SUMMARY:

• More than Six years of IT industry experience in Software Testing (Manual and Automation), Software Quality Assurance (QA), Software Quality Control (QC), and Configuration Controller.
• Expert in Validation & Verification, Web Testing, Software Configuration Management.
• Experienced in Test case writing, Test execution, Bug Tracking in Compliance with Testing Center of Excellence standards.
• Expert at Testing automated scripts across different browsers and operating systems (Windows/ UNIX) for stability.
• Extensively experienced in creating and designing Master Test Strategy Documents, Master Test Plan, Test schedules Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Scenarios.
• Proficient in both Manual and Automation t esting with ability to manage the automation of the entire Testing cycles.
• Good experience in Software Application Development Projects that followed the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies and best practices.
• Expert in performing Integration testing, System testing, Functional testing, Smoke testing, Regression testing, Exploratory testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Business Process Testing, Web Service Testing and User Accessibility Testing.
• Experienced in developing and updating Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts in Test Link and executed them using JIRA.
• Ability to create and maintain Test inventory using HP ALM/ Quality Center or similar tool.
• Expert at defect management tools such as HP ALM / Quality Center .
• Experienced in writing SQL to query databases, to assist in analysis and testing.
• Extensively experienced in automating applications on multiple platforms using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT)/ HP Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Strong experience with writing HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT)/ HP Quick Test Pro (QTP) scripts in Descriptive Programming.
• Skilled in developing and executing comprehensive Test suites in QTP/UFT for system software .
• Experienced in building and executing Automated Tests for SOAP based services.
• Extensive practical knowledge in importing data for use in report software, spreadsheets, graphs and flow charts.
• Have strong collaboration, negotiation and influencing skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, BALTIMORE, MD

Test Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Investigated environment configurations and reviewed automated process best practices .
• Analyzed requirements and created efficiently designed and planned Test Cases.
• Ensured quality and completeness of the finished product by applying best practices to user acceptance testing and using product knowledge.
• Scaled up testing efforts to support aggressive Agile - like project timelines.
• Reviewed requirements and specifications and provided input during requirements and specification Walkthroughs.
• Involved in writing Test Data for testing Positive and Negative scenarios.
• Involved in whole SDLC (software Development Life Cycle) of the application by doing Integration, smoke, Functional, Regression, System and User Acceptance Testing.
• Used JIRA for bug tracking and reporting and follow up with development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Efficiently tracked and reported defects using appropriate tools such as HP ALM.
• Prepared documentation for assigned projects and followed software release procedures, requirements analysis using HP ALM for importing specifications and documents.
• Performed Oracle SQL queries using Oracle SQL Developer.
• Designed & developed data driven framework to validate different user form using UFT.
• Extensively used VB Script & Descriptive programming to develop Data Driven Framework in UFT.
• Designed and executed Regression test in UFT to analyze the bottlenecks in the application.
• Developed an automated test regimen in UFT to fully exercise suspect areas.
• Integrated the execution of UFT regression scripts.
• Used Soap UI Tool for testing Web Services.
• Understood the impact to QA of any new technologies that was being introduced.
• Participated in development, maintenance and refinement of internal quality control and reliability programs.
• Determined and executed appropriate system-side testing for each project outside of requirements.
• Certified operational deployment and end-user documentation.
• Certified industry-standard and proprietary input and output feeds of the system.
• Liaised with vendors and suppliers in assessing applications and/or systems under consideration for purchase.

Environment: JIRA, SQL Server, MS Excel, MS Office, Windows, SOAP UI, HP ALM, UFT, Java, J2EE, MS Visio, PowerPoint, C, C#, C++, .Net, HTML, Java Script, CSS, PHP, VB Script, XML, UNIX.

Confidential, Long Island, NY

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created and executed Test scripts, Test cases and Data sets on the basis of product release features, client requirements, and technical documents.
• Wrote Test Plans from Functional Requirement Documents.
• Executed Tests for applications developed in various platform.
• Tested applications for Functionality and documented modification requests.
• Assigned modification requests to respective developers.
• Performed Smoke Testing, Unit Testing on the various links to ensure that the links were established within the time period specified in the document.
• Monitored and tracked defects/risks and managed through resolution using JIRA.
• Wrote automation code using Java for UI using HP ALM.
• Analyzed business requirements, prepared Test plans and documented in MS-Excel and HP ALM.
• Involved in Database testing by writing & executing SQL queries to validate data .
• Developed and executed regression test scripts with a combination of tools to include UFT and others.
• Used UFT to review and analyze the results & utilized its reporting feature to generate detailed defect report.
• Reported the bugs and wrote the Test plans for UFT .
• Performed Feasibility analysis for automation, test script review and execution using UFT.
• Performed web based testing using with SOAP services.
• Contributed to the continued improvement of the QA test strategy and process.
• Conducted the entire Application certification effort for a project with minimal supervision.
• Represented the group in requirement, specification, and designed review meetings and contributed constructive feedback to the presenters.

Environment: UFT, HP ALM, HTML, XML, CSS, C#, Java, Java Script, Oracle, SQL Server, JIRA, Soap UI, VB Script, MS Excel, MS Word, PowerPoint, C/C++, Windows, UNIX.

Confidential, Titusville, NJ

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed, designed and deployed Test scripts and cases of complex modules.
• Helped to set up the Test environment and contributed to the requirements documentation and Test design for different types of Testing .
• Created and maintained Test metrics for all the projects.
• Worked with business users in defining User Acceptance Testing, Test cases and plans.
• Performed GUI, Functionality, Integration and Regression testing.
• Executed and monitored the testing progress in Quality Center/ALM.
• Managed the defects in Quality Center/ALM using defects module.
• Created and executed simple/complex SQL queries into SQL Server to validate the assigned user entitlements at backend.
• Executed automation scripts using QTP/UFT (VB scripts, Descriptive programming) to perform the Regression Testing.
• Created Test suits and cases using QTP/UFT to validate new web service that generated user entitlements.
• Analyzed the business Incidents and made QTP/UFT scripts by working closely with Developers, BAs/functional analysts in resolution of the bugs.
• Prepared the defect metrics in QTP/UFT for the projects.
• Ensured quality throughout software using Automated and Manual testing techniques.
• Interacted with developers regarding priority of bugs and updated the status of bugs.
• Performed effective tracking, status reporting like, Daily and Weekly Status reports for senior leaderships.

Environment: QTP/UFT, Quality Center/ALM, XML, PowerPoint, MS Office, HTML, Java, Oracle, Windows, Java Script, VB Script, C, C++, C#, Web Services, UNIX.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP ALM, HP Quality Center, HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT), HP Quick Test Pro (QTP), JIRA, Soap UI

Testing Methodologies: Functionality Testing, Validation, Traceability, Regression Testing, Positive & Negative Testing, UI and Capability Testing, Back-End & Front-End Testing, Automation, Bug Tracking, Defect Tracking, Smoke Testing, System Testing, Reliability Testing, Feature Testing, Acceptance Testing

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2

Programming Language: HTML, XML, SQL, PHP, PL/SQL, VBScript, JavaScript, Java, C, C++, C#, CSS

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix, Linux

MS Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, PowerPoint