SUMMARY:

• Seeking for a position of a Quality Assurance Analyst to utilize my six years of experience in the Software Testing industry with diversified skills in Manual and automated testing of Client/Server and Web centric applications on UNIX and Windows.
• Involved in preparing Test Plans, Software requirement specifications, and Design Documentation.
• Experienced in setting up test environment.
• Experienced with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Expertise in Test Methodology, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Proficient in Black Box, Functionality, Positive, Negative, Integration, System, Regression, User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Expertise in Manual Testing and Automated Testing of applications developed on various Environments.
• Expertise in Functional GUI Testing by using QuickTest Pro, defect tracking by using TestDirector, Quality Center.
• Database querying, data manipulation and population using SQL and PL/SQL in Oracle, SQL Server databases.
• Good communication, issue finding, solving and learning skills.
• Expertise in Database Testing, Data Manipulation using SQL queries and establishes Database connection.
• Experience in focusing on delivering high quality, reliable results within aggressive deadlines, and meeting technical requirements.
• Reputation as a resourceful collaborator, with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Keen attention to detail, an enthusiastic, goal - oriented, problem solver and dependable team player.
• Experience working in Agile Scrum model.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automation Tools: TestDirector, Quality Center, QuickTest Pro

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, MS-Dos

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

Test Management tools: Quality Center,Test Director

Web servers: Apache, IIS

Version Control Tools: Visual Safe Source

Project Management: Microsoft Project

Application Servers: Weblogic, WebSphere

Languages: C, C++, XML, VB, SQL, TSL and HTML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Software QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed functional requirements to determine software application testing requirements and develops test plans.
• Developed test cases and expected results to satisfy the testing requirements.
• Set up test data for test cases and executed the test cases.
• Worked on Quality Center for creating and documenting Test Plans, Test Cases and registered the expected results.
• Communicated with Application Developers, Project Manager and other Team members on Application testing status on an on going basis when necessary.
• Involved in writing SQL queries, Database Checkpoints to verify data quality and calculations, reviews.
• Coordinated subsystem and/or system testing activities. Performed analysis of test results and prepared comprehensive subsystem and/or system level evaluation reports which verify and validate system performance. Wrote discrepancy reports and performed integration, regression testing to verify/validate incorporated fixes to software, components, subsystems and systems.
• Extensively involved in writing, executing and analyzing UAT, Regression, Database Checkpoints, and Data Driven Test Scripts for all the projects using Quick Test Professional.
• Developed automated Test Scripts to perform Functional, Regression of the application using Quick Test Professional.
• Used QTP for functional and regression testing of the application to make sure transactions and business processes work as intended and developed VB scripts.
• Created and maintained Shared Object Repositories to enable QTP to identify the various objects in the application. Worked with both ‘Per Action’ and ‘Shared’ modes.
• Enhanced scripts with User Defined Functions using Functional libraries and inserting various checkpoints, Synchronization, parameterization.
• Executed QTP Test scripts from Quality Center.
• Provided ongoing updates of completed and anticipated testing activities, of problems encountered, and test results to the project status pages for each application during the life of the testing cycle.
• Prepared and delivered periodic status reports on the progress of individual projects to customers and internal program and project managers.

Environment: Quick Test Professional, Quality Center, Windows, Internet Explorer, VBScript, Oracle.

Confidential, Bethpage, NY

Software Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with program and project managers, developers, business analysts and DBAs to define, document, review and execute comprehensive software application test plans for web based applications.
• Test plans included functional, user interface, browser independence, system, integration and customer acceptance testing, test schedules and participants, test environment definition and requirements, test data sourcing and preparation, test coverage mapping to requirements, definition of requirements-driven test scenarios and individual test events, development of individual test scripts (manual and automated), execution, compilation, analysis and reporting of test results, and end-to-end requirements traceability.
• Extensively wrote and executed SQL queries to test the application for various order flows and order fulfillment activities.
• Reviewed Software Requirement Specification Document and developed and executed Test Cases.
• Executed Manual Test cases to thoroughly test the different modules of the application.
• Tracked and reported bugs using Quality Center.
• Conducted Defect Status Review meetings.
• Developed test scripts using QuickTest Professional for Functional Testing and Regression Testing.
• Text checkpoints were used in QTP scripts to verify text data appeared as expected.
• Enhanced QTP scripts by using VBScript in the Expert view, to verify whether buttons were enabled or not as well as maximizing fields and retrieving the maximum values held in these fields.
• Set up QTP scripts to run in batch mode at the beginning of each QA cycle.

Environment: J2EE, JSP, BEANS, XML, HTML, TestDirector, QuickTest Pro, and WebLogic Application Servers.

Confidential, Brooklyn, NY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Created and documented overall testing strategies - Test Scenario, Test Cases, Test Script and Procedure to be followed as Test Steps.
• Automated testing involved as per functional requirement to check all business process using QTP.
• Manually performed Functional, Positive, Negative, Integration Testing of the application.
• Used QTP to record and enhanced test scripts for Regression testing.
• Designed Test Cases, executed those using the Test Lab and analyzed the results in TestDirector.
• Added the defects, set the priorities, closed the resolved issues, and generated the test report in TestDirector.
• Participated and reported statuses in all test related project team meetings.
• Reports problems resulting from test execution and testing steps that produced the problem.
• Prepared the preconditioned data for testing different test results.
• Conducted the user acceptance test for the system.
• Worked with development team to resolve reported problems and retested to confirm successful fix.
• Reported on testing status and testing results.
• Collaborated with developers as needed to isolate root cause of defects.
• Developed test metrics, traced the bugs, and requirements to the defects for the management.

Environment: QTP, Test Director, Oracle, C++, Windows, Solaris.