SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated professional with over Six years of experience in IT systems implementation projects as Quality Assurance analyst and also as a Team Lead with a record of delivering successful QA solutions in Waterfall and Agile environments. Skilled Confidential employing both automated and manual testing methods to conduct integration, functional, regression, user acceptance, System and E2E testing.
• QA Tester/Test Engineer and testing experience with a wide variety of projects and environments.
• Knowledge and experienced in every phase of Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC) and Software / Complex Custom Development Life Cycle (SDLC/CDLC).
• Detailed test management experience with building and maintaining test plans, test suites, test cases Expertise in Entire Software Development Life Cycle and Test Development Life Cycle including Waterfall Model and Agile methodology.
• Tested web services, XML, WSDL using SOAPUI tool and HTTP request and response using Postman tool. Modified end points when we worked on different servers and different versions of Web Services.
• Tested video streaming on Confidential & Confidential platform in different playback mode such as linear, VOD, DVR and Third party apps.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills for identifying the problems while testing using wire shark/ logs/ traces/ other symptom files.
• Capability to handle network emergencies and ensure proper timely escalations.
• Extensive experience in testing of large client server applications, Web based applications and E - Commerce Applications on various Window and UNIX Environments.
• Experienced in both manual and automated functional testing of Web and Client/Server applications using automated tools such as HP QTP, ALM and Cucumber.
• Well conversant with software testing methodologies including developing Test plans, Test scenarios, Test cases, Test procedures, Test reports and documenting manual and automation tests.
• Experienced in of use software Management Tools like Quality Center, ALM and Jira
• Extensive experience in creation and maintenance of automated test scripts.
• Implemented Quality Center/ALM for test planning, test case development, test case execution and test results analysis.
• Effectively involved in Defect tracking, reporting, and analyzing test result using Quality Center/ALM, Jira and Splunk
• Expertise with SQL queries for back end testing and validated database, comparing the data. Extensively used the SQL Developer for Oracle for writing SQL statements.
• Strong experience with test coordination and leading large projects
• Well experienced in requirements gathering, business analysis, gap analysis and writing functional specifications.
• Exceptional team player endowed with brilliant communication skills.
• Well versed with the concepts of database design, development and testing of various Client/Server Applications using ORACLE, SQL SERVER and MS Access.
• Capable of analyzing business documentation and specifications prior to transfer them into QA.
• Strong in Analyzing Business Specification/Requirements and Develop Test Plans, Test Cases, Test scripts and executes them.
• Interacted with developers to assure quality of testing.
• Ability to work with all levels of management, willingness to learn and implement new ideas quickly and to be a collaborative team player.
• Excellent analytical, communication, documentation and interpersonal skills.
• Highly motivated resourceful team player that takes a positive approach to problem resolution.
• Expertise working with Requirements Matrices Traceability in Quality Center/ALM.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: QuickTest Professional, Quality Center /ALM, Jira, SOAPUI

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Iterative, Agile.

Version Controls: PVCS, MKS Tracker, VSS .

Operating System: Windows 7/ 8/NT/XP /Vista, Windows Server, UNIX .

Languages: VBScript, PL/SQL, C, C++, Java, Python .NET, HTML .

Software: M S Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), Confidential .O.A.D.

Databases: Oracle, DB -2, MS SQL Server, Sybase.

Networking: TCP/IP, LAN/WAN, FTP, Telnet .

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas TX

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared test cases for large scale system changes that touch many areas of the application and have broad performance implications. Test cases are include calling patterns to downstream services , caching behavior , analysis of application logs , system performance and resiliency including CPU and memory usage , and failure cases.
• Complete understanding of Basic and Advanced Video Applications.
• Perform integration and testing activities of digital media devices, set top boxes, etc
• Adapt in high level/low level design, coding, testing and coordination with multiple teams to deliver quality software including application development and release management .
• Actively solicit and consider input from multiple engineers when creating or revising test cases .
• Exposure to various requirements developed and executed both manual and automation test scripts.
• Specified testing requirements, converted requirements to tests, designed test steps, generated test templates, created requirement coverage and imported test cases in the Test Lab.
• Created, executed tests, generated the test reports and created graphs.
• Prepared Tool Mentor documentation & PowerPoint presentation of Quality Center for the client and for the team members.
• Developed Requirement Traceability Matrices and Test Analysis Report.
• Involved in Functionality, Regression, Black Box, Back-end, Integration, User Acceptance, Testing.
• Involved in writing Splunk queries for Backend Testing and to verify the logs.
• Involved in validating the data, which has been populated into database tables using PL/SQL.
• Responsible for identifying the functional test cases for Regression Testing and automate test scripts using Quick Test Pro.
• Communicated defects encountered during Regression Test and followed-up with developers until all issues were resolved.
• Coordinated closely with programmers to ensure proper implementation of tests, provided feedback, and documented test results.
• Document the results of testing using the projects defect tracking system and provides input to the Software Test Report for each release.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating Test Plan, Test scenarios, Test scripts and Test cases, corresponded to the test requirements in order to maximize verification coverage of system variables.
• Expertise in Manual and Automated Testing in different testing methodologies like Agile, Scrum, Waterfall etc.
• Exposure to various requirements developed and executed both manual and automation test scripts.
• Specified testing requirements, converted requirements to tests, designed test steps, generated test templates, created requirement coverage and imported test cases in the Test Lab.
• Created, executed tests, generated the test reports and created graphs using Quality Center.
• Coordinated as a Quality Center support to ensure efficient services to the team members and the client.
• Prepared Tool Mentor documentation & PowerPoint presentation of Quality Center for the client and for the team members. knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle SDLC
• Experience in manual testing as well as automated testing using HP Quick Test Pro, Quality Center and ALM.
• Developed Requirement Traceability Matrices and Test Analysis Report.
• Involved in Functionality, Regression, Black Box, Back-end, Integration, User Acceptance, Testing.
• Involved in writing SQL queries for Backend Testing and to verify the database updates, inserts and deletions etc., of the records, and validate them.
• Involved in validating the data, which has been populated into database tables using PL/SQL.
• Responsible for identifying the functional test cases for Regression Testing and automate test scripts using Quick Test Pro.
• Communicated defects encountered during Regression Test and followed-up with developers until all issues were resolved.
• Coordinated closely with programmers to ensure proper implementation of tests, provided feedback, and documented test results.
• Document the results of testing using the projects defect tracking system and provides input to the Software Test Report for each release.
• Responsible for test automation of company's app on Android and iOS. For mobile testing, I utilized multiple mobile devices such as multiple versions of Android and iOS (iPhone3, iPhone4, iPhone4s, iPad, iPad2 and Android tablets.
• Tested web services, XML, WSDL using SOAPUI tool. Modified end points when we worked on different servers and different versions of Web Services.
• Tested Web Services, providing required input data to request XML and validated response XML

Confidential, NY

Software Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Based on the entrance criteria received from the development team, developed an integrated test plan covering the main features of the designated modules of the application; designed test methods to verify the application's functions and prepared Detail Test Plans, Test cases and Test Results document.
• Solid experience testing systems from existing system and functional specifications.
• Responsible for defect management includes, defect logging, defect tracking, defect triaging and defect closure.
• Used Quality Center to prepare Requirements Traceability Matrix and managing the Defects.
• Involved in maintaining and uploading the QTP Scripts to Quality Center/ALM.
• Wrote SQL queries in order to verify whether the data is properly updated in the database tables.
• Involved in Automating Regression Test Scenario and wrote Test Scripts in QTP.
• Performed Integration testing to test the functionality of the modules.
• Maintained Test Matrix for the latest test results information
• Coordinated all the testing related issues with the end users and the testing team.
• Created detailed periodic status reports for senior management to keep them posted on the progress of implementation.
• Interacted closely with the Developers and Business Analyst to gain a better understanding of the application and ensure overall quality of the software.

Environment: C#, .NET, Visual Studio, J2EE, Java Script, XML, UNIX, SQL, Oracle, PVCS & Tracker.