SUMMARY

• US Citizen with extensive experience in Software Testing / Quality Assurance Engineering.
• Background in Financial, Publishing, Education, and Media domains
• Experience working on Web - based, mobile, Client/Server, cloud, and windows applications/portals.
• Experience with Business Requirements Analysis, functional Requirement Analysis, Test documentations, Test Execution, Defect Resolutions, Manual / Automation and different QA methodologies.
• Involvement with full Product Development life cycle, from Verification to Validation.
• Experience managing and executing software testing life cycle in Agile/scrum and Waterfall environments.
• Experience using Test Management, automation, bug tracking and release management tools.
• Experienced with writing and executing Manual Test Cases in HP QC/ALM, MS Excel, JIRA, MTM
• Expertise in Writing, Executing and Maintaining Test Plans, Test Procedures, Test Cases, and Test Matrix.
• Expertise in Front-end/back-end testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Functionality Testing, Browsers Compatibility Testing, GUI Testing, Regression Testing, Reliability Testing, Load/Stress Testing, Usability Testing, Installation Testing and Security Testing, Web Service Testing using both Manual and Automated Testing tools.
• Expertise in logging, tracking, monitoring and re-testing defects/user-stories/change requests.
• Experience using automated testing tools like HP Quick Test Professional (QTP), LoadRunner, Test Director and HP Quality Center/HP ALM 11.0.
• Experience using HP QC/ALM and JIRA for test management, bug tracking, reporting and Planning Releases.
• Experienced performing database testing using SQL Queries and working with different DB systems.
• Experience with RESTful and SaopUI APIs.
• Able to work in fast-faced environments and handle multiple demands.
• Able to communicate with both technical and non-technical personnel.
• Equally effective working in self-managed projects or as a team member.
• Proven ‘test to break’ attitude and great attention to details.
• Capable of making technical presentations understandable.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Defect Tracking Tool: HP Quality Center/ALM, TestDirector, TeamTrack, JIRA

Testing Tools: HP Quick Test Professional (QTP), LoadRunner, REST, MTM

Operating System: Win 7, Win 8, MAC, iOS, Android

Web Technologies: C#, .Net, VB.Net, ADO.NET, WCF, SOAP, WPF, Java, J2EE, J2ME, Perl, SQL, IIS, CSS, PL/SQL, HTML, HTML5, XML, JSP, ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, SOAP UI, FTP, HTTPS

Databases: Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, MS SQL Server 2000

Microsoft Tools: MS Office, MS Visio, MS Excel and MS Projects, Test Manager

Web Browsers: Internet Explorer (IE), Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Software QA Analyst

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Studied and Analyzed System Design Documents, Technical Spec, Wireframes and Use Cases
• Attended Kick-Off meeting, Project Planning meeting, and other trainings
• Worked with a team of engineers and other QA testers to be solely responsible for testing and signing off on all programming/code changes for the system before changes are implemented into Production/live environment.
• Interacted with Business analysts and Developers to understand the requirements, application functionality and navigation flow.
• Developed Test Cases, Test Data, and test matrix based on the project documents
• Performed extensive manual testing on front-end and back-end of the application.
• Executed Test Cases Manually using MTM (Microsoft Test Manager).
• Performed front-end, back-end and database testing using various testing techniques like Exploratory, functional, UI, black-box, compatibility, end-to-end, UAT and Regression.
• Performed Manual testing across different browsers, devices and operation systems.
• Conducted both positive and negative testing on the application.
• Reported and Analyzed the defects and categorized them based on the severity level.
• Attended Defect triage meeting and interacted with developers regularly to ensure that defects were resolved.
• Developed and Ran SQL queries on Oracle 10g to perform database/back-end testing
• Was responsible for deploying XML files to SoapUI.
• Performed Web-Service Testing, validated variables and placeholders on XML file.
• Created, maintained and updated regression testing suites upon receiving new build.
• Coordinated with onsite and offshore team members and kept QA Manager updated on the testing progress.
• Ensured all the functionalities of the software meet the highest quality possible by following industry recognized QA methodologies and best practices.
• Provided status at the Daily Stand up meeting, including sending daily status report via email.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirement Specification (BRS), Software Requirement Specification (SRS) and User Requirement Document (URD).
• Actively participating in all phases of SDLC (verification to Validation) and QA life Cycle.
• Developed Test Plan and Test Approach artifact with resource requirements and time estimates.
• Designed and developed Test Scenario/Test Cases/Test steps for various Business Services/methods covering both Positive and Negative Testing requirements.
• The projects followed Agile methodology, where developers, users and testers worked together to create stories, document requirements by interviews and analysis.
• Written story narratives, functional & non-functional system requirements and change requests.
• Developed Test Plan and Test Scenarios for different modules.
• Developed Manual Test Cases & Test Scripts to test the functionality of the application using HP QTP & ALM
• Performed Manual Testing on web-based, client-server and mobile applications
• Tested the application on iOS and Android platforms.
• Used Quality Center for test management and bug tracking.
• Developed Automated Test Scripts through Descriptive Programming (using conditional statements, loops, user defined functions, function library) and data driven testing which applies the Business rules to validate the components displayed on the website.
• Conducted front-end, back-end, Functional, Regression, Black box, cross-browsers and System Testing.
• Formulated methods to perform Positive testing and Negative testing against requirements.
• Prepared Traceability Matrix for Test Coverage and review.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Performed Web Service Testing and validated XML variables.
• Performed backend/database testing using SQL queries.
• Created Vuser Scripts using VuGen and Used Controller to generate and executed Load Runner Scenarios.
• Simulated multiple Vusers scenarios. Defined Rendezvous points to create intense load on the server and thereby measured the server performance under load.
• Involved in Performance Testing to simulate a process, and observed the behavior of the system by using LoadRunner.
• Inserted Transactions and Rendezvous points into Web Vuser.
• Created scenarios and set up monitors including Oracle Database monitor, Web Resources monitor, UNIX Resource monitor, IIS web server monitor etc.
• Reported bugs found during test using Quality Center.
• Attended weekly Project Status Meeting with Development team and QA Manager, and worked closely with QA Manager to define Test Scope, Gap Analysis, Risk, Dependency, and Constraints.

JR QA Analyst

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Responsibilities:

• Performed Manual and Automation Testing on the application
• Analyzed Business Requirements, Functional Specification, and the required documents for testing
• Involved with preparing Test cases and Test Strategy
• Performed Backend Testing using SQL queries to validate the data in the backend Oracle database
• Performed functional, negative, regression and smoke tests on the new enhancements added to the web application
• Used HP Quality Center for requirements management, planning, scheduling, running or executing tests, tracking defects and managing defects
• Performed Extensive Manual Testing on the application across many supported Browsers and Platforms
• Involved in extensive black box, end to end, integration, and regression testing
• Created test scripts in VBScript using HP QuickTest Professional (QTP) tool to perform Regression and Functional Testing on new builds of the software
• Performed Data Driven test using test data from excel files.
• Performed Load Testing and performance testing by creating LoadRunner scenarios by utilizing LR controller and VuGen to create a Vuser script and parameterized the scripts and enhanced them according to the test cases.
• Wrote SQL queries to perform data checking in the database.
• Coordinated with developers to recreate the errors and maintained the trouble log reports. Involved in conducting the test walk-through and worked closely with project management
• Conducted elaborate Manual Testing on test cases and provided feedback to the development team
• Worked collaboratively with QA, Developers, and other engineers on the testing and release of the software
• Documented the Test Results and presented the daily and weekly report to QA Manager