SUMMARY:

• Diversified experience for seven years as a QA analyst in client/server, web applications using manual and automation testing techniques.
• Excellent technical experience in writing system test plans, test cases, test scripts, automated scripts, documentation and setting up test lab environments.
• Experience in various industry sectors insurance, banking and Web applications.
• Extensive experience in Black Box testing.
• Hands on experience in software testing process which includes executing tests, record results, test reports and defect tracking.
• Possess specific experience in performing testing including Back end, Front end, Regression, Functional, System, Interface, Usability, Black box, Integration Verification and Validation, End - to-end and User Acceptance Testing.
• Extensive knowledge in preparing test strategy, test plan, test scripts, defect metrics, test result summary as well as maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Experience with n-tier systems and both Web and application servers.
• Experience in testing database applications of RDBMS in ORACLE 11g, and MS SQL Server.
• Strong skills in backend testing using SQL.
• Experience in TOAD for querying Oracle database.
• Experience in testing on Windows as well as Linux/Solaris/Unix based application.
• Experience in performing Integration, Regression and Functional Testing using Selenium Webdriver, HP UFT/Quick Test Professional (QTP) Automation Tools.
• Proficient in HP ALM/Quality Center (QC), JIRA, Clear Quest for test management and defect tracking.
• Excellent experience in working with Agile Methodologies.
• Experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and testing methodologies.
• Experience working individually and in a team environment.
• Responsible for mentoring resources technically and trained other QA team members.
• Participated in Daily Stand-up meeting, Walkthrough meeting, Weekly assessment meetings with business analysts and developers.
• Experience working closely with teams of business analysts, developers and testers throughout the entire software development life cycle to elicit and manage business/functional requirements.
• Defined and developed quality assurance process and methodology for SDLC based on industry best practices such as ISO, CMMI.
• Good team player with excellent written, communication and interpersonal skills.

SKILL:

Testing Tool: HP Quality Center/ALM, Selenium Webdriver, JIRA, Clear Quest, HP QTP/UFT, Win Runner, SOAPUI

Databases: Oracle 8i/9i/11g, MS SQL Server 2008/2005/2000

Tools: Toad, SQL Assistant, MS SQL Server Management Studio

Operating System: Windows XP/7/8.1, UNIX, Linux

Languages: SQL, JAVA

Scripting Languages: Java Script, VB Script

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Herndon, VA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business and system requirements and developed the test plans and test cases accordingly.
• Performed the application's Functional, Black Box, Integration, System and Regression testing.
• Performed Functional and Regression testing manually.
• Conducted End-to-End, Manual testing of the system and prepared and managed test cases using HP ALM.
• Used ALM for executing tests in test labs, requirements gathering and defect tracking.
• Regression test cases were written and automated using Selenium Webdriver.
• Developed both Data Driven and Keyword Driven Automation Frameworks in Selenium Webdriver using Eclipse.
• Wrote SQL queries to extract the data from Oracle database using Toad.
• Responsible for test data preparation for the system/integration testing, traceability matrix to ensure the test case coverage and defect logging.
• Logged on to the defects and identified show stoppers and escalated them to the developers.
• Implemented Agile Methodology for the entire project.
• Interacted with the development and QA teams to ensure overall quality of the software.

Environment: HP ALM, Selenium Webdriver, Windows, Oracle 11g, Java, Firebug, Firepath, XPath, XML, HTML, Java scripts, SQL, TOAD.

Confidential, Steven Rapids, WI

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and executed the test cases in Quality Center.
• Involved in Regression analysis.
• Work experience on Agile Methodology.
• Developed and maintained automated regression test cases in Selenium Webdriver using Object oriented programming language.
• Worked in the Selenium Web driver with TestNG for executing the test cases.
• Used Selenium WebDriver for automating of Cross Browser Testing on IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome.
• Executed and maintained the existing QTP scripts.
• Created output values, synchronization points, check points and data-driven tests using QTP.
• Defect tracking and defect report generation are prepared using Quality Center.
• Exported data from excel to Quality center.
• Participated in UAT testing with end customers.
• Involved in updating the Use cases and prepared the test scenarios.
• Involved in writing SQL queries to perform backend testing.
• Performed end-to-end testing of full functionality.
• Involved in the preparation Traceability Matrix and preparation of quality metrics.
• Interacted with module leads, business analysts, team lead, manager and users to analyze the business requirements and functional specifications documents.

Environment: HP Quality Center 9.2, Java script, Selenium Webdriver, HP QTP/UFT 9.2, HTML, share point, VB Script, Microsoft Office, JIRA, SQL Server, Firefox, Windows server 2003.

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plans, test strategies, requirements traceability matrix, test coverage, test cases, and test scripts in Quality Center for testing the applications.
• Involved in team/review meetings with the business teams to understand the functionalities and enhancements of the application.
• Developed test cases and test scripts using business requirements.
• Conducted end to end testing manually.
• Involved in all phases of testing which includes Smoke, System, Integration, Regression and User Acceptance testing.
• Managed the traceability between requirements and test cases.
• Submitted weekly status reports stating the blocking issues of the current build.
• Attended weekly meetings with team leaders, managers and developers to discuss the issues found during the creation of the test case/scripts.
• Tested the claims for newly created benefit packages and changes made to the existing benefit packages.
• Worked with SQL queries to test the database functionality.
• Tracked the defects using Rational Clear Quest and generated defect summary reports.

Environment: HP Quality Center, DB2, Java, Java Script, Oracle 9i, Rational Clear Quest, UNIX, Windows NT/2000, SQL, MS Office Tools.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Understands the project specs and system architecture.
• Involved in manual testing of the application.
• Created test cases and test data for the application in Quality Center.
• Generated daily status report using graphs with in the Quality Center.
• Responsible for Testing Web Services requests using SOAPUI.
• Wrote test cases and test scenarios using Quality Center as a test management tool.
• Modified the existing test cases.
• Created and tested scenarios using positive and negative test data.
• Conducted GUI, Functionality, Integration and Regression testing.
• Performed backend testing on the Oracle database by writing SQL statements to ensure the retrieved data was correct.
• Tracked and recorded defects and reported them to the development team.
• Prepared test summary reports and defect status reports.
• Worked with the development, testing and business analyst teams and made modifications based on the needs.

Environment: HP Quality Center, Oracle, Java, HTML, XML, SOAPUI, JavaScript, Windows 2000/HP.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing and designing manual test cases.
• As a team member, I was involved in writing test plans, creating test cases ensuring that the developed software performed as detailed by the business requirements.
• Involved in manual testing and automated testing.
• Automated reusability functionality using WinRunner.
• Involved in testing the application using multiple browsers.
• Involved in checking hyperlinks of the application.
• Developed SQL queries to check the database integrity.
• Tracked the defects found and sent them to the developer using Quality Center.
• Reported the status of the software testing through an analysis of reported defects.
• Interfaced with development configuration and the operations team to ensure the quality of software to the user expectation.
• Documented errors and implemented their resolutions.

Environment: Oracle 7.3, UNIX, Load Runner, Quality Center and HTML, Windows NT.