SUMMARY:

• 5+ years of IT experience in the field of Software Quality Assurance with expertise in Manual and Automation Testing.
• Experienced in Testing Life Cycle (TLC): Including Risk Analysis, Planning Process, Test Design, Performing Test, Defect Tracking, Management and Test Reporting.
• Expertise in using Load Runner 8.1/9.1, HP UFT and VSTS for Performance testing and QTP 8.0/8.2/9.2, Selenium WebDriver for functional testing.
• Good experience with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, SoapUI Tool, Microsoft Soap Took kit, HP Services Test to test Web Services and Web Services Interoperability (WS - I) compliance. Attains good knowledge in SOA Architecture, WSDL files, XSD, Services, request & response XML, Synchronous and Asynchronous Web Services calls.
• Experience with Agile Scrum, Iterative, Waterfall and Test Driven Development methodology.
• Expert in Testing Cloud based Web Applications, Mobile Services Testing, and Windows Application Tests.
• Strong expertise in establishing QA policies, procedures, strategies, metrics, developing appropriate process and team to ensure the quality of products.
• Hands on Experience in preparing Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases, and Test Scenarios, Test Data and Test Execution for complex, multi-platform and disturbed applications.
• Experience in implementation of Test Plans, Designing, Developing the Test Procedures and Test cases for the projects developed using GUI Tools, Client/Server and UNIX.
• Experience in Business Functionality Testing, User Interface testing, Unit testing, Smoke testing, Integration Testing, Interface testing involving SOA, End to end Testing, System testing, UAT Testing, Production Validation, Regression Testing, Performance Testing, Stress Testing, Database testing, Documentation and Reporting.
• Experience in both manual and automated testing and dashboard creation to keep track of released builds and test results.
• Ability to create test cases by analyzing business, functional and technical requirements for most complex and disturbed applications.
• Excellent experience in Software Testing in Client Server Application and Web based application.
• Experienced in working closely with Business group, Business Analyst to analyze client requirements and build project specification and backlog.
• Experience in database query manipulation.
• Experience in test documentation, creating training manuals and mentoring the team and end users.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: SOAP UI, Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Web driver, Load Runner 8.1/9.1, HP UFT, NUnit, RPF (Record and Playback Framework),QTP8.0/8.2/9.2, Win runner 8.2, VSTS (Visual Studio Team System), Ultimate Test Pro.

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/10, Unix, Linux(Ubuntu)

Test Management Tools: HP Quality Center 8.2/9.0, ALM, Test Director, Microsoft Product Studio, VSTS, Microsoft Source Depot, Rational Clear Qwest 7.0,Clear Case, TFS, Bugzilla, Rational Requisite Pro, WTT, JIRA

Web Debugging Tools: Firebug, Fire path, Xpath

Programming Languages: C, CPP, JAVA, C#, Shell Scripting, VB Scripting, SQL/PLSQL, ORACLE, HTML, XML, JSP

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

Build Management Tool: TFS, Team city, Jenkins, Star team, Team forge, Clarity, GIT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sugarland, TX

QA Analyst

Project Responsibilities:

• Created Master Test plan, Test strategy, critical scenarios and Test Scripts and schedule for testing.
• Verified requirements coverage by conducting walkthrough meetings of Test plan and scenarios with Business Analysts, Project Manager, Tech team and QA manager.
• Performed necessary requirements inspection, design inspection, Test plan and case creation, Test environment / data setup, testing and reporting during various phases of the Testing life cycle.
• Created traceability matrix and mapped requirements to Test Cases. Maintained traceability of Requirements - Test Plans to Defects for better reference.
• Worked with technical designers and architects to understand the requirements for a test environment setup.
• Expertise in using Load Runner 8.1/9.1, HP UFT and VSTS for Performance testing and QTP 8.0/8.2/9.2, Selenium WebDriver for functional testing.
• Interacted with Multiple teams, Developers and Management to identify and resolve technical issues.
• Conducted GUI, Functional, Front end, back end testing, Performed Smoke testing to make sure all the Test Channels and Test Environment is working as desired.
• Run SQL queries to performed database validation according to the business logic.
• Developed Integration and System test cases for complex disturbed systems using HP ALM.
• Extensively worked to build Automation framework on point of sale application qualification using SOAP UI, Selenium.
• Build the Performance framework for Mobile services and Web services using SOAP UI. Conducted multiple load tests on the services and measured the performance against defined standards.
• Executing functional, integration, interface testing involving SOA and performance testing using HP Load runner and reporting on test results
• Tracked and reported defects into HP ALM and notified management with details.
• Analyzed root cause for defects and documented.
• Partnered with the Software Development and Program Management teams to investigate and resolve product defects.
• Managed software defects triage, interacted with Business users to fix severity and priority of issues.
• Attended daily Scrum Meetings and Participated in weekly project status meeting and updated the testing Progress.
• Created test metrics viz. Requirement Volatility, Test Coverage, Productivity metrics, Defect Metrics, Test Effectiveness.
• Authored Case Studies on service oriented QA solution and test processes.

Environment: Agile, HP ALM, HP QTP, HP Load runner, SOAP UI, C#, UNIX, LINUX, QMF, Teradata, MS SQL Server, Java, Selenium IDE, Selenium Web driver, Xpath.

QA Analyst

Project Responsibilities:

• Provided software QA solution for various Geo/Customer specific Releases for Retail Photo Solution.
• Proposed Automation Test Framework solution for windows Application using QTP and VB scripting.
• Played Scrum Master Role in Agile Testing environment with responsibilities of Sprint Planning, Backlog creation, Burn-down tracker and conduct Sprint meetings such as daily scrums, reviews and retrospective meetings.
• Effectively Utilized Jira and HP QC/ALM tools to track all test artifacts and Sprint efforts.
• Lead test team with technical guidance, managed project estimation and resourcing.
• Prepared project Test Plan, Process Improvement and Test Strategy test artifacts.
• Responsible for delivering test solution to large program of 3 core teams and 2 specialized teams at multi-geo location.
• Expertise in using Load Runner 8.1/9.1, HP UFT and VSTS for Performance testing and QTP 8.0/8.2/9.2, Selenium WebDriver for functional testing.
• Introduced test framework using QTP for stress test named CHO- Continuous Hours of Operations to depict real time retail business scenario.
• Adopted RMAS (Requirements mapping through Assumptions and Scenarios) new approach - for requirement gathering and mapping.
• Managed testing activity, task allocation, progress monitoring, test deliverables review, develop test strategy and plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan for both Manual and Automated test approach.
• Ensuring test case creation and linking test execution, aligning development support, defect management, and maintain Quality dashboard and reporting.
• Extensively work on Test Process optimization and Test improvements.
• Actively participated in Teleconferencing with the clients, tech teams and business users every week regarding the progress of the project, plan and phase scheduling, resource allocation, and level-of-effort expectations.
• Creating and maintaining all testing and defect management documentation, customer configuration plans, reporting expectations, process continuation, adherence to CMMI requirements, and other testing related activities.
• Conduct Reviews and internal audits; engage in cross module trainings for team and end users.

Environment: Agile Model (Scrum), HP QC, HP QTP, Jira, QTP, VB Script ATF, MS Visual Studios, C#, Cloud computing, Star team, Windows, MFP Printers.