PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• ASTQB certified tester with 6+ years of experience QA Analyst II, expert in software development life cycle (SDLC) , including design , development and implementation of test plans , test cases , test processes and good working skills taking a project from the initial requirement phase to the final release stage.
• Demonstrated expertise in managing day - to-day tasks by following SDLC Methodology ( Agile , Waterfall, Iterative ) on all aspects of the testing process.
• Exhibit strong collaborative skills in working with internal and external stakeholder throughout the planning , designing , developing , and implementing of quality product.
• Teamwork - Balances team and individual responsibilities, exhibits objectivity and openness to others, Gives and welcomes feedback, contribute to building a positive team spirit, puts success of team above own interests, supports everyone's efforts to succeed.
• Innovation - Displays original thinking and creativity, meets challenges with resourcefulness, generates suggestions for improving work, Develops innovative approaches and ideas.
• Quality - demonstrates accuracy, thoroughness and attention to detail at all times, looks for ways to improve and promote quality, applies feedback to improve performance, monitors own work and ensure quality.
• Has a strong working knowledge of the QA review and automation testing process, the ability to design test scenarios and test scripts, including understanding various testing techniques.
• Experienced in developing and maintaining Automation Framework by using QTP/UFT and VBScript .
• Garnered deep understanding of Database Management System like SQL server , Oracle , UNIDATA and queries to perform Backend testing for multi-tiered Web applications.
• Expertise in using Testing Tools including Application Lifecycle Management(ALM), Quality Center(QC), Team Foundation Server(TFS), Unified Functional Testing (UFT/QTP), Rally, JIRA .
• Strong skills in Testing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) testing using SoapUI , UFT.
• Exceptional understanding of System Requirement Changes (SCR) and the Impact of Release Management .
• Comfortable in a fast-paced and cutting-edge software development environment.
• Experienced in industry best practice such as Six Sigma concept to product development.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center/ALM, TFS, RALLY, HP QTP/UFT, JIRA, Toad, SoapUI, Selenium

Language Skills: VBScript, JavaScript, Python, C#, Visual Basic, SQL, PL/SQLOperating Systems and Virtual Machines: Windows, Unix/Linux, VMware

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, VBScript, JavaScript

Office Suite and Reporting Tools: MS Office, Crystal Reports, MS Excel, Outlook, SharePointDatabase: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MS Access, Unidata.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

QA Analyst II

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Sprint planning meeting and determine the s print scope and risk , establish acceptance criteria and estimate the level of complexity within each user story.
• Bridge communication between stakeholders and project team to prioritize system requirements.
• Design, develop test plan, test cases in CA agile-Rally and perform Integration, Functional, Non- Functional, Black-Box, Front-End, Back-End, Database, Regression, System, Smoke, Retest, Compatibility, API, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Design and develop automation test script using VBScript to automate regression test plan using UFT for Web and Windows application.
• Log and assign defects and develop best practices to resolve delinquencies and deficiencies and meet regulatory compliance.
• Create Detailed Test Plan (DTP), Regression Test Plan, Troubleshooting documents and training materials for internal and external use.
• Respond to production related issues with the developers or customers and resolve issues efficiently.
• Test multi-platform software product (Unidata/.NET) on both TUI and GUI environment.
• Collaborate with interdepartmental team in daily Scrum meeting to discuss challenges and solutions in the current sprint.
• Validate data integrity, correctness, security, and correct procedures through backend testing using SQL queries.
• Maintain a deep knowledge base of the business process of the customers and use that knowledge to effectively test a multi-platform software product efficiently.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously and Conduct User Acceptance Test (UAT).
• Participate in CCB to strategize about scope, impact about change request.

Environment: Agile-Scrum, .NET, C#. JAVA, VBScript, JavaScript, XML, HTML MS Office, Windows, Rally, SQL, UNIDATA, UNIX, TUI, SharePoint.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and reviewed requirements and functional design specifications with developers, project managers, and QA manager to ensure all requirements are met.
• Developed test plans that detailed testing scope, strategy, high-level test requirements, and required resources.
• Performed System Integration, Smoke, Sanity, Functional, Non-Functional, Positive, Negative, Regression, UAT and Bug verification.
• Designed, configured, analyzed, and maintained automation testing utilities, programs, scripts, and frameworks for both Web and Windows application.
• Developed automation test scripts using VBScript for the entire regression test plan and run in UFT periodically.
• Managed and coordinated various quality related programs and projects with internal and external partners stakeholders.
• Created and reported to the first-line-management and other stakeholders regarding the progress of test execution report for all cycles to support testing.
• Communicated status, root-cause analysis, and follow-up on corrective actions to management.
• Wrote SQL queries for checking the data transactions and data integrity.
• Skilled in creating Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Test Coverage Matrix, and Defect Density Matrix
• Systemized daily test status and defect summary reporting by using a formal bug tracking system.

Environment: .NET, C/C++, AJAX, Oracle, HTML, SQL, XML, MS Office, Windows, HP ALM, UFT, Java, J2EE, PHP, Java Script, VBScript, Agile.

QA Engineer

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirement Documents (BRD) for completeness, specific, testable, unambiguous, and feasible and created requirement analysis report.
• Participated in creating Used Case Diagram, Activity Diagram, Class Diagram, Sequence Diagram, and State Machine Diagram.
• Designed, developed and implemented test plan, test scenarios, test cases, test data to ensure applications met business requirements and system goals.
• Executed test cases and scripts using HP Quality Center to validate functionality according to the requirement specifications and logged and assigned defects and kept track of the defect status.
• Prioritized incoming issues through a Decision Table for complex system interfaces.
• Performed data validation and back end testing by SQL quarries.
• Designed and develop QTP test scripts for regression and sanity test for the entire application.
• Executed test scripts from a custom QTP framework; updated environment variables, configuration files, and data files.
• Performed backend testing of application using SQL, writing queries to confirm correctness of data entered via UI, and data manipulation.

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Environment: MS Office, Java, .NET, C#, 2EE, SQL Server, VB Script, Oracle, HP Quality Center, QTP, Windows, UNIX, Agile

QA Tester

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Responsibilities:

• Designed and created test cases, test data and executed tests and log defects to ensured system functionality was thoroughly tested and met business objectives
• Designed SQL query scripts to extract various types of data from SQL Server database.
• Reported, tracked, and prioritized defects using tracking tool JIRA
• Worked collaboratively with QA, development and business groups to complete comprehensive testing on 2 major new releases.
• Identified software problems, wrote easy-to-follow Bug Reports, logged them into bug tracking tool JIRA monitored their progress and verified their fix

Environment: Oracle, Windows, UNIX, JIRA, Java, C++, C#, JavaScript, MS Office, MS Excel