SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of diversified experience in Software Quality Assurance in software development.
• Experience in writing and executing test plans, test cases, test strategies and test scripts for manual and automated testing.
• Excellent knowledge in test management tools like HP Quality Center, Selenium and cucumber. Proficient in Functional, Regression, System, Black Box, UAT and WebServices testing.
• Actively participated in all the stages of Software Development Life Cycle and creating test plans and test cases for various scenarios of end to end functionality testing.
• Possess strong analytical, verbal, organizational and inter - personal skills that help in communicating with Developers, team members, writing reports and test documentation.
• In-depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and have thorough understanding of various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.
• Experience in working on Waterfall and Agile/Scrum Methodology.
• Experience specializing in testing and developing client server, web-based and mobile (iPhone) applications.
• Extensively used Remote Deposit Capture (RDC) application to capture images via small desktop scanner.
• Experience of doing Functional, System, Regression, Sanity, Integration, QTC, UAT, Black-Box and WebServices testing.
• Extensively used HP Quality Center for writing and executing Test Cases, Test plan, defect tracking and prioritizing defects.
• Experienced in UFT/ QTP and Selenium.
• Developing experience in HTML, XML and DHTML and Knowledge of web technologies like JavaScript, CSS, PHP and AJAX.
• Experience in writing SQL Queries to retrieve Data from the Databases for Backend Testing and Validating Database using DBVisualizer.
• Experience with Service Oriented Architecture using SoapUI tool to test WebServices.
• Extensively involved in manual testing using positive and negative data inputs.
• Excellent skills in automated test tool Quick Test Professional (QTP), Cucumber, and Soap UI and Web metrics.
• Extensive experience with Visio, MS Project and MS office tool’s Like Ms-Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access.
• Experience with Object Oriented Programming, UML concepts, design patterns, and web Technologies.
• Excellent analytical/trouble-shooting skills and strong technical background.
• Possess excellent leadership skills and able to work individually and in a team as well.
• Able to cope with fast paced working environments and ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Liaison with Stakeholders, BAs, and delivery teams to ensure highest standards of quality is delivered to the business.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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

Quality Assurance Tools: JIRA, Selenium, HP QC/ALM, QTP/UFT, Soap UIOperating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000 XP/Professional, UNIX, LINUX

IDE: Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008/2005

Project Management: MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office

Programming: C, C#, Java, SQL

Web Technology: HTML, XML, DHTML, CSS, PHP, VB Script, Java Script

MS Tools: CRM, SharePoint

Methodologies: Agile / Scrum, Waterfall Model

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington, DC

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed business requirements and functional requirements document to achieve better understanding of the requirements
• Performed GAP analysis by analyzing requirements and made UML and use case diagrams
• Documented and created a comprehensive Reports, Flow Charts, UML, Use Case diagrams and Test Scenarios
• Wrote test plans, test cases, test scripts and performing system, functional and regression testing of applications
• Conducted functional, GUI, regression and smoke for various applications
• Test Case Management was done using ALM/Quality Center.
• Tested the applications end to end
• Worked with WebServices (SOAP)
• Responsible to verifyWeb services API request, response data validations in REST, SOAP protocols.
• Validated the data using SQL queries against Oracle database 11g
• Worked with UNIX shell scripts
• Created traceability matrix between requirements and test cases
• Tracked and logged the defects using HPALM/Quality Center

Environment: Agile, Quality Center/ALM, QTP, Java, SOAPUI, UFT, UNIX, Oracle 11g, XML, MS Access

Confidential, NYC, NY

Software Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understand the User requirement documents (Business and functional) in the fast pace project to deliver the required task.
• Job entails preparation of ‘Test Plans’, ‘Test Design Specification’, setting up of complex test case scenarios, writing test scripts using HP Quality Center 10.0 and performing System, Functional, Black-Box, Regression, UAT and cross-browser testing. Job also include Test Evaluation, Verification & Validations of Actual Results vis-à-vis the desired results.
• Creating and maintaining Tests and Test Records, Defect Management, analyzed defect data, performed testing for product release, recommended process improvements, review test procedures, maintain strict adherence to client's prescribed testing guidelines, control processes and procedures.
• Involved in performing manual and automated test procedures for functional testing of Webservices using Soap UI.
• Used the defect-tracking feature of HP Quality Center to log and document defects.
• Participated in Production support validations and testing during off and on business hours.
• Conducted Defect Review board meeting to analysis, resolution and determine ownership of defects and project issues.
• Worked closely with engineering and staff for document and deliverable reviews, software revisions, change requests, Code Review, Configuration Management, Release Management and assessments.

Environment: HP Quality Center 10, HP QTP, Soap UI, SQL, Oracle, .NET, JAVA, SOA, Web Applications, Waterfall, MS Office, SharePoint.

Confidential, NYC, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for selecting Test cases for Functional and Regression test sets.
• Performed black box testing, browser Compatibility Testing and WebServices testing.
• Involved in white box testing and GUI testing.
• Executed Manual Test Cases by using positive and negative data inputs. Reported results and tracked defects encountered during testing in Mercury Quality Center.
• Worked on the test planning, test lab and defect reports and generated customized reports in Quality Center.
• Extensively used Mercury Quality Center for defect tracking and prioritizing defects.
• Interacted with Developers for defect analysis and performing Regression Testing.
• Involved in generating the automation script in Quick Test Professional using VB script.
• Performed Data Driven Testing using QTP to test the application with different sets of data
• Recorded test script following each test cases using Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Added verification, standard, output checkpoints in QTP for web application.
• Created Bitmap check points, Text checkpoint from active screens.
• Created graphs and reports to analyze the performance.
• Created Automation test framework using Selenium.
• Prepared reports using Quality Center.
• Written and modified required SQL validation scripts to validate the outputs.
• Assisted business analysts with the resolution of testing issues.
• Involved in preparing Traceability matrix for 100% coverage of Requirements.
• Experience in agile testing by closely interacting with developers to ensure continuous progress.

Environment: Windows XP Professional, Quick Test Professional, Quality Center 9.2, Java, HTML, .NET,XML,QTC, SQL 2005, Selenium, Oracle, UNIX

Confidential, NYC, NY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Wrote test cases based on Business Requirements and required documents.
• Worked with QA team to prepare Test strategy and Test plan.
• Created Traceability Matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements, identify all test conditions and test data needs.
• Maintained test matrices to reflect test progress.
• Performed Positive/Negative, Sanity, Smoke, Data Driven, Functionality, Integration, Regression and Security Testing of the application
• Conducted UAT testing.
• Performed Back-End Testing using routine SQL commands.
• Used Mercury Quality Center Quest to track, review, analyze and compare defects.
• Involved in the creation test cases for manual testing and Automated Testing.
• Involved in scrip enhancement and functional testing of the application using Quick Test Professional.
• Submitted weekly status reports stating the blocking issues of the current build.
• Worked with Project Management to scope the testing effort and provide status and estimates.
• Actively involved in all phases of SDLC.

Environment: Windows 2000, Quick Test Professional, Oracle database, Mercury Quality Center