SUMMARY:

• Over Eight (8) years of extensive experience in information technology field as a Software Quality Assurance Analyst and Tester
• Hand on experience in testing of applications build using Web Services based on Service Oriented Architecture, Web applications (Using J2EE, Microsoft .net n - tier architecture), Client Server, ERP and Data warehouse applications
• Strong noledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
• Hand on experience in analyzing Business, Functional and Technical Requirement, Design Specifications, Used Cases and development of traceability matrix
• Good experience in Web Services testing using SOAPUI, XML, & WSDL. Providing required input data to request XML & get the required data from response XML & use the response data from other request XML using SOAPUI
• Expertise of web services & XML-based technologies like SOAP, XML SPY in verifying & validating XML request & response files from 3rd party service provider using SOAP UI and
• Hand on experience in Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing, Regression testing, Conversion testing, Interface testing, Parallel testing, UAT testing and End to End testing
• Hand on experience in testing Web Applications performing Usability Testing, Compatibility testing and Security testing
• Expertise in developing Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test scenarios, Test cases, using standard and modular approach using standard template of MS Excel sheet and in Quality Center
• Hand on experience in Waterfall, V-Model and Agile methodology and Integrated Framework e.g TFS
• Expertise in writing simple and complex SQL queries using TOAD, SQL Developer
• Expertise in using Quality Center to maintain Requirements, Test cases, Test runs Defects and Reports
• Expertise in Defect Tracking, Defect Management and Reporting using tools like, Quality Center, Test Director and JIRA
• Experience working in Government project and following the standard procedures (SOP) and compliance
• Experience in 508 compliance, accessibility testing using tool JAWS, AccVerify, and Bobby
• Liaison between on-shore and off-shore team, act as a single point of contact for all QA needs
• Expertise in Automation testing, developing automation framework, test data set and selection of automation candidates
• Working experience with Configuration, Release management and Version management tool Subversion (SVN), JIRA
• Ability to work as independent and as team member in challenging and cross platform environment
• Highly motivated team player with excellent analytical, problem solving, interpersonal and communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: SOAPUI, JMeter, Quick Test Pro (QTP), Quality Center, TopTeam, Test Director, Clear Quest, Clear Case

Configuration Management: Sub Version(SVN), Rally, JIRA

Data warehouse: Informatica Power Center, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), SSIS, AutoSys, DataStage

Reporting tools: OBIEE, Business Object, Hyperion

Accessibility Testing tools: JAWS, AccVerify, Wave, FireEye and Bobby

Operating Systems: Windows 7/XP/2000/NT, Windows 2003 and UNIX

Languages/scripting: Java, Visual Basic, VB Scripts, Shell, SQL, PL/SQL

RDBMS: Oracle, Sybase, SQL server 2008, DB2, Informix

Web Technologies: JSP, XML, J2EE, Microsoft .net and C#

Methodologies: Waterfall, V-Model, Agile, Verification and Validation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Camp Hill, PA

Sr. QA Engineer/Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyze the Requirements documents, Design documents, Data design/flow, Data mapping documents to identify the Test scenarios and test data for testing
• Collected and reviewed the business flow, business scenarios from business analyst.
• Responsible for creating requirement traceability matrix (RTM) into Quality Center and generate the report to verify the test case vs. requirements coverage
• Developed and maintain Test Approach and Test Plans documents for Functional, System and Compliance testing and reviewed with project team members
• Responsible for writing and executing the test cases/test scripts for accessibility testing on web application as per government compliance using tool JAWS, AccVerify, and Wave.
• Responsible for performing 508 compliance validation testing
• Responsible for working within an agile development environment and working in a Scrum software development and testing framework
• Responsible for participating in Scrum call and provide the updates, closely working with Scrum Master, Product Owner. Analysed the Product backlogs, Sprint backlogs and developed test matrix
• Developed and generated test progress and defect reports from Quality Center and communicated the same to the project team
• Involved in identifying the manual test scenario to develop the Automation and Performance scripts
• Developed the Data Driven Automation framework using QTP and Quality Center
• Developed Automation Script using Data Driven Methodology which applies the Business rules to validate the components displayed on the website.
• Prepared Automation Test Cases and Required Screenshots for Web application and developed Automation Scripts focus tests to target key business use cases using QTP.
• Customized and enhanced Automation scripts based on business rules validation and implemented the Check points, Output values, Regular Expressions etc in QTP.
• Involved in developing the performance testing scripts using Load runner (Vugen) and customized it (Parameterization, correlation etc.)
• Worked with controller to control the components under the network and analyze the performance timing using the Analyzer
• Analyzed the performance results in various loads and transactions using Performance Center
• Involved in analyzing various graphs for the client and server side metrics like Transaction Response Time, Hits per second graph, Pages download per second, Throughput, Memory & CPU utilization, GC logs, AWR reports and trace logs.
• Developed utility functions for optimizing and enhancing performance scripts using load runner
• Participated in conference calls with client and effectively communicated regarding the issues, project updates etc.
• Responsible for overall software product quality.
• Ensure the compatibility of all application platform components, configurations and their upgrade levels in production and make necessary changes to the lab environment to match production

Environment: My SQL, SQL Developer, Top Team, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), SharePoint, Jaws, AccVerify, Wave, QTP 11.0, Oracle 12G, MS Office, Outlook, JIRA, Confluence, Beyond Compare, Load runner 11.0

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Sr. QA Analyst/QA Engineer ||

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a single point of contact for all Testing activities includes Functional testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, End to End Testing and UAT Testing
• Reviewed and analyze the Requirements documents, Design documents, Data design/flow, Data mapping documents to identify the Test scenarios and test data for testing
• Collected and reviewed the business scenarios from business users and developed Test Scenarios and Test cases for validate the same
• Developed and maintain Test Approach and Test Plans documents for Functional, System and UAT testing and reviewed with project management and business user’s team
• Responsible to develop and maintain the user guides for UAT testing support
• Manage resource allocation and task assignments for different data mart to the team members
• Mentor junior test engineers to encourage best practices and thorough testing of the application
• Responsible for exporting the Requirements and Test cases into Quality Center using excel add-in
• Responsible for creating requirement traceability matrix (RTM) into Quality Center and generate the report to verify the test case vs. requirements coverage
• Responsible for test cases execution and defect management using Quality Center
• Developed and generated test progress and defect reports from Quality Center
• Responsible for testing progress meeting and sending testing status reports to Project Management team and Development Team
• Developed Test Cases using WSDL, Schema files which defines Web Service Request, Response, methods/operations, End Point of web service to be tested
• Tested the various Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) spanning across various departments using SOAP & WSDL using SOAP UI Pro.
• Developed Automation Scripts for functional and regression testing using QTP 10.0
• Customized QTP, installed and enabled add-ins for PeopleSoft and JAVA to test the PeopleSoft application
• Created Data base checkpoints and wrote SQL queries to validate the data
• Created and maintained shared object library, Functions, data sheet in Quality Center for QTP scripts
• Developed and implemented standard testing practices/approach to improve the testing process for manual and Automation Testing using Quality Center 10.0 and QTP 10.0
• Utilize defect tracking tool HP Quality Center to trace, assign, verify and close defects

Environment: SQL Developer, Oracle EPM 11.1.1 Web Client, ODI Release 10.1.3, Hyperion 8.5, Informix Client, Quality Center 10.0, QTP 10.0, MS office 2010, SQL Server 2008, JAVA, Visual Basic Scripts, SharePoint, Putty, WINSEP, Sub version (SVN), JIRA, WebServices, SOAPUI, XML, Web Logic application server

Confidential, Portland, OR

Sr. QA Engineer II

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing and monitoring the QA on very initial stage of SDLC, involved in requirements gathering and analysis
• Responsible for Keep track of issues and solutions from team members and maintain lessons learned for every releases
• Responsible for develop and execute the test cases for System and Integration testing
• Tested XML transmission and verified inbound-outbound XML using a SOAP UI3.0
• Developed and customized XML scripts to access and execute embedded in the WSDL file.
• Identified and replaced actual value and Aut and selected the correct outgoing WSS while running the XML script in SOAPUI
• Modified end points when we worked on different servers and different versions of Web Services.
• Performed web specific testing like Link checking, Browser page testing, Application Testing and Security Testing.
• Installed, configured SOAP UI to test web services using WSDL file given by Development team
• Performed Function testing, System Testing, Regression testing and UAT Testing
• Developed standardize Matrix and Reports to keep track of team activities
• Created and maintained the Test and Defect control matrix for each testing phase
• Developed and presented Test approach, Test strategy and Test Plan
• Worked with team in Agile methodology to develop the test cases and execute
• Wrote test cases and created test data for Positive, Negative and boundary condition testing
• Provided support to testing and UAT team with tools and issues
• Logged and updated Issues and Risks using the configuiration management tool JIRA
• Created documents such as Automation Framework, Testing cycle flow, defect management guidelines, demo and presentations
• Provided resolution to an assortment of problems complex in scope related to Quality Assurance
• Participated in development and review of SOP process documents for testing team
• Maintained releases and cycles in Quality Center
• Wrote and execute SQL Queries to get testing data to validate standard and customized BI reports
• Tracked, reported and follow-ups defects using Quality Center 10.0

Environments: QTP 10.0, Quality Center 10.0, JIRA 8.0, TOAD 10, OBIEE 10g, Business Object 8.0, JAVA, J2EE, SharePoint, Clear Quest, WebServices, SOAPUI, XML, Web Logic application server, UNIX, MS Office, Oracle, TOAD, Web Services, SoapUI, XML

Confidential

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the Business Analysts to collect requirements to create test cases
• Participated in web services requirements and design document walk through • Analyzed and reviewed the software requirements, functional specifications and design documents
• Created test plans and test cases based on web service requirements
• Performed Web Services testing using Soap UI Pro to locate WSDL file on internet, create Test cases, run them to do load testing, security testing
• Experienced in Groovy Scripting in SOAP UI PRO tool (Web service Automation).
• Proficient in Setting up test cases and test suites with required assertions in Soap UI tool to validate the web services based on business requirements
• Proficient in field and error validation in regards to web services testing
• Experience in testing Message queues (JMS) in Soap UI
• Reporting defects along with Soap UI error logs and closely working with development team to resolve the issues.
• Updating WSDLS in Soap UI as needed to retest defects or to test updated service requests
• Experienced in data driven testing by creating data sources and data loops in Soap UI Pro
• Performed test execution in SOAP UI and GUI, placed the test results in Micro Soft excel
• Developed process documents, users manual and defect loging process to support UAT testing
• Conducted test execution/status meeting with project stake holders
• Supported UAT testing and created defect guide lines documents for users using Quality Center
• Conducted meetings and walk through with users and junior team members to discuss the defect management process in Quality Center and Clear Quest
• Created integration test scenarios and tested application areas developed on SOA architecture and WebServices
• Generated and distributed test progress and defect status reports to Management team
• Facilitated defect review meetings and improved existing defect management process, driven team to work in faster manner by reporting defects status
• Wrote and used SQL queries to setup and validate test data
• Wrote and executed the Test cases for Web apps diagnostics, accessibility and compliant validation based on government defined process and procedure using the tools
• Utilized defect tracking tool HP Quality Center to trace, assign, verify and close defects

Environment - WebServices, SOAPUI, XML, Web Logic application server, WSDL,.NET, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, SQL Server Management Studio, MS office 2007, Share Point, Subversion, Quality Center 9.6, J2EE, HTML, XML, VB Scripts, JAWS, AccVerify

Confidential, NJ

Sr. QA Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing and monitoring the QA on very initial stage of SDLC, involved in requirements gathering and analysis along with Business Analyst and SME’s
• Developing and execution of test plans, test cases based on business requirements of the Application
• Performed automated testing for Web Applications
• Extensively used Quick Test Pro for functional and regression testing for automation of multiple modules in the environment
• Used https protocol for security in web site testing
• Tested various Web based applications
• Involved in meetings along with developers to resolve identified issues.
• Used Test Director for defect tracking
• Installation and configuration of Win 98/00 and MS-Office Tools.
• Tested compatibility of application with Internet Explorer 6.0, Netscape Navigator 5.0.
• Report defect found during test cycles and Track the defects and retest fixed programs Developed and customized Excel reports and graphs using Dashboard for reporting in QC
• Define and develop standard testing approach and time lines based on given testing time frame
• Wrote and execute SQL Queries to get testing data to validate BI reports
• Develop, maintain and execute test automation scripts in QTP using visual basic, setup test data needed for scripts to run in different environments
• Customize QTP, installed add-ins, develop function libraries, recovery scenarios and environment variables using QTP 9.0
• Tracked, reported and follow-ups defects using Quality Center 9.0.0

Environments: QTP 8.0, Quality Center 9.0, JIRA 6.0, TOAD, Oracle Client 11G, UNIX, ASP, VB scripts, TOAD 8.0, JDBC, Window NT, SQL, Business Object 6.0

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Followed the Scrum approach of Agile software development methodology
• Develop and maintain functional Integration, Platform, Security Testing and regression test cases
• Collected requirements, used cases and developed Test Scenarios and Test cases
• Create testing requirements in Test director and mapped with Test cases developed in Test Plan module of Test Director
• Executed the test cases and logged the defects in Test director
• Maintained the configuration related changes in configuration management tool JIRA
• Worked with release manager to prepare for releases for m Testing environment to PROD
• Worked closely with deployement manager to complete the deployement plan and testing task
• Co-ordinate and execute backend jobs in UNIX and Sybase environment for test environment setup

Environments: Test Director 8.0, SQL Server, Oracle 9i, XML, JAVA, Visual Basic, HTML, C++, SQL Developer, SQL Server 2005