SUMMARY:

• 6+ years of cumulative experience in Software Quality Assurance methodologies with diversified skills in manual testing.
• Thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Expertise in Test strategy preparation, creation of test cases, developing and maintaining test scripts, well versed with documenting all phases of QA process, interacting with development team members in fixing Defects.
• Experienced in both agile development and waterfall model of SDLC.
• Thorough knowledge of Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Smoke Testing, End to End Testing, Regression Testing.
• Extensively experienced in creating, enhancing and maintaining high - end test scripts for various  functional and regression testing using QTP/UFT and VBScript . 
• Well versed at defect reporting based on Severity and defect tracking using test management tool HP ALM/Quality Center . 
• Knowledge in writing SQL queries , executing procedures and using GUI programs such as SQL Developer to perform back end testing for the expected results.
• Proficient in Oracle, PL/SQL & SQL queries and Unix/Windows operating systems. 
• Experienced in using VB script to develop Automation Frameworks , checking system behavior with multiple sets of data for regression testing and enhancing test scripts for Reusability and Modularity.
• Adaptability to work within a variety of environments and a high tolerance for risk and stresses associated with tight deadlines.
• Well organized, with strong analytical, detail oriented and excellent communication skills 

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCES:

Other Skills: MS Excel, MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Outlook

Networking:  Client/Server environment, TCP/IP, FTP, HTTP, LAN, WAN, CVS

Browsers: MSIE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Netscape Navigator

Platforms: Windows, Mainframes, UNIX

Databases: DB2, Oracle, MS Access, SQL Developer

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, HP ALM, HP Quick Test Professional, HP UFT

Test Automation: HP QTP, HP UFT

Bug Tracking:  HP ALM, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Elkridge, MD

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in formulation of Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Procedures, Expected Results, and Test Data for System Testing of the application.
• Used both Manual and Automation Testing.
• Involved in Functional, Regression, System Integration (SIT), User Acceptance (UAT), and Browser Compatibility Testing.
• Developed and executed test suites and operations scenarios to find and report defects using HP ALM.
• Prepared Test Cases for each and every object based on Member portal, redesigned Functional Requirements, Test Specs and Test Frames in HP ALM.
• Wrote Test Cases for Functional, Integration and Acceptance Testing using HP ALM.
• Interacted with developers and business analysts to understand critical requirements.
• Enhanced and maintained Requirements Traceability Matrix which ensured all functional requirements were part of the test cases.
• Developed and executed SQL queries to verify the proper insertion, deletion and updates into the Oracle supporting tables and cubes.
• Automated test cases for Functional testing using HP UFT.
• Performed Black-Box Testing, System Testing and Regression Testing for Java Applications by using VBScript for HP UFT.
• Mapped custom objects to standard objects where necessary and inserted Bitmap and Text Checkpoints where needed to compare current behavior of the application being tested to its behavior in the earlier version using HP UFT.
• Involved in Sprint planning to task out the stories to test for each Sprint.
• Recorded, maintained & tracked defects, assigned type & severity levels.
• Contributed to continuous improvement of testing processes.
• Provided support to Business QA team during the Business Acceptance Testing (BAT) phase of the project.
• Attended daily stand-up meetings, Sprint Planning, Review and Retrospective meetings. Attended Bug-Triage meetings in order to address bug issues. Participated in Story Grooming meetings.

Environment: PHP, PowerPoint, MS Visio, C, C++, HP ALM, HP UFT, JIRA, SQL Developer, Java Script, VB Script, CSS, Windows, C#, MS Office, MS Excel, UNIX, Java, SQL, HTML, XML.

Confidential, Livonia, MI

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Built and produced Test Plans and Test Cases for invoicing, billing and Score software program in accordance with business requirements .
• Involved in developing test cases based on user stories and business requirements.
• Conducted manual testing following test scripts from business documents and updated existing test conditions based on new releases.
• Involved in development of iterative and detailed project management plans and schedules.
• Involved in writing and executing Test Cases for Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, End to End Testing and UAT Testing.
• Used HP Quality Center to maintain test cases, execute test scenarios and log defects. 
• Investigated defects and interacted with Business Analysts to update test cases in Quality Center and worked with Developers to resolve technical issues. 
• Responsible for automating, monitoring and maintaining test cases using HP Quality Center which supports Microsoft .Net CF environment. 
• Involved in generating scripts using VBScript for Quick Test Professional (QTP). 
• Developed QTP scripts on expert view and enhanced it using function libraries (.vbs) files using VB Script according to the functionality. 
• Responsible for performing regression testing for every new release using QTP. 
• Worked on handling the application response for Positive and Negative set of data using Data Driven Testing using QTP. 
• Developed both Data Driven and Keyword Driven Frameworks using QTP. 
• Created and executed SQL queries for backend testing. 
• Involved in Sprint planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings.

Environment: QTP, HP Quality Center, SQL Developer, Java, Java Script, MS Visio, HTML, XML, .Net, PHP, C, C++, Oracle, MS Excel, MS Office, Windows, UNIX, SQL Server, VB Script.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed test strategy based on business requirements and detailed design documents.
• Worked with business analysts to develop test scenarios from functional requirement specifications.
• Created Test Plans and Test Cases from Requirements in Quality Center.
• Prepared and applied Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and System Testing.
• Utilized Quality Center for Bug tracking and reporting.
• Performed back-end testing procedures using SQL statements for some online customer interactions. 
• Developed scripts using VBScript for Quick Test Professional.
• Actively involved in functional testing using Quick Test Pro Expert View.
• Developed test scripts for Data Driven tests using QTP. 
• Coordinated User Acceptance Testing by guiding users during UAT.
• Performed data validation at integration points.
• Updated Traceability Matrix for new requirements.
• Sent status reports to the management.

Environment: HTML, XML, C#, .NET, Java, Oracle, Windows, Java Script, VB Script, Web Services, MS Excel, PowerPoint, MS Office, UNIX, J2EE, QTP, Quality Center, SQL Developer.