SUMMARY

• Six years plus of diversified QA experience in Financial, Health & IT industry, developed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts and Test Reports, manual and Automated testing for both Client/Server and Web applications, API and Web Services. Specialized in Oracle, SQL, UNIX and Test automation using Quick Test Pro.
• Extensive experience in writing Test Plans, Test objectives, Test strategy, Test environment, Test cases, pre - conditions and expected results by analyzing System Design Specification (SDS), Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Specification.
• Experience in writing RTM, Test Specification, Test Summary report, Defect Summary report and Test Case Documents as well as estimations and resource planning.
• Extensive experience and expertise in the Software Quality Assurance and Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Good knowledge and experience in Web Based and Client-Server applications testing.
• Practiced the SEI CMMI Level 3 quality procedures.
• Expertise in Manual Testing, Automated Testing, Business Functionality Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing/CAT, Black box and Backend Testing using simple to complex SQL queries for verifying and validating data.
• Extensively worked on both Manual and Automated Testing using tools such as Quality Center (Test Director), WinRunner, and QuickTest Pro.
• Proficient in SQL, PL/SQL, T SQL and UNIX commands.
• Assisted in Project Management activities like Feasibility Analysis, Business and Program Analysis, Business Continuity Plan, Project Plan, preparation of Design, Detailed Design to ensure timely completion along with satisfactory results.
• Good experience in technical knowledge transfer to other developers and testers.
• Excellent communication, documentation and organization skills with the ability to adapt to new environment.
• Ability to quickly master new concepts, applications and open to learning new technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: UNIX, LINUX and Windows

Testing Tools: HP Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, IBM Rational RequisiteProIBM ClearQuest, ClearCase, Rational TestManager & SOAP UI

Hardware: HP-9000, Sun, and IBM Compatible PC

Application: Microsoft Office Suite & PeopleSoft

Language: J2EE, XML, ASP, Java, JavaScript, VB Script, PL/SQL, C++

Graphical: User Interface Visual Basic.NET, C#.NET, JFC and Java Swing

RDBMS: Oracle, MS-SQL Server, and MS-Access

Web Server: Oracle iplanet web server, WebLogic, Apache and IIS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, DC

Senior Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involve in requirement analysis and develop test plans/test cases for end-to-end system testing, functional and regression tests and support application through implementation
• Working closely with the business analyst, testers, and developers to create and execute test cases derived from design specifications and product requirements; performing manual testing and automated testing, identifying and logging defects found in testing and retesting to verify defect resolution
• Experienceinfull project and software development lifecycle, includingALM, Agile methodologies
• Design and implement test procedures for verifying that software products function as per customer needs
• Strive to achieve 100% test coverage and implement the best test techniques for ultimate test results
• Maintain QA and CMMI level 3 related documentation and responsible for creating traceability between the requirements and the test cases in Quality Center
• Execute the test cases and logging defects in Quality Center
• Perform various types of testing e.g.: Smoke, Sanity, System, Functional, Cross Browser and Compatibility and Back-ward Compatibility testing
• Perform browser installation testing and run negative test cases for Globalization testing
• Identify regression test defects during the various phases of testing
• Perform Customer Acceptance Testing in the CAT environment
• Responsible for executing/maintaining automated test scripts, documentation and reporting of test results
• Participate in the enhancement of VB Scripts for Automation by adding checkpoints such as (GetRoProperties) and verifications point and further debugging scripts and analyzing results
• Parameterize the scripts to use different data sets in HP QuickTest Pro
• Execute SQL queries to the Source Tables and to the Staging Tables to ensure required data is present and retrievable using SQL developer for Oracle
• Responsible for writing SQL queries to find out data is correctly populated in each field
• Perform Backend Testing using SQL queries
• Work in a team environment performing varied daily task that requires effective communication with project manager, developers and business analyst
• Provide daily system testing status report to management including Test Summary report and Defect Summary report.
• Responsible for mentoring and training team members on the Software Development Life Cycle, test practices such as test script writing and execution, defect management and Agile testing methods.

Environment: Agile, J2EE, Windows, UNIX, Oracle 10g, HP Quality Center, HP Quick Test Pro, BugZilla, SQL Developer, Weblogic and TOAD

Confidential, DC

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participated in entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Developed Test Plan and Test cases using user requirements document and use cases
• Participated in peer reviews of Software Requirements, Designs and test procedures
• Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix between Requirements and Test Cases
• Manually performed Smoke, Functional, Regression, System, User Acceptance (UAT) Testing
• Designed, developed, executed, and maintained Test Cases in HP Quality Center.
• Developed and maintained Automated Test Scripts to support regression testing using HP Quick Test Pro (QTP)
• Created GUI, Standard, Page, Text & Bitmap check points, inserted synchronization points for timing, created Recovery Scenarios, Updated Object Repository as needed with QTP
• Extensively involved in developing Data Driven Test using Quick Test Professional
• Used JIRA issue tracker for tracking recently opened issues as well as JIRA Archives for any closed issues
• Designed, developed and performed Back- end Testing for data validation using SQL Queries for Oracle, and MS SQL database
• Worked closely with Requirement analysts, developer, database administrators, and configuration management teams
• Mentored 2-3 test engineers managing and delegating project tasks

Environment: HP Quick Test Pro (QTP), Quality Center, JIRA, Oracle, MS SQL, J2EE, Star Team TOAD

Confidential, VA

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Written, maintained and executed system test plans.
• Prepared, specified, and executed test case scenarios.
• Performed installations, configurations and executions of verification procedures
• Explored new methods forsoftwareverification and validation
• Worked with Development and Technical teams to efficiently troubleshoot problems
• Reviewed installation, upgrade and system manuals
• Created Functionality vs. Requirements Traceability Matrices and Test Environment Matrices
• Maintained the QA testing environments
• Conducted ongoing regression and integration testing of the product
• Responsible for the planning, coordination, and execution of system, functional, regression and user acceptance testing
• Utilized and created SQL queries to gather data from Oracle and perform data validation
• Controlled and managed daily test activities
• Verification testing in production to make sure the changes was properly installed
• Administration of test control and statistics collection (i.e. problem reporting, defect tracking).
• Experience in software development life cycle and processes for quality assurance guidelines.
• Experience using Quality Center to track defects and knowledge of quality assurance methodologies
• Knowledge of quality philosophies, principles, methods, tools and standards of software development and testing software estimation techniques, risk assessment and management, configuration management and change control, software tracking constructs.
• Knowledge of HP tools such as Quality Center, Quick Test Professional - Experience testing Client/Server and Web Interface and Mailer API
• Functional testing experience using Soap UI tool
• Created Soap UI functional test cases
• Experienced testing web services withsoapprotocols
• Isolated, replicated, and reported defects and verified defect fixes
• Worked with development team to assist in their understanding of reported defects and aid in troubleshooting defect
• Worked with end users during UAT, confirming issues and reporting inQAtracking tool
• Performed other duties as assigned by immediate manager

Environment: Quality Center (Test director), Quick Test Pro, HTML, XML, VB Script, UNIX, SQL Developer, Oracle, VB.NET, Windows and SOAP UI

Confidential, VA

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Project Manager, Business Analyst and Business Users to understand and interpret software requirements
• Worked with the project team to design and execute comprehensive tests on new or modified software programs and applications
• Written the Test plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Steps for all the modules
• Developed advanced WinRunner TSL test scripts in programming mode
• Prepared Test Data and performed Positive and Negative testing
• Tested the content retrieved on various windows against the database tables to make sure that the process retrieved all the data it is supposed to
• Participated in design reviews and quality inspections for each release
• Performed System testing and Regression testing in different browser versions
• Interacted with developers to resolve application defects
• Used Rational TestManager for managing and updating the various test documents
• Used Rational ClearQuest for bug tracking and followed up with development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status
• Checked Front-end validations and Front-end creation (images, Forms and pages)
• Written SQL statements manually to validate data from Database using SQLPLUS
• Collaborated with other testers and analysts to design tests, test plans, and testing standards.
• Supported multiple testing efforts simultaneously in different roles,fromQALead to executing tests

Environment: IBM Rational TestManager, ClearQuest, WinRunner, Java, HTML, XML, UNIX, Oracle, SQL Plus and Windows