SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of professional experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing.
• Extensively experienced in Entire Software Development Life Cycle and Test Development Life Cycle.
• Involved in Test design, Test development and implementation of test procedures in Manual and Automation testing.
• Experienced in Testing web applications, single - page applications and web services.
• Experienced with Integration testing setting up and managing test environments.
• Experienced in planning, coordinating and performing Integration Testing, Validation Testing, Functionality Testing and Regression Testing.
• Experienced in working with testing automation tools like HP ALM/Quality Center.
• Ability to update Test Cases and Test Scripts in HP ALM/Quality Center.
• Extensively experienced in Backend testing of the application by writing SQL queries.
• Ability to Create Test data for running the automated Test scripts using QTP/UFT.
• Experienced in Debugging the Test data and Test scripts while running the QTP/UFT scripts.
• Working knowledge in 508 Compliance testing with JAWS.
• Proficient in Regression testing using QTP/UFT.
• Experienced in writing complex SQL queries and proficient in Database testing especially in back end testing.
• Web service testing application using SOA
• Capable with web service resting with SOAP UI.
• Experienced in ETL testing with thorough knowledge of the ETL Testing life cycle familiarity with InformaticaPowercenter designer and SAS using SAS PROD SQL.
• Ability to create detailed test documentation based on limited information and investigative practices.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills backed up by sound professional ability to work independently as well as a team member.
• Ability to coordinate testing meetings with various stakeholders to solve various business problems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Automation Tools: UFT, QuickTest Pro, ALM/Quality Center, JAWS, SOAP UI

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, Linux

Programming Languages: Java, VB, VB Script, SQL, PL/SQL, JavaScript

Databases: Oracle, MS-SQL Server, MySQL, MS Access

Web servers: IIS, Apache

Other Tools: MS Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington, DC

Test Automaton Lead

• Performed m anual testing for the entire application.
• Verified that new or upgraded applications meet specified requirements.
• Monitored and administrated hardware capacity to ensure that the necessary resources are available for all tests.
• Provided support to the development team in identifying real world use cases and appropriate workflows.
• Performed in-depth analysis to isolate points of failure in the application.
• Prepared Automation Test Plans and Test Data Sheets for Web Testing.
• Implemented and maintained an effective automated test environment and the QA Lab.
• Implemented HP ALM/Quality Center for running Test sets in batch mode and analyze test results.
• Developed and maintained Manual and UFT Automation Tests through Quality Center/ALM.
• Created Driver Scripts in Quality Center to run the Sanity; Used Scheduler to schedule scripts run at particular time.
• Supported the use of Quality Center/ALM for automation metrics tracking and test execution.
• Ensured that quality issues are appropriately identified, analyzed, documented, tracked and resolved in Quality Center/ALM.
• Responsible for writing Startup scripts and Compiled Module Functions for front and backend validation.
• Wrote and executed SQL queries for validating test results.
• Involved in creating and executing VB Scripts in UFT and managing the data in Quality Center.
• Performed Regression testing using Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Built Script with Data Driven Methodology which applies the Business rules to validate the components displayed on the website using UFT.
• Implemented the Regular Expressions in GUI maps to run the tests in System Test, Integration Test, UAT using UFT.
• Developed and maintained Functional Libraries, Object repositories and Descriptive programming techniques in UFT.
• Developed both Data-driven and Keyword-driven Framework for automating the testing process using UFT.
• Produced regular project status reports to senior management to ensure on-time project launch.
• Performed cross browser testing to ensure compatibility of the application on Internet Explorer and Firefox.
• Used UFT and JAWS to perform 508 Compliance Testing.
• Wrote the scripts for evaluating the conformance level as per WCAG 2.0.
• Wrote the script to read the data from Web Table for 508 compliance testing.
• Wrote the script to capture the Alt properties using record and run and descriptive programming of UFT.
• Developed and automated Web Services API testing using open source frameworks such as Soap UI with SOAP and RESTful request.
• Checked assertions (Contains, Not Contains, XPath Match and XQuery Match) in SOUP UI.
• Examined the sensible reading of the web page and other software documents using JAWS.
• Worked closely with software developers and take an active role in ensuring that the software components meet the highest quality standards.
• Involved in reporting weekly project condition to the project manager and worked as a team lead.
• Contributed and administered the Agile Sprint process through JIRA management system.
• Supervised a small team comprising of 5 - 7 testers to perform some modules of the project.

Environment: Manual testing, UAT, Facets, UFT/QTP, ALM/Quality Center, VB Script, Agile (Scrum), JIRA, Oracle, SQL, TOAD, Java, J2EE, Java Script, SOAP UI,SOA, ETL, SAS, HTML, XML, WebSphere, EDI, MS Office and Windows XP.

Confidential, Falls Church

Automaton Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Test Cases prepared by the Test Consultants based on Business Rules and Functional Requirements.
• Designed and implemented Test plans for critical and complex, custom-designed, multi-tier, mobile, business and web based applications.
• Participated with Project Teams through the Planning, development and Test stages to ensure full understanding of business requirements.
• Prepared Test Cases based on Business Rules and Functional Requirements.
• Conducted Testing impact assessments for project change requests.
• Used HP ALM as Defect tracking system to maintain defects.
• Worked with HP ALM for Test analysis, Planning, Traceability matrix, log the new defects and the tracking of defects.
• Responsible for writing complex SQL Queries to find out that the data is correctly populated in each field.
• Developed automated scripts for functional testing using UFT.
• Conducted Data Driven testing using parameterization in UFT to test the application with different sets of data.
• Verified the functionality of integrated, multi-environment enterprise solutions using UFT.
• Defined user defined parameters to execute various functions in UFT.
• Worked with scripting languages such as VB and shell scripts for automatic testing.
• Recorded and documented results and compare to expected results.
• Tested Web Services using Soap UI with Soup request.
• Used UFT and JAWS to perform 508 Compliance Testing.
• Wrote the scripts for evaluating the conformance level as per WCAG 2.0.
• Examined the sensible reading of the web page and other software documents using JAWS.
• Validated the data mapping in the ETL using SAS with SAS PROD SQL while working with InformaticaPowercenter designer
• Detected and communicated software failures so that defects may be discovered and corrected.
• Implement automated test queries, scripts and other deliverables.
• Participated in development meetings and Agile Development Sprints.
• Contributed and administered the Agile Sprint process through JIRA management system.
• Involved in Defect Analysis and Review meetings.
• Worked as a lead of a small team comprising of 3 - 5 testers to perform some portions of the project.

Environment: ALM, UFT, J2EE, Oracle, SQL, Java,SOA, .NET, XML, Html, Windows, UNIX, ETL, SAS, SAS PROD SQL, SOAP UI, JAWS, JIRA.

Confidential, Bowie, MD

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and approved Test plans, scenarios, scripts or procedures.
• Responsible for implementing the QA process at all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Designed tests using keyword driven methodology for selected area.
• Involved in training and knowledge transfer and sharing sessions.
• Developed and documented Testing Strategies for Manual and Automated testing.
• Involved in Defect Management using HP Quality Center.
• Tested SQL queries, PL/SQL scripts to validate the data.
• Developed Automation scripts for Receiving, Staging, and Data Input and Processing module using QTP.
• Developed QTP Scripts and executed them for test data set up required to conduct Functional testing.
• Captured the run time data into the data table by using Output Value feature of QTP.
• Used Data Table of QTP for data driven testing.
• Examined HIPPA compliance.
• Used UFT and JAWS to perform 508 Compliance Testing.
• Developed and automated Web Services API testing using open source frameworks such as Soap UI with SOAP request.
• Did assertion checks (Contains, Not Contains, XPath Match and XQuery Match) in SOUP UI.
• Interacted closely with Development and QA teams on a regular basis.
• Reported status updates to senior staff.
• Reviewed documentation of software defects and assign software developers to investigate and resolve the issue.
• Reviewed and approved test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates.
• Summarized and documented problems with program function output online screen or content.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, Window, IBM AIX, Oracle, Visual Basic, XML, JAWS, HIPAA

Confidential, Dearborn, Michigan

Test Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented the Test case and Test process with project time frames.
• Communicated Testing results the Product Management and Product Development teams.
• Identified, created and executed application, functional and regression tests and test scenarios for validating requirements and user acceptance criteria.
• Documented test procedures to ensure compliance with standards.
• Tracked bugs and reported defects using HP Quality Center.
• Created Test plans and Test cases into Quality Center (QC).
• Analyzed System Requirements and developed Test Plan, Test Procedures and Test Cases using QC.
• Tested the modules on the application by Manual Testing and Data validation using SQL queries.
• Mapped the custom objects to the standard objects where necessary, and inserted GUI, Bitmap and Text checkpoints where needed, to compare the current behavior of the application being tested to its behavior in the earlier version using Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Optimized QTP scripts for Regression testing of the application with various data sources and data types.
• Participated in Quality center administration training, and use QC for test managing with QTP.
• Validated and verified the implementation of infrastructure and application security features.
• Coordinated with beta client team for application configuration issues, defect analysis and timely release of test versions of application.
• Investigated customer problems referred by technical support.

Environment: Quality center, QTP, Windows, Oracle, VB Script, HTML, MS Office, XML, MS SQL, SQL Server, UNIX.