SUMMARY

• Software Test Engineer/Test Analyst with experience in manual and automation testing on various business domains, environments, and projects.
• Strong test management skills and experience in running large cross - enterprise testing initiatives leading both onshore and offshore teams.
• Experience in working with Agile, V-model and Waterfall development methodologies.
• Coordinator and leadership roles in creation and execution of QA and testing processes, Communication Plan, System Test Plan, Test Estimation, Test Strategy, Test Plan Review Checklists, Test Cases and Procedure, Bug documentation, Test Cases Review Checklists, and Test Summary Report for Manual and Automation testing.
• Strong noledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), RDBMS, OLTP, ETL, OLAP, and Data Warehousing Concepts.
• Extensive analytical and problem solving skills to clarify requirements/user stories and determine appropriate testing scenarios and suites to validate the iterative development of products against functional and technical specifications.
• Solid experience in System Testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Positive Testing, Negative Testing, and Smoke Testing.
• Experience in writing and executing SQL queries for Data Verification, Data Validation and Data Integrity.
• Experience inETL/ Data Warehousing Testing.
• Experience in manual and automated testing using industry standard tool suite HP ALM, Quality Center, Selenium, JAWS, WAVE, and JIRA.
• Experienced in tracking and logging defects with high level of detail, accuracy and informative recreation steps.
• Expertise in implementing CMMI standard processes.
• Experience in Section 508 Compliance Testing.
• Experience in Software Configuration Management / Version Control.
• Expertise in conducting Peer Reviews, Technical Reviews and procedure Walkthroughs.
• Well organized, attention to detail, multi-focused, ability to prioritize along critical path, and meet project milestones with in deliverable dates.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• JAVA
• SQL
• C++
• Oracle
• SQL Server
• MS Access
• SVN
• VSS
• SharePoint
• JIRA
• HP ALM
• Selenium
• JAWS/WAVE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with all the businesses as well as stakeholders to analyze complex business processes.
• Developed comprehensive Test Plans.
• Involved in sprint planning meeting, sprint demo and backlog grooming sessions.
• Arranged Change Control Board(CCB) meeting to review defects.
• Developed detailed Test Case steps, Test Scripts, and prepare necessary test data for test execution.
• Documented test results and ensuring Test Cases are complete for future releases.
• Interacted with End-users, Stakeholders and Business Analysts for gathering and analyzing Business and Technical Requirements and Specifications.
• Designed and developed Test Scenario, Test Cases for various Business Services/methods covering both positive and negative testing requirements.
• Designed and developed Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Business requirements, Technical Specifications, and Use Cases.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM); tracing the requirements to the corresponding test cases.
• Performed extensive Backend Database Testing using complex SQL queries.
• Involved in preparation of the test data required for executing Test Cases.
• Performed UI Testing on web based applications.
• Used SQL Developer to write SQL Queries and performed Backend Testing.
• Updated/maintained the automated test scripts for Software Compatibility Testing.
• Developed and Maintained automation framework using Selenium WebDriver.
• Involved in developing and executing automation Regression Testing using Selenium Webdriver.
• Performed extensive Data Validation, Data Verification against Data Warehouse.
• Performed Regression testing on the application for testing validity of functionality in different versions of the application.
• Managed onshore and offshore teams and their project's activities.
• Mentored new team members, and managed projects.

Confidential, Franklin Lakes, NJ

Automation Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with End-users, Stakeholders and Business Analysts for gathering and analyzing Business and Technical Requirements and Specifications.
• Developed comprehensive Test Plans.
• Worked closely with all the businesses as well as stakeholders to analyze complex business processes.
• Maintained existing batch programs written in Java by adding enhancements and fixing defects.
• Designed and developed Test Scenario, Test Cases for various Business Services/methods covering both Positive and Negative Testing Requirements.
• Used MS Project to keep track of tasks status.
• Designed and developed Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Business requirements, Technical Specifications, and Use Cases.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM); tracing the requirements to the corresponding test cases.
• Performed extensive Backend Database Testing using complex SQL queries.
• Created test data for validating scenarios based on Functional Requirements Specifications.
• Involved in preparation of the test data required for executing Test Cases.
• Involved in execution of test cases for an application.
• Performed UI Testing on Web based applications.
• Enhanced the existing or default test scripts by adding programming logic for custom testing and debugging the scripts.
• Managed the testing process, logged and tracked defects using Quality Center.
• Involved in preparation of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and responsible for executing the Test scripts.
• Performed Regression testing on the application for testing validity of functionality in different versions of the application.
• Analyzed ETL Mapping, Developed Test Cases forETLto compare Source and Target database systems.
• TEMPEffectively utilized Quality Center in creating Test plan, Test Cases and for Defect tracking.
• Assisted in management of defect tracking using Quality Center, including logging defects, assigning them to developers, facilitating defect review sessions and researching causes of defects in development builds and in production environments.
• Mentored new team members, and managed small projects.
• Attended the weekly status meetings and created notes for meeting-minutes.

Environment: Quality Center, JAVA, Visual Basic, SQL Server, ASP, ActiveX Controls, VBScript, Windows, XML, Visual Source safe, Oracle.

Confidential, Hopewell NJ

QA Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Functional Requirements and Designed Specifications documents to ensure that the system met all of the Technical and Business Requirements.
• Reviewed the applications Functional Specifications and developed Test Cases and Test Protocol for Functional Testing.
• Performed Regression Testing on the application for testing validity of functionality in different versions of the application.
• Interacted with the Development team and the Business Application group on a regular basis to analyze the requirements and to understand the GUI of the application being developed.
• Extensively involved in running manual tests on the applications.
• Manually tested the GUI interface of the application.
• Investigated software bugs and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues using Defect Tracking system Quality Center.
• Extensively used SQL Queries to check the integrity of the data and to perform Backend Testing.
• Uncovered, reported, tracked, and followed-up on system defects to Project Manager, Developers, and other QA/Test Team members.
• Conducted end-to-end test of the application manually.
• Performed Integration Testing to verify integration between different modules in the System.
• Interacted with Business Analysts and Developers to resolve the technical issues so as to meet the Client’s requirement for a better quality software product.
• Attended periodic meetings, teleconferences on problem resolution.
• Interacted with Developers to resolve technical issues and investigated software faults.
• Attended walkthrough meeting with the System Analysts, Project Managers and Developers.

Environment: Quality Center, JAWS, WAVE, Java, VBScript, SQL, UNIX, HTML, Oracle