PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Results oriented, professional, building on over 6 years of involvement in Software Testing and Information Technology in a team development and individual environment on major domains including financial, banking and e - commerce.
• Extensive experienced in waterfall and agile methodologies of software life cycle wif all verification and validation testing techniques.
• Experience in defining detailed application software test plans, including organization, participants, schedule, test and application coverage scope.
• Experience in gathering and defining functional and user interface requirements for software applications.
• Strong analytical experience in developing detailed business level test scenarios and individual test events and scripts based on functional and business requirements.
• Experience in developing detailed design level test scenarios and individual test events and scripts based on multiple user groups and detailed user interface design requirements.
• Experience in developing, reviewing and managing requirements traceability (requirements, application components, test cases, test case execution results).
• Experience in defining and executing test data acquisition, including production data set selection and extraction and test data generation, as well as manual data preparation.
• Well versed in using HP Application Life Cycle Management (HP ALM), HP Quality Center (HP QC) as a test management tool wif knowledge of different modules like releases, requirements, test plan, test lab and defects.
• Developed and Implemented HP Test suites Such as HP Quality Center, HP QuickTest Professional/ Unified Functional Testing and Application Life Cycle Management (ALM).
• Strong Experience in automated software testing tools, including Regression/functional testing, and user interface design testing.
• Experienced in Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) including Oracle and MS SQL Server Databases.
• Experience in developing and executing SQL queries in an Oracle environment to confirm database operations performed by software applications using Oracle 10g/11g.
• Used Oracle SQL Developer and SQL *Plus Command Prompt to check SQL queries for optimal performance and scalability under real-time workloads.
• Experienced in Automation Testing including creating test scripts, various script enhancements- Parameterizing, Optional Step, Regular Expression, Modular testing method and Synchronization techniques.
• Expert in creating data driven automation test framework and used XML base input test data to reduced script maintenance time.
• Conducted Defect Review Boards meetings wif teh business team as well as teh technical team for TEMPeffective defect management.
• Specialized in performance testing applications using load-testing tools such as HP LoadRunner and Performance Center.
• Extensive experience in HP LoadRunner in Web and Web-HTML Protocol and technology
• Versatile Team player wif strong interpersonal communication skills and proven track record of academic and professional s.
• Ability to triage software defects providing development staff wif adequate information for remediation.
• Experience ability to adjust priorities to multiple demands and unanticipated events as wells as adjust decisions and actions to new information.
• Experience ability to be flexible in response to changing circumstances or conditions.
• Experience wif planning, implementing, and testing mission critical information systems employing Web Services and built on Internet architecture principals.
• Experienced wif supporting Test Cycles, Compiling Test Status Reports, participating Defect Status meetings, Project Status meetings interacting wif Project Managers and Operations Teams.
• Ability to easily shift priorities, multi-tasking and capable of producing quality work wif minimal supervision, while meeting designated timelines.
• Ability to up-to-date wif new technologies, operating systems, automated testing tools, etc. in order to maintain an awareness of technological advances.
• U.S. Green Card Holder and authorized to work in teh U.S. for any employer.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing tools: HP ALM, Quality Center (QC) and HP UFT/QTP.

Bug Tracking tools: HP ALM, HP Quality Center, TargetProcess and JIRA.

Languages: VB Scripting, C and XML.

Database: SQL Server 2008, Oracle 11g and MS Access.

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall and Iterative model.

Documentation: MS Office Suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint and Visio

Operating System: Windows 8.1/10, Windows Server 2012, Linux and Mac.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Software QA Analyst

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• In-depth knowledge of banking environment, operations functions, systems, policies and procedure.
• Experience in working wif Agile Scrum Methodology, involved in full life cycle of teh project, attended daily Scrums, Sprint Planning, and Sprint Review Meetings, update teh test data as per teh frequently changing requirement.
• Actively participated to developed Test Plan and Test Approach artifact wif resource requirements and time estimates.
• Knowledge of applicable laws, regulations, financial services, and regulatory trends dat impact assigned line of business
• Analyzed System Design Documents and involved in teh review discussions of Business Requirements.
• Designed and developed Test Scenarios, Test Cases and steps for various Business Processes covering both positive and negative testing requirements.
• Performed Manual Testing of web-based and client/server applications and used HP ALM for Project and Test management purpose.
• Worked Extensively on Mobile device application using User Role
• Used HP ALM for creating and documenting Test Plans and Test Cases and register teh expected results.
• Extensively used SQL *plus and Oracle SQL Developer tools to access and manipulate Oracle 11G database and validated back-end testing.
• Configured teh connection between MS Excel and HP ALM to store requirements and test cases into ALM.
• Isolated test cases for manual and automated testing and also established a regression test suite, both manual and automation, to assure teh stability of AUT.
• Performed Functional and Regression testing using HP UFT.
• Participated in reviews of user interface; assess teh usability of assigned subsystems
• Generated automated defects, metrics, and reports.
• Performed manual cross-browser Testing and as well as cross platform testing.
• Involved in Daily Agile Scrum meeting, Weekly Sprint Review Meetings wif various teams as required for better understanding teh business requirement, software specification, and development process flow at various stages.
• Utilized HP Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) to track, report, and manage defect throughout test cycle.
• Communicated wif Application Developers, Project Manager and other Team Members on Application testing status.
• Coordinated application defects and enhancements to ensure proper escalation.

Environment: Java/J2EE, VBScript, ALM, HP UFT, Version One, Oracle 11g/12c, MS SQL Server 2008/2014, SQL, Oracle SQL Developer, Windows Server 2008/2012 and IIS.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business specifications and use cases for designing, developing and executing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Environment, Test Scripts, Test Sets, Traceability Matrices, Defect Reports and providing quality feedback to QA team & manager.
• Hands-on experienced wif teh entire software development lifecycle (requirements, design, implementation, integration, testing)
• Worked on multiple levels of SDLC and STLC including Test plan, Test Case Design and Execution, Defect Tracking, Bug reporting & Test Release activities.
• Created and executed test cases manually to verify complex system Requirements and involved in database testing for transaction verification using SQL queries.
• Extensive experience on requirement analysis, creating RTM, map test case requirements and design test coverage plan.
• Performed Functional testing, Negative testing, Positive testing, Boundary testing, Regression Testing, End to End testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Worked wif teh Developers and teh Test Lead to verify teh Test Cases.
• Created teh Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Supported End-to-end testing and created Test Data according to teh scenarios.
• Regularly followed up wif teh development team to discuss teh defects identified during Testing.
• Interacted wif end users and investigate issues related to teh QA.
• Coordinated user acceptance testing (UAT) wif final users. Prepared end user documentation for teh new system.
• Used HP Application Life Cycle Management (HP ALM) to store all testing results, implemented Test plan Document, created Test Cases, Defect Tracking & Reporting.
• Developed and executed test cases and followed-up defects using HP ALM.
• Communicated wif developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution using HP ALM.
• Expertise in generating teh daily defect detailed report using HP ALM.
• Used HP Unified Functional Testing (HP UFT/QTP) for making automation script.
• Created scripts from teh scratch. Proficient in script enhancement using parameterization, Optional Step, Regular Expression, Check Points etc.
• Created Data Driven Scripts to reduce script maintenance time.
• Created function library to store reusable functions and sub-routines for better code reusability.
• Created Shared Object Repository and incorporated teh shared repository file wif teh scripts to reduce scripts maintenance time.
• Extensively used descriptive programming method to generate automated scripts.
• Configured HP ALM and UFT to store automated scripts into ALM.
• Maintained bug lists for critical issues using HP ALM defect section.
• Responsible for back-end testing/database testing, which was done using SQL queries.
• Expert in manipulating teh database by using Oracle SQL Developer and Oracle SQL *Plus Command Prompt.
• Set-up, coordinated system and UAT testing wif Business Analysts and end-field users after teh applications were all set.
• Actively participated in product features meeting to business.
• Attended periodic meetings, teleconferences and led discussions on problem resolution.

Environment: ASP, ASP.NET, VB.NET, C/C++, HTML, DHTML, VB, SQL Server, TSQL, TCP/IP, Windows 7/8.1/10, IIS, MS Exchange Server, HP ALM, Quality Center, HP UFT/QTP and IE.

Software Test Engineer

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Experience in defining detailed application software test plans, including organization, participants, schedule, test and application coverage scope.
• Experience in gathering and defining functional and user interface requirements for software applications.
• Strong analytical experience in developing detailed business level test scenarios and individual test events and scripts based on functional and business requirements.
• Experience in developing detailed design level test scenarios and individual test events and scripts based on multiple user groups and detailed user interface design requirements.
• Experience in developing, reviewing and managing requirements traceability requirements, application components, test cases, test case execution results.
• Experience in defining and executing test data acquisition, including production data set selection and extraction and test data generation, as well as manual data preparation.
• Developed test case template and implement teh template wifin teh testing team to write test cases in a systemic basis.
• Experienced writing test cases in MS Excel and as well as directly in HP ALM's Test Plan section.
• Used HP ALM to map requirements to test cases, provide traceability to requirements, create test sets, and selectively run tests both manually and using automation test scripts.
• Used HP ALM defect section to report defects to development team.
• Clearly communicated defects wif developers and updated comments in HP ALM.
• Configured teh connection between MS Excel and ALM to store requirements and test cases into ALM.
• Isolated test cases for manual and automated testing, and also established a regression test suite, both manual and automation, to assure teh stability of SUT.
• Performed backend testing to validate teh data using Oracle SQL Developer and added SQL queries to teh required Test cases.
• Wrote complex SQL queries using SQL *Plus to validate backend functionality of teh application.
• Involved in teh End-To-End test and responsible for teh Quality Assurance of this application to complete in record time.

Environment: Windows Server 2008, Oracle11G, ASP, HTML, SQL, TOAD, PL/SQL, Quick Test Professional (QTP), HP Quality Center.