SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience as Automation/Manual QA/Software Tester with involvement throughout Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and UFT on various operating systems and platforms using top leading testing tools HP Quality Center (QC, ALM), SQL and UFT.
• Hands on experience in using HP ALM, Quality Center, Rally, JIRA and Bugzilla.
• Excellent Ability to manually perform Functional testing, Integration testing, System Testing, Smoke Testing, Ad - Hoc testing, Sanity Testing & User-Acceptance Testing.
• Extensively experienced in performing Manual and Automation Testing using SeleniumWebdriver and Protractor using JavaScript
• Experienced in Quality Assurance &Software Testing with over 6 years performing Manual Testing using industry leading tools in Web applications and Client/Server environment
• Implemented functional and acceptance tests using Java, TestNG/Junit framework and also Cucumber framework using Behavior Driven Development (BDD) approach.
• Expertise in using HP Quality Center (QC, ALM)&Jira for Test, Defect Management
• Deep understanding and involvement throughout Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and intense development methodologies - Waterfall, Agile.
• Experienced in developing Test Plans, Test cases, Test Scripts, Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) based upon the business and functional requirements, Use Case, User Stories, RFP (Request for Proposals), Environment Infrastructure Design, Framework Design, User Guides on Automation Tools and ALM.
• Experience of using testing tools like Quality Center, Microsoft Test Manager(MTM), Visual Studio 2008/2010, Team Foundation Server
• In-depth knowledge of executing Structured Query Language (SQL) using SQL queries for Backend Testing against SQL Server and Oracle Databases
• Involved in maintaining Test Results, Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix and performing Gap Analysis
• Experienced in reporting bugs & UI flows using Defects tracking tools such as HP Quality Center (QC, ALM), and Jira .
• Have solid experience on database query tools such as TOAD, SQL Navigator, Teradata SQL Assistant, Rapid SQL, and SQL Plus.
• Strong skills in performing System, Acceptance, Web Services Testing, Integration, Regression, Front End and Back End Testing.
• Experience of using testing tools like Quality Center, Microsoft Test Manager(MTM), Visual Studio 2008/2010, Team Foundation Server
• Good documentation and Process Management skills with ability to effectively understand Business Requirements (BRD), Functional Requirement (FRD) and Flow Chart.
• Effective Time Management Skills and consistent ability to meet client/business deadlines
• Excellent interpersonal skills and team player with the ability to lead manage and work independently in a time sensitive environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Quality Center, Load Runner, MTM, QTP, ALM, DOORS, Soap UI, UFT

Web Technologies: 2EE (Java, Servlets, EJB, JSP), XML, HTML, .Net.

App Servers: Java Web Server, Apache Tomcat, IBM Web sphere 5.0, SharePoint

GUI Tools: Visual Basic 6.0, Developer 2000, MS Visio, MS Visio, Quality Center 9.2/ 10.0, TFS 2012, MTM2012, JIRA, Bugzilla, MS Office Suite (including 365)

Databases & RDBMS: ORACLE 7.X, 8, 9i, 10g, MySQL, MS Access, DB2, SQL Server

Scripts: T-SQL, VB script. JavaScript.

Operating Systems: WINDOWS 2000/2003/2008/2012 , UNIX, IBM Mainframe

Languages: C, C++, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, Ruby.

Networking: TCP/IP, FTP, ATM, Ethernet, LAN &WAN, UNIX Protocol, Frame Relay

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bethesda MD

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed standards for technical documents for Change Request documents and Test plans.
• After analyzing business and technical requirements, created, maintained and updated test cases and scripts for both manual and automation testing, ensuring complete coverage of functionality. For automation testing used UTP tool.
• Managed manual test passes/runs with TFS(team Foundation Server 2010)
• Involved in writing extensive SQL Queries for back end testing
• Performed Back-End Testing manually and using automated testing tool by executing SQL queries.
• Worked on different types of testing including Unit, System, Integration, Enterprise,End2End and Web services (SoapUIand Foundation views) testing, white box testing, Performance testing, black box testing, functional testing, regression testing etc.
• Performed web service, XML testing using SOAP UI.
• Modified and executed SQL queries to verify the dataflow from the backend.
• Used agile methodology to ensure the new features meet the customer requirements and acceptable quality assurance standards.
• Strong working knowledge of Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Microsoft Test Manager (MTM)on Visual Studio Team Foundation (VSTF) in managing product lifecycle.
• Developing various Test Scripts, Test Execution using ALM based on the Functional Specifications.
• Involved in validating the Data mart tables as per the business logic applied to the staging table.
• Developed Ab Initio test environment for UAT testing and used all Ab Initio components while testing the graphs and ran the jobs on back ground.
• Tested the ETL Ab Initio graphs and other ETL Processes (Data Warehouse Testing)
• Tested initial and daily loads for various Ab Initio graphs.
• Tested the functionality of Ab Initio graphs.
• Proficient in using Quality Center, Team Foundation Server, and Test Manager
• Used Ab Initio for ETL Testing of data from legacy systems.
• Worked with Testing of Flat File and XML data.
• Developed SQL queries for Back-end testing/Database testing and participated in end to end testing.
• All the defects in the WMS is logged in Test Director and attending the test case status meetings
• Working with various business stake holders to resolve the WMS testing issues.
• Performed System Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing.
• Prepared Traceability Matrix with requirements versus test cases.
• Created test suites and test cases usingSelenium for various scenarios in the application.
• Automated the Regression Testing using Selenium and TestNG
• Focused on creation and execution of TestNG tests with Java/TestNG and Selenium
• Performed Regression testing after every new build and User Acceptance testing (UAT) before every release. Performed testing on web services using SOAP UI 2.0 & 2.5
• Defined and tracked quality assurance metrics such as defects, defect counts, test results and test status.
• Experienced in Regression and Functional Testing. Customizing and generating multiple TFS reports to serve company needs.
• Involved in writing Test Plans and Test Cases in Microsoft’s Test Manager, based on system requirements.
• Performed Sanity testing, Smoke testing, Usability testing and Security testing of various applications.
• Prepared SQL scripts for test data preparation for Back End functionality testing.
• Performed Backend Testing to ensure the authentic retrieval of the data from the database.
• Used ALM for Bugs reporting and communicating to developers, product support and test team members.
• Performed positive testing and negative testing and performance testing.
• Identified, analyzed, and documented defects, errors, and inconsistencies in the application using UFT.
• Reported defects according to Defect Life Cycle.
• Testing multiple content controls that are created and incorporated in to TFS work item types.
• Coordinated with the developers on Defects Status on a regular basis.

Environment: NET Framework 4.0, 4.5.1, JIRA, AJAX, Jquery, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, SQL Server 2008 R2, Windows 7,SQL, Agile, Soap UI, Microsoft office, ALM, Windows, UFT, selenium.

Confidential - Warren, NJ

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed System specification documents, Business requirement document and created Test Plan, Test Scenario, Test Cases and Test Procedures for manual testing.
• Actively participated for UAT testing.
• Automated the process of software deployment to initial base line testing using MTM (Microsoft Test Manager)
• Documented the modification requests and defects and their trailing history using JIRA and MS TFS.
• Conducted Manual Testing on different mobile Operating System from such as iOS and Android.
• Performed static testing on the mobile application.
• Developing an in-house add-ins called ‘Team for word’ to integrate MS-word to TFS and ‘Team Explorer’ to integrate MS-Excel to TFS.
• Worked on Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) to effectively manage the product life cycle.
• UsedTFSto report bugs and to maintain product backlog items.
• Performed Smoke and Sanity Testing and performance testing.
• Followed the Agile methodology for the entire SDLC.
• Performed extensively on Microsoft Office Suite 2010 and testing against the applications.
• Determined test requirements and developed test scripts for positive and negative test scenarios.
• High Level Test Plans were written by incorporating User Profiles, Configurations, Environments, Risks, Test Scenarios, Schedules and Analysis and Presentation of Results.
• Coordinated with various teams for different testing activities on a project. Prepared daily and weekly reports for the project progress.
• Performed exploratory testing on MTM for early bug detection and defect management
• Defect reporting was done using VSTS/ TFS2005 and 2008 and were tested against seed database and populated databases for issue replication and verification.
• Used QTP to conduct the functionality testing during different phases of the development.
• Responsible for inserting Check points to verify Functionality of the application using QTP.
• Used XML to fetch some objects from repositories.
• Used SOAP protocol and XML make the possible exchange of information successfully.

Environment: Windows, Oracle, SQL, TFS/VS 2008, MS Office, Quality Center, UNIX, QTP.

Confidential, Texas

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the requirements and defined Scope, Milestones, designed Business Model and documenting a System Test Plan for the Project.
• Identified Testing Limitations, Boundary Conditions and setup of Test Environment and identified the high-risk points and the priorities of the application.
• Analyzed use cases and specifications to identify the test cases and prepared functional test plans for different modules of the application.
• Extensively worked on handling the application response for Positive and Negative sets of data using Data Driven Testing.
• Developed Load Test Scripts by using LoadRunner8.1 VuGen and did the Parameterization, Pacing, and correlation.
• Customizing and generating multiple TFS reports to serve company needs.
• Did Runtime Settings in VuGen and included various Checkpoints while recording the user scripts.
• Correlated dynamically created session data in load test scripts in VuGen to synchronize with application.
• Configured various parameters to monitor the windows resources for various servers in LoadRunner8.1 Controller and created end scenarios in the Controller.
• Defined Rendezvous points to create intense load on the server and thereby to measure the server performance under load.
• Analyzed the results of the Load test using the Load Runner8.1 Analysis tool and monitored various graphs (Throughput, Hits/sec, Transaction Response Time, etc.) while executing scripts from Controller.
• Configured Production Server System settings on Load Test lab Servers and executed performance testing scenarios using Loadrunner8.1 Controller by creating 500 virtual users.
• Developed complex SQL queries to perform Database testing.
• Created stub files using XML, to test the interface between the systems.
• Used QTP extensively to create test scripts for functional testing and performed data driven testing on QTP scripts and enhanced the overall functionality of the application.
• Used Bugzilla as a bug tracking tool.
• Analyze business users so as to perform the UAT testing and worked closely with the software development team to quickly resolve bugs.
• Participated in the Go/No-go meetings.

Environment: HP LoadRunner8.1, Bugzilla, TFS/VS 2008, VB Script, QTP, Rest, UNIX, SQL, Manual Test.

Confidential, NY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in complete QA Life Cycle.
• Analyzed the user requirements and interacted with system architect, developers and business users.
• Tested Performance Point Services and compatibility of the SharePoint applications and managed metadata service.
• Prepared test plans using TFS for each release, written test cases and executed them as part of functional testing. Prepared test reports and deliverables and submitted for version releases
• Developed test plans, test cases, test scenarios using the Quality Center, QCand prepared test data.
• Prepared Test Cases for GUI application.
• Automated test scenarios for GUI, Functionality, Integration, Database, Boundary, Security and Regression Testing using WinRunner
• Worked on the high-level framework, identifying the functional areas and created different functions to make the scripts reusable in WinRunner.
• Prepared test scripts using WinRunner with checkpoints using regular expressions for handling windows with different names.
• Executed the Performance testing Using Load Runner to analyze the behavior of the application under different load conditions.
• Analyzed results Using Load Runner Analysis tool and analyzed Oracle database connections, Sessions, Web logic log files. Issues relating to Indexes, Connection Pools and Garbage collections, Memory heap size etc. and bottlenecks were identified and rectified by changing configurations, adding Indexes etc.
• Detected Defects, Communicated to the developers using Bug Reporting Tool and Tracking the Defects using Quality Center.
• Analyzed and Reported the Defects to the Developers using Quality Center.
• Extensively used Quality Center, for test planning, bug tracking and reporting.
• Uploaded Business requirements, test scenarios, test cases and defects for MS Excel to Quality Center
• Memory Leaks were identified in Different components. Protocol to Protocol Response times, Web Page breakdowns, Components sizes were analyzed and reported.
• Actively involved in performing functionality, unit and integration tests.
• Cases to test the backend Database by retrieving the data for the tables using SQL
• Expertise in QA Testing in distributed Unix/Windows Environment and Oracle databases as back end & performed end-to-end testing.
• Reported the bugs, Emailed notifications to the developers using the Quality Center.
• Participated in Walkthroughs and Defect report meetings periodically.

Environment: Win Runner, Load Runner, Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, UNIX, Windows NT/XP, Sybase.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed and executed Test plan and Test cases based on FSD and User Stories
• Reviewed business plan (User Stories) with Business Analyst and Project Manager
• Involved in Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Developed and executed test cases for XML/SOAP and RESTFUL services using SOAPUI tool
• In Agile environment, attended daily standup meetings, SCRUM meeting, reviewed user stories
• Effectively tracked and reported bugs using tools like Jira, Quality Centre, and Web Portal
• Developed and Executed Test Cases in Version One Tool
• Validated reports by executing SQL queries and compared the data using File comparison tool Exam DiffWorked on the high-level framework, identifying the functional areas and created different functions to make the scripts reusable in WinRunner.
• Experience working with Web Services using SOAPUI tools to validate XML request and response using different methods
• Executed Load runner VUGen scripts using Load Runner Controller and generated results and emailed to Performance Testing
• Practical experience on HP Quality Centre (ALM) Application Life Cycle Management, Microsoft Test Management (MTM)
• Improved the documentation of QA testing practices to enhance their repeatability, saving time and money and encouraging testing standardization and best practices.
• Involved in Complete Software Testing Life Cycle and Software Development Life Cycle.
• Well versed in analyzing Requirements, System Specifications, User-Cases and Technical specifications
• Knowledge in Agile and Waterfall environments
• Experience in UNIX/LINUX, FTP (file transfer protocol), Executing shell scripts
• Proficient in test execution and management of testing defects
• Tested all modules - Patient Management, Doctor, Admin and Insurance Claims
• Extensively worked as a QA (Quality Assurance) Analyst in Web applications, Client Server Applications and Database Systems for different software domains
• Good team player with excellent analytical, inter-personal, communication, and written skills, problem-solving, and trouble-shooting capabilities. Highly motivated and can adapt to work under challenging environment

Environment: Unix, Linux, Windows, SQL, VB Scripting, Reliability Testing, Feature Testing, Acceptance Testing, Stress Testing, Load Testing, Functionality Testing, Validation, System Testing, Agile, HP Quickest Professional, HP Quality Center