SUMMARY:

• 7 Plus years of strong understanding of Software Quality Assurance Methodologies including development, execution, and maintenance of the Test Plans, Test Result documents and Defect reports.
• Experienced with HP ALM/ HP Quality Center Administration (Domain creation, Project Creation, User Creation, maintain user authentication, Allocation of projects to users).
• Experienced in Software Quality Assurance (SQA), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Performed Database Validation and Verification using Structured Query Language (SQL) queries.
• Rich PL/SQL development experience for Oracle database.
• Experienced in Implementing and utilizing automated test solutions using tools such as HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)/ Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills, with profound ability to prioritize and multi task goals in order to meet the time requirements.
• Proficiency in business analysis, business process design, compilation of functional specifications, process development, testing and training.
• Expertise on assigning the Test Cases to the Test Sets in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Experienced in developing the test scripts using Automation Object Model.
• Experienced with assigning the Requirements to the Test Cases in HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Excellent working knowledge on both UNIX/LINUX and Windows environments.
• Concepts of Object Repositories, Merging of Object Repositories and Shared Object Repositories on HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)/ Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Experience on handling of Unexceptional events like popup windows during run time using Recovery Scenarios by using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)/ Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Sound knowledge in Creation of Business Components and Application Areas.
• Acquainted with different testing concepts and methods like Functional, Black Box, Regression, UAT, Smoke, Sanity and Integration testing.
• Experienced with managing project team in the real time environment.
• Proficient in creating descriptive programming for Data Driven Framework using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)/ Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Automation Experienced in creating Data Driven Framework, Keyword Driven Framework as well as Hybrid Framework.
• By using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)/ Unified Functional Testing (UFT) Experienced.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Applications: Java, ASP, .NET, Visual Basic, C Sharp

Testing areas: Web Testing, Database Testing, Client Server Testing

Types of Testing: Black box testing, Integration testing

Regression testing, Compatibility testing,: System testing, Functional Testing

End to End Testing, Sanity Testing,: User Acceptance Testing .

Testing tools: HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)/ Unified Functional Testing (UFT), HP ALM 11.5 / HP Quality Center (QC) 11.0/ JIRA

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, Iterative

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX/Linux.

Database: MS SQL Server 2008, 2012, Microsoft Access, Oracle 11g

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Norfolk, Virginia

Software Automation Tester

Responsibilities:

• Automation 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).
• Identified the Test Cases to be automated and generated the automated scripts using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Expert in creating Automation Frameworks (Data Driven, Keyword Driven and Hybrid Frame works)
• Performed data driven testing and Keyword - driven Regression testing using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Expert to Work with XPath with UFT to Identified Web Object in the application.
• Regularly updating and maintaining Comprehensive Automation Regression Test Suite containing Test Cases from Previous releases and executing them on Regular Basis.
• Inserted synchronization points to solve timing problem between test and application.
• Experience to eliminate redundant pop up messages to cut down script run times using recovery scenarios in HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Developed automated test scripts using Descriptive programming in HP QTP / UFT.
• Created user defined custom functions and stored in Function Library using VB scripting.
• Providing necessary training to the team members about how to create and execute automated test scenarios, even without having their proper scripting knowledge.
• Used extensive SQL queries from the front end using database checkpoints in HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) to perform backend database testing.
• Used HP ALM/Quality Center for writing manual test cases and executed them. 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 and PL/SQL queries in SQL Developer tools to verify the data from the Oracle database.
• Wrote SQL query using Squirrel for database testing and have good knowledge of database.
• Performed Backend Regression testing by writing SQL statements to review the returned data.
• Participate in daily stand-up meetings, Retrospective meetings, Sprint Planning meetings and Demo meeting and explain the completed tasks and different issues with the team.
• Share different ideas with the team to enhance the speed and efficiency of the team work to get a better and qualified product on time.

Environment: Windows, HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT), VB.NET, ASP.NET, SOAP UI, SQL server, Oracle EBS, Mozilla, J2EE, SVN, Agile, Web, Ajax, CSS, Version One, HP ALM, HTML, Oracle, SQL Developer

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating, implementing, maintaining, and enhancing Epics, user stories, test scripts, test scenarios and test cases.
• Created Functional specification documents including Use case documents, use case diagrams and Mockups.
• Strong Experience Atlassian tool administration knowledge on JIRA and Confluence.
• Strong Experience JIRA Administrator with experience customizing JIRA projects with various schemas, complex workflows, screen schemes, permission schemes, and notification schemes required and users while working in a JIRA environment.
• Strong Ability to construct custom dashboards using various filter types in JIRA.
• Experience Work with JIRA filters, reporting, dashboards, workflows, fields, and JIRA administration.
• Strong Ability to write custom JQL (Jira Query Language).
• Strong Ability to construct Confluence pages and integrate JIRA projects with Confluence pages.
• Developed Test Scenarios to cover all the business requirements also involved in establishing and maintaining Testing processes.
• Performed QA operations tasks including metrics analysis, project planning, and other QA functions.
• Created automated scripts & compiled modules for frequently used tasks, handled unexpected events and errors, automated application using virtual objects, created batch scripts to test database each module separately.
• Performed functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, system testing, user acceptance testing and negative testing using Quick Test Pro (QTP)
• Developed Data-driven framework for regression testing using Quick Test Pro (QTP).
• Performed regression testing for every modification in the application & new builds using QTP.
• Wrote scripts in Expert View in QTP and executed them.
• Defined and performed the test strategies and associated scripts for the verification and validation of the application and ensured that it meets all necessary business requirements and associated functionality.
• Scheduling and execution of batch jobs of the automation scripts.
• Performed GUI checkpoints for GUI objects using QTP.
• Maintained QTP Test Libraries and Executed Test Plans
• Experience Engage with end-users to capture and document functional and operational requirements.
• Worked extensively as Test Lead with the QA (Quality Assurance) team for designing and evaluating Test Plan, Test System, Test Data and Test Cases for the application.
• Performed Backend Regression testing by writing SQL statements to review the returned data.
• Used SQL queries to test data integrity and Performed Data Inspection for all the test data.
• Worked closely with developers and functional leads in troubleshooting activities to identify business logic and coding errors.
• Coordinated with developers, project managers and system analyst to resolve various issues related to defects, re-analyzing certain functionalities and providing creative feedbacks.
• Strong knowledge of SOAP UI testing, Experienced with functional web services tests
• Installed, configured SOAP UI to test web services using WSDL file given by Development team.

Environment: HP Load Runner, HP Quality Center, HP Quick Test Pro (QTP), SOUP UI, Windows Server 2003, 2005, HTML, SQL, IIS, Oracle 10g

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed and executed test plans and test cases based on business requirements and functional specifications.
• Involved in using Quality Center for managing the defect. Performed manual Back-End testing by writing SQL Queries for validating user information in the tables.
• Created Test Cases in Mercury Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center as defect tracking and reporting tool.
• Worked on backend testing using SQL queries and web services testing.
• Extensively used SQL/PL-SQL statements to verify the data in the database.
• Performed Functionality Testing and Integration testing using QTP (Quick Test Pro).
• Determined test approaches for various testing strategies like Functional, System, Regression, Usability testing, Alpha, Beta testing and executed using QTP (Quick Test Pro).
• Performed manual and automated testing and maintain documentation on different types of Testing like Black Box, Regression, Integration, System and Acceptance testing.
• Responsible for QA test suite development, execution and analysis.
• Involved in reviewing existing documentation for current systems to create AS-IS and TO-BE processes for Gap analysis.
• Tested Compatibility of application with Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Netscape Navigator.
• Performed System and Integration testing by executing test cases.
• Organized test procedures and executing tests in Web and Client/Server Environments.
• Created test scripts for various testing stages like Functional Testing and Regression Testing.
• Analyzed system specification and developed Test plans for System and Integration Testing.
• Developed test scripts according to the program specification given.
• Reported defects found during test cycles and track the defects and retest fixed modules.
• Involved in Peer Reviews.

Environment: Quick Test Professional (QTP), MS Office Suite, Agile, Web, Ajax, Java, SOAP UI, CSS, GWT, Visual Basic, Mozilla, J2EE, Ext JS, HTML, UNIX, ORACLE, BPT, .NET, Windows, VB Script.