SUMMARY

• Over Eight years of Quality Assurance and Software Testing experience with Client - Server applications, Web based applications, and Enterprise applications.
• Strong in analyzing Business Requirements, developing and executing Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scenarios for manual/automated testing, have over 6 years of experience in automation looks like QTP, QC and ALM, VB Script.
• Proficient in the domains of Industrial automation and Banking & Financial.
• Strong experience in Software Development Life Cycle using Agile/Scrum, Waterfall methodologies.
• Highly proficient in creating and implementing test plans and test cases based on user requirements and functional specifications.
• Extensive working experience in GUI testing, Functionality testing, System testing, Integration testing, Backend testing, Regression Testing and UAT.
• Experienced in preparing and executing Test cases, evaluated test results and Report discrepancies to the development team using ALM/Quality Center.
• Good exposure on Bug Life Cycle.
• Experienced in using defect reporting tools Clear Quest and Quality Center/ALM.
• Experienced in using ALM/Quality Center for managing test execution and defect tracking of all issues.
• Experienced in providing test management actions and activities (STLC) using ALM/Quality Center.
• Very good in writing SQL queries for backend data validation and data integrity check on RDBMS databases like Oracle, SQL Server.
• Good working experience with functional automation tools like UFT (QTP-11).
• Experienced in creating automation scripts using VBScript in QTP to fully automate the application functionality.
• Highly experienced in developing Automation Frameworks (Data driven, Keyword driven and Hybrid) in QTP using VBScript.
• Good exposure in using of QTP integrated environment (Step Generator, Synchronization, Data Table, Actions, Recovery scenarios, Dictionary Objects, File System objects, Regular Expressions, Environment variables, Register User Function etc.)
• Experience in validating XML, Web Services, SOAP Messaging.
• Experience in versioning tool like GIT, Clear Case.
• Excellent working knowledge on both Unix/Linux and Windows environments.
• Good Interpersonal, Analytical and Communication skills.
• Good interpersonal skills, Documentation skills, Self-starter, Result Oriented, Hard working with a quest & zeal to learn new technologies and undertake challenging tasks.
• Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines and work extra hours when needed.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operation System: Windows XP/7, UNIX

Databases: MS SQL Server 2008, Oracle 11g, MS-Access 7.0.

Testing Concepts: Scaled Agile, STLC, Testing Levels, Testing Types

Tools: QTP (UFT), Microsoft Test Manager, Test Automation Framework (TAF)

Tools: & Utilities: MS-Office, Excel Macro

Test Management Tools: Quality Center (ALM)

Version Management Tools: GIT, Clear Case

Bug Tracking Tool: Clear Quest

Web Technologies: SharePoint, HTML, Basic Java Script

Languages: VB Script, Perl, SQL, C, Core JAVA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Attending epic grooming session to create user stories with the product owner.
• Attending story planning session to create tasks to execute the user story.
• Review the requirements which are in the form of user stories in AGILE METHODOLOGY
• Involved in Preparation of test case and test scenarios from the requirement document in QC.
• Responsible for creating automation script (VBScript) in QTP.
• Responsible for creating reusable component(Functions, Procedures)
• Responsible for executing automation script.
• Responsible for defect reporting in Clear Quest.
• Worked with Technical Team and Production Team in Isolating Defects and helping to resolve code issue.
• Responsible for following up the defects and try to resolve within the story time frame.
• Responsible for running SMOKE test.
• Responsible for Integration testing and regression testing.
• Responsible for test result upload and report.
• Verifying the Requirement Traceability Matrix to ensure the test cases are mapped with the requirement.
• Wrote SQL queries to test the SQL Server database and validate the data integrity.
• Modified the Automated Scripts for regular release screen changes and to support regular functional changes.
• Involved in authoring the Test Strategy and SOP for Test script automation.
• Performed Cross environment Testing.
• Performed performance testing.
• Coordinated User Acceptance Test (UAT) process and documented and addressed all the issues during the process.
• Wrote modification requests for the bugs in the application and helped developers to track and resolve the problems.

Confidential

Sr. Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating Test Strategies, Test Plans, and Test Cases for QA Process Management.
• Responsible for liaison with business groups, development team, implementation and training team and software vendors.
• Developed and executed system Test cases based on the Functional and Technical requirements.
• Performed goal oriented exploratory testing, developed and executed test cases for functionality testing, security testing, integration testing and back-end testing.
• Used Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for designing and development of manual test cases.
• Reported and tracked defects using Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Designed, created and executed regression test scripts and suites for ALM using UFT/QTP.
• Coordinated with offshore team in getting an Automated Regression Scripting Test bed created for ALM and actively involved in providing the offshore team support and guidance.
• Used SQL quires and Stored procedures for back-end testing.
• Involved in writing SQL queries, Database Checkpoints to verify data quality and calculations, reviews using QTP.
• Interfaced QTP with MS Access database for test data input, structured the database similar to the script structure with a table per app webpage and used script id as primary key between the database tables.
• Integrated QuickTest Pro with ALM to provide script visibility, enhance automated regression and ease maintenance of resources *.qfl, *.vbs, *.qrs, *.xls *.tsr.
• Developed custom function/sub-routine libraries to support automated testing solutions using VB Script.
• Developed and executed data driven GUI, automated functionality and regression scripts using QuickTest Professional (QTP), in which each web page had a separate access table for the data as well as a separate script file.
• Designed, wrote and executed automated regression test scripts/suites on Build Environment Support Tool using QTP.
• Developed Data-Driven Automation Framework by using Global and Local spreadsheets in QTP for testing multiple data.
• Created automation results report documents.
• Monitored project plan execution and project metrics reporting.

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Business Requirement analysis
• Communication with customer for requirement clarification
• Developing test plan and test scenario,
• Test script preparation (Manual and Automation)
• Review and integrating the scripts written by team members
• Writing query for Oracle database
• Test script uploading to QC
• Test coverage (Requirement - Test cases mapping) making in QC
• Test execution in QC/QTP
• Test result analysis, issues reporting and bug logging in Clear Quest
• Regression test suit preparation
• Performing GUI, Functional, Regression Database and Security Testing
• Effective coordination between development team and testing team.

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Business Requirement analysis,
• Communication with customer for requirement clarification.
• Developing test plan and test scenario,
• Test script preparation (Manual),
• Review and integrating the scripts written by team members,
• Writing query for Oracle database,
• Executing LDAP commands,
• Test script uploading to QC,
• Test coverage (Requirement - Test cases mapping) making in QC,
• Test execution in QC/QTP,
• Test result analysis, issues reporting and bug logging in Clear Quest,
• Regression test suit preparation,
• Performing GUI, Functional, Regression Database and Security Testing,
• Effective coordination between development team and testing team.

Confidential

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis,
• Developing test plan.
• Test cases preparation,
• Test data (ISO standard message) preparation,
• Test data execution in Mainframe,
• Test result analysis and issues reporting,
• Solving technical issues,
• Test cases uploading to QC,
• Test coverage (Requirement - Test cases mapping) making in QC,
• Test data file selection for regression testing,
• Data bank maintenance for future use,
• Project status reporting (weekly).

Confidential 

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to gathering of information from client, customers, core users regarding to data and business processes and make proper documentation.
• Participated in all activities in all phases of Software development and test development life cycle.
• Responsible for verification and validation for all work products.
• Creation, execution of test cases and maintains proper documentation of results.
• Created and executed Functional and System Test cases manually and performed GUI, System Integration testing, Positive and Negative testing and functional, validation and user acceptance testing.
• Worked on Back end testing by writing and execution of SQL queries and utilized data base tool TOAD
• Prepared test cases and scenarios for all levels of test executions included Unit Responsible for Test management, defect management and risk analysis.
• Involved in managing the requirements and assigning priorities using TestDirector.
• Reported defect issues into the bug reporting systems and followed up with the development team until resolved using Test Director.

Environment: TestDirector, Java, XML, TSL, HTML, Oracle, SQL, Windows NT.