OBJECTIVE:

Over Five (5)years’ experience in IT specializing in Quality Assurance and Software testing with Web and Client based application seeking a Senior Software Test Engineer position.

SUMMARY:

• Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Test Life Cycle (STLC)
• Experience in designing and reviewing Requirements, Test cases, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, and Test Plans of both manual and automated tests.
• Validated Technical requirements definitions and project estimation documents.
• Maintained numbers of requirements and have documented and done RTM to ensure software requirement traceability.
• Extensive experience in test automation using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Involved in Smoke, GUI, Functional, Integration, System, Front - end, Regression, User Acceptance testing on many Client/Server and web applications.
• Thorough understanding of QA Methodologies like Waterfall, Iterative, and Agile
• Worked during various phases of STLC such as Requirements and Analysis, Test Scenario Identification, Test Case preparation and Execution & Defect Reporting
• Experience in Back-end testing of application by developing and executing complex SQL queries.
• Energetic self-starter with excellent analytical and organizational skills. Achieves goals, objectives and milestones in an accurate and consistent manner.
• Possess excellent interpersonal, written, verbal communication skills and strong analytical, problem solving, decision-making skills.
• Abilities to meet tight schedules, work under pressure and deliver quality products to the client.
• Capability to adapt and learn new tools, techniques, and approaches
• Strong communicator and skillful in working closely with customers to identify and resolve problems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, Quick Test Professional (QTP),PVCS Tracker, JIRA

Operating Systems: MS: DOS, UNIX, Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP

Databases: MS Access, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server

Browser: Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox, Chrome

CM: Star Team, VSS

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Analyzed business requirements and developed Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Design and develop Test Plan, Test Cases, and Automated Test Scripts
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Integration, System, UserAcceptance, Regression, and GUI testing
• Developed test cases and performed integration testing of the combined software modules, and tested as a group.
• Performed End-to-End testing considering all interfaces and subsystem for functional and non-functional testing
• Tested the application for both positive and negative scenarios.
• Interacted with developers and business analysts to assessed functional requirements.
• Follow up with the developers on defects status on a daily basis, and generate reports for managements
• Manage all test artifacts such as requirements, test cases, test execution, test data, and defect in HP Quality Center
• Managed defects and defect life cycle using HP Quality Center, and generated defect reports for management
• Developed automated scripts for functional and regression testing utilizing HP's Quick Test Pro (QTP)
• Performed web service testing using Soap UI
• Performed query operations on Oracle to do data validation. Used standard SQL functions and commands to develop SQL queries
• Developed and executed complex SQL queries to create and modify test data
• Generated status reports and Defect reports and presented them in weekly status meetings.
• Communicated with different team such as development, requirement, and configuration management.

Environment: Windows, Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, Soap UI, Oracle, J2EE, and MS Office

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Software QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed Test Plan, Test cases, Test Scripts on different applications.
• Managedthe Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) between requirements and test cases.
• Conducted Backend testing, database table manipulation using SQL and SQL*Plus and database concepts
• Experienced in System/Regression/Integration/UAT/Automation testing.
• Involved inassigning defect and prioritiesto different application developers and stakeholders using Atlassian JIRA
• Performed Regression testing to verify the functionality with the new codes introduced for modification and/or enhancement using Quick Test Professional.
• Used QC ALM to writing test scripts, to execute, for defect tracking and report generation.
• Experienced in creating/preparing End to End dependency Plan and End to End score cards.
• Experienced In giving KT to newly joined resources on the application process and get them up to speed. Involved in interview process of hiring new resource in to team.
• Internal/External System Communication: Extensively involved in testing internal and external service communication modules (JRE, BPS, Blues Enroll, OPD, CIP, prime and AUT). Extensively used EAS to check the system logs when we encounter issue while communicating with internal or external vendors/systems.
• Extensively developed Complex SQL Queries for Backend Testing.
• Extensively worked with Database verifications and Validations.
• Responsible for weekly status updates showing the progress of the manual and automated testing.
• Participated actively in team meetings with Functional/Development Team for fixing the bugs

Environment: .Net, MS SQL Server, Win NT/2000, JIRA, HP QC/ALM Quick Test Pro, Web Logic.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Software QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in complete QA Life Cycle.
• Participated and involved in test procedures and test plans reviews
• Perform backend testing by using SQL queries and check if the reports generated actually suffice the search criteria submitted.
• Reviewed the Business/ Functional/ System Requirement Specs, High Level Design Documents, Detailed Design Documents and Requirement Matrix.
• Prepared Test Plan and templates to create test cases and test procedures using the CMM / SEI framework.
• Ability to convert use cases into test scenarios based on Functional Requirements Document and Design documents
• Conducted peer reviews for high-level test scenarios, test plan and test case.
• Created the Test cases using Business requirements documents, Functional requirements, Use cases and Mockups and tracking the bugs into bug tracking system, timely coordination with developers to close them
• Created Test Scenarios that found the most difficult defects to be detected.
• Experience with writing and executing positive and negative test cases and executing them
• Identify the Data requirements for the test cases.
• Participated in Project Kickoff, External meetings, and Internal meetings (Test case review and Status meetings), Design Review calls discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues
• PerformedSanity,Functional,Re-testing,Regression,Integration,System,UAT testing
• Performed Regression testing for all new builds.
• Created orders by modifying the existing XMLs for component testing in order to test different scenarios.
• Extracted and analyzed the output XMLs from the database using TOAD.
• Managed software requirements, test cases, test execution, and defects using Quality Center.
• Worked closely with SDLC teams to deliver the systems and meet deadlines

Environment: Windows, Oracle, Quality Center, IE8, and Apache