OBJECTIVE

• Over all 6 yrs. of experience in the field of software of Software Quality Assurance (QA) and testing with a wide variety of projects and environments which include Client server, web - based application and database related projects on Windows and Unix operating systems.
• Possess extensive experience in creation and execution of QA Testing Processes, Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Cases, Bug Documentation, Procedure and excellent Analytical Skills coupled with good communication and interpersonal skills describing a committed team player; currently aspiring for a challenging position in Software Testing and Quality Assurance.

SUMMARY

• In depth knowledge of entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Test Life Cycle (STLC)
• Extensive experience in testing of various industries including Government Solution, Finance and bio-pharmaceuticals using tools like Quality Center, Test Director, JIRA, Quick Test Professional and Selenium IDE
• Expertise in analyzing Business Requirements, System Requirements And Functional Requirement Specification, Develop System Test Plan, Test Strategies And Test Cases.
• Profound knowledge of web services testing using Service Oriented Architecture tools SOAP UI.
• Well-versed with software QA testing procedures. Actively participated in all type of reviews including Requirement, Test cases, Test log and Defects
• Strong testing Quality Assurance experience within Agile environment as well as Waterfall
• Extensively worked in all phase of testing includes Smoke, Functional, Regression, System, Load, Stress and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Solid Experience with Automation Testing Tools using Quick Test Professional (QTP), Selenium IDE.
• Extensive experience in Backend Testing on Oracle and SQL server using SQL plus, MS SQL and MS Access
• Experience in writing and executing SQL queries for Data Verification, Data Validation And Data Integrity
• Communicate effectively with project Managers, Development and Testing team throughout the Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) to provide clear objectives and report on progress and issues in a timely manner
• Strong understanding of web development technologies and concepts including AJAX, AngularJS, Node.JS, jQuery, REST API/WEB API, CSS.
• Have good documentation skills in creating Test Cases, Defect Reports and Test completion reports
• Extensively written Test Analysis Report (TAR)
• Ability to handle multiple projects with competing deadlines in a fast paced environment
• Excellent interpersonal and customer relational skills
• Organized, attention to details, self-motivation, personable, multi-focused and ability to meet project milestones and deliverable dates
• Possess excellent interpersonal, written, verbal communication skills and strong analytical, problem solving, decision-making skills
• Ability to work independently as well as a team successfully
• Quick learner, capable to learn new system, software & hardware technology quickly

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating system: Windows 2000/2003/2007 Windows XP/Vista/Linux and UNIX

Programming Languages: VB, C, HTML, Java, XML

Automated testing tools: HP Quick test Professional, Selenium IDE, SOAP UI and Mercury Quality center

Defect tracking tools: Test director, JIRA and Mercury Quality Center

RDBMS/Database: Oracle, SQL server, DB2 and MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirements Document (BRD), developed Test cases and Test scripts for the application under test Designed, developed and executed test plans, test cases and test procedures based on the functional specifications.
• Involved in testing the applications during Smoke testing, System testing, End-to-End testing, Functional Testing, System Instigation Testing and Regression testing.
• Participated in supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT), coordinated with clients for better quality, developed user acceptance test plans and test cases, and coordinated user acceptance testing.
• Experienced in wed based applications which were developed on java, .net, and XML.
• Created new and updated existing test cases according to the business requirements and functional specifications.
• Analyzed application, system, and security errors, and escalated issues to developers and verified fixes.
• Worked very closely with the development team to better understand each functionality of the application.
• Used JAMA Test Designing, Test Analysis, Test Execution and Test evaluation.
• Generated/Enhanced test scripts, executing the test scripts, analyzing test results using JAMA.
• Involved in writing and executing the Test Cases and reporting the bugs using JAMA/JIRA tool for Defect tracking purpose and worked until the issue is resolved, in the process interacted with developers to resolve application defects.
• Involved in submission of bugs through Defect Reports and frequently participated in Defect Report review meetings.
• Generated Change Requests for failed test cases and assigned them to responsible developers.
• Categorized bugs based on the severity and interfaced with developers to resolve them.
• Attended weekly defect report meetings and presented progress updates.
• Coordinating with Developers in fixing Defects and ensuring QA processes.
• Performed Smoke test whenever there was a Build completed.
• Developed various SQL quires to perform back end data base testing.
• Prepared Test cases, according to the business specification and wrote test scripts and maintained them.
• Responsible for Creating and maintaining the development of excel, Access and power point
• Prepared proper documentation with reference to company policy.
• Batch testing development and execution and done analysis of batch works.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement Request issues.

Environment: JAMA, JIRA, DB2, UNIX, Selenium IDE, ASP, ActiveX Controls, Java, .net, XML, Windows 07 & 8, IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari, Oracle, MS Office (Word/Excel)

Confidential, New York, NY

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering requirements, preparing detailed Test Plan
• Prepared detailed Test Cases by analyzing functional requirement specification document.
• Generated Test cases and traced them to the relevant FRD
• Performed tests on various features of Agile development process
• Worked with Users and Business Analysts to define and design test scenarios and test data
• Extensive working experience in Functional Testing, GUI testing, Regression Testing, Load, Volume and Stress Testing, System testing, UAT Testing, Database Testing and Black box Testing
• Conducted regression testing for the changes made to the application using Quick test Professional (QTP)
• Developed VB script for automated test procedure using Quick Test Professional
• Developed and maintained automated test scripts to support regression testing and participated actively in System Testing and Regression Testing
• Automated test scenarios for GUI, Functional and Regression Testing using Quick Test Professional
• Used the Data Driven Testing and database accessing techniques to support the scripts
• Used Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status
• Converted manual tests to automatedtest scripts using Quick Test Professional and enhanced the scripts by adding user defined functions in VB script
• Implemented test automation for web applications from front to backend using Selenium.
• Created test cases using Selenium IDE, enhanced test cases by adding checkpoint.
• Used Firebug to inspect element and to get the x-path of the element as well.
• Created Test Suite with multiple Test Cases and ran them using Selenium IDE and verified that the functionality of the Application is working properly.
• Extensively performed Functional Testing and End to End Testing
• Ensure that all Functional requirements are tested
• Managed and executed test cases and logged defects in defect reporting tool Quality Center
• Performed 508 Compliance Testing
• Responsible for Backend testing by writing andexecuting SQL statements
• Wrote SQL queries to test Data Integrity, Referential Integrity and performed Database Testing for the Application
• Used SQL and PL/SQL against Oracle 10g database to analyze multiple source data and designed an approach for Data Sampling
• Executed all automated and manual test procedures to ensure the quality of the developed application
• Isolated and simplified problems discovered during testing so that developers can fix them easily
• Attended various meeting with the developers, clients and the management team to discuss major defects found during testing, enhancement issues, and future design modifications

Environment: Quality Center,Quick Test Pro, Oracle, SQL plus, VB, C, Java, Maven, Toad, Load Runner, SQL server, MS Word and Excel, Windows 2007 and Unix

Confidential, New York, NY

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases of various Business applications, and complete familiarity with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Interacted with End-users, Stakeholders and Business Analysts for gathering and analyzing business and technical requirement specifications
• Worked closely with all the business as well as technology stakeholders to analyze complex business processes
• Used MS project to keep track of tasks status
• Designed and developed Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Business requirements and Technical Specifications covering both positive and negative testing requirements
• Responsible for creating and maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and traced the requirements to the corresponding test cases
• Performed extensive back-end Database testing using complex SQL queries
• Created test data for validating scenarios based on functional requirement specifications
• Worked closely with cross-functional teams including Users, development team, marketing and technical team
• Buildscript using Maven.
• Involved in preparation and execution of Test Cases for an application
• Performed UI Testing on the application web-Interface
• Created the Regression Test Cases and automated them for the purpose of Regression Testing
• Created Standard Checkpoints, Bitmap Checkpoints, Text Checkpoints and Text-Area Checkpoints to check the application's current behavior in previous version using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Created Regular Checkpoints as well as Output Value Checkpoints
• Involved in preparation of Test plans, Test cases, Test scripts and responsible for executing the Test Scripts
• Developed automated test scripts using Quick Test Professional, enhanced the scripts inserting Checkpoints, Parameters, Synchronized the scripts and saved the same scripts for Regression Testing
• Performed Integration testing using Data-driven Frameworks created in QTP.
• Performed Regular Expression for capturing dynamic value using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Performed Regression Testing on the application for testing validity of functionality in different versions of the application
• Effectively utilized Mercury Quality Center in creating Test plan, Test Cases and Defect tracking.
• Tracked defects and facilitate defect review meetings with team leads
• Assisted in management of defect tracking using HP 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
• Attended the daily team meeting, weekly status meetings, sprint review meeting and create notes for meeting-minutes.

Environment: Quality Center, Quick Test Pro (QTP), SQL server, UNIX, Visual Basic, ASP, ActiveX Controls, Windows XP, XML, Oracle,Maven, MS Office (Word/Excel)

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Project Artifacts, analyzed Requirements, designed the test plan and provided weekly status report that includes testing metrics, test logs and test summary reports.
• Served as a resource and communication point for decisions about test schedule changes, resource forecast and estimation.
• Investigated, researched, recommended and lead the implementation of commercial automated test tools and test scripts for regression testing of existing product functionality.
• Worked closely with product and project managers on the implementation of new projects and infrastructures. Including operational readiness, change preparation, change execution, and post-change QA validation.
• Ensured all testing standards are being met and served as an escalation point for issues involving testing.
• Experienced in working both of UNIX & Linux environment to analyze log file & to monitor process.
• Experience includes testing and debugging various web and Client/Server based applications.
• Designed the Test Strategy for multiple projects, defect management using JIRA and Quality Center.
• Maintained a requirements traceability matrix in order to keep the clients and all the teams up-to-date with the current progress of the project using Quality Center.
• Maintained Test Scripts, Requirements & management of test suites using Quality Center.
• Tracked the defects, logged the defected and developed and maintained Defect reports & Test Metrics using ALM/Quality Center.
• Used SQL queries for Back-end testing and Data integrity testing.
• Tested the conversion data into OLTP by running SQL scripts.
• Recorded and ran the automation scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Automated regression test suite and performed smoke test using Quick Test Professional.
• Customized Scripts to in corporate GUI Check points, Data Driven testing using Data Tables, Output Values.
• Implemented regular expressions and parameterized checkpoint using QTP.
• Handled unexpected errors at time of playback using Recovery Scenario wizards.
• Created a startup script using Automation Object Model that Standardizes QTP environment.
• Developed and Implemented automation using VB Script, descriptive programming and QTP
• Performed Integration testing using Data-driven Frameworks created in QTP.
• Created automation results report documents.
• Worked with all Agile Development and SCRUM process throughout the entire project.
• Participated and reported statuses in all test related project team meetings.
• Interacted with various departments to formulate and report tests results

Environment: Test Director, Oracle, Quick Test Professional, Visual Basic, ActiveX controls, HTML, C, SQL server, Windows 2000/XP, MS Office and Unix