PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• QA Tester with 7 years of extensive experience mainly in the Financial, Airline, Telecom and Retail Domains at Client\Server, Web Applications using Manual Testing Techniques and Automation .
• Excellent QA experience in all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with good working knowledge of QA methodologies like AGILE (Scrum) and Waterfall.
• Hands - On Experience in customizing HP Quality Center, as well as understanding of automated testing tools and their use in developing automated test cases using HPQTP and HP UFT.
• Experienced in developing Test estimates, Test Approach, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Traceability Matrix from Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional Specification Documents (FSD).
• Proficient in preparing Test data, Executing Test cases, Reviewing, Tracking Defects, Reporting Defects, Weekly TestReports & Defect Metrics.
• Skilled with various testing phases including functional testing, Black box testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, System testing, Compatibility Testing, Database testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Automation Regression test execution performed using HPQTP automation tool.
• Designed and implemented different automation frameworks from scratch like Linear Framework, Modular Framework, Hybrid framework and Data Driven framework for a number of projects.
• Good expertise in testing thePOSapplication.
• Converted existing manual scripts to Quick Test Professional (QTP) scripts for automation and wrote new regression scripts usingQTP.
• Writing and executing SQL queries for checking the validity and integrity of the data in various databases such as Oracle, My SQL, Microsoft SQL Server and Toad to perform Back-End-Testing.
• Experience in testing Middleware technologies Web Services like REST testing using SOAPUI.
• Expertise in logging defects using HP Quality Center/ALM, Test Director, Bugzilla, JIRA, TFS and performed defect tracking and reporting.
• Participated in Sprint Planning meetings and Sprint Review meetings and presented testing progress in the meetings.
• Experience in Database testing by writing complex queries and verifying data.
• Strong analytical and problem solving, interpersonal, communication skills, self-starter, quick learner and able to adopt new technologies as needed in rapidly changing IT Environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: C, C++, C#, VB.NET, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/7/8, Linux, UNIX

Databases: MS-Access, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Toad

Bug Tracking Tools: QC/ALM, Jira, Bugzilla,TFS,Test Director

Testing Tools: QTP/UFT, Soap UI

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall

Others Tools: Microsoft Office Suite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas, TX

QA Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Prepared test Cases, Test scripts and Test data for the application as well as for the database verification based on the functional requirements.
• Understand the business requirement and technical specification documents by KT Session.
• Reviewed change request documents and defect description and attendant meetings to document the required changes.
• Created script in UFT for automation using VB script.
• Used data driven framework to get data from Excel and performed cross-browser compatibility testing by using UFT tool.
• Extensively used SQL query statements to verify the data validation between the front-end values with the backend database values of the application.
• Prepared Test cases, Procedures, Bug Tracking, Logging and reporting bugs using Quality center.
• Experience developing a Comprehensive Test Strategy inclusive of all testing activities.
• Updating status report daily basis and weekly basis by conducting meetings withQAteam.
• Involved in maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirement, and test prioritization.
• Responsible for entire test automation process utilizing UFT (Unified Functional Tool).
• Extensively worked on Team Foundation Server (TFS) for Defects tracking, review and analyzing.
• Performed web service testing using Soap UI.
• Involved in test plan and test case review meetings and updating the test cases document according to review comments.
• Perform functional testing and regression testing on each field of credit card application pages.
• Extensively interacted with developers to analyze and resolve the issues that were encountered while testing the application.

Environment: Quality Centre, UFT, Web Services, SOAP UI, TFS, SQL, HTML, VB Script, Windows

Confidential, Forest Hills, NY

QA Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Writing detailed test plans and test cases based on requirements and the business documents.
• Involved in reviewing business requirements and enhanced them before uploading to Quality Center.
• Done Data Driven Test with QTP to test the application with different sets of data.
• Involved in design and development of test plans based on high-level and detailed designs.
• Experience in identifying the areas that needs to be automated and generated the test scripts in QTP.
• Used Quick Test Professional to automate the test cases and parameterize the scripts to run the scripts using varying form data.
• Prepared and executed test cases as per the documents provided using Quality Center.
• Parameterized property values for objects in QTP.
• Used Quality Centre for updating the status of all the test cases and test scripts that are executed during testing process.
• Initially performed manual testing for functionality testing and developed automated execution of test cases using QTP for Regression Testing.
• Created Standard checkpoints and Synchronization Check Points by using QTP for validations and Performed Data Driven Testing to work our scripts for multiple set of data.
• Prepared test plans for each release, written test cases and executed them as part of functional testing.
• Used Quality Center to review and analyze the results and utilized its reporting feature to generate detailed defect report.
• Developed SQL queries to verify the database transactions.
• Performed backend testing to validate data in the database by writing SQL queries.
• Generated automated test scripts and the scripts were used for Regression Testing.
• Involved in Database testing by writing and executing SQL queries to ensure that data entered has been uploaded correctly in to the database.
• Performed negative and positive testing for field validation.
• Investigated, noted and collected information on software bugs and reported the same to developers.

Environment: QTP, QC, SOAP UI, Toad, XML, SQL, UNIX, Windows

Confidential, Little Rock, AR

Quality Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analyze the Product backlogs and Sprints using Agile Methodology.
• Attend daily standup meetings and report the status to SCRUM master.
• Wrote manual Test Cases using Quality Center according to functional documents and requirements.
• Involved in Regression testing to ensure functionalities still exists and the system performs as per the current requirement without any problems due to any new code being deployed into the applications while resolving defects or any code changes that occurred as per change requests.
• Manually tested the application executing test cases in the Quality center.
• Enhanced and maintainedQTP scripts, ConfiguredShared Object Repositoriesand developedReusable Function LibrariesusingVBScript.
• Involved in preparing Test scenarios and Test cases based on BRD and Technical Specification.
• Interacting with development and testing team to improve overall quality of the application.
• Writing SQL queries and statements to test database for retrieving information, editing data and inserting data.
• Created manualTest CasesinHP QC for variousUser Storiesbased onreleaseandSprintPlan.
• Created new scripts using QTP to perform testing.
• Responsible for running the smoke test after every code release in test environments.
• Involved in creating the Object Repositories, QTP Test scripts and execute them.
• Tested application with Development, Staging and Production Environments.
• Responsible for signing off builds in QA environments after successfully executing test strategy

Environment: Quality Center, VB Script, SQL Server, Windows XP, UNIX, QTP, Agile

Confidential . Salt Lake City, UT

Quality Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Involved in reviewing and discussing Test Plan with other team associates.
• Analyzed requirements, detailed design, and formulated test plan for the functional testing of the application.
• Analyzed Business Requirements and developedPOStest scenarios and test cases using QC and Participated in all phases of STLC.
• Developed Manual Test Cases to test the functionality and behavior of the application using HP Quality center/ALM.
• Involved in writing Test Plan and executed the test cases manually.
• Working onPOSQATesting was involved in setting ofQATest environment with simulatedPOStest environment.
• Performed System Testing, Functional Testing, Black Box testing, UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and Regression Testing.
• Bugs were reported to Developers using QC-ALM and after rectification from Developers retesting was performed.
• User defined functions were written according to the functionality of the application.
• Actively participate in the team meeting with the Developers, Business Analyst and Support team to understand the test requirements effectively.
• Participate in Review meetings, Walkthrough and Defect meetings. Attended daily status meetings and weekly team status meetings for reporting testing status.

Environment: HP ALM Quality Center, Manual Testing, UNIX, Oracle, TOAD