SUMMARY

• 7+ years of experience in analyzing Business Requirements, developing and executing Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scenarios for manual/automated testing.
• Extremely familiar wif Quality Assurance and Quality Control procedures and methodologies.
• Highly noledgeable in all stages of teh Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and QA Life Cycle.
• Experienced in preparing Test Plan and Test metrics and reviewing teh Test Cases and approving teh same.
• Good Knowledge in testing using Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies.
• Extensively experienced wif Java Script to develop Test Script to perform automation testing.
• Experienced in performing Black box testing, GUI, Functional, System, Integration, Regression testing and UAT testing.
• Experienced in working wif bug tracking tools likeJIRA.
• Experienced wif software testing methodologies including developing Test plans, Test scenarios, Test cases, Test procedures, Test reports and documenting using HP ALM/Quality Center.
• Proficient in HP ALM/Quality Center to write Test Cases and for reporting; All teh Scripts are maintained using HP ALM/Quality Center.
• Expertise in problem solving and creating Bug Reports using HP ALM/Quality Center.
• Proficient in creating SQL queries against Oracle, MS SQL server and DB2.
• Experienced in developing QTP/UFT Automation Frameworks me.e. Data - driven, Keyword-driven and Hybrid frameworks.
• Experienced in performing GUI, Functional, Regression and Integration Testing using QTP/UFT.
• Expertise in developing external custom functions using VBScript and Descriptive Programming for QTP/UFT.
• Experienced in maintaining Automation framework in QTP/UFT.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: QuickTest Pro/UFT,Selenium

Bug Reporting Tools: ALM/Quality Center, IBM Rational tool (Clear Quest)

Requirement Gathering Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, MS Visio, Clear Case, Clear Quest

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX/LINUX

Languages: C#, C, JAVA, VB script,PL/SQL

Web Technologies: ASP.NET, VB.NET, CSS, JavaScript, XML, HTML

Database: SQL Server, MS- Access,DB2

Web Server: IIS, Apache

Tools: Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington DC

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Generated and implemented Test Plans, Test cases, Test Scripts on different applications according to WR, test design Specification and High Level Design Document based on Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Provide support for teh development and maintenance of stage, test, and development environments for distributed applications
• Performed Functional, Regression, Integration and End to End testing (E2E) to check teh new change for teh entire application for various builds in a team environment.
• Performed Data Validation and Data Integration for Back End Testing using SQL Queries manually.
• Conduct System test to confirm does not adversely effect existing features and functionalities.
• Developed various ‘How to do’ a Training document of each individual functionality & Regression Testing of teh applications.
• Reported issues into teh “Defect Reporting System” and follow up wif teh development team until it gets resolved and Work wif developers to get projects developed and implemented.
• Provide halp desk support, manage tracking of tickets and work wif teh IT halp desk analyst to ensure key performance metrics are maintained
• Team Peer review Presentation of teh Test cases.
• Update system design specifications to meet user requirements and satisfy interface problems.
• Involved in Automation testing and created automated test scripts using Vbscript. and Performed Functionality testing in teh multiple phases of teh application and analyzed teh results.
• Maintained high standard documentation of test results to assist in debugging and modification of software involved in Agile environment to understand Business Requirements and Functional Requirements gathering, and reviewing process.
• Performed various types of testing including GUI, Smoke system, User acceptance testing, Performance, Stress, 508 Compliance Testing on various platforms in Web-based applications.
• Tracked teh bugs and reported usingJIRAfor global test management.
• Used HP ALM for maintaining teh Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Wrote SQL queries to test database tables for back end testing.
• Developed Automated Test Scripts to perform Functional Testing using UFT
• Performed validation of Web services using Soap UI by testing XML requests.
• Interacted wif business Analysts, Developers and clients to prepare test cases for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Worked wif SQL, PL/SQL and functions to test teh database integrity (MS Access).
• Parameterized teh scripts to run teh scripts using varying form data

Confidential, Reston, VA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and executed Test Cases manually for different modules according to teh Technical Specification, and Functional Design.
• Generated test scripts for Data Driven test.
• Performed manual testing to check teh functionality.
• Conducted Black-Box Testing, load, volume testing, Functionality, GUI and Regression Testing for teh entire application, for various builds in a team environment.
• Based on Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) like AGILE methodology designed written and implemented Software test plans, Test design specifications and Test cases.
• Executed test cases and procedures on different application build versions.
• Maintained requirements, traceability matrix for Automation Testing Results wifin HP ALM.
• Designed Test Cases report validation in HP ALM for UAT testing wif end customers.
• Created Automated SQL Validation scripts for backend validation.
• Used Object Repository for checking teh Properties of teh objects in UFT.
• Developed Hybrid Automation Frameworks using VBScripts.
• Experience in C# frame work design using Spec flow
• Prepared teh data for initial setup and user acceptance testing and developing custom functions using Descriptive Programming for QTP/UFT.
• Worked Peer reviews for test cases and Test results prepared by other team members.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Generated test cases and procedures as per system, architecture and data synchronization requirements.
• Worked closely wif business analysts, programmers, and end users in a cross functional team.
• Involved in preparation of Requirement Traceability Matrix, Defect Report, and Test tracking Report, Weekly Status Reports.
• Developed Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to trace requirements.
• Carried out Sanity Tests and executed test cases for GUI, Functionality, and Positive and Negative testing, regression testing, integration testing, Smoke testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Prepared Validation Summary Report (VSR) for all teh tests performed and documented Test Metrics.
• Worked wif development Teams for timely closure of bugs reported & in meeting teh requirement specification using Quality Center.
• Worked wif development members on bug reproduction and fixes; and updated management on testing results, activities and planning using Quality Center.
• Involved in writing SQL Queries to check Data integrity.
• Created and executed Automated Test Scripts in QTP using Key word driven Framework.
• Enhanced teh QTP scripts by inserting VBScript functions and various checkpoints like standard, image, page, text and database Checkpoints based on BDD.
• Documented all teh mappings and reports that were tested.
• Identified measures to improve teh current application performance wif teh aid of Small Change Requests.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed teh business requirement and design document for preparing validation Master Plan which described teh scope, approach and objective of testing effort.
• Performed usability testing frequently to ensure continuous availability of online services to personal clients.
• Communicated wif teh development, configuration and operations team to ensure that teh quality of teh software product meets customer requirements.
• Prepared Test Cases for manual testing and imported Test cases in Quality Center.
• Maintained documentation of test results to assist in debugging and modification of software using Quality Center.
• Wrote SQL Statements to extract Data from Tables to verify teh output Data of teh reports.
• Upgraded and maintained teh databases and inserted database checkpoints to check it using QTP.
• Interacted wif business Analysts, Developers and clients to prepare test cases for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Prepared Validation Summary Report (VSR) for all teh tests performed.
• Worked closely wif teh project manager to develop QA related timelines for teh completion of tasks.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, Windows, SQL, Java, J2EE, VB Script, XML.