CAREER OBJECTIVE:

• Pursuing for a Software Quality Assurance career with a growth oriented organization, offering challenge, accountability, and opportunity for the advancement and professional development.
• Extremely passionate about quality Software with 7 years of experience as a successful Quality Assurance (QA)/Software Test Engineer/Analyst hands - on performing both Manual & Automated Testing on various Operating Systems (OS) and platforms, and currently seeking a rewarding position in Quality Assurance industry with an exciting domain.
• Over 7 years of experience with writing Test Plans, Test Cases Design and Test Scripts of various applications and complete familiarity with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Expert in performing various testing - System Testing, Functionality Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, End to End Testing, Positive Testing, Negative Testing, Compatibility Testing, Load/Stress Testing, Usability Testing, Mobile Testing and Security Testing with both Manual and Automated Testing tools - HP Quality Center (QC), HP Quick Test Professional (QTP), IBM Rational Jazz Platform, Rational Performance Tester, Rational Functional Tester, Test Direct, Selenium, and SoupUI.
• Experience in developing automation scripts for end-to-end functional workflow by orchestrating the REST, SOUP UI, and Parasoft SOA Test Tools.
• Experience in developing automation scripts on regression & functional test cases for web based application and thick client applications using QTP, Selenium, and RFT.
• Familiar with Rational Functional Testing automation tools and JAVA programming language.
• Utilization of HP Quality Center (QC) and IBM Rational Team Concert(RTC) for logging & tracing Defect and creation of reporting and statistics throughout Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) 
• Strong experience in using the bug tracking and test management tool tools like ALM, QC, Clear Quest, Test Director, and JIRA.
• Expertise in writing, executing and maintaining Test Plans, Test Procedure, Test Cases & Test Scripts for Releases, Test Cycles and the phases of Software Developing Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Involved in all aspects of the Software Developing Life Cycle (SDLC), including Analysis and Requirements definition, Design, Development and Operational rollout to other business areas.
• Experience in using various Version Control tools like Rational Clearcase, Jenkins, JMeter, MS VSS & winCVS.
• Experience with Waterfall, Agile, Scrum and XP software development environments.
• Experience in writing and executing automated Test Scripts, tracking defects and interacting with the development team in following the defects to closure.
• Able to work closely with the business units and sub-teams to ensure their processes are fully tested in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Experience in Mobile Testing of leading-edge mobile applications on various OSs & environments - iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry etc.
• Proficient and experience of Mobile domain and communication protocols - CDMA, WCDMA, LTE, GSM, GPRS
• Expert in communication, issue finding, solving & learning skills, and committed to deadline and ready to take up any challenge.

COMPUTER & TECHNICAL SKILLS:

QA Testing Tools: IBM Rational Team Concert, Rational Functional Tester, Application Lifecycle Management, QuickTest Professional (QTP), Load Runner, Jira, Selenium, GIT, Jenkins.

Operating System: Windows XP, Vista & 7, 8, NT4.0, 95/98, UNIX

Database & Language: Java, Junit, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, MS SQL Server 2000, MS-Access, VBScript, HTML, SQL, J2EE, C++, CSS, Java, JavaScript, Python, Perl, HTTP

Environment & Process: Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Bug Life Cycle (BLC), Waterfall, Scrum, Agile, VMWare.

Microsoft Tools: MS Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint, Visio and Projects, OC

Browsers: Internet Explorer (IE), Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome, Mercury.

Source Control: Rational Clearcase, SVN, WinCVS, MS VSS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, McLean, Virginia

Lead Technologist

Job Responsibilities:

• Analyze user’s requirement, concept of operations documents, and high level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications, analyze system requirement, and participate on design and development activities.
• Guide users in formulating requirements, advice alternative approaches, and conduct feasibility studies and provide technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design and technology.
• Perform CRM application configuration along with user profile setup and maintain and issue user profile rules and privileges.
• Manage Groups of testers to test across multiple browsers and devices. Develop original test plans for each project taking into account heavily trafficked areas of websites and Thick Client.
• Tailor test cases and regressions scripts to each project and round of testing and manage Rational Team Concert for test management and development items.
• Conduct and lead Performance testing effort with StresStimulus to measure application strength and load.
• Conduct 508 testing on multiple CRM applications across the board and compliant with VA 508 office.
• Manage test Automation Framework with Selenium IE web driver, manage and maintain JAVA libraries, test suite, data tables across several CRM web & client version of applications.

Confidential, Arlington, Virginia

Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop test data against the test strategy provided by the business. Work hand in hand with the Business Analyst and Test manager to create test strategy and work on test plan as well as creating test scripts and distributing work between the field testers.
• Utilize Rational Team Concert Quality Manager 4.0.7 on the Jazz Platform to create Teas Plan, Test suit, Test cases and generate Test suit/case execution report.
• Understanding the Product Backlog in the Rational Configuration Manager from the Plan and Utilize the Plan, Source Control, Builds, Reports to create a work flow.
• Utilize Rational Requirement Manager to analyze Artifacts and review collection of requirement for each release.
• Author automated tests in appropriate CRM applications using Rational Functional Tester.
• Utilize the Appobjects folder to contain GUI object obtained by the test object map feature.
• RFT scripts enhancement with Conditional branching, Refactoring and Data Pooling as well as running functional and regression suit.
• Create pattern matching technique by suing dynamic verification through Regular Expressions to verify dynamic data and create robust tests.
• Utilize the same script to replicate realistic scenarios. Abstract the test data from the test scripts.
• Execute the test plan in accordance with the test strategy using IBM Rational Jazz Platform.
• Utilize JAVA OO language & Java Script to create automation test scripts for Rational Functional Tester and execute test cases from RTC.
• Document, reproduce and report on product defects using Jira Defect Tracing Tool.
• Support VRM in analyzing defects, providing insight into the root causes and resolution options and ensuring that all necessary stakeholders and development teams are aware and engaged. Monitor quality of defect reporting, provide defect metrics and trend analysis.
• Support TDD in creating, and maintaining the user accounts required for performing UAT. Facilitate stakeholder briefing, testing process and tools training, and oversight during field tester of the applications and system by the stakeholders.
• Provide structured meeting agendas and ensure decisions, action items, and notes are captured and documented.
• Provide feedback on enhancing the usability of the application and get involved on the Business Requirement gathering process at very early on.
• Report to the Test Manager and constant team collaboration between testers on site as well as field testers.
• Work with the Test Manager on Product readiness and participate in hand-off meetings.
• Manage and facilitate roadmap leading to a convergence of practice across Veteran Affairs vendors.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior QA Engineer

Job Responsibilities:

• Ensured UAT and various types of Testing is completed within established time and that testing objectives conform to Business Requirement Specification (BRS), Software Requirement Specification (SRS) and User Requirement Document (URD).
• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) test practices such as test script writing and execution, defect management and Agile testing methods.
• Partnered with cross-functional leads responsible for UAT (User Acceptance Testing) - providing them with test schedules, test data, direction, and detailed Test Scripts in accordance with the Enterprise Release Schedule.
• Created comprehensive & feature-based Test Plans to test web-based of .mobile applications, as well as performing compatibility suites on numerous mobile devices.
• Actively participated and represented QA Team in walk-through, inspection, review and user group meetings, and led meetings within QA Team for creating various Test Artifacts
• Actively participated and represented QA Team in JAD sessions BA and development units.
• Enhanced & maintained Data-driven Automation Framework comprised of HP QuickTest Professional (QTP), MS Excel, and Descriptive Programming.
• Developed user-defined functions, Text Checkpoints, Custom Checkpoints, Table Checkpoints, file management, and Recovery mechanisms.
• Mentored and supported QA offshore team in defining Test Procedures, application knowledge, and QuickTest Professional (QTP) implementation.
• Tested mobile applications on various devices such Android, Blackberry and iPhone
• Attended weekly Project Status Meeting with Development team and QA Manager, and worked closely with QA Manager to define Test Scope, Gap Analysis, Risk, Dependency, and Constraints.
• Wrote & enhanced Test Cases and Test Scripts to meet new functional requirements as per the new business requirements on Individual & Family Health Insurance, HSA, HRA modules & business process.
• Created simple to complex SQL queries to validate Oracle tables and for correct test data retrieval.
• Supported Sprint activities by determining the number of test cases needed to verify the software being developed off the Sprint Backlog.
• Formulated methods to perform Positive testing and Negative testing against requirements.

Confidential, Portland, ME

Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Responsibilities:

• Written story narratives, functional & non-functional system requirements, and developed Test Plan and Test Scenarios for different modules.
• Developed Manual Test Cases and Test Scripts to test the functionality of the application using HP QuickTest Professional (QTP).
• Performed various types of testing on Mobile client applications across iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Mobile Web, and also web API’s
• Performed Functional, Regression, and Sanity Testing in each Sprint cycle for various e-commerce web-based transactions and business processes.
• Performed backend testing using SQL & PL/SQL queries on Oracle.
• Designed and developed Test Scenario/Test Cases/Test steps for various Business Services and methods covering both Positive and Negative Testing requirements.
• Created HP QuickTest Professional (QTP) Keyword-driven Framework which delivered over 90% automation in the automated testing process by structuring with Descriptive Programming, modularization, Recovery handling, Excel automation, file handling, Regular Expressions, and User-defined Functions and Checkpoints.
• Created detailed data gap analysis between as-is and to-be system.
• Created VBScript programs to ensure redundant system processes are removed after each test runs.
• Collected test data results from various sources including log files and system output
• Involved in Performance Testing to simulate a process, which allowed more than 1000 user transactions at the same time and observed the behavior of the system by using LoadRunner.

Confidential, Oradell, NJ

Manual Tester

Job Responsibilities:

• Worked with the development team to understand how changes in the software product affect maintenance of test scripts and the QA automated testing environments
• Developed new customization in HP Quality Center projects as per user requirements
• Created new projects, made changes to existing project templates, configured user access and create custom fields specific to individual projects
• Logged & reported defects in Quality Center and managed through to resolution by working with appropriate development and business resources
• Analyzed test results to make sure requirements have been met & existing system requirements have not been broken
• Used QuickTest Professional (QTP) to create and develop automated tests for continuous Regression Testing, and various modules of Quality Center (QC) - Test Plan, Test Lab, Defects and Requirements
• Created test data sets which fully exercises data validation, reports and end-to-end system functionality of Confidential Digital Design Center
• Wrote SQL queries for database backend testing, research and validation
• Assisted & led members of the QA team with various automated related challenges & issues