SUMMARY:

• He is a highly motivated Software QA Analyst with diverse domain exposure including Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, Telecommunications and Retail.
• With over 5 years of proven track record traversing in various industries and environments, he is well versed in both traditional Waterfall and Agile SDLC .
• Working knowledge on TDD, ATDD and well versed in iterative as well as agile scrum environment.
• With superior skill sets and demonstrated ability to in corporate and swiftly utilize automation testing tools, Confidential is highly adaptable to changing business requirements and specifications.
• Detailed, analytical, and comprehensive Quality Assurance and Business Process Improvement Professional in all phases of testing and quality assurance.
• Solid knowledge of designing and developing Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Extensively experienced in manual and automated testing of web - based, client/server and desktop Applications.
• Experienced in preparation of test data for executing various testing i.e. Ad-hoc, Smoke, Integration, Functional, System, End-to-end, Regression, Acceptance, Browser compatibility etc.
• Strong Knowledge of Project life cycle and SDLC methodologies including Waterfall, Agile and RUP.
• Extensive experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) including requirements gathering, risk analysis, project planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking and reporting.
• Experienced in Bugzilla, HP ALM/ Quality Center, JIRA, MTM and Excel for bug tracking and reporting.
• Test Automation Expert in HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT/QTP) for creating, maintaining, and debugging complex and innovative scripts for frameworks such as Modular, Data-Driven, Keyword-Driven, and Hybrid Framework.
• Developed and maintained custom library, error handling, recovery scenarios, reporting methods, descriptive programming and repository management using QTP/UFT for Automation framework.
• Proficient in writing VBScript from scratch using UFT/QTP for functional testing to in corporate new code change and enhancements.
• Experienced in developing QTP/UFT test scripts to support Regression Testing.
• Highly proficient in testing databases i.e. Oracle, My-SQL and SQL Server by executing SQL Queries.
• Highly proficient in preparation of weekly status reports using Quality Center/ALM.
• Solid knowledge in project building tool (Maven, ANT) and version control tool (GIT, SVN).
• Sound knowledge in Service Oriented Architecture such as REST, SOAP.
• Exposures with Test Management tools include MTM and TFS with hands on experience in integrating test management functionalities in day-to-day Agile Scrum activities (i.e. sprint, backlog)
• Sound knowledge in Web Service testing using REST- assured Framework and also SoapUI.
• Strong insight of business domains encompassing finance & banking, healthcare and telecommunications.
• Possesses excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills with outstanding ability to accomplish multiple tasks to meet customer deadlines and deliver results under pressure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP ALM, HP Quality Center, HP Quick Test Pro, UFT, JIRA, SoapUI, TOADTFS, Rally, Bugzilla, Microsoft Test Manager (MTM)

Programming Languages: Java, JavaScript, J2EE, .NET, Visual Basic, VBScript, C, C++, C#, XML and HTML

Databases: Oracle 9/10/11/12, SQL Server, MS Access, MYSQL, DB2, SQL, PL/SQL

ERP System: SAP ECC 6.0+, Microsoft Dynamics (AX)

Operating Systems: Windows (95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8.1), Linux/Unix

Office Suites & Other: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, Visio & SharePoint.

Methodologies: Agile Scrum, Waterfall, RUP, TDD, ATDD.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plans, test strategies, test cases and test data for various interfaces to the downstream systems.
• Worked with developers, users and support groups to understand the application architecture, use and content.
• Identified, researched, investigated, analyzed, defined and documented business processes.
• Documented all established traceability between the Business Requirements, Use Cases, Business Rules, Activity Diagrams, Navigation Maps, Screen Mockups (Wire Frames) and Test Scenarios.
• Created and executed test scripts to verify complex system requirements.
• Utilized the defect tracking system of ALM to report defects in a clear and precise manner, describing the scenario, expected outcome and actual outcome.
• Followed Agile methodology (participated in sprint daily scrum, planning, review meetings) for application implementation and testing.
• Performed Functional, Integration, Regression, End-to-End and UAT testing of the application.
• Experienced in creating, enhancing and maintaining high-end test scripts for various functional and regression testing using UFT and VBScript.
• Developed UFT automation Hybrid framework from scratch for new application and existing application.
• Enhanced test scripts using various utilities provided in UFT (i.e. inserting standard check points, synchronization points, regular expressions, database checkpoints, bitmap checkpoints, output value parameters and parameterization).
• Validated application performance against multiple sets of data using parameterization of automated test scripts.
• Integrated the UFT scripts with HP ALM.
• Involved in Backend testing; checked database to determine successful transaction of test data from the application by establishing connectivity using SQL commands.
• Wrote SQL statements to extract Data and verified the output data of the reports.
• Worked in an agile environment with an ability to accommodate and test the newly proposed changes Confidential any point of time during the release.
• Performed cross-browsing testing to verify if the application provides accurate information in different browsers (IE, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari).
• Validated all the issues returned from developers and performed regression testing on new builds.
• Conducted regular status meetings with the team to discuss work assignments, task evaluation and addressed any open issues and concerns.
• Coordinated weekly meeting with Off-shore team to discuss issues, impediments and ways to improve the overall process. Created daily status report, escalated issues which required immediate attention.

Environment: HP ALM 11.5, HP UFT 12, Java, J2EE, Java Script, JSP, C++, HTML, XML, MS Office, VBScript, SQL, Oracle 12c, TOAD for Oracle 12.0.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and reviewed Business Requirement Document, High Level Design & Low Level Design Documents to prepare effective Test Plans.
• Identified the scope of testing and defined project testing strategy including functionality to be tested, necessary configurations or dependencies, assumptions, and risk evaluations for the project.
• Responsible for System, Functional and Regression testing.
• Created and maintained project schedule in Microsoft project for various releases.
• Used HP ALM for maintaining the Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Execution.
• Used HP ALM to log defects and track resolution till the closing of defect after retesting.
• Generated reports (defects and test case execution) on daily basis to track the progress of the project.
• Reviewed the defects with concerned developers and Team leads.
• Wrote SQL queries for backend testing to extract data from tables and verified results.
• Inserted Check Points while writing VBScripts for the identification of the specified object for testing.
• Created VBScripts for regression testing using UFT.
• Coordinated with the UAT and Project Management teams in conjunction with User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with the end-users.
• Prepared and presented Defect Reports, Daily Execution Reports and Test Summary for the immediate supervisors.
• Participated and initiated meetings with Business Analysts, Developers, Quality Assurance and Production Support team on regular basis in order to improve the testing quality by integrating effective testing approach.
• Responsible to continually improve change/release processes hence to proactively minimize change-related risks.
• Performed tasks independently with minimum supervision.

Environment: HP ALM 11.5, UFT 12, Windows, SQL, UNIX, Oracle 12c, J2EE, .NET, C#, C++, MS Office, VBScript, HTML, XML.

Confidential, Tulsa, OK

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the development of test plans based on user requirement and software requirement specifications to include scope of testing, test objectives, test approach, test data, methodology, pass/fail and resumption criteria, test risks and assumptions and limitations.
• Worked closely with the Development team to deploy and implement Test Plan.
• Prepared test data as per the specifications of BRD (Business Requirement Document).
• Developed templates for test script, test cases and test matrix.
• Managed test cases, test execution, defect management, defect tracking and Bug reporting using HP ALM.
• Prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix to establish traceability between requirements and test cases.
• Modified and maintained test cases due to changes in the requirements.
• Managed & tracked Test deliverables during test execution.
• Executed Integration testing, System Testing, Compatibility Testing, Regression testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of the application using HP ALM.
• Used UFT to set up automation testing framework.
• Used VBScript & Descriptive programming to develop Data Driven Framework in UFT.
• Developed and executed automated scripts using UFT for Functional and Regression testing, extensively used checkpoints for Object, Text, Table and Pages.
• Validated all the issues returned from developers and performed regression testing on new builds.
• Collected and analyzed test results and compared them against the target metrics to determine the pass/fail.
• Responsible for updating project status to project manager and team.
• Involved in developing weekly status reports for the project team.

Environment: HP ALM 11.0, UFT 11.5, MS-Office, Windows, PHP, My SQL, SQL, VBScript, Java, Java Script, J2EE, JSP, HTML, XML, JIRA 6.1, TOAD.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in formal review of Requirements documents and Design documents Confidential every phase of development.
• Developed test plan and followed Agile testing methodology for every releases of application.
• Estimated and tracked Test Resources, implemented build acceptance techniques.
• Identified and developed test Case design from complex Business rules defined in Use case document.
• Created checklist and executed Smoke Testing for build acceptance.
• Participated and coordinated with Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Compatibility Testing and Backend Testing using HP Quality Center.
• Written SQL queries using SQL Developer to access Oracle database for backend testing.
• Scheduled and participated Defect review meeting during testing the build.
• Generated various Defect reports and managed Defects thru Bugzilla and reported to QA Lead.
• Tracked the progress of the projects and updated the status to QA Lead periodically.
• Actively resolved technical as well as non-technical issues during test execution.
• Managed and mentored QA Resources.

Environment: Quality Center 10, TOAD, Oracle 10g, JSP, Java Script, HTML, XML, XSLT, Bugzilla.

Confidential, Lorain, OH

Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the Quality Assurance Analysis and Testing of Information System followed by Agile and Waterfall.
• Created Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Strategies based on Business Requirements Documents, Business Rules and Design documents.
• Conducted Test cases/Test Plan review meeting with project management team for approvals.
• Prepared Traceability Matrix to demonstrate the test coverage through requirement vs. test scripts.
• Executed manual test cases, tracked and logged the defects using Quality Center. Prepared test data for positive and negative test scenarios for functional testing as documented in the test plan.
• Performed Smoke and Functional testing on every build of the application.
• Performed Input validations, User interface validations, browser compatibility and navigation testing.
• Performed Backend testing to verify the data integrity by passing SQL Queries.
• Performed Defect reporting, Analyzing and Tracking using JIRA.
• Communicated with the development team and created periodical status reports (Bars, Charts and Graphs) using HP QC.
• Attended the daily Bug review meetings, weekly status meetings, walkthrough meetings and interacted with Business Analysts and Developers to resolve Defects.
• Participated and initiated team meetings on a regular basis and involved in active discussion in order to improve the testing quality through piloting new processes.

Environment: SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Server 2005, 2008, XML and HTML, Java, JSP, JIRA 3.8, HP Quality Center 9.2, 10.