PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 6+ years of experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) & Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Logging and Tracking Defects wif expertise in Automation and Manual testing.
• Experience working in Agile Methodology, stand - up meetings wif Product owner, Scrum master, and writing user stories along wif Business Analysts.
• Proficient in developing and executing high quality Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts from Requirements documents, Design Documents, Use cases and wireframes.
• Proficient in Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, System Testing, Negative Testing, Ad-hoc Testing, Performance Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing. experience in gathering Business and Functional Requirements, developing Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagram.
• Expert wif HP Quality Center (ALM) in writing test plan, test cases, executing test cases, developing and maintaining test scripts, tracking defects and bug reporting.
• Experience wif open source tools Selenium (Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, and Selenium WebDriver), JUnit, and Eclipse for complete preparation of automation test framework.
• Experienced in developing robust Automated Test Script and Automation Framework using advance VBScript functions, and descriptive programming using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP) and Expert in HP Load Runner.
• Expertise in enhancing automation test scripts to validate and verify as per Business logics.
• Experience in writing Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test Cases and Requirements Traceability Matrix mentioning all test conditions and eliminated redundancy and duplications.
• Experience in defect management system such as defect analysis, defect reporting, defect tracking, login defect, prioritize them, retest teh fixed defects and track them till closure.
• Experience in documenting teh testing process using MS Office tools including Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, and MS-Project.
• Experienced wif QA Principles, Best Practices and Software Development life Cycle process improvements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: C, C++, SQL, HTML, UML

Testing Tools: Mercury Test Director, Mercury WinRunner, Load Runner, Quick Test Pro, Selenium, JUnit, Rational Requisite Pro, Clear Quest, Clear Case.

Databases: DB2, Oracle, MS-Access, SQL Server

Bug Tracking Tool: Quality Center, Test Director, HP/ALM, JIRA, TFS.

Operation SystemsUNIX, Windows, Linux

Microsoft Tools: MS Office, MS Front Page, MS Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Denver, CO

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Technical design documents, Business Requirements and System Specifications to understand teh process for creating test scenarios.
• Involved in writing teh Test Cases based on teh User stories and Requirement document.
• Coordinated User Acceptance Testing across multiple iterative release cycles in order to ensure business acceptance of release features and enhancements.
• Evaluated, recommended, and implemented manual and automated test tools and strategies.
• Developed, maintained, and upgraded manual and automated test scripts and architectures for application products.
• Monitored for anomalies and erroneous occurrences in teh test log, and take appropriate recovery and reporting actions.
• Verified Changes in Build. Confirm dat Defects and/or Change Request are complete.
• Developed and executed SQL queries using TOAD and stored procedures to validate teh data
• Tracked defects using ALM and participated in defect review meetings.
• Used JIRA as a test management tool for requirements, test cases, test execution, & defect reporting.
• Responsible for development and maintenance of data driven framework using QTP to automate regression test cases.
• Tested ETL process to push teh transactional data from source systems into landing tables.
• Involved in Testing along wif Developers to resolve teh technical problems encountered
• Created views using SQL to limit access of teh fellow QA engineers to teh database as per teh need.
• Involved in reporting defects using HP ALM to communicate to developers and team lead.
• Participated in bug triage meetings wif developers to validate teh severity of teh bug and responsible for tracking of teh bug life cycle using Test Director
• Used Selenium WebDriver API to automate tests on cross browser and cross platform environment.
• Tested teh Web Services Integration for various funds on different databases and environments.
• Interacted wif developers and discusses technical problems, reported defects and Supported development team.
• Involved in teh development and implementation of test plans & strategies (documents test approach, schedule, resources and functionality for specific project) wif offshore implementation.

Confidential, Cranston, RI

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Business Analysis & review meetings to understand teh Business Requirement Documents and System Requirement Specification to designing teh Test plans & Test scenarios.
• Prepared Test Data for teh AUT (Application Under Testing) as per teh specifications of teh Requirement Document.
• Performed Black Box testing to verify teh Functionality and User Requirements.
• Using Test Data Manually performed Security Testing, interface testing, boundary testing and white box testing.
• Performed Regression testing ensuring new changes in app not break any existing functionality.
• Logged and reported teh defects, determined repair priorities and tracked teh defects until resolution using QC.
• Used Data Driven testing methodology for verification of application functionality.
• Prepared and used Shell scripts to execute database tests as batch automatically.
• Involved in production defect tracking and management using various bug tracking tool JIRA.
• Wrote PL/SQL scripts to validate teh processed data.
• Performed Regression Testing on different builds using automated test cases prepared using QTP
• Used HP Quality Center for Reporting bugs/issues occurred during various testing phases.
• Developed and executed SQL queries to verify teh proper insertion, deletion and updates into teh Oracle supporting tables and cubes.
• Reviewed database test cases according to assigned Requirements to validate reports by retrieving data wif complex SQL queries from Oracle database.
• Performed End-to-End testing of database to check data integrity using SQL queries.
• Interacted wif Business Analysts, Developers, & QA team members in defect raising situations.
• Reviewed Requirement Traceability Matrix to ensure dat all teh requirements have been covered in teh scope of testing.
• Used UFT to capture, verify and replay user interactions automatically to identify defects.
• Monitored test schedules and/or strategies in accordance wif project scopes and delivery schedules.
• Stored Pass/Fail results in project folder and/or in Quality Center and retested and closed fixed defects.
• Actively participated in group meetings focused at making application more reliable and secure.

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed teh Business Requirement Document to understand teh Business process and wrote Test Cases and mocked test data for both positive and negative test scenarios.
• Categorized teh applications in High Domain/Low Domain knowledge applications depending upon their requirements.
• Responsible for GUI and Functional testing using Black box testing techniques.
• Created automation test scripts using Selenium and UFT and performed regression testing using teh same from time to time.
• Used SQL Developer to extract required data related to test data set creation and data validation.
• Wrote SQL Queries to fetch data from multiple tables using JOIN statement.
• Used Soap UI to verify SOAP based web services.
• Used teh Firebug to inspect teh XPath of teh web elements and Eclipse IDE for Java development.
• DevelopedBack-end testingusing complex queries to retrieve teh user information to cross validate in UI and databases.
• Integrated TestNG wif Selenium using Eclipse to generate test execution result.
• Designed data-driven testing framework wif Selenium & captured dynamic data from web controls.
• Tested release candidates' updates and third-party app updates and third-party app updates for apps on multiple operating systems and devices.
• Tested teh enhancements and new features of member portal.
• Determined and well versed in executing teh Test cases wifin deadlines and pressure wif at most speed and accuracy.
• Used GIT version control to track and maintain teh different version of teh application.
• Coordinated wif developers and record defects in JIRA to track until they are resolved.
• Used SVN as code repository to manage code reviews.
• Debugged scripts on failure of application, environment or script issues & maintained documentation.
• Manage defect lists and defect resolution for each testing phase and escalate issues or actions to appropriate level of management.
• Maintained metrics and participated in teh Weekly Status Updates showing teh progress of teh testing effort and open issues to be resolved.

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Sprint planning, review, and retrospective meetings, defect review meetings and defect report meetings wif Managers, Team Leads, Developers and Business Stakeholders.
• Used Quality Center bug tracking tool as teh test repository for executing teh test cases, scripts, & logging; and generating various reports and graphs for further analysis.
• Conducted manual testing using standards, guidelines & structured methodology in testing teh application.
• Used Visual Studio to create and execute Test cases and Test Suites based on requirements.
• Concentrated and involved more in System Integration testing, functional testing and Regression testing along wif testing teh few medium priority functionalities.
• Performed End-to-End testing manually and was associated wif User Acceptance Testing.
• Involved Black-Box Testing, Functionality, GUI and Regression Testing for teh entire application, for various builds in a team environment.
• Participated in creation of test plans and test cases and documentation preparations.
• Imported and Exported data from MS Excel and Microsoft Word to Quality Center where necessary for project migration.
• Performed Back-End testing by writing and using SQL queries. involved in performing teh backend testing of teh application to develop and execute various SQL Queries to perform validity of teh data.
• Wrote SQL queries to check teh integrity of teh data.
• Worked wif SQL to make sure teh information placed in teh front end populate correctly in teh back end according to requirements.
• Used HP ALM to organize each steps of teh software testing process including executing tests, creating test cases, test pan and test reports.
• Conducted GUI Testing to test teh appearance and properties using QTP/UFT.
• Developed and executed Data Driven test scripts and user defined functions using QTP/UFT.
• Executing teh scripts and modified teh scripts as per teh enhancements and bug fixes of teh application.
• Configuring teh QA environment of teh application for functionality testing and integrated system environment.