OBJECTIVE

• Seeking a Software QA/Tester position which will require me to utilize my skills, abilities, and experience towards to that field.

SUMMARY

• Over 6+ years of diversified experience in Software Quality Assurance, Analysis, Design, automated testing of client/server and web based applications.
• Expertise in Preparing Effort Estimation, Test Strategies, Metrics, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Data.
• Ability to perform independent preliminary analysis of User, Functional and Business requirements and develop effective solutions to satisfy user requirements.
• Good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Experienced in creating Traceability Matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements.
• Experienced in using ALM/Quality Center for managing test execution and defect tracking of all issues.
• Experienced in providing test management actions and activities (STLC) using ALM/Quality Center.
• Very good in writing SQL queries for backend data validation and data integrity check.
• Experienced in performing regression Testing.
• Experienced in developing regression suite.
• Proficient in maintaining Test Logs, Test Summary reports and participating in defect review/status meetings.
• Experienced in working/coordinating QA efforts with offshore resources.
• Ability to work methodically in a fast - paced, deadline driven environments.
• Excellent Team Member, Mentor with good communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing tools: ALM, HP Quality Center, HP Quick Test Professional(QTP), Test Director, SOAPUI

RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, Db2

Languages/Scripting: C/C++, Java, JavaScript, XML, HTML, Shell Scripting, T-SQL, PL/SQL

Servers: Apache, IIS, IBM WebSphere, Tomcat

Operating Systems: Windows, Macintosh, Solaris, UNIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington, D.C

Senior Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Preparing Test Plan, Test cases and Test data from analyzing the requirements.
• Involved in all phases of testing from attending BRD review meetings to Release testing in different test environments.
• Extensively experienced in designing Test Cases, Test Scenarios, and Test reports.
• Performed Manual, GUI, Functional, Regression, and Smoke testing on the application and Role based testing for SharePoint application.
• Used HP Quality Center to maintain test cases and execute test scenarios, log defects.
• Investigated Software defects and interacted with Business Analysts to update the test cases in Quality Center and Developers to resolve technical issues.
• Worked with business analysts, developers, and content department to resolve issues using Quality Center.
• Responsible for automating, monitoring and maintaining test cases using Quality Center which supports Resco Components for the Microsoft .Net CF environment.
• Executed SQL queries for backend testing.
• Responsible for performing regression testing for every new release.
• Extensively worked on handling the application response for Positive and Negative set of data using Data Driven Testing.
• Involved in System testing and UAT testing.
• Executed the end-to-end testing to test the business flow from Mobile application to report generation.
• Analyzed and communicated test results to management. Made recommendations for product improvements wherever necessary.
• Project’s Offshore/Onsite coordinator - scheduling weekly status calls, offshore status tracking, issue resolution, co-ordination of work-effort to offshore and resource need alignment activities.

Environment: HP Quality Center, J2EE, XML, Java, SOAP, Windows, QTP, SQL Server, MS-Office, Oracle, Sybase translator, UNIX.

Confidential, Chevy Chase, MD

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirement Document (BRD) and developed detailed Test plans, prepared Test cases.
• Reviewed and provided feedbacks on each version of Business and Technical Requirements Specifications.
• Documented the Test Cases using MS-Excel.
• Worked in Quality Center on Mortgage Domains, Loan origination and Loan Disbursement.
• Assisted QA Team in designing Test Scenarios and Test Cases.
• Conducted Black Box, Grey Box, Functional, GUI, Regression, System and UAT testing manually.
• Involved in the testing of the UI Interface and cross browser testing.
• Used Test Director for maintaining requirements, creating test cases, test scripts and executing test scripts.
• Used Test Director for defect tracking.
• Validated the data in the database by running SQL queries.
• Wrote some complex PL/SQL queries for testing Back end database tables.
• Tested the functionality in various subsystems like Claims Adjudication and pricing, Finance, Member management and managed care using QTP.
• Automated the manual test cases using QTP for Regression and Functional Testing.
• Involved in defect validation and regression testing using QTP.
• Analyzed Test Results and created Test Matrix.
• Worked in an Agile environment, with an ability to accommodate and test the newly proposed changes at any point of time during the release.
• Conducted regular status meetings with the team to discuss on work assignments, task evaluation, address any open issues and concerns.

Environment: Windows, UNIX, Oracle, SQL Server, PL/SQL, Java, jQuery, Visual Basic, XML, Informatica, QTP, JavaScript, HTML, UML, MS Visio, MS Project, Windows, Test Director.