OBJECTIVE:

• Seeking a position in Software QA/Testing field, wif an organization that promotes professional growth and advancement

SUMMARY

• Over Five Years of Information Technology experience in Software Quality Assurance and Quality Control wif exceptional skill in improving the Quality of the Product by implementing QA Practices and Test Automation.
• Good knowledge in various stages of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle) and QA methodologies from project definition to post - deployment documentation.
• Having experience on test methodology like Waterfall, V Model & Agile methodology.
• Good experience in developing Test Cases and Test Scripts for manual and automation testing.
• Expertise in Test plan formulation from Functional Requirement Documents, Business requirements and Use Case diagrams etc.
• Experienced in different phases of Testing like Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Backend Testing, Black Box Testing and UAT.
• Good exposure on tools like UFT, QuickTest Pro (QTP), Selenium, and ALM/Quality Center.
• Experienced in recording requirements, test cases in HPALM/Quality Center.
• Proficient in Bug tracking and reporting using the test management tools like HPALM/Quality Center, Jira.
• Experienced in data integrity testing by executing SQL statements and manually verifying the contents.
• Extensively experienced in generating Automated Tests for functional testing using tools like UFT/QTP.
• Experienced in testing Web site for any broken Links and tested HTML for Java compatibility using UFT/QTP.
• Expertise in developing external custom functions using VBScript and using Descriptive Programming for UFT/QTP.
• Expertise in designing solid Automation Framework where test scripts were reusable and easily maintained in QTP.
• Experienced in tracking test activities, Data Management, Daily status tracking reports, Status Calls and meetings, Meeting time lines, tracking weekly goals.
• Strong understanding and experience in working on different architectures - Client Server, Web based and GUI based systems, and applications.
• Ability to interact wif all levels of personnel from technical to high level executive management.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication & writing skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Vienna, VA

Automation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Created keyword driven and hybrid frameworks using UFT.
• Inserted verification checkpoints, synchronization points, and parameterized data using UFT.
• Implemented keyword driven framework and Regular expression feature in the object repository using UFT.
• Verified the functionality of integrated, multi-environment enterprise solutions using UFT.
• Developed automated scripts for testing the functionality and navigation of the application using UFT.
• Conducted requirement analysis and use-case analysis.
• Participated in Functional and Design Review meetings of conversion components.
• Involved in Test Design, Test plan and preparing Test Results for each executed component.
• Designed and developed positive and negative test cases using HP ALM and executed based on functional requirements.
• Recorded scripts using Selenium IDE
• Responsible for creating Integration, System, Regression and UAT test cases and test execution of functional features.
• Prepared Test Cases wif the complete description of requirements of client Create Test Cases and executed the test cases using HP ALM.
• Regularly executed SOAP/REST WebService test suite
• Connected remotely to UNIX servers using PUTTY and FTP files across different test environments by using Hummingbird and Command prompt.
• Executed the UNIX shell scripts that invoked SQL loader to load data into tables.
• Worked wif other development team members to better understand system functionality in order to improve testing quality.
• Involved in gathering specifications and requirements from development personnel prior to automating testing.
• Performed Regression Testing wif help of scripts written in UFT.
• Used QTP to validate links, objects, images and text on Web pages continue to function properly.
• Co-ordinate the offshore team to share the requirement document and to write the test cases and execute test case.
• Performed Smoke, Ad-hoc, System, Integration, Regression and UAT testing based on test scenarios developed.
• Created test data based on the different scenarios to test Object provisioning and migrations

Confidential - Washington, DC

SQA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirement Document, Technical Specification Document.
• Designed test scenarios reviewing the Requirements and Design documents.
• Developed Test strategy document defining the test environment, phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria into different phases of testing through Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Performed Functional, System, Integration and Regression Testing. Responsible for maintaining Requirements, Test Cases and Defect tracking using Quality Center.
• Customized project in Quality Center as per the application requirements.
• Performed back end testing using SQL queries.
• Developed automated regression test scripts using QTP.
• Designed, Developed and Maintained the Centralized Object Repository in QTP.
• Developed driver script to run QTP scripts in a batch mode.
• Prepared Requirement Traceability matrix for test coverage.
• Participated in various reviews and meetings wif the Development and Business Teams.
• Provided Weekly/Monthly Status reports to immediate manager and business team.
• Executed manual and automated test cases/scripts and verified results wif expected results.
• Responsible for creating test metrics and maintaining defects, creating the coverage matrix for test cases.
• Escalated and communicated critical defects and quality issues to design and development teams.

Confidential - Mclean, VA

Software QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing Test cases according to the SRS wif the help of Test Plans, and executed tests for bug tracking and Test Summary Reports.
• Developed and executed various Manual Testing Scenarios for documentation and attend bug review meetings.
• Comprehensively used MS Office tools to document and report errors.
• Wrote T-SQL queries to verify the database tables for the data inserted from the GUI.
• Retested the modifications, once bugs are fixed after reinstalling the application using QTP.
• Developed test scripts for execution to perform Functional testing, System testing, Regression testing and Business objects reports testing using QTP.
• Established production scale base line for selected applications using automated Quick Test Pro.
• Verified the integration of various application components to execute end-to-end testing