SUMMARY

• Over Six Plus Years of experience in Information Technology spanningprojects with an emphasis on Software Quality Assurance, performing Manual and Automated Testing of standalone, client/server, Mob - app, Mob-Web and web applications in Financial/Retail /Telecommunication domains.
• Expertise in analyzing requirement specifications, developing test plans, test cases, test scripts and planning for QA methodologies such as Waterfall method and Agile/Scrum method.
• Excellent understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and analysis, with emphasis on Black Box Testing, Database Testing, GUI testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Load and Performance Testing, User Acceptance Testing.
• Strong Manual Testing skills and proficient in using automated testing tools like UFT, QTP, RFT, Selenium-Webdriver, Selenium IDE, Jira, Win Runner, Load Runner, ALM/Quality Center/Test Director.
• Experienced testing Web Services usingSOA, SOAP UI, and REST & Custom Based Approach.
• Expert at performing Database Testing of back-end tables and data manipulation using SQL.
• Hands on experience in writing and executing automated Test Scripts, Tracking Defects and interacting with the development team in correcting the defects.
• Specialist in using ALM/Quality Center/Test Director, Jira and Team Track (PVCS) for global test management, bug tracking and reporting.
• Experienced in Client/Server application development using Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL Server, MS Access, Visual Basic, VB.NET, and Crystal Reports.
• Extensive experience in setting up and troubleshooting LAN, WAN, Wireless Area Network, Windows Server, Active Directory and recovering data from physically and logically damaged hard drives.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: C, C#, C++, SQL, and Java.

Test Tools: QTP, RFT,UFT, Advance Rest client, HP SOAP UI, SOA, Selenium Webdriver, Selenium IDE

Bug Reporting: Test Director, Quality Center, ALM, Jira, Team Track

Operating System: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/ME/Vista/Windows Server2003 /windows 2007 and Linux.

Web Language: HTML, DHTML, COLDFUSION, ASP, and XML

Servers: RDBMS Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access, Sybase

Scripting: TSL, VBScript, Java script, SQL, PL/SQL, C#, C++

Web Servers: Websphere MQ, Weblogic 5.3, SOAP, REST

App. Servers: IIS, Web Logic

Network: FTP, HTTP, TCP/IP, Telnet

Software: PVCS, MS Word, RMT,CCM,MS Excel, MS Power point, MS FrontPage, MS Outlook, Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Norton, Symantec, VSS, and AutoCAD.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

Sr Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Studied application design and architecture and gathered business requirements and information from business analysts, project managers, architects, subject matter experts and production support team.
• Studied the existing architecture and the proposed architecture finding the difference in terms of software versions and configuration changes and the scaling factor and documenting them
• Identified key business scenarios from application specialists or business analysts
• Testing of Web Services using web services client generated using Apache Axis, SOAP UI, TCP Monitor to track request and response SOAP Messages
• Tested new features manually.
• Worked on developing the QA Test Plan for web/client server applications
• Developed the Use case document web/client server applications
• Performed functional testing, smoke testing, regression testing, end-to-end testing, and load testing
• Developed Test Scenarios
• Developed Test Cases for module, integration and system testing
• Script test cases from user stories.
• Prepared Test Data’s for the test cases
• Developed various types of test cases and executed them in the Quality Center
• Participated in scrum meetings to ensure that the business rules have been addressed properly
• Exported Test case Scripts (Java-Selenium Web driver) in Eclipse IDE and modified the selenium scripts and executed. Prepared automation test framework.
• Added annotations to the test(selenium)
• Tests developed in Eclipse to start and to stop the selenium server and to execute the tests in browser.
• Extensively automated regression and functional test suites by developing test cases, test suites using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, TestNg.
• Implemented Page Objects framework, Hybrid framework and classes from scratch to represent web pages.
• Developed Keyword Driven and Data Driven frameworks to retrieve test actions, test data from Excel files and SQL Databases.
• Performed Defect Tracking & Management in JIRA. Generated automated daily reports using JIRA API.
• Worked in a highly dynamic AGILE environment and participated in scrum and sprint meetings, Retrospective meeting.
• Interacted directly with developers, Project managers and stake holders. Elaborate performance executions and reporting of test performance results in low/High level.
• Developed test plan, test cases and communicated aggressively to get approval/sign off on time from application owners and stake holders.
• Extensive Knowledge and experience in Mobile Application Testing.
• Installed and Validated the applications on Apple ( iPhone) Android Family ( Samsung, LG, HTC)
• Performed Back End testing by writing SQL quarries to retrieve data from Oracle database.
• Wrote extensive SQL quarries to validate data in backend.
• Developed test plan strategy and involved in test client and test environment build.

Environment: Selenium IDE, Selenium Webdriver, ALM11, SOAP UI 5.3, Web Services, Windows Server, .NET, C#, HTTP, XML, SQL, Oracle, Java, SOAP, REST Android (All Devise), Tablet editions (iPad, Samsung Galaxy), IOS (All devices, iphones,ipads)

Confidential, MD

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating test data as per the requirements.
• Responsible for test case creation and update in Enterprise Tester.
• Responsible for test execution and update accordingly in Enterprise Tester.
• Responsible for raising defects in Jira and work with developers to help replicate the issues.
• Perform data validations using SQL Developer and Data Trek.
• Validate the respective data in TSYS and FDR green screens after successful job run.
• Responsible for attending daily scrum meetings to discuss about project related activities.
• Responsible for attending defect triage call with developers to discuss on the issues.
• Responsible for generating the Merchant Settlement Reports.
• Run various jobs at different levels to make sure the payment process is complete.
• Responsible for validating Settlement reports and dispute reports in partner stage on daily basis.
• Verify and validate the emails that were triggered at different stages like member enrollment, credit approval, Payment, Statements.
• Purchase items at different merchant sites, make payments and validate the statements and validate the same data in different Databases.
• Verify and validate if the Account Linking is done successfully.
• Enroll users into different payment plans and validate if the configured payment plans are used for payments.
• Actively involved in all project related activities.
• Responsible for ensuring timely and quality deliverables.
• Help fellow team members to understand the process that I am acquainted with and help them in test execution.

Environment: Enterprise tester V4.10, Jira v6, TSYS, FDR, Putty, SQL developer, Data Trek

Confidential, St.Louis, MO

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed and execute test cases, test scenarios and followed-up defects.
• Involved in preparing test plans and test cases based on system and business requirements.
• Prepared the Test Plan and Test Cases based on the functional specifications.
• Created and Maintained test Requirements in Quality Center
• Documented defects in JIRA General Access (JRA) and helped DIA team & developers to identify the performance issues and modules to be fixed.
• Developed tools for testing needs using VB Script.
• Used Quality center to import test data, keywords, and test cases.
• Written user defined functions using VB Script.
• Developed automated test scripts using VB Script in Quick Test Pro.
• Developed VB script for all the modules which need to be automated
• Extensively used VB Script to develop and execute automation Test scripts using Quick Test Professional.
• Developed Keyword Driven, Test automation Framework in Quick Test Pro.
• Developed VB Script and Enhanced to obtain proper results. Handled dynamically changing Objects through VB Scripting. Split the Script in to number of Actions and made them Reusable.
• Parameterized data for Data driven testing in order to implement Retesting using multiple sets of data.
• Accessed data from the different File systems and Databases to Parameterized data in QTP and Data driven in Win Runner for regression.
• Conducted Functional, Positive/Negative Testing, Integration Testing and System Testing using Quick Test Pro for different modules of application.
• Performed Positive and Negative testing manually.
• Bug reporting, tracking and documentation on the Bug tracking System using Quality Center.
• Analyzed the results of manual and automated tests.
• Performed GUI/ Usability Testing.
• Participated in daily defect tracking conference calls with developers and DIA team.
• Participated in requirement walkthroughs and creation of test plan.
• Conducted Gap Analysis to ensure all Business Requirements were covered by test cases.
• Performed Sanity Testing and Smoke Testing.
• Responsible for coordinating, facilitating, troubleshooting, and maintaining the overall integrity of the production environment.

Environment: HP Quality Center, QuickTestPro, JIRA, Windows 2000/XP, Oracle SQL, XML/HTML.

Confidential, NYCity, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Formulating detailed Test Plan, Test Cases after analyzing business rationale and software requirement artifacts.
• Educated and coached management, project leads, team lead, functional experts, and automation engineers on the best practices for automation.
• Provide technical leadership, support, and mentoring to functional experts and test automation engineers.
• Participated in QA project planning & strategy process
• Responsible for setting up testing environment.
• Reviewed Business Requirement, System Architecture Documents and Used Case Diagrams to write a detailed Performance Test Plan.
• Presided over the Performance Test Plan walkthrough to discuss the approach and confirm with stakeholders that all requirements were covered by the testing effort
• Executed test scripts developed with Quality Center to perform functional testing on the securities business reporting application.
• Prepared the Line of Estimate document for the RTGS -- Outgoing Payments Module.
• Created test scenarios for the Outgoing Payment module as per the Business Requirements and the Technical specification documents.
• Tested in the Integration environment prior to the QA environment.
• Pulled data from a combination of Oracle and Access databases, processed the data, and wrote it out to Excel and Outlook using Microsoft objects.
• Set up WebSphere MQ, created Queue Manager and verified that the XML messages in the queue reach their destination.
• Involved in automation of the test cases for regression testing using VB Scripts
• Extensively used VB Script to develop and execute automation Test scripts using Quick Test Professional.
• Developed VB Script and Enhanced to obtain proper results. Handled dynamically changing Objects through VB Scripting. Split the Script in to number of Actions and made them Reusable.
• Parameterized data for Data driven testing in order to implement Retesting using multiple sets of data
• Used record and Run method to execute the test cases.
• Worked on UNIX shell scripts and executed UNIX commands
• Involved in running UNIX Shell Scripts to back up daily test data.
• Used complex SQL queries to perform Back End Testing manually with UNIX Shell Scripting.
• Conducted Discussions and meetings with designers to understand the application and the overall functionality of the system.
• Used SQL Server and Query Analyzer import and export data, store it in tables, manipulate it via views, and use stored procedures on a daily basis.
• Performed the Back-End integration testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL queries on the Oracle database.
• Prepared weekly and monthly status reports for managerial .
• Bug Reporting and Closure.

Environment: Java / J2ee, Oracle, Pl/SQL, Quality Center,Quick Test Pro Windows XP, SQL Server, Agile