OBJECTIVE:

• To obtain Software QA/ Test Analyst position wifin teh company dat will allow me to utilize my education and work experience for teh benefit of teh company as well as for personal growth and professional advancement.

SUMMARY:

• 6+ years of experience in software testing of Client/Server and web based applications using structured methodologies.
• Very good experience in writing Test Cases, executing Test Scripts, reporting defects and preparing Test Result reports.
• Involving experience in entire QA Life Cycle, which includes designing, developing and execution of teh entire QA process and documentation of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Scripts for teh web and Client/Server applications.
• Experienced in Manual, Integration, Regression and System testing using automated testing tools such as HP ALM/Quality Center, QTP and Test Director in teh web - based applications.
• Experienced on successfully implementing Test Automation as part of Regression Testing.
• Experienced wif Functional Testing, Performance Testing, Smoke Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Experienced wif software development life cycle (SDLC) which includes methodologies like waterfall method and agile method.
• Experienced wif various bug reporting/tracking tools such as ALM/Quality Center/Test director.
• Solid expertise in Test Management Tool Quality Center (QC).
• Experienced in testing applications manually as well as using teh automated testing tools like Test Director, Quality Center.
• Experienced wif various databases like Oracle and SQL Server and used teh various SQL commands and PL/SQL statements to test teh application.
• Experienced in executing SQL queries in order to view successful transactions of data and for validating data.
• Extensively Worked on SQL Single-row functions (Character, Number and Date etc.), Group functions and sub queries.
• Hands-on coding experience in scripting language - VB Scripting.
• Proficient in functional testing tool Quick Test Professional (QTP) and teh various frameworks in QTP. Worked on Keyword driven frameworks in QTP.
• Experienced in Regression Testing using QTP.
• Proficient in teh development of QTP Scripts.
• Experienced on demonstrating teh Automation Framework in QTP to client and driven project status calls wif client.
• Trained teh functional testers in from other countries to execute Test Cases using QTP as part of regression testing.
• Experienced wif various programming languages like Java, ASP.Net and other web development languages like HTML, DHTML and Java Script.
• Experienced wif various web browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera.
• Highly motivated team player and ability to TEMPeffectively communicate wif internal customers and other team members.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows, Windows Server, Linux, UNIX

Languages: Visual Basic, C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL, DB2, JAVA, HTML, XML

Database: Oracle, MS-Access, SQL Server, PL/SQL, SQL Server

Automated Testing Tools: QTP (Quick Test Pro), Quality Center, Test Director.

Bug Tracking Tools: Bugzilla, and Bug Tracker (.Net based).

Configuration Tools: Visual Source Safe, SVN.

Others: Microsoft SharePoint and Office Products.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Steps.
• Performed QA on teh application and refined teh application wif external developers documented project plan. Utilized Use Cases for application testing. Created Test Scenarios.
• Implemented SDLC, which included requirements, specifications, design, analysis and testing.
• Experienced in editing teh Quality Center work flow to implement teh best practices of QC.
• Generated Test Metrics using Quality Center.
• Wrote and executed SQL Queries to perform Back-end Testing.
• Wrote SQL queries and library functions to verify UI against teh data base.
• Determined test approaches for various testing strategies like Functional, System, Regression, Usability Testing, and executed using ALM (Application Lifecycle Management).
• Prepared of QTP Scripts for Business Components.
• Developed QTP scripts on teh Flex application for performing Functional Test.
• Developed teh Automated scripts for Regression Testing using teh tool QTP.
• Responsible for execution of Functional Test Cases, Regression Test Cases through ALM for all major automation requests.
• Attends daily Scrum meetings, Sprints planning meetings, Grooming meetings and Retrospective meetings.
• Open defects in ALM, Retest defects and Close defects.
• Update teh Team forge for hours tracking.
• Interacting wif developers for assisting them in Identification and resolving bugs.
• Install teh QTP and keeps Test Environment updated.
• Responsible for testing message based transactional systems -- XML/WebSphere MQ
• Experience SIT(System integration testing) group and CIT(Component integration testing )

Environment: QTP, Oracle, UNIX, SDLC, Quality Center, Java, UFT, MS Office, Access, EXCEL, SQL, SQL PLUS, Selenium IDE/RC, X-path,Selenium.

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed requirement documents, Use Cases and created Test Scenarios and Test Cases for different releases/phases/products of data solution.
• Documented Test Plans, Test Cases and decided schedules for Test Case Execution.
• Prepared teh Traceability Matrix to fill teh gap between teh requirements and teh Test Cases covered.
• Involved in implementation of Agile SDLC methodology.
• Created Test Cases executed and recorded results of Test Cases using Quality Center as teh tool.
• Worked on logging bugs in teh Quality Center tracking tool.
• Performed Manual and Functional Testing on various parts of teh application and used QC for Bug Tracking.
• Wrote and executed complex SQL queries to validate Back-end data.
• Used TOAD as well as SQL analyzer to manipulate SQL queries to verify teh data in teh database.
• Extensively tested wif SQL Query and stored procedures for data validation purposes.
• Worked on Backend Testing using SQL queries also on web services testing.
• Involved in functional requirement analysis, effort estimation, identifying test conditions, creating Test Cases, reviewing Test Cases and executing Test Cases, Test Scripts in QTP.
• Developed and reviewed QTP scripts and generated reports.
• Handled dynamic objects of teh application using regular expression of QTP.
• Performed Functionality Testing and Integration Testing using QTP (Quick Test Pro).
• Responsible for creating and managing automation scripts using QTP.
• Created scripts in VB for Automation Testing in QTP.
• Conducted System Testing, GUI Testing and Cross Browser Compatibility Testing during teh releases and interacted wif teh developers to resolve any technical issues.
• Assisted in User Acceptance Testing to support new software releases and project implementation.
• Attended UAT Testing and assisted BA and project manager in conducting UAT sessions.
• Tested teh various Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) spanning across various web services using SOAP and WSDL across various applications using Soap UI, XMLSpy.
• Worked wif teh users to has teh test result approved.
• Interacting wif developers for assisting them in Identification and resolving bugs.
• Performed risk analysis of entire application and its deployment and documented teh risk associated wif it.

Environment: QTP, Oracle, UNIX, SDLC, Quality Center, Java, QTP, Rational Clear Quest, MS Office, Access, EXCEL, SQL, TOAD, Selenium IDE/RC, Java, Junit, TestNG, Xpath.

Confidential, Rockville, MD

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Use Cases, Test Cases, Test Scenarios.
• Performed QA on teh application and refined teh application wif external developers documented project plan. Utilized Use Cases for application testing. Created Test Scenarios.
• Implemented SDLC, which included requirements, specifications, design, analysis and testing.
• Experienced in editing teh Quality Center work flow to implement teh best practices of QC.
• Generated Test Metrics using Quality Center.
• Wrote and executed SQL Queries to perform Back-end Testing.
• Wrote SQL queries and library functions to verify UI against teh data base.
• Determined test approaches for various testing strategies like Functional, System, Regression, Usability Testing, Alpha, Beta Testing and executed using QTP (Quick Test Pro).
• Prepared of QTP Scripts for Business Components.
• Developed QTP scripts on teh Flex application for performing Functional Test.
• Developed teh Automated scripts for Regression Testing using teh tool QTP.
• Responsible for execution of QTP scripts through Citrix server for all major automation requests.
• Successfully provided UML and mentored to client, analysis and documentation of application and integration business process activity and sequence diagrams, use case models (Enterprise Architect), Use Cases, usability analysis and system, business requirement specifications, SOX requirements, user interface wireframe design and usability analysis.
• Created diverse reports, presentations, and product-line communications.
• Managed tasks included analysis task definition, planning, and estimation for both planning and budget purposes.
• Entered agile scrum software development project in progress.
• Analyzed and wrote teh requirement and Use Case specifications for an agile methodology.
• Managed projects & defined Functional requirements wif stakeholders.
• Documented automated lead and sales tracking system, created Use Cases & Scenarios for testing, and provided project & vendor management support.
• Managed entire product-line’s transition to Lotus Notes—discovered several deficiencies wifin Notes which required technical assistance and procedural changes prior to conversion
• Used Visual Studio.Net to develop applications in .Net.
• Developed User Acceptance Test planning documentation and supervised UAT execution phase.
• Moderated rigorous UAT testing.
• Validated defects and ensure fixing of defects by teh development team wif reduced defect aging.
• Performed statistical analysis on marketing demographics and website keywords.
• Developed teh application using events for Interactivity and wrote teh code in C#.NET.
• Led team and managed divisional project to explore “outside-teh-box” online advertising.
• Mentored resources on requirements and Use Case workflow and managed those project artifacts.
• Utilized business objects to create intranet based application for updating and remediating strategic reporting wif teh Lead Consultant.

Environment: Unix, Quality Center, Visual Studio, ASP .Net, MS Visual Studio, XML, QTP, MS office tools, VSS, Agile, IIS, Web Services, WCF, Windows, C#, VB .Net, SQL Server, Web logic.

Confidential, Falls Church, VA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and system architecture/design.
• Reviewed QA Test Plans, requirements and testing progress to meet quality objectives.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing on later stages of SDLC.
• Prepared training materials for gathering materials, QC reporting, Test Strategy QA methodologies,Automation Frameworks, design, defects reporting and other QA templates.
• Played a lead role in developing Test Cases in a spreadsheet and uploading them to Quality Center Test Plan module and executing them in QC test lab for various source systems.
• Worked on SQL and PL/SQL and performed Backend validations.
• Conducted database testing, passing SQL queries to teh Oracle database.
• Successfully tested Data Quality layers by Data Quality controls using SQL’s stored procedures.
• Responsible for development of new tools using QTP and VB scripts useful for business needs like converting a mainframe Dump txt file into an Xml and XML file into an Excel and performance tuned using C++ scripts.
• Performed GUI interface testing at client side usingQTP.
• EnhancedQTPautomation scripts wif synchronization points, Data Table, parameterization and functions.
• Enhanced Regression Test Cases to implement Complex Testing Scenarios, increased permeations of Functionality Testing and increased code coverage using QTP.
• Performed Business Acceptance Testing,Build Verification Testing,Usability Testing.
• Provided directions to QA leads, manage resources, people and time for successful project execution.
• Gatheird metrics, factor wif variance and publish enterprise level for improving quality of teh products.
• Coordinatedperformance testefforts, collected metricsandanalyzed Test Results.
• Created stored procedure to access database from various databases and performed database checking between source and target systems.
• Created, updated and maintained teh object repository.
• Performed Data Validation Testing and validated XML data files and Transaction log files.
• Managed teh data masking for sensitive customer data (SSN, Name, DOB etc.).
• Performed role based testing and single sign on testing for teh applications.
• Prepared overall program trend analysis and suggestion to improve teh process by identifying gap in process.
• Preparedweekly, daily progress reports for higher management.

Environment: Windows, Linux, Oracle, Quality Center, QTP, SDLC, TOAD, SQL Analyzer, SQL.