SUMMARY:

• Sr. Software Test Engineer/ QA Test Analyst with diversified skills and experiences in Software Quality Assurance (QA), Software Testing, Independent Verification, Software Test Life Cycle, QA Standards, and QA Test methodologies. Experience in various business domains including Insurance, Cyber Security, Healthcare and government solution industries. Solid skills in analyzing Business Requirements/User Story, and creation of all project artifacts including System Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases, Bug documentation, Traceability Matrix, and Test Summary report.
• Strong knowledge in all aspect of Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) including planning, analysis, design, development, testing, deployment and release.
• Experience in Agile (SCRUM), Waterfall and V development methodologies
• Expertise in functional testing, regression testing, system testing, user acceptance test and software quality assurance best practices and methodologies
• Expertise in conducting peer reviews, technical reviews and procedure walkthrough.
• Experience in bug tracking and bug reporting using JIRA and HP Quality Center.
• Experience in automated testing using industry standard tools HP ALM (Application Life Cycle Management), Selenium suite, Webservices, Rest web Services using SoapUI.
• Experience in writing SQL Queries, extract data from SQL Server, and Oracle.
• Experience in 508 Compliance Testing using JAWS and WAVE
• Solid skills in Cyber Security, networks, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and data security.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to communicate to both technical and non - technical audiences.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automation Testing Tools: SoapUI, Selenium suite, Testing Framework, JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber.

Requirements and Defect Tracking: JIRA, ALM

Testing on Continuous Integration/Delivery build Environment: JENKINS, GITHUB, Maven

Applications and Databases: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Oracle, MS SQL Server

508 Compliance Testing Tools: JAWS and WAVE

Programming Languages: JAVA, SQL, XML, HTMLNetwork OSI Model, TCP/IP Suite, and Defense-in-Depth Network Security Models

Security: Risk Management, Incident Response, Penetration Testing, Virus Protection

Platforms/Programs: Windows, UNIX/ LINUX, Mac

Firewalls Technologies: Packet Filtering, Stateful, Application and Circuit Proxies, and DMZ

IDS and Protocol Analysis: Snort IDS/IPS, Nessus, Nmap, Wireshark, Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Sr. Software Test Engineer

• Work with the Test Manager to set expectations and direction from a strategic and planning perspective
• Interact with product owner, team lead, developer business analyst, and end-users for gathering requirements/User Story
• Create Test Plans and Test Cases for all scenario types including positive, negative testing, and boundary
• Overseeing execution of all software testing activities, tools and techniques,
• Assisting in designing and developing automation frameworks for our test infrastructure and continuous delivery
• Follow up with the developer, business owner and project manager to resolve testing process questions/issues
• Responsible for creating Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Test Execution
• Use HP ALM for systematic management of the test cases, test steps and defect/bug tracking
• Assist in writing user stories, analyze user stories documents, develop test cases and identify acceptance criteria for user stories
• Assist with Scrum team sprint planning estimation effort
• Assist in maintaining/updating Scrum backlogs using JIRA
• Perform sprint demo to clients
• Confirm product meets User Story and design intent as part of Scrum Sprint exit criteria
• Developed test cases from requirements, use-cases, design documents and other projects.
• Perform application level, access and data level security testing
• Interacted with developers to report and track bugs using JIRA
• Create the Regression Test cases and automated them for regression testing using Selenium
• Work closely with IT infrastructure team and network security team to test/verify network policy against cyber security threat.
• Use SoapUI for Web services testing and security testing.
• Responsible for Backend testing by writing and executing SQL statements.
• Created Automation scripts using Selenium IDE, and Selenium Web driver
• Reported Test Summary Report to the clients and provided recommendation for performance improvements as needed.

Environment: Selenium, JAWS, WAVE, HP ALM, QTP, JAVA, UNIX, JIRA, SQL (Oracle), Jenkins, TestNG, TOAD, SoapUI.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Sr. QA Test Analyst

• Reproduced client reported bugs and identify root cause of the defects
• Responsible for identifying the regression test cases
• Participated in functional specification and technical specification reviews.
• Prepared QA test plans, test strategy documents and test estimations for various releases
• Created and executed detail Functional Test scripts based on the business requirements.
• Responsible for maintaining all Functional Test Scripts after each migration.
• Performed back-end testing extensively using SQL Developer.
• Wrote and Executed SQL Quires for Oracle database testing and security testing.
• Wrote SQL queries to access data from the database tables and validation of results.
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results.
• Develop Automated script for regression testing using Selenium WebDriver
• Managed requirements and developed Test Scripts and Test Cases using Quality Center.
• Mapped requirements to business scenarios to assure that all requirements were covered.
• Tracked bugs using Quality Center and performed regression tests once the bugs are fixed.
• Facilitated and ensured verification and validation in accordance with established software testing plans.
• Coordinated software defect tracking efforts to ensure satisfactory defect resolution.
• Performed verifications on fix and documented status of defects appropriately.
• Developed requirement Traceability Matrix and linked it to Quality Center.

Environment: SoapUI, Selenium Web Driver, IDE, Quality Center, Oracle, SQL Server, UNIX, Windows.

Confidential, Chevy Chase, MD

Software Test Engineer

• Involved in analyzing client’s requirements and developing\modifying the test cases and procedures.
• Developed Test Cases from requirement documents.
• Executed test cases and procedures for Functionality Testing, Integration Testing, and Black Box Testing.
• Managed and executed the traceability matrix of requirements to test cases.
• Communicated with Application Developers, Project Manager and other Team Members on Application testing status on an ongoing basis when necessary.
• Managed and Developed requirements and Use Cases using Visio and Quality Center
• Reporting the Software Change Requests (SCR) to the Quality Center

Environment: JAVA, JIRA, Windows, SQL Developer, Quality Center, SQL server.

Confidential, Washington, D.C

Information Security Analyst/ Verification Engineer

• Planned and implemented security measures to protect computer systems, networks and data.
• Developed Test Scenarios to validate security requirements preventing data loss and service interruptions by researching modern technologies that will effectively protect a network.
• Installing firewalls, data encryption and other security measures
• Developed user guide and Train staff on network and information security procedures
• Worked closely with Infrastructure team to resolve any issues

Environment: JIRA, UNIX, Windows, SQL Developer, ORACLE.