SUMMARY

• 7+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance Testing inManualand Automation Testing.
• Strong experience in different life cycle of Project Management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile (Scrum), Iterative and hybrid Methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of all phases of Software Development Life Cycle & Software Testing Life Cycle from Test planning to defect Tracking and managing Defect Life cycle.
• 4+ Years of Test Automation Experience in VB Scripting in Quick Test Professional & Unified Functional Tester, Object Based Programming through Data Driven, Keyword driven and Hybrid Frameworks.
• Experienced in Developing and Modifying Frameworks.
• Work closely with development and Technical Support teams to resolve quality issue.
• Strong Knowledge of ManualTesting of Web based, window based, client server based as well as cloud architecture.
• Extensive experience in preparing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Reports and Test Documentation.
• Heavily performed various kinds of testing such as Smoke, Functional, Integration, Regression, Ad - hoc, System, End to End, Usability, UI/UX & User acceptance testing (UAT).
• Excellent experience working Independently and as a Team Member for testing web applications using Java, asp, .Net, Insurance, financial & banking Domain and good expertise on Exploratory Testing Using Domain Knowledge.
• Strong hands on experience and expertise on various test management tool such as HP ALM/ Quality Center (QC), Rally, Jira, MS Team Foundation Server (TFS) & Microsoft Test Manager (MTM).
• Experience in Documenting Software Defects, using Bug Tracking Tools and Report Defects to software developers.
• Extensively used automated test tools like QTP/UFT for Functional and Regression Testing.
• Identifying Area/Test Cases for Automation as well as Designing & Implementing Test Automation Strategy.
• Experience in Preparation of Automation Tests within Data Driven, Hybrid Automation Framework and Expertise in VB Script & Automation Infrastructure Development.
• Good Exposure in using of QTP/UFT Integrated Environment (Step Generator, Synchronization, Actions, Recovery Scenarios, Error Handling, Debug Script, Maintenance etc.).
• Good exposure to SQL queries written in MS SQL server and Oracle for backend testing purpose.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Manual & Automation Testing
• Black box testing
• Functional & non-functional testing
• Writing Test Plan, Test Scenario
• Design Test cases & Test Data
• Test Execution & Log Defects
• Test Reporting & Attend Meeting
• Defect Review & root cause analysis
• Integration, Smoke, System, UAT Exploratory, Backend testing
• Writing SQL using ORACLE DB
• Test team management & mentoring
• Automation Script using VB
• HP QTP/UFT for Automation
• Descriptive programing
• Enhance & Debug script
• Data Driven, Hybrid Framework
• Batch Testing overnight execution

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Senior Software QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Review Business Requirement Documents, User story, Test areas and the Functional Specifications of the application.
• Develop Test Plan and review Test Strategy to test the application according to the Requirements, Test areas and Functional Specification of the application.
• Developed Test Scripts using User story. Test scenarios are created for Positive, Negative, Boundary cases, etc. Involved in UAT testing in UAT environment, Prepared UAT test cases and testing estimates.
• Preparing Functional Test Cases/Scripts in HP Quality Center/ALM under Test Plan, And Review user story, Acceptance Criteria.
• Involved on testing the new functionalities based on test cases and coordinated with development team in fixing the issues, Defect Management by Logging and Tracking bugs during execution in Test lab module of the ALM tool.
• Ensure that all the test cases are updated in the HP Quality Center/ALM along with Master test plan Generating Matrices Reports and Charts for Defect Analysis to analyze statistical nature of the defects.
• Perform smoke, integration, functional, regression, Ad-hoc, system, Exploratory, Security, backend testing in every sprint and release.
• Responsible for database testing/backend, passing SQL queries to the Oracle database. Worked on SQL and PL/SQL and performed Backend validations.
• Develop Automation Test Scripts by using the tool HP Quick Test Pro (QTP) to perform regression testing for the new release. Debugging and Running Test using HP QTP/UFT and analysis the test result.
• Worked with function libraries, created concise and clear object repository for test objects, object spy for object identification, ordinal identifiers and smart object identification, used global data tables to set test input data and parameterization, set checkpoints for page, text, link and image validation, used regular expression for dynamic values, associated global repository and script enhancement.
• 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.
• Actively participate with the testing team to develop a Strong Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Software change Request (SCR), and Test Analysis Report (TAR).
• Directly Interact with Project Teams, Developers, Business Analysts and Clients for Test requirements, clarifications and Testing.
• Provide daily status report, defect matrices, daily updates to lead Provide daily status report on task assigned to the Project Manager/Client.

Environment: HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, .NET, C#, IIS, Web Based, Client Server Based, HP UFT/QTP, ALM, Agile, Windows Operating System.

Confidential, New York, NY

Software QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with Business Analysts and Developers, understand requirement specifications, and created test plan for the same.
• Responsible for co-coordinating with On-shore and off-shore resource for gathering timelines, requirements, inputs for test cases.
• Participated in requirement review meetings with QA lead/Manager, developers and gather details for various releases
• Experienced working in various QA Methodologies (Waterfall, Iterative, Agile) by working in multiple projects simultaneously.
• Developed and implemented all kinds of documents (Test plan, test scenarios, test cases, test scripts, defect analysis report, RTM).
• Perform Back-End Tests, Regression Tests, Ad-Hoc Tests, End to End Tests, Boundary Tests, GUI Tests, Positive and Negative Tests for the Application under Test (AUT).
• Create and execute Test Cases for some of the modules of the application under test (AUT) using ALM.
• Worked with various automation tools: HP UFT/QTP, etc. Experience writing Descriptive programming using UFT/QTP tool.
• Responsible for defect tracking, managing metrics, defects logging, submitting Change Requests using ALM. Generate Test Analysis Reports and Graphs using ALM.
• Develop test scripts for Functional testing, System testing, Regression testing and Integration testing using Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Enhance the scripts by creating Actions, Checkpoints, Synchronization points, and data driven test and modular test in QTP.
• Perform Web Service Testing using SOAP-UI. Involve developing VB Scripts User-defined function to perform the Data Driven Testing using Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Used SQL and used TOAD/SQL developer tool as an analyzer tool for Backend testing. Perform User Acceptance Testing and provide training to the end users about the new application.
• Involve in the team meetings with representatives from Development, Database Management, Configuration Management, and Requirements Management to identify and correct defects.
• Troubleshoots complex problems and provides customer support for software operating systems and application issues. Prepares reports on analyses, findings, and project progress.

Environment: HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, Java, HP QC, HP QTP, TFS, MTM, MS SQL Server, Oracle, SOAP-UI, Agile, Waterfall, Windows.

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Ensured all requirements gathered were used in both Test Plan and Test Case development via RTM
• Reviewed the Business and System requirements. Attended core team meeting and walk-through for review and resolution of Business and System requirements.
• Created Test Plans, gathered test data and created Test Cases, Matrices and scripts.
• Updated to management every day about the testing status like completed test cases, percentage of completion, defects etc.
• Performed GUI, Ad-hoc, Functional, Regression, System, Integration, UAT, Performance and Load/Stress Testing.
• Upload all test cases in HP Quality Center to track the defects, fails and passes.
• Followed-up the Development team every day about the defects fixing status using Quality Center; updated every day about defect management process.
• Wrote SQL queries to test the backend database Using SQL Server database.
• Verified the integration of various components in the application and executed end-to-end testing.
• Set up the testing environment in the Test Lab for System, Integration, and Regression Testing.
• Coordinated User Acceptance Test (UAT) processes, documented and addressed all the issues during the process.

Environment: HTML, XML, Java, Window Based, HP QC, Jira, Unix, Waterfall, MS Office suite, Lync, etc.