SUMMARY

• Extensive experience working as a Software Testing and Quality Assurance engineer with more than 6 years of proven expertise in designing and developing test strategies, maintaining Financial, Banking, Health Care and Insurance Applications and diversified Capability in Manual and Automated testing of Web and Client/Server Applications on UNIX/Windows Environment.
• Experienced in managing technical team on large and complex projects, setting up QA environment and infrastructure, defining the software quality strategy, directing QA activities, leading and mentoring junior QA staff.
• Extensive knowledge in Quality Assurance methodologies, strategies and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Tested applications manually and also used automated tools for testing the integration and implementation of large - scale systems for Internet and Intranet based applications.
• Supported day-to-day operations like applying updates and fixes, analyzing production support issues.
• Responsible for developing Test strategies, Test scripts, Test cases, Test plans, Test procedures and testing standards.
• Excellent working knowledge of designing and implementation of all QA test strategy plans manually and automated test solutions for client/server and Web based applications with HP test suite (UFT/Quick Test Pro, Load Runner, ALM/Quality Center) and Manual Testing (Black Box).
• Experienced in maintaining ALM Requirement Traceability Matrices (RTM) to measure the testing progress.
• Proficient knowledge in software development methodologies (Waterfall, Iterative, and Agile/Scrum, DevOps), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and CMMI.
• Proven expertise in the review, design, development, and implementation of a quality assurance infrastructure.
• Performed various types of testing including functional, integration, system, performance, load, smoke, end-to-end, UAT and black-box testing.
• Extensive experienced in reviewing and understanding business and testing requirements and writing detailed test plans, test cases, test scripts and Test matrix.
• Experienced in both manual and automated testing of web-based and client/server applications.
• Extensively using HP ALM, JIRA, zephyr for Test management and reporting.
• Excellent sense of time and product quality. Ability to handle multiple tasks, work under pressure and get things done. Exceptionally efficient and reliable with excellent communication verbal and written skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Load Runner, UFT/Quick Test Professional, ALM/Quality Center, JIRA.

Scripting Tools: TSL, VB Script, Java Script.

Operating System: Windows, UNIX, Linux, Mac OS XDatabase MySQL, SQL Server 2000, Oracle, MS Access 2003

Application Server: BEA Web Logic, Sun application server, IBM Web Sphere

Web Servers: Microsoft IIS, Apache, PHP, ASP, Sun Java system Web Server

Languages: Java, C, C++, Visual Basic, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, DHTMLXHTML

Version Managers: Visual SourceSafe, CVS, PVCS, Star Team, SharePoint

Utilities: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, MS Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chevy Chase, MD

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and interpret design specifications, business requirements and end-user feedback and apply information to the testing process
• Convert business requirements and specifications into Test plans, Test cases, and Test scripts
• Analyzed Business Requirements, Functional Specifications and the Required Documents for testing.
• Maintain traceability between test documentation and requirements
• Execute test cases, report progress and issues in a timely and accurate manner
• Identify, record, and report defects
• Use bug tracking systems (ALM/Quality Center) for tracked defects and change requests
• Use HP UFT/Quick Test Pro to create new scripts and maintain existing repository
• Perform Smoke, User Interface, Negative, Positive, Functional, Integration, System, End to tend, Regression, Database, Security, Cross browser, User Acceptance, Performance and Load testing
• Document and discuss test execution results and create defect tracking records for discover problems.
• Using pure Agile/Scrum Process for all aspects of project work and creates and updates the SDLC test documents and maintains them.
• Producing ALM Test Cases, ALM RTM, ALM test execution and defect report.
• Using HP ALM/QC and JIRA for Test management and reporting.
• Extensively used SQL developer/TOAD to perform database testing
• Collaborate with Support and Development team to research and test production issues
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement
• Test application develop in Microsoft .NET and/or J2EE technology platforms
• Attending Daily Scrum meeting, Story planning meeting, Sprint review meeting, Iteration Planning Meeting, Retrospective meeting and weekly Project Status Meeting with Development Team, Testers and QA Manager.

Environment: Java, JSP, HTML, XML, SQL, Windows, Unix, C, C++, Visual Basic, UFT/Quick Test Professional, Application server side based on J2EE framework, UML, .Net Application, ALM/Quality Center, Jira, TOAD, SQL Developer, SharePoin, Agile/Scrum.

Confidential, Hartford CT

QA Analyst/Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements, Functional Specifications and the Required Documents for testing.
• Interacted with client teams
• Involved in preparing Release Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Created Test Scripts and executing them
• Experienced in managing the Bug Tracking tool for retrieving different status of the bugs/issues
• Performed integration testing using different methods
• Performed Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Sanity Testing, Cross Browser, Configuration, User Acceptance Testing Regression Testing on the application.
• Extensive used JIRA for requirement and defect management
• Done functional and regression testing by using UFT/Quick Test Professional
• Done Data Driven test using UFT/Quick Test Professional to test application for various set of records
• Performed Regression testing by using Standard and Bitmap checkpoints
• Used Load Runner for Performance Testing, Stress Testing
• Created VUser Scripts in Virtual User Generator (VuGen) as per the business requirement and created various scenarios using controller in Load Runner
• Created the scenarios by using Controller component in Load Runner
• Analyzed the results to find the bottlenecks by using Analysis Component in Load Runner
• Created test data for executing test cases
• Used ALM/Quality Center for Test management
• Have good understanding about development life cycle of the system from design to implementation of the whole project life cycle.
• Produced Test Results and presented daily and weekly report to Test Lead.
• Wrote extensive SQL queries for data validation, analysis and manipulation, and maintaining the integrity of the database.
• Worked on various EDI X12 transaction sets such as 270/271, 276/277, 835, 837 etc.
• Membership/enrollment and billing-entered information on Facets to ensure correct eligibility, etc
• Involved in end-to-end testing of FACETS Billing, Claim Processing and Subscriber/Member module.
• Validated the translatedHIPAAfiles with the proprietary Common Claim Record implementations.
• Extensively worked on ANSI X12 EDI (270, 271, 276, 277, 837, 835 and 834) Transactions.
• Create maps to transform data fromEDItostandard XML business documents, provided assessment of business and technical needs.

Environment: J2EE, Windows, UNIX, XML, Lotus Notes, UFT/Quick Test Professional, Load Runner, ALM, SharePoint, JIRA.

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Software Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Process Specifications
• Developed Test Cases using Use case diagrams
• Performed manual testing to check the flow of the application
• Performed Smoke, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Cross Browser, User Acceptance Testing on the application.
• Modified Test cases when changes in the application on new build using Quality Center
• Developed automated test scripts using QTP to perform functional and Regression testing
• Conducted Database testing, passing SQL queries to the Oracle
• Participated in QA Team meetings and walkthroughs or weekly QA testing reviews
• Tracked defects and change requests were submitted using Quality Center
• Identified defects and interacted with developers to resolve the issues
• Used automated scripts and performed functionality testing during the various phases of the application and analyzed the results
• Attended weekly Project Status Meetings with Development Team, Testers and QA Manager.

Environment: Java, JSP, Java script, HTML, XML, Oracle, SQL, Quality Center, Windows, UNIX, QC, QTP, Toad/SQL Developer.