PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 8 years of experience as QA Test Engineer involved in test design, test development and implementation of test procedures in manual and automation testing
• Out of the Box thinker, self starter and good communication skills, Team player and individual contributor.
• Ability to prioritize and balance tight deadlines with high quality work and deliverables .Co - ordinate testing activities with cross functional teams
• Expertise in entire Software Development Life Cycle and Test Development Life Cycle, Test strategies, Methodologies, processes and compliance standards.
• Expertise in manual testing includes Requirements Analysis, writing Test plans, Test Cases and Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Experience in planning, coordinating and performing Integration Testing, Validation Testing, Functionality Testing, Regression Testing, Database testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Experience in Agile Environment.
• Experience in using Quality centre for Test Management.
• Experience in preparing Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Daily status report and executing test cases and test scripts in QTP Automation tool.
• Experienced in capturing test metrics, dashboard and reports in RQM.
• Developed and documented Testing Strategies for Manual and Automated testing.
• Experience in testing the web services using SOAPUI.
• Experienced in Unix and Shell Scripting.
• Extensively worked with SQL for backend testing to run the data integrity tests, validate data and extract data from different databases and verified them.
• Strong Experience in testing database using SQL and Oracle.
• Extensively used quality center for Test Planning, Test Execution and Defect tracking.
• Effectively involved in defect tracking, reporting reviewing and analyzing test results using Quality Center.
• Expertise in QA Methodologies like Agile and Waterfall.
• Experience in design and implementing on automation testing framework. Incorporated Synchronization statements and Checkpoints worked on Functional Libraries, Object repositories, Actions and Reusable actions.
• Worked closely with the Product Development teams from design through Production to ensure implementation & involved in post implementation product support and Release support.

SKILLS/TOOLS:

Tools: Quality Center, Quick Test Professional, Load Runner, Test Director, Rational Requisite Pro,SOAP UI, Jira, Ms Sharepoint, TOAD.

Languages: SQL, VB script.

Platforms: Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, UNIX and LINUX RedHat

Data warehousing: Informatica Power Center .

Database: MS Access, Oracle, SQL Server.

Scripting Language: VB Script.

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, and Java

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Elkridge, MD

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements and created Test Plan, and Test cases for complete end-to-end testing.
• Responsible for writing test scenarios in for the assigned modules and testing topics by using black box technique.
• Worked on 508 compliance standards using WAVE & FIRE EYES.
• Acted as Scrum team member for the agile core process team applying Scrum principles.
• Responsible for Functional, System Testing, Regression Testing, System Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Involved in defect reporting and tracking, conducting Retesting, Sanity Testing and regression testing to close bugs
• Involved in submitting daily TPR(Testing Progress Report).
• Documented Test Cases in RQM .
• Used RTC to log defects .
• Validated Data in the end to end Batch Process.
• Database testing with SQL for backend testing to run the data integrity tests, validate data and extract data from different databases and verified them.
• Preparing test summary reports.

Environment & Tools: Rational Quality Manager, Rational Team Concert, MySQL, Agile (Scrum), Java Web services, ML, MS Office and Windows 7, LINUX RedHat.

Confidential, Hopewell, NJ

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed project documentation, created detailed test cases and manual test scripts.
• Executed automated test scripts in QTP.
• Maintained Test data and results using Quality Center
• Executed browser / OS compatibility testing, component testing, integration testing.
• Involved in user acceptance testing, usability testing.
• Tested web service architectures, SOA using SOAPUI
• Created SOAP UI projects for published web services to test the interface by providing the necessary parameters.
• Capture the request and response xml for documenting the test case execution in SOAPUI.
• Executed positive and negative test cases to cover all test scenarios.
• Tested the functionality of the APIs and web services for interfacing internal systems with vendors systems
• Familiar with accessibility test and tested the application for 508 compliance standards
• Tested user interface to ensure it renders consistently across browsers. Familiar with compatibility testing.
• Implemented procedures and followed standards (template, datasheets, spreadsheets, process documents) for conducting UAT.
• Acted as Scrum team member for the agile core process team applying Scrum principles
• Work with the business users to have them submit approved UAT test cases in the correct format and load them into Quality Center.
• Involved in Automation test cases using QTP
• Used SQL for querying the Oracle database in UNIX environment.
• Review and understand data requirements and create the necessary test data to be used during UAT. Ensure that UAT defects identified are valid and reproducible before creating a ticket for development.
• Involved in the production support and Release support.

Environment & Tools: Microsoft Office Products, HTML,QTP, Oracle EBS HRMS, Oracle Application Server 10g, J2EE, JQuery, XML, SQL, Web services, SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, Web Architecture, APIs

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assist Lead in initiating Test Strategy, Test Plan, and Test cases for complete end-to-end testing.
• Review business requirements and system specifications and implement Test Plan.
• Analyze business requirements and specifications to facilitate classification of the test cases.
• Interact with Business Users and conduct user interviews/JAD sessions with relevant business Units and developers for the requirement clarification and brainstorming.
• Worked in Agile, Scrum methodology to ensure delivery of high quality work with every monthly iteration.
• Accountable in the analysis and test activities to gather information that informs key go/no-go decisions at major project milestones.
• Accountable for the information gathered during System Acceptance Testing, which will inform decisions about whether or not it is prudent to commission a system.
• Perform the phases of Integration, System and Performance Test for a CTC (Centralized Traffic Control) integrated web services platform for railways systems.
• Provide feedback to the development team and ensure the work is carried out in accordance with the schedule and the quality requirements.
• Developed and executed automated test to verify application and back end data using QTP and Quality Center.
• Extensive study of requirement analysis, created test plans and implemented test strategy and written and studied manual test case in Quality centre for Automation.
• Provide feedback to the development team and ensure the work is carried out in accordance with the schedule and the quality requirements.
• Review of peer design to make sure they adhere to company standards.
• Plan project validation activities that include reviewing and approving the outcomes
• Of all project verification activities, organize meetings to discuss validate and delegate raised issues.
• Developing test conditions, test cases and scripting for all web pages.
• Strong ability in developing SQL queries to extract, manipulate and /or calculate information to fulfill data and reporting requirements including identifying the tables and columns from which data is extracted.
• Participated in QA reviews and implementation of processes and procedures improvements.
• Developed milestones to ensure project deadlines were met.
• Communication with Development team to resolve and retest defects
• Bug reporting using Quality centre.
• Active participation in generating the test suite for the UAT.
• Execution of UAT Suite, Production Support and Release Support

Environment & Tools: Quality center, Bugzilla, UNIX, Simulation Tools, Star Team, Team center, CVS, QTP

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Test Cases and Test Scripts based on the user requirements and design documents.
• Performed manual testing for the GUI functionality of the applicationConducted functional requirement testing to test business scenarios, user actions, interfaces, data rules, user messages and error conditions
• Recorded and executed the scripts on a new build
• Involved in backend testing of the application using SQL Queries in SQL Server data base.
• Involved in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Compatibility Testing
• Carried out compatibility testing for cross platforms.
• Created and maintained test plan, test cases and automation test documents
• Bug tracking and preparation of Test summary report and product defect metrics
• Participated in Unit Test, System Test and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Assist Lead in initiating Test Strategy, Test Plan, and Test cases for complete end-to-end testing. Review business requirements and system specifications and implement Test Plan.
• Accountable in the analysis and test activities to gather information that informs key go/no-go decisions at major project milestones.
• Accountable for the information gathered during System Acceptance Testing which will inform decisions about whether or not it is prudent to commission of a system.
• Perform the phases of Integration, System and Performance Test for a CTC (Centralized Traffic Control) integrated web services platform for railways systems.
• Provide feedback to the development team and ensure the work is carried out in accordance with the schedule and the quality requirements. Understanding the system requirements and project functionalities