SUMMARY:

• Have 6 years of experience in Information Technology industry with emphasis on Software Quality Assurance. Background includes analysis, design, development, testing and maintenance of Complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) projects.
• Expertise in analyzing business specifications for design and development of Test plans, Test Cases, Test Environment, Test Sets, Requirement Traceability Matrix and Defect Reports.
• Have experience in Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Load, Stress, Performance, User Acceptance and Deployment Testing.
• Expertise in Manual testing includes Requirements Analysis, writing Test plans, Test Cases and Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Proficient in using Test management tool HP QC/ALM for Test Planning, Test Designing, Test Analysis, Test Execution, Defect Tracking and Reporting.
• Good Exposure in implementing Agile Methodologies and Waterfall Methodologies in Testing Projects.
• Successfully Tested projects developed in Java, J2EE on UNIX and Windows based platforms.
• Expertise in data driven tests using SQL and Database/Backend Testing and extracted data from different databases and verified.
• Experience in executing jobs on UNIX platform.
• Good documentation skills; created Test case documents for Unit Test, System Test and Integration and Post implementation testing.
• Captured Test results and documented the results for all the test cases with supporting screen shots and files.
• Exposure to Finance, Retail and Insurance Domains.
• Exposure to Test automation tool QTP/UFT.
• Expertise in Problem solving and Bug Reports using Bug Tracking Tools.
• Experience in writing SQL Queries, Oracle and DB2.
• Ability to effectively multitask, meet deadlines, adapt to different project environments, flexible and positive attitude and an excellent team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software/Tools: HP ALM (QC), MS - OFFICE, SharePoint, SOAP UI, 508

Languages: SQL, HTML, XML

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2K/NT/XP/Vista, UNIX

Database: ORACLE, IBM DB2, MS SQL Server 2000

Exposure to: Java/J2EE, VB Script, QTP, Selenium

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, McLean, VA

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Bi-weekly sprints and in daily stand up meetings.
• Plan for Bi-weekly iterations and upcoming activities for the sprint.
• Analyze user stories and prepare test scenarios and test cases based on user stories.
• Upload test cases and requirements in ALM.
• Execute test cases in UNIX box through Putty and prepare evidence document by using Snipping Tool.
• Preparing End to end Test cases and get the sign-off before the test execution.
• Involved in backend and database testing by writing and executing SQL queries.
• Log defects in ALM and follow-up with developers on the status to work towards resolution of the defects.
• Document of daily defect status with the help of QA metrics.
• Analyzing the Test Data for every Scenario and coordinating with different teams for Test Data
• Perform System Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing and Integration testing of the Application.
• Support User Acceptance Testing.
• Analyzed business requirements, and suggested change requests if necessary.
• Involved in successfully releasing the projects on time.

Environment: Java/J2EE, IBM DB2, ALM11.0 (QC), XML, SharePoint, SQL, MS OFFICE, UNIX, Rapid SQL, Snipping Tool, PUTTY.

Confidential, Durham, NC

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepare Test Cases and executed the test cases in the Quality Center.
• Documented test cases based on corresponding Business/Users requirement documents and technical specifications and other operating conditions.
• Estimating the effort for test execution and test results documentation.
• Preparing End to end Test cases and get the sign-off before the test execution.
• Involved in database testing by writing and executing SQL queries.
• Developed automation test scripts using HP Quick Test Professional.
• Executed automated test scripts using QTP.
• Modified and Executed automated and manual test scripts for different modules using UFT 12.01
• Performed System Testing, Functional Testing, Sanity Testing and Usability Testing manually and automated scripts for Regression Testing of the Application.
• Analyzed business requirements, and suggested change requests if necessary.
• Involved in successfully releasing the projects on time
• Document of daily defect status with the help of QA metrics.
• Analyzing the Test Data for every Scenario and coordinating with different teams for Test Data

Environment: Oracle, Java/J2EE, QTP 9.5, ALM11.0 (QC), XML, SharePoint, SQL, Microsoft Project, Excel, Word

Confidential

QA Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for writing Test cases for all the possible scenarios for every requirement in the requirements document.
• Estimating the effort for test execution and test results documentation.
• Preparing End to end Test cases and get the sign-off before the test execution.
• Engaged in meetings with Business users/clients for the requirements.
• Loading the Requirements into ALM(QC) and mapping the Test cases and Defects for the tractability metrics.
• Logged defects where necessary and communicated to Test Lead of the status of the defects.
• Modified and executed manual test scripts for different modules.
• Extensively performed System, Integration, and functional testing Application Functionality and Regression test cases for manual and automated testing.
• Performing Health Checks on all Test systems on Daily basis.
• Coordinating with different Teams for integrating testing.
• Communicated with the team and with other teams throughout the project life cycle for change requirements and to update in the Test plan /test cases
• Analyzing the Test Data for every Scenario and coordinating with different teams for Test Data.
• Coordinating with release teams for every build.
• Executed SQL queries for data validation and back end testing
• Review UAT test cases and supporting UAT (User Acceptance Testing)
• Performing the Post Production Testing.
• Use HPQC (HP Quality Center for preparing and developing Test Scenarios, test Procedures and test case execution.

Environment: IBM DB2, Oracle, Java/J2EE, FILE-AID and HPQC, XML, SharePoint, SQL, Microsoft Project, Excel, Word.