SUMMARY

• Highly driven self - starter offering a strong academic background in IT combined with excellent work experience as an QA Test engineer. Seeking career development by utilizing and leveraging current skills and experience for newer challenges in the arena of software engineering

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• T OOLS: Quality Center, SQL TOAD, Visual Studio, JIRA, SOAP UI, Informatica Power center, Selenium, Railydev
• LANGUAGES: SQL, Visual Basic, C, C++, XML
• OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, UNIX, MOSS 2007, Windows Server 2003, Apple IOS, Chrome, Firefox
• DATABASES: SQL Server 2000/2005, Microsoft Access 2003
• Technologies: Application Servers, Web Servers Data Warehousing, Informatics Business objects
• Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile
• OTHERS: Microsoft Project 2003, Visio 2003, Microsoft Office 2007, MS Front Page 2003

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Engineer/Mobile Application Tester

Responsibilities:

• Provided full lifecycle application development using the Agile methodology, working in three week sprints, holding daily SCRUM meetings, and maintaining tasks in JIRA
• Designing test plans and documenting/maintaining test cases and results.
• Mainly involved with website and mobile app projects and launches, including A/B and multivariate split tests
• Responsible for testing and related activities to ensure enhancements and content changes are made to mobile website, mobile applications, and other media channels as designed to meet all business and functional requirements
• Created, executed, and documented manual regression test procedures
• Executed Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Functional Testing and Negative Testing and User Acceptance Testing, Performance Testing (JMeter)
• Identifying, reporting, and tracking defects and issues through to resolution. Interacting closely with development teams to identify, isolate, and fix software defects. Collaborating with development team to resolve open issues and retest functionality and content. Helping triage issues found throughout the project lifecycle
• Converting manual test cases to automation scripts using Selenium.
• Worked with the development teams and business leaders to ensure quality releases, by ensuring all testing strategies has been fulfilled.
• Involved in backend testing using SQL queries in MySQL Tool
• Communicating progress with project teams and clients.
• Communicating/Documenting overall project test status and results with project team.
• Adhering to defect tracking processes by documenting software defects, using a defect tracking tool (Rallydev/Ca Technology), monitoring the progress in a timely manner (using Accedo JIRA), and escalating aging and priority defects.

Confidential

QA Tester Washington DC

Responsibilities:

• Managing and implemented test strategy for the CBE (Competency Based Education) Application in Agile (SAAS) environment.
• Involved in the overall testing process of COTS application.
• Responsible for test schedule and executing assigned test cases.
• Interact with the product delivery team; participate in product requirement/design reviews to provide input on completeness of functional requirements, product designs, and schedules.
• Identify interdependencies, ambiguities or omissions, and make suggestions to improve requirements and ensure usability/testability.
• Develop testing scenarios/cases to address areas such as database impacts, software scenarios, regression testing, boundary/negative testing, error or defect retests, usability; including automated scripts.
• API and web services testing.
• Hands on with various test strategies such as, Black box, UAT, functional testing, Integration, GUI Testing Smoke testing.
• Participates in review of project requirements to understand test objectives and to provide input.
• Adhere to defect tracking process; document software defects, using a defect tracking tool (ZEPHYR JIRA), monitor the progress in a timely manner, escalate aging and priority defects.
• Test through all stages of the software lifecycle.
• Created Traceability Matrix to ensure that all the requirements are covered by the test cases.
• Performed some database testing with SQL.
• Provide test execution results and related metrics for every release cycle.
• Design testing infrastructure and oversee construction of automated tests suites.
• Participated in project sprint planning, execution, testing and releases on Scrum methodology.

Confidential, Washington D.C

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Functional Design documentation, User Requirements and Technical Requirements.
• Written Test Scripts using Quality Center, analyzing the possible Scenarios for the Web Environments.
• Multiple & Reusable Actions Were Created and Executed in the Script.
• Prepared and executed Test Cases with different Test Sets for different objectives based on the Business/Functional requirement.
• Used Quality Center for test planning, executing test cases and reporting defects.
• Converted manual test cases to automation scripts using QTP.
• Define Automated test criteria to be used to determine which functionality should be automated.
• Analyzed end user performance results and determined which steps need performance optimization.
• Work closely with the QA manager to plan, schedule, and execute the QA strategy.
• Involved in browser compatibility testing using different browsers like Safari, Chrome etc.
• Involved in testing webpage content and controls, cache issues, login - logout session issues, browser compatibility, speed via modems, text accessibility.
• Knowledge and experience with continuous Integration, Continuous Build and Continuous Deployment Practice.
• Triage and prioritize bugs, and retest, and make sure to include these in regression testing.
• Highly involved in Front End Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Negative Testing, UAT Testing (POS).

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparing Test plan and Test cases based on the function specification.
• Analyzed the application and performed end to end manual testing.
• Used HP Quality Center bug tracking tool as the test repository for executing the test cases generating various reports further analysis and the also follow up the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Worked in the Agile Scrum Software development environment.
• Analyzed system requirements and develop test plans for the project based on SDLC.
• Participated in all phases of the software Testing lifecycle (STLC), from requirements analysis through production launch.
• Worked with product manager to plan, coordinate and manage Beta testing with the end users.
• Demonstrated ability to apply critical thinking skills and a logic -based approach to problem solving.
• Able to prioritize multiple workloads and deliver timely result.
• Superior attention to details.
• Communicate testing progress, test result, and other relevant information to management.
• Participates in project work group meeting (internal/external peer views, status meeting software process improvement)
• Demonstrated business user walk-thru plan to end user groups.
• Used HP Quick Test professional (QTP) for automating scripts
• Involved in backend testing using SQL queries