SUMMARY

• Over 9+ years of IT experience in Software Manual and Automation Testing for Windows and Web - based applications.
• Proficient in automated testing and test management using HP Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Around 5 yearsof experience in Test Automation usingQTP.
• Designed Tests Using keyword Driven, Data Driven and Hybrid in automation tool QTP.
• Involved in Automation Infrastructure Development and Regression Testing using QTP.
• Enhancing the Test Scripts for Global Execution.
• Good Exposure in using of QTP Integrated Environment (StepGenerator, Synchronization, Actions, Recovery Scenarios, Parameterization and Methods etc.).
• Experience in Descriptive Programming using QTP.
• Execution of QTP scripts from QC.
• Extensive experience in testing Web/Portal and GUI based Client-Server applications by performing validations, Manual as well Automated testing in various industries.
• Involved in Requirements Gathering & System Analysis, Process and People Management, Software Quality Assurance, Software Configuration and Release Management.
• Extensive experience of implementing and managing Configuration Management, Release Management and Change Management processes and procedures for business critical applications.
• Experience in test case design and test planning for Quality, Error, and Regression testing.
• Experience in developing & maintaining test plans, test cases and automation scripts.
• Hands-on experience using Test Track, Bug Reporting and requirements traceability.
• In-depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), CMM and QA testing methodologies.
• Well versed with all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Including Agile (Scrum) Test Drive Development and extensively worked in all the phases holding major responsibilities.
• Proficient in automated testing and test management using Load Runner, Win Runner, Silk Test, Selenium.
• Having knowledge on 508 compliance testing.
• Experience in using Defect Tracking tools like Ration Clear Quest, Bugzilla and HP Quality Center, Serena Team Tracker.
• Experience in Functional, Performance, System, GUI, Positive, Negative, Volume, Smoke, Regression, Black Box, White Box, UAT, Integration, Load, Stress, Deployment and installation Testing.
• Involve in testing of Oracle Financial modules.
• Involved in creating Requisitions, Purchase orders and preparing Invoices.
• Ability to analyze load, performance and scalability requirements and implement appropriate load testing strategy.
• Involved closely with the Developer and Testing team during defect resolution phase.
• Expertise in creating reports, forms and updating testing status reports.
• Hands on experience in writing scripts of C#, VBScript, TSL and SQL.
• Good communication skills, Interpersonal skills, Team co-ordination and well versed with Software Development Life Cycle.
• Ability to work in a demanding, rapid iterative development environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automated Test Tools: QTP, Win Runner, Rational Functional Tester (RFT), Silk Test, Selenium, Load Runner.

Defect Tracking Tools: Test Director, Quality Center, Rational Manager, Rational Clear Quest, BugZilla, Serena team Tracker

Databases: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix, Sun Solaris

Configuration Management Tool: Team Foundation Server (TFS), Visual Source Safe (VSS).

Languages: C, C++, C#, Java, Shell Scripts, HTML, DHTML, VB Script, Visual Basic, XML.

Software: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MD

Sr. QA

Responsibilities:

• Studying and analyzing requirement specifications and application documentation to plan and create automate test cases and define system test strategy.
• Developed and executed regression and performance test scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP v. 10).
• Prepared the estimations for the requirements.
• Reviewed the test cases prepared by the team (Peer Review).
• Conducting the meetings within team to know the known and unknown issues from the team.
• Conducted meetings to get clarifications on requirements from the business analysts and developers
• Involved in the creation and Review of the Test plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases.
• Interface with business analysts clarifying user's Requirements during the test design and test execution phases to resolve outstanding application problems.
• Involved in the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Involved in end-to-end manual and automated testing of the application.
• Involved in System, Regression, Usability, Smoke, Performance, Interface and User Acceptance Testing.
• Involved in writing the positive and negative test cases and execute manually.
• Handling responsibilities of identifying and troubleshooting software and automation issues with the assistance of testing engineers.
• Performing full tasks of maintaining and documenting test and automation results.
• Involved in Database Testing and written several SQLQueries to Test the Functionality of the Conversion.
• Implemented and worked on Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) Agile methodologies completing releases ahead of schedule.
• Responsible for analyzing test results to ensure proper functionality of automation systems.
• Handling the Environment issues by communicating with the other teams.
• Reporting bugs in Serena Team Track.
• Preparation of Test Report and Bug Report on weekly basis.
• Working closely with the developers to resolve the defects, issues and understanding the functionality.

Environment: Windows, HP Quality Center, HP QTP, Manual Testing, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SQL Server, VB Script, .Net, Serena Team Track.

Confidential, Owings Mills, MD

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Studying and analyzing requirement specifications and application documentation to plan and create automate test cases and define system test strategy.
• Developed and executed regression and performance test scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP v. 10).
• Prepared the estimations for the requirements.
• Reviewed the test cases prepared by the team.
• Assigned the work to the team members, tracking the results.
• Conducting the meetings within team to know the known and unknown issues from the team.
• Trained the team to get more output while doing automation.
• Conducted meetings to get clarifications on requirements from the business analysts and developers
• Involved in the creation and Review of the Test plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases.
• Interface with business analysts clarifying user's Requirements during the test design and test execution phases to resolve outstanding application problems.
• Involved in the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Create accurate and comprehensive testing estimates.
• Involved in end-to-end manual and automated testing of the application.
• Involved in System, Regression, Usability, Smoke, Performance, Interface and User Acceptance Testing.
• Involved in writing the positive and negative test cases and execute manually.
• Handling responsibilities of identifying and troubleshooting software and automation issues with the assistance of testing engineers.
• Performing full tasks of maintaining and documenting test and automation results.
• Involved in Database Testing and written several SQLQueries to Test the Functionality of the Conversion.
• Implemented and worked on Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) Agile methodologies completing releases ahead of schedule.
• Responsible for analyzing test results to ensure proper functionality of automation systems.
• Handling the Environment issues by communicating with the other teams.
• Reporting bugs in HP Quality Center.
• Preparation of Test Report and Bug Report on weekly basis.
• Working closely with the developers to resolve the defects, issues and understanding the functionality.

Environment: Windows, HP Quality Center, HP QTP, Manual Testing, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SQL Server, VB Script, Java.

Confidential, Santa Ana, CA

Sr. Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Review Business requirement document and carried out pre-testing activities such as collecting test data, writing test cases, and manual testing.
• Create Test Plan for the Functional, Usability, and Smoke testing to check the application developed has no high and medium severity bugs.
• Execute SQL statements for the backend testing.
• Test data and control flow to ensure that the consistency of business logic is maintained on version upgrade.
• Prepare Test data for the Entrance and Exit Criteria in Acceptance to check if the development team has completed coding the application and whether all the modules have been tested by developers
• Involve in the complete QA Lifecycle activities like Pre-testing phase, Acceptance Testing Phase, Testing Phase and also in User Acceptance Testing
• Responsible for Script creation, maintenances and execution using Quality Center and performed backend testing.
• Divide test into logical sections to design more efficient and modular tests.
• Analyze bugs using Quality Center and reporting those bugs to the development team.
• Manage and mailed defects to another users that enables quality assurance personnel about defect repair activity.
• Link defects to requirements, tests, test sets, test instances, runs, run steps, and other defects to determine the status of defect using Quality Center.
• Use Quality Center for defect tracking and maintained defect repository and followed defect life cycle until it was closed.
• Export the test run data to external spreadsheet from Quality Center, and performed detailed analysis.
• Interface with business analysts clarifying user's Requirements during the test design and test execution phases to resolve outstanding application problems.
• Plan, coordinate and delegate various types of tests amongst team members
• Create users and assigned them proper so that they will get the correct privileges on the testing database.
• Prepare Test Summary Report and weekly Bug Reports.
• Working closely with the developers to resolve the defects, issues and understanding the functionality.

Environment: Quick Test Professional, HP Quality Center, Oracle, JAVA, SQL, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Windows XP.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Sr. Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Interfaced with business analysts clarifying user's Requirements during the test design and test execution phases to resolve outstanding application problems.
• Planned, coordinated and delegated various types of tests amongst team members
• Contributed to the technical strategic QA automation and tests planning for, proposing new directions and technologies
• Developed excellent Leadership and Teamwork skills to negotiate with and influence peers and management on policy and strategic issues
• Responsible for defining and creating the entire collection of transactions to perform a complete regression of current outsourcing clients
• Reviewed requirement that was gathered from the front office and back office users and involved in pre testing activities.
• Analyzed system requirements and involved in preparation of Test Plans for different modules and documented test cases for various screens of the application.
• Created trades including equity, fixed income, CFDs, credit swaps, interest rate swaps, futures, options, FX trades, shorts, repos, loans, and all varieties of cash transactions. Additional transactions included corporate actions, internal accounting and margin requirements.
• Created Test data, Test procedures, Test cases, writing automated test scripts and documentation.
• Tested application by applying checkpoints such as standard, database, Bitmap, text to verify the modules are functioning without any errors using Quick Test Pro
• Created database for storing the test scripts, bugs using database administrator of Quality Center.
• Created users and assigned them proper so that they will get the correct privileges on the testing database.
• Developed Subject tree of the application in Quality Center.
• Developed Test plan of the application in Quality Center.
• Developed GUI map of the application using Quick Test Professional.
• Coordinated design and test efforts of over a dozen backoffice groups to roll out a strategic control architecture for CDOs and other Structured Credit Derivatives and Interest Rate Derivatives
• Developed Automation test scripts using HP Quick Test Professional for System testing on the application.
• Performed Smoke, Integration, functional, Regression testing by executing the automation test scripts developed with Quick test Professional.
• Attended Code Review meetings.
• Interacted with developers to report and track bugs using HP Quality Center.

Environment: Quick Test Professional 8.0, HP Quality Center 8.0, Oracle, .NET, SQL, Windows NT/2000 and Internet Explorer.

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Developers, discussed the Specifications provided by the Analysts and also the changes and the discrepancies in the application.
• Developed the testing strategy and Test Plan documents, documented it for higher levels of management’s testing approach.
• Prepared the estimations for the requirements.
• Reviewed the test cases prepared by the team.
• Assigned the work to the team members, tracking the results.
• Conducting the meetings within team to know the known and unknown issues from the team.
• Trained the team to get more output while doing automation.
• Conducted meetings to get clarifications on requirements from the business analysts and developers.
• Performed Regression Testing using Quick test Professional
• Conducted Functionality, Interface and Regression testing during the various phases of the development using Quick test Professional
• Developed test scripts for Data Driven Tests as well as executing these scripts for Interface testing
• Wrote SQL queries to test the database and to perform validations
• Customized Quality Center for requirements analysis and defect reporting.
• Performed defect reporting and defect tracking using Quality Center.
• Performed Regression Testing on new application builds and when modifications/changes were done.
• Developed Base Line scripts for testing the future releases of the application using Quick Test Professional
• Validated user input from the web pages.
• Used Check points, Parameterization and Recovery Scenarios
• Used VB Script Functions heavily
• Used Shared Object Repository administration.
• Used Quality Center for Managing Test Cases, Requirements.
• Imported Test Cases and Requirements in to Quality Center.
• Identified critical show stoppers and reported them to the developers during the testing phase.
• Identified and documented all the defects to ensure application software functionality for present as well as future builds.

Environment: Quick Test Professional 9.0, HP Quality Center 9.0, Oracle, .NET, SQL, Windows NT/2000 and Internet Explorer.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the requirement analysis of the application.
• Responsible in preparing Test case design.
• Creating test scripts and execution using QTP.
• Developed and executed manual test scripts for Regression and Smoke testing.
• Generated test defect report & Bug Reporting through Mercury Quality Center 8.2.
• Involve in testing of Oracle Financial modules.
• Involved in creating Requisitions, Purchase orders and preparing Invoices.
• Direct Interaction with the client, reporting the status update regularly.

Environment: Quality Center, Quick test Professional, Java, HTML, JavaScript, Oracle, SQL, IE, Netscape Navigator, SQL Server, MS IIS Monitor, WebLogic and Windows 2.

Confidential

Tester Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the specifications provided by the clients.
• Preparing the Automation test cases for the Manual Test Scenario in RFT.
• Getting the required inputs from the development team.
• Updating the status on Daily basis by getting the clarifications from the development team
• Extending the time when required.
• Execution of the Automation test cases after creation and delivering them on daily basis

Environment: Java, RFT, Mainframes, Oracle, Windows/Unix.