SUMMARY:

• Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Confidential Enterprise, Testing practice with 6 years of experience.
• Extensive experience in Manual Testing and Automated Testing and Quality assurance on OS client/ server and Web applications.
• P erformedtesting on Windows, Java - based, XML based and web-based applications.
• C reated test plans, developed test strategy documents, test scenarios and manual test scripts.
• E xecuted system, integration, functional, end to end, UAT, regression and bla ck box testing on multiple projects.
• W orked as Subject Matter Expert (SME) and expertise in analyzing Business Specifications and in planning, delegating and tracking the test activities to meet the project schedules.
• Experience with QA Methodology and QA validations to ensure the Quality Assurance control.
• I nvolved in all phases of the SDLC ranging from Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Testing.
• Have experience in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies andm entored QA team members on agile concepts/processes to ensure adoption and standards were being followed.
• E xpertise inHP QC/ HP ALM, Rational Test Manager, MS SharePoint, TFS and MS Office.
• Expertise in manual and automated testing using Selenium IDE, Selenium Web Driver, Quick Test Pro, Test director or quality center in real time and unattended testing environment.
• U sed QC and Rational Clear Quest for defect tracking and reporting, the MS Office suite for creating and maintaining test plans, test cases, test scripts and traceability matrices.
• S oftware testing experience in various domains Oi I/ Gas and Healthcare.
• H aving strong communication, interpersonal skills, and ability to learn new technologies and work effectively with peers, technical teams, and management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 7/8/10, Open Unix 8, Linux, Mac OS

Programming Languages: SQL, VB Script, XML,HTML, Javascript

Software Testing Format: Test Plan, Test Case, Manual Testing, Black Box, System, Acceptance, Functional, Regression, Integration and UI Testing, Automation Scripts

Database Languages: SQL

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL, Microsoft Access

Testing Tools: Rational Clear Case, Test Manager, Clear Quest HP QC, QTP, MS TFS, Share Point, Selenium and SmartBear

Industries: Finance, Technology, Insurance, Healthcare

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, El Paso TX

Sr. QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze Software Requirements and Business Requirements documents to get a better understanding of the system on both technical and business perspectives.
• Build SQL queries and process for Database validation testing.
• Participated in scrum meetings, which includes daily stand-up, iteration planning (comprise of team capacity and velocity planning), release planning, estimation planning, show and tell, and retrospective.
• Worked in preparing Test Plans, Testing timelines, requirement traceability matrix and Test status reports.
• Extensively tested application on various platforms (Windows 7, Apple iOS, Android) using different browsers (IE 8.0, Safari and Mozilla Firefox)
• Coordinated System Integration testing, User Acceptance testing and Post Production testing.
• Prepared Test execution, Daily/Weekly/Monthly defect and Monthly production defect status reports to Business Stake Holders.
• Participated in monthly meetings for selected test leads in sharing knowledge and identify ways to continue to refine and improve QA processes across the organization.
• Worked closely with the development team and the Product Owner in an agile environment to quickly identify issues before the product is released. Testing included both front-end and backend utilizing Microsoft SQL Server for writing and executing SQL queries.
• Developed test cases, execute test cases and log defects.
• Wrote test cases for Batch process, Job runs and Interface file transfers.
• Performed Project risk analysis for each release based on the project requirements and to ensure the requirements are testable, executable and not ambiguous.
• Provided release level estimates based on functional specifications.
• Envisioned the risk to business processes by reviewing the project requirements and arrive at test strategy.
• Hands on experience to understand the complex business scenarios and write the test cases and worked along with automation team to prepare scripts in QTP using VBscript language.
• Facilitate Defect triage meeting & prioritize defects with Business user.
• Effectively used Smart Bear & Microsoft TFS for defect tracking, manage the defects.
• Performed end-to-end testing of application by coordinating with different interface teams.
• Strong experience in Agile development process.
• Attended daily stand-up meeting, participate in Sprint Planning and 3 Amigos sessions.
• Support post production testing efforts, timeline and resource planning.
• Prepared system readiness checklists and test data identification for various test cycles.
• Configure /Updated Products in test systems for UAT.
• Documenting process flows, configurations and system trouble shoot,
• Extensively worked on testing several Reports related to Consultant & Hostess Metrics.
• Developed SQL queries for database validations.

Technology: QTP/UFT, QC/ALM, .Net Portal, MS SQL Server, Smart Bear, MS SharePoint, TFS

Confidential, Houston, TX

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Software Requirements and Business Requirements documents to get a better understanding of the system on both technical and business perspectives.
• Coordinated daily activities among onsite and offshore teams and KT sessions
• Involved in testing the functionalities based on test cases and coordinated with development team in fixing the issues.
• Ensured that all the test scenarios and test cases are updated in the Test management tool along with Master test plan.
• Automated Test scenarios for GUI, Functionality, Database and Regression Testing using selenium.
• Identified the automation scenarios and created Selenium functional testing scripts using web driver.
• Designed the hybrid framework for automation testing in Selenium.
• Executed regression suit of functional scripts using JUnit.
• Prepared UI Object info, Functions, test data to automate the script in Selenium.
• Updated the test scripts as part of maintenance according to the requirements.
• Participated in defect Review and status meetings.
• Coordinated with Business analysts, Project managers, Infrastructure team and Development Team in resolving various issues.
• Executed security testing Scripts.
• Responsible for compiling weekly deliverables.
• Performed Database Testing by executing SQL statements.
• Involved in selecting test cases for Regression testing and participated in Regression Testing.
• Coordinated with other testing teams for Integration testing.
• Prepared the metrics and shared the results to stake holders.
• Used Quality center to maintain test cases and execute test scenarios and generated detailed reports of the bugs, the pass-fail reports and the test results.
• Analyzed test results and posted the defects in the defect tracking tool.
• Prepared defect report as per severity and priority.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using Quality Center.

Technology: Selenium IDE, Selenium Web Driver, Quality Center, C#, C++, ASP.NET, SQL Server 2008, Oracle 10g, Windows 2008, TFS.