PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• 6 years of IT experience as Quality Assurance Tester on Client - Server, Web-based, Data-base and Web-Services
• Expertise in analyzing business specification documents, developing Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test Scope and defining Test Cases and Automating Test Scripts
• In-depth knowledge of SDLC, STLC, Testing Methodologies and Defect Tracking Life cycle
• Used ALM/HP Quality Centre (QC) for maintaining and executing test scripts as well as for tracking and analyzing the defects
• Expertise in Financial, Banking and Retail Domains
• Worked on different Software development methodologies like Waterfall and Agile/Scrum/ Iterative Projects
• Participation in Scrum Calls, Retrospective Meeting, Sprint0 Planning
• Extensively used Version One for Burn Down Charts to track our efforts
• End of each Sprint given Demo to the Product Owners/Business
• Well versed with Integration testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, System testing, GUI testing and User Acceptance testing
• Extensive experience in Automation Testing using VB Script and test tool QTP
• Design and implementation of Test Automation Framework (Hybrid, Keyword, Data driven)
• Expertise in VB scripting using Descriptive Programming
• Expertise in Developing, Designing and executing Test Cases using VB functions
• Expertise in DP, Ordinal Identifier, Regular Expressions to identify Dynamic AUT Objects. For other standard web objects used Shared OR.
• Extensively used User-Defined Environment Variables as Global Data to exchange between Main Test Action and QTP Function Library
• On-error resume next used instead of QTP Recovery Scenarios to handle unexpected errors
• Expert level knowledge with Web Services concepts and written and executed numerous test cases for Web Services business conditions testing for SOAP and REST protocols
• Expertise in Verifying Request and Response structures of Web Services, XML Structures and created automation scripts using SOAP UI and verified data with different input parameters
• Good understand with SOAP Messages WSDL, XML and XSD Schema validations
• Expertise in Functional and Data-Driven testing in SOAPUI using Excel/ADOB
• Good knowledge of writing and executing SQL queries on Oracle and SQL Server Databases
• Coordinated with the offshore team and achieved Quality Deliverables
• Strong analytical & communication skills. Perform multitasking, good documentation and a good team player

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Quality Assurance Tools: HP QTP 10.0/9.5 and SOAP UI/PRO 4.0/4.5

Defect Tracking Tools: HP ALM/QC 11.0/10.0/9.5

Scripting Languages: DHTML, XSD, XML, Groovy scripting and VBScript

Database: Oracle 11i/10g/9i and SQL Server 2008/2005/2000

MS Tools: MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and MS Word

Operating System: Win XP/NT, WINSCP, Mainframe Rumba and Putty

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Requirements and Functional Specifications of the application
• Developed detailed Testing Methodologies, Test Matrices, Test cases and Test scripts
• Participation in peer review sessions to baseline Technical Requirements, High Level Design, Detail Design, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts that involves Project manager, Business Analyst, Tech Leads, Developers and Testing Team
• Participation in Scrum Calls, Retrospective Meeting, Sprint0 Planning
• Extensively used Version One for Burn Down Chart to track our efforts
• At the end of each Sprint given Demo to the Product Team/Business
• Actively participated in Sprint0 planning for Estimating the Story points
• Extensively tested the Graphical User Interface components and conducted Functional and Regression testing for each build
• Performing extensive Positive and Negative testing, so as to crack any defect that could exist, thereby helping to create an as-perfect, error-free, end product
• Involved in the tracking and updating of the Requirement Traceability Matrix, thereby linking the test cases with the business requirements as well as other associated test cases
• Proficient use of ALM to log and track defects and to keep track of the business requirements
• Involved in Integration testing, Functional testing and Regression testing
• Connected remotely to UNIX servers using PUTTY and FTP files across different test environments by using Command prompt
• Extensively used WINSCP Tool and PUTTY for Batch jobs
• Extensively worked on UI Imports and Batch Import Templates
• Good scripting experience with Unix commands and SQL Queries
• Coordinated with the offshore team and achieved Quality Deliverables

Environment: Siebel 8.1.1.6/8.1.1.11, XML, XSD, Oracle, PUTTY, Version One, WINSCP and ALM.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Requirements and Functional Specifications of the application.
• Participation in requirement gathering, review and analysis of requirements.
• Developed detailed Testing Methodologies, Test Matrices, Test cases and Test scripts.
• Involved in Functional, System testing, Regression testing and UAT testing.
• Participation in Scrum Calls, Retrospective Meeting, Sprint0 Planning.
• Extensively used Version One for Burn down Chart to track our efforts.
• At the end of each Sprint given Demo to the Product Team/Business.
• Actively participated in Sprint0 planning for estimating the Story points.
• Interacted with tech leads and developers to resolve the defects, which would affect income generating functionality in Production.
• Continuous communication with dev team and manual testers to track and follow defects till its closure.
• Actively participated in enhancement meetings at making the application more reliable.
• Designing, developing, debugging and dry run of test scripts in QTP, test data preparation, execution of Regression Suite, Issue finding, validate, logging it in Quality Center and following it to its closure by continuous communication with SME’s, development, environment teams and client test manager Extensively used Hybrid Framework with Descriptive Programming.
• Read Excel data into custom QTP Data-Tables using custom Scripts
• Built a complex repository of reusable keyword functions using DP
• User-Defined Environment Variables used as Global Data to exchange between Main Test Action and QTP Function Library
• Detailed error handling with screenshots, XML error logs and customizing test execution reports in QTP.
• Mainframe Rumba, CMAMT Tool used for Test Data preparation
• Maintained Traceability Matrix to track the requirements to the test cases to ensure complete test coverage in ALM.
• Extensively used ALM to log defects and generate defect reports and graphs.
• Coordinated the Onsite and Offshore teams to resolve issues.
• Involving in all Release estimations, resource loading and all project related activates.
• Acted as the single point of contact between Development and Testers for iterations, testing and development activities.

Environment: QTP, JAVA, ASP, VB Script, J2EE, JSP, XML, Mainframes Rumba, CMAMT Tool, Version One and ALM.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Software QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the business requirement documents and identifying requirement gaps.
• Formulating detailed test plans, test cases and creating test procedures by actively participating in project meetings and walkthroughs.
• Helping in the creation and implementation of a viable testing routine for both the New Business team and the Endorsement team, keeping in mind all the constraints involved.
• Participation in Scrum Calls, Retrospective Meeting, Sprint0 Planning
• Extensively used Version One for Burn Down Chart to track our efforts
• Participation in peer review sessions to baseline Technical Requirements, High Level Design, Detail Design, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts that involves Project manager, Business Analyst, Developers and Testing Team
• Created and maintained automated test scripts using descriptive programming in QTP.
• Quick Test Pro framework design and owner of automation resources like Functional Library, Customization of Reports etc
• Extensively used Keyword Driven Framework with Descriptive Programming
• Extensively written Driver Scripts using Exceptional Handling, Test Execution Reports, Environmental Variables etc
• On error resume next used instead of recovery scenarios to handle unexpected errors
• Tested web services using SOAP UI and analyzed SOAP request and response messages.
• Performed Data-Driven testing in SOAPUI using Excel/ADOB/Groovy scripting
• Extensively used Assertions, captured request and response into File in SOAPUI
• Extensively tested the Graphical User Interface components and conducted Functional and Regression testing for each build.
• Involved in the tracking and updating of the Requirement Traceability Matrix, thereby linking the test cases with the business requirements as well as other associated test cases.
• Created and executed SQL queries to verify backend system data validations with databases like Oracle.
• Proficient use of QC to log and track defects and to keep track of the business requirements.

Environment: Java, JSP, XML, J2EE, Websphere6.0, SQL Server2005, QTP9.5, SOUP UI, VB Script and QC9.5

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participation in requirement gathering, review and analysis of requirements.
• Involved in preparing test plan, test strategies and test scenarios.
• Maintenance of Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Prepared test data for positive and negative test scenarios for functional testing as documented in the test plan.
• Test Data Identification and following up the preparation.
• Documented the bugs found out during the process of testing and reported the bugs to the QA Manager and developers.
• Participated in Functional testing, Regression testing and UAT testing.
• Identified Test Cases for Regression suite for future release executions.
• Proficient in log and track defects and to keep track of the business requirements. Environment: ASP.NET, C#.NET, SQL Server 2000, Windows XP, Star Team