SUMMARY

• Over Six (6+) years of QA experience, with a particular emphasis on testing web and client - server applications at all stages of the software development life cycle (SDLC), including requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, and testing.
• Have worked with both Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall QA approaches.
• Extensive expertise developing test plans and test cases, as well as predicting the number of tests that will be required.
• Possess familiarity with VB Script, Descriptive Programming, Zephyr, Jira, Postman, Oracle, and Test Rail, as well as functional, smoke, integration, system, regression, user acceptance testing, and E2E testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Manual Testing: HP ALM/ QC, JIRA, Zephyr

Functional & Non-Functional: HP UFT/ QTP, VB Script

Automated Testing: Azure DevOps (ADO), VSTS

Smoke, Integration Testing: Data Driven Framework

Black Box Testing: Test Rail, Confluence

E2E, System Testing: API Testing with Postman

SDLC/STLC: Oracle, MS SQL Server, SQL

Back End Testing: Test Plan, Test Case

Requirement Analysis: Defect logging

Ad-hoc Testing, Test Reporting: Test Scenarios, Test Data

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Union, NJ

Senior Software QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Frequently involved in the planning and grooming of user stories for clarity, as well as the QA tasks and task estimates, capacity planning, the review and retrospective meetings of the sprint.
• Discuss the application's functionality with the technical team and the product owner.
• Liaise with the QA Lead, Clients, Developers, Business Analysts, System Analysts, and other QA professionals to ensure the assignment is completed on time and that all criteria are satisfied.
• Contribute to the Agile process, which includes participation in daily SCRUM meetings, testing of each SPRINT deliverable and analyze user stories according with the Acceptance criteria as a part of STLC process.
• Create test scenarios and test cases using user stories, change requests, and functional design documents as a starting point.
• Responsible for the Web based testing including GUI Testing, Black box testing, Regression, Integration, System, Functional, Exploratory, Smoke, Backend Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Extensively use JIRA tool for project management and bug tracking purpose as well as test management using Zephyr along with JIRA as Addons, and Confluence for document management in Agile development project.
• Manually test all the modules by inserting various data to perform data validation with positive and negative data.
• Log defects and tracked them using JIRA till its closure following company defect life cycle.
• Perform Requirement Analysis by gathering both functional and non-functional requirements based on interactions with the process owners, document analysis and represented them in Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Manually test all modules by inserting different data to perform the data validation with positive and negative data.
• Log defects and tracked them using Jira till its closure following company defect life cycle.
• Perform automation testing with automation team using VB script language to develop HP QTP/ UFT automation script in descriptive way and different concepts like if statements, For loop, and variables.
• Develop and maintained custom library, error handling, recovery scenarios, reporting methods and descriptive programming (DP) using VBScript in HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT)/QTP
• Maintain automation data driven framework and created scripts in UFT by VBScript on Web application
• Run multiple regression suite scripts in batch using UFT batch runner tool in overnight execution.
• Analyze test results and compared them against the target metrics to determine whether it passed/failed.
• Conduct backend testing using SQL queries to validate data for database and used SQL queries for retrieving data from Oracle database for executing user specific test cases.
• Write complex SQL queries using various kinds of joining and sub queries to retrieve complex data from RDBMS.
• Performed Cross browser testing to check the compatibility of the application in different browsers using Browser Stack.
• Performed Web Services testing (SOAP and REST) with Postman tool by validating requests and responses for XML and JSON.
• Participate in daily defect status or triage calls and distribute defects to assist the onshore and offshore QA teams in resolving faults.

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked collaboratively with the scrum team & collected testing data to ensure that all testing artifacts were completed on time.
• Conducted an analysis of acceptance criteria to ensure that user stories are concise, unambiguous, and well-tested.
• Contributed to the creation of work within an agile environment and participated in meetings such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review (Demo), and Daily stand-up and retrospective sessions. I was also kept informed of how day-to-day work was progressing with daily agile updates.
• Involved in preparing the Product Test Plan and defined the testing approach, resources and time lines.
• Participated in the review of business requirements, functional specification and design documents to ensure testability; reporting of gaps/discrepancies.
• Analyze the requirements for the new build and made recommendations.
• Used Jira tool to manage release and sprint backlogs as well as log and track defects.
• Performed various kinds of testing such as System testing, Integration testing, Functional testing, Smoke testing, Ad hoc testing, Backend testing, Regression testing and support UAT testing
• Developed Automation Test Scripts by using the tool HP UFT 12.0 (Unified Functional Testing) to perform regression testing for the new release.
• Optimized the scripts by incorporating various types of checkpoints, including Standard Checkpoints, Bitmap Checkpoints, Image Checkpoints as well as by incorporating Regular Expressions, creating Recovery Scenarios, and adding additional steps using Descriptive Programming.
• Performed Data Driven Tests with the same script for multiple sets of data.
• Wrote SQL Queries to test Referential Integrity and performed Database Testing for the Application.
• Retrieve data from the application database using the Microsoft SQL Server Database with SQL Server Management Studio.
• Created and delivered Test Summary Reports to managers after each build release, in addition to maintaining a Test Matrix including the most current test results information.
• Collaborated with business analysts, developers, and project managers on group activities.

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Tester Intern

Responsibilities:

• Interacted continuously with a scrum team consisted of a Product Owner, a Scrum Master, developers, and offshore team members to conduct software testing activities and release new application features using the Agile Scrum methodology.
• Participated in numerous meetings and tasks such as grooming backlogs, mapping sprints, engaging in daily stand-up meetings, reviewing test cases, and finally, a retrospective and demo meeting.
• Consult and collaborate with other project members Determine and de-construct technical specifications and requirements, including mapping and navigation tools, to provide a suitable testing coverage
• Concentrate on timelines and quality to ensure that a high-quality project is delivered on time.
• Communicate with the customer and vendor to fully understand the project.
• Create and modified different testing documents like Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Data, RTM, Test execution document, defect report, and more.
• Strong experience in using SharePoint for sharing project related document with other team members, like Test strategy documents, Test plan, Test cases, RTM and progress of the project and daily approach.
• Use Quality Center/ ALM to track and report system defects for further investigation and defect resolution for Maintenance and Hot fix team in Regression testing throughout the year.
• Use JIRA tool for release management such as sprint backlog and board, Task estimation and tracking, log and tracking Bug. Use Test Rail for design test case and execution purpose in feature team.
• Tested with Front-End functionality /GUI for the entire application by various black box testing such as Functional Testing, Non-Functional, Smoke, End to End, Ad-hoc, Exploratory, Integration, System, Regression and UAT Testing.
• Perform automation testing with automation team using VB script language to develop HP QTP/ UFT automation script in descriptive way and different concepts like if statements, For loop, and variables.
• Develop and maintained custom library, error handling, recovery scenarios, reporting methods and descriptive programming (DP) using VBScript in HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT)/QTP
• Maintain automation data driven framework and created scripts in UFT by VBScript on Web application
• Performing backend/database tests by developing SQL queries and validating data integrity SQL queries using SQL Developer 10g.Involve in extensive data validation using SQL queries and back-end testing.
• During the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) phase, work on User Acceptance Testing to verify the project is successfully fulfilling its End-user delivery promise.