PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 8 Years of experience in IT industry with various phases of testing across applications in divergent domains.
• Strong expertise in Software testing the different applications like Health Insurance, Sales, finance, Retail etc.
• Experience working with Test Management tools like Quality Center and Test Director.
• Good exposure to different Software Development Life Cycle and Testing Methodologies.
• Experience in testing the application in Finance, Sales and mortgages domain.
• Experience in understanding Requirements handed over by the Business Analyst and work along with the Development team.
• Expertise in preparing test plans, test cases, test case execution, and reporting.
• Proficient in Sanitary, Integration, System, User and Alpha Testing.
• Skilled in generating automated test scripts using QTP. Generated a repository of reusable functions to cut down scripting time.
• Hands on experience in using framework for QTP Automation Scripts.
• Good in Maintaining of Test Scripts, Requirements & management of test suites using Quality Center Tool. Prepared the Test Execution reports using the Quality Center.
• Experience in preparing Test Approach /Strategy and estimation of work along with team lead.
• Excellent Work Experience in Windows NT, 95, 2000, UNIX platforms.
• Good Knowledge of programming languages like C, C++, JAVA
• Experience using various Defect Tracking Tools such as Bugzilla, ClearQuest and Quality Center for defect management throughout the product life cycle
• Independent, self - motivated, flexible to handle changing priorities in fast pace environment. Excellent Team player, strong communication and interpersonal skills, which enabled to interact with Managers, Business Analysts and Developers.
• Strong in performing backend testing to validate data using SQL queries.
• Good understanding of XML, Use Case Diagrams and Content Management Tools (TeamSite), Software Configuration Management tools (ClearCase and Visual Source Safe).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: & Utilities: QTP, Winrunner, Quality Center, Bugzilla

Languages: XML, Visual Basic 6.0, HTML, VB Script, TSL Scripts, C, C++, PERL, Java

Web Related: HTML, DHTML, Web Services

Databases: SQL Server2000, Oracle 10g, MySQL

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX/LINUX

Reporting Tools: Quality Center, MS Excel

Packages: MS Office, MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Seattle, WA

QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in all stages of testing life cycle, Test Driven Development methodologies, Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) using Waterfall, Agile methodologies.
• Designed and Developed Test Cases for Manual and automated testing (Selenium, TestNG and Eclipse IDE).
• Developed test code in Java language using Eclipse, IDE and TestNG framework.
• Configured Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven tool and created selenium automation scripts in java using TestNG prior to agile release.
• Created test cases, scripts based on functional specification, prepared test data for testing.
• Created and enhanced numerous test scripts to handle changes in the objects, in the tested application's GUI and in the testing environment using Selenium WebDriver.
• Worked on Selenium GUI Object / element verification is done through XPath, CSS Locators.
• Involved in Functional Testing, Load Testing, Regression Testing, cross - browsing testing and Adhoc testing
• Used TestNG Annotations in Selenium WebDriver and executed a batch of tests as TestNG suite.
• Used TestNG framework to run unit test and Maven to build the Project.
• Involved in Web Services Testing using SOAP UI to create
• Involved in executing SQL queries and PL/SQL procedures, functions and packages for backend testing.
• Used Quality Center/ALM for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status.
• Working closely with the Developers in the review and modification of the product and its specifications using Agile-testing methodology.

Environment: Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, Cucumber, SOAP UI, Eclipse,, Agile, HTML, XML, XPath, JavaScript, Quality Center/ALM,, Oracle, UNIX, Windows.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business requirements with Business Analysts in JAD Sessions to understand requirements.
• Analyzed the transaction workflows, review the change requests to develop Test data and test cases.
• Developing test processes and approaches according to standards.
• Assisted team documenting functional and regression test plans, test cases with expected results based on the business functional requirements.
• Conducted Test plan reviews with cross-functional teams.
• Data received from sources is transformed and loaded into database using Data Stage
• Exposure to functionality of various components in Data Stage
• Conducted testing on Oracle database of size around 10 TB with tables carrying huge volume of data
• Tracked the progress of the test team through weekly status reports.
• Coordinated and managed testing activities as per the AGILE methodology followed by project team members.
• Coordinated the test activities with Quality Assurance team.
• Follow up with developers on issues that were causing problems in testing in QA environment.
• Prepared Test estimation and Test metrics documents using MS Excel.
• Tracked the test cases and defects using Quality Center.
• Presented weekly/daily status reports & Test Metrics using Quality Center.
• Prepared Load Test plan and Analyzed the performance test results.
• Analyzed the reports and graphs generated by Load Runner to check the bottlenecks in the performance.
• Reported bugs into an automated bug management system and performing regression tests after the bugs were fixed.

Environment: Oracle, UNIX, Data Stage, Windows NT/ 2000, HP Quality Center, TOAD, IBM DB2 Command Center, Oracle SQL

Confidential, Pasadena, CA

Automation Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated business analysts for translating requirements to test cases.
• Execution of Test Case manually to verify actual results against expected results.
• Tested the application manually for a few modules for the functionality of the application.
• Automated test scripts for the GUI, Functional, Data Driven and Regression testing using Quick Test Pro and also developed test harness.
• Identified the high-risk points and the priorities of the application.
• Defined the test criteria and project schedules during project meetings and walkthroughs.
• Documented detail test cases, expected results and traced the test cases to the requirements using Mercury Quality Center (MQC).
• Performed Build Verification Testing, Positive and Negative data testing and Boundary testing.
• Performed Manual testing on different Modules of the Application by executing the Test Cases. Conducted Functional, Regression and Integration Testing.
• Performed regression testing using Quick Test Professional.
• Performed testing activities testing activities as per AUP (Agile software methodology)
• Attended review meetings and made sure the testing is done based on the QA master plan and the deadlines are met.
• Executed SQL queries for validating the data in database.
• Documented the modification requests and defects and their trailing history using Mantis.

Environment: IE, Java/J2EE, Oracle, XML, Quality Center, Unix/Linux, Scrum, Unix Scripting, Mantis, Quick Test Pro, and SQL.

Confidential, Denver,CO

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and Analyzed Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) and Business Requirement Document (BRD) and setup meetings to clarify discrepancies.
• Prepared Test Cases and prioritized them as per critical functionality that is affecting the project deliverable.
• Executed the Test Cases and evaluated their Pass or Fail criteria.
• Tracked failed Test Cases and reported Bugs in Mercury Test Director.
• Maintained and Updated Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Environment through Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Performed System, Functional, Regression and Integration testing.
• Integrated Winrunner with Test Director and documented the test results.
• Executed SQL queries for back end testing for the verification of results retrieved with the expectations.
• Interacted with the developers and stakeholders to resolve technical issues.
• Submitted Test Status Reports about Test Coverage and Defect Summary to Project Management Team on weekly basis.
• Analyzed change requests attended change request meetings to document changes, track changes, prioritize changes, and manage changes and implemented procedures to test impact of changes.
• Identified requirement discrepancies and updated them to Business Analyst (BA).
• Participated in Walk Through, Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions and Report Meetings periodically.

Environment: Windows XP, UNIX Shell Script, SQL, Winrunner, .Net, ASP, TCL Scripts, Test Director, TSL Scripts, SQL Server, MS Office Suite

Confidential, South Portland, ME

Automation Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plan, Test Cases for complete end-to-end system testing.
• Created manual test cases and test suites for different modules in Siebel Sales application.
• Automated regression test suite and performed smoke test using Quick Test Professional.
• Recorded and ran the automation scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Customized Scripts to in corporate GUI Check points, Data Driven testing using Data Tables, Output Values.
• Created Virtual Objects and mapped to the existing Siebel standard objects.
• Implemented Regular expressions and parameterized checkpoint properties.
• Handled unexpected errors at time of playback using Recovery Scenario wizards.
• Created manual test cases and test suites for different modules in Siebel application.
• Executed SQL queries for Back-end testing.
• Tested the conversion data into Siebel OLTP by running SQL scripts
• Status updates and reporting as agreed and reporting of test results and identified defects.
• Maintained Defects, Test Scripts, Requirements & management of test suites using Quality Center Tool.
• Managed and coordinated offshore team and was responsible for Delivery of the test scripts.
• Verified reports that were all custom in-house build out of the warehouse.

Environment: Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, Unix Scripting, VB Script, Oracle SQL, Siebel testing, UNIX, C++, JAVA