OBJECTIVE

• To obtain a QA position where my experience and skills will be utilized to further the goals of an organization.

SUMMARY

• Over 4 years of progressive, hands - on software quality assurance and automated test development experience, with a sound understanding of Quality processes and methodologies and their purpose and place within the SDLC.
• Expertise in creating Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test scenario, designed manual Test cases, automated Test scripts, Test Summary Report, Gap Analysis, and Traceability Matrix for defined business processes.
• Excellent knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and industry standard methodologies like as Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall and Agile.
• Expertise in manual testing with exposure to automated testing.
• Experienced in analyzing software requirements, executing test cases, reporting and tracking defects.
• Experienced in Functional, System, Integration, Regression, Database, GUI, Smoke and User Acceptance Testing.
• Knowledge in C++, JAVA, VB, SQL, Oracle, XML, UNIX Shell Scripting, Relational Database Management Systems.
• Proficient in using Bug tracking and Test management tool ALM, Quality Center and TestDirector.
• Experienced in working on Quality Center for creating and documenting Test Plans and Test Cases and registering the expected results.
• Experienced in using Quality Center/TestDirector to communicate and coordinate software bug fixes, change requests, and supports high level of communication among the testers, developers and managers.
• Experienced in performing Manual Testing of web-based and client-server enterprise applications and used Quality Center for test management.
• Experienced on writing complex SQL queries and PL/SQL procedures to extract data from various source tables to perform database testing.
• Experienced in developing and executing automation Regression testing and System testing using QTP and Quality Center.
• Experienced in working on QTP to validate links, objects, images and text on GUI interface.
• Experienced in creating user-defined functions to check the different functionalities of the application using VB Script in QTP.
• Experienced in performing Data driven testing to validate the components displayed on the website using QTP.
• Experienced in designing and implementation of Various Frameworks in QTP.
• Strong written & verbal skills in order to communicate with all levels of the organization.
• Proven experience in UNIX, XML, Java Script, SOA and SQL testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: ALM, Quality Center, TestDirector, QuickTest Professional, SOAP UI

Databases: MS SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, MS SQL Server, C/C++, VB, Java

Scripting Languages: UNIX Shell Scripting, VB Script, Java Script

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX

Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, and XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington, DC

QTP Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved heavily in converting Business Requirements into Functional requirements.
• Performed manual testing for functional testing and backend testing.
• Conducted End to End and Black box testing.
• Actively involved in black box, functional, regression, system, integration, positive, negative, GUI, performance, load and UAT testing of the application.
• Prepared Test Traceability Matrix to confirm the test coverage and mapped it with Test cases using Quality Center.
• Extensively used Quality center for storing all Test plan documents, Test case documents and record defects.
• Interacted with developers and business Users to communicate the defects and actively participated in replicating the bugs and performed regression testing using Quality Center.
• Created Test Data using SQL that involves interaction Kaiser Permanente’s interface partners.
• Wrote SQL queries for back-end testing.
• Developed Custom Function, Descriptive Programming to create test scripts using VB script(QTP) to perform automated test.
• Used QTP checkpoints to automatically capture and verify properties of objects on web page to verify proper functionality.
• Worked on QTP to validate links, objects, images and text on GUI interface to verify its proper functionality.
• Used automated test scripts, user-defined functions to check the different functionalities of the application using VB Script in QTP.
• Performed test case automation by developing a Data driven framework using QTP.
• Involved in designing a Hybrid Automation Framework using QTP.
• Performed Cross browser testing is used on Internet explorer and Netscape navigator for browser compatibility.
• Coordinated User Acceptance Test (UAT) processes and documented and addressed all the issues during the process.
• Interacted with the development configuration and operation's team to ensure the quality of software to user expectations.
• Verified the integration of various components in the application and executed end-to-end testing.
• Participated in Release Review/Requirement Analysis and Design review meetings.

Environment: ALM, QTP,SOAP UI, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, Java, UNIX.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QTP Developer

Responsibilities:

• Performed QA processes collaborating with the development team for ensuring high quality software releases using Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Involved in reviewing requirements and designed walkthrough with Business analysts and developers.
• Managed day-to-day activities and interactions with the client.
• Analyzed requirements, reviewing functional specification documents against business requirement documents of reports.
• Performed GUI, Functionality, System, Integration, Regression, Business Objects Reports, Data Base, Ad-hoc and User Acceptance testing.
• Performed Positive and Negative testing against requirements.
• Wrote Test Cases in Quality Center.
• Executed and managed test cases and reported bugs using Quality Center.
• Involved in writing and executing SQL queries for back-end testing.
• Responsible for validation of Target data in Data Warehouse and Data Marts which are Transformed and Loaded using SQL quires.
• Developed Automated Test scripts using QTP to perform Functional and Regression testing.
• Used QTP to create VB scripts by recording user actions and writing re-usable functions.
• Inserted verifications and checkpoints to compare the actual results to the expected results in QTP.
• Performed Data Driven testing using parameterization in QuickTest Professional (QTP) to test the application with different sets of data.
• Identified Testing Scenarios to Automate; created Business and Generic functions using VBScript.
• Prepared and Executed Test Script, Complex Functions, Parameterized the data, and used Windows scripting and handlers at scripting part of un-identified objects by QTP.
• Developed a Keyword Driven Automation Framework using QTP to automate the testing system.
• Prepared status summary reports with details of executed, passed and failed test cases.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, ASP.NET, VB.NET, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, Shell Scripting, XML, SQL Server, UNIX