SUMMARY:

• Seeking a position in the field of Quality Assurance where I can utilize my technical experiences and skills in addition to analytical, interpersonal and communication skills to further progress as a professional and contribute towards the accomplishment of organizational goals. Working with end clients to define needs and develop clear business solutions.
• Over 6 years of experience as a Quality Assurance Analyst and Test Engineering in all phases of Manual and Automation Testing in Financial, Insurance, Retail, and Energy domains.
• Experience in Requirement Analysis, planning, design and execution of software Testing Activities and Quality Assurance activities of Windows Applications, Web Applications & Embedded software applications (Software & hardware Integration).
• Experienced in different SDLC methodologies like Agile, Waterfall, V Model, and Spiral.
• Coordinated with Project Managers, Development Team, Business Analysts, and End - Users for better quality testing. Worked closely with business team to understand the Requirement Document in creating Test Plan.
• Designed and built Test Cases, developed, maintained and troubleshot Test Scripts, coordinated with team members in debugging effort and assisted developers in Root Cause Analysis and clarified them the results.
• Achieved proficiency in creating Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Bug Reports.
• Performed Service Oriented Architecture SOA / Web Service testing using soap UI
• Created and implemented Automatic scripts for performing Functional, Regression, System, Integration testing. Expertise in Smoke/Sanity, Unit, Black Box, White Box, Gray Box, Selenium IDE, GUI, Usability, UAT, Alpha and Beta, Load, performance, Stress, Security testing.
• Highly skilled in implementation and execution of test using HP Mercury tools Quick Test Professional, Quality Center, LoadRunner, Test Director.
• Generated VBScripts, reusable actions, and libraries to automate and retest in QTP, used descriptive programming to reduce time maintaining object repositories.
• Expertise in writing Test Scripts in WinRunner using Test Script Language.
• Skilled in defect tracking, recording, and prevention techniques, and Bug Life Cycle process.
• Implemented RDBMS concepts in SQL SERVER and Oracle using T-SQL/PL/SQL (DDL/DML) to create Stored Procedures, User Defined Functions, Views, Dynamic SQL, and Triggers in Database Creation, Maintenance, and Testing.
• Extensive Technical debugging skills to assist in root cause analysis and provide possible solutions.
• Experienced in UNIX servers in writing, editing, executing, and testing Shell Scripts.
• Evidenced and recognized for high productivity, attention to detail and the ability to effectively engage and meet the needs of Business Requirements.

SPECIALIZED IN:

• Requirement Analysis, Planning and Monitoring the Traceability.
• Software Test Planning, Design and Execution (Manual Testing & Automation testing).
• Integration, Regression, Functional, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Business and Software Requirements Management.
• Software Configuration Management, Risk based Test Management
• Quality Assurance & Quality Control

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Defect Management Tools: Quality Center, Test Director

Testing Tools: Manual Testing, HP QTP, Win runner, Load Runner

Test Languages: SQL, HTML, XML, Visual Basic, Web services

Operating System: Windows 98/ 2000/XP, UNIX Windows 2000 Server

Databases: SQL,MS Access

Technologies: Web Services

Internet Tools: Front Page 2000, HTML, and DHTML

Others: MS Office, MS Project

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:

Confidential, Carrollton, TX

QA / Tester

Responsibilities:

• Actively Involved in Software Development Life Cycle and Test Life Cycle, Test strategies, Methodologies and processes.
• Developed test cases in Quality center (QC) for all modules for Customer, Inventory and Account management modules.
• Extensively involved Functional, Integration, and Regression testing for the above mentioned modules.
• Automated the test cases for the POS system by using QTP 10.0
• Created automated test suites for testing RESTful web services using SOAPUI and Groovy
• Used SOAPUI and Groovy to write automated test cases for database testing.
• Responsible for User Acceptance testing by giving demos and getting sign off.
• Experience in writing automation scripts and implement in Java for Selenium.
• Written several SQL queries and analyzed them to validate the business rules in Oracle database through SQL Developer as part of Backend testing.
• Worked closely with Benefit Leads and Developers to isolate and troubleshoot defects and monitored until resolved.
• Experience utilizing Hudson for Java automation framework that integrates with Quality Center, uses page objects and scalable features.
• Used Mercury Interactive Quality Center for defect tracking and reporting bugs.
• Experience in HP/Mercury Interactive Testing Tools.
• Experienced writing scripts and automation in Python and working with SQL
• Used Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Test for Web Services testing
• Implemented Agile best practices.
• Proficient in SQL Queries and analysis, Stored Procedures and PL/SQL programs.
• Performed black box testing like GUI, white box, integration, progressive, and system testing.
• Properly documented defects in Quality Center and followed up on bug resolution progress and escalated blockers to the lead appropriately.
• Prepared and participated in weekly status meetings, conducted walkthroughs, documented proceedings.

Environment: Java1.5, Oracle, SQL Developer, Toad, HTML, J2EE, SOA, REST, Groovy, Ruby, XML, IE7.0, HP Quality Center 10.0, QTP 10.0, JIRA.

Confidential, Silver spring, MD

Q/A Tester/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Generating and implementing templates for Test Plan, Test cases, Test Scripts on Empower lending application.
• Performing Functional Testing and GUI testing manually and using Win Runner.
• Conducting Back End Testing manually.
• Performing Negative and Positive testing manually.
• Developed test scripts for Data Driven tests using Win Runner.
• Used Load Runner for Performance, Stress testing and Load testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Created Scenarios in Load Runner Controller.
• Regularly met with team leads, other team members to evaluate the project progress.
• Involved in Performance Testing to simulate a process, which allows more than 100 users to login at the same time, and observe the behavior of the system by using Load Runner.
• Recorded Test cases using the automation tool QTP, for web based application and checked the functionality of the application.
• Used Rational Clear Quest for version control, tracking defects, enhancement requests, assign work activities, and assess the real status of project.
• Participated in walkthroughs and Verification sessions.

Environment: QTP, Manual Testing, Test Director, UNIX, Windows 2000, Citrix.

Confidential, Mooresville, North Carolina

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Was involved in interacting with the clients on a day to day basis, effective allocation of tasks to all offshore team members, Involved in coordinating with the team to ensure coverage of requirement, effort estimation & resolution of issues on time to ensure delivery of quality work.
• Involved in Real Time Transaction and System Testing.
• Involved in UI, functional, regression and browser compatibility testing.
• Involved in defect triage meetings with the developers and project management. Experienced in working with business analysts to understand the domain from client's business perspective.
• Used UNIX to check server logs using shell scripting.
• From detailed use cases, created test cases for Web applications and Web services.
• Involved in analyzing the business requirement documents (BRD), Functional specification documents to prepare test cases.
• Involved in logging and tracking defects in Quality Center (defect management tool) with proper severity and priority.
• Facilitated test automation team using HP Quick Test Pro (QTP) for regression and functional testing by executing VB script test cases.
• Involved in creation of test plans, preparing Traceability Matrix, Test Cases.

Environment: Unix, UML, MS OFFICE, Oracle, WINDOWS 2000, Quality Center 9.0, XML.

Confidential, Canton, MA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC) and defect management life cycle methodologies. Knowledge of insurance claims lifecycle.
• Develop test cases according to business requirements document (BRD).
• Testing software by executing the test cases to identify and resolve problems from an end users’ perspective
• Log and track defects using Quality Center.
• Experience using Hudson Integration tools.
• Liaising with developers and programmers to swiftly resolve faults.
• Experience testing Document Management, Imaging and Scanning applications
• Perform data load validations using SQL Queries
• Provide daily/weekly status and progress ion of the assigned deliverables
• Attend daily scrums and conduct meetings with the client to discuss issues and concerns
• Worked on Selenium IDE to automate testing of web application.
• Performed SOA testing methodologies and validation for web service integration
• Experience testing with vendors

Environment: .Net, IBM DB2, Silverlight, SOA, PL/SQL, Quality Center 10, HP/Mercury Testing Tools

Confidential, McKinney, TX

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Gathering, Analyzing data and Articulating Tactical and Strategic Requirements for the purpose of developing solutions for the functional and business units.
• Analyze User Requests for New Systems as well as enhancements and modifications to existing systems.
• Communicate Project Requirements, Business Issues and make recommendation
• Coordinated Team in Primary Research in the identification of user’s specifications need
• Worked under Agile SDLC, which included requirements, specifications, design, analysis and testing methodologies.
• Performed Manual Testing to get a strong hold on the application’s primary function before automating the testing efforts.
• Conducted GUI testing to check for appearance and functionality of the application.
• Performed Manual Back end testing using SQL queries using Oracle SQL developer.
• Recorded Test scripts to conduct Regression Testing using Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Collected and analyzed data from the scripts and communicated results to the Developers.
• Maintained an excel document with test defect information (i.e. Defect Header, Date Submit
• Report defects in Bugzilla.

Environment: MS Office, Oracle 9i, SQL developer, Test Director 8.0, Bugzilla.