SUMMARY:

• Around 5 years of experience in Quality Assurance (QA) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Automation.
• Extensively experienced in designing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Procedures.
• Proficient in Software Quality Assurance Testing Manual as well as Automation Testing for the applications on Windows and UNIX environment.
• Experienced in analyzing Requirement Specifications and developed Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Extensively experienced in Manual and Automation testing of the applications.
• Strong Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) like Waterfall and Agile Methodologies.
• Experienced in Regression Testing, Negative Testing, Compatibility Testing, GUI Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Security Testing, Smoke Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Proficient in Manual and Automated Testing with HP ALM/Quality Center and UFT.
• Exposure in performing verification and validation activities, including preparation of Test scripts, step - by-step execution of Test scripts and consolidation and reporting the bugs as per severity in HP ALM/Quality Center.
• Proficient in writing SQL, PL/SQL queries to perform back end testing.
• Expert in Manual testing, Automation with UFT/QTP.
• Experienced in developing Descriptive programming for Key-word driven Testing using QTP/ UFT.
• Skilled at writing, maintaining & updating VBScript in UFT/QTP to perform functional, Data driven, Modular & Regression Testing.
• Experienced in querying and testing using RDBMS tools like Oracle, MS SQL server, DB2, TOAD, and MS Access for Data integrity.
• Experienced in UNIX/ Linux platform and environments.
• Good team player with good organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills and strong documentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows, Linux/Unix

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

Database: Oracle, DB2, Microsoft Access

Testing Tools: HP QTP, UFT, HP Quality Center, HP ALM, Jira

Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center, HP ALM

Testing Environment: HTML, HTTP, DB2, VBScript, Java, C#, J2EE, DHTML, Toad, ASP, .NET, SQL, XML

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Generating Test Cases/procedures as per system, architecture and data synchronization requirements.
• Working closely with business analysts, programmers, and end users in a cross functional team.
• Working with SDLC process like AGILE methodology.
• Involved in preparation of Requirement Traceability Matrix, Defect Report, and Test tracking Report, Weekly Status Reports.
• Involved in GUI Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Negative Testing, Compatibility Testing, Security Testing, Smoke Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Involved in defect prevention activities and identified the process gap to improve the testing process.
• Providing design documentation for the test automation projects for knowledge transfer and standardizing Automation Testing procedures.
• Executing Test cases and reported defects in HP ALM.
• Developing and executing Test Cases, Test Scenarios and followed-up defects using HP ALM.
• Interacting with the developers to report using HP ALM.
• Finding critical bugs in the application, weekly Reporting through Bug Reports and Maintenance Traceability Matrix using HP ALM.
• Involved in Database testing by writing and executing SQL queries to ensure that data entered has been uploaded correctly in to the database.
• Installed the UFT for automating Test Cases and developed user defined functions to support Automated Scripts, used Data Driven Testing and Data Base accessing techniques to support the Scripts.
• Working with Checkpoints, Parameterization and Data Driven Test Scripts in UFT.
• Using UFT to Test Data Migration and Integration with external applications.
• Preparing automated scripts for Maintenance and Regression Testing using UFT.
• Generating Automation Scripts from Scratch for UFT.
• Developing Functional, Navigational, and User Acceptance (UAT) testing.
• Monitoring project plan execution and project metrics reporting.
• Developing Shared Object Repository for reusability across the scripts.
• Observing all data flow in the data warehouse system and verified details.
• Documenting the project sign off and other project closure activities.

Environment: CSS, C#, SQL Server, MS Office, Windows, SOAP UI, UNIX, VB Script, XML, HP ALM, HP UFT, Java, J2EE, Java Script, MS Visio, MS Excel.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, Functional and Design specifications of the product, wrote effective Test cases for both manual and automated tests.
• Involved in Project Planning, Estimation, Scheduling & Tracking and maintaining various Test metrics.
• Created Test Plans to check user and business requirements efficiently.
• Performed regression testing by executing the baseline scripts and identified software errors and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Boundary Value Analysis, Regression and UAT testing to ensure high quality of the deliverable.
• Created Test design by using Quality Center and tracked the defects and reported the defects to the concerned persons.
• Updated the requirements and defected status as per the current status of the testing project using Quality Center.
• Performed Database testing by using SQL queries.
• Created and managed QTP Test Scripts based on the Requirements, and Scenarios.
• Used Quick Test Professional (QTP) for regression testing for automation of multiple modules in the environments.
• Performed Automation of test with extensive VB scripting for dynamic code in QTP.
• Updated scripts in Expert view with VB scripting and wrote the functions in Function Libraries and associated the required function libraries to each test.
• Used Functions extensively in QTP Scripts to make them reusable across multiple scripts.
• Used Keyword driven framework to develop QTP automation test scripts.
• Coordinated UAT with business users.
• Responsible for checking the reports with real time test data and for accuracy.
• Consistently completed assigned tasks and deliverables on schedule and reports.
• Participated in project meetings, QA status meetings.

Environment: CSS, Java Script, MS SQL Server, Web Services, HP Quality Center, QTP, VBScript, Java, Windows, UNIX, MS Excel, MS Office.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed various Requirements documents and Use Cases to prepare the detailed Test Plan.
• Documented Test Cases corresponding to business rules and other operating conditions.
• Performed End-to-End testing manually.
• Performed Functionality testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, Database Testing and UAT.
• Recorded and reviewed results of tests with logs of the traced defects in Quality Center.
• Responsible for execution of regression scripts on each Service pack release and updated results in Quality Center.
• Logged the traced defects in Quality Center and created Test Matrix to analyze the defects.
• Developed and executed SQL queries for back end testing.
• Generated QTP Automated Scripts using VBScript.
• Used check points within the QTP Scripts to compare and retrieve data by using Database Checkpoints.
• Designed and developed automated scripts for functional, regression, Sanity Testing, integration testing using QTP.
• Tested GUI with web object checkpoints, Database checkpoints and Run-Time Record check points using hybrid model of descriptive programming and object repositories in QTP.
• Used Agile testing methodology for achieving deadlines in UAT.
• Responsible for Functional, Compatibility testing of web reports.
• Participated in release meetings.

Environment: Agile, MS Office, UNIX, MS Excel, TOAD, Oracle, SQL Server, Quality Center, QTP, Java, Java Script, Windows, HTML, Soap UI.