SUMMARY

• Quality Assurance Testing with diversified experience in Automated, and Manual testing of Web and Client/Server applications seeking to secure a position of Software Test Engineer/ Software Engineer.
• Skilled in planning and implementing new processes, procedures and tools for Quality Assurance Testing, Defect tracking, status reporting and problem resolution within Agile & non Agile: Waterfall and Iterative development environments to reduce operating costs and increasing efficiency.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and well acquainted with Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Experience in Waterfall and Agile Software Development methodology.
• Proficient in business requirement analysis, creating mockups, functional requirement document and user manual.
• Experienced in Analysis, Data Conversion, Testing and Implementation of various projects. Extensive experience in writing VBScript.
• Excellent understanding of all phases of Software lifecycle, from gathering requirements, testing, implementation, and support.
• Designed and implemented automated Regression Testing strategies across multiple environments for a variety of business applications.
• Experienced in testing methodology and the entire testing life cycle.
• Experienced in Manual Testing, Automated Testing, Smoke Testing, Integration Testing, Security Testing, 508 Compliance Testing, System Testing, UAT and Regression.
• Expertise in testing tools using Quality Center ALM, Test Director, QTP and UFT.
• Strong knowledge in test management framework, analyzing bug severity and risk, bug tracking system using Quality Center ALM and/or Test Director.
• Proficient in the area of Requirements, Analysis, Documentation of Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Cases, Bug Tracking, and Execution of projects with Manual and Automated Testing Tools using HP Interactive Test Suite.
• Strength in guiding the design and execution of Performance Testing and Manual Testing strategies to identify risks and issues, design effective mitigation solutions and enhance the on - time delivery of quality systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Development Methodologies: WaterFall, Scrum, Agile, Iterative

Defect and Management Tool: HP Quality Center, ClearQuest, Test Manager, JIRA Testing Tools HP Quick Test Pro 11 UFT, HP LoadRunner 11, 11.5,12,1, ALM 11

Operating System: Windows win 7, 8, Vista, XP, 2000, UNIX

Databases: Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, MS SQL Server 2000 Network Protocol FTP, TCP/IP, Telnet, VMware, RDC

Microsoft Tools: MS Office(Excel, Word, Power Point), MS Visio, and MS Projects Browsers Internet Explorer 7,8, 9, Fire fox, Chrome, Safari

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Analyst

Confidential - Ashburn, VA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing Test plan based on Functional Specification and Technical Specification Of the application.
• Developed and executed test cases and verified actual results with expected results
• Working as a team member in requirements mapping and preparing a Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Involved in developing the test cases, test data and test scripts.
• Planned, designed, developed and executed Test Cases with Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center for requirements management, planning, scheduling, running tests, defect tracking and manage the defects and executing the test cases.
• Worked closely with developers, Business Analyst, Architects and Project Manager to understand Portal Project.
• Developed data Driven frameworks, Keyword driven frameworks and Hybrid frameworks for multiple applications usingUFT/QTP with VBScript.
• Automated test cases using QTP/UFTtool.
• Production Support: Smoke testing on all production update in various environments. Script writing, plan and executing test including Automation withUFT.
• Parameterize scripts to verify multiple sets of data on same functionality.
• Used different check points for example text/output value Check Points to verify expected values with the actual values.
• Responsible for development and maintenance of Automation Frameworks, tools and solutions.
• Used QTP for object repository creation and maintenance, used regular expression, re-usable actions, data table, checkpoints and recovery scenario.
• Worked extensively on Quick Test Professional, created Master scripts and modified scripts in expert mode for web applications.
• Used Quality Center(ALM) to open tickets for the Defects.
• Worked on PL/SQL queries and database views for handling data and loader files, and optimized existing PL/SQL queries and database views for SQL performance tuning.

QA Analyst

Confidential -New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Studied the Functional Requirement Specification document, Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Use Cases, and Technical Specification Documents to Prepare and execute the Test Plan for various projects and identify the Test Data in agile environment.
• Create test artifacts for assigned areas of the applications with minimal supervision.
• Executed test artifacts, logged detailed results and provided status as required by the team
• Involved in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle and demonstrating the role of QA with strong Software Testing Life Cycle knowledge
• Designed Test Case(Functional, Database & GUI), Review and execution in Quality Center
• Used Quality Center for Defect Reporting, Tracking, Validation and participate in the daily defect review and daily Stand up meetings
• Ensured Entry criteria and Exit criteria for all QA deliverables
• Documented problems, monitored resolutions and retain documentation necessary to plan for future assigned testing.
• Coordinate with the Project Team during User Acceptance Testing in setting up the environment and Post production Support
• Responsible for Updated existing test cases against the requirements.
• Developed Test scripts and test cases for functional and regression testing, and end to end testing.
• Performed detailed system, functional, UAT, Integration testing, Regression, Positive testing, Negative testing, Cross platform testing and Cross browser testing using QTP.
• Analyzed the results in various stages of the application including integration, regression, functional and acceptance testing using QTP.
• Attended performance meetings with developers and business analysts to review the testing process for performance testing, load testing and to identify the Mission Critical
• Identified, Documented and implemented process Improvements.

QA Analyst

Confidential - Hartford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirement Specification (BRS), Software Requirement Specification (SRS) and User Requirement Document (URD).
• Reviewed Project test and implementation schedules, Monitor, documents, and reported the current status of projects to the team.
• Participated in review of project deliverables.
• Developed Test plan, Test Scenarios for different modules and verified content with the team members.
• Created Test Cases in Quality Center and Test Data for project Testing.
• Ensured Services/methods covering both Positive and Negative Testing requirements.
• Developed Manual Test Cases for functional testing, UI testing and database testing to test the Application Under Test
• Executed Functional, Regression, Black box and System Testing on different browsers
• Log, Track, and Verify defects and fixes across platforms via Quality Center
• Worked in Agile methodology, meet with developers, Project Manager and users/product owner to create stories and plan releases.
• Applied Technical and business knowledge to solve issues.
• Shared application knowledge with newer team members; defect management, status reporting, metrics creation and acted as point of escalation for issues discovered during the testing phase.
• Developed Test Scripts to test the functionality of the application using QuickTest Pro (QTP).
• Developed automation frameworks for web based applications and designed scripts that were efficient for requirements
• Created QTP scripts that were reusable and easy to understand.
• Updated Library in QTP with reusable codes and actions and created shared object repository for all applications tested by QTP
• Used QTP’s internal data table to create frameworks and conducted regression and end to end testing with Parameterization