SUMMARY:

• Over 8+ years of diverse experience as Quality Analyst & Tester and contributing to Software Development Lifecycle in Testing, Data Validation, Defect Management, AGILE Solution Delivery and accountable for SQA strategy.
• Possess strong skills in performing GUI & Functionality Testing, Performance testing, User Acceptance Testing, Systems Integration Testing, Functional/Regression Testing, Data Migration, Interface, Data Integrity, End - to-End testing of Web and Client/Server based applications
• Developed Test plans, Test Scenarios and Test Scripts for Manual as well as Automated testing for various business applications to ensure proper business compliance.
• Developed Test Scripts for manual testing and creating defect reports using HP ALM Quality Center.
• Extensive experience in creating and understanding user stories (AGILE) and participated actively in backlog grooming sessions.
• Responsible for supporting enterprise software solutions based on Microsoft stack, Open stack, iOS, SQL Server, Oracle databases, system installs and configuration and supporting Production environments.
• Excellent skills in overall Defect Management/Problem Solving, which includes reporting and tracking defects using HP Quality Center (ALM).
• Proficient in conducting manual and automated testing with hands on experience using testing tools such as Quality Center, Application Lifecycle Management - ALM, QTP and Selenium.
• Experienced in all phases of the Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) including requirements gathering, design, development, testing and deployment and contributed to both AGILE and Waterfall methodologies in product development phase.
• Experienced in conducting manual and automated testing with hands on experience using testing tools such as Quality Center, Application Lifecycle Management - ALM and Quick Test Pro.
• Expert in the preparation of Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Test Execution reports.
• Experience in documenting Test methodology, Test strategy document, plan, scenarios and Test cases.
• Experience in testing web applications from Service Oriented Architecture using SOAP UI and XML data.
• Experience in Black Box testing, White Box testing Smoke testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, End-to-End testing, User Acceptance testing (UAT) and planning release work items with Sanity checks.
• Used TFS (Team Foundation Server), QC (ALM), JIRA, Rational for defect logging and tracking.
• Proficient in writing SQL queries to perform data validation and data integrity testing using TOAD.
• Assisted with the development and maintenance of the quality assurance methodologies.
• Performed defect tracking and reporting, used Quality Center (ALM 12) for Test and Defect Management
• Efficient in delivering tasks, team player with good communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional (QTP) or UFT 12.5, Selenium, SOAP UI Pro

SDLC: Prototype Model, Agile, Waterfall practices

Defect Tracking Tools: Rational Clear Quest, Quality Center, Bugzilla, JIRA

Languages: SQL, VB Script, Java, C#, HTML, XML, JS, Python, CURL Scripting

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows, Mainframe

RDBMS: SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Teradata, Sybase

Miscellaneous: Office 365, Citrix, Tomcat, XML, JSON, XHTML, JAXB, CSS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MD

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Business Requirements workshops with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and Business. Reviewed Business requirements, IT Design documents, issue logs, and prepared the Test Plans and test cases for all assigned project releases.
• Involved in various meetings with Business analysts and developers, Assessed & analyzed user stories, Business Requirements (BRD), Functional Requirements (FRD) and participated in Sprint planning, Review Sessions & Scrum Meetings.
• Reviewed design documents & business requirements to learn the function and scope of the application.
• Involved in Development of the Test Cases and Test Scripts using Hybrid Framework.
• Exported test cases into UFT and maintained the same in the Test Plan module.
• Worked with developers to resolve Issues and Production Incidents using UFT.
• Responsible for test management using UFT.
• Validate EDI Claim Process according to HIPPA compliance.
• Test HIPPA regulations in Facets HIPPA privacy module.
• ICD10 Field Expansion: Migration of HealthCare ICD9 to ICD10 diagnosis codes which is the key aspect in healthcare domain.
• Performed integration and functional testing for different applications. Developed automated test cases for all manual test cases provided.
• Implemented automation using Selenium Web Driver, Java, TestNG and Maven.
• Performed Functional/Regression testing during the various phases of the application and analyzed the results using UFT.
• Manage DevOps and Infrastructure Teams supporting tools and infrastructure for 100+ developers on 3-5 concurrent releases.
• Manage implementation of the company’s first repeatable, traceable, documented, and packaged product ensuring quality upon delivery.
• Implement the first release tracking and reporting providing full visibility into software releases.
• Manage re-architecture of Jenkins and integration with Confluence for release management and documentation assets. Re architect a Maven based system reducing build times.
• Manage implementation and installation of server class hardware with migration companies’ assets from desktops around the office.
• Manage hardware request and support from developers and infrastructure.
• Manage all CM tools (JIRA, Confluence, Artifactory, SVN, Maven, Jenkins, ANT, Git, GitHub, and Visual Studio) and their usage / process ensuring traceability, repeatability, quality, and support.
• HCR (Health Care Reforms): Very new transaction which is has high volume of flow in the healthcare platform. Ensure that all the test cases are updated in the Quality Center along with Master test plan.
• Developed Test Scripts, Test Cases and Test Data as per business requirements and automated them using Selenium.
• Run Defect Triaging and review the Test Plan, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases with Project team.
• Involved in creating, updating and executing of test cases according to requirements.
• Developed and maintained automated regression test cases in Selenium Web Driver using Java programming language, MAVEN and TestNG.
• Configured Maven for Java automation projects and developed Maven project object model (POM)
• Involved in Integration testing and Backend Testing the SQL queries are written for testing the retrieval of the data from the database and tested the Procedures and Functions.
• Performed by writing SQL statements to review the returned data to ensure that the correct data was retrieved and processed.
• Providing Application KT on the project as part of collaboration between several Applications. Perform root cause analysis for critical, major and medium severity defects.

Environment: Java/J2EE, Jira, SQL Server 2008, Agile, Confluence, UFT, HP ALM, UNIX, Quality Center, SQL Server 2005, Oracle DB, MS Applications, XML,HTML

Confidential, MD

Software Tester/QA Automation

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Business and Requirement Specifications. Designing Test Lab and formulation of Test Strategy, Test Plans Performed functional testing to identify various critical points in the application and automated it by using Selenium WebDriver and Python.
• Involved in implementation of Test Automation Framework build using Selenium WebDriver, protractor to handle Angular JS, TestNG and Maven technologies under Java platform utilizing industry leading harness design patterns and approaches.
• Excellent knowledge of generating reports with integration and reporting services as SSIS, SSRS
• Was involved in the POC (Proof of concept) elicitation, Demo and capability mapping with two vendors- Duck Creek and Guidewire
• Developed test code in Java language using Eclipse, IDE and TestNG framework.
• Developed Test Frameworks in Selenium for UI Regression Test Automation and when necessary, and potentially execute Unit Test Automation (Java /TestNG).
• Configured Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven tool and created Selenium automation scripts in java,
• Python using Junit prior to agile release.
• Created SSIS package to check XML file validation and data validation to match the requirements.
• Experience in Performance, Load and stress testing with the complete cycle of Load test planning starting from creating the Load Dictionary and Test plan then to Live/Simulated Data and Create scripts and Analyze and publish the test results with Suggestions.
• Performed white box testing using TestNG for class, method, & WebServices testing.
• Involved in Maven configuration for running servers and scripts after the build.
• Involved in preparing a report of all automation difficulties and test results for further application using Maven.
• Engaged my scientific writing skills, which contributed to the manuscript.
• Evaluate peer-reviewed manuscripts in the bio-medical sciences for sound research design and reproducibility.
• Created & executed manual test scripts for Functional and Regression testing of migrated Personal and Commercial Insurance policies for policy rating in Duck Creek
• Executing the test plans on web and mobile (Apple & Android) as per requirements.
• Created SSIS packages to transfer XML file data into SQL server database
• The entire Ruby scripting done using Cucumber Framework Wrote and executed SQL queries to verify the data updates to various tables and ensure data integrity.
• Used Jenkins as continuous integration server to run automated test suites.
• Integrated Automation scripts (Selenium WebDriver API) in Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins) for nightly batch run of the Script. Created Project plan on Jenkins, configured scheduled using Cron job.
• Used web-debugging tools like XPath, Firebug and Firepath to locate elements.
• Tested compatibility of application for dynamic and static content under various cross browsers using HTML ids and XPATH in Selenium.
• Performed Regression testing for new builds and every modification in the application using Selenium.
• Analyzed the capability of Duck Creek to leverage the out of box capability of their products in multiple Geography
• Used Selenium WebDriver to run test cases in multiple browsers and Platforms
• Performed data driven testing by using JDBC as a data source in SOAP UI and configured SQL queries to fetch data from the Oracle database.
• Tested the various Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) spanning across various web services using SOAP and WSDL across various applications using SOAP UI.
• Used SSIS and extract transform loading (ETL) tool of SQL Server to populate data from various data sources, creating packages for different data loading operations for application.
• Performed Smoke Testing to make sure all the Test Channels and Test Environment is working as desired.
• Coordination with offshore team for End to end verification of Duck Creek User Interface of personal lines Policy and Billing for Auto, Cycle and Umbrella.
• Prepared the data to cover various scenarios and wrote SQL scripts to verify the database updates, inserts and deletion of the records.
• Maintained Metrics and participated in the Weekly Status Updates showing the progress of the testing effort and open issues to be resolved.
• Prepared user documentation with screenshots for UAT (User Acceptance testing).

Environment: HP ALM 11.0, Guidewire Suite, Confluence, SSIS/ SSRS, DB2, Agile, MS Office, Rally, IE 11, Mozilla, Jira, SDLC, Chrome, Windows NT/7.

Confidential, VA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing Test Cases, Test Plan for application.
• Involved in preparing detailed and reviewed Test cases to cover all the requirements.
• Extensively worked with developer in reviewing the requirements.
• Extensively Involved in Peer reviewing the Team members test scripts also Triage meeting.
• Extensively involved in functional testing and verify the application according to the user perspective.
• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and Functional Specification.
• Interfaced with subject matter experts and developers to resolve the problems while executing the test scripts and Test cases.
• Experienced to Wrote Regression and Functional Test Cases and migrated all in HP ALM.
• Experienced on HP ALM to report defects and test results. Created script to pull the metrics from HP ALM like elapsed time for defect cycle.
• Reported the bugs, Email notifications to the developers using the HP ALM and Monitored
• HP ALM.
• Analyzed the Discrepancies, severity, tracking system and reporting through HP ALM.
• Experienced at version control and defect management at HP ALM.
• Used SQL to query the DB to verify application front end input value.
• Experienced to HP ALM as the test repository and used it for executing the test cases and scripts and logging & generating various reports and graphs for further analysis. Kept recorded defects in HP ALM.
• Used SQL queries to access data from different database tables.
• Automated scripts were developed using Unified Functional Testing (UFT) to perform functional and regression testing.
• Responsible for creating and enhancing Test Scripts by Creating Checkpoints, Synchronization points and Output values using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Developed Unified Functional Testing (UFT) automation scripts using library functions, Data driven tests and Regression tests.
• Involved in both Manual Testing and Automated testing using the automated tool Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Experienced to Created user defined and custom functions using VB scripting.
• Worked closely with developers in reproducing bugs reported.
• Analyzed Requirement documents to develop and Execute Test scripts and documented Test Cases corresponding to business rules.
• Extensively involved in reviewing the scripts with the business people.
• Responsible for reporting daily status and progress of testing to the project team.

Environment: Windows,VB.NET, ASP.NET, SOAP UI, SQL server, Mozilla, J2EE, Jenkins, SVN, Agile, Web, HP ALM 11.5, HTML, Oracle On Demand, MDM, Web Services API, Siebel, HP UFT 11.5 / QTP 11.0, .NET, People Soft.

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed and executed test plans and test cases based on business requirements and functional specifications.
• Involved in using Quality Center for managing the defect. Performed manual Back-End testing by writing SQL Queries for validating user information in the tables.
• Created Test Cases in Mercury Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center as defect tracking and reporting tool.
• Worked on backend testing using SQL queries and web services testing.
• Extensively used SQL/PL-SQL statements to verify the data in the database.
• Strong Experience Atlassian tool administration knowledge on JIRA and Confluence.
• Strong Experience JIRA Administrator with experience customizing JIRA projects with various schemas, complex workflows, screen schemes, permission schemes, and notification schemes required and users while working in a JIRA environment.
• Strong Ability to construct custom dashboards using various filter types in JIRA.
• Experience Work with JIRA filters, reporting, dashboards, workflows, fields, and JIRA administration.
• Strong Ability to construct Confluence pages and integrate JIRA projects with Confluence pages.
• Strong Experience in performing Atlassian installations, migrations, and plugin installation.
• Experience Engage with end-users to capture and document functional and operational requirements.
• Performed Functionality Testing and Integration testing using QTP (Quick Test Pro).
• Determined test approaches for various testing strategies like Functional, System, Regression, Usability testing, Alpha, Beta testing and executed using QTP (Quick Test Pro).
• Worked extensively as Test Lead with the QA (Quality Assurance) team for designing and evaluating Test Plan, Test System, Test Data and Test Cases for the application
• Performed manual and automated testing and maintain documentation on different types of Testing like Black Box, Regression, Integration, System and Acceptance testing.
• Responsible for QA test suite development, execution and analysis.
• Performed System and Integration testing by executing test cases.
• Organized test procedures and executing tests in Web and Client/Server Environments.
• Created test scripts for various testing stages like Functional Testing and Regression Testing.
• Analyzed system specification and developed Test plans for System and Integration Testing
• Developed test scripts according to the program specification given.
• Planning and executing QA tasks for the projects managed using Agile/Scrum.
• Reported defects found during test cycles and track the defects and retest fixed modules.
• Involved in Peer Reviews.