SUMMARY

• 7 years of expertise in Quality Assurance with both technical and management skills
• Ability to hit the ground running and complete projects of high importance with high priority to deadlines.
• In - depth understanding of the entire software testing life cycle in both Waterfall and Agile projects.
• Practiced in reducing project costs through innovative automation architectural designs in QTP using descriptive programming for keyword-driven, and hybrid frameworks.
• Expert in automated testing as well as in manual testing using tools such as UFT, Confidential Quick Test Professional (QTP), ALM, selenium web driver, Confidential Quality Center, JMeter, Rationale Quality Manager, and SOAP UI.
• Ability to understand the inner workings of Unit testing.
• Experienced in interfacing with customers, executive management, and cross-functional teams.
• Proven excellence in problem resolution, delegating and empowering direct reports. Ability to multi-task and adjust for rapidly changing priorities and schedule disruptions.
• Exemplary team building communication skills, timely, result oriented, and a passion for creative innovation.
• Experienced in conducting black box/gray box testing for client-Servers, multi-tier and web based applications.
• Can conduct functional, load, smoke, GUI, integration, and regression testing to name a few.
• Ability to discuss content management system workflows in collaborative environments with managers.
• Allocate work flow to my team for monthly regression projects use ODBC connections to relay QC to QTP.
• Expertise in writing system test plans, modifying test strategies, test design specification, defining test case specifications, test procedures, registering expected results, and maintaining test scripts using ALM.
• Experienced in testing middleware.
• Experienced in performing Back end testing using SQL queries for database management.
• Talented in authoring formal/peer reviews, train team members, conduct walkthrough inspections, creating user guides, documentation & presentations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: ALM/Quality Center, MS Project, Sharepoint, JMeter, JIRA, QTP, SOAP UI

Scripting Languages: UNIX Shell scripting, VB Script, Excel

Methodologies/Techniques: Agile - Sprint (Scrum), Design Patterns, Waterfall, SWOT analysis, GAP

Operating System: Windows, UNIX, DOS

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle, Microsoft Access/Excel, DB2

Java Technologies: JSP, EJB, JDBC, Java Script, and Visual Age.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Fort Collins, CO

QA Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Project team lead for several different business applications, responsible for coordinating several teams and successful project completions.
• Maintained program andplans; manage tasks to completion; identify and coordinate issues and risks; provide weekly management status.
• Experienced in projectdefinition, projectplanning & priority setting, project tracking, delegating.
• Creating SQL queries to generate reports using ALM Quality Center as part of required technical assistance.
• Provide weekly management status; hold meetings and coordinate problem resolutions with multiple groups.
• Establish and maintain customer relationships, build trust and respect by consistently meeting and exceeding client/customer expectations.

Confidential, Fort Collins, CO

Senior Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for introducing and maintaining an automation program at this location of the Confidential .
• Create automation frameworks from the ground up using VB Scripts and storing the data in Quality Center/ALM.
• Produce validations, project status reports and documentation of the entire automation process.
• Worked in automating processes of Electronic data interchange (purchase orders, invoices)
• Automation and load testing using tools such as QTP, Jmeter, and Visual Studios.
• Part of the process of introducing Rationale Quality Manager to the team.
• Develop and maintain Data-driven, Keyword-driven, and Hybrid Frameworks for automation using QTP.
• Experienced in customizing Scripts with Parameterization, Check Point, Library Files, Regular Expression etc.
• Produce regular project status reports to senior management to ensure on-time project launch.
• Work in both Agile and Waterfall methods.
• Recorded scripts using selenium ide
• Integrated maven for build management.
• Create scripts that are used in cross browser testing.
• Develop and document requirements traceability matrix, defect reporting, tracking and analyzed the entire system based on the design specification.
• Write SQL queries to make sure that data entered has been uploaded correctly into the database tables.
• Responsible for writing Startup scripts and Compiled Module Functions for front and backend validation.
• Testing web applications for broken links and HTML for java capability by isolating points of failure in application.

Environment: Automation testing, Manual testing, UAT, Facets, UFT/QTP, ALM/Quality Center, VB Script, Agile (Scrum), Oracle, SQL, TOAD, Java, Pega, J2EE, Java Script, HTML, XML, Web Sphere, EDI, HIPAA, MS Office and Windows XP.

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an automation tester for a healthcare client.
• Performed acceptance testing using Cucumber.
• Used Functional Libraries Object repositories and Descriptive programming techniques in QTP.
• Used JMeter, and SOAP UI for functional and load testing.
• Multiple projects including health care and financial systems.
• Created robust, browser-based regression automation and circulated scripts on various environments.
• Used CMS for web-based publishing, version control and information retrieval.
• Applied business rules for web components to create scripts with data driven methodologies.
• Enhanced test scripts using checkpoints, output values, parameterization and programming logic.
• Accountable for managing testing strategies, efficient folder structure, error handling techniques and Analysis.
• Worked in shared environments to test different applications and verify the new or upgraded applications.
• Worked closely with software developers and take an active role in identifying system verifications for real world cases to make sure the software components meet the highest quality standards.
• Monitored and administer hardware capacity to ensure availability of necessary resources for testing.
• Implemented Confidential ALM/Quality Center for running Test sets in batch mode and analyze test results.
• Created Driver Scripts in Quality Center to run the Sanity; Use Scheduler to run scripts at a particular time.
• Ensured that quality issues are identified, analyzed, documented, tracked and resolved in Quality Center/ALM.
• Performed cross browser testing to ensure compatibility of the application on Internet Explorer and Firefox.
• Bug tracking and Test management tools like ALM’s requirements module.
• Authored reporting weekly project condition to the project manager and the team lead.

Environment: Automation testing, Manual testing, UAT, Facets, UFT/QTP, ALM/Quality Center, VB Script, Agile (Scrum), Oracle, SQL, TOAD, Java, J2EE, Java Script, HTML, XML, Web Sphere, EDI, HIPAA, MS Office and Windows XP.

Confidential, Washington, D.C

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed application testing in Agile, Waterfall and iterative models.
• Performed negative and positive testing for the application using vbscripting.
• Performed various types of testing including GUI, functional, regression, integration, system, User acceptance testing, performance, security and configuration testing.
• Develop and maintain Manual and QTP Automation Tests through Quality Center/ALM.
• Exported Web tables, Test Data Tables using QTP to make Keyword Driven, Data Driven, and Hybrid scripts.
• Performed back-end testing using SQL queries to ensure accurate information is uploaded to the SQL database.
• Created Test input requirements and prepared the test data and test scripts in QTP for data driven testing.
• Responsible for installing QTP and QC in the development and staging/UAT environments.
• Participated in bug review meetings on behalf of the QA team and interacted with UAT team to solve defects.
• Involved in writing of modification reports for errors identified in testing and clearly communicated

Environment: Automation testing, Manual testing, QTP, Quality Center, UAT, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, TOAD, XML, MS Office, MS Windows.

Confidential, Chevy Chase, MD

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing Test cases according to the SRS with 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.

Environment: Automation testing, Manual testing, QTP, Test Director, VB0, ASP, SQL Server, Windows.