Objective

• Pursue a Senior QA position by joining a progressive and dynamic organization that has reputation for excellence by playing an important role while utilizing my Expertise, Experience, Knowledge and Ideas for the progress and success of the organization while succeeding on duties.

SUMMARY

• Over Ten years of experience as Quality Assurance Engineer including Team Lead with Client Server and Web - based applications using various market leading tools and latest concepts.
• Experienced in various Manual, Automated, UAT testing, methods, test strategies to meet fast evolving requirements.
• Working experience in fast paced various industry domain- Financial, Banking, Health Care, Federal, E-Commerce.
• Experienced in Government agencies such as Confidential Bank, Confidential, Confidential (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid).
• Familiar with several Software Development Methodologies like Agile, Waterfall/Classic, Rapid Application Development (RAD), Spiral, Prototype in relation to development and testing.
• Expert in establishing appropriate QA policies, Process, Procedures, Test Strategies to ensure quality product.
• Familiar in all phases of SDLC notably with Requirements gathering, Design, Testing, Post Productions support.
• Well versed in all phases of STLC from Requirement Analysis to User Acceptance Testing.
• Skilled in writing System Test Plans, Test Cases, Matrices and developing & maintaining Test Scripts.
• Familiar in developing Pseudo Test Data for the required test scenarios using various tools including Microsoft suite.
• Experienced in planning of automation needs, defined business requirement through JAD sessions and likewise.
• Skilled in various Requirement Reviews like BRD, FRD, SRD and FDD’s.
• Used QTP/UFT to generate API test scripts to programmatically simulate data and control follow scenarios.
• Proficient in sprint planning, review, schedule and providing status on daily Scrum meeting for Agile environment.
• Experienced in UFT (QTP) Programming VBScripts, developing reusable Functional libraries which are used in different scripts. Also skilled in creating custom objects, Function Libraries, scripts for Web Service Test.
• Experienced in testing XML based communications between interfaces in client server and web applications.
• Strong Knowledge of RDBMS tools like Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Access for both testing and programming facets.
• Proficient in Functional Test, System Integration Test, GUI Test, Smoke Test, Integration Test, White Box Test, Regression Test, Frontend Test, Positive-Negative Test, AD hoc Test, User Acceptance Test etc.
• Experienced in performing Volume, Stress and Performance test using HP LoadRunner/ALM Performance Center.
• Experienced in Compatibility Testing with Multiple Operations Systems, Environments and Multiple browsers.
• Proficient in creating complex-queries to support Manual and Back-End testing.
• Strong knowledge and hands on experience on Defect Management Process, Defect Management Tools.
• Proficient in Section 508 accessibility Compliance tests requirements tools, process, preparing VPAT.
• Expertise in updating Load Runner Scripts for Parameterization, Correlation, Error Handling, Analyzing results, Graphs and preparing executive summary for various teams and Management.
• Experienced in establishing Performance Baseline then identifying improvement areas for software and hardware.
• Strongly committed to timelines for deliverables, accuracy and quality of assignments.
• Proficient in impact analysis of Defect Report to trace grey areas of the application in various releases and builds.
• Productive contributor to team responsibilities and self-managed tasks with ability to consistently deliver multiple concurrent projects within strict deadlines, limited resources, constrains.
• Motivated, consistent, well-organized, and dependable with the flexibility to adapt and Think out of the Box.
• Capable to maintain highest level of performance despite constant shifting of priorities, customer-product needs.
• Strong, Precise Written and Oral communication skills with excellent Presentation and Organizational expertise.
• Determined Interpersonal, Learning, Mentoring capability matched with skills to manage stress and time effectively.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: UFT, LoadRunner, QC, Clear Quest, JIRA, JAWS, NVDA, WAT, ARIA, JUICY, WAVE, Dragon

Operating System: Windows NT, Windows, DOS, MAC, UNIX, ISPF, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux, HP-UX, AIX.

Database/Tools: MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle(9i,11g,12g), MS Access, DB2, Sybase, TOAD, DOORS.

Application Server: WebLogic, WebMethods, Sun application server, Confidential WebSphere, IIS.

Web Servers: Microsoft IIS, Apache, Sun Java system, Web Server.

Scripting Languages: Java, C++, Visual Basic, .NET, SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL, HTML, XHTML, XSL.

Version Managers: Visual SourceSafe, CVS, ClearCase, SVN.

Other Tools: MS Office, MS Outlook, MS Visual Studio, Microsoft Project, WebSphere MQ, Autosys.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in both Business and System requirement reviews where discussions supported product knowledge and product testing strategies. Also supported BAs in requirements gathering.
• Developed Traceability Matrix to map Business & Functional requirements with Test Cases.
• Participated in Sprint planning meeting (SPM). Helped in preparing Baseline User Story. Attended Sprint Review meeting (SRM). Helped in Spike resolution, Product Backlog review, daily Scrum call.
• Conducted walkthrough with Business Analysts and Developers to clarify issues related to requirements.
• Created the knowledge base documents based on reviews and tests which helped in better testing efforts.
• Wrote Detailed Test Cases and verified against BR. Created Test Scripts for the changes in existing/new features.
• Tested the data flow for their existence and validity through different Database objects like- database schema, views.
• Performed extensiveManual testingthen used QTP/UFT to generate Automated test scripts to programmatically simulate data and control follow scenarios.
• Performed End-To-End and Regression testing for modifications in the application and new builds using QTP/UFT.
• Used SOAP UI to Submit Data into Application and checked Data indignity in Front End and Back End.
• Developed performance test plans, test scripts, scenarios and setup test environments analyzing requirements & SLA.
• Used Site Scope Performance monitors andLoadRunnergraphs to analyze the results.
• Coordinated test results looking for inconsistencies, bottleneck. Prepared Executive summary and recommendations.
• Used ALM/Quality Center for requirement management, Test planning, Test Execution and reporting Involved in Front End testing and Compatibility testing of the Web based applications.
• Performed functional test in Development/Test/Pre-Production environment to verify that all functionality works according to the functional specification and fulfills all requirements.
• Prepared Impact Analysis of defect report to find the grey areas and interacted with developers for fixing bugs.
• Reported bugs to the bug tracking system ALM and verified known bugs against new builds.
• Performed Smoke, Integration, Connectivity, System, GUI, Functional, Positive-Negative, End-to-End, Ad-Hoc testing, Compatibility testing across entire software application.
• Tested after CRs implementation in Development and QA/Test environment.
• Performed UAT (User Acceptance Testing) sessions with the key SMEs, Business owners and clients.
• Hosted meetings for test script creations and walkthrough, script execution, UAT sign-off with all the business people.
• Checked the UAT results and marked their readiness for the product launch on the integrated short code.
• Conducted Status review and prepared status compilation reports to achieve milestones and deadlines for various teams including management group on weekly basis.
• Identified the risk factors in test execution and defined the bottleneck process.
• Made operational recommendations to management and the development team.
• Provided post production supports including Technical support and Maintenance support.
• Prepared Test deliverables including test results and defect status reports.
• Provided post production supports including Technical Support, Confidential Maintenance support.
• Maintained 508 Compliance test sections and Section 508 related Defects in ALM/QC.
• Carried out extensive 508 Compliance Test. Helped GUI and Web developers in fixing defects.
• Wrote VPAT, Test Summary Report, ALM defect Report for the team.

Confidential

Sr. Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Examined business functionalities, reviewed requirements, studied Use Case Specifications and designed test cases to satisfy both business and functional requirements in an evolving environment.
• Prepared Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test environment, Test data, Test Matrix, Reports.
• Planed, scheduled, coordinated and performed Smoke test, Back-End test, Functional test, GUI, Regression test, Ad-hock test, Black box test, visual test, integration test, system test, End-To-End test.
• Created and executed Test Cases, Test Scripts after reviewing the business requirement documents and technical specifications. Responsible for creating and updating existing test cases against new CRs.
• Actively participated in Sprint Planning meetings, Technical meeting and reviews with On & Offsite Teams to assess impacts on test plan and test strategy due to CR’s and new functionalities added in Applications.
• Presented test cases at cross functional test case peer review meetings with internal and external teams of Testers, Developers, Business analysts and product management teams. Made modification based on recommendations.
• Worked in very tight, dynamic and fast paced environment. Coordinated with other teams and implemented efficient testing strategies to leverage deadlines. Mitigated any bottle neck for the testing effort.
• Moderated daily status meetings, attended weekly status meetings, client interviews.
• Wrote knowledge base documents from information gathered by the reviews and tests to help in better testing efforts. Trained new team members, other teams, supported as SME.
• Created, tested and debugged complex SQL queries involving multiple conditions for Oracle, DB2 DB.
• Created, modified and analyzed XML files using XML Spy.
• Developed automated test scripts for Functionality and Regression Testing using QTP/UFT.
• Performed web test using QTP/UFT checking page contents, broken links, web objects, checkpoints, frames, tables.
• Responsible for creating the test cases and scripts in ALM and Mapping them with the requirements.
• Provided defect status reports & test-case execution reports on weekly basis using ALM/Quality Center.
• Performed Smoke, Regression and System testing to verify incremental and existing functionality of various Builds.
• Tested critical User Stories related to Validating Instrument Readiness for Run, Performing Run, Injection, Reinjection, Monitoring incremental run, Sequencing, Fragment and HID Instrument Performance checks.
• Interacted with Developers, System Analysts, Product Management, Customers, User Interaction and Usability Testing groups and Customer Support on a regular basis.
• Involved in knowledge transfer sessions and design reviews with development, test team and mentored them in creating effective test cases as per the set guidelines to provide maximum testing coverage.
• Involved in Application review meetings. Discussed issues, status for tracking the progress with project teams.
• Performed UAT sessions with the key SMEs, Business owners and clients.
• Prepared Test Summary reports to inform the testing effort Test managers, Developers, Release managers.
• Provided daily and weekly Defect status updates to Test Manager. Escalated issues to the Management as well as Developers as needed and discussed defects in Bug Triage Meeting.
• Presented Test cases at Cross functional test case review meetings with test team, system analyst and product management teams and have emphasized need for better change control process for critical user stories.
• Conducted Smoke, GUI, Integration, System, and Regression Testing on web based application.
• Carried out extensive 508 Compliance Test. Helped GUI and Web developers in fixing defects.
• Logged, maintained and retested defects in QC for Section 508 failures.
• Assisted developers with understanding and resolving the functional, nonfunctional, compatibility 508 defects.
• Wrote VPAT for Section 508 Compliance test. Trained Development, QA team on using various 508 tools, standards.

Confidential

Sr. Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) and System Design Specification (SDS).
• Based on the functional requirements and Technical specifications, wrote comprehensive Test Plans, Test Cases, and created Test Scripts. Involved both developers and BA's in writing/reviewing these.
• Worked closely with business analyst, Developers and database architects inidentifying the outstanding issues and contradictory statements in User requirements.
• Led the Test planning, Test coverage analysis and review Test estimates, schedules & Monitored progress.
• Performed manual testing and wrote several SQL queries and Procedures.
• Performed Back-End testing for the validity of the backend data by using SQL queries in Oracle database.
• Executed various SQL queries to extract the data using TOAD from database.
• Generated an Effective and Efficient Automation Frame work on QTP Using VB Script with Appropriate Modular driven testing, Function driven Testing, Hybrid testing, Data and Keyword driven testing.
• Created various Checkpoints and Parameterized tests. Ran and analyzed tests with regular expressions.
• Performed Database, Functional, Integration and Regression Testing using QTP.
• Used QTP to automate the applications. Run the tests for release as part of Functional, Regression tests.
• Utilized Quality Center for tracking requirements and communicating them to the team during the test Process ensuring that all the communication about a Requirement is in a single location.
• Utilized Quality Center for storing requirements, test cases, and defect tracking and test reporting.
• Coded customized scripts to measure the performance using LoadRunner based on the user workflows.
• Developed Performance test scenarios with VUgen, debugged scripts, ran the scenarios in LoadRunner Controller.
• Analyzed LoadRunner results, presented test results in graphical form in the Performance test review meetings.
• Created Load Test scripts with Virtual users (VUsers) and test Scenarios, Executed Record and play back and applied various loads on application successfully, escalated load issues using LoadRunner.
• Attended Weekly Defect Triage meetings with the QA, Dev, BA team to track status formulated recommendations.
• Interacted with the development team to fix defects as per the defect report. Provided reports to QA management.
• Reviewed test estimates, schedules & monitored progress while communicating and coordinating.
• Prepared status compilation and status reporting of the team on weekly basis and handled a team of 4.
• Attended meetings involving Developers, DBAs, Business Analysts and Management to track application changes.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Based on the Use Case and Functional Design Requirements, created Test Cases, Test Scenarios and Test Scripts for Manual and Automation testing process.
• Implemented the QA processes from Planning, Capturing, Creating, Executing, Reporting and Tracking defects.
• Created Traceability matrix for the application to keep track of requirement coverage.
• Tested and validated Company´s products using ALM/Quality Centre.
• Performed extensive Ad Hoc testing to search for small or fatal errors in various components of software.
• Executed SQL queries to search for records for the purpose of Back-End testing.
• Performed Backend Testing by writing SQL queries to review the returned data to ensure retrieval correct data.
• Validated testing and data using SQL and PL/SQL queries of database using TOAD.
• Created Automation Test Scripts using QTP for Functional and Regression testing of the Application.
• Recorded test cases using QTP tool and analyzed the test in Keyword and Expert view.
• Created and verified GUI, Bitmap, Text, Standard Checkpoints, URL Links and Synchronization points using QTP.
• Saved time, increased productivity and efficiency through regression testing using QTP scripts.
• Analyzed user requirements, use case documents. Performed necessary test case updates in Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center to run Test Cases, Executed scripts and Logged Defects for Manual and Automated testing.
• Responsible for defining the Load & Performance goals of the test environment of the application.
• Developed test scripts in Vugen for Stress and Performance testing of theapplication by Controller.
• Created Load Scenarios, Scheduled the Virtual Users and Parameterized Scripts to generate realistic load on Server.
• Analyzed Performance Bottlenecks using LoadRunner Monitors and Graphs.
• Worked directly and extensively with Leads and Managers to prepare test plans for software development.
• Worked efficiently with each QA team member to implement Cross Training of various applications.
• Thoroughly discussed the Defect Report with Developers and Project Manager for defect resolutions.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and developed Test cases based on Use cases to evaluate the functionalities
• Performed real time database verification using SQL with respect to inventory adjustment transactions.
• Following Test Plan assisted with developing, implementation and execution of Test cases and Test scripts.
• Reviewed requirements and the Use Case diagrams to write Test Cases.
• Wrote the Test scripts for Smoke, Functional, Integration and Regression testing.
• Created Test Cases for Positive and Negative test based on functional/business requirements, tested them manually.
• Tested the Back-End Database using SQL query to check the database records, also manipulated the database records to check for various conditions and data integrity.
• Used SQL queries to validate data against databases.
• Created re-usable and efficient test scenario and Automated Functional scripts using QTP.
• Performed automated testing on the Applications Based on GUI and Web (Client Server) using QTP.
• Used Re-usable actions and external actions in QTP to avoid the repeatability.
• Worked with Descriptive programming and TSL for QTP.
• Used ALM/QC for creating Test plans, documenting them, creating test cases and register the expected results. Prepared Test Case execution summary from ALM/QC.
• Reported and managed software defects using ALM/QC and interacted with the developers to resolve issues.
• Linked Test Cases to Application Functional Requirements ensuring traceability using ALM/QC.
• Interacted with developers and Business analysts to Resolve Defects.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modifications of existing application..
• Participated in the QA team meetings to discuss the issues during the different stages of testing.
• Prepared status compilation and status reporting of the team on weekly basis.
• Closely monitored the Change Controls and participated in the Change Control Review meetings.