SUMMARY

• Around 8 years of experience as Automation/Manual QA/Software Tester with involvement throughout Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and QTP/UFT on various operating systems and platforms using top leading testing tools HP Quality Center (QC, ALM), SQL and QTP/UFT
• Experienced in Quality Assurance & Software Testing with over 6 years performing Manual Testing using industry leading tools in Web applications and Client/Server environment
• 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 UFT
• 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, Environment Infrastructure Design, Framework Design, User Guides on Automation Tools and ALM.
• Involved in maintaining Test Results, Test Matrix and Traceability Matrix and performing Gap Analysis
• Good documentation and Process Management skills with ability to effectively understand Business Requirements (BRD), Functional Requirement (FRD), Flow Chart to develop quality QA Artifacts and product.
• 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

Operating System: MS Windows XP Professional, Vista, 7 & 8

Testing Tools: HP ALM,QTP/UFT

Other Tools: MS Word, Excel

Databases: SQL, Oracle

Languages: Visual Basic

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MN

QA Tester/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed requirements, functional specification, and the required documents for testing.
• Performed Functional Testing, White Box, Black Box, System, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Conducted elaborate manual testing on test cases and provided feedback to the development team.
• Managed weekly meetings with the QA team to obtain status, gather innovative ideas for continuous process improvements and delegate work load.
• Collaborated with Business System Analysts and internal stakeholders to create test scenarios.
• Attended use case and technical specifications review sessions with product and architecture teams to provide feedback in the elaboration phase.
• Created test plans outlining the scope, approach, schedule, resources and deliverables.
• Developed test case template and implement the template within the testing team to write test cases in a systemic basis.
• Identified testing methodology for load, stress testing based on the business processes and analyzed the business requirements along with Product Manager.
• Administered the Load Test and Analyze test result using LR analysis to pin point the bottle neck and reported to development team.
• Generated daily status reports, weekly reports, defect reports and testing summary Reports.
• Maintained professional and close relation with the peer members as well as other teams.
• Extensively involved in testing the application manually for the Functional and Systems Integration test efforts.
• Automated test scenarios for GUI, Functionality and performed data driven testing on the application inserting different data in excel sheet using QTP/UFT.
• Knowledge of Test Automation using QTP/UFT
• Prepared automated scripts for Maintenance and Regression testing using QTP.
• Followed Scrum (Agile) methodology for testing the application.
• Used BDD framework with Cucumber, Java and created feature files with scenario and scenario outline.
• Created various Custom functions using VB scripting in QTP/UFT
• Extensively used the HP Quality Center tool for all thetestmanagementactivities like Release Planning, TestPlanning,Testcase Execution, Requirement Traceability and Reporting.
• Created various test sets for different test cycles within Test Lab module of HP ALM/Quality Center.

Environment: Quality Center (QC), Windows NT, SQL, MS Access, SQL Server, Oracle, QTP/UFT, SoapUI, Agile,SCRUM

Confidential, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• PerformedFunctional testing, GUI testing and Regression testing
• Developed the lower level business requirements from higher-level functional business requirements.
• Involved in development of Test Plan and Test Specifications as per clients business requirements.
• Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed Test case for System Testing.
• Manually checked the important features of the application before going for automation testing.
• Created Object checkpoints to verifying object physical properties on various builds for regression tests using QTP/UFT
• Updated Object Repository to make the change propagated across all scripts that reference the changed objects.
• Validated the data in the database using database checkpoints.
• Created standard, Text, Bitmap Checkpoints to verifying object physical properties on various builds for regression tests using QTP/UFT.
• Involved in analyzing and feasibility check of a newly added functionality for automation. Design and implement Hybrid Driven Framework approach using Selenium Web Driver.
• Used SVN tool for Source code management and also used Selenium Grid for parallel, Batch Test Execution.
• Reported and tracked testing progress in the bug tracking system Test Director.
• Interacted with developers to report software bugs and re-tested the fixed issues.
• Troubleshoot new releases and production issues.
• Performed data driven tests using Quick Test Pro’s Data Table (an integrated spreadsheet), manipulated the Data set to create multiple Test Scenarios, and imported data into Data Tables from a Database using SQL queries to check the application’s Database consistency and in and out flow of data.
• Participated in QA weekly meetings and various other meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification Request issues and defects in the application.

Environment:, QC, Windows NT, QTP/UFT, Regression Testing,MS Office

Confidential, KY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system Requirements specification & Functional requirements specifications to understand Business rules of Application.
• Interacted with Developers and Business Analysts to perform various types of testing throughout Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Bug Life Cycle (BLC)
• Performed Functional Testing, Regression Testing, HP Quality Center (QC) Administrative & Project Customization as per request from PMs
• Wrote Test Cases, tracked Bugs and created Reports using HP Quality Center (QC)
• Reported Defects using HP Quality Center (QC) and followed up with developers to discuss updates about Defects Status and Regression Testing
• Conducted Manual and Regression Testing for each Build and Version
• Conducted Functionality & Cross-Browsing Testing for checking GUI, web forms, links and transaction verifications, and as well in the back-end Databases
• Used SQL queries to write stored procedures, Joins, Functions, Views for Backend testing System

Environment: Windows 7, Windows XP,, ALM, QC, SQL

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in manual testing.
• Analyzed Functional Requirement & High level Design documents to Prepare and execute the test cases and end-end scenarios.
• Performed functional, regression, UAT, cross browser testing in different operating systems like windows, Unix and Mac.
• Conducted regular reviews to enhance the test cases.
• Involved in Run test Plan, Test cases & Test Execution.
• Interacted with other QA Team members to discuss the issues before reporting them to development.
• Reported the defects to the development team in Quality centre.
• Maintained Test Logs and Test Summary Reports.
• Mostly Focused on Regression Testing.
• Supported technical issues for the product, post go live.
• Participated in all review meetings.
• Participated in daily stand up meetings, sprint planning meeting and retrospective meeting.

Environment: MSSQL, Quality center, MS-Office, UNIX, IE, Chrome, Firefox, Agile.