SUMMARY

• 7 plus years of experience in the area of Software Quality Assurance, Software Testing, and System verification and validation in various industries and environments.
• Expert in section 508 compliance testing.
• Experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), QA Process, and Software testing techniques.
• Experience in developing plan, test protocol and reports for any Verification and Validation activities.
• Expertise in reviews and analyzing user story, product backlog, and use cases documents.
• Experience in supporting QA Test Cycles, Compiling Test Status Reports, participating in Defect Status meetings, and Project Status meetings.
• Experience in working with V - Model, Agile (SCRUM) and Waterfall development methodologies.
• Expertise in developing Test Automation Framework, Scripts, Plans, and Test Cases for Functional, Regression suites, and System Testing.
• Review test plans, test cases, and other work products to ensure consistency, high quality, and adherence to standards and QA procedures.
• Understand and translate requirements to test scenarios and test cases
• Communicate effectively with business units, development teams, and project management to facilitate and ensure functionality of unique accounts.
• Identify, document, communicates and manages all risks and issues related to verification and validation activities
• Develop regression test suite and corresponding test data sets, identify issues and defects.
• Experience in Defect Management and Change Management Tools JIRA, ALM, and Quality Center.
• Experience in automation testing using industry standard testing tools HP ALM, Quality Center, Quick Test Professional, and Load Runner.
• Expertise in scripting and executing SQL queries using TOAD, SQL for Back end testing.
• Specialized in Functional, Positive, Negative, Integration, System, Regression, Load, Stress and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Ability to handle multiple tasks independently as well as collaboratively with team members in testing complex projects.
• Knowledge of CMMI and Quality Assurance (QA) Standards.
• Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision, establishes priorities; meet project milestones and deliverable dates.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Windows 7 and UNIX

508 Tools: JAWS, Dragon, Zoom Text, Color Contrast Analyzer, Open Ajax Accessibility

CM Tools: SharePoint, VSS, SVN

Languages/Web Technology: C, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, VB Script

RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server

Database Verification Tool: SQL Plus, TOAD, AWS Cloud

Test Management and Defect Tracking tools: JIRA, Quality Center, ALM

Automated Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, Quick Test Professional, Load Runner

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Tysons Corner, VA

Software Test Engineer (508 Lead)

Responsibilities:

• Worked as QA Lead for 508 compliance team.
• Made sure modules are 508 compliant before every release.
• Develop test cases with various scenarios based on business rolls of requirements
• Involved in SCRUM sprint planning and backlog review meetings.
• Involved in the Requirements, Risk Analysis, and Design Reviews for new features.
• Involved in demos of 508 changes to clients using various assistive technology tools.
• Prepare regression test cases for both manual and automated 508 scenarios
• Report defects in JIRA, work closely with analysts, developers to resolve problems, and change the status of defects accordingly.
• Check codes using Firebug and developers tool to make sure elements contain proper title, alt text, aria-label

Environment: JIRA, JAWS 13/14/15/16, Dragon13, Zoom Text 10 with reader, Open AJAX Accessibility, WCAG bible, Color Contrast Analyzer, HTML inspector, Web accessibility toolbar, Firebug, Developers tool

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Review and analyze software requirements, user story and use case documents to deliver high quality product.
• Develop comprehensive test plan and detailed test cases from requirements and other project related documentation.
• Execute tests according to plan including new feature and regression testing.
• Involve in Quality Assurance (QA) reviews, identify gaps and provide recommendations to ensure that software/system comply with quality and standards.
• Participate in requirement review meetings to address any issues or action required to validate requirements
• Reviews software documentation to ensure technical accuracy, compliance, and completeness to mitigate any business risks.
• Control and manage daily test activities through daily Agile Scrum stand-up meetings
• Prepare and executed Regression Testing Scenarios.
• Performed Functional and Integration testing of the application and prioritized test cases to meet project specific deadlines.
• Directly involve in handling customer’s concern and resolving issues.
• Develop, modify, and maintain standards for quality operating methods, processes, systems and procedures.
• Responsible for weekly status updates showing the progress of the Automation testing effort and open issues to be resolved.
• Develop automated test scripts to perform automated functional testing using Quick Test Professional.
• Maintain the automation scripts for enhancements and modifications to perform regression testing.
• Develop automated scripts using Quick Test Pro for Functional and Regression Testing
• Utilize Quality Center to maintain requirements traceability matrix, store test plans, and store all the test result and analysis reports.
• Write and execute SQL query to verify and validate data in the backend database.
• Develop test case for 508 compliance testing.
• Verify web accessibility for section 508 compliance
• Involve in conducting Status meeting, review meetings weekly and daily.
• Generate customized reports, and graphs in HP ALM to maintain the client’s applications.
• Report software defects and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Involve in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with end-users.
• Report defects in JIRA, work closely with analysts, developers to resolve the problems, and change the status of the defect accordingly.

Environment: HP ALM, SharePoint, SVN, JAWS, WAVE, SoapUi, XML, VSS, J2EE, VB Scripts, UNIX, Quick Test Pro, JIRA, Oracle, SQL, TOAD.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in SCRUM sprint planning meeting and backlog review meeting.
• Maintain and update test plans, test cases, test environment, and testing software through test life cycle.
• Worked with Users and Business Analysts to define and design test scenarios and test data.
• Created the Regression Test cases and automated them for the purpose of regression testing.
• Developed and maintained automated test scripts to support regression testing and participated actively in system testing and regression testing.
• Used the data driven testing and database accessing techniques to support the scripts.
• Created Regression Test cases and automated them for the purpose of regression testing.
• Tested the application compatibility with various browsers.
• Provided test plan, daily reports on the functional or performance testing effort.
• Wrote Test Summary Report at the conclusion of the test cycle.
• Conducted manual functionality and regression testing for each build and version.
• Documented errors and implemented their resolutions.
• Wrote SQL queries to test Data Integrity, Referential Integrity and performed Database Testing for the Application.
• Used Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Developed Test Scenarios with Test Data to support Test Objectives.
• Designed Test Cases for Manual Testing and Test Scripts for Automation using Quick Test Pro to check the Functionalities of the application.
• Prepared and executed Test cases as per the Functional requirement document
• Developed Requirement Traceability Matrix for each project to ensure all requirements are mapped to test.
• Created various performance scripts using Load Runner Vugen.
• Executed performance testing using Load Runner Controller and created Load Runner graphs to analyze the results.
• Used Load Runner to check the reliability and response time of the application.
• Used quality Center to manage and execute test cases.
• Designed Performance test scripts using Load Runner, ran Stress test, analyzed the results.
• Attended periodic meetings, teleconferences on problem resolution.

Environment: Load Runner, Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, Oracle, UNIX, Windows XP, .NET, VSS

Confidential, Washington, DC

Verification and Validation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provides IV&V perspective to ongoing product development: requirements, product and test designs, defect reviews, user workflows, and defect analysis.
• Involve in Individual Verification and Validation (IV&V) activities of overall System Development.
• Review and analyze Software Requirement Specification (SRS), Use Case, RTM and Design documents to verify the quality
• Participate in requirement review meetings to address any issues or action requires to validate requirements
• Conduct matting’s with SME’s to discuss and understand business rules /logic of the product requirements.
• Analyze and understand each requirement to create requirements flow for the purpose of creation of test scenarios and test cases.
• Perform peer review to provide feedback for necessary adjustment
• Conduct meetings and make presentation to the client of overall approach of testing
• Attend in internal IV&V team meeting to discuss issues/risks and provide solutions with team effort
• Execute test case scenarios to verify the application fulfill each requirement.
• Compare the instance with use case and designee document to verify necessary functionality implemented
• Involve in defect review meting to verify the error with team discussion.
• Execute IV&V UAT testing with the client for their acceptance of the overall testing
• Work closely and effectively with customer plant staff to address and resolve operating product

Environment: Clear Quest, Oracle, SQL Server, UNIX, and Windows Quality Center.