SUMMARY:

• Experience in all phases of the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and good exposure to Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and various methodologies like Waterfall, Agile (Scrum), Iterative.
• Participated in requirements analysis, reviews & working sessions to understand the requirements & system design.
• During Agile process participated in various meeting like Release and Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Retrospective and demo meeting. Worked with features, user stories, tasks and also participated in test estimation planning session, impact analysis.
• Hands on experience with HP’s test suite - UFT/Quick Test Professional (UFT) and Quality Center/ALM.
• Plan Design Build and Maintain Test Automation Frameworks (Data-Driven, Keyword, Hybrid).
• Expert on HP QTP Automation using VBScript and Descriptive Programming and executing automated Test Scripts, Tracking Defects and interacted with the development team in correcting the defects.
• Have strong knowledge of SQL, developing database queries for Back-end Testing, In-depth knowledge of Oracle and SQL Server, Resolved database performance issues.
• Extensive experience in various phases of testing: Functional, Smoke, Regression, Integration, Black box, System, End to End, Exploratory, Usability, User Acceptance (UAT) to test specific program functions and testing of entire application.
• Have actively worked on Accessibility Testing using both Section 508 (government requirement) and WCAG 2.0 Level AA (private sector) using JAWS.
• Extensive experience in creating several types of documents: Test Plan, Test Scenario, Test Case, Test Script, Test Matrix and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) for software applications in multiple projects.
• Expertise in using test management tools like QC, ALM, JIRA and TFS/VSTS for bug reporting and defect tracking.
• Good knowledge in Web service testing using Postman and using Request and Response to validate API Integration.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential New York, NY

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Act as a Service Test Engineer for large/complex functional applications, advising staff with solutions to complex technical issues as they relate to the Test Engineering group.
• Experience and working in an Agile / Scrum environment and collaborate with scrum team and gathering of testing metrics to ensure all testing artifacts are completed on time.
• An analysis User Story and Acceptance criterion to ensure that user story is concise, clear and testable.
• Work in the agile development environment and participated on Sprint Planning, Sprint Review (Demo) meeting and Daily stand-up and retrospective meetings and update day to day status to agile team.
• Involved in preparing and writing Product Test Plan and defined the testing approach, resources and timelines.
• Participate in the review and analysis of business requirements, functional specification and design documents to ensure testability; reporting of gaps/discrepancies.
• Analyze the requirements for the new build and made recommendations.
• Write Test Plan for the new release and Developed Test Cases based on the requirements, business rules and the use cases and used the HP Quality Center to store those test cases.
• Actively participate with the testing team to develop a Strong Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Software change Request (SCR) and Test Analysis Report (TAR).
• Perform various kinds of testing such as System testing, Integration testing, Functional testing, Smoke testing, Ad hoc testing, Backend testing and Regression testing.
• Design all manual test cases step by step into the JIRA and Test Rail.
• Perform various kinds of testing manually and update execution results in JIRA and Test Rail.
• Develop Automation Test Scripts by using the tool UFT to perform regression testing for the new release.
• Enhance the scripts by inserting various kinds of checkpoints such as Standard Checkpoint, Bitmap Checkpoint, Image Checkpoint, Database Checkpoint, putting Regular Expression, creating Recovery Scenario and adding more steps writing Descriptive Programming.
• Perform Data Driven Tests with the same script for multiple sets of data.
• Use MS SQL Server (RDBMS) to retrieve data from the application database by writing complex queries and joining.
• Perform Web Service Testing using SOAP-UI and Postman tool for validating requests and responses for XML and JSON.
• Prepare Test Summary Report after every build Release and submit it to the mangers and maintained Test Matrix for the latest test results information.
• Create detailed periodic status reports for senior management to keep them posted on the progress of implementations.
• Work in a team environment performing varied daily task that requires effective communication with project managers, developers, and business analysts.

Confidential New York New York, NY

QA analyst

Responsibilities:

• Excellent understanding of Software Development life Cycle (SDLC) and importance of QA in Development, Enhancement and Maintenance of software applications.
• Expertise in Manual and Automated Testing in different testing methodologies like Agile, Scrum, Waterfall etc.
• Develop and implement all kinds of documents such as Test plan, test scenarios, test cases, test scripts, defect analysis report, RTM by following Agile (Scrum) Methodologies with large scrum team.
• Communicating with team members, assigning task, generate daily test report, help team members, help team members for understanding related assigned task for creating TS/TC, verifying defects, Moderating defect triage meeting, At time perform black box testing.
• Developing test cases/scripts for Regression tests in QTP and Data Driven tests using automated test tools. Working experience with on site and offshore teams based on schedules.
• Experience in VB for HP/Mercury Quick Test Professional.
• Experience using different Frameworks like Hybrid, Keyword and Data Driven frame works in QTP and extensively worked on Scripting using Shared Object repository and Descriptive Programming.
• Experience in QTP - VB Script programming standards, developing reusable functional libraries used in different scripts.
• Created and maintained SharePoint publishing and collaboration sites, libraries, and list.
• Experience in E-Commerce platform implementation testing.
• Served as sole SharePoint in charge and gathered user requirements, then developed and supported solutions on the SharePoint platform to meet business needs.
• Collaborated with business analysts, designers, and system owners in the testing of new software programs &applications.
• Hands-on experience in Black box, E2E, User Acceptance, Functional, Integration, GUI, System, Usability, Regression test
• Participation in requirement review meetings, analyzing requirements, developing test plans and cases, Requirement Traceability Matrix, Defect management, Reporting and tracking.
• Testing web services, XML (request and validating responses), WSDL using SOAPUI tool. Modified end points when we worked on different servers and different versions of Web Services.
• Documented process of creating test plans, test cases/scripts, test execution, and metrics reporting for HPQTP/QC/ALM.
• Organized and tested web applications on various platforms.
• Tested manually and automatically large-scale e-Commerce project.
• In-depth knowledge testing Mobile applications and devices and experience in testing the application on different Mobile Handset.
• Well exposure of testing applications on wide range of mobile handset of different vendors including Nokia, Samsung, Google G1, Motorola, Windows Mobile, HTC, LG, iPhone, etc.

Confidential Richmond, VA

Software QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Manually executed Test cases and Test Scripts after reviewing the business requirement document and technical specifications and responsible for updating existing test cases against the requirements.
• Assisted in developing Test Plans for testing the functionality, GUI, and usability of the application.
• Performed manual testing, considering the base line of developed Test Plan and Test Cases considering both positive and negative scenarios also boundary scenarios.
• Executed Test Case developed by self or peers. Compared and analyzed actual to expected results and reported all deviations for resolution.
• I was responsible for designing and documenting repeatable test. Performed Smoke, Integration, Functional, Regression, GUI and UAT testing.
• Used HP Quality Center (QC) bug tracking tool to report application bugs and enhancements request and discussed with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Interacted with developers to resolve defects, and I was responsible to create Test Data for functional testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Performed functional testing for new release enhancements, also Performed the Back-End integration testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL queries on Oracle.
• Participated actively in the team meetings with the developers for bug reviews.
• Responsible for writing SQL queries to retrieve data from Oracle database, also Responsible for updating and deleting data in database.

Confidential

Software QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in requirements/use case analysis with team and the product owners in Elaboration phase and involved in poker planning sessions to size the user stories and define acceptance criteria for the user story.
• Participated in sprint planning sessions. Created QA sub- tasks with right estimates for the user stories.
• Involved in creating QA test plan and traceability matrix in order to ensure that the project's scope, requirements and deliverables remain "as is" when compared to the baseline.
• Manually generated and implemented templates for Test Plan, Test Cases, and Test Scripts for entire application. Used Quality Center for test case creation, execution, test coverage and defect tracking.
• Involved in the entire defect life cycle for every build in order to log, track and report defects using Quality Center.
• Performed Functional, Integration, Regression, End-To-End, system, ad-hoc, UAT testing to ensure a smooth deployment of the whole application. Performed Cross Browser Testing using Google Chrome, Firefox and IE
• Performed Regression testing using Quick Test Professional (QTP) to assure that the new code had no adverse effect upon the current system and participated in document reviews and inspection.
• Extensively used checkpoints, Synchronization points, actions and recovery scenario manager features error handling, descriptive programming, record and run as well as load the object repository using object spy and run the script in Quick Test Professional.
• Created virtual user with virtual credit cards for validating various status using C2 banking technology.
• Worked in multiple projects simultaneously and followed multiple methodology such as waterfall, agile (scrum) for the entire testing life cycle.
• Attended all planning review, daily basis and walkthroughs meetings within a project team, and provided testing results and weekly status report to QA lead.
• Written SQL Queries to extract data from various database tables for backend testing purpose.
• Involved in User acceptance testing (UAT) in alpha and beta both environments to assist clients along with documents and performed execution process.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Environment : HTML, XML, DHTML, Windows XP, Oracle SQL Developer, MS SQL Server 2003/2008, XML, MS Outlook, QC/ALM, QTP/UFT, SharePoint, MS office suite, VBs, Java.

Operating System : Windows 98, XP, 2000, 7, and 8

Testing Tools : HP QTP/ UFT, HP Quality Center/ALM, VSTS, TFS, JIRA

CM Tools : Rational Clear Case, Star Team, VSS.

Application Languages : C, C++, Visual basic, Java, J2EE, PL/SQL, TSL.

Databases : Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS ACCESS.

Web Technology : XML, HTML, VB.NET, ASP

Web Servers : Web Logic, Web Sphere and IIS.

Networking : TCP/IP, Cisco Router, Cisco Switch, Cisco IOS and SDM, Subnetting, VLSMs, STP, VLANs, NAT, WAN, FTP

Others : Toad, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Flash MX-2004, Macromedia Dream Weaver MX-2004