PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 10+ years of experience in every step of software development life - cycle across a wide variety of engineering applications.
• Excellent problem solving and relationship building skills with clients and a successful history of working closely with software developers to reduce debugging time, improve test processes, and deliver quality projects on-time.
• Experience using Rational Tools TFS (JAZZ), Jira and Confluence for Test management and tracking defects
• Proficient in developing and executing Test plans, Test scripts, test Analysis Reports
• Expertise in performing functional; smoke testing, regression testing, integrated testing, system testing, boundary testing, security testing, 508 testing, compatibility testing, post-production testing and preparation of test data for complex End -2-End scenarios
• Proficient in analyzing the requirements, design/development test cases and testing the client-server, web-based and stand-alone applications.
• Through knowledge in various SDLC methodologies ( Waterfall, Iterative waterfall and Agile)
• Strong expertise in testing various Web applications and client-server applications
• Experienced in testing of database applications built with (SQL) SQL Server and Oracle.
• Have a great ability to work effectively between technical and user groups and, at the same time, to work effectively under pressure in a fast-paced environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional 8.2, Win Runner, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Functional tester, Rational Clearquest, Rational Test Manager and RTC 5.0.2, Confluence

Bug Reporting Tools: Test Director, PVCS Tracker, Jira and Rational Clear Quest and RTC (Change management).

Programming Languages: SQL, C, Java Script, VB Script, Java, J2EE Technologies, C/C++, VB 6.0, XML

Data Bases / Tools: SQL Server 2000, SQL server 2014, MS-Access, Oracle 9i, Informatica

Web Technologies: HTML, ASP, JSP, Client-Server Programming, and ASP.Net, Java Script, .Net, webapi

Operating Systems: Unix and Microsoft Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Reston, VA

Lead Software QA Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business requirements and software requirements specification documents to get a better understanding of the system from both technical and business perspective.
• Develop, Manage and execute Test plan, Test cases, Test Analysis reports, traceability matrix, Requirements, bug tracking using JIRA tracker
• Participate in daily scrum meetings to discuss the progress of the testing effort and open issues
• Experience in leading a test team and acting as a mentor for less experienced test engineers
• Perform functional testing, smoke testing, regression testing, System testing, Security testing, negative Testing, post production testing and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Provide technical supervision of test execution by other testers. Assign quality assurance tasks and testing, review status, test results and quality of work
• Support mobile application testing (iPhone, iPod touch) and Dell tablets

Confidential, Washington, D.C

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As the Senior QA engineer, responsible for testing and verification of the full set of features for Examiner View application in Office of the Comptroller of Currency’s suite of Supervisory Information Systems.
• Verify and validate business requirements for suite of bank supervisory applications used by National Bank Examiners to regulate and supervise the operations of Confidential
• Develops, Manage and execute Test plan, Test cases, Test Analysis reports, traceability matrix, Requirements, bug tracking using Rational Team concert tools ( Change management, requirement management and quality management)
• Collaborate with project managers, developers, testers, and product owners (business staff) to analyse business program data to define and develop testing scenarios to assure adequate test coverage and defined quality standards.
• Schedule and facilitate demos, Impact analysis meetings with product owners
• Perform functional testing, smoke testing, regression testing, System testing, boundary testing, integration testing, Security testing, negative Testing, post production testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and 508 testing.
• Participate in daily scrum meetings to discuss updates showing the progress of the testing effort and open issues, and updated the sprint backlog on daily base using RTC.
• Communicate effectively with developers and more user - focused team members such as trainers and testers
• Experience in leading a test team and acting as a mentor for less experienced test engineers
• Shares best practices, lessons learned and knowledge with the rest of the team and Provide technical supervision of test execution by other testers. Assign quality assurance tasks and testing, review status, test results and quality of work

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Verify and validate business requirements for suite of bank supervisory applications used by National Bank Examiners to regulate and supervise the operations of Confidential
• Participate in code reviews and developed appropriate test strategies as a result
• Develops, Manage and execute Test plan, Test cases, traceability matrix, Requirements, bug tracking using Rational Team concert tools ( Change management, requirement management and quality management)
• Review and execution of project test deliverables during the requirement, design, system test execution, and integration test execution phases of a Software development project.
• Participates in requirements review meetings, demos, CCBs
• Designs, develops, and communicates the Test plan, Test Schedule, Test scenarios, TAR in collaboration with the business users, Test Manager, and VTMs.
• Requirement Remediation support Managed team and ensures the proper scheduling and work effort of test resources to accomplish testing across multiple test projects.
• Perform functional testing, smoke testing, regression testing, System testing, boundary testing, integration testing, compatibility testing, patch testing and post production testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and 508 testing.
• Analyzed production/performance issues and worked with developers and analysts on possible fixes/workaround.
• Participates in Help Desk Support and assisted the users in production issues.
• Participates in IRT and ART testing and sever upgrade testing.
• Participate in daily scrum meetings to discuss updates showing the progress of the testing effort and open issues, and updated the sprint backlog on daily base using RTC.

Confidential, Mclean, VA

Sr. IV &V Tester

Responsibilities:

• Performed functional testing, regression testing, ad-hoc testing, integration testing and post production testing.
• Involved in developing and executing the UAT plan and creating user profiles.
• SME for critical modules as Content Management, Content Administration, People and Organizations.
• Experienced with Profile Repository and utilized the module to assign various roles for the Confidential users.
• Tested the migrated data to the staging servers.
• Compared real users to the profiles and contracts.
• Validated ATG e-commerce shopping cart, backend product catalog, and the shopping cart workflows and Search indexing.
• Performed smoke testing when there was a new build or version.
• Involved in performing browser compatibility testing and web navigation testing.
• Participated in business requirement, functionality Specification Reviews, and daily status meetings.
• Used Bugzilla extensively to log and track defects.
• Used SQL developer for querying the database.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Sr. Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and software requirements specification documents to get a better understanding of the system from both technical and business perspective.
• Involved in the development and implementation of test cases, test plans, test data and test scripts according to business requirements.
• Identified automation scenarios from manual regression scripts. Created and modified automation scripts for regression testing using Quick Test Professional for various modules of the application and when there is a new build.
• Experience in developing reusable functions, reusable actions using QTP and Reported automation script status and execution results
• Manually performed functional testing, system testing, UAT, integration testing and post production testing, xml testing and worked on Bug tracking and facilitation in resolution.
• Used SQL queries as part of backend testing to extract data from various tables and to compare with the actual results on the front-end.
• Performed fail over testing to validate the error messages in the web by stopping web servers, application servers, and database connectivity. Reported application exception errors by monitoring application server, log files.
• Tested the reports that were generated out of reporting database using Business Objects. Documented the Requirement Traceability Matrix and participated in team reviews.