OBJECTIVE:

• More than 6 years of Quality Assurance experience to obtain a responsible QA position in a progressive organization where I can effectively utilize my expertise and qualifications to develop and improve the Quality Assurance aspect with Associate in Computer Science and diversified experience in Automated, Manual, Functional of Web and Client/Server applications.

SUMMARY

• Solid understanding of Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) and testing processes.
• Experienced in HP ALM / HP Quality Center (QC), HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Expert in writing and executing Test Plan, Test cases, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts.
• Experienced in gathering and documenting business requirements from client.
• Experienced in performing Functional, Sanity, Integration, System and User Acceptance testing.
• Proficient in using different databases including Oracle 11g, SQL Server, DB2 and MS Access.
• Experienced in using test management and bug reporting tools including HP ALM, JIRA.
• Involved in testing task estimations LOE, review checklists preparation.
• Developed automation test scripts using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) for creating standard, text, and bitmap, page, and database checkpoints.
• Knowledge of VB Script and Descriptive Programming for developing Automation test script using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) tool.
• Experienced in Working different type of Automation Frameworks (Data driven, Keyword driven and Hybrid) using UFT / QTP.
• Experienced in supporting Test Cycles, Compiling Test Status Reports, Defect Status Meetings, Project Status Meetings and interacting with Project Managers, Operations Teams and Developers.
• Tracked defects, prepared defect matrices, defect summary report and followed issues to completion.
• Pro - active, attention to detail, strong analytical skills.
• Prepared Requirement traceability matrix, Test data requirements, Test strategy, Test reports.
• Involved in establishing QA process and reviewing the processes.
• Actively participated in all phases of the testing cycle including reviews and project status meetings. Performed system testing of the application in UNIX and Windows Environment.
• Knowledge of various SDLC methodologies like Waterfall, Iterative, Agile Scrum with a basic understanding of object-oriented analysis and design principles
• Skilled in adapting to rapidly changing work environments. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and be self-managed.
• Possess excellent communication and documentation skills, good team player, and ability to work in multitasked environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows 7, Windows XP/Vista/NT, UNIX (Solaris).

Testing Tools: HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT), HP ALM/HP Quality Center, JIRA.

Databases: MySQL, SQL Server 2008/2014, Oracle 11g, DB2, SQL plus, DBLanguage Visual Basic, VB Script, SQL/PL, TSL, C++, C#, Java

Networking: HTML, XML, HTTP, FTP, TCP/IP

Application Server: IIS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Experienced to Create test plan and test cases from functional Requirement document.
• Experienced to 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.
• Actively participated in iteration planning meetings and reviews to review impacts on test plan and test strategy of any changes made and new functionalities added in new build.
• Presented test cases at cross functional test cases review meetings with testing team, system analyst and product management teams and have emphasized need for better change control process for critical user stories.
• Met with business analysts to understand business functionalities, requirements and designed test cases to satisfy Client requirements.
• Worked in agile environment, attended daily morning stand up (scrum) meetings, updated daily status on what was done yesterday, what will be done today, and any blocking issues.
• Wrote SQL queries for backend testing of the applications.
• Wrote, tested and debugged complex SQL queries involving multiple joins and conditions on Oracle RDBMS.
• Performed white box testing on wrote SQL verification scripts to test the result of deployment for correct business logic.
• Responsible for creating the test cases in HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and mapping them with the requirements.
• Analysed Business Requirements and System Specification documents and created Test cases and executed Test cases in HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Provided defect status reports & test-case execution reports on weekly basis using HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Performed sanity, integration, regression and system testing to verify incremental and existing functionality.
• Executed test cases on development builds and did bug logging and defect tracking suing HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Identified the Test Cases to be automated and generated the automated scripts using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Developed test cases and test scripts for Functionality and Regression Testing using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Performed data driven testing and Regression testing using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Experience to eliminate redundant pop up messages to cut down script run times using recovery scenarios in HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Used extensive SQL queries from the front end using database checkpoints in HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) to perform backend database testing.
• Imported data from the Database to the Data table and performed Data Driven testing with different Data sets for reports generation module in HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Responsible for performing web test using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) for checking page contents, broken links, web objects, frames and tables.
• Sound Knowledge of Creating various Custom functions and maintaining function libraries for Automation framework in UFT.
• Regularly maintain Comprehensive automation suite for all previous releases as part of continuous Regression Testing using HP UFT Automation Framework.
• Interacted with developers, system analysts, product management, external customers, user interaction and usability testing groups and customer support on a regular basis.
• Involved in project review meetings and discussed issues, status for tracking the progress with project teams.
• Prepared minutes of meetings and test summary reports to communicate the results of testing effort to higher management.
• Provided daily and weekly project status reports and escalated issues to the Manager as well as Providers as needed.

Application Environment: HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT, Java, JSP, JavaScript, JUNIT, VBScript, XML, HTML, DHTML, EXCEL, SQL, PL/SQL, MS Access, SOA, Web Services, Unix and Windows.

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plan and test cases for Application different modules.
• Responsibilities included Manual GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Interface Testing, End-to-End Testing, Database Testing and User Acceptance Testing. Client Application Testing, Web based Application Testing.
• Responsibilities included Manual, Acceptance, Functional, Integration, System, GUI, testing of the system.
• Test plans, Test scripts and test cases were designed in accordance with business functional requirements and technical designs as defined via an AGILE method (story boards, modeling, team design sessions, etc).
• Participated in preparing a smoke test for the application under test, which included the basic test cases, to ensure that the application is stable enough in the QA environment to start functional testing.
• Experienced with HP ALM Administration (Domain creation, Project Creation, User Creation, maintain user authentication, Allocation of projects to users).
• Expertise on assigning the Test Cases to the Test Sets in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Experienced with assigning the Requirements to the Test Cases in HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Identified the Test Cases to be automated and generated the automated scripts using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Performed data driven testing and Regression testing using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Experience to eliminate redundant pop up messages to cut down script run times using recovery scenarios in Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Used extensive SQL queries from the front end using database checkpoints in HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) to perform backend database testing.
• Used HP ALM/Quality Center for test management and defect reports.
• Detected, verified, prioritized, navigated and tracked defects using HP ALM in the software until they were fixed.
• Interacted with the developers for bug fixes and problem resolution.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed using HP ALM.
• Used SQL and PL/SQL queries to verify the data from the Oracle database.
• Wrote SQL query using TOAD for database testing and have good knowledge of database.
• Wrotenumerous SQLscripts to inspect data within the database.
• Worked closely with Lead Database Engineer to implement reporting and analytics front-ends.
• Collaborated with business analysts, designers, and system owners in the testing of new software programs and applications.
• Coordinated with software engineers to assist with quality assurance, program logic, and data processing.
• Produced reports and documentation for all testing efforts, results, activities, data, logging, and tracking.
• Communicated test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and management.
• Established run for record documentation revised with traceability from the automation tests to the manual tests for the development team. Implemented Automated-testing methodology.
• Automated the functionality and interface testing of the application using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Insert Object Data Verification Check point on HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Verify Back end Data after interacted with front-end Automation Test scripts.
• Used HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) for object repository creation and maintenance, used regular expression, re-usable actions, data table, checkpoints and recovery scenario.
• The Analyzed requirements and user cases, certified application-specific software performed ambiguity reviews of business requirements and functional specification documents
• Developed and documented effective test procedures, which effectively directed other's work. Lead brainstorming sessions to identify key testing concerns and prevent insufficiently broad testing.
• Imported data from the Database to the Data table and performed Data Driven testing with different Data sets for reports generation module in HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Verify test approach, validate build stability, test and evaluate, and achieve acceptable mission.

Environment: Windows Server, Java, Java Script, HTML, UNIX, SQL, TOAD, Oracle 11g, HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT), HP ALM, JIRA.

Confidential

Software QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed and executed test plans and test cases based on business requirements and functional specifications.
• Involved in using JIRA for managing the defect.
• Performed manual Back-End testing by writing SQL Queries for validating user information in the tables.
• Strong Experience Atlassian tool administration knowledge on JIRA and Confluence.
• Strong Experience JIRA Administrator with experience customizing JIRA projects with various schemas, complex workflows, screen schemes, permission schemes, and notification schemes required and users while working in a JIRA environment.
• Strong Ability to construct custom dashboards using various filter types in JIRA.
• Strong Ability to construct Confluence pages and integrate JIRA projects with Confluence pages.
• Strong Experience in performing Atlassian installations, migrations, and plugin installation.
• Experience Engage with end-users to capture and document functional and operational requirements.
• Used JIRA as defect tracking and reporting tool.
• Worked on backend testing using SQL queries and web services testing.
• Extensively used SQL/PL-SQL statements to verify the data in the database.
• Performed Functionality Testing and Integration testing using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Determined test approaches for various testing strategies like Functional, System, Regression, Usability testing, Alpha, Beta testing and executed using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Worked closely with Test Lead in QA (Quality Assurance) team for designing and evaluating Test Plan, Test System, Test Data and Test Cases for the application.
• Performed manual and automated testing and maintain documentation on different types of Testing like Black Box, Regression, Integration, System and Acceptance testing.
• Tested Compatibility of application with Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Netscape Navigator.
• Performed System and Integration testing by executing test cases.
• Organized test procedures and executing tests in Web and Client/Server Environments.
• Created test scripts for various testing stages like Functional Testing and Regression Testing.
• Analyzed system specification and developed Test plans for System and Integration Testing.
• Developed test scripts according to the program specification given.
• Reported defects found during test cycles and track the defects and retest fixed modules.
• Involved in Peer Reviews.

Environment: Windows Server, Java, Java Script, HTML, UNIX, SQL, TOAD, Oracle, Web Logic, HP Quick Test Professional (QTP), Quality Center (QC).