information.
• Analyzed and identified system defects through functional, regression, and performance testing.
• Performed SOA and Web Service Testing using SOAP-UI.
• Responsible for generating various reports like Test Case Execution, Daily status report, and weekly status reports for testing process.
• Attended meetings to better understand the application and interacted with business analysts in resolving the problems.
• Utilized PVCS Tracker to store requirements and track defects.

Environment: Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, SOAP-UI, PVCS Tracker, Windows, Oracle, SQL, SQL Server, Java, VB scripts.

Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, Chevy Chase, MD

Responsibilities:

• Focused on: Documentations, application management, organizing, testing, UAT testing, communicating with clients, configuration and mentoring.
• Reviewed and verified for adequacy of SDLC documents (Software development plan, functional specification, risk management plan, deployment guide, release management and user manual).
• Analyzed requirements developed manual test cases and execute them in the Quality Center.
• Manually generate and implement templates for Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts and performed Manual Testing on the entire application.
• Analyzed automation strategy for the releases and performed Regression, Functional and GUI testing using Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Developed, derived, clarified and reviewed functional specifications and Use cases.
• Worked effectively with Object Repository and Object Spy and dealt with dynamic objects using Descriptive programming.
• Detected, Reported and Tracked bugs using Clear Quest/ Quality Center.
• Responsible to write SQL Statements to analyze and validate test results
• Performed the Back-End integration testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL queries on Oracle database.
• Performed query operations on Oracle to do database validation.
• Used standard SQL functions and commands to develop complex queries.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing and provided training to the end users about the new application.
• Configured and Installed new version of Quality Center into the server environment and migrate production data to new QC sandbox.
• Performed as Admin of QC and maintained and supported several projects concurrently.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification requests.

Environment: Test Director /Quality Center, QTP, Oracle, SQL Server, Windows, UNIX, C++, Web logic, MS Office, VSS.