PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Lead Quality Assurance / Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead team of 5 members and educate and train them as it needed about the automation frame works and others.
• Proficient in analyzing the BRS (Business Requirement spec), SRS (System requirement spec) and FRS (Functional requirement spec) for preparing and documenting test plans/test rules, test cases and executing test cases for both manual and automation testing
• Conduct Test Strategy Walk - through's with Business, Development and Quality Assurance team to ensure the coverage of every project on Release basis.
• Converted manual test scripts to automated test scripts in Quick Test Professional using Hybrid Framework and HP UFT enhanced the scripts by adding user-defined functions.
• Maintain/revise Functional and Regression Test Scripts; develop/maintain HP UFT(QTP) scripts for the application; conduct Web Service (SOA & API) testing with automated tool SoapUI
• Having hands on experience in all aspects of administering and supporting HP ALM and a large end-users.
• Created customized LoadRunner VuGen scripts at API level with manual correlation, user defined functions, development libraries (classes and methods), and error handling.
• Identified, analyzed, and documented defects utilizing HP Application Life Cycle Management tool as defect tracking system.
• Analysed Load pattern and created test scenarios to emulate the real life stress conditions using Controller.
• Wrote SQL queries to test data, referential Integrity and performed Database testing for the Application.
• Established and Managed traceability, Requirements are linked to test cases, ensuring proper test coverage.
• Reviewed important reports prepared on weekly & monthly basis and posted on iShare Site & CollabNet
• Used SharePoint for navigating, check in, check out and uploaded all documents to manage the workflow
• Involve in daily scrum meetings and weekly defects meetings to track the progress of the testing phase.
• Prepare and review Test Summary Report to reflect all the requirements, testing and development activities for every web services developed during each Sprint.

Environment: and Tools: Agile, Windows, .NET, AIX, MS Office, HP QTP, UFT, LoadRunner, ALM, SoapUI, Oracle, Perfmon, Toad, SQL, PL/SQL, JIRA, VB scripts, C, Java, JavaScript, XML and Shell Scripting.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Sr. Automation Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developing Test procedures - Creating test procedures for current set of backlog items: system, functional, regression, hardening; defining tests for backlog items; estimating tasks needed for creating manual tests; and assessing candidates to automate for regression tests.
• Participate and contribute to design reviews, software and systems requirement reviews to develop thorough test designs and test cases for complete test coverage.
• Developing and executing software test plans, test cases, and test scripts for Integration, Migration, Regression and hardening in order to identify system and software problems and their causes, recording defect backlog items, reporting the results of testing and resolving testing defects.
• Implement MVC Pattern based Keyword Driven automation testing using Rational Functional Tester tool.
• Created and executed automation scripts in RFT and integrated the results in Quality Manager.
• Implemented data driven testing using parameterization of different sets of test data using Data Pool and MS Excel.
• Prepared unit test cases to meet the business requirements and performed unit testing of mappings in ETL.
• Found workaround in case of system failures during testing and effectively performed bug tracking using Rational ClearQuest and RQM
• Experienced in writing SQL queries for database validation and using UNIX shell scripts for testing applications in UNIX environment.
• Created and delivered different types of documents such as test cases, test scenarios, test plan, TSR, LOE and Test Analysis Report etc, incorporated with QA review, made a 100 % compliance with client and finally, uploaded them in the SharePoint.
• Worked with HP Quality Center and ALM to trace the requirements, write the Test Cases in the test plan, execute the test sets in the test lab and track the Defects logged in the defects module.
• Used SharePoint for navigating, check in, check out and uploaded all documents to manage the workflow
• Strong communicator and skillful in working closely with customers to identify and resolve problems.

Environment: Agile, Oracle, Java, J2EE, VMware, Tomcat Server, Siebel, Jenkins, MorphoTrust System, PCQS

Tools: IBM RFT, ClearCase, ClearQuest, ReqPro, RQM, SoapUI, SQL Developer, Informatica, SnagIT, SharePoint.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Lead Quality Assurance (QA)

Responsibilities:

• As the QA Lead, I prepared the Test Release Strategy Plan containing the scope of testing, user stories and acceptance criteria and I participated in functional walk through with business analyst to understand the business requirement of the application.
• Developing and executing software test plans, test cases, and test scripts for Integration, Migration, Regression and hardening in order to identify system and software problems and their causes, recording defect backlog items, reporting the results of testing and resolving testing defects.
• Generated an effective and efficient automation frame work on Rational Functional Tester with appropriate modular driven testing, function driven testing, hybrid testing, data driven testing and keyword driven testing.
• Performed Functionality testing and Regression testing using IBM Rational Functional Tester.
• Analyzed result and created report with the help of Test Manager, CQ and Rational Log Viewer.
• Developed SQL Queries to retrieve or create test data from different Oracle Test databases.
• Experience on Salesforce CRM applications which includes validating ETL loads, UI Testing,
• Collected all test execution results from other team members and prepared the reports as required.
• Mentored and coached a team of five automation engineer’s.
• Manage the testing effort and other test teams to plan, construct and execute release tests for the application.
• Excellent Team player to work in conjunction with other testers, developers and other team members in validation and testing complex scenarios and projects and in the maintenance of Quality Standards in Projects.

Environment: Windows XP, IBM DB2 v8, Oracle, UNIX, WSDL, VISIO, SharePoint and Power Builder.

Tools: IBM Rational Functional Tester, RST, ClearCase, ClearQuest, ReqPro, Erwin, JIRA and Toad

Confidential, Vienna, VA

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created and implemented the detailed test plan, test scenarios and test cases from the business requirements, use cases documents and meetings for day-in-the-life (DITL) level testing.
• Developed and executed Manual test cases of various modules of the application such as HRAccess, Candidate Dashboard, HC Insight and TSA Jobs link for functional/ Non Functional testing such as smoke testing, integration testing, regression, system, UAT testing, Load, Stress and Performance testing.
• Maintained and enhanced existing Hybrid-Driven Automated Frameworks using HP UFT tool for Functional, Regression and Hardening testing
• Identified the performance requirements and created the load. Stress and Performance test environments using HP Load Runner.
• Created scenarios and scripts and run those scripts from Load Generator machines.
• Used correlation and Parameterization to enhance the scripts using VuGen.
• Inserted rendezvous points in Vuser scripts and executed them in various manual and goal oriented scenarios to test the performance of the application at concurrent load.
• Configured and monitored various graphs during scenario execution as well as after scenario execution.
• Extensively used HP Quality Center to write test Cases, maintain and reporting.
• Used SiteScope and Perfmon to monitor the databases, application and web servers (at OS & Application level) for Performance bottlenecks while conducting Load, Stress, volume, and Memory tests.
• Created and delivered different types of documents such as test cases, test scenarios, test plan, TSR, LOE and Test Analysis Report etc, incorporated with QA review, made a 100 % compliance with client and uploaded them in the SharePoint.

Environment: CMMI 3, Windows XP, VSS, Java, J2EE, HTML, XML, Power Builder, SQL Server, DB2 and Toad

Tools: HP QTP, Load Runner, SiteScope, PVC’s Tracker, Quality Center, Crystal Report and SharePoint.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created a new patient account in legacy system for both inpatient & outpatient.
• Created an encounter for both patients in both systems: Legacy or Non-Legacy.
• Well experts to diagnosis the patients, order procedure, laboratory, radiology and medicine as well as able to resulting/dispensing in both systems.
• Analyzed the Use Cases /Business Requirements to develop test scenarios, test cases and participated in preparing Master Test Plan.
• Involved in writing shell scripts on UNIX for Informatica Power Center, ETL tool to run the Sessions.
• Extensively used ETL to load data from Flat files which involved both fixed width as well as Delimited files and also from the relational database.
• The data from the staging area was transformed and loaded to the target on Oracle using Informatica
• Responsible for monitoring all the sessions that are scheduled, running completed and failed.
• Developed and executed the test cases to perform Functional, Integration, Regression and GUI testing for each & individual functionality of the application using HP Quick Test Pro.
• Managed closure of open issues and trackers listed on the Regression summery report and ensured testing is completed for requirement and documented using PVC’s Tracker.
• Used PVCs Tracker and VSS to store all testing results, metrics, implemented test documents, defect tracking & reporting and save the test results.
• Reported weekly status defect, test script actual, test script projection and execution metrics for management using Excel’s Spreadsheet and PVC’s Tracker.

Environment: Windows XP, Informatica, VSS, Java, J2EE, HTML, XML, JavaScript, HP-Unix and Oracle

Tools: MS SharePoint, Ikea, Putty, Mercury Quick Test Pro, Test Director, PVC’s Tracker and Toad.