SUMMARY

• US Citizen, with over six years of software quality assurance tester/QA who has focused on addressing difficult challenges such as system, software glitches and who enjoys ensuring software quality.
• One who is qualified enough in the planning and implementation of manual and automation testing and work with databases like Oracle also experienced in HP QC/ALM, JIRA, Micro Focus/HP QTP/UFT, Postman.
• In - depth knowledge in SDLC and STLC with the technical expertise of analyzing business requirements, functional requirements, documentation, and data analysis using waterfall or Agile methodology.

Core Competencies

• Manual & Automation
• Black box testing
• Requirement Analysis
• Estimation & Planning
• Test Documentation
• Organized
• Team Player
• Agile Ceremonies & Artifacts
• Working offshore & onshore
• Test Cases/Scenarios/Test Data
• Test Plan/Result/Report
• Leading a QA team
• SDLC & STLC
• Jira, VSTS/Azure DevOps
• Risk Analysis
• Zephyr
• TestRail
• Postman
• VB Scripting & Framework
• ALM/QC/QTP/MS TFS
• Web-Based & Client Based
• Agile Scrum
• Waterfall
• Iterative
• Hybrid
• SQL/ Database/ RDBMS/Oracle/DB2
• Functional & Non-Functional testing

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Management Tool: Micro Focus/HP ALM, JIRA, Zephyr, TestRail, VSTS/Azure DevOps, MS TFS, Postman

Automation Tool: Micro Focus/HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT/QTP)

Application Language: Web Based and Client server based.

Scripting Language: Java, C++, C#, .NET, HTML, XML, CSS, VB

Operating System: Windows and OS

Database (RDBMS): Visual Basic Scripting (VBS)

Methodology: Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2

Other Tools: Waterfall, Agile (Scrum), Iterative, Hybrid

Project Environment: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox.

Application/Domain Type: MS Office Suite, Postman, SharePoint, GitHub, Toad, Teams, web service, Confluence, Web Sphere, IIS and Apache Tomcat

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential | New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Directly involved in analyzing User Story, Acceptance Criteria and Design Specification Documents to understand the Application properly and Identify Test Conditions.
• Following Agile (Scrum) methodology implementing web and client server-based application in the various project.
• Responsible for creating Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Test Cases for various kinds of testing.
• Coordinate for creating a detailed Test Plan to efficiently test the application.
• Participated in Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Retrospective and defect triage meeting as per Agile scrum Ceremonies. Directly involved in story pointing and task estimation as well as backlog grooming.
• Create Test case and design Test Steps for each business functionality for positive/negative test scenarios, in the tool Zephyr which is added to Jira release and bug management tool for agile project.
• Use the Zephyr to execute test cases by creating Test Sets, manually testing each Test Step, and updating the Status (Pass/Fail/Blocked/Not Run) and logging bugs for all the failed tests.
• Use the Jira issue section to raise and assign bugs, track bugs, retest the bug fixed and monitor the bug until closure.
• Use Micro Focus ALM to manage requirements for UAT.
• Generate Defect Status Report, Test Execution Report, and Test Summary report.
• Attend weekly status meeting with Developers, Project Manager and Business Analyst to discuss the defects, fixes and overall testing status.
• Write Test Cases for User Acceptance Testing using Use-Case Models, Process Flow Diagrams and Business Rules.
• Worked on API testing for both SOAP and REST using Postman.
• Strong knowledge of API testing JSON and XML.
• Perform Functional, Regression, Integration and End to End testing using Micro Focus Unified Functional Testing (UFT) with automation testing team.
• Responsible for creating, maintaining, modifying and execute Automation Test Scripts for Regression Testing using UFT and report the deviation to the development team.
• Following linear, modular, data-driven, and hybrid framework create script using descriptive programming and a lot of VB script command and methods.
• Performed Web Services testing both SOAP and REST with Postman tool by validating requests and responses for XML and JSON mainly GET, POST, PUT and DELETE.
• Responsible for conducting Backend Testing using SQL queries in Oracle database.
• Perform Data Validation and Data Integration, and retrieve data from database using various SQL joining, sub queries, and complex queries.
• Organized and tested web applications on various platforms for Compatibility Testing.
• In-depth knowledge testing Mobile applications and devices and experience in testing the application on different devices including iPhone, Samsung, Google G1, Motorola, Windows Mobile, HTC, LG etc.

Software test Analyst

Confidential | Hartford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in all phases of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle).
• Analyzed Business Requirement and Functional Requirement document and developed Test Plan for System testing and Performed Manual and Automation testing using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Used JIRA and TestRail as a test management tool in different projects for developing Test cases, log defects, managing and tracking the requirements, test cases, and defects.
• Performed Functional testing, Smoke testing, System testing, Integration testing, and User Acceptance testing (UAT), GUI Test defect tracking, resolution of applications and solutions.
• Created Automation scripts using UFT for various testing stages like Functional Testing, Regression Testing and executed test scripts to test for functionality and regression testing.
• Insert Standard, Text, Bitmap, Page and database Checkpoints and output values into UFT to check various objects in the application.
• Created Automation Script using Descriptive programming and enhanced the script followed by different automation framework.
• Worked on Web Services testing both SOAP and REST with Postman tool by validating requests and responses for XML and JSON mainly GET, POST, PUT and DELETE.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using Quality Center for manual and automation purpose by connecting with UFT.
• Interacted with developers, users and various team members discuss and resolve defects and their priorities.
• Performed Back End Testing of the database by using SQL queries to make sure that the database reflects the updates/change, to verify the database integrity.
• Participated in review and planning meetings with the project team and provided daily, weekly, monthly reports to test lead and project manager.

Quality assurance Engineer

Confidential | Pittsburg, PA

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the functional requirement documents (FRD), system requirement documents (SRD) and business requirements document (BRD).
• Assisted in developing Test Plans for testing the functionality, GUI, and usability of the application.
• Performed manual testing, considering the base line of developed Test Plan and Test Cases considering both positive and negative scenarios also boundary scenarios.
• Executed Test Case developed by self or peers. Compared and analyzed actual to expected results and reported all deviations for resolution.
• Performed Smoke, Integration, Functional, Regression, GUI and UAT testing.
• Used HP ALM bug tracking tool to report application bugs and enhancements request and discussed with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Performed functional testing for new release enhancements also performed the Back-End integration testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL queries on Oracle.
• Participated actively in the team meetings with the developers for bug reviews.
• Responsible for writing SQL queries to retrieve data from Oracle database also Responsible for updating and deleting data in database.