SUMMARY:

• Over 7+ years of industry wide experience as a QA Engineer/QA Tester in Retail, Financial Services Industry, insurance and also have experience in development/programming part of the applications.
• Experienced with testing tools such as HP Quality Center, HP ALM, Quick Test Professional (QTP) SOAPUI and SQL Management Studio Tool
• Extensive hands on experience with all levels of testing including Smoke testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing, Regression testing and Database testing
• Expertise in Black box and White Box testing
• Good exposure to various bug tracking tools, such as BUGZILLA, JIRA, etc.
• Extensively involved in Backend testing of SQL Queries using Oracle & SQL Server
• Experience in creating Test Plan, Test Case, Test Procedures and Test Metrics
• Proficient in using Quality Center, Test Director, Bugzilla, JIRA to track defects and enhancements.
• Test Plan, Test Conditions, and Test Cases; ensuring adequate testing of software both before and after completion; conducting and documenting UAT.
• Experienced in writing and executing SQL queries to verifying Source - to-Target mapping and transformation rules (ETL Processing) in Data warehouse manually.
• Extensive experience using manual testing to troubleshoot systems integration, GUI, Compatibility, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SOA Testing using web services, functionality, Database and regression testing. Good Expert on Tools like HP ALM, QTP, Quality Center
• Worked in SDLC Methodologies like Agile, Waterfall and Spiral.
• Experience on work with Selenium web driver automation testing with JAVA.
• Experience on working with TestNG for Selenium automation testing Reports.
• For Selenium automation, used test data from Excel.
• Experience assessing testing processes, creating, implementing testing strategies and SQA strategies using Agile-testing methodology in UAT phase
• Proficient in defect tracking tools like Jira
• Hands on experience in Manual and Automated testing using Quick Test Pro(QTP), Load Runner, Quality Center
• Performed Back-End testing on UNIX to check the log files and permission
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with proven records of organized and timely project completion
• Maintaining the Traceability matrix and defect tracking using different tools like ALM Quality center, Quality Center, Clear Quest and Test Director
• Extensively worked with Performance testing, Functional, Integration, System, Regression and Black Box testing.
• Extensively created and executed SQL queries in Oracle, SQL Server, and My SQL tables in order to validate data at the back end
• Experience in SOA Testing, Agile Testing, Manual testing, System Integration testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Smoke testing, Black Box Testing and Web services Testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional, Load Runner, Win Runner, Jmeter, HP ALM, selenium

Languages: SQL, Java, J2EE, C# C++, VB, VBA, HTML, XML, Shell Script

Web Tools: HTML, XML, XSL, AJAX, Flex, Lotus notes

Databases: Oracle 8i/9i/10g, My SQL, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, DB2, MS Access

Platforms: Windows 2000/NT/XP/7, DOS, Unix, Linux

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, HTML, JavaScript, Web services, SQA Basic

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Engineer/ QA

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Cases and automated Test scripts based on the application functional requirements.
• Develop both positive as well as negative test cases and enter into HP ALM.
• Perform functional, system, integration, smoke and regression Testing
• Conduct external reviews for the test cases with the business analyst
• Performed cross browser testing to ensure compatibility of the application.
• Reported bugs in defect tracking tool and tracked them up to closure through ALM.
• Run SQL Queries and stored procedures for database testing for the verification of results retrieved.
• Carried out regression testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Parameterized test scripts for data driven testing in Quick Test Pro.
• Performed Data Driven Test using the test Data from Data files and Excel files.
• Implemented Selenium automation scripts using Selenium Web driver, TestNG
• Executed automation regression test cases by using Selenium and reported defects in ALM.
• Handling Different Exceptions through report events to ensure that script runs smoothly without any errors.
• Involved in creating and grouping automated Test scripts for running them in unattended mode.
• Developed and maintained automated test scripts using QTP. Identified all the Properties of GUI Objects to ensure that each object is recognized by the script.
• Validated the front end values with data base tables using SQL queries.
• Interact with the development teams in resolving several issues.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing.
• 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: Quick Test Professional (QTP 9.2), Selenium, HP ALM (11.5), SQL, UNIX, Load Runner 8.0, SQL Server 2012, VB Script, Java, J2EE.

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plan after reviewing and analyzing business requirements under the influence of Agile/Scrum Environment.
• Involved in preparation and execution of Manual Test Scripts using SQL fundamentals for joins.
• Manually tested the application functionality and developed Automation test scripts to perform functional and regression testing and prepared automation test scripts, Methods and functions in QTP for Web services application.
• Prepared Test Cases in Quality Center based on Use-Cases and Requirements, and executed test scripts to verify actual results against expected results.
• Written Test Cases and Performed GUI, Functionality, System, Integration, Regression, UAT, Black Box testing and Cross Browser testing.
• Analyzed Software and Business Requirements documents to get a better understanding of the system from both technical and business perspectives.
• Implemented Selenium automation scripts using Selenium Web driver, TestNG
• Executed automation regression test cases by using Selenium and reported defects in ALM.
• Automated test cases, for data driven tests and linked test scripts using QTP to perform Regression testing of different application versions.
• Executed regression tests at each new build in QTP.
• Involved in peer Reviews and Team Walkthroughs for the project as per Test methodology and Tracking the defects using JIRA.
• Inserted Synchronization points in the script using QTP.
• Performed Data Driven Testing using QTP for testing the application for multiple data.
• Interacted with developers and Users to resolve critical and major bugs.
• Created and maintained regression test suite to check the progress of the testing process by performing identical tests before and after fixing defects.

Environment: QTP9.0, QualityCenter10.0, JIRA, J2EE, IE 5.5/6.0, UNIX, SQL, SQL, MS-office, Web services application

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Used test methodologies such as Analyzing Requirements, Planning, Execution and Bug Tracking.
• Designed and executed Test Plans and Test Cases to verify reliability, accuracy and compatibility of application using Manual Testing Methods.
• Interacted with business analysts for designing and implementation of user cases and User Acceptance test plans
• Created and Maintained User Acceptance Test cases in HP Quality Center Test plan modules for all the application enhancements releases and production defect fixes
• Base lined existing test cases leverage to reflect the production defect fixes and application enhancements
• Tracking and prioritizing defects and collaborating with developers to resolve test bugs.
• Providing progress and status reports to the project manager
• Expertise in analyzing the results and reporting Suggestions and defects.
• Good Exposure on Bug Life Cycle.
• Extensively used automated test tools like Win Runner and QTP for Functional and Regression Testing.
• Experience in Preparation of Automated Tests within the Keyword driven automation framework.
• Good Expertise in VB Script and Automation Infrastructure Development.
• Good Exposure in Using of QTP Integrated Environment (Step Generator, Synchronization, Actions, Recovery Scenarios and Methods etc.).
• Experience in Descriptive Programming using QTP.
• Good Knowledge on Test Management Tools like Test Director and Quality Centre.
• Executed Smoke and Regression testing for defect fixes and application enhancements using a set of QTP automated test scripts and manual test cases in Quality Center.
• Involved in Back End testing for SQL Server as a part of Parallel Test and written SQL and PL/SQL queries to extract and validate the data on different Data Tables.
• Utilized Database client Toad for Database query execution and Data Validation.
• Testing Forecasting Web services using SOAP UI.
• Involved in the implementation plan and implementing the application software in production environment.
• Provided End users support and training on the application
• Coordinated UAT with Business Users for all releases, production defects and application enhancements
• Prepared white paper documentation for entire testing life cycle

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, QTP, .Net, XML, SQL Server, UNIX, VBScript, SOAP UI, and Windows XP.

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Test scenarios, preparing Test case documents,
• Attended Review meetings to discuss Use-Cases, Business Rules, Alternate flows and Exception paths.
• Responsible for executing the Test Cases, Test Scripts using Mercury Quality Center.
• Performed Smoke, GUI, Integration, Functional, Regression, Redundancy, Data Integrity, System Compatibility testing.
• Involved in performing Sanity Testing of application for Post Deployment Production Testing.
• Black box was implemented as testing methodology.
• Extensively used Test Management Tool Quality Center to manage and execute test scripts.
• Used Quality Center for tracking the defects.
• Monitored server performance metrics on UNIX level
• Prepared Test Status Reports during Test Execution Process prepared and delivered final test report.
• Assisted in generating Post deployment scripts and UAT scripts for users.
• Attended meetings with logical data modelers to enhance knowledge of Back-end Testing.
• Involved in development of test plans, test scenarios and test strategies to facilitate the process of testing
• Utilized Mercury Quality Center (Defect Tracking Tool) for communication with the production personnel, developers and team numbers

Environment: Quality Center, Rational Clear Case, J2EE, Web Sphere, Rational Clear Quest, XML, Oracle