SUMMARY

• Four (8+) years of experience in Software testing and quality assurance under UNIX and Windows environment with excellent analytical, to obtain a challenging position as a Software Test Engineer/Quality Assurance where my skills and determination will be used at their fullest capacity and allow for personal and professional growth.
• Profoundly involved with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and its methodology such as Waterfall, Iterative and Agile.
• Solid understanding in Test strategy, Test metrics and CMMI.
• Expertise in Manual and Automation Testing of Client server and Web based Applications.
• Solid experience in developing, Reviewing, Executing, and Preparing Test Plans, Test cases and Test procedures.
• Performed all kinds of testing such as Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Negative Testing, Boundary Testing, Regression Testing, Ad hoc Testing, System Testing, System Integration Testing, Sanity Testing, and Cross Browser Testing.
• Experience utilizing teh following automated test or test methodology tools: HP/Mercury Suite ALM/Quality Center, UFT/QTP Automation Testing Tool, Selenium Suites: Selenium IDE, Selenium RC/Selenium Web Developer & Selenium Grid, Rational Robot, Rational Functional Tester, Clear Case, and Clear Quest.
• Extensive noledge in using ALM/Quality Center, Maven, Jenkins and PVCS Tracker tool to report bugs/ defects.
• Knowledgeable in diverse database testing and equally experienced in writing SQL queries to retrieve data.
• Develop SQL queries to collect Test Data and to perform Backend Testing.
• Ability to apply engineering approaches to solve problems and ability to utilize research methods, problem solving and resolution skills.
• Utilized CM tools e.g. PVCS Tracker, Start Team & JIRA etc.
• SOAP API & REST API Testing Using SoapUI and Postman tools.
• Highly analytical and innovative to improvise and implement new ideas as well as tweaking conventional methods.
• Strong communication, presentation and problem solving skills as well as strong interpersonal skills and a team player.
• Worked closely with teh developers and other testers to solve technical and end user issues.
• Attended meetings regularly and played an active role in senior management meeting.
• Have sense of responsibility with a focus on quality deliverables.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Proficient with Selenium Suites: Selenium IDE/ Web Developer, Selenium Grid, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins,& JIRA

Proficient with HP Suites: UFT/QTP, ALM/QC

Familiar with: Rational Robot, Rational Functional Tester, Clear Case, and Clear Quest. PVC Tacker, Start Team.

Database: Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, MS Access, DB2

Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Unix

Proficient with: JAVA, C#. Visual Basic, .NET, ASP

Familiar with: C, C++, j2EE

Proficient with: SQL Developer, Oracle Express 10/11g

Familiar with: Toad

Proficient with: Web Logic, SOA, Web Sphere, Windows Server 2008 R2, IIS and Apache Tomcat

Proficient with: PVCS, VSS, MS Office, MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Engineer

Confidential, Annandale, VA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in noledge Transfer Session with new team members to give clear concept about teh work flow to make a strong team.
• Work with Business analyst’s team to prepare a detailed Business Requirement document.
• Analyze Business, Functional Specifications, Use Cases and develop Test Plans, Test cases and Test scripts for both Positive and Negative tests functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, black box testing, white box testing, unit testing, GUI testing, system, Regression, integration, API Testing, UAT testing browser compatibility testing.
• Experienced in developing automation script with Java, Selenium Grid, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven & Jenkins.
• Automated Frameworks using Selenium to align with Agile Methodology.
• Implemented DevOps tools and techniques using Jenkins.
• Perform System, Functional, Regression, UAT and End to End testing to verify teh
• Functionality with teh new codes introduced for modification and/or enhancement using Selenium with Java.
• Create user - defined functions, functions libraries and maintained teh initialization scripts to set-up teh work environment using Selenium with Java.
• Create automated scripts for new functionality using Selenium with Java.
• Expert in Web Service testing Using SOAPUI Tools.
• Create acceptable quality automated tests to eliminate repeated manual testing and maintenance of regression test beds.
• Automate repeatable test suites, and also provide traceability and additional audit ability.
• Perform Regression Performance tests on system upgrades.
• Write SQL &PL/SQL queries to retrieve data to validate teh input data.
• Wrote SQL Queries and executed them using TOAD and SQL Editor.
• Report issues into teh bug reporting system follow up and worked with teh development team until it gets resolved and keep track of defects using ALM/Quality Center.
• Develop User-Acceptance Test cases and assist users in conducting UAT.
• Generate reports to reflect progress on testing activities and provide updates on resolved/unresolved defects.
• Actively participate in teh team meeting with teh developer and business to understand teh test requirements effectively.

Environment: HP ALM, Selenium Web-Driver, Java, Maven, Oracle, MS SQL, SOAP UI, MS Project, Windows.

Software Test Engineer

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

Responsibilities:

• Work with Business analyst’s team to prepare a detailed Business Requirement document.
• Analyze Business, Functional Specifications, Use Cases and develop Test Plans, Test cases and Test scripts for both Positive and Negative tests.
• Follow teh Standard Test Process Guide for teh QA Methodology. Establish project standards and processes including CMMI.
• Extract test cases from teh Requirement Specification and Design Documents and wrote detail test procedures in ALM/Quality Center to cover teh entire functionality of teh application.
• Extensively utilize ALM/Quality Center to access Requirements, Design and Execute Test Cases, perform Requirement Coverage, Summarize Defects and Generate Reports.
• Perform System, Functional, Regression, UAT and End to End testing to verify teh
• Functionality with teh new codes introduced for modification and/or enhancement using UFT/Quick Test Pro.
• Create user-defined functions, functions libraries and maintained teh initialization scripts to set-up teh work environment using UFT/Quick Test Pro.
• Create automated VB scripts for new functionality using UFT/QTP.
• Create acceptable quality automated tests to eliminate repeated manual testing and maintenance of regression test beds.
• Automate repeatable test suites, and also provide traceability and additional audit ability.
• Develop, execute and maintain UFT/QTP Test Scripts and their resources Framework, Function Libraries, Actions, Object Repositories and Data Table Files.
• Perform Regression Performance tests on system upgrades.
• Write SQL &PL/SQL queries to retrieve data to validate teh input data.
• Wrote SQL Queries and executed them using TOAD and SQL Editor.
• Validate teh application server log by running UNIX Commands on backend server.
• Report issues into teh bug reporting system follow up and worked with teh development team until it gets resolved and keep track of defects using ALM/Quality Center.
• Develop User-Acceptance Test cases and assist users in conducting UAT.
• Generate reports to reflect progress on testing activities and provide updates on resolved/unresolved defects.
• Actively participate in teh team meeting with teh developer and business to understand teh test requirements effectively.

Environment: ALM/Quality Center, UFT/Quick Test Professional (QTP), MS SQL Server 2008, Windows, UNIX, Oracle 11g, SQL,Toad, SharePoint, C#, HTML, XML, Microsoft .NET, MS Office.

Software QA Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed requirements, functional design and detail design documents.
• Involved in project analysis, design and implementation.
• Responsible for developing Test plan based on Functional Specification and Technical Specification Of teh application.
• Developed and executed test cases and verified actual results with expected results
• Working as a team member in requirements mapping and preparing a Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Manually performed Smoke, Functional, Performance, Regression and UAT Testing.
• Maintained and executed test cases and test scripts using Rational Suites.
• Reported & tracked teh bugs, performed E-mail notifications to teh developers using teh PVSC Tracker.
• Involved in testing of GUI by inserting checkpoints in Quick Test Professional scripts for single or multiple objects and text.
• Developed SQL Queries to retrieve or create test data from different Oracle Test databases.
• Performed database testing by writing queries in Oracle.
• Worked in a team environment performing varied daily task dat requires effective communication with project managers, developers and business analysts,

Environment: s: Rational, Java, C++, HTML, XML, VB Script, Oracle, VB, Windows and UNIX.