SUMMARY

• 7+ years as a Software Quality Assurance Tester wif good experience in Manual Testing using QC, Automation Testing using QTP, Unified Functional Testing (UFT), Selenium (IDE, Web Driver, Grid), SoapUI and Performance Testing tool HP LoadRunner.
• Experience wif testing SOA based applications, Web Services Testing, SOAP and RESTFul calls using SoapUI.
• Extensive hands - on experience in requirement Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Implementing Web/Client Server Applications and Web Services in different domains such as Social(Govt), Retail (E-commerce), Banking, Telecom and Healthcare domains
• Over 7 years of hands-on experience in Client/ Server, Service Oriented Architecture wif various databases in areas of Child protective Services, Retail, Banking, Telecom and Healthcare information systems
• Thorough understanding of all phases of Software Development Life Cycle from project planning up till deployment; exposure to Waterfall, Agile, Scrum and Rup development methods.
• Experience in preparing QA defined deliverables like Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Results, Recording, Prioritizing and Tracking defects using HP Quality Center and designing strategies
• Strong experience of different kinds of testing including Functional testing, System testing, Integration testing, Regression testing and User Acceptance testing of various web based and client server applications.
• Experience in developing Test Plans and Test Cases to ensure proper quality testing.
• Worked closely wif vendors, business analysts, project managers, and developers to understand requirements, business processes for testing and attended walkthroughs.
• Used HP Quality Center, Clear Quest tools as Test Management and Defect Management Tool.
• Experience in testing SOAP and REST based web services and SOA based applications using SOAP UI tool.
• Working knowledge in validating Client requests and web service responses transmitted as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).
• Good Knowledge of writing groovy scripts in SOAP UI tool for JDBC Connectivity, Property Transfer and for customizing assertions.
• Experience in automating test cases wif QTP using VB Scripts
• Well versed wif using QTP to support test automation using features like Data Driven Tests, Regular Expressions and Functions, Error Handling and Recovery Scenarios
• Experience in different frameworks like Hybrid, Keyword and Data Driven
• Experience in working wif open source toolsSelenium (Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Selenium Web Driver)
• Used SQL for querying large Databases by writing Joins, Aggregate, and Single Row Functions.
• Hands on experience wif Java, .NET based Web Applications.
• Performed Data-Driven Testing, and worked towards synchronizing the test sets.
• Good knowledge of writing UNIX based terminal commands for keeping a track of log files.
• Good understanding using Rational tools, JIRA, Silk Central.
• Self-starter, fast learner and team player wif excellent communication, and problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Quality Center, QTP, Clear Quest, SoapUI, Silk Central

Software Testing: Test Planning, Test effort estimation, Test Strategy, Test Scenarios,Test processes definition, implementation and improvement, Test process assessment, and Test Documentation Review.

Methodologies/Technologies: Waterfall, Agile, Rational Unified Process

Operating Systems: UNIX, Solaris,, Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, Firefox, IE

DBMS: Oracle, MS Access, SQL Server, DB2

Documentation Tools: Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, Visio

Bug Tracking: Quality Center, IBM ClearQuest, JIRA

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, JavaScript, Oracle/SQL

Web Services: WSDL, Soap Requests/ Responses

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Austin, TX

Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirement documents.
• Performed various types of testing such as functional, regression, integration, sytem testing, user acceptance on different applications like ABCs (Automated Background Checks) web application, IAM and IMPACT Web services.
• Performed manual testing to test the functionalities for different scenarios for CLASS( Childcare Licensing Automation Support System), and Public and Provider Web Applications (Java based applications) .
• Created and generated test scripts for different test scenarios covering all aspects of projects functionality.
• Analyzing different test scenarios for automation frame works and Executing test cases in QTP on the ABC Web applications
• Performed data driven testing in QTP by using Data Driven Frameworks.
• Created and executed manual test cases using Mercury Quality Center.
• Validated Request and Response messages for IAM and IMPACT web services.
• Wrote SQL queries to retrieve data from Impact database to use the data for the validations and test the functionalities of the web applications.
• Performed end to end testing from requesting background checks from ABCS and run the batch testing to match the records from IMPACT or save the new data entered into ABCs then to request access the case connection in IAM Web Portal.
• Schedule and drive bug review meetings, validate submitted bugs, take ownership and assign bugs to development resources, setup QA priority, notify relevant business units, research and log root cause analysis for the reported bugs and follow through wif a resolution and final testing.

Environment: Java 1.7.0 55, Oracle IDE 4.0.2.15, Oracle SQL, Linux, HP Quality Center11.0, QTP 11.0, SOAPUI Pro 4.5, Visio, Snag it

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Senior QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Customized various Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Data for positive and negative testing, regression testing, User Acceptance Testing.
• Created Test Plans, Test Suites and Test cases at the system test levels using HP Quality Center.
• Performed testing on various modules of the J2ee applications.
• Created a Requirement Traceability matrix to make sure dat there is 100% test coverage.
• Writing and executing test cases and logging defects using HP Quality Center.
• Track and monitor the defects and change requests in JIRA.
• Performed automation testing using QTP.
• Created and maintained QTP Scripts using VBScript for regression testing of business workflow.
• Performed generation and maintenance of test plans, test cases as well as implementing and modifying existing keyword frameworks for QTP test automation as a part of integrated solution of Quality Center.
• Developed test scripts to automate process of testing in Selenium WebDriver
• Developed test scripts to automate process of testing in Selenium WebDriver using Java programming language.
• Tested Web services including performance testing using SOAPUI.
• Expertise in groovy scripting for generating responses from the database and Performed Data-Driven Testing and conducted property transfer using SOAPUI.
• Wrote SQL queries to retrieve Test data of the web service.
• Performed Security testing manually to ensure dat the system allows performing only authorized functions.
• Used Quality Center successfully to develop and execute software test plans.

Environment: Java, JDBC, Oracle 10g, Linux, HP Quality Center10.0, XML, HTML, SOAPUI Pro 4.5, QTP11.0, Selenium WebDriver, MySQL, MS SQL Server

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business specification document and created Test Plans, Test Cases.
• Performed various types of testing such as functional, regression, integration, positive and negative testing to ensure quality of product.
• Created and generated test scripts for different test scenarios covering all aspects of projects functionality.
• Created and executed manual test cases using Mercury Quality Center.
• Performed automation testing using QTP and VBScript.
• Developed parameterized data driven frameworks and methodologies using QTP.
• Implemented Regular expression feature in the Object Repository using QTP.
• Validated WSDL in SOAP UI using schema compliance and used data sink to export data to external databases.
• Validated XML Test response by giving Xpath match, Response SLA, Contains, SOAP fault assertions and customized assertions using groovy script.
• Used JDBC Connectivity to retrieve test response from the database.
• Developed test cases for cross-browser(MSIE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari) and cross-platform (Windows 7, Mac OS X) testing in virtual machine (VMware) environment
• Wrote SQL queries mainly to check the population of the data and do negative testing.
• Cross browser testing to check the compatibility of the application.
• Recorded bugs, documented test results using ClearQuest and tracked them to completion by communicating and coordinating wif the development as well as the support group.
• Executed UNIX Shell scripts as part of QA process.
• Managed and tracked the defects till the closure and attended different meetings, status and review meetings.

Environment: XML, HTML UNIX, ClearQuest, JDBC, Visio, Java, MS SQL Server, SOAPUI3.5,4.0, Quality Center11.0, QTP10, Groovy Script, VBScript

Confidential, Washington, DC

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and develop documentation for test strategy and test plans throughout the project for all phases of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Identified and Analyzed Business requirements and functional specifications, Created test cases in Quality Center and maintained result for each build.
• Created and enhanced, automated regression tests using QTP and VBScript.
• Created user defined functions and re-used them in different test scripts using QTP.
• Categorized test cases test scripts and managed them in Quality Center.
• Defect Management and tracking was done using Quality Center.
• Executed manual and automated test cases/ scripts and verified results wif expected results.
• Experienced in testing web services using SOAP UI and custom made test harness.
• Window/ object GUI and Text checkpoints has been implemented using Quick Test Professional.
• Wrote advanced SQL queries in order to validate the data displayed in the GUI against the data stored in the database.
• Backend Testing was done using SQL queries to validate the data integrity and retrievals
• Managed defects in Quality Center and participated in defect review session on daily basis during test execution tests.
• Worked wif UNIX to check the log files.

Environment: Quality Center, SOAP Ui, Java, QTP, SQL Server, Unix, VB Script

Confidential, IA

QA Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed thorough manual testing of the entire suite of products offered under the Netwokx contract in a release by release manner
• Analyzed and understand the existing application features, review the design documents and develop QA Test Plan.
• Logged and tracked defects in Quality Center
• Coordinated wif business analyst and development team to track down bugs.
• Wrote and executed Scripts to automate customer creation, product selling and setting up billing cycles.
• Developed and used reusable SQL queries for backend testing.
• Queried the Oracle database extensively using joins of several tables and validated the dollar amounts in the invoice.
• Created Requirement traceability Matrix in Quality Center.
• Interacted wif various members of the team to discuss and resolve defects, bugs and their priorities and severities.
• Performed functional, regression, integration testing on the payment and billing using SOAP UI.
• Documented and communicated test results to the customer.
• Reported bugs by email notification to the developers using Quality Center.

Environment: Quality Center9.2, SOAPUI, MS SQL Server2005, MS SQL Server Management Studio.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Specification and created Test plans, Test cases for functional and GUI testing.
• Created and executed manual test cases using Mercury Quality center.
• Used QC to document and execute the test cases, track execution against the plan during testing and manage defects from inception to resolution.
• Modularized test cases from the test plans and identified test scenarios using SOAPUI.
• Testing the GUI, Functional testing and system testing.
• Involved in analyst Test Reports and Developed Bug report Identifying End - End Scenarios
• Worked wif Off-shore teams to complete the project in schedule.
• Used UNIX terminal commands to check the log files.
• Interacted wif various members of the team to discuss and resolve defects, bugs and their priorities and severities.
• Executing Test Cases and sending Issue Logs to Bug Tracker.

Environment: Quality Center9.0, SOAPUI, J2EE.