OBJECTIVE

• Over Six years of experience in the Information Technology Industry with diversified experience in automated, manual, functional and performance testing of Web and Client/Server applications to secure a challenging position as QA Analyst in a progressive company where my resourceful technical and academic skills will add value to organizational operations.

SUMMARY

• Experienced in analyzing product requirements from a business and system perspective.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases of various Business applications, and complete familiarity with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experienced with supporting Test Cycles, Compiling Test Status Reports, participating Defect Status meetings, Project Status meetings and interacting with Project Managers, Operations Teams and Engineers.
• Proficient in different phases of testing: Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing, 508 Compliance Testing and Load and Performance Testing.
• Assisted with program management, software development, operations management and end users to test and document projects and project enhancements.
• Strong Oracle SQL query developing expertise to validate database and in - depth knowledge of MS SQL Server as well.
• Used HP Quality Center/ALM for maintaining the Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Execution, Defect management, Bug Reporting and familiarity with other features of Quality Center and Administration.
• Used JIRA for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Used Microsoft SharePoint 2010 to upload document, manage the documents, check-out to lock and check-in to unlock the document. Allow other people within the organization to view information. Easy to search file, documents, identify the author of changed documents, restore the old version.
• Developed automated Test Scripts using HP QuickTest Professional/UFT and automated various Business Flows for E-Commerce activities.
• Experienced in creating data driven automation test framework using XML based file to store test data.
• Experienced in creating Shared Object Repositories to reduce scripts maintenance time.
• Expert in descriptive programming to generate automation test scripts to bypass Object Repository in the script.
• Conducted Performance Testing using LoadRunner for E-Commerce applications and generated summary reports for Transactions time, Resource monitoring and Applications health check for different kinds of user profiles.
• Worked with a variety of Operating Systems including Sun Solaris, Windows Server 2005/2008, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 8.1 Enterprise Edition and Windows 10.
• Excellent communication skills, ability to work as part of a team and on own.
• Flexible team player with excellent interpersonal and technical documentation skills
• Effectively handled multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP Quick Test Professional/Unified Functional Testing (UFT), HP Quality Center/ALM, JIRA, LoadRunner, Rational Functional Test and HP Performance Center

Web and GUI Tools: HTML, DHTML, MS Excel, PowerPoint

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server and MS Access

Application Servers: Apache Tomcat, BEA's Web logic, IBM WebSphere, IIS

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall and Iterative.

Operating Systems: MS Windows, NT, Windows Server 2005/2008, Mac.

Change Management: HP Quality Center/ALM, JIRA, Bugzilla and Target Process.

Languages: JAVA, Visual Basic, ASP, ASP.Net, C, SQL, JavaScript, VBScript

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Software Tester (QA)

Confidential, Saint Louis, Missouri

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirement Specification (BRS), Software Requirement Specification (SRS) and User Requirement Document (URD).
• Participated daily scrum meeting with Scrum Master, attended weekly Project Status Meeting with Development team and QA Manager, and worked closely with QA Manager to define Test Scope, Risk, Dependency, and Constraints.
• Developed Test Plan and Test Approach artifact with resource requirements and time estimates.
• Reviewed Software Requirement Specification Document and developed Test Execution Strategy and Test Cases.
• Executed Manual Test cases to thoroughly test Account Management and Billing Modules.
• Designed and developed Test Scenario, Test Cases, Test steps for various Business Services covering both positive and negative testing requirements.
• Prepared and presented Test Case Operational Procedure document
• Used JIRA for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Used SharePoint 2010 to upload Test Cases, Test Plan, Traceability Matrix and maintain them.
• Developed automated Test Scripts to perform Functional Testing, and Regression testing of the application using UFT.
• Extensively used SQL*plus and Oracle SQL Developer tools to access and manipulate Oracle 10/11G database and validated back-end testing.
• Created MS Excel file and stored test data for input data for better scripts optimization and reduce script maintenance time.
• Involved in Daily Meetings/Walkthrough with various teams as required for better understanding the business requirement, software specification, and development process flow at various stages.
• Utilized HP Quality Center/ALM to track, report, and manage defect throughout the test cycle and attended Defect Status Meeting on daily basis during testing cycle.
• Assisted in estimating testing efforts and providing status updates.
• Acted as an end users, business users and project team to resolve issues.
• Communicated with Application Developers, Project Manager and other Team Members on Application testing status.

Environment: Java/J2EE,VBScript,ALM,JIRA,UFT, Load Runner, Oracle 10g/11g, SQL, SharePoint, and Windows Server 2008.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Germantown, Maryland

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Use Case, User Story, and functional specification document for testing the application, as well as preparation and execution of Test Cases according to the business analysis document specifications
• Designed and developed Test Scenario, Test Cases, Test steps for various Business Services covering both positive and negative testing requirements.
• Developed Test Plan and Test Approach artifact with resource requirements and time estimates
• Worked on Quality Center for creating and documenting Test Plans and Test Cases and register the expected results.
• Developed automated Test Scripts to perform Functional Testing, and Regression testing of the application.
• Extensively used SQL *plus and Oracle SQL Developer tools to access and manipulate Oracle 10/11G database and validated back-end testing.
• Developed automated test scripts using HP Quick Test Professional/UFT and enhanced scripts by insertingvariouscheckpoints, synchronizationpoints, regular expression and parameterization.
• Created Data Driven Test Framework from scratch and used XML file to store test data for better scripts optimization.
• Created MS Excel file and stored test data for 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.
• Involved in Daily Meetings/Walkthrough with various teams as required for better understanding the business requirement, software specification, and development process flow at various stages.
• Utilized HP Quality Center to track, report, and manage defect throughout the test cycle and attended Defect Status Meeting on daily basis during testing cycle.
• Assisted in estimating testing efforts and providing status updates.
• Attended weekly Project Status Meeting with Development team and QA Manager, and worked closely with QA Manager to define Test Scope, Risk, Dependency, and Constraints.
• Acted as an end users, business users and project team to resolve issues.
• Communicated with Application Developers, Project Manager and other Team Members on Application testing status.

Environment: VBScript, Quality Center, Quick Test Professional/ UFT, Load Runner, Oracle, MS SQL Server 2005,2008, SQL-PL/SQL.

Software Test Engineer

Confidential, Piscataway, New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Worked on product requirements and use cases and translate them into test cases.
• Developed use cases, user interface specifications and requirement specification documents.
• Responsible process validation, data quality, integration and system testing.
• Developed Test Plan, Test Strategy and estimated resource requirements.
• Assisted in estimating testing efforts and providing status updates.
• Conducted End-to-End, Manual Testing of the system and prepared and managed test cases using HP Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center as the test repository and used it for executing the test cases and scripts and logging & generating various reports and graphs for further analysis.
• Wrote SQL queries to test Data Integrity, Referential Integrity and performed Database Testing for the Application.
• Developed automated test scripts using QTP, enhanced the scripts inserting checkpoints, parameters, synchronized the scripts and saved the same for regression testing.
• Extensively developed various scenarios, VuGen Scripts and performed Load Test using LoadRunner. Generated business reports related to transactions output, system resources utilization and HTTP Traffic.
• Worked on finding the system resources usage, Network & application Bottle necks by using LoadRunner Analysis Reports. Load runner
• Analysis used to develop Microsoft word Report, where higher management can easily understand LoadRunner results.
• Developed automated Test Scripts to perform Functional Testing, and Regression Testing, Performance Testing, Baseline Testing, Stress Testing, and Volume testing of the application by using and LoadRunner.
• Involved in daily defect meetings during testing phase and extensively worked throughout defect life cycle from opening to closure using HP Quality Center.
• Participated in weekly Project meetings and organizing defect meetings.
• Submitted defect reports and communicated issues to business, engineering and management.

Environment: J2EE, JSP, BEANS, XML, HTML, QuickTest Professional, LoadRunner, and Web Logic Application Servers, MS SQL Server 2005/2008, Oracle.