SUMMARY

• Systems and Senior Quality Assurance Engineer with 6 years of professional experience in Information Technology.
• Proficient in all stages of STLC like Requirement Analysis, Test Planning, Execution, Defect logging, test data management, end to end interaction with Business Analysts etc.
• Extensive experience in testing and strong knowledge in Finance, Banking, Travel, Insurance, Manufacturing and Healthcare domains.
• Proficient in the design, development and execution of test plan, test cases/test scripts in all stages of STLC.
• Prepared Requirements Traceability Matrix to analyze the Requirements coverage in functional specifications, use cases and test cases.
• Proficient in repetitive Manual and Automation Testing including test case writing and execution.
• Extensive experience on Mercury Quality Center Administration and test data management.
• Extensively used Quality Center for effective & efficient execution & management of Test Plans.
• Extensive experience with HP (Mercury Interactive) testing tools (Selenium, Quick Test Professional, Load Runner, Win Runner, Quality Center).
• Extensively worked on different types and versions of Browsers like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox when testing the web based applications.
• Experience in Waterfall, Agile Software Development (Extreme Programming, Scrum) methodologies.
• Expert & Experienced in Preparation of Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios and Final Reports.
• Expert & Experienced on various Test Projects (Web Tests & Load Tests).
• Expertise to implement Load Runner best practices as per performance requirement.
• Experience in working with Windows environments.
• Ability to apply technical expertise to organize and implement black - box test efforts and to analyze requirements for software design, development, and validation.
• Experience with retrieving the required tables from the database using SQL commands.
• Extensively involved in all types of Black box testing including Functional, System, Regression and User Acceptance Testing.
• Possess good analytical and dynamic troubleshooting skills and have proven ability to work efficiently in both independently and team oriented environments.
• Ability to function and interact across teams in a large matrix organization to execute multiple tasks/assignments simultaneously with input from several resources.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional, Selenium, Quality Center, JIRA, QA Complete tool, Test Link, Load Runner

Databases & tools: MS SQL Server, Oracle SQL Developer

Environment: Windows, Mainframe

Programming Familiarity: SQL Queries, VB scripting, Core Java

Script Validation: VB script, Visual Basic 5.0

Project Mgmt Tool: QC, QA Complete tool

Designing Tool: NA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Quality Engineer /Selenium

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in writing test cases based on the User and Business Requirements.
• Worked on Selenium for creating and executing test cases for functionality testing of a web app.
• Involved in defining test automation strategy and test scenarios, created automated test cases, test plans and executed tests using Selenium Web Driver.
• Used Selenium Grid to test the compatibility of the tests across multiple servers to save time.
• Worked on server-side System level test cases using JUNIT.
• Involved in ANT configuration for running servers and scripts after the build.
• Database Change Verification testing using SQL queries/procedures.
• Performed System level integration, load and performance testing of the application.
• Verified the application on difference web browser such as IE, Mozilla Firefox and Opera.
• Tested web-based application on different operating systems such as Windows XP, Vista and UNIX. Also, tested the application for different Java versions.
• Worked on JIRA for ticket management.
• Developed and documented complete testing process with well-written test cases.

Environment: Java, Selenium Web Driver & Grid, JIRA, Junit, PL/SQL, Oracle, Windows XP.

Sr. QA Analyst / QTP Engineer

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Studying and Understanding the System Requirements and Functional Specifications of the application.
• Involved in Implementing the Functional Decomposition Test Automation Framework as the base to define the automated testing process to validate the application functionality using QTP 10.0.
• Participated in KT sessions with manual team, studying and analyzing the Manual Test Cases to prepare the Regression Suite.
• Participated in grouping the Regression Test Cases into Automatable Test Scenarios based on the business flow of the application.
• Developing Object Repositories, Functional Libraries, Reusable Actions, Data tables and Recovery Scenarios and organizing them in the Folder Structure of the Framework.
• Involved in analyzing the Functional Libraries and preparing the Functional Tracker Analysis report.
• Worked on Descriptive Programming to handle the dynamic objects in the application.
• Extensively worked on developing, reviewing and execution of Scripts on various builds to validate the functionality of the application.
• Validations of reports generated in excel sheet and data comparison using QTP scripts.
• Documented test cases and maintained all testing documentation using Quality Center.
• Tracked and monitored defects using Quality Center 10.0.
• Prepared and evaluated the Test Result Reports.
• Performed various black box testing methodologies like Functionality testing, Regression testing and Database testing against the various builds of application.
• Conducted load and performance testing using Load Runner 9.1.
• Used Load Runner to simulate multiple Vuser Scenario to measure server performance.
• Performed testing using parameterizations using multiple actions to categorize tests.
• Utilized Load Runner Analysis tool to analyze the response times of the business transactions under load.
• Extensively performed automation, load and performance testing process to ensure the quality of the software.

Environment: C#, VB.Net, HTML, MS IIS 5.1, QTP 10.0, QC 10.0, Load Runner 9.1

Database Testing

Confidential, Greensboro, NC

Responsibilities:

• Study FRD document and analyze various rules i.e. Account Daily rules and Account Review rules.
• Preparing test data by updating various tables in database fulfilling the rule criteria using Oracle SQL Server.
• Preparing test scenarios and test cases as per the requirements sheet.
• Developed SQL queries to verify the data integrity in accordance with business standards of the company.
• Preparing test analyzing documents and various understanding documents of the project.
• Worked with SQL statements to extract data from Database tables and verify the output data of the reports.
• Executed SQL Queries for data analysis and validations.
• Execution of test cases using Oracle SQL developer and UI.
• Uploading Test Cases and logging defects in QA Complete-Test Management Tool
• Reported testing status to management team and facilitated defect review meetings with the project group.
• Restore and back up of tables and database in Oracle SQL Server

Environment: SQL Queries, Oracle SQL Developer, Web based application

Data Warehouse Testing/Manual

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Verification of data flow after ETL process at various stages of Mercury Server Topology.
• Study FS and Business Requirement document (BRD) and analyzing and interpreting requirements.
• Preparation of Test Scenarios and Test Cases in excel as per the requirements.
• Execution of the Test Cases for System Testing and Regression Testing.
• Troubleshooting activities and applying build on servers.
• Database Back Up and Restore in tables.

Environment: SQL queries and SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio)

Test Engineer (Manual)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Requirements Traceability Matrix to analyze the Requirements coverage in functional specifications, use cases and test cases.
• Creation of test scenarios and test cases for Interact application in various modules like Checkin, Reservation,Seats etc.

Environment: Interact Airport and Reservation application version 6.0

Test Engineer (Manual)

Confidential 

Responsibilities:

• Study Functional Specification, Technical Specification and analyzing and interpreting requirements and design specifications.
• Test Effort Estimation, Milestone Preparation for projects.
• Test Strategy document preparation for project.
• Preparation of Test Scenarios and Test Cases.
• Execution of the Test Cases for System Testing and Regression Testing.
• Loading Results in Quality Center and logging bugs in QC

Environment: Mainframe Application