SUMMARY

• Experienced in the areas of Software Testing, Requirement Analysis and in all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)process
• Extensive experience in Manual and Automation testing using Mercury Quality Center(QC), and Quick Test Pro (UFT)
• Maintained and executed test cases and test scripts in Al m.
• Actively participated in the development of test plans to include scope of testing, test objective, test approach, test data, methodology, pass/fail, and resumption criteria, test risks, assumption and limitations
• Experience wif performance and load testing using Load runner and JMeter
• Extensive experience in Black - box, Smoke, Functionality, Back-End, Regression, System, and UAT testing
• Automated test cases using Selenium WebDriver Framework
• Performed back-end testing by executing complex SQL queries on Oracle and MS SQL Server
• Extensively involved in Verification and Validation process to evaluate documents, plans, requirements, and specifications
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle Process and Quality Assurance methodologies
• Experience in working wif test Automation frameworks, such as keyword and data-driven wif Unified Functional Equerries.
• Exceptional ability to collaborate wif diverse team members in projects
• Energetic self-starter wif excellent analytical and organizational skills. Achieves goals, objectives and milestones in an accurate and consistent manner
• Capability to adapt and learn new tool, techniques, approaches and corporate cultures
• Possess strong communication skills in working closely wif customers to identify and resolve problems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

STLC Tools: Unified Functional Testing, Quality Center, Test Director, Selenium, ALM Performance Center, Unified Functional Testing, Load Runner, JMeter

Programming Languages: C#, NET, Java, Visual Basic, JavaScript, VBScript, HTML, XML

Databases: Oracle, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2

Tools: SQL*Loader, TOAD, SQL Analyzer, UFT, LoadRunner, JMeter

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 2007, UNIX, Linux, MS-DOS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Richmond, VA

SQA Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted wif developers and business analysts to assess functional requirements.
• Involved in writing Test plans, Test cases and RTM and involved wif the process of analyzing the expected and actual results
• Participated in peer reviews and approval sessions of software requirements, designs and test script procedures
• Documented test plans and test cases corresponding to business rules and requirements. Manually performed Smoke, Functional and Regression test of the system
• Maintained and executed test cases and test scripts in ALM. Also reported and tracked defects, updated E-mail notifications to test lead, business analyst and developers
• Verified resolution of software and specification defects documenting all phases of QA process in ALM
• Production Support: Smoke testing on all production update in various environments. Script writing, plan and executing test including Automation wif Selenium
• Automated testing tools such as Junit and Selenium to conduct systems, integration, user acceptance, positive and negative, functionality, object, and regression tests.
• Design, create, and customize scripts using various scripting language and testing tools, such as JavaScript, Selenium wif Java, JUnit, TestNG, and UFT 11, for data-driven network systems and others using JAVA Language
• Automated test cases using Selenium Webdriver Framework.
• Worked as an Automation Tester, responsible for development and maintenance of Automation Frameworks, tools and solutions. Managed and coordinated onsite/offshore functional test efforts and Automated functional testing
• Write and execute Automation test script for UFT and Selenium
• Tested application for both positive and negative scenarios
• Generated test scripts for Functional, Data driven and Regression testing using Unified Functional Testing (UFT) Automation tool
• Conducted Data-Driven testing using parameterization in UFT to test the application wif different sets of data
• Prepared test data and test results (input/output files) for data driven method
• Used check points and output value to check and retrieve values respectively
• Design and Implementation of Automation framework, formulating the driver script and keyword driven framework
• Created repeatable user defined functions and stored them in functional libraries
• Used descriptive language and customized UFT using VB Scripts
• Responsible for testing web site for broken links
• Maintained and updated scripts for every release by updating object property value for specific object or by adding new objects to object repository
• Developed and Executed SQL queries to perform back-end testing for data validation
• Worked wif cross functional team, and participated formal/informal meeting and various problems

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Software Quality Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating Test plan for functional and integration testing phase
• Attended meetings wif business process owners to approve functional and integration test cases and performed gap analysis.
• Performed sanity, smoke, positive, negative and regression testing
• Preformed Defect Root Cause Analysis, interacted wif related Team, and tracked defects in Quality Center.
• Imported and exported test cases from Excel to Quality Center.
• Identified software problems, wrote easy-to-follow bug reports, logged them into bug tracking tool Quality Center monitored their progress and verified their fix.
• Involved in Back End testing using SQL queries.
• Involved in planning UFT testing process by Analyzing the AUT.
• Created and prepared the test data and test scripts in UFT for Data Driven Testing
• Executed test cases and test scenarios across development projects
• Involved in functionality, user interface, regression, security, and UAT
• Identified and tracked defects, issues, risks, and action items
• Validated requirements for system testing, report preparation, defect recording, and defect tracking
• Performed regression testing to validate the resolution of any software or system defects
• Used Quality Center a web-based test management tool for centralized control over the entire testing life cycle
• Wrote and executed SQL queries to interpret test results and create test data
• Created, enhanced and maintained high-end object repository for various functional and regression test using Quick Test Professional
• Executed written test case scenarios, including manual, automated, and data-driven regression testing, and GUI verification by using Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Developed Keyword Driven and Data Driven Frameworks test scripts using VBScript
• Use Unified Functional Testing (UFT) to create, manage and execute test sets.
• Conducted user acceptance testing.
• Communicated the status of each release to the upper management.
• Worked wif Team members and Business Analysts to resolve the defects while testing the application.
• Generated defect reports and execution status for daily and weekly reviews
• Used LoadRunner for performance and stress testing of the application to improve its efficiency and scalability, measured hits per second and responses

Confidential, Falls Church, VA

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering and analyzing user and functional requirements
• Review Requirements, Use cases, design documents, test case and test scripts
• Developed and design Test Scripts and Test cases using requirement and functional specification document
• Provided direction for design and drawing of products, product components and test apparatus
• Developed and created master test plans and related documents, test cases, and test schedules
• Executed test cases and test scenarios across development projects
• Involved in functionality, user interface, regression, security, and UAT
• Identified and tracked defects, issues, risks, and action items
• Validated requirements for system testing, report preparation, defect recording, and defect tracking
• Performed regression testing to validate the resolution of any software or system defects
• Used Quality Center a web-based test management tool for centralized control over the entire testing life cycle
• Wrote and executed SQL queries to interpret test results and create test data
• Created, enhanced and maintained high-end object repository for various functional and regression test using Quick Test Professional
• Executed written test case scenarios, including manual, automated, and data-driven regression testing, and GUI verification by using Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Developed Keyword Driven and Data Driven Frameworks test scripts using VBScript
• Executed test cases and reported results using Quality Center
• Created User-defined functions in functional library and maintained the initialization scripts to set-up the work environment using UFT
• Involved in all phases of Software Quality Assurance and testing
• Experience wif testing at different levels such as functional, regression, integration, system, load and performance testing.
• Performed Manual testing for the Functionality, GUI of the Web application
• Performed database verification and validation for MS SQL Server
• Developed and executed SQL queries to perform back-end testing
• Communicated wif different team members to establish and maintain a consistent test methodology and to resolve general question during the testing process

Confidential, Washington DC

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Informed supervisor of important developments and obtains guidance and direction on individual assignments
• Represented the company through customer visits and consultation for the solution of technical problems
• Conceived ideas and developed testing events and actions for products to meet objectives
• Performed business analysis in accordance wif established theories and methods
• Planed, designed, and conducted lab and tests of developmental and competitive products
• Accountable for complete results on development projects and special function wifin assigned area
• Prepared proposal to supervisor on new product designs and project modification
• Communicated technical results and information TEMPeffectively both in written and oral form
• Maintained lab equipment, instrumentsand resources and used efficiently
• Provided direction for design and drawing of products, product components and test apparatus
• Developed and created master test plans and related documents, test cases, and test schedules
• Executed test cases and test scenarios across development projects
• Involved in functionality, user interface, regression, security, and UAT
• Identified and tracked defects, issues, risks, and action items
• Validated requirements for system testing, report preparation, defect recording, and defect tracking
• Performed regression testing to validate the resolution of any software or system defects
• Used Quality Center a web-based test management tool for centralized control over the entire testing life cycle
• Wrote and executed SQL queries to interpret test results and create test data
• Created, enhanced and maintained high-end object repository for various functional and regression test using Quick Test Professional
• Executed written test case scenarios, including manual, automated, and data-driven regression testing, and GUI verification by using Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Developed Keyword Driven and Data Driven Frameworks test scripts using VBScript
• Used LoadRunner for performance and stress testing of the application to improve its efficiency and scalability, measured hits per second and response time.