PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• A detail oriented IT professional with 7+ years of experience in software quality assurance and testing in Financial, Mortgage and healthcare industries.
• Technical professional with good command in both manual as well as automated testing.
• Extensive knowledge of a QA Methodology and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Worked with software developers, business analyst, QA team and end users to test and finalize the quality of the newly developed product.
• Analyzed the business and functional requirements documents and created detailed Test plan and Test cases.
• Performed Defect reporting and Tracking throughout the entire defect life cycle and maintained QA documentation, QA procedures and methodologies.
• Expertise in Manual/Automated Testing of Web based, Client/Server applications.
• Proficient in automation testing by using Quick Test Professional (QTP) and Selenium using Java language.
• Experience in testing application as per ADA - Section 508 Accessibility Compliance and the Guidelines of WCAG 2.0 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) developed by World Wide Web Consortium using tools like WAVE, JAWS, NVDA, VO.
• Knowledgeable in Open-Source Automation Testing Tools (like Selenium, JUnit, TestNG and Soap UI)
• Experience in Automation Framework using Hybrid, Data Driven and Customized framework approaches.
• Use of Jira and Quality Center/ALM for bugs reporting and communication to developers and team members.
• Experienced in developing and executing complex SQL queries on SQL Developer and Toad to validate the data in the back end.
• Defined the test criteria, project schedules and base lined the Test Plan with the help of project meetings and walk through.
• Have strong experiences in different levels of tests especially Integration Testing, System Testing and UAT Testing.
• Excellent technical communication, interpersonal skills, and capable to adopt and learn new tools, techniques, and approaches.
• Attended grooming sessions, sprint planning and retrospective meetings, daily stand up meetings, QA COP weekly meetings, cross project technical meetings, release meetings, triage meetings, training sessions and performed QA role & provided QA inputs/deliverable.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: JAVA

Scripting Languages: Java Script, Groovy, VB script

Databases: MS SQL Server 2005/2008, Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g, 12c

Automation tools: Quick Test Professional (QTP), Selenium 2

Web Services Testing Tools: SOAP UI 3.5.1/4.0.1

Test Management tools: ALM 11.5,12.5, HP Quality Center 11/10/9.0/8.2 , Test Director 7.6, Test Director 8.0, Jira

Operating Systems: Windows7, Windows2000, Window XP, LINUX, Mac

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Mclean, VA

Sr. QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Agile environment, with two week sprints and daily scrums.
• Used Version One Agile tool to maintain the user epics, user stories in order to manage requirements and used it to manage the run time issues (test) management tool and ALM for overall test management and defect management tool.
• Analyzed business requirement and developed Test Scenarios.
• Created Test cases and managed them using ALM.
• Participated in grooming and detail analysis session of the application and in the sprint story board, created testing tasks under the ready-status stories, collaborated testing efforts with development activities, reported issues to the Developers and completed testing tasks on time.
• Mostly performed the Integration testing for finding issues even in early stages in the application and moved forward for full functional testing and UAT Testing.
• Performed Sanity Testing , Functional Testing , Responsive Testing , User Interface Testing, Integrated Testing and Regression Testing.
• Managed the defects in ALM and JIRA
• Verified REST services API using Soap UI.
• Wrote automated test script in selenium using Eclipse IDE/ JAVA with Page Object Model automation framework
• Used JUnit 4 and TestNG as test framework in Java to test the automation script written in Java language.
• Responsible for Cross Browser testing of the EASE application on different version of IE, Firefox and Chrome, Safari browsers.
• Responsive testing with different version of iOS and androids for tablet and mobile devices
• Involved in creation and maintenance of Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix.
• Maintained and systematized the documentation process.
• Participated in various meetings meant for enhancement and modifications of the applications, following client request.
• Conducted Risk Analysis and interacted with developers to resolve bugs.
• Responsible for defects identification and defect logging/tracking in ‘ ALM’ and Jira .
• Involved in the UAT sessions with the product owners and stakeholders.

Environment: Java, Eclipse IDE, Selenium 2, Version One, Github, Jenkins, Junit, TestNG, ALM (11.5, 12.5), Windows 7 Enterprise

Confidential, NY

Sr. QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Agile environment, with two week sprints and daily scrums.
• Experience in using ‘ Jira’ ( Agile Project management tool ) and providing the QA estimates for the User stories committed for the sprint.
• Worked as Onsite QA of team of 3. Worked with Offshore team as well.
• Created Test Plan for each sprint/stories.
• Participated in Grooming Meetings and analysed requirement specifications and developed Test Scenarios .
• Created Test cases and managed them using JIRA.
• Performed Sanity Testing , Integrated Testing, System Testing, Functional Testing , User Interface Testing, and Regression Testing.
• Created Standard checkpoints, Database checkpoints and Text checkpoints to check the application’s current behavior to its behavior in previous version.
• Created object repositories in QTP
• Performed Build Verification Testing after each build Using QTP.
• Performed Web Service Testing using SoapUI.
• Introduced ‘Test Case review’ process with the Development Team for every major release and ‘Peer Test case review’ process in the offshore team.
• Conducted ‘Defect Triage’ at the end of every sprint with the members of Product management and Development Teams.
• Responsible for Cross Browser Testing of the application in IE, Firefox and chrome browsers.
• Involved in creation and maintenance of Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix.
• Maintained and systematized the documentation process.
• Participated in various meetings meant for enhancement and modifications of applications, following client request.
• Conducted Risk Analysis and interacted with developers to resolve bugs.
• Responsible for defects identification and defect logging/tracking in ‘ Clear Quest’ .
• Participated in UAT testing with the UAT team.
• Converted automation test cases from QTP to Selenium .

Environment: Jira, Quality Center, ALM 11, JAVA, Toad 11.6,12.1, Windows7, Eclipse IDE, Oracle 10g, .NET, HTTP watch, IE 8/9/10, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Mac

Confidential

QA Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test plan and verified content with the team members.
• Developed UAT test scripts in accordance with UAT Governance guidelines/templates and high level baseline.
• Performed iterative reviews with BAs, T est Leads and support updates post- script reviews with Line of Business representatives.
• Supported creation/maintenance of a traceability matrix of business requirements to test scripts using Excel.
• Designed and developed Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Test steps for various Business Services/methods covering testing requirements.
• Performed User Interface Testing, Cross Browser Testing on the web Interface.
• Involved in Functional, Regression, System, Positive, Negative and Integration Testing.
• Developed and executed SQL queries to validate data.
• Created Test Summary and Defect reports.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing.
• Participated in weekly meetings and walk through with the project and management team.
• Responsible for creating and executing test cases for End-to-End and User acceptance Testing of the Application.
• Executed the tests manually to verify the application functionality.
• Used Quality Center for error (defects) reporting and communicating between developers, product support and test team members.

Environment: Java, .Net, Quality Center 10, SQL server 2008, Windows 7 Enterprise.

Confidential, Woodland CA

Off Shore QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involve in gathering specifications and requirements from development personnel prior to testing.
• Performed the Back-End testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL statements on the Database
• Write and implement the test plans and test cases.
• Assisted data entry and verification during Manual Test execution to reduce human error.
• Executed Manual Testing to perform functional testing on the user interface.
• Performed Integration Testing, Acceptance testing manually.
• Performed Backend Testing manually on the MS SQL 2005 database by writing SQL queries.
• Manually performed Positive and Negative Testing.
• Conducted Functionality, Integration, and Regression testing during the various phases of the development of the application doing manual testing.
• Used Test Director for the test documentation management and for defect tracking.

Environment: Test Director 7.6, UNIX Platform, Windows XP, MS SQL 2005

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design and execute Test Plans and Test Cases, generate Test Scripts and Test scenarios.
• Implemented the whole life cycle of QA methodology starting from planning, capturing, creating, executing reporting and tracking the defects using Quality Center.
• Designed, Communicated, and enhanced QA testing plan for the application.
• Wrote and executed Test cases and reported defects using Quality Center .
• Prepared Test cases, according to the business specification and wrote test scripts and maintained them.
• Automated the regression testing.
• Performed System, Integration, Regression, Functional, Positive / Negative Testing using QTP.
• Inserted different checkpoint to perform various testing.
• Used Reusable action in QTP.
• Conducted System, Integrated and Regression testing to the application.
• Used SQL Plus to execute SQL queries.
• Involved in creation and maintenance of Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing.
• Maintained and systematized the documentation process.
• Participated in various meetings meant for enhancement and modifications of applications, following client request.
• Conducted Risk Analysis and interacted with developers to resolve bugs.
• Actively participated in inspections and walk through.

Environment: QTP, Quality Center, MS Access Oracle, Windows XP, UNIX