SUMMARY:

• More than 5 years of experience in delivering critical solutions on various levels of Quality Assurance for Web based, Client/Server on Windows and UNIXS
• Excellent testing experience in all phases and stages of testing with good working knowledge of testing disciplines, tasks, resources and scheduling
• Good at understanding the Business Requirement Documents, Functional Specifications and Technical Specifications
• Working experience of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Knowledge and experience in every phase of Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC)
• Good Experience in Manual, Automation, and Load testing.
• Well versed in defect tracking & reporting using tools such as Visual Studio Micro Soft Test Manager, TFS, ALM, JIRA, and Quality Center.
• Expertise in preparing Test Plan, Test Summary Reports, Test Cases
• Expertise in Functional, System, Integration, Regression, UAT, Load, Database, Smoke/Sanity and Usability testing
• Extensive knowledge of the relational database concepts like Tables, Primary and foreign keys, views proficient in the data manipulation using SQL for the retrieval of data from the relational database (inner joins, outer join, group by, order by, etc.) using SQL Editor and TOAD Environment.
• Possess strong analytical, conceptual, and problem - solving abilities, excellent presentation and interpersonal skills, Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment, work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office tool set - MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio and MS PowerPoint
• Good understanding of Agile software development lifecycle
• Outstanding knowledge of Automated and Load/Performance Testing tools.
• Experienced in Public Sector, Health and Human Services
• Automation tools evaluation, recommendation, and proof of concept.
• Involved in design, development and implementation of comprehensive automation test suite with data driven automation frame work for Selenium, UFT, Quick Test Professional and Visual Studio Coded UI Test

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QA Tester/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created the strategy document that defines the test environment, phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria into different phases of testing in Software Development Life Cycle.
• Participated in Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions and involved in Requirements Gathering, Requirement Analysis and Business Analysis.
• Analyzed business requirements, system requirement specifications and responsible for documenting functional requirements and supplementary requirements in MTM/TFS.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Data, Traceability Matrix and Test Summary Reports
• Developed testing scenarios/cases to address areas such as database impacts, software scenarios, regression testing, boundary/negative testing, error or defect retests, usability, and automated scripts
• Conducted Functional, Regression, Integration, Smoke and UAT Testing
• Log, track, and verify defects concisely using the MTM and TFS.
• QA Metrics collections, analysis, and reporting
• Developed SQL queries for Backend Testing. Used SQL Plus and Toad to create, query and verify test data for backend testing
• Performed the Web services testing by using SOAP UI/UFT.
• Performed the multi browser testing and device testing using apple/android/windows devices
• Actively worked with several client personnel and client managers to coordinate and complete the execution of SAT/UAT activities
• Analyzed the production issues by investigating in real time production data and communicating the same to the development tracks
• Production Supports at the time of GO LIVE
• Performed sanity testing after the code deployments.
• Automation smoke test using Visual Studio Coded UI/MTM, Selenium and UFT
• Selenium IDE to record user interactions with the web browser and play them back to test for errors.
• Run tests by using Selenium Remote Control in different browsers.
• Participated in weekly status meetings, and conducted walkthroughs for team members, and documented the proceedings.

Environment: ASP .NET, JAVA, AJAX, Flex, Oracle 10g/11g, Toad, Golden Benthic, SQL Server 2005, XML, SOAP, SSRS, JCL, SSRS Report Manager, Batch jobs, Selenium, UFT, Visual Studio, Micro Soft Test Manager, and TFS

Confidential, Columbia, MD

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, system requirement specifications and responsible for documenting functional requirements and supplementary requirements in Quality Center/ Enterprise Architect.
• Worked with developers and business analysts to understand functional requirements to create comprehensive test cases.
• Developed Test Cases, Test Data, Traceability Matrix and Test Summary Reports.
• Performed all aspects of testing including smoke test, functional, system, and regression tests
• Defect tracking and Test case management by using JIRA and ALM.
• Developed SQL queries for Backend Testing.
• Managed multiple QA environments across multiple customer configurations and product versions.
• Developed automation scripts using QTP and selenium for smoke test.
• Developed load scripts using LoadRunner, NeoLoad and JMeter and involved in Load/Performance Testing
• Involved in build & deployments using Bamboo, VSS and TFP

Environment: TFS, VSS, Bamboo, JIRA, Quality Center, Oracle, QTP, Selenium, ASP.NET, C#, ADO.NET, SQL Server, IIS, XML, XSLT, AJAX, CSS, Web Services, SOAP, and Crystal Reports