SUMMARY:

• Seeking a challenging career as a Quality Assurance Tester/Manual, Automation Tester with a progressive organization wherein the application of my skills and experience renders a significant contribution to the company's success.
• Over 4 years of experience as a QA analyst in managing software testing efforts for various domains
• Experience in manual testing and automated testing of client/server and web applications by using different methods of testing.
• Design and document test cases pertaining to various components of the application.
• Contributes to an atmosphere of cross - functional teamwork within the organizations agile project life cycle.
• Expertise in the Functional and Regression testing of Web applications and its functionalities.
• Proficient in all forms of testing including System, Regression, Smoke, Functional, Integration and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Expert in designing and maintaining Test Cases and both Functional and User interface specific documents.
• Solid understanding in QA Methodologies, Test strategy, Test metrics, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Strong in Analyzing Business specifications with regards to Test Case Scenarios.
• Experienced in Automation testing using Selenium WebDriver and IDE.
• Experienced in programming for creating test scripts using Java.
• Experienced in working with Junit and TestNG testing frameworks.
• Expertise in performing Back End Testing by writing SQL queries for the purpose of database integrity in Oracle SQL Server.
• Experience in Bug reporting and Defects Management using JIRA.
• Experience in writing and executing Test Scripts, Tracking Defects and interacting with the development team in correcting the defects.
• Experience in preparing Test Plan/Technical specification/ Strategy Documents.
• Ensured the execution of UAT test cases and documentation of test results. Provided UAT testing status .
• Experience in Backend Database testing for Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server.
• Enthusiastic team player, goal-oriented, and self-motivated. Able to work independently to achieve complex objectives and be able to meet deadlines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver and IDE, Apache POI, Cucumber, Junit, TestNG, eclipse

Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, ALM/Quality Center, Bugzilla

Languages: Java, C/C++, Python, HTML

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL

Other Tools: Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio, Access, PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

Software QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed test scenarios, create test plans, implement, automate and execute test case.
• Created test scripts in java and executed test scripts using TestNG.
• Tracked and reported bugs with JIRA.
• Developed Test Cases, Test Scripts based on requirement components for the planned release in Excel.
• Created and Executed new, existing Test Cases with Test Data as a part of Regression test before signing off for QA/Staging/Production Environment.
• Developed Manual test scripts for different test scenarios covering all aspects of project functionality using JIRA Defect Management Tool. Created test scripts using Java and Selenium WebDriver to perform Regression and Functional Testing.
• Used TestNG to create test suites and run batch testing.
• Prepared and generated automation test reports from TestNG.
• Performed Black Box, GUI, Positive, Negative, and Integration Testing.
• Created test scenarios according to the business rules.
• Documented and reported bugs found during the testing process.
• Provided documentation to facilitate the future use and enhancement of the test harnesses.
• Tested compatibility of application with Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome.
• Interacted with developer to resolve issues.
• Used Jira for defect tracking and logging.
• Participated in User Acceptance Testing and prepared UAT test cases and testing estimates.
• Created weekly status reports to trace the deliverables.
• Configured all automated test scripts with Jenkins.
• Lead weekly bug/issues meeting with managers to prioritize and track bugs, schedule deployments, and track development

Confidential, Falls Church, VA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plan, Test cases, and Test scripts based on high-level and detailed designs.
• Created and executed Test Cases for some of the modules of the application under test (AUT) using Quality Center ALM.
• Documented the daily defect status using Jira.
• Responsible for defect tracking and management metrics, defects are logged and change requests are submitted using Jira.
• Performed System, Functional, Regression, UAT and End to End Testing.
• Conducted traceability matrix between Requirements, design, use cases and test cases.
• Participated in the Test Case Peer Review to ensure test cases appropriately translate and map to requirements.
• Regular interaction with developers, business analyst and Logic Unit Workgroup.
• Prepared documentation for all stages according to company standards.
• Implemented Test Case and Test Process with project time frames.
• Wrote Test Plan and Test Cases according to business requirement.
• Performed data driven testing by data driver wizard and parameterization.
• Creating and updating test cases based on new and/or /updated functional or interface requirements
• Performed requirement traceability by setting automatic alerts for tracing changes in the requirements and system maintenance.
• Expertise in analyzing User Requirements, Functional and Technical Specifications.
• Developed SQL Queries for checking the Data Transaction and Database Integrity.
• Extensively used SQL scripts/queries for data verification at the backend.
• Good experience on Selenium IDE and creating Scripts in selenium.
• Cooperated and performed with the development group to resolve the difficulties came across in a test execution.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Junior Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plan and Test Cases based on the requirements and design documents.
• Extensively used Quality Center ALM for test planning, bug tracking and reporting.
• Reviewed Unit Test results and performed smoke test to decide credibility of the build in order to initiate manual testing and regression.
• Conducted Functional and Regression Tests and interacted with developers to fix defects and resolve application user interface inconsistencies.
• Performed Functional, Integration, System, Regression, and UAT during the various phases of the application.
• Developed complex SQL queries to test the database values for data integrity.
• Analyzed user requirements, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes.
• Involved in business requirements, user’s requests and bug Scrubs meetings.
• Wrote test cases and test scripts for the functionality testing.
• Performed End-to-End testing manually and got involved in Regression testing.
• Closely worked with developers and System Engineers to nail down the technical problems.