OBJECTIVE

• To obtain an employment opportunity in Software QA Engineering/Testing related field within professional and respectable firm, or company.

SUMMARY

• 13+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance of Web and Client/Server applications.
• Specialized in Software Quality Assurance testing Manual as well as Automation testing for the applications on Windows and UNIX environment.
• Experienced in analyzing Requirement Specifications and developed Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Experienced in Software Development Life Cycle using Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies.
• Experienced in working with the back - end mainframe applications.
• Expertise in Analyzing Business Specifications and developing Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts and executing them.
• Expertise in Manual and Automation Testing.
• Experienced with Grey Box and Black Box testing.
• Experienced in HP ALM/ Quality Centre environment.
• Well experienced in test planning, documentation, defining and executing the Test cases using automated tools as well as Manually.
• Proficient in customization of already existing practices, training, and supporting disciplines (workflows), activities, and artifacts (deliverables) as defined by the RUP.
• Very good implementing knowledge on HP tools such as QuickTest Pro (QTP)/UFT, ALM, and Quality center.
• Huge experience in Functional, Regression, System, and UAT testing.
• Expertise in SOA architecture and webservice testing.
• Experienced in agile methodologies.
• Knowledge in Analysis of Bug Severity, Bug Tracking system and Bug Reporting.
• Possesses good analytical, presentation and strong communication skills, an adaptability to work within a variety of environments and a high tolerance for risk and stresses associated with tight deadlines.
• Diligent worker, self-starter and consistent performer.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows, UNIX/Linux

QA Tools: UFT, QTP, ALM, Quality Center

Languages: Java, C++, HTML, Java script, VBScript

Database: MS SQL Server, Oracle

Other: Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access and PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, St. Petersburg, FL

Senior QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Serving as the lead QA engineer of software development team, delivering loyalty projects for several clients including Synchrony Financial, Verizon Small Business Rewards, Verizon My Rewards+, Verizon FiOS, TracFone, Grohe, AMC.
• Communicated to the Clients and Business Analysts to verify if all requirements are properly reflected on the project documentations.
• Analyzed approved BRDs, created Test Plan, Test Scenario and reviewed the Test Cases.
• Participated on maintaining, developing and testing Kobie Alchemy®, fully customizable and configurable loyalty platform.
• Modified/ran tests files using command line/UNIX to validate correct file format.
• Validated data files received from clients and approved valid changes in database using SQL
• Created and executed SQL queries to verify expected changes in relational database tables using PostgreSQL.
• Tested Web Services/APIs using SOAP UI tool. Verified XML files.
• Managed and organizing Test Plan, Test scripts, Test Conditions, Test Data and Expected Results.
• Selected projects/ applications as potential valid candidates for use of automation testing tool (QTP/UFT) and created test scripts/frameworks for them.
• Participated on developing test environment for future automation process using Selenium automation testing tool.
• Performed functionality and regression testing during the various phases of the application development.
• Used JIRA for Bug Tracking, Bug fixing, and Bug Reporting.
• Working in strong agile development cycle.
• Actively participated on deploying final projects to production.

Environment: UFT/QTP, SELENIUM, HTML, SQL server, MS Word, MS Excel, PostgreSQL, SOAP UI

Confidential, Boca Raton, FL

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirement Documents and Use Cases.
• Developed and maintained Test Plan, Test scripts, Test Conditions, Test Data and Expected results.
• 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, Back-End and User Acceptance Testing.
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix and also updated the Requirement traceability matrix timely with the changes in HP ALM.
• Developed and maintained Manual and Automation test scripts through HP ALM.
• Used ALM for Bug Tracking, Bug fixing, and Bug Reporting.
• Involved in the Database Testing using SQL Quires 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 QuickTest Professional (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.
• Worked with team in remote offshore location daily basis to discuss any issues regarding projects.
• Involved in Coordinating with development team to create and review test specifications, test coverage, defect discovery and resolution.

Environment: ALM, UFT/QTP, HTML, SQL server, Oracle, MS Office, Windows

Confidential, Timonium, MD

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements divided the test features among the members of the team.
• Involved in writing Test Plan. And developed in Traceability Matrix. Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed Test plan, Test scenario, Test cases and Test scripts for testing the Application under Test (AUT).
• Set up, execution and maintenance of the testing environment platforms to ensure the Quality for All Valuable customers.
• Performed Data Driven testing in QTP and checking the behavior of the application and analyzed the results.
• Performed GUI, Smoke, Sanity, Regression, System and Backend testing.
• Interacted with developers and users to resolve major bugs.
• Prepared test data for positive and negative test scenarios for functional testing as documented in the test plan.
• Inserted check points to check the consistencies of the links in the webpage.
• Created and Executed Automated Test Scripts / Test Procedures using QTP based on the Use Case Scenarios.
• Performed ETL testing to validate data is transformed correctly from OLTP to data ware house.
• Experience in Data Warehouse testing.
• Performed SOA - Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Simulation and validation for web service integration.
• Successfully designed, developed and implemented a complete regression testing for the entire system.
• Logged and tracked defects in Quality Center and assigned to developer.
• Created, Updated and maintained Test Scripts for different builds and releases.
• Prepared Test Plan that provides a detailed list of conditions under which the system will be tested using Quality Center.
• Used SQL Quires to perform Data integrity test to retrieve the data from various tables and to test the database.
• Wrote SQL Queries for fetching data from database and created Data file for the Automation.
• Performed automation execution and analysis and prepared Daily Summary Reports.
• Performed project closure; update all the relevant documents etc.
• Performed Cross Browser Testing using Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer.
• Participated actively in the team meetings with the Developers for fixing the bugs.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, Java, C#, HTML, SQL server, Oracle.

Confidential, Bloomfield, CT

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the business requirement and design document for preparing validation Master Plan which described the scope, approach and objective of testing effort.
• Developed the Test Cases according to the Business Requirement Document and User Interface Document.
• Prepared expected results for the Test cases.
• Tracked results in the Quality center and reported system defects.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Involved in making sure all the testing activities and test cases execution is covered and reporting the results to test lead/manager using Flash Reports.
• Attended Daily Testing call to discuss the Testing status and priorities the defects.
• Developed test cases and Performed and Database testing, Black box testing, Integration testing, and System testing.
• Exceptions handling done with the help of TOAD and log files.
• Prepared test data for the AUT as per the specifications of BRD.
• Signaling connections and call control are handled by an IP network.
• Tracked and reported bugs using Quality Center.
• Conducted Walk through to the test team for any business requirement changes or new enhancements to the system.
• Extensively compared several data feeds using comparison software.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, Oracle, SQL, Windows, UNIX