SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience in software testing, quality assurance and automation testing in client/server, Desktop and web - based applications.
• Proficient in working with testing tools like Mercury Interactive/HP Test Suite (Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, WinRunner and LoadRunner), Selenium and soapUI.
• Experience with Team Foundation Server (TFS) in both manual and automation testing.
• Designed and executed Test Plans, Test cases, Test Strategies, Test Scenarios using Quality center/Test Director, TFS and MS Office.
• Solid knowledge of software installation and maintenance of testing tools.
• Logging and tracking defects and measuring the testing effort and the quality of the software by creating reports in Quality Center, TFS.
• Thorough understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), TLC and Development Methodologies like Waterfall, V-model and Agile Methodologies.
• Extensive QA experience in all phases of life cycle, including Requirements Analysis, Project Planning, Testing, Defect Tracking, Management and Reporting.
• Experience in Quality Center Administration.
• Experienced in Designing and executing automation scripts using Selenium.
• Involved in developing utility scripts in QTP for requirement to test case mapping and customized execution reports.
• Well experienced in all kinds of testing - Black Box Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, UAT Testing, Load Testing, Performance Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Compatibility Testing, UI Testing
• Experienced in load testing Using Load runner.
• Developed VB Scripts to automate various repetitive processes and procedures.
• Significant experience with PVCS Version Manager. Managed Bug Reports in Quality Center/PVCS Tracker.
• Written and executed SQL queries and stored procedures for Back-end database testing and expertise in using the DB tools like SQL plus, TOAD, SQL Developer, SQL Server Management studio.
• Understands the technology solution from an end-user perspective and suggests improvements to the solution based on an understanding of end user requirements.
• Experienced in handling & resolving the requests as per defined SLA.
• Prepared Acceptance criteria, Risk analysis, Stake Holder reports, Build deployment checklist, Build acceptance checklist, Test Summary Report for every build release.
• Excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Efficient and versatile team player with a positive approach to all tasks.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows XP/NT/ 2000/2003/2008 , Solaris 8/9/10, UNIX

Languages: VBScript, C, Html, XML, SQL, T-SQL, Java Script, WSDL, XQuery, Ruby

Databases: Oracle 9i/10g/11g, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 , DB2, MS Access, Sybase

Testing Tools: Test Director, Quality Center, Team Foundation Server, Quick Test Pro, Selenium, Load Runner, Win Runner, SoapUI

Testing Procedures: Functional, Regression, System and Integration/Unit/Black Box, Smoke, UAT, Performance/Load/Stress, Ad-hoc

Defect Trackers: Test Director, Quality Center, TFS, Clear Quest, JIRA, Rational requisite Pro, PVCS Tracker

Other Softwares: MS Office, TOAD, PUTTY, SQL Developer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Testing Cycle to develop test documentation including but not limited to test plans, test cases, test scripts corresponding to business and technical rules as required by the corporate policy and SDLC deliverables lists.
• Identify various scenarios for functional and integration testing.
• Developing test plans, test cases and executing them in Quality Center.
• Reviewing test cases written for integration and functional testing as per scenarios created.
• Performed Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Smoke, UAT, Security and Ad-hoc testing on various Confidential systems.
• Performed Quality center Administrative tasks like creating new users, allocating user rights, managing flows, requirements, test cases, test scripts and tracking defects for validity, accuracy and clarity.
• Created Automation test framework using Selenium.
• Developed and maintained automated regression test cases in Selenium Web Driver using Java programming language
• Created and enhanced numerous test scripts to handle changes in the objects, in the tested application’s GUI and in the testing environment using Selenium.
• Tests developed in Eclipse to start and to stop the selenium server and to execute the tests in browser.
• Performed integration, regression, smoke, UAT, ad-hoc testing on various Confidential systems.
• Creating Excel, SQL reports in Quality center dashboard.
• Performed GUI testing to check whether the application complies with the User interface standards.
• Work closely with other testers and developers to improve automated framework with bug fixes and feature requests.
• Participated in software requirements, specification reviews and project scope assessment.
• Facilitate defect triage meetings, provided status reports and defects reports at various project stages.
• Involved in Setting and configuring test environment, test data and test scripts.
• Facilitated and worked closely with business owners to accomplish UAT cycle.
• Extensively used SQL Queries and PL/SQL in Oracle databases in Solaris environment.

Environment: Quality center 10, Selenium1.2, Windows 2003/2008, Solaris 9, Oracle 9i/10g/11g, SQL Plus and Toad

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Sr. Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed manual and automation testing for various Desk Top, .Net applications, web applications and Site Products.
• Developed Test cases based on the test requirements.
• Created Excel import templates to speed up the requirements and test cases entry tasks in Quality Center. Mapped each testable requirement to test cases as well as each defect back to requirement.
• Execute Test Cases in Quality Center, TFS for various systems.
• Involved in Black box testing and conducted Performance testing, Multi user testing, System testing, UAT testing and Regression testing.
• Performed GUI testing to check whether the application complies with the User interface standards.
• Generated Test Analysis Reports and graphs using Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center and TFS for managing test execution and defect tracking.
• Responsible for user acceptance testing of the applications.
• Preparing Traceability matrix and uploaded it in Quality Center.
• Extensively performed Interactive Voice Response (IVR) testing for Confidential systems.
• Automated Test Case scenarios using Quick Test Pro and developed automated scripts for regression testing.
• Enhanced Test scripts using VB Script and developed QTP descriptive programs.
• Parameterized test scripts for Data Driven testing in Quick Test Pro.
• Developed reusable components and shared object repositories and function libraries in QTP.
• Extensively involved in back-end database testing using SQL scripts to check the data consistency, data integrity in the application and database.
• Managed developing source code using PVCS, TFS.
• Involved in performing load tests using HP LoadRunner on web-based applications.
• Created virtual users in Load runner to validate the performance of system.
• Created Load Runner Scenarios and Scheduled the Virtual users to generate realistic load on the server.
• Coordinated with database administrators and System engineers for Load test monitoring.
• Used Load Runner to generate the Test reports and graphs to analyze the application Performance.
• Involved in preparing Release notes for different projects based on company standards.
• Worked closely with Senior Quality Engineers, Development Engineers, along with Business Analysts to define requirements and measure successes.
• Conducted smoke tests on various applications after deployments.
• Preparing daily issue sheet and sending it to client clarification.

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, QTP 10, LoadRunner 9.1, Windows Server 2003/2008, Netscape, IE, PVCS, TFS, Oracle 10g/11g and SQL Server 2005/2008, Sybase

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Test cases/scripts and uploaded Business Requirement Documents and Use Cases into Test Director.
• Uploading & Associating Test Cases in Test Director.
• Performed GUI, Functionality, Integration and Regression testing using Quality center and Win runner.
• Involved in developing utility scripts in QTP for requirement to test case mapping and customized execution reports.
• Performed SOA / Web Services testing using soapUI.
• Created Testsuites, TestCases for SOAP webservices in soapUI.
• Responsible for the execution of the regression and new features scripts for every build and release and analyzing the results and summarizing the execution report.
• Executed test cases and documented the actual results.
• Conducted different types of Testing Functional, Integration and Regression.
• Developed functions and stored procedures and VB Scripts to validate the outputs and logs and data.
• Involved in conversion of large-scale applications using complex mappings in fast changing environment.
• Developed numerous automated test scripts using Win Runner, Created GUI Map Files.
• Opened bugs using Test Director and closed them after the test execution.
• Performed front end as well as back end testing for Validation of application.
• Involved in Writing SQL queries to validate the data.
• Attended systems requirements meetings and design review meetings.

Environment: Windows 2003, MS Office, Test Director 7.6, soapUI1.6, Quick test pro 6.5, winRunner and SQL Server 2000.

Confidential

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participated in software requirements, specification reviews and project scope assessment.
• Facilitate defect triage meetings, provided status reports and defects reports at various project stages.
• Involved in Setting and configuring test environment, test data and test scripts.
• Experience over performance testing to monitor throughput of various systems.
• Worked with team to perform Load/Stress tests to predict system behavior and performance using Load Runner.
• Created user defined functions in library for test scripts and added to virtual user generator of Load Runner.
• Executed Test scripts using controller of Load runner.
• Created Excel import templates to speed up the requirements and test cases entry tasks in Test Director. Mapped each testable requirement to test cases as well as each defect back to requirement.
• Facilitated and worked closely with business owners to accomplish UAT cycle.
• Involved in conversion of large-scale applications using complex mappings in fast changing environment.
• Developed TSL scripts for all the test cases to be tested manually and automated using Win Runner for functionality, integration, component and regression testing, documented and Analyzed Test Results
• Developed numerous automated test scripts using Win Runner, Created GUI Map Files.