OBJECTIVE:

Seven Plus year’s strong understanding of Software Quality Assurance Methodologies. Seeking for a Software QA Analyst/Engineer/Tester position for a winning organization where the criteria for recognition are vision, honesty, expertise and performances.

SUMMARY:

• Strong understanding ofSoftware Quality Assurance including development, execution, and maintenance of the Test Plans, Test Result documents and Defect reports.
• Experienced with HP ALM/ HP Quality Center Administration (Domain creation, Project Creation, User Creation, maintain user authentication, Allocation of projects to users).
• Experienced inSoftware Quality Assurance(SQA), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• PerformedDatabaseValidation and Verificationusing Structured Query Language (SQL) queries. Rich PL/SQL development experience for Oracle database stored procedure.
• Experienced in Implementing and utilizing automated test solutions using tools such as HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)/ Unified Functional Testing (UFT). Strong problem solving and analytical skills, with profound ability to prioritize and multi task goals in order to meet the time requirements.
• Proficiency in business analysis, business process design, compilation of functional specifications, process development, testing and training.
• Expertise on assigning the Test Cases to the Test Sets in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Experienced in developing the test scripts using Automation Object Model.
• Experienced with assigning the Requirements to the Test Cases in HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Excellent working knowledge on Windows environments.
• Concepts of Object Repositories, Merging of Object Repositories and Shared Object Repositories on HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)/ Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Experience on handling of Unexceptional events like popup windows during run time using Recovery Scenarios by using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)/ Unified Functional Testing (UFT). Sound knowledge in Creation of Business Components and Application Areas.
• Acquainted with different testing concepts and methods like Functional, Black Box, Regression, UAT, Smoke, Sanity, Unit and Integration testing.
• Experienced with managing project team in the real time environment. Proficient in creating descriptive programming for Data Driven Framework using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)/ Unified Functional Testing (UFT). Automation Experienced in creating Data Driven Framework, Keyword Driven Framework as well as Hybrid Framework. By using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)/ Unified Functional Testing (UFT) Experienced in creating Automation for XML File Compares and Flat File Compares.
• Excellent team player with very good communication skills and leadership qualities.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Very dedicated to produce professional work with highest quality and creativity.

TECHNICAL SKILL:

Applications: Java, .NET, Visual Basic, C Sharp, C, C++

Testing areas: Web Application Testing, Database Testing, Client Server Application Testing

Software testing tools: HP ALM / HP Quality Center/ JIRA, HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)/

Unified Functional Testing (UFT)Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX/Linux.

Database: MS SQL Server 2008, Oracle 11g

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Sr. QA Analyst

Environment: HP ALM / HP Quality Center, HP Quick Test Professional/ Unified Functional Testing (UFT). Windows Server 2005/08, .Net, Java, HTML, SQL Server 2008, TOAD, Oracle11g, IIS

Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience in developing Test Cases, Test Plan for application.
• Experienced with HP ALM/ HP Quality Center Administration (Domain creation, Project Creation, User Creation, maintain user authentication, Allocation of projects to users).
• Extensive experience Logging bugs in the HP ALM tracking tool.
• Experience to report the bugs, Email notifications to the developers using the HP ALM.
• Strong Experience with HP ALM/HP Quality Center for requirements / test case / defect tracking;
• Maintain effective communication with internal and external customers to ensure business needs are met for HP ALM.
• Experience to write SQL to query the Data Base to verify application front end input value.
• Experience to Used SQL queries to access data from different database tables.
• Automated scripts were developed using Unified Functional Testing (UFT) to perform functional and regression testing.
• Developed Unified Functional Testing (UFT) automation scripts using library functions, Data driven tests and Regression tests.
• Involved in both Manual Testing and Automated testing using the automated tool Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Extensive experience to develop Unified Functional Testing (UFT) Environment Variable by using XML file.
• Worked closely with developers in reproducing bugs reported.
• Analyzed Requirement documents to develop and Execute Test scripts and documented Test Cases corresponding to business rules.
• Extensively worked with BA and Developer in reviewing the requirements
• Involved in Peer reviewing the Team members test scripts also Defect / Bug meeting.
• Involved in functional testing and verify the application according to the user perspective.
• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and Functional Specification.
• Interfaced with subject matter experts and developers to resolve the problems while executing the test scripts and Test cases.
• Extensively involved in reviewing the scripts with the business people.
• Responsible for reporting daily status and progress of testing to the project team.
• Extensively worked Software Installation and Troubleshooting.
• Extensively involved Develop Training, documentation and knowledge sharing.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Engineer

Environment: HP Quality Center (QC), Quick Test Professional (QTP), MS Office Suite Agile, Web, Ajax, SOAP UI, Visual Basic, Java, J2EE, HTML, UNIX, ORACLE 10g, DB2 .NET, Windows, VB Script.

Responsibilities:

• Experience in preparing Test Plan and Test cases.
• Developed test cases for automation team for regression testing.
• Formulated methods to perform positive and negative testing against requirements.
• Developed and executed test plans and test cases based on business requirements and functional specifications.
• Involved in using Quality Center for managing the defect. Performed manual Back - End testing by writing SQL Queries for validating user information in the tables.
• Extensive hands on experience in Site Administration, Project Administration for HP ALM / HP Quality Centre.
• Experience to Create Test Cases in HP ALM/HP Quality Center.
• Strong Experience with HP ALM/HP Quality Center for requirements / test case / defect tracking;
• Experience to in HP ALM/QC as defect tracking and reporting tool.
• Worked on backend testing using SQL queries and web services testing.
• Extensively used SQL/PL-SQL statements to verify the data in the database.
• Performed Functionality Testing and Integration testing using QTP (Quick Test Pro).
• Determined test approaches for various testing strategies like Functional, System, Regression, Usability testing, Alpha, Beta testing and executed using QTP (Quick Test Pro).
• Worked extensively as Test Lead with the QA (Quality Assurance) team for designing and evaluating Test Plan, Test System, Test Data and Test Cases for the application.
• Performed manual and automated testing and maintain documentation on different types of Testing like Black Box, Regression, Integration, System and Acceptance testing.
• Responsible for QA test suite development, execution and analysis.
• Involved in reviewing existing documentation for current systems to create AS-IS and TO-BE processes for Gap analysis.
• Tested Compatibility of application with Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Netscape Navigator.
• Performed System and Integration testing by executing test cases.
• Organized test procedures and executing tests in Web and Client/Server Environments.
• Created test scripts for various testing stages like Functional Testing and Regression Testing.
• Analyzed system specification and developed Test plans for System and Integration Testing.
• Developed test scripts according to the program specification given.
• Reported defects found during test cycles and track the defects and retest fixed modules.
• Involved in Periodic Project Meetings.
• Involved in Peer Reviews.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Software Tester

Environment: MS Office, Oracle 10g, HP Quick Test Pro (QTP), HP Quality Center (QC). Windows, XML, MS Project, XML, SQL and VBScript.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements and involve in the review discussions.
• Participated in high level design sessions.
• Participated in the QA activities for various releases in the Project.
• Performed System and Integration Testing.
• Develop test cases based on Functional Specifications and System Specifications.
• Prepared of Test Plan and analyze integration system impacts.
• Involved in Manual Testing of the application for Negative and Positive scenarios.
• Performed the Regression Testing to make sure that the bug has been fixed and the application was running properly.
• Extensively involved in executing, analyzing and verifying test results and worked with developers to resolve issues.
• Communicated project business issues to appropriate business leadership groups.
• Master Object Repository is maintained in the central repository and changes are made to it for every version.
• Wrote SQL statements to extract Data and verified the output Data of the reports.
• Prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to establish traceability between requirements and test cases.
• Modified and maintained test cases due to changes in the requirements.
• Detected, reported and classified bugs in, HP Quality Center (QC).
• Used HP Quality Center (QC) for managing test execution and defect tracking of all issues.
• Conducted internal and external reviews as well as formal walkthroughs, and participated in status meetings.
• Performed SQL and PL/SQL and backend validations.
• Developed and executed SQL Queries to perform backend database testing.
• Wrote PL/SQL scripts and assisted C programmers for Application development.
• Performed GUI checkpoints for GUI objects using QTP.
• Developed automated test scripts for functional testing using QTP.
• Performed functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, system testing, user acceptance testing and negative testing using Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Maintained QTP Test Libraries and Executed Test Plans.
• Developed and documented testing processes, test plans and test cases.
• Extensively involved in GUI, backend Oracle testing.
• Assisted in definition, creation and validation of test data.
• Worked closely with the development team to identify and fix defects and enhancements.
• Involved in documenting and analyzing defects and test results.
• Performed troubleshoot with UNIX and Database related problems.
• Performed necessary research to resolve defects.
• Worked in developing Shell scripts in UNIX.
• Communicated clearly and frequently the status of defects, and the steps to resolution with technical and business teams.
• Involved in peer reviews.
• Exercised good judgment within generally defined quality assurance practices, procedures and standards.