OBJECTIVE:

• US citizen and have over 6 years of experience in Information Technology field specializing in Software testing, which includes testing Client/Server and Web - based applications in Windows and UNIX Environment, seeks a technically challenging position as a Software Tester/QA analyst based on strong analytical background and extensive experience in business requirements analysis, Manual Testing, Test automation, QA Methodologies.

SUMMARY

• Strong knowledge of all phases of Software Development Life Cycle & Software Testing Life Cycle from Test Planning to defect Tracking and managing Defect Life cycle.
• Strong experience in different life cycle of Project Management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile Scrum methodology.
• Extensive experience in developing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Matrices, Test Reports and documentation of Manual and Automated Tests.
• Experience in Test Management and Defect Reporting tools like Quality Center for analyzing requirements, documenting and executing test cases, defect tracking and status reporting.
• Experience in performing UI Testing, Functional Testing, System Integration Testing, User Acceptance
• Testing (UAT), Regression Testing, Data Conversion Testing, Ad-hoc testing, Negative Testing and End-to End testing.
• Experience working with Functional Test automation and web Service Testing using QTP/UFT and SOAP UI Tool.
• Expert in Bug tracking using TFS, MTM, HP Quality Center, JIRA.
• Extensive experience in preparing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Reports and Test Documentation for both manual and automated tests.
• Expertise in Agile Project Lifecycle, software development life cycle process (SDLC) including Requirement Gathering, Business Analysis, and testing.
• Expertise in Problem solving and Defect Tracking Tools like Quality Center, JIRA and Clear Quest.
• Has good knowledge on Software Quality Assurance and Black Box Testing.
• Good exposure to SQL queries written in MS SQL server and Oracle.
• Good Knowledge on Web services concepts like web-request, response and WSDL etc.
• Involved in backend testing by writing and executing SQL queries.
• Experience in Documenting Software Defects, using Bug Tracking Tools and Report Defects to software developers.
• Knowledge in Analysis of Defect severity, Defect tracking System and Defect reporting.
• Contributes to Team effort by Accomplishing related results as needed.
• Motivated team player with strong Interpersonal skills, excellent communication and writing skills capable of handling multiple tasks and responsibilities at the same time.
• I am quick to learn and adapt to new situations, technologies and business environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows NT 4.0/2000, Windows XP, UNIX and MS-DOS

Language: C, C++, Java, HTML, VB/Java Script,, ASP, PL/SQL,.Net,ASP

RDBMS: MS Access, MS SQL server 2012, Oracle 11g,12C

Web Server: IIS, Apache, Tomcat 7.0, JBoss

Testing Tools: Selenium Webdriver,HP ALM 11.5, QTP 11 and HP UFT 12.2, Load Runner 12.0, SoapUI pro, JIRA

Documentation: MS-Word, Excel, MS Power Point, Visio

GUI/Tools: SQL Management Studio, SQL Developer, Toad

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington, DC

Functional Software Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirement specification (BRS), software requirement specification (SRS) and user requirement document (URD).
• Involved in Meetings/Walkthrough with various teams as required for better understanding the business requirement, software specification, and development process flow at various stages.
• Responsible for software testing and web applications testing for section 508 compliance
• Participated in Task Forces to implement changes and accomplish important initiatives throughout Testing Operations.
• Possess extensive experience in 508 testing full-fledged web applications
• Developed Test plan and verified content with the team members.
• Designed and developed Test Scenario/Test Cases/Test steps for various Business Services/ methods covering both positive and negative testing requirements.
• Performed Manual and automation testing of web-based and client-server enterprise applications and used TFS and MTM for test management.
• Experience with 508 compliance testing and remediation tools experience with AccVerify and WAT tools.
• Utilized Clear Quest 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, Gap Analysis, Risk, Dependency and Constraints.
• Performed Automation testing using Selenium Webdriver,Maven and TestNG.
• Developed and maintained automation scripts using selenium Maven java project with TestNG .

Environment: HP ALM 11.53, HP UFT 11.53,Serena Tracker (VM), QA SharePoint, Window Server 2008/2012,Oracle 11g and 12C,Toad.

Confidential, Hagerstown, MD

Automation Webservice Tester

Responsibilities:

• Work in the Agile development environment and participated on Sprint Planning, Sprint Review (Demo) meeting and daily stand-up and retrospective meetings and update day to day status to agile team.
• Reviewed and analyzed the Use Story, acceptance criteria and design documents.
• Formulating detailed Test Plan, after analyzing business and software requirement artifacts.
• Manual and Automated Testing such as Functional, System and Regression Testing.
• Ensure that all the test cases are updated in the Quality Center along with Master Test Plan.
• Involved as part of automation team using QTP, developed test scripts.
• Participated in weekly meeting with the management team and walkthroughs
• Tested applications and documented results and bugs including documentation of information useful in the debugging process
• Maintained the Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix
• Interacted with developers to report and track bugs using Quality Center.
• Generated the test execution report in Mercury Quality Center to be reviewed by the QA Manager and development team.
• Performed Integration and Regression Testing on various platforms and different versions of the application.
• Involved in writing extensive SQL queries for database testing.
• Managing multiple tasks through the Testing life cycle, including Test Strategy and Test Plan, Test Cases. Created back end Test cases for database and logs.
• Performed System, Integration, Interface, Web services, GUI, Network, User Acceptance and Regression Testing
• Performed End-to-End Testing for both data transformation as well as Functionality Testing.
• Responsible for supporting all data and environment issues associated with Test execution.
• Problem reporting and management, including timely and accurate communications to the impacted team.

Environment: SQL, Windows, Window Server 2008R2, Quality Center, ALM QTP, and SQL-server and Oracle database.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

System Tester Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed System Specification and developed Test plan, Test scripts and Regression Test plan.
• Extensively worked in agile environment, with daily scrum meetings; stand up meetings, presentations and review.
• Responsible for complete End-to-End/User Acceptance testing activities.
• Worked as a QA member in web-based E-commerce site development project in an Agile environment.
• Involved in analyzing System Requirement specifications, Design, Development and Execution of Test cases for Manual and automated testing.
• Attended Daily Stand Up meetings and provided QA status updates on different user stories.
• Log defects and review them with UAT team, Development team, and managed in ALM, JIRA.
• Attended Sprint planning sessions, User story grooming sessions and Retrospective meetings in a rapid and affective agile atmosphere.
• Developed Test cases in Quality Center and executed the test cases in Test Lab module of Quality Center.
• Utilized SQA Manager Defect Tracking System to track and monitor defects.
• Trained users in SQA Manager and process requirements for project defects.
• Customized and generated multiple TFS reports to serve company needs.
• Identified defects and monitored resolution via defect tracking tool Quality Center.
• Tested by giving input to the SOAP request through SOAP UI and InfoPath tool and validated the responses by executing queries against the database.
• Involved in all phases of SDLC.
• Expertise in using TFS to open bugs, create tasks and user stories, initiate change requests.
• Used TFS source control to deploy application.
• Ran SQL queries to performed database validation according to the business logic.
• Prepared Traceability Matrix for the Test Cases to track Business Requirement changes.
• Involved in Functional, System and Regression testing for every cycle.
• Expertise in web testing and browser compatibility testing across multiple browsers.
• Developed Test plan, Test strategies and Test cases for payment methods.
• Used Quality center as Test Management, Defect tracking tool and also executed automated QTP test scripts from Quality Center.
• Actively involved in production support and performed post-production verification after every release.

Environment: Microsoft Window 7/Server 2003, HP Quality Center Java, Oracle, IE, ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, Windows XP, UNIX, Quick Test Pro, Load Runner, Quality Center, Web logic, TFS, Quality center, QTP, Agile environment, Unix, Soap UI, JIRA,, VBScript, SQL/ PL SQL, XML, MS Visio.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Functional Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirements, Functional and Technical specifications with business analyst and QA manager to learn the functionality and process.
• Analysis User Story and Acceptance criteria to making sure the user story is concise, clear and testable.
• Work in the Agile development environment and participated on Sprint Planning, Sprint Review (Demo) meeting and Daily stand-up and retrospective meetings and update day to day status to agile team.
• Created Test Cases for Testing of Web Services.
• Created Test cases to test mobile application on various mobile platforms
• Tested Web Services using SOAP UI Tool
• Experience in database query manipulation. SQL, PL/SQL statements, stored procedures, and triggers.
• Used Data Driven Testing methodology to test the application with multiple sets of data.
• Extensively worked with developers, business and Release managers to discuss about the requirements and the ways to fix the defects according to the requirements.
• Involved in backend testing by writing and executing SQL queries.
• Good knowledge of writing and modifying UNIX scripts using commands and as per the UNIX requirements.
• Reported defects using JIRA.
• Examined and analyzed the requirements to document test cases using HP ALM 11.52.
• Involved in entire testing Life cycle like Functional Testing, Validation Testing, Exception Testing, Integration testing, end-to end testing, Performance testing, User Acceptance testing (UAT).
• Developed SQL Query scripts to verify the database automatically and checking the data integrity in accordance with business standards of the company.
• Responsible for entire test automation process utilizing QTP (Quick Test Pro).
• Worked with Descriptive programming and Keyword Driven Frame work.
• Used Quality Center as a defect tracking tool to track the defects.
• Performed backend testing using UNIX and SQL Scripting.
• Involved in Release management for various products.
• Responsible for Defect management by tracking and reporting of all outstanding requirements and defect reports in Quality Center to ensure that all UAT testing is being completed accurately and on time.
• Involved in preparing Test Plan, Test case and defined the testing approach, resources and time lines.
• Worked with other team members and conducted the weekly status meeting to make sure the all team members are on the same page.
• Developed and maintained Test data and Test cases using HP ALM 11.52.
• Responsible for creating and executing test cases for System, Integration, Regression and End-to-End, User acceptance testing of the Application.
• Performed Regression testing after modifying the changes for each Build using HP ALM.

Environment: MS Windows 7/Server 2008 R2, HP Quality Center, QTP, and UFT, SharePoint, and SOAPUI, Oracle 11g/12 C Database platform.