SUMMARY

• More than 07 years of Quality Assurance experience in Software testing.
• Proficient in industry standard methodologies such as Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) using Waterfall and Agile Model using SCRUM methodology.
• Involved in Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings in Agile Methodology.
• Expertise in different types of testing like Automation testing, Manual testing, Integration testing, System testing, Smoke testing, Regression testing, Functional testing
• Experienced in creating and designing Test Strategy Documents, Test Plan, Test Schedules, Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Scenarios.
• Experienced in Quality Assurance and Software Testing and involving complex client/server and web - based applications.
• Extensively experienced in UAT, GUI, Sanity, Functional, System, Regression, Smoke and Back-end testing.
• Proficient in executing test cases, ad-hoc product testing, reporting bugs and reporting tester status, writing test scripts, test automation using diverse testing tools like Quality Center/ALM.
• Expert in ALM/ Quality Center for Testing and Defect Tracking.
• Experienced in Back-End testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL queries on the relational databases.
• Experienced in automating regression suite using QTP/UFT, descriptive programming & VBScript.
• Proficient in designing & developing Data Driven Framework using QTP/UFT & VBScript to validate test case against different data set.
• Knowledge in assisting automation engineer and analysis of web automation projects using Quick Test Pro/UFT for Web based and Client/Server Applications.
• Experienced in Cross browser testing to support Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, coordination, documentation, and project planning.
• Experienced with training and mentoring team members with product knowledge and business processes.
• Good communication and inter-personal skills, accustomed to work in a team environment with tight schedules and capable of working efficiently under pressure, manage multiple project and cross train sub-ordinates in other Functional areas.
• Self-motivated, energetic and highly ethical in all work-related assignments thus able to immediately contribute to corporate goals and objects.
• Good analytical and communication skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision and also perform as part of a team.
• Highly motivated team player with analytical, organizational and technical skills.
• Unique ability to adapt quickly to challenges and changing environment.
• Skilled User Acceptance Tester understands the need to meet all functionality requirements for business client end-users of new application.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, HP ALM, QTP, UFT, JIRA.

Operating systems: Windows and Unix

Programming Language: VB.NET, Visual Basic, SQL, PL/SQL, VB Script

Database: Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, Soap UI, VBScript, JavaScript, Java

Applications: MS Office 360, Outlook, Word, Excel, Power point.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Rosslyn, VA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attend Business review calls with client and understand the application/test scenarios.
• Communicated Test progress, Test Results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and management
• Attended Daily Scrum Stand up
• Updated requirements document as per user's feedback
• Documented the modification requests and defects and their trailing history using QC/ALM.
• Developed and maintained detail test cases, expected results and traced the test cases to the requirements using QC/ALM.
• Analyzed different test scenario and created test cases accordingly QC/ALM.
• Performed Positive and Negative data testing and Boundary testing.
• Managed and executed test cases and logged defects in defect reporting tool using Quality Center/ALM.
• Created SQL queries for validating the data in database.
• Designed test cases in the test plan section in HP Quality center/ALM
• Logged defect as required and updated with the comment in HPQC/ALM.
• Follow up with the updated status of defect with different teams.
• Created test set in the test lab in HPQC/ALM for regression testing.
• Provided daily and weekly work status to Test Lead.
• Attended defect call meeting Weekly.
• Performed Cross browser testing on Internet explorer, Firefox and Chrome for browser compatibility.
• Coordinated User Acceptance Test (UAT) processes and documented and addressed all the issues during the process.
• Identified the high-risk points and the priorities of the application.
• Worked with development teams to investigate and correct bugs and deficiencies based on testing results and involved in defect tracking and resolving production logs.
• Performed all phases of end-to-end testing which includes Functionality testing, Regression Testing, GUI testing, Boundary testing, Negative testing, System testing, Ad-Hoc testing

Environment: Selenium, UFT, ALM, UNIX, Windows, MS Office, Oracle, SOAP UI, XML, SQL, Java, Java Script, VB Script, C/C++, Html.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating various documents such as Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Scenario and Test Schedules document, Test Case, Test Script, and System Inventory Document.
• Participated in requirements gathering, analysis and ensure requirements are clear and complete.
• Involved in Task allocations, Tracking completion & Guidance to team.
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results.
• Executed Positive and Negative data testing and Boundary testing.
• Developed and maintained detail test cases, expected results and traced the test cases to the requirements using Wiki Confluence/JIRA.
• Created SQL queries for validating the data in database.
• Conducted Regression testing on various builds of the application and reported the defects to the developers using JIRA.
• Involved in performing end-to-end testing.
• Interacted with the development configuration and operation's team to ensure the quality of software to user expectations.
• Verified the integration of various components in the application and executed end-to-end testing.
• Participated in Release Review/Requirement Analysis and Design review meetings.
• Assisted Users and Business Analysts in completing User Acceptance Test using JIRA.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, Windows, UNIX, SQL, Java, J2EE, VBScript, VB.Net, HTML, XML, Java Script, MS Office, MS Excel.

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Investigated, researched, recommended and lead the implementation of commercial automated test tools and test scripts for regression testing of existing product functionality.
• Defined and Implemented the Software Development Life Cycle with process development meetings.
• Created Function Library for common functionality of the application.
• Involved in Smoke, Integration, Regression, System, and End-to-End & Black box testing.
• Developed and executed Test Plan & Test Script in Quality Center.
• Designed the Test Strategy for multiple projects, defect management using Quality Center.
• Performed through Database functionality tests and verified the Business Logic Implementation by constructing and executing several SQL statements.
• Developed and executed test cases using QC for Functional and Regression testing.
• Created user-defined functions and output values for the content builder and appliance by using QC.
• Performed xml data validation using assertion method in soap UI.
• Designed developed and implemented user acceptance testing cases and plans.
• Strong understanding of user acceptance testing protocols and methodologies
• Solid analysis of results and fine-tuning of developed applications to improve functionality
• Works closely with stakeholders and clients

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