SUMMARY:

• Over 6 experience in reviewing and understanding of Business & Testing requirements and writing detailed Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scripts.
• Involved in entire QA Life Cycle (SDLC), which includes Design, Development and Implementation of the entire QA process for the Relational Database, Web and Client/Server, IBM Mainframe Applications.
• Excellent working knowledge of designing and implementation of all QA test strategy plans and automated test solutions for client/server and Web applications with Mercury Interactive Test Suite (Load Runner, Win Runner, Quick Test Pro and test Director).
• Strategizing and Leading Performance Engineering to improve the team's methodologies, analysis tools, and workloads and participate in major initiatives to identify bottlenecks, improve performance by examining both software and hardware from the front end to the back end across multiple layers of the system.
• Expertise in planning/executing Black Box Testing for both Client Server and IBM Mainframe applications.
• Experience automating scripts with HP Quick Test Professional (QTP/UFT) using Script and management tool HP QC/ALM.
• Performance testing expertise in developing Performance Test plans, Test Strategy, Load Modeling, Performance Metrics and Performance Analysis.
• Develop and implement load and stress tests with Mercury Load Runner, and present performance statistics to application teams, and provide recommendations of how and where performance can be improved.
• Well experienced in conducting performance test executions and analyzing the performance test results.
• Worked towards innovation by laying out strategies for continuous integration process by automation using performance testing tools such as SOASTA &Load Runner.
• Working experience on various frameworks like Data driven, keyword driven, Hybrid frameworks using QTP/UFT.
• Involved in capturing and maintaining business and technical requirements as well as capturing and analyzing process of the DB project, which was developed in Java, J2EE and XML environment.
• Identified Disk Usage, CPU, and Memory for Web, APP, TUXEDO, Database servers and how the servers are getting loaded
• Coordinated with WebSphere administration team for build deployment and build releases and involved in testing Java web based application.
• Involved in batch processing of mainframe to update policies and configuration of WebSphere server in test environment.
• Document and communicate environment security requirements to security and involved in data gathering as well as creating and maintaining test data.
• Expertise in deploying J2EE applications on IBM Web Sphere application server thru Admin console as well as thru scripts.
• Experienced in creating data sources and setting up connection pools as well as creation of J2C Authentication aliases.
• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Methodologies (AGILE, RUP), Test Process and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Integrating enterprise - wide J2EE applications and deploying using IBM WebSphere Portal Server Application Assembly Tool and managing security policies for different applications.
• Extensive working Experience in using testing methods like Functional, Regression, Integration, System, Security, Initialization, Usability, Database, Smoke/Sanity, End to End and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Experienced in back-end testing using SQL queries, generating reports to ensure Data Integrity and validate business rules.
• Created and performed data driven tests for checking positive and negative test scenarios using automation tools by using test data provided.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and work independently as well as in a team, having strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• A good team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages:: C, C++, Java, VB.NET, ASP.NET, VB

Operating Systems:: Windows, UNIX, Linux

Tools: HP QTP/UFT, HP QC/ALM, Load runner, JIRA

Databases:: Oracle, SQL Server, MY SQL, MS-Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Oakland, CA

Sr. QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked with business and technology leads to identify the appropriate data for testing, and prepare that data for the test cases.
• Designed and developed performance testing scripts, functions, scenarios, processes for simple to complex testing situations using HP Load Runner.
• Created and executed tests scripts in QTP/UFT for regression testing and performed Data Driven Test using test data from excel files.
• Responsible for recording scripts for different business scenario and involved in script enhancement with heavy correlations and parameterization.
• Validated WSDL file and SOAP message using WS-I compliance SoapUI Pro.
• Validated Soap XML request and response messages using various Assertions.
• Responsible for Running the UFT Regression Test Suite whenever there is a production move using ALM.
• Gathered performance requirements for the application and designed performance tests for the multiple clients within the organization.
• Integrated with Continuous Integration tools Jenkins for running test on nightly basis automatically.
• Used Quality center for maintaining the scripts and made sure that all the automated scripts were invoked.
• Used QTP/UFT to Automate Scripts using VB Script, edit and execute functional, system, regression testing.
• Used datasheets in QTP/UFT to import data from data tables conducting data driven testing.
• Extensively worked on performance monitoring and analyzed the response time Memory leaks hits/sec and throughput graphs.
• Planning of Test Strategy on how to automate the testing. Selecting the Test Cases for Regression testing and automating the Test Cases using Win Runner.
• Contributed to the Continuous Integration pipeline running component builds, creating and running Deployment jobs on individual stages on Jenkins, and running automated and manual functional tests.
• Created XML based test suit and integrated with Jenkins Server to execute automation scripts on a regular basis by scheduling Jenkins jobs in different test environments with different test configurations.
• Reported the Test Results in various formats PDF, Word and Excel at project level, Test suite, and Test case level in SoapUI Pro.
• Performed regression testing for the application. Parameterized the scripts and enhanced them according to the test case.
• Performed Data-Driven testing using QTP/UFT for checking the data integrity of the application using different Sets of data and parameterization.
• Performed problem solving analysis and root cause for system functionality and testing challenges using Load Runner Analysis Tool.
• Led Performance Engineering by identifying bottlenecks across multiple layers of the system. Hands-on approach in building, running and working on enterprise performance initiative driven by Performance engineering team.
• Analyzed various graphs generated by Load Runner Analysis and communicated bottlenecks to the system administrators.

Environment: ASP.Net, WCF, Soap UI, Visual FoxPro, Windows, SQL Server, Oracle, QC/ALM, QTP/UFT, XML, HTTP.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirement and developed detailed Test Cases for different scenarios based on Business logic and System architecture.
• Attended the Business and Functional Requirement Document (BRD) review meetings conducted by BA team to better understand the application functionality and to gather Functional requirement Document (FRD) to create the Test Plan and Test Scenarios.
• Participated in implementing detailed test-plans and test-cases according to the Acceptance Criteria provided by Business Analyst (BA).
• Involved in Web Services Testing using SOAPUI to create and execute automated functional, regression, compliance, and load tests.
• Involved in scrum meetings, Reviews, Worked as a part of scrum team to test, automate, manual testing and maintain automation scripts using QTP using Descriptive programming.
• Proficient in working with testing tools and carrying out Functional testing, GUI Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, End to End Testing, and UAT testing.
• Hands on experience using ALM/QC to create, organize, execute and maintain test plans, test cases, bug tracking purposes & generate test reports.
• Used Data Source Test Step and Data Source Loop for reading test data in to properties from number of external sources (Excel, JDBC sources, Grid Table) in SoapUI.
• Extensively used Unified Functional Testing (UFT) to automate the testing process for various functionalities.
• Developed VB scripts for regression testing in UFT and worked on Debugging & Maintenance of scripts when required.
• Creating performance test reports and enhancing the reports with appropriate graphs, merging graphs and customizing the graphs in order to create better understanding.
• Analyzing the Load Runner reports to calculate Response time and Transactions per minute, Hits per sec, throughput.
• Adopted data driven methodology to test the application with different sets of data using QTP.
• Ensure all test plans and test cases created covers the business requirements and meet all standards established by the QA organization.
• Involved in creating UAT test scripts and documenting the test steps and testing the web services and schematic user interface.
• Participated in creation and maintenance of QTP/UFT framework (combination of Data Driven and Keyword Driven Frameworks).
• Performed parameterization of the automated test scripts in QTP/UFT to check how the application performs against multiple sets of data.
• Validated XML files against schema using oxygen and update them as required and also involved in testing Web services and XML with tool called 'SOAP UI'. Used this tool to locate WSDL file on internet, create Test cases and execute, run them.
• Conduct backend testing by querying databases with SQL manipulations and check for data integrity and proper routing based on workflow rules at each step.
• Involved in defect reporting and assigning the defects to development team through Quality Center.
• Document Test Results in evidence files and attached the test results in Test Lab while executing the test cases.
• Worked with Agile Project management tool called Version One and provided daily updates to the Scrum Master.
• Attending Daily SOS (Scrum on Scrum) and providing the Story status to the Business and also showcase the User story to Concerned Product Owner for the Story Acceptance.
• Lead and Coordinate Quality Assurance offshore / onshore team efforts for the assigned initiative.
• Co-ordinate with Developers for defect analysis and performing Regression Testing and also Conducted/Participated in QA team meetings, defect report meetings, KT sessions and development meetings.

Environment: Quality Center/ALM, QTP/UFT, Soap UI, Version One, SQL, Oracle, TOAD, JAVA, J2EE, Web Services, Share point, MS Office, MS Project.

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed various business documents BRDs, FRDs, TRs from several sources and by conducting requirement walkthrough meetings with end users and business analysts.
• Followed the Agile Methodology to emphasize on real time communication over written Documentation.
• Analyzed requirement documents and Use cases to prepare the detailed Test Plans, Test Cases and developing Test Scripts.
• Perform quality assurance, quality control, and security tests for system designs, processes, and security features.
• Maintained central repository to determine the readiness of the application by combining Planning, Execution and Defect Tracking.
• Created and Executed Manual Test cases in feature files and responsible to track and log the Defects using QC and JIRA.
• Develop test cases and facilitated coordination of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) using Acceptance Test Driven Development.
• Interacted extensively with the business partners during the UAT calls to discuss the constant changing requirements.
• Developed Automated Test Scripts using QTP/UFT for Functionality and System Testing and also used Performance Center for Test executions.
• Created scenarios, monitored test under load, executed tests and analyzed test result using Performance Center.
• Conducted data driven testing using QTP to conduct backend testing.
• Created and executed scenarios in Load Runner controller to analyze system performance in Load Runner Analyzer under load.
• Customized various Soap Assertions using Groovy scripting and Modularized Test cases for sharing number of Test Steps between different Test Cases.
• Used rendezvous concept of Load Runner to generate peak load onto the server thereby stressing it, and measuring its performance.
• Used SOAP UI tool to test SOA based architecture application to test SOAP services and REST API.
• Parameterized the tests by entering different sets of data using QTP.
• Performed requirement traceability by setting automatic alerts for tracing changes in the requirements and system maintenance.
• Generated various reports and graphs from Quality Center and analyzed the testing process overview.
• Importing requirements, create test cases, validate requirements with test cases and generate reports using Quality Center.
• Created and maintained SQL Scripts to perform back-end testing on the MS SQL server database and also reviewed extensive SQL Queries with complex multi-table joins and nested queries.
• Prepare entry and exit criteria document based on business requirements and utilize it to sign off the stories.
• Participated in daily scrums to effectively communicate the progress, and road blocks in order to deal with the constantly changing requirements.
• Participated in daily defect resolution status calls to discuss defects with vendors, project management and users.

Environment: Windows, Oracle, QC, QTP/UFT, XML, DB2, Excel, SoapUI, TEST DIRECTOR, MS word, JAVA, Mainframe.

Confidential, Washington DC

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed various business documents BRDs, FRDs, TRs from several sources and by conducting requirement walkthrough meetings with end users and business analysts.
• Followed the Agile Methodology to emphasize on real time communication over written Documentation.
• Analyzed requirement documents and Use cases to prepare the detailed Test Plans, Test Cases and developing Test Scripts.
• Perform quality assurance, quality control, and security tests for system designs, processes, and security features.
• Maintained central repository to determine the readiness of the application by combining Planning, Execution and Defect Tracking.
• Worked in regression automation scripts, fixing regression failed cases. Carried out Testing of Webs services or SOA Testing using REST.
• Created and Executed Manual Test cases in feature files and responsible to track and log the Defects using QC and JIRA.
• Developed services which involved both producing and consuming web services (WSDL, SOAP and JAX-WS). Also published the WSDL to UDDI registry using the SOA architecture.
• Develop test cases and facilitated coordination of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) using Acceptance Test Driven Development.
• Interacted extensively with the business partners during the UAT calls to discuss the constant changing requirements.
• Analyzed and audited testing data for AUT to conduct various types of testing such as data driven, end to end and boundary testing.
• Created scenarios, monitored test under load, executed tests and analyzed test result using Performance Center.
• Created and executed scenarios in Load Runner controller to analyze system performance in Load Runner Analyzer under load.
• Used rendezvous concept of Load Runner to generate peak load onto the server thereby stressing it, and measuring its performance.
• Created and maintained SQL Scripts to perform back-end testing on the MS SQL server database and also reviewed extensive SQL Queries with complex multi-table joins and nested queries.
• Prepare entry and exit criteria document based on business requirements and utilize it to sign off the stories.
• Participated in daily scrums to effectively communicate the progress, and road blocks in order to deal with the constantly changing requirements.
• Participated in daily defect resolution status calls to discuss defects with vendors, project management and users.

Environment: HP Quality Center, SOA/REST, SOAP UI, Windows, MS office suite, SQL Enterprise.