SUMMARY:

• Around 7 years of Software Quality Assurance Testing experience with Client - Server applications, Web based applications.
• Experienced with QA Methodology and QA Validations to ensure Quality Assurance and Control.
• Experienced with Test Documentation including developing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Procedures, and Test Results Reports.
• Familiarity in developing and executing Test Cases based on business, functional and system specifications.
• Extensively experienced in the creation and maintenance of automated Test Scripts.
• Experienced of the Software Testing Life Cycle, SDLC, Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Proficient in various types of testing including Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, Smoke testing, GUI testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Experienced in logging defects and assigning the criticality of Defects, Root Cause Analysis, and Bug Verification using HP ALM/HP Quality Center.
• Good Skills in Maintaining of Test Scripts, Requirements & management of Test suites using ALM/Quality Center.
• Experienced in preparing the Test Execution reports using the HP ALM/Quality Center.
• Strong Knowledge in performing backend testing to validate data using SQL queries.
• Skilled in generating automated Test scripts using QTP/UFT.
• Experienced in working with GUI testing using QTP/UFT.
• Expertise in developing custom functions using VBScript and using Descriptive Programming for QTP/UFT.
• Experienced in using Framework for QTP/UFT Automation Scripts.
• Good working knowledge of MS-Office (Outlook, Word, Excel and Power point).
• Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows, Linux/Unix

Scripting Languages: VBScript, SQL, HTML, Java Script, XML

Database: Oracle, DB2, Microsoft Access

Testing Tools: HP QTP, HP UFT, HP Quality Center, HP ALM, JIRA, TOAD, SOAP UI, Junit

Testing Environment: HTTP, DB2, VBScript, Java, .NET, SQL, XML, HTML, C, C++, J2EE, DHTML, Toad, PL/SQL, CSS, C#

Other Applications: MS Office, MS Excel, PowerPoint, MS Visio, Outlook

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Senior Product Development

Responsibilities:

• Functional testing, wrote and review test cases based on Design Documentation and Requirements received from Project Owners to ensure accurate and full testing
• Writing and executing Security Test cases
• Creating high level test plan for releases. Created detailed test plan with dates, how often you need SMEs, what hours, what days, what they need to test, etc.
• Creating well-defined, repeatable test cases after requirements definition
• Generating requirements for validation of release components
• Responsible for creating and filing bugs.
• Responsible for Prioritization of validation activities
• Responsible for writing and testing Regression test cases

Confidential, Louisville, KY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identified, prioritized and tracked testing action items and project open issues through SDLC.
• Analyzed the business requirements and functional requirements to prepare Test Plans, Test Procedures, Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Executed Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts involving positive and negative system flows.
• Reviewed design documents and business requirements to learn the function and scope of the application and to create a Test plan and Test cases.
• Performed functional, backend, regression, negative, positive, smoke, sanity and system testing.
• Managed and Tracked the resolutions of defects; isolated defects and worked with developers to resolve those defects.
• Developed Test strategies for GUI, Web Applications, Web Services, Client-Server, Database/Data Warehouse and COTS applications testing.
• Involved in generating Test plan, Test cases in HP ALM.
• Involved in defect tracking, defect reporting, analyzing results and documenting using HP ALM.
• Interacted with developers and business Users to communicate the defects and participated in replicating the bugs and performed regression testing using HP ALM.
• Wrote SQL queries to test the database and validate the data integrity.
• Reviewed existing UFT automation environment and recommend improvements.
• Recorded, manipulated, parameterized and executed UFT scripts with checkpoints both in web environment.
• Developed the automated Test Scripts from manual Test Cases for regression testing based on the requirement documents using UFT.
• As a test lead, I got involved in the planning, monitoring and controlling of the testing activities.
• Developed common reusable libraries of user defined public functions using UFT.
• Incorporated UFT tests into current continuous integration test suite.
• Designed Data Driven Framework/Keyword driven frame work for testing using UFT.
• Helped to develop automated scripts and Frame-work using VB script for testing.
• Tested the application on different browsers like; Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Netscape Navigator to verify the application is compatible on all these platforms.
• Sent Defect Reports, weekly status report and maintained Test Results/Error Logs.
• Participated in bug review meetings on behalf of the QA team.

Environment: CSS, Java, SOAP UI, .NET, Oracle, SQL, Windows, Share point, Outlook, MS Office, MS Excel, UNIX, DB2, HP UFT, HP ALM, VBScript, HTML, XML.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Automation Scripts Execution, development, debugging, reviews, analyze results and reporting defects.
• Created and maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix and Test Matrix.
• Analyzed various Documents and Use Cases to prepare the detailed Test Plan.
• Developed detailed Test cases, Entrance and Exit criteria for the application being tested and ensured that standards for documentation were followed.
• Performed Black box, Gray box, GUI, Smoke, Functional, Regression, System, User Acceptance testing.
• Logged bugs in the Quality Center tracking tool.
• Responsible in generating Test reports for each new release in Quality Center, which keeps track of all the open and closed bugs.
• Responsible to test and verify in back end database tables using SQL Queries.
• Conducted Functionality and Regression testing using QTP during the various phases of the product development.
• Customized QTP Scripts with Parameterization, Check Points, Library Files, Regular expression.
• Responsible to test each new version of application for Regression testing using QTP.
• Customized the QTP Test as per the Test Case by using the VB-Script.
• Performed Cross browser testing using QTP.
• Used VBScripts in QTP to access webpage script variables.
• Converted an OR-based script to a DP-based script using QTP.
• Wrote reports for projects and worked with different project managers.
• Involved in reporting weekly project condition to the project manager and the team lead.
• Attended review meetings and walkthroughs to discuss the status of the project.

Environment: Java, .NET, HTML, SQL, Windows, Share Point, Outlook, HP Quick Test Pro (QTP), Oracle, DB2, MS Office, UNIX, Soup UI, XML, CSS, J2EE, HP Quality Center (QC).

Confidential, New York, NY

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Used the Screen Based Method and designed a Reusable Action for each Screen of the Application.
• Analyzed existing business scenarios and business rules.
• Performed Negative testing to find how the functions performed when system encountered invalid, unexpected values.
• Performed manual testing prior to automate the testing on the application.
• Involved in developing detailed Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts using Quality Center for Functional, Security and Regression Testing.
• Used Quality Center to track and report system defects and bug fixes; written modification requests for the bugs in the application and helped developers to track and resolve the problems.
• Worked as Quality Center Administrator to maintain users, groups, domain, projects, and policies.
• Involved in Back end testing to check for data and application integrity by writing SQL queries.
• Responsible for creating and filing bugs.
• Created Test input requirements and prepared the Test data and Test scripts in QTP for data driven testing.
• Developed automated Test scripts in QTP to expedite regression testing.
• Extensively worked with QTP to create, manage and execute test sets.
• Interacted with developers, discussed technical problems, provided feedback concerning completeness and reported bugs.
• Participated in the Bug review meetings and Bug Triage meetings.

Environment: Outlook, MS Office, Java, C++, C#, HP Quality Center, HP QTP, Windows, Linux, HTML, DHTML, XML, .Net, CSS.