SUMMARY:

• Eight years of experience in Software Quality Assurance.
• Excellent understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and various testing methodologies.
• Proficient in both manual and automated testing of applications.
• Expertise in designing testing documents like test plans, test design specifications, test case specifications and test procedures.
• Experience with user acceptance testing, functional testing, integration testing, regression testing and performance testing on client/server and web based applications.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

QA Testing Tools: HP ALM (QTP, TestDirector, Quality Center), Rational Test Tools Suite, JIRA,SPLUNK,JENKIN,SLATS

Methodologies: SDLC, SOA, AGILE,WATERFALL

Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000, Windows XP, Windows 95/98, UNIX, DOS, HP - UX, AIX, Solaris,Python

Languages: SQL

Databases: DB2, MS Access, Oracle, SQL Server

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, MVS, Visual Studio.Net, .NET, ASP.NET, C#, JSON,VB Script

Technologies: Application Servers, Web Servers, Relational Database Management Systems, Data Warehousing, Informatics, Data stage and Business Objects, Telecommunications

Protocols: HTTP/FTP, DNS, TCP/IP, Routing, CDN

SQL Tools: Toad, SQL, Rally-dev tool, Version one Agile

Extensive skills: Microsoft Access, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Visio

MAJOR STRENGTHS:

• Strong experience in testing Client/Server and Web based applications.
• Well versed with System testing, Integration testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance, Black Box and White Box Testing.
• Proficient in Web, GUI, Backend applications testing and Report Testing with Manual and Automated tools
• In-depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and have through understanding of various phases like Define, Design, Development, Testing and Implementation.
• Expertise designing and analysis of Test Plans, Test Cases and Test scenarios/scripts using industry standards or software/business application testing.
• Experienced in Software Development Cycle (SDLC) along with Agile and Scrum.
• Strong experience in Oracle/SQL Server/ MS Access/DB2 and Backend Testing of Stored Procedures, Triggers using SQL Scripting.
• Excellent understanding of relational database concepts including: normalization, referential integrity, joining tables, SQL
• Experienced in documenting defects using the bug tracking database, providing verifications on fixes in multiple environments, and communicating fix success, failures, status updates as appropriate.
• Expertise in MS Office products like MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS Word, MS Project and MS FrontPage.
• Inclined towards working in a strong team environment, and have the ability to adapt to new technologies and situations with ease.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and documentation skills and ability to achieve targets and deliver results in a high-pressure environment

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Clarksburg, MD

QA STB Test engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead stress testing of sustaining and new features of Confidential set top boxes.
• Ensure complete test coverage by overseeing sophisticated test setups against published hardware and software requirements of the product.
• Produced QA reporting decks using MS Project and Access. Presented QA reports to project stakeholders during bug triage meetings.
• Advance test coverage by creating test plans, procedures, and methods specifically focused on low-failure and edge case anomalies.
• Define standards to qualify software on existing/new products to ensure best customer release quality.
• Identify opportunities for improvement and alternate strategies to meet multiple conflicting deliverables and timelines.
• Routinely monitor, analyze, and present progress on assigned projects, including schedules, performance, and other business and system requirements to senior management, development teams, and other peer engineering and business groups.
• Interact cross-functionally with all levels of engineering and business teams to ensure all anomalies are resolved/ waived and communicated before software launch.
• Supervise design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance and documentation of software tools for testing Confidential set-top-boxes under variety of automated test scenarios.
• Administer database change impact analysis to accommodate future software tool releases and enhancements to existing tools.
• Gather, analyze, and create user guide and training material documentation for team development
• Performed Defect Tracking & Management in JIRA.
• Worked in a highly dynamic AGILE environment and participated in scrum and sprint meetings
• Wrote and executed TDD (Test Driven Development), managed test data and utilized test data management techniques
• Responsible for mentoring the team on the usage of the tool and documenting the guidelines and changes
• Responsible for performing root cause analysis and doing out of box testing to identify the uncovered defects
• Verified and validated the test scenarios and code developed to implement the testing and also identified risks involved in meeting the schedule
• Collaborating with Business and Development teams to ensure defined standards and processes are met consistently throughout the UAT phase
• Identified test scenarios, creating test plan and documenting test cases, managing test data, performed test case and requirement mapping and in order to find missing scenarios
• Participating in production support, system requirement meetings and change request meetings

Confidential, Maryland

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed business requirement documents, system requirement specifications and use cases.
• Developed and modified complex test scripts where performance, efficiency, and reliability were critical.
• Performed integration and regression testing on various platforms and different versions of the application.
• Performed black box testing.
• Created test strategy, test plans and test cases.
• Involved in system requirements reviews, technical reviews and testing implementations.
• Involved with teams from other systems in setting up the test environment and releases.
• Performed system, integration, interface, web, GUI, network, security, ad-hoc, user acceptance and regression testing.
• Performed end-to-end testing for both data transformation as well as functionality testing.
• Involved in testing in an Agile methodology environment.
• Involved in bug tracking using Quality Center.
• Involved in automating test cases.
• Involved in database test by using TOAD and SQL.
• Involved in testing of XML files.
• Involved in browser interoperability testing for various versions of Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox and Chrome.
• Involved in migration of test cases from Excel to Quality Center.

Confidential, New York

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing the Test Strategy based on the Business Requirement Document and defined Test cases based on functional specifications
• Interacted with the Developers and Project Managers to provide Test plans and Test cases for the major infrastructure and enhancements projects.
• Prepared Test scope from Business Requirements and Functional Specifications.
• Attended the daily Scrum meeting in agile environment to discuss all the outstanding Issues. And involved in rigorous meetings with testing team, development and BA team to plan and implement testing efforts.
• Involved in developing the test plan, test case and design test steps and associated the corresponding requirements.
• Discussed test cases with business analyst team during Requirement Review Meeting.
• Created Test cases for every functionality to compare expected and actual results.
• Actively participated in all stages of SDLC and STLC and Actively participated in Defect life cycle
• Involved in Integration testing after integrating the different units. Every new build manually (Sanity Testing) and reported if the most important functionality of the build failed.
• Involved in verifying the functionalities of all the modules manually, and reported the broken links after manual testing
• Performed regression testing after fixing the bugs manually, Involved in User acceptance testing of the Involved in tracking the defects and reported the defects using Quality Center and actively participated in Defect life cycle
• Performed backend testing to validate data integrity in the database by writing SQL queries
• Extensively participated in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with various outside regulatory agencies.