Career Objective:

Seeking a software tester position where my education, qualifications and acquired skills will be utilized to their best to improve the company’s overall performance.

SUMMARY

• 6 years of IT experience with demonstrated expertise in complete Software Development Life Cycle for various applications of varying size,
• Experience in gathering business requirements, translating requirements into specifications, technical and business writing and testing using various methodologies,
• Strong knowledge on Methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile etc,
• Experienced in Software Testing includes Test Plan, Test Data, Test Cases, Test Scripts with defect creation, tracking and report generation in Quality Center,
• Experience in preparing various documents like test cases, business requirements documents, business process documents,
• Experienced in Unit , Functional, System, Integration and UAT Testing,
• Good experience in Selenium IDE, Selenium WebDriver, JUnit, Log4j, TestNG,
• Have good knowledge in JIRA (Bug tracking tool), Maven, DB2, MS - Project,
• Used SharePoint to manage tasks and reference requirements,
• Well developed skills in testing, debugging and troubleshooting all types of technical issues,
• Ability to work on different projects simultaneously,
• Ability to handle the most stressed situations confidently and patiently,
• Passionate to create a positive and fruitful association with clients and colleagues,
• Expertise in providing clear, concise expression in speech and written work,
• Willing to update my skills and knowledge and increase my productivity,
• Excellent oral, verbal, written, communication, interpersonal and presentation skills,
• Strong team player with organizational and analytical skills,

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Operating System: Windows XP/Vista/Windows7,
• Programming Languages: Java,
• Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, JSP, XML,
• Databases: MySQL, Oracle, DB2,
• Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, Selenium, JUnit, HP QTP,
• MS-Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint,

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CT

Responsibilities:

• Involved in entire SDLC process (Waterfall model and Agile), from business analysis to development, testing, deployment, documenting and maintenance.
• Ensured that all products met functional and design specifications.
• Supported in planning, designing, and development of business processes.
• Worked with business analysts in translating business requirements into technical specifications.
• Tracked and documented changes for functional and business specifications.
• Functioned as a liaison between clients and development teams to analyze opportunities for business process improvements.
• Assisted in maintaining and updating existing applications and modules.
• Actively involved in analyzing and collecting user requirements.
• Determined test requirements and developed customized test plans.
• Designed and Developed Test Cases according to Functional Requirements and design specifications of the application using Selenium.
• Wrote and reviewed Test Cases using JUnit framework.
• Reported any observed quality issues to management immediately.
• Complied with all established testing guidelines and parameters.
• Logged all tests performed and noted results.
• Performed Integration Testing on various applications.
• Attend daily scrum meeting and give the status on subtasks and report any challenges or issues faced.
• Executed and evaluated manual test cases, JUnit test cases, reported defects and summarized results.
• Wrote queries to retrieve data from DB2 and Oracle databases.
• Testing the functionalities in terms of requests and responses for the front end files.
• Worked with developers by updating the defects and resolving them and tracking the status.
• Implemented all validations and done testing.
• Involved in Defect Tracking and Report generation throughout the test life cycle using HP Quality Center.

Environment: Java, Selenium 2.4, JUnit framework, HTML, Oracle, DB2, QTP, Quality Center.

QA Tester,

Confidential, CT,

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Planned and developed software test plans to detect and diagnose errors and bugs,
• Performed Functional testing, Cross-Platform, Regression, System, Acceptance and Usability testing during different stages of the application development,
• Developed test cases and performed unit testing,
• Performed Positive & Negative Testing,
• Developed and executed test programs that helped improve accuracy of QA results,
• Ensured defect free production deployments through browser compatibility testing,
• Used Test Director as a bug tracking tool,
• Categorized bugs based on the severity and interacted with developers to resolve them,

Environment: Java, MySQL, Quality Center, TestDirector, Windows 2000/XP.

Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and implemented Test plans and Test strategies based upon the Software Requirements Specifications.
• Managed requirements, test cases and test scripts using Test Director.
• Supervised the execution of Test Scripts and ensured all defects are logged in Test Director.
• Designed positive and negative test cases and executed those manually using Black Box testing techniques.
• Designed and executed automation test scripts for functional and regression testing using QTP.
• Assisted the load testing team to identify scenarios for Performance, Stress and Load testing using Load Runner.
• Used Test Director for bug tracking and defect management.
• Participated in test case walkthroughs with the Development and Design teams.
• Participated in UAT and interacted with the users to address their issues.
• Weekly status updates to project manager regarding test team progress.
• Participated in various meetings and addressed Enhancements and Modification Request issues.
• Maintained Test completion Report to inform rest of the team members about Defects (Open, Postpone, Close) at Release level.

Environment & Testing Tools: JSP, JavaScript, HTML, XML, Oracle 9i & 10g, Test Director, Quick Test Professional, Windows XP, Microsoft Office Suite.