OBJECTIVE

• Over Six years of Quality Assurance experience with Bachelor of Business Administration to obtain a challenging and responsible Software QA Analyst/Test Engineer position in a progressive organization where I can effectively utilize my technical skills to develop and improve the Quality Assurance aspect of the company.

SUMMARY

• Solid understanding of Software Development Life cycle and Testing Processes.
• Experienced in gathering and documenting business requirements from client.
• Expert in writing and executing Test Plan, Test cases, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts.
• Expert in Manual and Automated Testing from the clients/end user’s point of view.
• Prepared Requirement traceability matrix, Test data, Test strategy, Test reports.
• Experienced in performing Functional, Sanity, Integration, System, Regression, User Acceptance, Performance, Load and Stress Testing.
• Comprehensive knowledge of database applications, scripting language, and Microsoft Windows Server.
• Proficient in using different databases including Oracle 10g/11g, SQL Server 2005/2008, DB2 and MS Access.
• Experienced in using test management and bug reporting tools including HP Quality Center, Test Director, Clear Quest, Target Process.
• Tracked defects, prepared defect matrices, defect summary report and followed issues to completion.
• Involved in establishing QA process, testing task estimations, review checklists preparation.
• Actively participated in all phases of the testing cycle including reviews and project status meetings.
• Developed automation test scripts using QuickTest Professional (QTP), Unified Functional Testing (UFT) to perform functional and regression testing.
• Extensive Experienced in HP LoadRunner and Performance Center to test application's Load, Stress, Volume, and Performance testing.
• Conducted Section 508 Compliance testing in multiple applications using JAWS.
• Skilled in communicating proficiently with excellent technical and troubleshooting skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, TestDirector, TargetProcess, HP QuickTest Professional (QTP),HP LoadRunner, TOAD, PVCs Tracker, JIRA, IBM Rational Robot, ClearCase, ClearQuest, Application Life Cycle Management (ALM), HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).

Operating Systems: UNIX, MS DOS, MS Windows XP/Vista, Windows NT, Windows 7 Professional and MS Windows Server 2005/2008 enterprise edition.

Database: MS SQL Server 2005/2008, Oracle10g/11g and MS Access.

Microsoft Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Outlook, MS Visio, Microsoft Visual Studio.

Application Server: Microsoft IIS, Web Logic, Apache.

Languages: Visual Basic, C++, C#, Java, J2EE, PL/SQL, HTML, VB Script, XML.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chevy Chase, Maryland

Software QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plan and test scenario for multiple modules.
• Analyzed, tested, and certified application - specific software and performed ambiguity reviews of business requirements and functional specification documents.
• Developed Manual Test cases and test scripts to test the functionality of the application.
• Developed and documented effective test procedures, which effectively directed other's work.
• Led brainstorming sessions to identify key testing concerns and prevent insufficiently broad testing.
• Responsibilities included Manual GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Interface Testing, End-to-End Testing, Database Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Performed Data Validation and Data Integration for Back End Testing using SQL Plus and SQL Developer.
• Automated the functionality and interface testing of the application using Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Insert Object Data Verification Checkpoint on QuickTest Professional (QTP) automation testing tools.
• Used QTP for object repository creation and maintenance, used regular expression, re-usable actions, data table, checkpoints and recovery scenario.
• Parameterized tests to use multiple sets of test data into same script and used text, standard, and database check points to verify the data.
• Created Shared Object Repository and Function Library to reduce scripts maintenance time.
• Created Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) and inserted database output value to dynamically capture data and use those data as input values of AUT.
• Imported data from the Database to the Data table and performed Data Driven testing with different Data sets for reports generation module in QTP.
• Implemented Automated-testing methodology using Data driven and hybrid automation frame work.
• Analyzed performance of the application program itself under various test loads of many simultaneous Vuser.
• Client Application Testing, Web based Application Performance, Stress, Volume and Load testing of the system.
• Analyzed the impact on server performance CPU usage, server memory usage for the applications of varied numbers of multiple, simultaneous users.
• Inserted Transactions and Rendezvous points into Web Vuser.
• Created Vuser Scripts using VuGen and used Controller to generate and executed Load Runner Scenarios.
• Connect Multiple Load Generator with Controller for support Additional Vuser
• Created scripts to enable the Controller to measure the performance of Web server under various load conditions.
• Created Manual Scenario, Configured LR Controller runtime settings and created load test.
• Analyzed Load test result and generated graph and report using LR Analysis.
• The Analyzed requirements and user cases, certified application-specific software performed ambiguity reviews of business requirements and functional specification documents
• Verify test approach, validate build stability, test and evaluate, and achieve acceptable mission.

Environment: Windows Server 2005/2008, Java, Java Script, HTML, UNIX, SQL, Oracle 11g, Web Logic, HP Load Runner, HP Quality Center, QuickTest Professional, Test Director.

Confidential, Columbia, South Carolina

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed software specifications and technical service description documents.
• Identified the Business requirements and involved in Manual and Automated testing of the front-end application.
• Actively participated in QA team meetings and walkthroughs for weekly QA testing review meeting.
• Involved in the development of test procedures for various stages like Integration, System, Functional, Positive, Negative, Cross platform, Recovery, as well as Performance, Stress, Load/ Volume and User Acceptance Testing.
• Defined the test Engagement Process for new application launch and maintenance releases.
• Prepared Test Plan that provides a detailed list of conditions under which the system will be tested.
• Tested the application compatibility with IE and Netscape browsers.
• Prepared various documents like Test Scenarios, Test Analysis Report, Defect Report and User Manual were created using MS Word and MS Excel.
• Written data in XML format for driven test to handle the scenario requiring multiple sets of data.
• Developed automated test scripts using QTP for GUI, Functionality regression testing.
• Created automated test scripts and performed Functionality testing in the multiple phases of the application and analyzed the results using QuickTest Professional.
• Created Application specific and generic functions to reduce redundant code using VB Script for QTP automation Testing.
• Enhanced the scripts in QTP by applying checkpoints, parameterizations, synchronization point, data driven tests and creating modular tests.
• Developed and executed various VBScripts using QTP for Regression Testing of the applications.
• Performed web testing using Quick Test Professional for checking page contents, broken links, web objects, frames and tables.
• Parameterized various links in the application for functional/Integration Testing.
• Performed Data Validation and Data Integration for Back End Testing using SQL Queries and PL/SQL statements.
• Executed Manual and Automated test cases and verified results with expected results.
• Analyzed the discrepancies, severity, tracking system and reporting through Quality Center.
• Reported defects to the team lead and helped the developer to resolve the technical issues.
• Performed Load testing, Performance testing and Stress testing using Load Runner.
• Setup load/performance testing environment using Load Runner.
• Designed Performance test scripts using Load Runner, ran Stress test, analyzed the results.
• Responsible for creating the System Performance Graph from the results of the incremental (user load) stress tests to determine the scalability of the system, response time at the desired throughput and the system break point (knee of the curve).

Environment: QTP, LoadRunner, HP Quality Center, Windows NT, UNIX, IIS, Oracle, Visual Basic, HTML, DHTML, VB Script, Java Script, MS Visio, C#, Java, Microsoft Visual Studio.

Confidential, Reston, Virginia

Software Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Test Scenario’s and executing to test Business Rules.
• Created Manual test Cases for validating the Functionality.
• Interacted with the Project Manager for the Requirements.
• Reviewed documentation generated through Current SDLC process and based on review.
• Created test plan templates which were to be used as best practices format for business units.
• Designed Test Documents and recorded test results to use them during regression testing after each build.
• Actively participated in reviews with the test leads and test manager.
• Responsible for preparing, reviewing and executing the test cases.
• Performed regression and retesting to ensure the reliability of the Software.
• Maintained the repository of manual and automated test scripts using Test Director
• Performed Manual GUI function testing first and then automated the tests with QTP.
• Worked closely with developers to LOG, Track and follow through on all software bugs and providing more information about bugs and help them in fixing the bugs.
• Was involved in GUI testing and tested GUI standards of this application.
• Verified data integrity and consistency using SQL Queries.
• Documented the Test results and Defect reports using HP Quality Center.
• Used Test Director as defect tracking system to report the bugs and keep track the created bugs throughout its life cycle and providing the defect report.
• Automated manual test cases into test scripts using HP QuickTest Professional for regression and functional testing purpose.
• Created Test environment and automation test suites to execute multiple test scripts.
• Implemented a driver script using VBScript and scheduled the test suites with Windows Scheduler to run while away from desk.
• Customized Vuser script in LoadRunner for parameterization, correlation query, transaction point and rendezvous point and created scenarios using LoadRunner Controller.
• Determined application performance and maximum scalability, critical parameter such as number of users, response times, and hits per second and through put using LoadRunner.
• Used LoadRunner analysis module to drill down to determine the specific source of bottlenecks within the application architecture and generate actionable reports.

Environment: Java, JSP, Servers, Web Services, Oracle, MS XL, MS Word, Windows, Test Director, QTP, LoadRunner.