SUMMARY

• 7 Plus years of QA experience to obtain a responsible QA position in a progressive organization where I can effectively utilize my expertise and qualifications to develop and improve the Quality Assurance Position.
• Solid understanding of Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) and testing processes.
• Experienced in HP ALM/ HP Quality Center, HP Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Expert in writing and executing Test Plan, Test cases, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts.
• Experienced in gathering and documenting business requirements from client.
• Experienced in performing Functional, Sanity, Integration, System, User Acceptance, 508 Compliance testing.
• Proficient in using different databases including Oracle 11g, MS SQL Server, and MS Access.
• Experienced in using test management and bug reporting tools including HP Quality Centre, and ClearQuest.
• Involved in testing task estimations LOE, review checklists preparation.
• Developed automation test scripts using QTP for creating standard, text, and bitmap, page, and database checkpoints.
• Tracked defects, prepared defect matrices, defect summary report and followed issues to completion. Pro - active, attention to detail, strong analytical skills.
• Prepared Requirement traceability matrix, Test data requirements, Test strategy, Test reports.
• Involved in establishing QA process and reviewing processes.
• Actively participated in all phases of the testing cycle including reviews and project status meetings.
• Performed system testing of the application in Windows Environment.
• Skilled in adapting to rapidly changing work environments.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and be self-managed.
• Possess excellent communication and documentation skills, good team player, and ability to work in multitasked environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) / HP Quick Test Pro (QTP), HP ALM/HP Quality Center (QC) and Bugzilla, JIRA.

Languages: Visual Basic, C++, Java, SQL /PL, HTML

Operating System: UNIX, MS DOS, Windows 7, Vista, Windows XP

Database: MS SQL Server 2008/2012, Oracle 11g, MS Access

Microsoft Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, Power Point, MS Works, and Outlook

Application Server: IIS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington, DC

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created test plan and test cases from functional specification doc.
• Manually executed Test cases and Test Scripts after reviewing the business requirement document and technical specifications and responsible for updating existing test cases against the requirements.
• Actively participated in iteration planning meetings and reviews to review impacts on test plan and test strategy of any changes made and new functionalities added in new builds.
• Presented test cases at cross functional test cases review meetings with test team, system analyst and product management teams and have emphasized need for better change control process for critical user stories.
• Met with business analysts to understand business functionalities, requirements and designed test cases to satisfy Client requirements.
• Worked in agile environment, attended daily morning stand up (scrum) meetings, updated daily status on what was done yesterday, what will be done today, and any blocking issues.
• Experienced to Performed Manual Testing of Web-based and Client-server enterprise applications and used HP Quality Center (QC) / HP ALM for test management.
• Experienced to Created test plan based on the requirements, created the test cases and uploaded in Quality Center (QC)/ HP ALM.
• Experienced and Responsible for creating the test cases in HP ALM / HP Quality Center (QC) and mapping them with the requirements.
• Experienced to Analyzed Business Requirements and System Specification documents and created Test cases and executed Test cases in HP ALM/ HP (QC).
• Experienced to Provided defect status reports & test-case execution reports on weekly basis using HP ALM/ HP (QC).
• Performed sanity, integration, regression and system testing to verify incremental and existing functionality.
• Experienced to Executed test cases on development builds and did bug logging and defect tracking by using HP ALM/ HP (QC).
• Experienced to Generated different type of graphs, analyzed the result, created the report and published the report By Using HP ALM.
• Wrote SQL queries for backend testing of the applications.
• Wrote, tested and debugged complex SQL queries involving multiple joins and conditions on Oracle Database.
• Performed white box testing on developer’s PL/SQL code and wrote PL/SQL verification scripts to test the result of deployment for correct business logic.
• Developed test cases and test scripts for Functionality and Regression Testing using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Imported data from the Database to the Data table and performed Data Driven testing with different Data sets for reports generation module in QTP.
• Responsible for performing web test using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) for checking page contents, broken links, web objects, frames and tables.
• Interacted with developers, system analysts, product management, external customers, user interaction and usability testing groups and customer support on a regular basis.
• Involved in project review meetings and discussed issues, status for tracking the progress with project teams.
• Prepared minutes of meetings and test summary reports to communicate the results of testing effort to higher management.
• Provided daily and weekly project status reports and escalated issues to the Manager as well as Providers as needed.

Environment: HP ALM / HP Quality Center (QC), HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) / Quick Test Professional (QTP), Java, JSP, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, HTML, EXCEL, SQL, PL/SQL, MS Access, IIS.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plan and test cases for Application different modules.
• Responsibilities included Manual GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Interface Testing, End-to-End Testing, Database Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Client Application Testing, Web based Application GUI Testing, Functional Testing.
• Created scripts to enable the Controller to measure the performance of Web server under various load conditions.
• Automated the functionality and interface testing of the application using Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Insert Object Data Verification Check point on Quick Test Professional (QTP) automation testing tools.
• Verify Back end Data after interacted with front-end Automation Test scripts.
• Used QTP for object repository creation and maintenance, used regular expression, re-usable actions, data table, checkpoints and recovery scenario.
• The Analyzed requirements and user cases, certified application-specific software performed ambiguity reviews of business requirements and functional specification documents.
• Developed and documented effective test procedures, which effectively directed other's work. Lead brainstorming sessions to identify key testing concerns and prevent insufficiently broad testing.
• Imported data from the Database to the Data table and performed Data Driven testing with different Data sets for reports generation module in QTP.
• Verify test approach, validate build stability, test and evaluate, and achieve acceptable mission.

Environment: Windows Server, Java, Java Script, HTML, UNIX, SQL, TOAD, Oracle 11g, Quick Test Professional (QTP), HP Quality Center (QC).

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Software Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing Test Plan, Test Scenario, Test Cases, User Guides, Defect Management, Metrics, Release Report, Review and Status Reports.
• Involved in peer reviews of the team’s test plans and cases.
• Prepared Requirement Traceability matrix, Test data, Test strategy, Test Coverage Matrix and Test reports.
• Worked with development teams to investigate and correct software bugs and deficiencies based on testing results.
• Conducted Manual Testing of the system; prepared and managed test cases using HP Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center as the test repository and used it for executing the test cases and scripts and logging & generating various reports and graphs for further analysis.
• Recorded defects and test management using Quality Center.
• Involved in Back end testing using SQL and PL/SQL queries.
• Formulated methods to perform positive and negative testing against requirements.
• Performed backend testing using SQL queries.
• Reported bugs found during test using Quality Center.
• Conducted functional, regression, black box and system testing.
• Reviewed functional design for internal product documentation.
• Documented tests bugs in Quality Center.
• Also tested the modules on the application by Manual Testing and data validation using SQL queries.

Environment: Quick Test Professional (QTP), Quality Center (QC), Windows Server, Java, Java Script, HTML, UNIX, SQL, TOAD, Oracle 10g, IIS.