SUMMARY:

• More than Six years of IT Experience in Software Manual and Automation Testing of web - based applications.
• Expertise in creating Test Strategy, Test Plan, and Test Scenario.
• Skilled in designing manual Test cases, automated Test scripts, Test Summary Report, Gap Analysis, and Traceability Matrix for defined business processes.
• Excellent knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and industry standard methodologies like as Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall and Agile.
• Expertise in manual testing with exposure to automated testing.
• Experienced in Functional, System, Smoke, Regression, GUI, Smoke and User Acceptance Testing.
• Expertise in tracking the Defects and log them on JIRA .
• Experienced in Defect Management using HP Quality Center/ALM.
• Strong Knowledge in managing the testing process using HP ALM/Quality Center.
• Proficient in using HP ALM/Quality Center for bugs tracking and bugs reporting.
• Strong Experience in checking the data integrity using SQL Queries.
• Experienced in enhancing by inserting various checkpoints and maintaining high-end test scripts for various functional and regression tests using QTP/UFT and VBScript.
• Expertise in Automated-testing using QTP/UFT.
• Skilled in generating automated Test Scripts using QTP/UFT.
• Expertise in developing custom functions using VBScript and using Descriptive Programming for QTP/UFT.
• Experienced in using Framework for QTP/UFT Automation Scripts.
• Experienced in performing web services testing of the application using SOAP UI.
• Possess strong technical aptitude with strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills.
• Excellent analytical skills with good communication and self-organizing skills, assertive and a committed team player.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

QA Automation Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Prepared and upgraded Test strategy for different release of the software.
• Involved in analyzing Requirement Specifications and development of Test Scenarios.
• Reviewed User Requirements, Use Cases and Detailed Designs to develop Test Cases.
• Tested entry and exit criteria for the application screens and checked their contents.
• Developed detailed Test cases, Entrance and Exit criteria for the application being tested and ensured that standards for documentation were followed.
• Involved in Automation Scripts Execution, development, debugging, reviews, analyze results and reporting defects.
• Created and maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix and Test Matrix.
• Performed Positive, Negative, GUI, Smoke, Functional, Regression, System, User Acceptance testing.
• Reported the defects through JIRA and tracked them on daily basis.
• Ensured the actual results match expected results using HP ALM.
• Responsible for documenting application related errors in HP ALM.
• Executed SQL queries to check the data table updates after test execution using SQL Navigator.
• Created a single huge shared object repository for all the different modules by using the Object Repository Manager in UFT.
• Created Automation Scripts for all online interfaces using UFT.
• Designed data driven tests in UFT script to validate with different sets of test data.
• Adopted Descriptive Techniques of UFT scripts for maintainability.
• Tested functionality of the application by inserting various check points like standard check points, text check points, table check points, image check points, and database check points in UFT.
• Performed Web services and Message testing tasks using SOAP UI tool.
• Involved in test strategy planning, scheduling, and risk analysis, reporting and tracking.
• Responsible in conducting meetings between Onshore and Offshore teams to get the Test case execution done and discuss about any major roadblocks delaying the project.
• Involved in meetings, walkthroughs and weekly status.

Environment: UFT, JIRA, HP ALM, UNIX, Windows, MS Word, MS Excel, Outlook, Oracle, CSS, C#, Visual Basic, SOAP UI, XML, SQL, Java, C/C++, Html.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

QA Automation Tester

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Built Test result reports, wrote scripts to automate Tests to facilitate repeatable and efficient Software Test Cycle.
• Developed Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases (Functional and Non-Functional), Test Scenarios from System Requirement Specifications according to the Business requirement.
• Worked through Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC) and participated in full life cycle development using objects oriented programming concepts.
• Involved in Code and Design Reviews and did Unit and Integration testing as part of Automation testing.
• Participated in the preparation of TRM (Test Responsibility Matrix) which was defined as mapping between Development stages and Test factors.
• Used JIRA for defect tracking and maintained the trailing history of the bugs.
• Created automation scripts with HP ALM Business Process Testing (BPT) Module.
• Created BPT Parameters in HP ALM.
• Used database checkpoints in test script to check databases in SQL Server and detect defects.
• Passed BPT Parameters to UFT for driving the UFT Script.
• Created and used Standalone UFT Scripts on BPT Scripts that called to external scripts as well as used external library files for functions.
• Enhanced new functionality on the UFT.
• Completed account list coding for UFT scripts.
• Extensively used various features of UFT including checkpoints, Output values, regular expressions.
• Conducted Smoke Testing of different Applications using SOAPUI.
• Responsible for coordinating offshore team on executing automated scripts, and reporting automated execution results efficiently and effectively.
• Analyzed business and functional requirements to ensure requirements were clear and testable.
• Involved with multi-task and to work on multiple complex projects or assignments concurrently.
• Assisted developers in discovering and researching defects, and recommended system enhancements.

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

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

QA Tester

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test plans and wrote Test cases and scripts for manual testing.
• Generated manual Test Cases to test the functionality of the application.
• Involved in Test Cases creation as per functional requirements.
• Created Test Scripts that used to produce logical data feeds for interfaces.
• Performed GUI, functional and regression testing.
• Executed the Manual Test Cases and reviewed the defects in Quality Center/ALM.
• Designed and Executed Test Cases using Quality Center/ALM.
• Performed Defect Reporting/Tracking through JIRA.
• Wrote SQL queries for back end database testing and data validation.
• Developed QTP/UFT scripts using VB script and executed through QTP/UFT and updated results in Quality Center/ALM.
• Identified the Test Cases to be automated and lead the effort for automating the product using QTP/UFT.
• Created QTP/UFT scripts for web based and database testing.
• Developed Function libraries, QTP/UFT scripts using descriptive programming.
• Involved in User acceptance testing of the application.
• Attended review meetings and walkthroughs to discuss the status of the project.
• Coordinated meetings with the Development teams for appropriate handling of the bugs and their timely resolution.

Environment: Quality Center/ALM, QTP/UFT, JIRA, UNIX, Windows, C/C++, MS Office Tools, Oracle, Visual Basic, SOAP UI, XML, SQL, MS Visio, MS Project.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

WEB TECHNOLOGIES: HTML, VBScript, JavaScript & ASP

TESTING & WEB SERVICES TOOLS: HP Quality Center, HP ALM, HP Quick Test Professional (QTP), HP UFT, JIRA, Soap UI

MICROSOFT TOOLS: MS Outlook, MS Visio, Microsoft Project, MS Word, MS Excel, Power Point

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: C, C++, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, Asp.Net, CSS, C#, PHP

DATABASE: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access, DB2

OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows, Unix/Linux