PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 6+ years of experience in Quality Assurance manual and Automated Testing
• Experienced in Black Box, White Box, System, Regression, Integration, Functionality, and User Acceptance testing of both Web - based and client-server applications.
• Experienced in both Manual Testing and Automation testing using testing tools such as HP Quick Test Professional (QTP), Winrunner, Loadrunner, Selnium and SOAP UI.
• Experienced in testing Web-based and Client-server applications with emphasis on functional, system and performance/load testing.
• Proficient in analyzing Business Requirements, Functional Requirements specifications.
• Experienced in all the stages of the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) & QALC (Quality Assurance Life Cycle)
• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle using both Waterfall and Agile Methodologies.
• Hands-on Experience in developing Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scripts based on User needs, specifications and Systems Need documents.
• Good knowledge in testing various web services using SOAP UI.
• Experienced in performing backend testing by executing SQL queries and performed Data Analysis using SQL and through EXCEL.
• Experience in bug reporting, analyzing and bug tracking using various Bug tracking Tools.
• Hands-On Experience in Defect Management and Test Measurement.
• Extensive Knowledge in Change Control Management Process.
• Knowledge of programs based on Unix/Linux and Windows platforms.
• Extensive knowledge in Banking and Telecom domains.
• Good analytical, presentation, Written and Oral communication skills with quick assessment & problem solving approach.
• Diligent worker, self-starter and consistent performer, adaptable to work as a team member as well as independently.
• Good Experience in the Team Management and able to handle the Projects independently.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automation Tools: QTP, Selenium, SOAP UI, Winrunner, Loadrunner

Operating System: Windows & Linux.

Defect Tracking Tools: ALM, Quality Center, Bugzilla, JIRA, Microsoft Test Manager

Version control: TFS, VSS.

Databases: SQL Server, Oracle.

IDE: Visual Studio

Web Technologies: HTML, Java script and XML.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Senior QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working with the Business Analysts and Technical Architects to understand the requirements.
• Involved in Test Effort estimations and Preparing Test Schedules
• Prioritizing Requirements based on Risk Analysis factors
• Involved in Preparing Test Plan, Test cases and Test data from analyzing the requirements
• Developing extensive number of test cases to test the various functionalities and make a subset for regression test suite.
• Created test scripts and performedEnd-to-Endtesting of fullFunctionalityusing Selenium
• From the detailed use cases, creating manual & automated test cases for web applications and web services.
• Working with the Dev team to validate the test scripts are performing as per to the requirements.
• Performing black box manual testing of specific non-functional and functional test cases.
• Performing integration testing between the cross-functional modules.
• Performing system testing to evaluate the system’s compliance with its specified requirements.
• Performing internal web services testing using SoapUI.
• Extensively usedSQLQueries to performBack End Testingandto check data integrity.
• Performing regression testing to verify any unintended consequences of program changes.
• Schedule Bug triage calls with Developers, business analysts as part of validation life cycle.
• Attending status meetings with Project managers and other project stake holders.
• Documenting the change requests and the defects based on test cases executed manually and automatically.
• Coordinating with Business team on preparing UAT test cases.
• Supporting Business team during UAT testing like setting up data, involving tech leads during technical issues and updating stake holders with status report.
• Extensive use of MS word and MS excel to prepare documents, reports and also document test procedure used in executing the test cases.
• Has been very flexible in work schedule to meet tight deadlines

Environment: HP ALM, SoapUI 5.0, Selenium, Windows 2003, SQL Server 2008 R2, VS 2008, TFS 2008, .Net Framework, ASP.Net, VB.Net.

Confidential, NJ

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Test effort estimations
• Participated in preparing Test Schedules
• Reviewed specifications and business requirements prior to application testing.
• Involved in Preparing Test Plan, Test cases and Test data from analyzing the requirements
• Used Microsoft Test Manager for writing and executing test cases and Bug Tracking
• PerformedEnd-to-Endtesting of fullFunctionality.
• Involved in System Testing, Integration Testing, Functionality Testing, Negative Testing, Regression Testing, and Data Driven.
• Participated in Bug Triage meetings and interacted with developers regularly to understand root causes of Bugs (RCA)
• Performed backend testing using SQL Queries to check data integrity
• Prepared daily and weekly status reports for the management review
• Prepared Test Reports for Auditing Purpose

Environment: Microsoft Test Manager, VB Script, Windows, SQL Server, TFS, .Net Framework, AJAX, ASP.Net.

Confidential

QA Validation Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with developers and users to analyze the business requirements and functional specifications.
• Analyzed requirements, system design and prepared test strategy.
• Documented test plan and test Scripts based on the solution definition documents and use case documents.
• Analyzed modules and designed test scenarios and test scripts in both Windows and UNIX environment.
• Created test scripts and performedEnd-to-Endtesting of fullFunctionalityusing QTP
• Performed GUI, Smoke, Ad-hoc, Functional, System, Integration, Regression, Back-end and Performance testing using
• Assisted developers with the test files and test data.
• Collaborated with developers as needed to isolate root cause of defects.
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix for the product across different releases and also updating the Requirement traceability matrix timely with the changes into HP Quality Center.
• Posted bugs in Quality Center and tracked them to closure by following up with Development team.
• Documented and reported defects within established process and tracking systems using Quality Center.
• Executed SQL queries to test data integrity.

Environment: HP Quality Center, QTP, Winrunner, Loadrunner, Windows 2003, SQL Server 2005, VS 2005, TFS, .Net Framework, AJAX, ASP.Net, VB.Net, REST APIs.

Confidential

Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and Analyzed Business Requirements and Functional Requirement Documents
• Documented test plans and test cases in MS Excel based on the solution definition documents and use case documents.
• Analyzed modules and designed test scenarios and test cases in both Windows and UNIX environment.
• Performed GUI, Smoke, Ad-hoc, Functional, System, Integration, Regression, Back-end, Performance, Load, Stress and UAT Testing.
• Reported defects using JIRA and tracked them to closure by following up with Developers
• Assisted developers with the test files and test data.
• Collaborated with developers to identify root cause of defects.
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix for the product and also updated the RTM as changes in requirements occurred
• Executed SQL queries to test date integrity.

Environment: Microsoft Excel, Jira, Loadrunner, SQL Server, .Net Framework, AJAX, ASP.Net, VB.Net.