Mainframe Tester Resume
MD
OBJECTIVE
- Seeking Software QA Engineer position with company in which my skills can be used to their fullest.
SUMMARY
- Experience in Telecommunication, Finance, Healthcare, and Advance technology organizations with emphasis in Software Test Engineering and QA Software Analyst
- Strong analytical skills to evaluate User Requirements, Business Process and System design and architecture
- Expertise in developing Test Strategy, Test plan, Test cases and Procedures, Test Execution, and Test Analysis Report (TAR)
- Expertise in use of Testing Tools like QuickTest Pro (QTP), Loadrunner and Selenium WebDriver for developing automated scripts to perform Regression, Compatibility Testing
- Develop and maintain .NET data driven automated test cases using Selenium 2 WebDriver, ADO.NET, NUnit framework and SoapUI
- Experience in Scrum Agile and Waterfall environments, extensive use of JavaScript, SQL, XPath Query, CSS, HTML and DOM.
- Experience in a .NET and SharePoint environment
- Implemented and executed testing for Section 508 Compliance using Compliance Sheriff
- Involve in developing and enhancing Regression suite using TSL, C#, and VB Script for new changes on existing software.
- Strong skill in performing System Testing, Beta Testing, Regression Testing, End - to-End Testing, Smoke Testing, Functionality Testing, Compatibility Testing
- Proficient with SQL, Access database
- Excellent skills in Defect Tracking and Reporting using ALM, PVCS Tracker, Quality Center, Test Director and Microsoft Test Manager, Team Foundation Server (TFS).
- Expertise in the SDLC methodologies for Design, Develop, Execution, Maintenance, Support, and Deliverables
- Experience in Load, and Performance testing using LoadRunner and
- Experience and knowledge in IT standards like Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), and other institute like QAI, and SQA
- Excellent communication skills along with verbal and written skills and Ability to work independently and proficiently
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating systems: Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP/7, UNIX Sun Solaris, and Linux
Languages: C++, Java, Visual Basic, VB Script, C#, Shell Programming, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML
Testing Tools: QuickTest Professional (QTP), WinRunner, LoadRunner, Telerik Test Studio, Selenium
Test Management Tool: Quality Center 11.0, TestDirector 8.0, Microsoft Test Manager
Defect Tracking Tools: PVCS Tracker, ClearQuest, QualityCenter, TestDirector, Microsoft Test Manager
Databases: Oracle 7i, 8i, 9i, 10g, My SQL, SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, MS Access
Application Software: MS Office 2013(Word, Excel, Excess, PowerPoint & Outlook); TOAD 6.3, SQL* Plus, Microsoft Project, Silverlight, Visio, Adobe FLASH, Macromedia, DreamWeaver, PhotoShop
Internet Browser: Internet Explorer, Safari, AOL, Firefox, Chrome
Application Server: Team Foundation Server (TFS), Visual Studio 2012, J2EE, Web Logic
Hardware: IBM RS/6000, AS400, Sun V880, SunFire 380R, Compaq ProLaint ML370, HP ProLaint DL380, Dell PowerEdge IBM PC, IBM mainframe, DEC/VAX, System Boards
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, MD
Mainframe Tester
Responsibilities:
- Analyzed Functional Requirement and Business Requirement Documents to get a better understanding of the system on both Aviation and business perspectives
- Working in Agile - Scrum development practices and testing methodologies. Facilitated daily stand-up scrum meeting
- Build and executed Test cases and Test scripts based on baseline requirements.
- Analyze the test sets to decide which of them could be automated for the regression testing.
- Analyzed requirements, developed, executed and documented test cases and scenarios for ZOS mainframe.
- Creating Automation framework from test cases using Selenium mapped the automated scripts to the corresponding test cases in the Test Manager to do the test coverage.
- Developing the automation test scripts with WebDriver & Webdriver backed selenium
- Automation for GUI Testing of various applications. Work with API’s and Web Services like SoapUI
- Testing CICS mappings manually and checking the validation of the Mapplets.
- Testing with Batch programs are compiled and executed using JCL.
- Prepare and document test data.
- Wrote SQL Statements to extract Data from Tables to verify the output Data of the reports.
- Create JCL to run batch in test environment. Data-driven testing based on Data tables by parameterizes the automated test scripts to check application behavior, for all the automated test scripts
- Responsible for coding the elements in COBOL, Easytrieve, JCL and DB2 and perform testing in test environment, which involves Unit Testing, System/QA and UAT testing.
- Regression testing of various functionalities using the automated scripts
- Perform Backend Testing by writing SQL statements to review the returned data to ensure that the correct data was retrieved.
- Automated Database testing that uses SQL statements to extract data from the tables to validate test results
- Perform Microsoft security patch (client, server) testing every month in Alpha environment.
- Check the data flow through the front and backend and extensively used SQL queries to extract the data from the database
- Experience in source control and defect management tools like GiT, JIRA and Microsoft Test Manager.
- Participate in Walk through and defect triage meetings periodically
- Experience in creating test scripts using Use cases and Business requirements.
- Experience in JAVA and C# .NET environment
- Generate detailed test status reports, performance/capacity reports and graphical charts for higher management.
Environment: Mainframe, Loadrunner, Java, JCL, CICS, Firebug, Web Services, Agile, Oracle, Websphere, J2EE, XML, Java Script, Web Logic, Cobol, SQL plus, Windows
Confidential, NC
QA Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Developed test scripts for GUI usability, functionality, and regression testing using Quick Test Pro.
- Responsible in analyzing Test Requirements.
- Developing Test plan of the application as per technical specifications.
- Preparation of the Test Cases
- Written Unit and Regression Test cases for the Product.
- Tested Credit card Interchange’s fees of various banks.
- Used SQL statements to extract data from the tables to validate test results
- Produced and documented various summary and detailed reports using Test Director’s report and documents generators.
- Reported the bugs to development team and followed up with them.
- Validated the Bugs/Issues reported by the Customers/Users before sending them to development team
- Involved in product enhancement and design meetings.
- Developed test cases for unit and integration testing in Test Director from Use Cases.
Environment: HTML, Oracle, SQL Server 2000, TOAD, Windows 2000/NT, Quick Test Pro, Java, web Services, Agile, Websphere, Test director, Cognos Reportnet 1.1.
Confidential, VA
QA Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Gone through application related documents to understand the business rules and functionality of the system.
- Created test data for the Donation and use Scholarship module of the student application.
- Design of Test Requirements as per business rules for the application under test.
- Prepared Test Plan, Test cases based upon Business, Detail and User Requirements.
- Prepared Test data for interpreting the Positive, Negative and Regression Results.
- Tested different modules and their functionalities.
- Developed testing schedules for system, functional, end-to-end and Automation testing and reviewed the known risks upfront with the project team follow up the defects with the development team and tried to fix it with them.
- Generated Requirement tracebility matrix (RTM), Performance test metrics Daily status, weekly reports, Bug status report, QA Status report, Risk and failure analysis document.
- Used Quality Center for requirement analysis, scheduling and generating test cases
- Developed automated Scripts using QTP for various Business processes once the environment was stable.
- Backend testing of the DB by writing PL/SQL queries to test the integrity of the application and Oracle databases using TOAD
- Involved in developing Entry & Exit criteria and defined the pass and fail standards.
- Wrote and modified SQL validation scripts, and writing scripts in SQL to validate the outputs.
- Involved in opening lifeline for the defect tracking and find out the problem with all supervision of developers and system engineers (bug scrub meetings).
- Written clear and concise steps to reproduce software bugs and recorded steps to make the developer understand the bug.
- Conducted Black box testing, Smoke testing, Unit testing, Screen validation testing, Data driven testing, Positive & Negative testing, System testing, Regression testing, End to End testing, Functional Testing, Penetration testing, Integration testing and coordinated UAT.
- Attend weekly status meeting to report Testing status
- Worked closely with Application Development, Business and other staff to coordinate and complete functional, regression, and also was on the UAT team to help the client with user acceptance testing.
- Completed projects deliverables within set timelines and quality standards.
- Used Agile Methodology, participated in scrum meetings.
Environment: Windows XP, ALM, Java, Web Services, Websphere, Oracle 10g/9i, RFC Tracker (Bug tracking tool), Mercury Tools, MS-Office, TOAD, QTP, Quality Centre 9.2/9.1
