SUMMARY:

• Sr. Software Test Engineer/ QA Test Analyst with experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) utilizing Waterfall, V - model and Agile-SCRUM development environments. Strong skills and knowledge in Software Quality Assurance (QA), Software Testing, Software Test Life Cycle, QA Standards, and QA Test methodologies. Seeking to pursue a permanent or consulting position to contribute the value of my diverse technical, business acumen and professional experience in analyzing business requirements/ user stories, creating and executing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Strategy, Test Scenarios, Test Data, Bug documentation, requirement traceability matrix and Test Summary Report.
• Extensive experience in organizing and managing multiple projects and project priorities.
• Experience in various business domains including financial, insurance, healthcare and government solutions industries.
• Expertise in implementing CMMI standard processes and procedures.
• Proven ability to establish QA teams as well as train, manage, and motivate team members.
• Broad exposure in Software Configuration Management and Risk Analysis.
• Experience in estimation of testing efforts in coordination of test schedules with overall project schedules.
• Experience in automated testing using HP Application Life Cycle Management (ALM), Jira, Selenium, and SOAP UI.
• Expert in validation of data extracts and data testing
• Hands on experience in managing and conducting testing of all kinds and levels including smoke, sanity, integration, regression, UAT and post-production testing activities.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and experience with relational database (RDBMS).
• Strong experience in Database/Backend testing.
• Experience in bug tracking, bug reporting and bug documentation.
• Experience in section 508 compliance testing.
• Experience in working in highly dynamic and challenging environment.
• Expert in performing structured Walkthroughs, Peer Reviews meeting, and Test Readiness Review meeting.
• Possess strong leadership, successful team building capabilities and excellent technical, communication, presentation and customer service skills.
• Experience of continuous integration with Jenkins
• Exposure to BDD framework with Cucumber.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software Testing Tools:: ALM, Selenium WebDriver, and SOAP UI

Web/Programming/Scripting Languages:: JAVA, XML, JSON

Database Development: : SQL Plus, SQL Developer

508 Compliance Testing Tools:: JAWS, WAVE

Programming Languages:: SQL, PL-SQL, JAVA

Application Software: AS 400, Oracle Financial, Concur, Works, ETO and Salesforce

Version Controlling Tools: HP ALM

RDBMS/Database: SQL server, ORACLE, and MySQL

Test Management and Defect Tracking: ALM, JIRA, TestNG

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Sr. QA Test Analyst

• Involved in gathering/analyzing the System Requirement Specification, user requirement, functional requirement and software design document.
• Involve in reviewing an analyzing product backlog, sprint planning, user story, and use case document.
• Monitor execution status of each application area, and escalate risks and issues to appropriate teams/resources to ensure timely resolution.
• Provide oversight to ensure that defects found and corrected are retested comprehensively.
• Summarize testing efforts including a test summary report.
• Enhanced product test coverage and quality by tracking test progress, analyze, monitor and maintain metrics.
• Developed standard templates for testing including, System Test plan, and Requirement traceability matrix (RTM), Test Cases and bug documentation.
• Provided substantial advice, assistance, and functional knowledge to other staff. Serves as a key resource for facilitating quality assurance activities.
• Involved in proactively communicate to development team regarding the status and potential impacts on the delivery date and/or expected quality of the tasks and/or the projects.
• Created test data/conduct database queries as required evaluating software functionality.
• Wrote test cases based on information found in requirements and specifications, and process diagrams.
• Create automated test script using Selenium Web Driver.
• Develop and maintained automated regression test cases in Selenium Web Driver
• Prepare Selenium Test scripts using eclipse for code and push / pull requests in Github tool.
• Use Github, branching strategy implemented for projects like creating story branch for every story level testing and merging to Master branch for Integration testing.
• Used JAWS, WAVE to verify web-accessibility of the application for 508 compliance testing.
• Executed 508 compliance testing checklists and document the result.
• Reporting and verifying the bugs in JIRA.
• Used HP ALM/Quality Center to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning tests, executing tests, and tracking defects.
• Experience in TDD Frameworks using TestNG
• Automated/Manual Testing of API (Web Services) - JSON/XML

Environment: HP ALM, 508, CMMI, .NET, JAVA, Selenium, SOAP UI, J2EE, Oracle, SQL Developer, JAWS, WAVE

Confidential, Washington, DC

Software Test Engineer

• Responsible for creating and maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and traced the requirements to the corresponding test cases.
• Performed extensive back-end Database testing using complex SQL queries.
• Designed and developed Test Scenario, Test Cases for various Business Services/methods covering both positive and negative testing requirements.
• Created test data for validating scenarios based on functional requirements specifications.
• Performed UI Testing on the application web-Interface.
• Enhanced the existing or default test scripts by adding some programming for custom testing and debugging the scripts.
• Created new bugs and track status of bugs using JIRA.
• Managed the testing process, logged and tracked defects using
• Coordinated UAT testing activities and report progress.
• Tracked defects and facilitate defect review meetings with team leads.
• Involved in preparation of Test plans, test cases, test scripts and responsible for executing the Test scripts.
• Performed Regression testing on the application for testing validity of functionality in different versions of the application.
• Effectively utilized ALM in creating Test Cases and tracking defect.
• Attended the weekly status meetings and created notes for meeting-minutes.

Environment: HP Quality Center, Windows, SQL Server, Windows, XML, Oracle

Confidential - Rockville

QA Test Engineer

• Interacted with the development team and the Business Application group on a regular basis to analyze the requirements and to understand the GUI of the application being developed.
• Reviewed the application’s functional Specifications and developed test cases and test protocol for functional testing.
• Performed Regression testing on the application for testing validity of functionality in different versions of the application.
• Extensively involved in running manual tests on the applications.
• Manually tested the GUI interface of the application.
• Extensively used SQL Queries to check the integrity of the data and to perform Back End Testing.
• Conducted end-to-end test of the application manually.
• Performed Integration Testing to verify integration between different modules in the System.
• Maintained the automation scripts for enhancements and modifications to perform regression testing.
• Attended periodic meetings and teleconferences on problem resolution.
• Interacted with developers to resolve technical issues and investigated software faults.
• Attended walkthrough meeting with the System Analysts, Project Managers and Developers.

Environment: Quality Center, JAWS, WAVE, Java, SQL, UNIX, HTML, Oracle and SQL Developer

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Software Test Analyst

• Conducted manual testing on all application.
• Prepared the Traceability Matrix for mapping the Requirements with the Test Cases through QC.
• Developed Test Scenarios against Software Requirement Specifications.
• Performed Backend testing by extensively using SQL queries to verify the integrity of the database.
• Developed Test condition & Test Data to execute the test scripts.
• Performed front end, back end, Functionality, Security testing on the application.
• Involved in manual User acceptance testing with various combinations.
• Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Developed & executed Test scenarios for User Acceptance Testing.

Environment: Quality Center, Oracle, SQL Server, UNIX, Windows, JIRA