SUMMARY

• Hands - on experience in Software Quality Assurance of Stand Alone, Client/Server and Web Applications.
• Extensively experienced in Retail, Govt., Banking, and Financial domain.
• Expertise in preparation of test plans, test strategies and test methodologies.
• Experienced in Black box and Gray box testing of Web and Client /Server based applications.
• Experienced in GUI testing, Functionality testing, System Testing, Configuration Testing, Data Driven Testing, and UAT.
• Experienced in performing both positive and negative testing.
• Experienced in Defect Management using Quality Center/ALM, JIRA, and Enterprise Tester.
• Proficient in manual testing as well as in automated testing using tools such as HP Quality Center, HP QuickTest Professional, Enterprise Tester, and TestDirector.
• Good at defect-reporting and defect-tracking using the test management tool Quality center/Test Director.
• Experienced on writing complex SQL queries and PL/SQL procedures to extract data from various source tables to perform database testing.
• Experienced in developing and executing automation Regression testing and System testing using QTP/UFT and Quality Center/ALM.
• Experienced in performing Data driven testing to validate the components displayed on the website using QTP.
• Expertise in performing functionality and regression testing during the various phases of the application using QuickTest Professional (QTP).
• Experienced in designing and implementation of Various Frameworks in QTP.
• Knowledge in JAVA, VB, SQL, Oracle, XML, UNIX Shell Scripting, Relational Database Management Systems.
• Good experience in creating and testing word press websites with third party templates.
• Management experience including reporting to upper management, Business users and stakeholders to leverage maximum support for project initiative.
• Good team player with Active participation in meetings with the testing, development teams and Clients.
• Highly analytical in developing the methods and measures to meet requirements and solve any issues that arise during the project.
• Possesses excellent communication, documentation and organization skills with the ability to adapt to a new environment & meet stringent deadlines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: UNIX, Linux, Windows

Languages: VB, VB.Net, ASP.NET, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, JavaScript, XML

RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Access, MySQL

Testing Tools: Quality Center/ALM, Quick Test Professional/UFT, JIRA, Enterprise Tester, TestDirector

Web Technologies: VB Script, HTML, CSS, DHTML, XML, PHP

Applications: Microsoft Office 2010, Dreamweaver, Adobe Suite CS5, XML Marker

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington, DC

CAT/UAT Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze Business Needs Statements, and Technical Specification Documents to ensure proper testing needs are covered and client expectations are met.
• Develop Test Plans, Test Scripts and Scenarios based on business, technical and functional requirements.
• Engage in testing highly coupled architectures and executing test scenarios.
• Perform Black Box, GUI, Functional, Regression, Smoke and Validation testing.
• Ensure on-time testing delivery under Agile testing methodology.
• Deliver High Availability testing solutions by conducting Positive and Negative testing.
• Worked on the Mail.xml project covering the end to end business conversation of mailing owners and mailing agents.
• Provide continued maintenance and development of defect fixes and patch sets for XML job submissions.
• Conduct comparison of the output reports generated from the application.
• Schedule meetings with developers and IT lead to provide daily testing status and delivered Quality product on timely manner.
• Raise, track and resolve defects of various priorities. Ensure defect resolution by engaging Developers and Engineers of different functions.
• Proficient in using UNIX commands to change file permissions and view log files.
• Provide technical training to other team members.

Environment: C++, Java, .Net, J2EE, HTML, QC ALM 11, Filezilla, Putty, Microsoft Office 2010.

Confidential, Ashburn, VA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Delivered High Availability testing solutions by conducting Positive and Negative testing.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Scripts and Scenarios based on business, technical and functional requirements.
• Engaged in testing highly decoupled architectures, executing test scenarios and health checks.
• Performed Black Box, GUI, Functional, Regression, Smoke and Validation testing of SOA solutions.
• Ensured on-time testing delivery under Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid testing models.
• Conducted API, Web Services (REST and SOAP) testing amongst components using SOAP UI.
• Performed testing on Video and Audio Transcoders, Content Delivery networks, Storage management and DRM technologies under the IBM Bus Architecture.
• Validated various protocols such as Aspera, SFTP, WinSCP, FTPS, Rsync for file transfer to support Ingest and Distribution of assets.
• Scheduled meetings with Product team, developers and Project Manager to provide daily testing status and delivered Quality product on timely manner.
• Involved in preparing data driven framework for different workflows in the application using Unified Functional Testing tool.
• Proficient in using Quality Center, JIRA and Enterprise Tester for Project Management, Bug Tracking, Bug fixing, and Bug Reporting.
• Raised, tracked and resolved defects of various priorities. Ensured defect resolution by engaging Developers and Engineers of different functions.
• Provided technical training to other team members.

Environment: Oracle, IBM WebSphere, Java, J2EE, HTML, UNIX, SOA, SQL, Quality Center/ALM, QTP, JIRA, Enterprise Tester, Confluence, Open Text, SoapUI, MS Office.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Test automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Business Analysts, Programmers and Business users through the life cycle of the project.
• Developed and maintained Test Plan, Test scripts, Test Conditions, Test Data and Expected results for both Functional and Performance tests.
• Identified Test cases based on the requirements, participated in implementation of Test Cases, and Test Script according to the Business Requirements, System Requirements.
• Performed different kinds of testing like Black Box, GUI, Functionality, Integration, Regression, Usability, System, User Acceptance and Data base Testing.
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix and also updated the Requirement traceability matrix timely with the changes in HP Quality Center.
• Developed and maintained Manual and Automation test scripts through HP Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center for Bug Tracking, Bug fixing, and Bug Reporting.
• Involved in the Database Testing using SQL Queries of the Application like checking all the Tables in the Database and checking whether the data is moving in their Respective Tables.
• Performed functionality and regression testing during the various phases of the application using QTP.
• Performed Data driven testing to validate the components displayed on the website using QTP.
• Worked with Regular Expressions in GUI maps to run the tests in System Test, Integration Test, and UAT using VB script in QTP.
• Performed functional testing using QTP, extensively used checkpoints for Object, Text, Table, and Pages.
• Performed Data-Driven Testing and Text Output values by using Global and Local spreadsheets in QTP for testing multiple data.
• Developed a Hybrid Framework using QTP.
• Defined the various keywords and functions used in the Framework using QTP.
• Designed the future state testing to be implemented in the next phase of this effort.
• Logged Defects and Troubleshooting to Isolate Code/Data issues, helped in UAT as part of Production support.
• Attended review meetings and walkthroughs to discuss the status of the project.

Environment: Oracle, UNIX, SDLC, Quality Center, Java, QTP, MS Office, SQL, TOAD, Junit.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in gathering user requirement and online system specification.
• Involved in writing test cases, and Test plans for the system based on Requirements and Use cases.
• Developed and maintained Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix and also performed Gap Analysis.
• Involved in implementing Entrance and Exit Criteria for a variety of tests
• Involved in preparing Test Data.
• Transferred requirements into Quality Center from Excel sheets and wrote & executed Test cases, Test plans in Quality Center.
• Developed and implemented quality related processes, systems and methods.
• Assisted programmers with alpha testing; Wrote test procedures for front-end GUI standards.
• Used Quality Center to report defects and test results.
• Ensured software defects, future enhancements, and usability issues in assigned projects which are tracked, summarized and presented to senior management using Quality Center.
• Evaluated the accuracy of data provided by database using PL/SQL.
• Extensively used SQL Queries to perform Back End Testing.
• Wrote SQL Queries to check the integrity of the data.
• Created automated test scripts using HP QuickTest professional.
• Responsible for maintaining Automation Scripts and library functions in QTP.
• Generated QTP Scripts with Standard, Text, Bitmap, Table Checkpoints and also Synchronization Points.
• Conducted front-end, functionality, integration, security, system, data driven and regression testing using QTP.
• Created custom functions and descriptive programming using VB Scripts in QTP.
• Developed, executed and maintained a Hybrid Automation Framework using QTP.
• Participated in Reviews /Inspections with Business Users and Research Team.
• Participated in weekly meeting and discussed modification request with management team.

Environment: QTP, Oracle, SQL, Quality Center,VB Script, J2EE, JAVA, XML, HTML, MS-office, Windows, UNIX.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirement Documents and Functional specification documents to prepare Test cases based on Test Plans.
• Gathered specifications and requirements from development personnel prior to application testing.
• Closely interacted with Business Analysts, designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigational flow.
• Performed regression, functionality, System, Interface, front end, back end, negative, positive and user acceptance Testing using manual testing.
• Involved in all aspects of test planning development designing Test Plans and writing Test Cases and Created and executed Manual test cases to test the system.
• Analyzed and implemented Test Procedures and Test Scripts using TestDirector.
• Developed and executed test suites and operations scenarios to find and report defects using TestDirector. Created and filed various office documentation using MS Office applications.
• Executed Manual Test cases and responsible to track and log the defects using Test Director.
• Evaluated application testing results and recorded the discrepancies using TestDirector to track, analyze and report them.
• Wrote SQL Queries to perform back end testing.
• Performed Smoke Testing of the entire application and performed regression testing against the various build of the applications using QTP.
• Involved in Execution of Sanity, Functional, System, Integration testing, and analyzed the results in QTP.
• Involved in testing configuration, Integration and customization like fields, page layouts, users, role hierarchy.
• Identified and resolved project related issues, escalating to Management when necessary.
• Participated in design sessions and provide feedback on requirements and design specifications.

Environment: Windows, MS SQL Server, VB Script, J2EE, HTML, SQL, Java Script, Test Director, MS Office and QTP.

Confidential, Washington, D.C.

Web Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Created and maintained global photo contest application online, from photo submission to judging and finalizing results from all over the world.
• Developed fully functional online application for procurement announcement and granting awards.
• Customized web applications using PHP, HTML, JavaScript and MySQL.
• Oversaw comprehensive review and analyses of IFES websites and took steps to address and successfully resolve issues identified in the analyses.
• Maintained corporate site using Sitecore CMS.
• Increased subscription by 200% with new e-news templates external communications.