SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of diverse experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Quality Assurance.
• Expertise in Manual Testing of Web based and Client/Server applications and also using Automation Testing Tools like Selenium IDE and Mercury Interactive Test Suite (Quality Center and QTP) and databases like Oracle 11g, MySQL and SQL Server 2008 possess excellent communication, inter - personal and documentation skills.
• I quickly adapt to an existing work environment and like to work with teams and independently based on business needs.
• Strong understanding of software development life cycle models and object oriented systems design and architecture
• Experience working on phased/waterfall, Agile SCRUM and Nimble project team in a testing, development or analyst capacity.
• Expertise in Manual and Automation testing concepts, preparation of RTM, Test case designing, Testing, generating various types of reports and reporting to testing lead issues faced.
• Work closely with business and development teams (onshore/offshore) and users to understand their needs and the design of the software application
• Extensive experience in creating Test Plans and Test cases from functional specifications and business requirement documents
• Fully proficient in Manual testing and usage of Test Automation Tools like QTP using VBScript, Quality Center and Selenium IDE and RC.
• Extensive experience in Functional testing, Smoke testing, Integration testing, System testing, UAT testing, End-to-End testing, Performance testing, Regression testing, Database Testing, GUI testing, browser compatibility testing and smoke testing in Windows & Unix environments
• Report defects using Defect tracking tools like Quality Center, JIRA, Rally and TTP
• Expertise in writing and understanding SQL Queries for data validation and back-end testing purposes.
• Experience testing XML data feeds and validation of XML datasets using XML Parsers and XML Formatter utilities.
• Experience in SOAP validation using SOAP UI

TECHNICAL SKILLS

MANUAL TESTING: Microsoft Office Tools (Word, Excel), HP Quality Center/Test Director, Track record

AUTOMATION TOOLS & DEFECT TRACKING TOOLS: Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, HP Testing Suite - Quality Center/Test Director, QTP, Load Runner, Rally, Win Runner, TTP, BugZilla, JIRA

WEB TECHNOLOGY / PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: MS Visio, Sharepoint, .NET Framework, C#, ASP.NET, HTML, UML, Java, JavaScript, J2EE, VB Script, XML, AS400 Mainframe, Silverlight, MS Visual Studio 2.0, SOAP UI

DATABASE TOOLS: MySQL, Oracle 11g, Toad 8.6, MS Excel, MS Access 97, MS SQL Server 2008, IBM DB2

OPERATING SYSTEMS: MS-DOS, Windows XP/2000/2003, Windows 7,UNIX

FAMILARITIES: VersionOne, Internet, MS Outlook

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas TX

Senior Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in reviewing SSW stories created in Rally and plan, design and execute test cases related to them in HP Quality Center.
• Used JIRA for defect tracking purposes.
• Participated in meetings and walkthroughs and provided testing updates.
• Involved in Web Service testing using SOAP UI and XML data validation using XML Formatter
• Validating airline reservations and configuration susing SNTE and STAN tools.
• Performed regression testing of the SSW application (V9 and V12) and coordinate activites with Krakow (Poland) development teams for bug identification and fixing.
• Work closely with automation testing team for scripting QTP scripts and associating them with HP Quality Center for automation regression testing.
• Deployed new builds for testing purposes in the Integration environment using Jenkins
• Parameterized the test scripts to generate and test different reasons for inquiry using QTP and VBScript.
• Peformed data validation using SQL queries on Oracle 11g database for the SSW application.
• Involved in Functional, GUI, Smoke, Regression, positive & negative, integration and CERT testing and checkouts. Used Test Driven Development (TDD) approach by working closely with the developers and testing teams during Agile SCRUM sprint cycles for maintaining application code quality standards.
• Liaisoning with Performance testing team to create load metrics definition and counter settings to perform load/stress testing of the applications.

Environment: JIRA, Rally, HP Quality Center, QTP, HTML, JSP, JavaScript, Java, J2EE, SOAP UI, Oracle11g, XML, Windows 7, SQL, UNIX, IIS, Apache Tomcat, SNTE, Jenkins

Confidential, Denver, CO

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering specifications and requirements from product owners and business analysts prior to testing and providing testing estimates.
• Working on Agile Scrum development supporting QA sprint efforts. Involved in story planning, estimation and test case development and execution.
• Participated in stand-up meetings and walkthroughs and provided testing updates
• Documented the requirements in the requirement module of Rally.
• Involved in preparing Test Plan and Test Strategy documents using HP Quality Center.
• Prepared test cases for Navigational testing, Functionality testing and GUI testing using HP Quality Center.
• Performed Manual and automation testing of the application using QTP
• Performed Defect tracking and reporting using Rally.
• Imported requirements from Microsoft Word to HP Quality Center using Import Facility.
• Parameterized the test scripts to generate and test different reasons for inquiry using QTP and VBScript.
• Involved in executing test sets in QTP to verify the interdependency of different modules of the application by running batch tests.
• Used Object Map and ScriptAssure for creating the automated regression scripts in Selenium IDE.
• Involved in Web Services and XML testing using XML Parser utility and verifying tag value pairs to ensure data is correctly being retrieved.
• Validated web services using SOAP UI and performed testing of RQ and RS responses of the web services by looking at T1 and T2 Server logs.
• Generated and analyzed reports for the detected defects.
• Performed regression testing of the application using automated QTP.
• Involved in Database Testing using SQL Queries on Oracle 11g and SQL Server 2008

Environment: Rally, HP Quality Center, QTP, JavaScript, XML, HTML, JSP, VBScript, Java, J2EE, Oracle11g, SQL Server 2008, Windows 2008, Windows XP, SQL, UNIX, Apache Tomcat, Web Logic.

Confidential, Plano, TX

QA Analyst I

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding, reviewing and analysis of the enterprise data warehouse business requirements and converting those requirements into effective and measurable test cases and test scripts.
• Performed data validation and backend testing using Toad for Oracle. Wrote SQL queries to ensure data is correct in the application as well as in the database
• Working closely with the Developers, Product Support, Technical Writer and Business Analyst in the review and modification of product specifications.
• Created and Maintained Test Plan and Test cases in HP Quality Center that included black box and white box, GUI, Functional and Data Validation testing.
• Generated test plans, test cases and test steps in Quality Center for Automated Testing using QTP.
• Performed regression testing on certain modules by generating and executing QTP.
• Configure test environment for specific test cases, create test data, and execute automated or manual tests, document results and create/update defects using HP Quality Center.
• Review issues and bugs with developers and business analysts and re-test applications based on new or updated code changes.
• Involved in XML data validation and web service RQ and RS validation using SOAPUI and XMLFormatter utilities.
• Responsible for opening and managing defects and performed regression tests after the bugs were fixed.
• Responsible for documentation of test plan, test steps and test results and participated in daily status meetings to make sure everybody is on the same page.

Environment: Oracle 11g, Windows 2003, HP Quality Center, QTP, SharePoint Server, TTP, XML

Confidential, Irving TX

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding product development requirements and attended Nimble meetings to represent Quality Assurance activities.
• Involved in automation test script creation and execution using HP QTP and VBScripting.
• Performed data validation by running SQL queries against tables in database on Oracle 11g databases.
• Created and Maintained Test Plan and Test cases that included GUI, Functional and Data Validation testing.
• Responsible for performing and identifying database performance issues, single sign-on validation and application security testing.
• Involved in data driven testing using ScriptAssure and Object Map technology for creating automated scripts in QTP.
• Performed Testing of Trends Analysis Reports that included - Graph Testing, Talent Pipeline Reports, Org Charts and Custom Reports data validation using XML response methods
• Involved in testing of metric datasets that included writing and executing unit test cases
• Analyzed functional and design specifications and conducted Black Box testing.
• Performed Smoke, Functional, Regression and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Worked closely with the Developers, Product Support, Technical Writer and Business Analyst in the review and modification of product specifications.
• Responsible for opening and managing defects and performed regression tests after the bugs were fixed.
• Responsible for documentation of test plan, test steps and test results and participated in daily status meetings to make sure everybody is on the same page.

Environment: QTP, VBScript, Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft Excel 2007, Oracle 11g, Web Services, Windows 7, ASP.NET, Silver Light, Microsoft Visual Studio Tools 2.0, Microsoft office Groove 2007, Snipping Tool, XML

Confidential, DFW Airport, TX

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a QA Tester supporting testing of the Advertiser Portal E-commerce application and Vision PeopleSoft CRM solution. Responsible for performing manual testing using Mercury Quality Center and other tools.
• Performed code testing of the application on .NET Framework 2.1. Responsible for validating that the code logic and business conditions are written correctly and backend data is getting stored correctly.
• Responsible for API testing between the Advertiser Portal application and the Vision CRM system using Selenium IDE and Selenium RC.
• Exported the recorded tests from Selenium IDE to HTML and Java languages for running them on different browsers using Selenium RC.
• Worked on Agile/Scrum methodology and actively involved in user requirements sessions.
• Created and maintained test plans, testing schedule and report defects using Quality Center & JIRA
• Analyzed Manual test results and enhanced testing processes
• Used MS Visio and Share point - Prototyping and Usability testing and for requirements management.
• Performed DEV and UAT testing and coordinated with Business Users by providing test case results and statuses in meetings.
• Involved in meetings and interacted with developers and business users to discuss and resolve the Severity and Priority of the logged defects.
• Performed GUI, black box & white box testing, End-to-End testing, Regression testing, Positive and Negative Testing, database testing on the applications. Actively involved in regression testing in UAT environment.

Environment: Quality Center 10.0, Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Java, J2EE, JavaScript, HTML Pages, Oracle 10g, Toad 8.6, MS Visio, Sharepoint, Windows XP, UNIX, JIRA

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering specifications and requirements from development personnel prior to testing and providing testing estimates.
• Worked on Agile Scrum development methodology as well as on Waterfall development methodology.
• Documented the requirements in the requirement module of HP Quality Center.
• Involved in preparing Test Plan and Test Strategy documents.
• Prepared test cases for Navigational testing, Functionality testing and GUI testing using HP Quality Center.
• Performed Manual and automation testing of the application using QTP and identified defects.
• Performed Defect tracking and reporting using HP Quality Center.
• Imported requirements from Microsoft Word to HP Quality Center using Import Facility.
• Parameterized the test scripts to generate and test different reasons for inquiry using QTP.
• Involved in executing test sets in HP QTP to verify the interdependency of different modules of the application by running batch tests.
• Generated automated test scripts and executed them by invoking QTP scripts for regressions testing.
• Generated and analyzed reports for the detected defects.
• Performed regression testing on certain modules by generating and executing QTP scripts using VBScript.
• Involved in Database Testing using SQL Queries.
• Participated in meetings and walkthroughs and provided testing updates

Environment: HP Quality Center, QTP, IBM Clear Quest, VBScript, HTML, JSP, JavaScript, Oracle, Windows 2000, SQL, AS400 Mainframe, UNIX, IIS, Web Logic.

Confidential, Irving TX

QA Tester/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attend Analysis walkthrough meeting using Agile/Scrum methodology and analyze the Test processes for Monthly Release (change requests/bug fixes) and full production releases (version changes) to the telecom applications.
• Involved in converting user requirements from Functional Requirements specifications to write test plans and test cases. Responsible for provide testing estimates based on development activities.
• Develop QA Test Plan which included objectives, testing strategies, test environment for covering functional, integration and backend testing using Mercury Test Director and MS Office tools.
• Design, Develop and Execute Manual test cases and verified actual results with expected results.
• Participate in product review, functional review and design review meetings and provide feedback from QA standpoint.
• Report Defects using Mercury Test Director. Analyze the defects and coordination with the development Team to solve the problems using Defect tracking
• Create and execute test plans, test cases to support quarterly, monthly and semi-monthly releases.
• Organize test plan/test case for business review meetings and get test plan sign-off from QA, Development and Business Analyst groups.
• Analyze multiple input systems to create and modify test input data.
• Created and executed SQL scripts to create and modify test data.

Environment: Mercury Test Director, Winrunner, VBScript, Manual Testing (Microsoft Office), SQL Server, Oracle 10g VB Script, SQL, UNIX and Windows 2003/XP, Unix (Sun Solaris), ASP.Net, Java, J2EE, HTML, XML