SUMMARY

• Qualified Sr QA engineer/lead and software professional with over 8+ years of experience in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Solid experience in Software Test Development Life Cycle and Test Methodologies.
• Exposure to a wide range of business domains like Health care, Insurance and Banking
• Strong skills in performing Functional, Integration, Validation, Regression, User Acceptance and Smoke Testing
• Experience in using Automation Tools Win Runner, Test Director, QTP, UFT, Silk Central and Selenium
• Experience in designing Test plans, Test case, design document (test cases, test scripts) and test procedures.
• Good hands on experience in Web Application and Mobile Testing.
• Good experience in Agile Scrum/Kanban process and participated in Agile Process model Iteration planning meetings.
• Experience in developing reusable functions and maintainable automated scripts
• Experience in building complete test automation framework.
• Experience in developing functional, system test plans.
• Expertise in defect tracking tools like Test Director, Quality center, JIRA, Silk Central Team Foundation Server, Cherewell and Issue Tracking
• Highly motivated and adaptive with the ability to grasp things quickly and possesses excellent interpersonal, technical and communication skills
• A good team player with excellent time management skills having profound insight to determine priorities, schedule work and meet critical deadlines.
• Good experience with Mobile testing application for Apple products.
• Experience with Object Oriented programming and Web Technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: SQL, C, C++, JAVA, .Net, shell scripting

Databases/Tools: Oracle, SQL server 2000, MS Access, TOAD

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, Linux, MS - DOS

Scripting Languages: Perl, VB Script, JAVA Script, TSL

Application Servers: IBM WebSphere 5.1/6.1, IIS, WebLogic

Automation Testing Tools: Load Runner, Win Runner, QTP, UFT, Test Director, Quality Center, Selenium

GUI Tools: Visual Basic

Defect Tracking: Quality Center 11.0, Rational Clear quest, JIRA, Test Director, Issue Tracker, Rally

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Durham, NC

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working seamlessly with highly skilled, deeply technical development team to develop valid test approaches and scenarios
• Working under minimal direction
• Reviewed requirements/design documentation and develop and execute of Test Strategy, Test Plans, Schedules, Test Execution (manual and via test automation), QA Artifacts such as test cases
• Establishes testing entrance and exit criteria, working with the project team
• Communicate plans, project status, project risks and project metrics to all levels of the project team - including our supporting teams as applicable
• Documented all defects in HP Quality Center
• Created test data or data mines for multiple or complex projects
• Facilitates/participates in triage/status reviews
• Defined tests to be added to a regression/automation suite
• Participated in monthly Production install validation activities, and off-cycle prod validations as necessary
• Coordinate to ensures and tracks end to end traceability (requirements/stories, code, test cases, defects)
• Ensures automation processes are documented
• Works across teams to achieve group goals
• Worked with off-shore team
• Worked on services testing using Soap UI and used parasoft tool for automation.

Environment: Windows SQL, Quality center, UFT, Sahi, Web services, UNIX, Soap UI, Parasoft, Mainframe, etc.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Performed QAestimation, planning, resource allocation based on budget, test project initiation, execution and closure.
• Provided technical guidance and leadership to small groups utilizing automation tools (Selenium Web driver, QTP).
• Provided inputs to ongoing process improvement initiatives to improve software development lifecycle processes.
• Define,implement Quality Control Process improvements focused on test coverage, defect prevention, detection and resolution.
• Collaborated with project managers to coordinate scheduling,budgeting and testing efforts. Provide status to project teams, business and management by leveraging dashboard tools.
• Demonstrated expertise performing IntegratedQAleadrole to deliver large complex integration including co-ordination between onshore and offshore project teams located at multiple geographies
• Involved in production validation and installs.
• Mentored and trained fellow QA Test Engineers.
• Involved in System upgrade custom apps from .NET framework 2.0 in Win2003/SQL 2005 environment over to .NET framework 4.0 in Win2012/SQL2012

Environment: Windows SQL, .Net, Cold fusion, Share point. Quality center, Cherewell, Web services, Sage etc.

Confidential, Durham, NC

Sr. QA Analyst/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plan documents against Functional specification outlining the strategy of testing to cover given business requirement.
• Developed detailedtest casesbased on the functional and technical Specification documents.
• Prepared and populatedtest datanecessary for the test execution in the QA environment.
• Executed the written and approved test cases against the delivered applications into QA, and tracked all activity throughQuality center.
• Worked with QA and Development team to report, verify and close the defects and resolved any issues that encountered during testing.
• Participated in defect triage, prioritization and review meetings on a daily basis.
• Createddefect reportsand conducted meeting with development and project management
• GeneratedQA summary reportweekly and presented it to involved team members and stakeholders.
• Worked with the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) team with the design of their test cases at the business level, and supported the UAT team to meet their objectives.
• Extensively performedback end testingby executingSQL queries using joins and running stored procedures.
• Executed ETL Jobsand performed initial and incremental load for testing purpose
• Wrote and ran automated test scripts using UFT (Unified function testing) for the regression testing purpose.
• Followed the automation methodology and ensure that all scripts are written clearly and enough comments have been placed in the code for other members of the team to understand the code.
• Created and managed automation data table used by UFT while running the script.
• Worked with outside development vendors in completing complex project
• During the testing cycle acted diligently in following HIPPA Act
• Used Team Foundation Server (TFS) to pull the code from development region to QA environment
• Tested the Acumen eHR applications on IOS platform
• Verify the HCL7 tools and XMLs for various modules

Environment: Windows SQL, .Net, Cold fusion, Share point. TFS, Quality center, UFT(QTP) etc.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plan documents against the Business and Functional specification documents
• Prepared and gathered the test data necessary for the test execution in the QA environment. Executed the written and approved test cases against the delivered applications into QA, and enter the test results with Pass or Fail criteria.
• Communicate with the development team on any issues that arise from the execution. Reported the status of the testing to the QA Lead, and open any defects associated with any tests that have failed in the HP Quality Center.
• Worked with QA and Development staff to report, verify and close the defects and resolved any issues that arise during testing. Participate in defect triage, prioritization and review meetings on a daily basis. Ensure speedy closure of the defects.
• Executed test cases in Ipod, Ipad and Iphone IOS platforms
• Executed test cases through cloud testing and simulator
• Arranged QA stand up meetings every day to discuss the status of the meeting
• Prepared a QA summary report at the end and presented it to stakeholders

Environment: IoS plat forms, web sphere, .net, Java script, Macintosh

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plan documents against the Business and Functional specification documents
• Prepared and gathered the test data necessary for the test execution in the QA environment. Executed the written and approved test cases against the delivered applications into QA, and enter the test results with Pass or Fail criteria.
• Tested all clinical quality measures for meaning full use
• Worked/ tested various enhancements to get a meaning full certifications
• Created numerous automated test cases using UFT

Confidential, Cary, NC

Sr QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop test plans and test cases for new and existing web application releases
• Execute regression, functional, and integration, Unit and UAT tests
• Work with business and technology leads to identify the appropriate data for testing, and prepare that data for the test cases.
• Work closely with the QA Lead to plan, schedule, and execute the QA strategy
• Work with Project / Release Manager to verify the readiness of a build for launch.
• Report, track and determine priority of reported bugs
• Run Mainframe batch jobs
• Written test cases in HTML
• Tested system on UNIX operating system.

Environment: MS-SQL Server, UNIX, Java, JIRA, CSS, JBOSS, Web builder, Selenium, Mainframe, HTML

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Test Lead/Sr.QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathered specifications and requirements from development personnel prior to testing.
• Involved in all the quality assurance phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Involved in developing and executing numerous test cases for manual testing.
• Worked with Business Analyst regularly for developing test cases from the Business Requirements.
• Creation and execution of software testing plans
• Generated summary reports of defects during execution phase as part of deliverable.
• Performed Back-end testing using SQL queries to validate the data in the back-end Oracle Database
• Defined Procedures for Change management process, Requirement management, process, Defect Tracking process, Peer Reviews process.
• Extensively involved in Peer Reviews and reviewed Test Cases Tracked defects using Issue tracking in Silk Central and generated defect reports.
• Performing functional, Integration, regression testing and viewing, analyzing results, risk assessment and defect tracking, defect reporting and documentation.
• Regularly followed up with Development Team to discuss discrepancies identified during testing and performance tuning.
• Tested SAS and Mainframe reports

Environment: Silk Central, PEGA, XML, SAS, Java, JSP, HTML, UNIX and Mainframe

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QA Engineer/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing the requirements and translating them into measurable nonfunctional requirements.
• Reviewed Business requirement documents (BRD), Software Requirement specification (SRS).
• Involved in developing test cases based on requirement specification (FSD, SRS) and Design Specifications (use-cases).
• Maintained Test Metrics and bug database and generated monthly reports.
• Interacted with developers to report the bugs and status of the bug.
• Identify and automate manual process to reduced time on redundant process.
• Performed System, Integration, and Regression, and End to End Testing.
• Validated for GUI input data to the database table data by SQL and PL/SQL using SQL*Plus.
• Involved in creating Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and evaluated the test coverage.
• Involved in preparing the test environment
• Used Test Director to maintain test and defect life cycle.

Environment: Quality Center 9.0, QTP, Oracle 9i, IBM WebSphere 5.1, XML, WSDL, Java, JSP, HTML, UNIX and Windows XP.