SUMMARY:

• An information technology professional with over 6 years of industry experience.
• For the past 6 years, I have been working extensively with many different solutions and technologies.
• Looking for opportunities where I will be able to utilize my experience in manual and automation testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating system: Unix, Linux, Windows, and DOS

Languages: C, Java and J2EE

Database: ORACLE, SQL Server, DB2

Web Technologies: JSP, AJAX, CSS, Servlets, XML/XSLT, SAX, JNDI, HTML/DHTML, JavaScript.

Web Services: WSDL and SOAP

Testing tools: UFT, Selenium, HP ALM and JIRA

Web/Application Servers: Tomcat, IBM Web Sphere, Web Logic

Concepts: Agile and Water Fall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Gaithersburg, MD

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Feasibility study of Client's requirement, making estimation and total development based on Clients requirement with a developer.
• Analyzed the test cycle to pinpoint weaknesses and gaps within it, resulting in more coverage and less hot fixes per release.
• Performed automation regression testing with HP UFT.
• Involved data driven automation testing with UFT.
• Researched products to automate web site UI testing.
• Designed new reports for internal use, increasing the efficiency of status communication in conjunction with the implementation of best practices.
• Software Quality Assurance Managed the smoke, functional, black - box, usability, performance, and regression testing of web-based applications simultaneously.
• The testing often required finding general defects and isolating the root cause.
• Extensively used SQL to retrieve the suitable data from database and validate the data sanity.
• Assisted with the reproduction of issues communicated to the development team from the field and from the business departments; clarified any reports relating to the obscure defects when necessary.
• Direct interaction with developers, business, and project management on program topics and defects.
• Technical Writing, reported clear, concise defect reports cataloged in Clear Quest.

Confidential, Appleton, WI

Senior QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plan, Test cases, test scenarios, expected results and prioritized tests.
• Wrote test cases, test conditions and test scripts in MS-Excel and exported to HP ALM.
• Worked on Test scenarios for GUI, Functionality, Security, Database and Regression Testing.
• Executed the test cases and compared the expected results with actual results.
• Extensively involved in the Validation of mapping between Source and the Target data being loaded into data warehouse.
• Good understanding of the physical and logical data modeling, dimensional and relational schemas.
• Involved in the validation of transformations applied on source data to load target tables.
• Extensively used SQL for retrieving data used for the data warehouse, Data Driven Tests to validate the same scenario with different test data.
• Wrote SQL queries for database verification and validation of tables which were loaded through ETL process.
• Extensively worked on the testing of reports generated using Business objects.
• Execute Ab initio Graphs in UNIX environment for data extraction and transform process.
• Attend the Test case review meetings and requirements walkthroughs.
• Responsible for closing the defects being fixed.
• Involved in the preparation of test summary.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Managed and executed HL7 Messages thru ALTOVA XML editor and tool (Internally developed).
• Developed Automation Frame Work, Automation Plan for CPP (Care provider Portal) in Selenium.
• Identified Test cases and Developed Automation Scripts in Selenium to automate defined End to End scenarios for CPP (Care Provider Portal).

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with co-workers in CMMI, QA processes and procedures, requirements, test cases, good error tracking and reporting processes.
• Evaluated two test suites, made recommendations to management on purchases.
• Learned web automation framework/system from ground up.
• Tested large web-based insurance policy creation/billing/management platform using UFT.
• Wrote, diagnosed, corrected, and maintained many scripts in Test scripts using UFT.
• Participated in many front end test issues, provided many creative and efficient ideas of required output for implementation.
• Tested the Savings and Retirement modules developed using Servlets, JSP and Hibernate.
• Involved in deploying in application server using Tomcat.
• Involved in testing SQL queries, stored procedures, and functions.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Software Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Completed full Software Development Life Cycle from analysis, design, development, implementation, and validation testing using Agile SCRUM methodology.
• Facilitated group interviews with client to gather, understand, and document requirements
• Defined test requirements and used Load Runner for performance testing
• Used Agile methodology, performed Web testing of customer-facing interfaces, Integration testing of patches.
• Worked directly with SMEs to test their products in new environments and gathered info to enhance processes.
• Analyzing the business and functional requirements provided by the client and preparing work order estimates.
• Established and maintained solid work frame for UFT, Load Runner and ALM.