SUMMARY

• Seeking a challenging Quality Assurance Analyst / Software Test Engineer position where I can utilize my professional expertise of manual and automated testing, and my technical and analytical skills; and where I will have opportunities to contribute, improve and expand. Professional Assets:
• A skilled and proven professional with over six years of diversified experience in software testing and quality assurance on various web - based, mobile, client-server and legacy application platforms. Conducted functional, end-to-end, regression, system, web services and performance testing; developed test plans, test strategy, manual test cases, automated test scripts and training materials. Experience includes history of successful requirements determination, assisting UAT, training end users and release controls under tight deadlines.
• Working knowledge of multiple databases like Oracle, DB2, and MS SQL Server. Excellent knowledge of full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Test Life Cycle (STLC), and testing methods like Waterfall, Agile/Scrum and V-Model. Have extensive skills in automation testing using HP / Mercury Interactive testing tools as well as manual testing. Comfortable working in UNIX, Linux and Windows platforms. Involved in testing various telecommunications, health, financial and insurance applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Unified Functional Testing (UFT), (QuickTest Professional (QTP)), LoadRunner, SoapUI.

Bug Tracking Tools: Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), (Quality Center), PVCS Tracker, Rational ClearQuest, Rational TestManager, Bugzilla, JIRA.

CM Tools: Rational ClearCase, MS Visual SourceSafe (VSS), PVCS VM.

Operating Systems: UNIX (Solaris), Red Hat Linux, Windows, MS-DOS, Mac OS X.

Databases: Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server, MS Access.

Development Tools: Java (JSP, Applets, Servlets), MS .NET (ASP, VB, C#), C, C++.

Scripting and Query: VBScript, Shell Script, Batch Script, JavaScript, SQL.

Networking Technologies: SQL Plus, TOAD, PuTTY, RUMBA, WinSCP, WinSQL.

Internet Technologies: Web services, HTML, XHTML, XML, PHP.

Application Software: MS Office, MS Office Visio, Snagit, Adobe Photoshop.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Software QA

Confidential, VA

Responsibilities:

• Attend requirements review meetings to ensure that the system meets all primary requirements.
• Test the various functionalities of the OTS modules.
• Test the different tasks of the ITEMS application.
• Analyze business requirements (BRD), system requirements, and technical specifications.
• Write test plan, and define test procedures.
• Prepare GUI front-end test cases based on user stories and manually execute functional and regression test cases for GUI front-end on both OTS and ITEMS applications.
• Responsible for creating SQL scripts to run against Oracle database for back-end testing.
• Create data driven tests to validate the same scenario with different sets of test data.
• Create and run functional tests on web services prior to implementation.
• Work on web services testing using SoapUI and validate the XML response.
• Develop, enhance and run automated testing scripts with QTP for functional and regression testing.
• Create and maintain the regression test suite for new releases using QTP.
• Develop and maintain a bug tracking database utilizing Quality Center.
• Formulate requirement traceability matrix from functional requirements.
• Utilize Quality Center for tracking requirements and bugs, and communicate them to the team during the test process; and integrate this capability with e-mails - ensuring that all the communication regarding a requirement or a bug is in a single location.
• Documentation of test analysis report, and product readiness review for the applications based on CMM Level 3 processes.
• Participate in weekly status meetings and coordinate with the developers and testers to resolve and close defects.

Senior QA Engineer

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in all phases of the testing life cycle (TLC) including document reviews and project status meetings.
• Was responsible for providing testing estimates (time, resources).
• Was responsible for analyzing data from DB2 and MS SQL server, running SQL queries to provide decision support.
• Performed different types of testing such as positive, negative, regression, integration, system, acceptance and end-to-end testing.
• Worked on web services testing using SoapUI.
• Developed mobile application testing strategy.
• Involved in mobile application (IOS, Android and Windows) and mobile web testing such as functional, compatibility, interface, operational and usability testing.
• Checked the system for HIPAA compliance and its implementations.
• Developed test scripts utilizing QTP test scripting tool and defined test data requirements.
• Was responsible for coordinating with the offshore testing team.
• Was responsible to log detailed and accurate defects gathered from mobile device testing in JIRA.
• Generated reports and documents for the entire test process and test results using JIRA.

Software QA Engineer

Confidential, Oklahoma City, OK

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in all phases of the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) from requirement analysis to User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Used QTP to generate automated test scripts for functional, regression and GUI testing.
• Planned and executed functional, regression, integration, system and stress test cycles.
• Created SQL scripts to run against Oracle database for back-end testing.
• Reviewed test plans and test cases for functionality of the applications and performed smoke testing, black box testing and integration testing.
• Managed the entire test process, scheduled batch tests, and logged and tracked defects using Rational ClearQuest, and followed up the bug life cycle.
• Maintained test documents, test data and test results using MS Visual SourceSafe (VSS).

Software Test Engineer

Confidential New York, NY

My Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements (BRD), user stories and use cases.
• Modified and enhanced the master test plan.
• Prepared high level test scenarios and low level test cases based on user stories.
• Executed functional and regression test cases.
• Used WinSQL interface to write and execute SQL queries for decision support.
• Was responsible for updating and maintaining the Rational TestManager for all the defects found during functional and regression testing and follow up the bug life cycle.
• Involved in data migration and provided user support for transition from the prior system.