SUMMARY

• Solid understanding of Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) and testing processes.
• Experienced in HP ALM/ HP Quality Center, HP Quick Test Pro (QTP), UFTand Jira.
• Expert in writing and executing Test Plan, Test cases, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts.
• Experienced in gathering and documenting business requirements from client.
• Experienced in performing Functional, Sanity, Integration, System, User Acceptance testing.
• Experienced in creating Issues in Jira Agile and writing test cases from User stories.
• Proficient in using different databases including Oracle 11g, MS SQL Server, DB2 and MS Access.
• Experienced in using test management and bug reporting tools including HP Quality Center, ALM and JIRA.
• Involved in testing task estimations LOE, review checklists preparation.
• Developed automation test scripts using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) for creating standard, text, and bitmap, page, and database checkpoints.
• Tracked defects, prepared defect matrices, defect summary report and followed issues to completion. Pro - active, attention to detail, strong analytical skills.
• Prepared Requirement traceability matrix, Test data requirements, Test strategy, Test reports.
• Involved in establishing QA process and reviewing processes.
• Actively participated in all phases of the testing cycle including reviews and project status meetings.
• Skilled in adapting to rapidly changing work environments.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and be self-managed.
• Possess excellent communication and documentation skills, good team player, and ability to work in multitasked environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLSLanguages: Visual Basic, SQL, HTML

OS: MS DOS, Windows Vista, Windows XP

Database: MS SQL Server, Oracle 11g, MS Access

Microsoft Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, Power Point, MS Works, and OutlookPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential,Atlanta

QA Analyst

Application Environment: HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM 12.01), HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT12.5 and UFT14), Jira(7.3.1), Ghost lab, Java, JSP, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, HTML, DHTML, EXCEL, SQL, MS Access, Web Services, Unix and Windows.

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Client server and Web base application.
• Created manual Test cases for Online boarding client server application and reviewed test cases based on the objective of HP ALM 12.1 strategy.
• Created Automation Test scripts by Descripting programming for Online boarding application with the help of HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT 12.5).
• Worked with application development and product development teams to produce and implement all testing artefacts including  Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Scripts, Test Data, Test Execution Results and Defects .
• Setup the testing environment and involved in both Manual and Automation testing.
• Implemented Black box, Navigation, Functional, User interface, Security, Data driven, Configuration, System, Regression testing.
• Created queries and perform Backend Testing with MS SQL Server.
• Created the environment for automation testing and designing the strategy for complete test coverage.
• Worked in agile environment, attended daily morning stand up (scrum) meeting for web application.
• Analyzed the user stories in Jira and designed test scripts in UFT.
• Responsible for performing web test using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT 14) for checking page contents, broken links, web objects count, frames and tables.
• Developed automation scripts for new web application in HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT 14) to automate smoke and regression testing.
• If issues were identified with any project, bugs were entered in the project bug reporting system and a decision was made to determine whether the project should proceed to production deployment.
• Managed the testing process, creating issue, log time and track defects using Jira.
• Co-coordinated with System Analysts, Development & Test Teams to review Test Plans, Test Cases, and requirement standards & resolve issues including User Acceptance Testing.
• Performed Functional, Regression, Integration and testing using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT 12.5).
• Developed and executed various VB scripts, loading and unloading GUI map files, created GUI Check points, Data Base check points, Implementing Data Driven Test and Synchronizations and automated web application using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT 14).

Confidential

QA Analyst

Application Environment: HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT)/Quick Test Professional (QTP), Java, JSP, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, HTML, DHTML, EXCEL, SQL, MS Access, Web Services, Unix and Windows.

Responsibilities:

• Created test plan and test cases from functional specification doc.
• Manually executed Test cases and Test Scripts after reviewing the business requirement document and technical specifications and responsible for updating existing test cases against the requirements.
• Actively participated in iteration planning meetings and reviews to review impacts on test plan and test strategy of any changes made and new functionalities added in new builds.
• Presented test cases at cross functional test cases review meetings with test team, system analyst and product management teams and have emphasized need for better change control process for critical user stories.
• Met with business analysts to understand business functionalities, requirements and designed test cases to satisfy Client requirements.
• Worked in agile environment, attended daily morning stand up (scrum) meetings, updated daily status on what was done yesterday, what will be done today, and any blocking issues.
• Wrote SQL queries for backend testing of the applications.
• Developed test cases and test scripts for Functionality and Regression Testing using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Identified the Test Cases to be automated and generated the automated scripts using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Performed data driven testing and Regression testing using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Experience to eliminate redundant pop up messages to cut down script run times using recovery scenarios in HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Used extensive SQL queries from the front end using database checkpoints in HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) to perform backend database testing.
• Imported data from the Database to the Data table and performed Data Driven testing with different Data sets for reports generation module in HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Responsible for performing web test using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT)for checking page contents, broken links, web objects, frames and tables.
• Responsible for creating the test cases in HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and mapping them with the requirements.
• Analyzed Business Requirements and System Specification documents and created Test cases and executed Test cases in HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Provided defect status reports & test-case execution reports on weekly basis using HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Performed sanity, integration, regression and system testing to verify incremental and existing functionality.
• Executed test cases on development builds and did bug logging and defect tracking suing HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Interacted with developers, system analysts, product management, external customers, user interaction and usability testing groups and customer support on a regular basis.
• Involved in project review meetings and discussed issues, status for tracking the progress with project teams.
• Prepared minutes of meetings and test summary reports to communicate the results of testing effort to higher management.
• Provided daily and weekly project status reports and escalated issues to the Manager as well as Providers as needed.

QA Analyst

Environment: Windows Server, Java, Java Script, HTML, UNIX, SQL, TOAD, Oracle 11g, Quick Test Professional (QTP), HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Rational Clear Quest, JIRA

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included Manual GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Interface Testing, End-to-End Testing, Database Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Client Application Testing, Web based Application Testing.
• Responsibilities included Manual, Acceptance, Functional, Integration, System, GUI, testing of the system.
• Test plans, Test scripts and test cases were designed in accordance with business functional requirements and technical designs as defined via an AGILE method (story boards, modeling, team design sessions, etc).
• Participated in preparing a smoke test for the application under test, which included the basic test cases, to ensure that the application is stable enough in the QA environment to start functional testing.
• Experienced with HP ALM/ HP Quality Center Administration (Domain creation, Project Creation, User Creation, maintain user authentication, Allocation of projects to users).
• Expertise on assigning the Test Cases to the Test Sets in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Experienced with assigning the Requirements to the Test Cases in HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Identified the Test Cases to be automated and generated the automated scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Performed data driven testing and Regression testing using Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Experience to eliminate redundant pop up messages to cut down script run times using recovery scenarios in Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Used extensive SQL queries from the front end using database checkpoints in Quick Test Professional (QTP) to perform backend database testing.
• Used HP ALM/Quality Center for test management and defect reports.
• Detected, verified, prioritized, navigated and tracked defects using HP ALM in the software until they were fixed.
• Interacted with the developers for bug fixes and problem resolution.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed using HP ALM.
• Used SQL queries to verify the data from the Oracle database.
• Wrote SQL query using TOAD for database testing and have good knowledge of database.
• Wrote numerous SQL scripts to inspect data within the database.
• Worked closely with Lead Database Engineer to implement reporting and analytics front-ends.
• Collaborated with business analysts, designers, and system owners in the testing of new software programs and applications.
• Coordinated with software engineers to assist with quality assurance, program logic, and data processing.
• Produced reports and documentation for all testing efforts, results, activities, data, logging, and tracking.
• Communicated test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and management.
• Established run for record documentation revised with traceability from the automation tests to the manual tests for the development team.
• Implemented Automated-testing methodology.
• Automated the functionality and interface testing of the application using Quick Test Professional (QTP)
• Insert Object Data Verification Check point on Quick Test Professional (QTP) automation testing tools.
• Verify Backend Data after interacted with front-end Automation Test scripts.
• Used Quick Test Professional (QTP) for object repository creation and maintenance, used regular expression, re-usable actions, data table, checkpoints and recovery scenario.
• The Analyzed requirements and user cases, certified application-specific software performed ambiguity reviews of business requirements and functional specification documents
• Developed and documented effective test procedures, which effectively directed other's work. Lead brainstorming sessions to identify key testing concerns and prevent insufficiently broad testing.
• Imported data from the Database to the Data table and performed Data Driven testing with different Data sets for reports generation module in Quick Test Professional (QTP)..

Testing Tools: HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) HP /Quick Test Pro (QTP), HP ALM/HP Quality Center (QC), JIRA and Bugzilla.