SUMMARY

• Detail - oriented IT professional with expertise in Software Quality Assurance. Exceptional experience in performing analysis of industry and economic data.
• Strong analytical working knowledge as a Quality Assurance Tester of various financial and business applications in multi-platform environment.
• Solid knowledge in process improvement, methodologies and traditional software life cycle.
• Highly self-motivated, goal oriented and committed to pursuing a long-term career in QA.
• Excellent communication skills: written and verbal.
• Ability to do multi-tasking and can learn complex procedures quickly.
• Efficient in working on Client/Server and UNIX environment.
• 6 years of IT experience with significant expertise in Software QA/Testing.
• Extensively experienced in the field of Software Quality Assurance and Application Testing.
• Strong Knowledge in analyzing Business Requirements, Technical Requirements and Use Cases.
• Experienced in preparing Test Plans, defining Test Cases, developing and maintaining Test Scripts, analyzing Test results, reporting Defects and submission of Test Status.
• Exposure to all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Extensive knowledge of the AgileBusiness Process Modeling and re-engineering methodologies, such as RUP, AUP, SDLC, and Scrum.
• Well experienced in Web testing, UNIX & DB testing.
• Experienced in Ad-Hoc, Smoke, Functional, Regression, Integration, User Acceptance and Back End Testing.
• Experienced in Automation testing using Quick Test Pro/UFT.
• Experienced in working with SQL SERVER, SQL, Oracle.
• Good Knowledge in Automation Testing using SQL commands.
• Knowledge of development of scripts with Descriptive Programming using QTP/UFT.
• Extensively experienced in using Parameterization and Data Driven Testing in QTP/UFT.
• Experienced in handling exceptions during the execution of test scripts using Recovery Scenario Manger in QTP/UFT.
• Excellent research and mentoring skills.
• Ability and enthusiasm to learn new tools/technologies quickly.
• Highly analytical in developing the methods and measures to meet requirements andto solve any issues dat arise during the project.
• Active participation in meetings with the testing, developmentteams and clients.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX (HP/Sun Solaris), LINUX, MS DOS

Office Software: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, Share PointDatabase SQL Server, MS Access MySQL

Testing Tool: HP Quality Center, ALM, HP Quick Test Professional, UFT

Scripting: VB Script, JavaScript

Bug Reporting: HP Quality Center, HP Application Lifecycle Management

Coding: C++, Java, HTML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington, DC

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created in-detail Test plan and Test cases from the business requirement documents.
• Prepared overall Test Strategy for any given applications.
• Reviewed business requirement documents and functional specifications for creating Test plan and Test cases.
• Worked closely with the Development team to deploy and implement Test Plan.
• Involved in Manual and Automated testing of the front-end application.
• Involved in all stages of testing process - Development of Test procedures and Test cases based on requirements for functional test, regression test, integration test and user acceptance test.
• Reviewed test assignments, developed test plans and scripts, and conducted tests as assigned.
• Managed all phases of Testing for assigned components ensuring Test plans and Test cases are completed and met business requirements.
• Managed requirements and maintained test repository using HP ALM.
• Executed SQL queries to check the data table updates after test execution using SQL Navigator.
• Generated System Test scripts for different Test scenarios covering all aspects of project functionality.
• Responsible for Generating and running automation test scripts using UFT.
• Worked in Hybrid Automation Frameworks by using UFT.
• Automated all the Data Grid Validations in the application using UFT.
• Involved in Feasibility analysis for automation, test script review and execution using UFT.
• Added various Check Points using the UFT.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate advanced technical issues both verbally and written to technical staff.
• Coordinated and collaborated with a globally distributed team.
• Participated in developing, distributing, and coordinating in-depth end-user reviews for modified and new systems or applications.
• Participated in team meetings to discuss the issues arising out of testing.

Environment: SQL Server, C/C++, UNIX, VB Script, XML, Java, J2EE, Java Script, HP ALM, UFT, VBScript, HTML, SQL, XML, MS Excel, MS Office, Windows.

Confidential, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test scripts and Test cases based on content and functionality prototypes.
• Identified project objectives and requirements to create a Business Scenario Test Metrics and High Level Test Cases.
• Created System Data flow diagram.
• Executed Functional, Regression and System testing.
• Mapped High Level Test requirements to the Test Cases in Quality Center/ALM.
• Verified the data stored in the database with the help of SQL queries.
• Performed SOAP based and Restful based web Service testing using soap UI pro for data driven testing.
• Handled customized objects using Object identification in UFT and used Regular Expressions.
• Developed and executed SQL queries to validate database updates.
• Developed scripts for Data Driven tests using UFT.
• Handled Dynamic Objects using Descriptive Programming in UFT using VBScript.
• Involved in functional testing, black box testing, smoke testing, data driven testing, regression testing, integration testing, and system testing using UFT.
• Validated Web services using UFT by testing XML requests.
• Executed test scripts to perform Regression and Functional testing using UFT.
• Coordinated with the UAT, BETA and Project management teams.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with the Users.
• Escalated issues to the Management as well as Developers as needed and discussed defects in Bug Triage Meeting.
• Provided daily and weekly project status updates to Project Manager.

Environment: C#, MS Office, UNIX, MS Excel, TOAD, Oracle, Quality Center/ALM, Java, Java Script, HTML, UFT, VBScript, HP ALM, HTML, SQL, XML, SOAP UI, MS Excel, MS Office, Windows.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test plans and Test Cases in structured and controlled manner based on the SRS.
• Involved in Automation Scripts development, debugging and batch scripts execution.
• Documented and Implemented Structured QA Methodologies.
• Performed Functionality Testing, Black Box and Regression Testing.
• Reported defects using HP Quality Center and interacted with developers to resolve any defects/issues.
• Involved in customizing fields in HP Quality Center.
• Used complex SQL queries to validate work and data flows from the old to the new database.
• Involved in all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Analyzed and identified the areas of a project for Test Automation.
• Test Scripts generated using QTP.
• Developed automation scripts for functional testing using QTP.
• Involved in importing test scripts to HP Quality Center.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, Java, Java Script, MS Excel, VBScript, HTML, SQL, XML, MS Office, Windows.

Confidential, NY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Performed data validation using SQL.
• Involved in Test Cases creation as per functional requirements.
• Prepared Test plans and wrote Test cases for manual testing.
• Executed Test Cases to test the functionality of the application.
• Performed GUI, functional and regression testing.
• Worked in Quality Center for reviewing requirements creating test cases, reporting defects in Quality Center.
• Tracked and coordinated defects using Quality Center.
• Reported defects, maintained track of changes made to the requirements.
• Performed Front-End, Functionality, Data driven and Web Based testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Prepared Test sets, all possible combinations of the data required to test each requirement and created Data Driven automation scripts using QTP.
• Performed functional, regression testing using Quick Test Pro after deployment of every build in Test Environment.
• Involved in System testing and UAT testing.
• Executed the end-to-end testing to test the business flow from Mobile application to report generation.
• Conducted regular status meetings with the team to discuss on work assignments, task evaluation, addressing any open issues and concerns.

Environment: VBScript, QTP, Quality Center, HTML, SQL, XML, MS Excel, MS Office, Windows.