PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of diversified experience in Information Technology Industry with extensive skills set.
• Expert in Manual & Automation testing in Client and Web based application in Windows and Unix environment, seeking a challenging position as a Software Test Engineer, Quality Assurance Analyst, Integration, and UAT Tester where my talents will be used to serve your organization and establish an enjoyable career for myself.
• Extensive experience in Software Testing and QA implementation for Client Server and Web based Applications.
• Extensive knowledge of state - of-the-art software quality testing, Quality Assurance Planning, and software development process.
• Strongly involved in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Extensive knowledge in different methodology such as Waterfall, Iterative, Agile, and V-Model.
• Experienced in reviewing Functional Requirements Document (FRD)/ (FRSD), Business Requirement Document (BRD)/ (BRSD), Technical Requirements Document (TRD), Software Requirement Specification Document (SRSD), Use Case Document, Design Document, Prototype Document, and Test Strategy Document.
• Experience in Smoke testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, System testing, End to End testing, Performance testing, Back- end testing, User Acceptance testing, Security testing, 508 testing and AD-Hoc testing to test specific program function and testing of entire application interfaces.
• Working experience in Test Automation using QTP, Test Director, Quality Center Expertise in analyzing Business Specification Documents, Functional Specification Documents, Use Cases, designing Test Cases, generating test scripts and analyzing test results
• Experienced in testing web services (SOAP, REST) using SOAPUI tools.
• Proficient in Bug Tracking tools Mercury/Quality Center/HP ALM, and Jira.
• Experience in CMMI level 3 software development environment.
• Extensively used Oracle SQL Developer, Oracle SQL *Plus and TOAD to write query for backend testing with Oracle 10g/11g database.
• Used Quick Test Pro extensively to automate testing of the functionalities of the application and used the scripts for Functional and Regression Testing.
• Created and executed tests scripts in QTP
• Expert in creating automated test scripts using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Strong analytical, skills in problem solving, excellent communication skills (verbal and written), detailed oriented, fast learner, self-motivated, and comfortable handling multiple projects simultaneously.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: JIRA, Quality Center/HP ALM, QTP/UFT, SoapUIBug Tracking Tools

JIRA, Quality Center, BugzillaOperating Systems: Windows, UNIX, Linux

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, .NET

RDBMS: Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2

GUI Tools: Visual Basic, Toad, SQL Developer, Oracle Express 10/11g

Internet: HTML, XML, VBScript, Java Script

Web Servers: Web Logic, Web Sphere, Windows 2000 server, IIS and Apache Tomcat

Project Management Tools: VSS, MS Office, SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Test Engineer

Confidential, Greenbelt, MD

Responsibilities:

• Implemented and participated all ORT operations including establishing Test Readiness Review (TRR) and Operational Readiness Review (ORR) procedures and protocols in accordance with Operational Readiness and Test and Evaluation Management Plan (ORTEMP)
• Developed, implemented, and adapted the Operational Readiness Test Strategy (ORTS) based on stakeholder and customer requirements for the 2020 Census.
• Lead testing resource on the Training Release 2 development cycle and Update and Leave.
• Collaborated with USCB stakeholders to develop detailed ORT Execution Plans.
• Visited Field offices and live Address Canvassing Operations (ACOs) and determine efficiency, process improvement plans based on user feedback.Ensured proper standards and methods were being implanted in accordance with standardized USCB best practices and project plan.
• Collaborated with the USCB Operational Readiness Test Team to conduct Operational Readiness Testing in accordance with the Operational Readiness Test Execution Plans for each release within the period of performance as identified in the milestones of the 2020 Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).
• Provided recommendations to various USCB stakeholders (e.g., system owners, business process owners) based upon the findings of the Operational Readiness Test team.
• Identify checklist for (OTMB) stakeholder before every release.
• Actively participated in Daily checklist meeting, QA Weekly meeting, QA Monthly meeting, Triage meeting (bug review), Knowledge transfer meeting and walkthrough meeting. Meeting focused on making the application more effective, bug free and quality Product for end user.
• Analyzed Business Requirement documents (BRD) and Functional Requirement documents (FRD) to create Test cases, execute Test cases, Track Defect, and Test Evaluation in HP Quality Center/ HP ALM.
• Developed Test Plan, Test cases, Design document, Test scenarios for both positive and negative tests, Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Test Coverage reports.
• Participated in team meetings with developer and business analyst to understand test requirements effectively.
• Worked with QA Lead in identifying Test Scope, Test Risks, and Test methodology approaches.
• Performed functional acceptance, integration, ad hoc, GUI, and smoke/sanity test on smart phones and tablets
• Developed test cases for functional and regression testing of the application's intera-ctive objects: hotspots (videomarkup elements) and on-time objects using widgets (pop-up, sidebar, image, and links).

QA Analyst Test Engineer

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all stage of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Analyzed Business Requirement documents (BRD) and Functional Requirement documents (FRD) to create Test cases, execute Test cases, Track Defect, and Test Evaluation in HP Quality Center/ HP ALM.
• Developed Test Plan, Test cases, Design document, Test scenarios for both positive and negative tests, Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Test Coverage reports.
• Participated in team meetings with developer and business analyst to understand test requirements effectively.
• Worked with QA Lead in identifying Test Scope, Test Risks, and Test methodology approaches.
• Performed the following testing: Ad-Hoc, Smoke, Functional, Regression, End-to-End, User Acceptances and Database.
• Generated Test data sheet for verification and validation purpose of functional test.
• Experience in writing SQL Queries using TOAD to the Oracle RDBMS to verify the data with Back-End to maintain Data Consistency.
• Reported issues into bug reporting system, followed up, and communicated with Development team and Business Analyst until issues were resolved. Kept track of defects using Quality Center.
• Generated Reports to reflect progress on testing activities and provide updates on resolved/unresolved defects.
• Developed automated scripts for functional and regression testing using QTP and automated test script for GUI functional, Data Driven and regression testing using QTP.
• Responsible for performing web testing using QTP for checking page contents, broken links, web objects, frames and tables.
• Conducted meetings within the test team to make sure everyone is aware of what the fellow team members are doing.
• Participated in Defect Status Meetings, Requirement Gathering Meeting, and Peer Review Meeting.

Software Test Engineer

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, functional specification, and the required documents for testing.
• Expertise in preparing Test Plan and developed test cases for automation team for regression testing.
• Conducted elaborate manual testing on test cases and provided feedback to the development team.
• Involved in Manual and Automation testing of Web-based Application.
• Performed Functional, Negative, Smoke, System, Integration, Regression, UAT and Performance Testing.
• Allocated priorities to all the test cases, taking into consideration the product module priorities.
• Used Quality Center for requirements management, planning, scheduling, running tests defect tracking and managing the defects.
• Wrote SQL statements in script to retrieve data from database in order to verify accurate data stored in database as well as back end testing.
• Used Oracle SQL Developer and Oracle SQL *Plus to write and execute queries against Oracle 11g database,
• Designed Automation Testing Strategies and implemented automation scripts that are linked to, and validated with end user service level requirements developed.
• Developed test approaches/test designs. Wrote test plans, created production simulations, and test data.
• Performed Functional and Regression testing using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Extensively involved in writing, executing and analyzing UAT, Database Checkpoints, and Data Driven Test Scripts for all the projects using Quick Test Professional.
• Developed Custom Function/sub-routine libraries to support automated testing solutions.
• Created Data Driven Framework to reduce automated scripts maintenance time.
• Created XML file for test input data for better scripts optimization and reduce script maintenance time.
• Involved in writing SQL queries, Database Checkpoints to verify data quality and calculations, reviews using QTP.