SUMMARY:

• Over 9+ Years of Experience in Software Quality Assurance from Requirement Analysis to User Acceptance Testing.
• Strong experience in Manual, Automated (QTP) and Security Testing (ASE).
• Expertise in Automated Testing Tools such as Quick Test Professional (QTP), Quality Center (QC) and App Scan Enterprise (ASE).
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and role of a QA Tester.
• Excellent understanding of Quality Assurance and testing methodologies, testing techniques, and maintenance of test cases.
• Developed and executed Test Plans, Test cases and Test scripts based on the business and functional requirements.
• Performed Functional testing, System testing, Regression testing, Smoke testing and UAT.
• Good understanding of Software testing methodologies like Agile and Waterfall.
• Attended daily Scrum meetings for a quick status update in Agile Methodology.
• Ran Automation Regression testing on weekly basis and Sprint basis.
• Performed Security testing for web based application using ASE (App Scan Enterprise).
• Test Case preparation from Functional Specification and Software Requirement Specification.
• Very good knowledge of the agile development and project management process.
• Involved in creating functional specs for Account Certification 6.1 with Product Team.
• Strong Knowledge of Java based Web Applications, understanding of tiered web application architecture.
• Good experience on client server and web based testing.
• Strong communication skills and excellent experience in working with small and big teams.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Quality Improvement Organizations team in DECC project.
• Worked on User Preference, User Role Administrator, Reports Repository, Timely ness reports, Task C.2 and Search Deliverable modules.
• Developed almost 200 automated test scripts for Reports Repository module.
• Ran Automation regression suite in Release basis.
• Maintained test cases, Executed test cases and logged defects in HP ALM QC.
• Created test parameters, Test configurations to the extent using HP ALM QC to reduce manual testing.
• Linked requirements to each test case and failed test cases.
• Involved in maintenance weekend testing to make sure that environment is working fine with latest upgrades.
• Helped other people in creating and maintaining automation test cases.
• Used QIMS and QARM credentials to login in to the application.
• Did knowledge transfer session on creating new users using QIMS.
• Did KT sessions and power point session on all modules.
• Very familiar using Quality Center test parameters, Configurations, Requirements linking, creating defects and change the peer reviewed test cases status to Ready for execution.
• Performed peer reviews before the test execution.

Confidential

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Daily scrum meetings and peer review meetings.
• Created use cases based up on the requirements.
• Created high level test scenarios and created test cases in Sprint 1 and Sprint 2 for FF - SHOP project.
• Responsible for validating claim transactions, both sent/received
• Involved in meetings with hcentive team and Accenture team.
• Performed the tasks of coordinating with claims team in developing test plans and reviewing functional specifications
• Verified all the pages, Emails, User Information in Work Flow Manager which is used for Call Center purpose.
• Validated and Generated the Payment & Payee Log files Reports using Micro strategy and verified the reports in Reporting Database.
• Involved in Claims Processing for Health and Dental using Diamond, bronze and gold sponsor ships.

Confidential, Owings Mills, MD

Sr. QA Automation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Introduced Quality Center tool to the team and exported all the test cases from excel to QC.
• Performed demos on QTP Introduction and explained Checkpoints, Parameterization, Creating scripts using VB script.
• Performed demos on How to use Quality Center and the use of Test Lab folder, Test Plan folder and how to assign defects to the developer.
• Developed automated test scripts for both Web application (Frontier Account Certification) and Client server application (Admin Workstation).
• Participated in Daily Scrum meetings, Sprint Planning meetings, Task Breakdown meetings and Retrospective meetings.
• Involved in developing Hybrid Frame Work in QTP.
• Took the ownership of doing Security Testing for the Web applications using App Scan Enterprise tool for all versions.
• Created test plan for the security Testing and did Knowledge Transfer sessions to the offshore team.
• Involved in Hybrid Frame works and Weekly Automation Regression testing using QTP.
• Only person in the team to take care of creating and maintaining Automation test scripts and security test scripts for the Frontier Account Certification application.
• Performed Backend Testing by using SQL statements for the purpose of database integrity and for data validation of parameters.
• Performed Data Validation of the data flow from the front-end to the back-end.
• Involved in Database Testing by passing SQL Queries and retrieved information from Database.
• Executed Mainframe jobs to generate Data Quality reports.
• Validated Data Quality reports.
• Created Test Scripts for Cash, Securities and Frontier applications.
• Involved in Manual Testing, Automation testing and Security Testing.
• Created functions for all the objects and maintained Object repository for the Frontier application (WEB) and Admin WorkStation application (Client-Server).
• Attended Quality weekends for the release Frontier Account certification 6.0 product and ran regression test scripts over the weekend.
• Performed Automation Regression test plans and Security test plans for the Frontier Application (Cash/Securities/Frontier Account Certification 6.0 and Account Certification 6.1).
• Performed Security testing on Sprint basis using App Scan Enterprise (IBM Tool)
• Maintained separate environments for Automation, Manual and Security Testing,
• Used Accept 360 and Microsoft Team Foundation server-Visual Studio as Task board to track our work status.
• Ran Automated Test scripts at the end of the sprint to make sure ever thing works fine.
• Participated in Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Functional testing and Security Testing.
• Ran Automation Regression on weekly basis and sent the reports to the manager and Product management team.
• At the end of the sprint, Performed demos on the latest functionality that I worked on.

Environment: Quick Test Professional (QTP), Quality Center (QC), Dot net, Java, Share Point, Visual Studio- Team Foundation Server (TFS), Windows, Unix, Oracle 9i/10g, DOORS and SharePoint, Mainframes

Confidential, Towson, MD

QA Automation Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Started the Automation project from scratch and successfully completed one project and working on another project.
• Created Test cases and Automated Test Scripts for Secure Website (SWS).
• Created regression testing Test Cases for the Public Website (PWS) and Secure Website (SWS).
• Involved in System Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Validation testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Assigned the tasks of analyzing and evaluating QA claims testing requirements to determine testing feasibility
• Prepared Claim, Member, Provider Test data for test cases.
• Responsible for preparation of weekly status report.
• Performed all other QA claims testing job responsibilities as required
• Used Test Track Pro defect tracking tool to enter defects during the testing phase.
• Mainly worked on automation of test scripts and regression scenarios.
• Created a high level test plan template for the Project.
• Worked on “Robo” help test cases and automated test scripts.
• Developed test cases and test scripts in Mercury tools like Quality center and Quick Test Pro.
• In Quick Test Pro, Used General Programming Language and VB scripting to create the test scripts.
• Very comfortable in using Quality center, Win runner and Quick test Pro.
• Participated in various meetings to improve the testing management tools using QTP and working with Waterfall Software methodology.

Environment: Quick Test Professional (QTP), Quality Center (QC), Dot net, Java, Test Track Pro, Share Point.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with business analysts and developers to solicit test requirements that will act as the foundation and drive our Quality Assurance practice.
• Involved in implementation of the test plan and developed test cases and test scripts in Mercury Test management tool Quality Center.
• Performed Regression Testing, GUI Testing & Functionality Testing.
• Recreating BUG and Analyzing Impacted Areas.
• Involved in testing Web services and XML with tool called ‘SOAP UI’. I have been using this tool to locate WSDL file on internet, create Test cases, run them, do load testing, security testing.
• Created appropriate test plan, test cases, test scenarios and ran them up to the Users Satisfaction in the development cycle.
• Used Jira as bug-tracking tool to centralize the bugs and also to follow up the defect status.
• Prepared various bug reports and followed with the developer team to fix it before passing the test case.
• Involved in Manual Testing using different Browsers and different Operating systems.
• Involved UAT Testing, Positive Testing, Negative Testing.
• Involved in conducting walkthroughs of critical test cases, and in corporate comments
• Participated in meetings to distinguish between bugs and enhancements
• Implemented Parameterization in QTP.
• Used QTP for Functionality Testing, Regression Testing, Verification and Validation Testing.
• Involved in Agile software methodology, Attended daily scrum Meetings.
• The whole team meets every day for a quick status update.
• Used JIRA as a defect tracking tool, JIRA is used for tracking, creating, Triaging and resolving bugs.

Environment: : MS Office, XML, HTML, UNIX, Quick Test Professional (QTP), Quality Center, JIRA, ASP.NET, C#, SQL, Windows XP.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Design and development of test plans based on high-level and detailed designs.
• Worked on various tasks, which involved writing Test Cases, Test plans, testing functionality from the functional specification and also verifying the test cases provided by the developers.
• Generated manual test cases and Scripts to test the functionality of the application using various checkpoints and data driven tests.
• Used QTP for preparing Regression bed of Regression Testing.
• Identified Re-usable/Repeatable manual test cases for creating Regression Test Suite.
• Worked with various Add-ins as required for automating specific applications.
• Performed Smoke Testing, Security Testing, GUI Testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Used Parameterization and Output values to perform data driven tests.
• Created basic SQL queries to test the backend functionality of the application.
• Participated in Manual Testing to test the stability of the application using QC.
• Tracked defects and reported bugs to developers to resolve issues using Visual Studio.
• Discussed issues on various bugs and attached screens shots which help developers to resolve the issue where it is exactly.
• Conducted User Acceptance Test (UAT) with users and Customers and wrote Issues log.
• Identified bugs and helped developer resolved those bugs by reproducing unexpected events that occur during test execution.
• Provided feedback to the developers and the QA team on top priority issues.
• Participating in project meetings, QA status meetings and release meetings.
• Responsible in developing Test Cases with Quality Center as a Test Management Tool.

Environment: : MS Office, XML, HTML, UNIX, Quick Test Professional, Quality Center, Visual Studio and Load Runner.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with both the Business and Development teams to understand the requirements and design of the application.
• Involved in the creation of test cases, executing tests and tracking defects.
• Performed Smoke, Functionality, Integration, Regression testing.
• Used Quality Center effectively for Defect Logging and Defect Tracking.
• Performed back end testing using multiple SQL queries.
• Worked closely with developers in resolving the issues and bug fixing.
• Participated in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Attended daily defect status meetings and weekly team status meetings for reporting testing and shared ideas for improved testing efforts plans.

Environment: Quick Test Professional (QTP), Quality Center, SQL, Oracle