SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of experience in the field of Information Technology with emphasis in Software Quality Assurance and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Extensive experience in Client/Server and Web - based applications using System, Functional, Integration, Black Box, Unit, Regression testing, and UAT.
• Experience with Fast paced environment like Agile/Scrum Methodology.
• Extensive experience in Manual and Automated testing using Quick Test Pro/ UFT, Quality Center (QC).
• Solid Experience on testing tools like Quick Test Pro (QTP), Selenium, Quality Center (QC), ALM & SOAP UI.
• Expertise in writing Test Plans, Test cases and Test execution using QC.
• Expertise in Test reporting and Analysis using JIRA and ALM.
• Experience in designing and implementation of Test Cases and Test Scripts in various Frameworks in UFT and QTP, and specifically skilled at Hybrid driven Framework using QTP.
• Experience in writing complex SQL queries to extract data from various source tables to perform Database testing.
• Skilled in formulating Test Strategies and methodologies, Test Plans, Test cases, based on User Requirement and Business Requirement documents, setting up testing environment, and writing Requirement Traceability Matrices.
• Strong experience in Defect Management and Tracking, Test Execution, Test Report generation, and Analysis using Quality Center, JIRA & ALM.
• Experience in various industry sectors like airline, university & pharmaceuticals.
• Team Player with Strong Analytical, Interpersonal, Decision making, and Communication Skills.
• Can work well under pressure with a consistent performance.
• Self-Starter and a Quick learner with a result oriented approach to Problem Solving.
• Managed QA/testing through all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle including Requirement, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Implementation, Maintenance, and Support.
• Have a system level understanding of the software being tested.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Automation Tools: Selenium IDE, Mercury/HP s Quick Test Professional(QTP), Quality Center(QC),Win Runner

Test/Project Management Tools: Version One, Mercury/HP s Quality Center(QC), Mercury s Test Director, FireBug, Microsoft Test Manager (MTM)

Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA, Rally, Mercury/HP s Quality Center, Bugzilla, Clear Case

Programming Languages: Visual Basic, C, Visual C++, C#, Java

Scripting Languages: VBScript, JavaScript, TSLWeb Technologies HTML, CSS, XML, SOAP UI

Databases: My SQL, Oracle 10g, DB2

Browsers: Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Opera, IE, Safari

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Unix, MS-DOS, Macintosh

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston

Sr QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Generated Automation test scripts in order to test Reservations Module of web application, including Enrollment, Make Flight Reservation, Check-in for Flight & Payments. Maintained customer reservation details in database.
• Validated user interface for seating selection.
• Analyzed software specifications and technical description documents.
• Identified the Business requirements and was involved in Manual and Automated testing of the front-end application.
• Involved in the development of test procedures for various stages like Integration, System, Functional, Positive, Negative, Cross platform, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Generated manual Test plans, Test suites, Test cases, Test steps and Test execution using Quality Center (QC).
• Developed automated scripts using UFT to perform functional and regression testing during various phases of the application.
• Created and executed Data driven test scripts in UFT using Parameterization.
• Inserted Check Points to Check for the broken Links, Text, and standard properties of an object using UFT. Managed Object Repositories.
• Extensively worked onHP Quality Center11.0 andUFT.
• Created best practices documents forUFT.
• UsedCheck Points, Output Values, Recovery Scenarios, Regular Expressions, and Object Repository Administrationextensively inUFT.
• Checked the data flow from the frontend to backend and vice versa using SQL queries. Also wrote SQL Queries to extract data from various Database tables.
• Reported and analyzed test results using QC.
• Verified bug fixes in all iterations based on various configurations.
• Parameterized various links in the application for functional/Integration Testing.
• Analyzed the discrepancies, severity, tracking system and reporting through QC.
• Reported defects to the team lead and helped the developer to resolve the technical issues.

Environment: UFT, Quality Center (QC) 11.0, SQL, VBScript, Windows NT, Oracle, HTML,JIRA, Java, JavaScript, JUnit.

Confidential, Houston

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on an agile development environment - consisting of many iterative releases with extensive co-ordination between the developers, testers and business analysts.
• Participated in daily Scrum meetings and provided significant feedback for day to day issues for each sprint.
• Created Automation test scripts in order to test Flights Module of web application, including Hotel Booking,Car Rentals and vacation packages. Maintained customer reservation details in database.
• Analyzed software specifications and technical description documents.
• Identified the Business requirements and was involved in Manual and Automated testing of the front-end application.
• Involved in the development of test procedures for various stages like Sanity, Functional, Regression, System and User Acceptance testing.
• Generated manual Test plans, Test suites, Test cases, Test steps and Test execution using Quality Center (QC).
• Developed automated scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP) to perform functional and regression testing during various phases of the application.
• Created and executed Data driven test scripts in QTP using Parameterization.
• Checked the data flow from the frontend to backend and vice versa using SQL queries. Also wrote SQL Queries to extract data from various Database tables.
• Reported and analyzed test results using QC.
• Verified bug fixes in all iterations based on various configurations.
• Parameterized various links in the application for functional/Integration Testing.
• Analyzed the discrepancies, severity, tracking system and reporting through QC.
• Reported defects to the team lead and helped the developer to resolve the technical issues.

Environment: Quick Test Pro (QTP) 9.5/10.0, Quality Center (QC) 9.2/9.5,, SQL, VBScript, Windows NT, Oracle, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JUnit.

Confidential, Chicago

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on an agile development environment - consisting of many iterative releases with extensive co-ordination between the developers, testers and business analysts.
• Participated in daily Scrum meetings and provided significant feedback for day to day issues for each sprint.
• Validated user interface for Alumni System usingSelenium and performed xml/xsd data parsing using SOAP UI.
• Created Test Assertions from API Specs and other using SOAP UI.
• Experienced in web application testing with Selenium test scripts.
• Executed preliminary testing using Selenium IDE. Recorded and played back test steps for prototyping using Selenium IDE.
• Good command on Functional, Integration, and Regression Testing using Selenium.
• Used Firebug for the web based application testing with Selenium for the commands and locator application, including Xpaths.
• Checked the data flow from the frontend to backend and vice versa using SQL queries. Also wrote SQL Queries to extract data from various Database tables.
• Supported UAT for functional business logic validation and presented QA role as SME.
• Created manual Test plans, Test suites, Test cases, Test steps and defects using QC.
• Performed regression testing and log results in QC.
• Analyzed the discrepancies, severity, tracking system and reporting through JIRA
• Generated QA status report for daily planning, progress and execution
• Designed automated/manual scripts for over all QA planning phase.
• Worked closely with Business teams and participated in Business Acceptance Testing (BAT).
• Actively participated in QA team meetings and walkthroughs for weekly QA
• Testing review meetings.

Environment: Selenium IDE/RC, QC, JIRA, Java, JUnit, Oracle, Eclipse, SOAP UI, XML, HTML, WSDL, FireBug, SQl JavaScript.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in mapping requirements to testing scenarios to ensure that all requirements are covered.
• Actively participated in testing phase of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) of application.
• Delivered traceability of requirements and defects along with implementing these requirements using QTP and create defects Involved in Backend testing.
• SQL Queries for backend testing .Checking the functionality of the database, to verify the functionality of the database.
• Involved in-group meetings with users and interacted with them for changes in applications
• Reviewed Business, Technical requirements, Test Plan to develop Test Cases.
• Responsible for executing the test cases and test scripts, documented defects in Quality Center and reported it to development team.
• Prepared weekly status reports.
• Mentoring each one of us within the team, Documenting workflows, flowcharts, Procedures.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing with the Users.
• Actively participated in enhancement meetings focused at making the application more reliable.
• Involved and helped the team in several production releases.
• Involved in End-To-End testing and responsible to complete in an estimated time.
• Coordinating efforts with the development team to solve the problems.
• Created test schedules and formulated deadlines and strategies.
• Reviewed and approved test runs.
• Participated in Defect and General Review meetings with the team members.
• Validated the application against the expected results by inserting Databases, Bitmaps and GUI checkpoints.
• Created test schedules and formulated deadlines and strategies.
• Participated in Defect and General Review meetings with the team members.

Environment: Waterfall, ALM, QTP, Windows, UNIX, Excel, Oracle, HTML, XML, SQL server, MS Office.