SUMMARY

• 8+ years of experience in Manual and Automation testing with familiarity in Functional, Regression, System, Web, User Acceptance (UAT) and Graphical User Interface (GUI) testing.
• Sound Understanding of QA processes and methodologies - SDLC (Software Developing Life Cycle) and STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle), Waterfall and Agile methodology.
• Extensive domain knowledge, worked in Banking & Financial, Insurance, Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Telecom and Utility.
• Proficient in testing on Windows based and Web based Application using Client/Server systems, desktop and web technologies.
• Familiar with UNIX, Linux and Windows & Web applications.
• Proficient in developing, documenting, and executing Test cases using Functional requirements documents and UML.
• Experience with creating Test Plans, Test Data creation, creating RTMs, preparing daily defect and execution reports.
• Responsible in handling Defect Tracking/Management and Mapping reporting through Quality Centre, Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), JIRA
• Experience in Automation with QTP and Selenium.
• Developed Automation Scripts Using Selenium Webdriver/Java and QTP/VBScript.
• Experience with writing SQL queries for testing fulfillment.
• Experience in Test Scripts through Business Requirement and following Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Experience in working with the development team and fast paced- Agile SCRUM environments.
• Good leadership, communication skills, good customer relationship skills, oral, written communications, planning and problem resolution skills.
• Ability to handle multiple projects with competing deadlines in a fast paced environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing / Test Management Tools / Suites: Visual Studio Team Systems (VSTS) 2010/2012 and Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), Selenium Webdriver, HP Quick Test Professional 8.0/8.2/9.0/9.2/9.5/10.0 (QTP), HP QC 9.0/9.2/10.0 / ALM 11.0 (Quality Center / Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), JIRA.

Project / Document Management: MS Project, MS SharePoint

Operating Systems: Windows 8/7/Vista/XP/NT, Linux (Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu), UNIX (HP, Solaris)

Programming: C#, C++, Python, VB Script, Java, XML, HTML, Shell, JavaScript, Perl

Application & Web Server: Apache, JBoss, IIS

Database: Oracle 8.x/9i/10g/11i, Sybase 11.5, SQL Server 7.0, 2005, 2008

Other Tools: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), MS Visio, Outlook

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identify environment requirements, create business/process flows, and understand project dependencies, deliverables, and milestones
• Reviewed requirements and specifications documents to develop and execute Test Plans and Test Cases
• Perform Manual Technical/ Financial Feasibility Analysis
• Integrating Manual test suite with HP Quality Center
• Worked in Agile development environment with frequently changing requirements and features
• Involved in daily Bug scrub with Developers and Business Analysts
• Responsible for QA, manual/automation tests, and writing technical documentation to validate
• Build strong client and program management relationships by providing testing transparency
• Involved in daily Defects Meetings with Developers and Business Analysts
• Continuously manage and monitor the testing status on a regular basis and informing the Project Management
• Parameterized the tests using Data Driver to replace fixed values with values from an external source during the test run
• Managing Requirements Gathering with Business Analyst (Attending Project Initiation Meeting) along with the test team members
• Providing testing inputs to the Project team (Project manager, Planner and the Development lead) during the Planning and execution sessions
• Driving the Testing-Technical status meeting and discussing the issues encountered in testing and proposing possible solutions(s)
• Manage Integration, systems, acceptance, Regression & implementation testing
• Determine test execution priorities, deadlines, expectations and scope within a predefined test window
• Timely status reports to Project & Program Managements
• Experience of managing defects in Bug Tracking tools like HP Quality Center
• Perform functional testing, regression testing, UAT Testing and End to End testing
• Manually created, developed and executed Test Cases for both Negative and Positive testing
• Prepared Test Plan for assigned module as a part of the testing team. Test Plan detail included the testing scope, requirement, strategies and all compulsory resources.
• Executed manual testing for all scenarios on products
• Participated in System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Utilized Quality Center for managing the testing process
• Conducted regression and system testing in order to ensure that new code is not causing issues and that defects have been corrected
• Worked extensively with development team and created status reporting
• Created/SQL queries for backend database testing
• Utilized Quick Test Professional (QTP) for basic automation testing which included recording and playing tests as well as parameterizing values
• Performed Data Driven Tests to validate the same scenario with different test data

Environment: Oracle, Java, J2EE, .net, PL/SQL, UNIX, Windows, XML, Quality Center, QTP.

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Sr. Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing Business Requirements / Features and preparing the Test conditions in HP Quality Center.
• Preparing Test Scenarios based on RSM (Requirements Specification Matrix)
• Conducted Test Scenario walkthrough with Onsite / Offshore development team and with Business.
• Design, Develop and Maintain Automation Test Assets by using Confidential Test Automation Frameworks
• Doing hands on automation with Selenium-Java.
• Assisted Project Management activities with the help of applications like MS Project, Visio and WebEx presentations to the onsite/offshore team.
• Involved in delivering Automation scripts for products being built.
• Own product features and automate.
• Extensively Queried through SQL to check the database records
• Tested the web pages manually as well as using automated tools like QTP for image positioning and display quality
• Suggest automation process improvements & Engaged in framework enhancements.
• Code reviews and maintaining deliverable quality.
• Planning ahead, and prioritize on work items.
• Attending daily Defect Meeting and Onsite / Offshore Handoff Meeting.

Environment: Selenium WebDriver, Java, Quality Center, XML, HP-QC, JIRA, SQL Server, Eclipse

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

QA Automation Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements, System Requirements, and Functional Specifications to determine the required complexity of test cases, needed to certify accuracy of the application functionality and business rules; analyzed Test Strategy and Test Plans and providing accurate Testing Estimates to team leads and project managers for in corporation into the Project Plan and Test Execution Schedule;
• Developed and maintained Test Scenarios, Detailed Test Cases, Manual Test Scripts using HP Quality Center (QC) participating in Internal Peer Reviews (IPR) to validate test plan effectiveness and improve test plans, test cases and test scripts, providing consultation to less experienced team members;
• Leaded the projects assigned to me - created certification plan, test estimates, dependency list; test scope, execution schedule, 1st time code review, daily status and defect reports and project certification profile;
• Executing Manual and Automated scripts on different browsers/environments & reported defects using HP Quality Center (QC) to the team;
• Automation Test:
• Extensively automated regression and functional test suites by using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP) - with Automation architecture to set up the framework, generic functions, testing scenarios and function libraries;
• Merged QTP automation code changes per project release;
• Maintained and reviewed the evergreen QTP code weekly with automation architecture after code merge;
• Reviewed the automation nightly regression and analyzed the results;
• Designed and implemented automated regression and functional test in JAVA scripts in DeviceAnywhere for mobile devices;
• Implemented automated test scripts by using Selenium IDE & WebDriver;
• Executed automated Selenium scripts and reproduced failures manually;
• Coordinated appropriate Regression Testing as part of Defect Remediation Sustain process; conducting Daily Defect Triages during Sprint Cycles; tracking defects in JIRA to closure prior to deployment of applications to production environments; participating in Production Validation Testing (PVT) and Warranty Support;
• Executed manual/automation test scripts on Mobile devices (Smartphones/Tablets) for all RWD (responsive web design) per breakpoints;

Environment: Oracle, Windows OS, Apache WebServer, Quality Center, SharePointTechnologies: Window 7/XP/Vista/Firefox/Chrome/Safari, QTP/VB Script, HTML, XML, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Omnibug / Charles proxy for Site Catalyst, DeviceAnywhere for mobile devices

Confidential, IOWA

QA Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and evaluated requirements and specifications for testability and completeness.
• Reported to project and program management
• Planned and developed test plans, cases and scripts
• Used Microsoft Management Test Management (MTM) for test case creation
• Quick set-up, execution and reporting of findings for smoke test for each build.
• Developed, design and implementation of an automation framework for testing with Selenium Web driver.
• Created executable files with Automation Object Model
• Performed and scheduled automated tests using xAFT framework.
• Assigning work to the team members and making sure that it delivered in time.

Environment: C#, ASP.NET Web Forms, JavaScript, JQuery, Selenium Web Driver, Test Tracker.

Confidential, Houston, TX

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Test Plan, High Level Test Cases and Detailed level Test cases.
• Involved in Smoke & Full Regression Testing of the Application in acceptance environment.
• Testing the stories (requirements) manually and automate the test cases and write automation scripts.
• Generated and executed end to end Regression Scripts using Unified Functional Tester and tested functionality of the application.
• Employed Test Driven Development (TDD) & Extreme programming approaches.
• Performing various types of testing including smoke, sanity, functional, end-to-end, GUI, cross-browser, system and regression.
• Testing all the new requirements manually in test environments and ensure that the new and existing functionality is working as expected.
• Testing various aspects of the UI including but not limited to search, shopping cart with different transaction types with different auto-generated barcodes, payment/checkout, report generation and report viewing functionality for business and individual records with criminal history and without criminal history.
• In addition, tested whether application allows adding multiple locations for a business and geo validation of the location by calling another web service, and, Inspections for officers to add ordinances to inspect and generate several types of inspection forms.
• Involved in Bug Verification & Defect Tracking.
• Interacting with clients for requirements, discussing the quality assurance aspect of the application and requirements coverage, GUI, front end testing of web pages, participating in team meetings with developers and Key technical analysts during all phases of SDLC.

Environment: Windows, ASP .net MVC 4.0, C#, Visual Studio 2012/2013, MTM, TFS, UFT.

Confidential, Houston, TX

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the testing of the software for the Time Management and reporting System.
• Managing all phases of testing for assigned components ensuring test plans and test cases are completed and met business requirements.
• Creating and Generating System test scripts for different test scenarios covering all aspects of project functionality.
• Provide direct access to management tools and on-line reports.
• Hire New Employee, Change Employee Status and Administration, E-Benefits, Transfer Employee, Pay Rate Change, Demote Employee, Monitor Health / Safety Incident Details, Emergency Contacts, Job Summary, Job Catalogue, View Job Data Pages
• Executing SIT and UAT test cases
• Logging Variances / defects
• Logging Change Control Requests
• Performing various types of testing, such as functional, regression, user acceptance, negative and installation testing.
• Performing Security testing of the basic security levels in the Client Link application security mechanism.

Environment: Windows, Microsoft Test Manager, Oracle Power Suite, TFS, .net, MS Excel.

Confidential, Bloomingdale, IL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the review of the Business Design documents and in the preparation and execution of Test cases.
• Prepared and executed Test cases in Quality Center.
• Performed Build Acceptance testing, Re testing, System testing and Ad-hoc testing.
• Involved in the preparation and execution of Test Scripts using QTP.
• Using QTP, developed automation Test scripts, inserted Check points, created Output Values, and performed Parameterizing.
• Developed the Data-driven, Keyword-driven automation framework using QTP and customized coding using VB Script.
• Executed QTP scripts for Regression testing on the application with various data sources, data types, and logged the defects.
• Setting up Red Hat Linux Testing Workstations &Installing application and resource pre-requisites on Linux Workstation.
• Working with and installing new releases on Linux using network commands and protocols
• Connected to the product through terminal and used Linux commands to get logs, information and execute Shell scripts
• Testing on Linux via shell scripts, command-line programs and automating test cases using QTP and analyzing results by looking through log files and Windows Client front end
• Performed system and browser compatibility tests on various platforms such as Macintosh, Windows, and Linux Based web browsers.
• Executed test automation, developed test case scripts in Python unit test framework.
• Involved in Batch testing using the tool Batch Runner.
• Participated in team meetings for weekly testing reviews and management updates.
• Involved in preparing timely test reports, status and updated documents.
• Used Quality Center as repository to design and execute test cases, bug tracking and reporting.
• Interacted with the developers to sort out the issues and the defects.
• Participated in Conference Calls, Walkthrough and Review Meetings.

Environment: Windows, Linux, J2EE, Python, HTML, Java Script, Oracle, Quality Center, QTP.

Confidential, Dublin, Ohio

IT QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Business Analyst and QA Lead in reviewing and analyzing the business requirements Documents and functional requirements.
• Created, maintained and updated Test plans, Test Cases and End-To-End Test Scenarios from time to time as per the changes in requirements.
• Responsible for the Functional testing of various components of the application (Order management, Reporting, Pricing updates, Inventory updating, XML data management).
• Created test cases based on Use cases, complex data scenarios and requirements.
• Responsible for comprehensive Functional and Regression testing of the system.
• Created, Updated SQL queries for Data testing and Fulfillment testing of the system.
• Created, Updated Test data for different scenarios based on the Test Cases.
• Created XML test data for cross functional testing of system components.
• Validated XML data for schema compliance and data transfer between components.
• Worked extensively on testing the user access functionality of the user Interface.
• Worked with cross functional teams for integrated testing of the entire system.
• Involved in the review of Test Cases, creating Defect Status reports.
• Documented the validation process for the team to facilitate cross training.
• Programmed setup packages for product in Linux platform
• Deploy test data and application on Linux/ VMWare/Windows VM platforms
• Setup Windows and Linux to Virtual Infrastructure for test environments.
• Assisted in developing automation framework using python for functional testing
• Working closely with business teams for requirement clarifications and resolving issues.
• Validating the changes implemented with every build and to perform regression testing to ensure there are no negative impacts on the system.
• Used Mercury Quality Center for error reporting and communicating between developers, product support and test team members.
• Interacted with developing team to resolve technical issues and investigated software faults.
• Work with offshore team and coordinate regression testing tasks.
• Validating the Test Results, updating in Quality Centre

Environment: SAP, Linux, VMWare, J2EE, XML, Python, Quality Center, Oracle, Toad