PROFILE SUMMARY:

• More than 7 years of professional Information Technology experience in Software Testing field.
• Extensively experienced in participating in all phases of Project Lifecycle as QA Analyst.
• Expertise in creating Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test scenario, designing manual Test cases, automated Test scripts, Test Summary Report, Gap Analysis, and Traceability Matrix for defined business processes.
• Experienced in requirements Analysis & Review, Test Scenarios Identification, Test case Preparation, Test case Execution, Review of Test cases and Analyzing Defects.
• Excellent knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and industry standard methodologies like as Waterfall and Agile.
• Experienced in executing manual/automated test and doing Gray and Black Box testing.
• Proficient in Manual testing, Smoke testing, Sanity testing, Functional Regression testing, System Integration testing, Batch testing, Backend testing and UAT.
• Expertise in Project Management tools likeJIRAto prioritize, classify bugs and tracked defects.
• Good Knowledge in using test management tool HP ALM/Quality Center.
• Proficient in developing Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test Cases and Test Results using HP Quality Center/ALM.
• Solid SQL skills, able to write simple and complex SQL queries from the scratch.
• Strong Knowledge in using Quick Test Professional (QTP)/UFT for Regression testing.
• Experienced in developing Automation Frameworks to perform Functionality and GUI testing using QTP/UFT.
• Proven skill in writing VB scripting, HTML, MYSQL, JavaScript, PL/SQL.
• Hands on experience with SOAPUI for web services testing.
• Highly analytical in developing the methods and measures to meet requirements andsolve any issues that arise during the project.
• Possesses excellent communication, documentation and organization skills with theability to adapt to a new environment & meet stringent deadlines.
• Good Team player with active participation in meetings with the testing, developmentteams and Clients.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

LANGUAGES / SCRIPTING: SQL, C, C++, Java/J2EE, Perl, Visual Basic, VB Script, JavaScript, XML, HTML, DHTML, C#, CSS

DATABASE: SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MS Access

TESTING TOOLS: HP UFT, HP QTP, HP ALM, HP Quality Center, JIRA, Soap UI

BUG TRACKING TOOLS: HP ALM, HP Quality Center

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Microsoft Windows, Linux/UNIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Ashburn, VA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with client’s Business, technical and user stakeholders to define issues, and designed enhancements in a Business Analyst function.
• Designed, developed and executed the Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Developed an integrated Test Plan covering the main functions of the design parts of the application.
• Involved in gathering requirements from the business analyst and creating Test plans.
• Attended daily scrum calls as part of agile methodology.
• Performed Smoke, Integration, Functional, Regression, System, Acceptance and Usability testing during different stages of the application development.
• Reviewed, ran all test cases and tracked defects in Jira.
• Participated in use - case reviews, authored, and reviewed test planning artifacts in HP ALM.
• Provided an aggregated, cross-application project view of quality status and defect trends and managed and enforced consistent workflows and processes using HP ALM.
• Used HP ALM to attach screenshots, and associated the defect with the proper severity and priority, and linked the related Test Script, from which the Defects were generated.
• Found critical bugs in the application, weekly Reporting through Bug Reports and Maintenance Traceability Matrix using HP ALM.
• Tested on Different databases like Oracle, SQL server using SQL Quires.
• Designed a test suite for Automated Tests with UFT.
• Generated UFT Scripts with Standard, Text, Table Checkpoints and also Synchronization Points.
• Conducted automation functionality and regression testing for each build and version using UFT.
• Involved in developing scripts using descriptive programming in UFT.
• Created Custom functions, Dictionary objects, Data driven automation framework using VB Scripts.
• Participated in test case automation using a structured, Keyword Driven Framework with UFT.
• Involved in executing and maintaining UFT Automation frameworks.
• Conducted data-driven testing using parameterization in UFT.
• Run sanity tests in support of production release testing.
• Performed web service testing using Soap UI.
• Ensured the execution of UAT test cases and documentation of test results.
• Provided status reports to appropriate groups concerning test issues and progress.
• Performed tasks independently with little supervisor.

Environment: HP ALM, UFT, MS Excel, MS Office, SOAP UI, JIRA, .NET, MS Visio, Java, J2EE, Java Script, VBScript, AJAX, DB2, Oracle, HTML, SQL, XML, Windows.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

QA Tester

Environment: MS Office, MS Excel, MS Visio, HTML, VB Script, Oracle, Windows, UNIX, Quality Center/ALM, QTP/UFT, Java, J2EE, Java Script, .Net.

Responsibilities:

• Performed Backend Testing of the Oracle Database manually to ensure Order details and requests were correctly inserted.
• Analyzed software Test plans coordinated automated and manual Test cases.
• Formulated detailed Test Plan, Test Scripts and Test Cases after analyzing business rationale.
• Involved in documenting Test Cases for Functionality, Security Testing.
• Performed Manual Functional and Regression Testing.
• Performed Configuration Testing on various hardware platforms.
• Responsible for Analysis and Defect Tracking using JIRA.
• Managed the requirements using Requirements Plan Manager in HP ALM.
• Performed manual testing as an ongoing process of the development life cycle using HP ALM.
• Provided weekly updates through status report using HP ALM.
• Developed Test Cases and Test Design using HP ALM.
• Wrote SQL queries and executed procedures to perform back-end testing for the expected results.
• Performed functional testing and Regression Testing using UFT.
• Automated the functionality using UFT.
• Generated Test Scripts using UFT, developed VB Script test Object Repositories.
• Scheduled, Interacted, invoked the UFT Scripts using HP ALM.
• Created a startup script using Automation Object Model that Standardizes UFT environment.
• Worked on Excel Files using VBScript with UFT, created data driven UFT scripts.
• Designed and Built custom UFT Automated Testing Framework.
• Involved in SOAP and Restful web services using SOAP UI.
• Attended review meetings and walkthroughs to discuss the status of the project.
• Designed Test cases and Test scenarios, conducted functional, ad-hoc and exploratory testing for the variety of applications with expanded Test coverage.
• Performed input field validations by Data Base Testing using Data Tables and Flat files, Created both Positive and Negative data for the same.
• Involved in all the phases of Test Automation development life cycle.
• Scheduled and executed Manual Test Scripts through Quality Center/ALM.
• Developed Test scripts and cross checking with Business Requirements using Quality Center/ALM.
• Executed Test cases based on business testing requirements and test plans using Quality Center/ALM.
• Worked on backend testing and has very good knowledge of writing SQL Queries to verify the data.
• Executed QTP/UFT automated scripts every night and stored the results in Quality Center/ALM.
• Generated Data Driven scripts that access the backend database using QTP/UFT.
• Performed Functional, System, Regression, Integration and User Acceptance Testing using QTP/UFT.
• Developed some of the automated test scripts using Descriptive Programming techniques using VB Script.
• Involved in User acceptance testing (UAT) of the application.
• Planed and delivered demonstrations of new functionality to business users.
• Implemented onsite-offshore Global Delivery Model for this project.
• Involved in developing weekly status reports for the project team.