SUMMARY:

• Seven (7+) years of experience in software testing and quality assurance under UNIX and Windows environment with excellent analytical and diversified experiences in manual and automated testing of web and Client/Server application, to secure a position of Software Test Engineer and QA analyst.
• Over 7 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Quality Control on various levels of Quality Assurance for Client/Server and Web based applications on Windows and UNIX.
• In depth understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), CMMI, and different types of methodologies such as waterfall, Agile and Iterative.
• Extensive work experiences in Software Quality Assurance and testing with excellent knowledge and experience with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) & Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC).
• Specialized in Requirement analysis, Test Strategy, Test Estimation, Test plans, testing process, Defect management and interactions with clients.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Reports.
• Expertise in Manual Testing, Automated Testing, Client Server Testing, Web Testing, Functionality Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Black Box Testing, Web Service Testing and End - to-End Testing.
• Expertise in development, execution and maintenance of Quick Test Pro automated tests, Framework, Actions, Function Libraries, Object Repositories, Data Table Files and descriptive programming.
• Execute Automation Scripts in Batch mode or Un-attendant mode by integrating HP Quick Test Pro and HP Quality Center Tool.
• Strong knowledge of SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL and excellent understanding of ETL testing.
• In depth knowledge of statements for backend testing, skilled in writing SQL quarries/sub-quarries and joining multiple tables.
• Experienced in using defect tracking tools in Quality Center, and PVCS Tracker.
• Proficiency testing Web Services using READY API (SOAPUI)
• Experience working within the Scrum development methodology
• Excellent Communication Skills, able to work as part of a team and independently.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: UFT/QTP, ALM/Quality Center, SOAPUI

Methodology: SDLC, Waterfall, Iterative, Agile, RUP.

DBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, TOAD, SQL PLUS, SQL Developer, Access,

Operating Systems: Windows, MAC OS, Linux, UNIX

Languages: Java, C++, VBScript, PL/SQL.

Defect Tracking Tools: ALM/Quality Center, Bugzilla, Zoom, PVCS Tracker, Clear Quest.

Configuration Management tools: Clear Case, Star Team, VSS, Share Point.

WORK EXPERIENCES:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing system design specifications and developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases to cover overall quality assurance testing.
• Perform both manual and automation testing and created various test results to track the testing results.
• Exported requirements, test cases into the ALM/Quality Center, ran manual and automation test cases from test lab and logged defects from defects module.
• Conducted GUI testing, Functional testing, and Web Service Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing.
• Used ALM/Quality Center for test management as well as test planning and test scheduling.
• Executed test cases in ALM/Quality Center and validated the expected results with actual results.
• Created SQL scripts to test the stored procedures by sending different sets of input parameters.
• Performed backend testing using SQL queries to retrieve and verify information in the database.
• Performed Web service testing using SoapUI to ensure web service response match with expected results.

Environment: ALM/QC, SoapUI, J2EE, Agile/Scrum, NET, Toad, XML, C++, XML, HTML, Oracle, Web logic, NET, UNIX,

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirement Specification (BRS), Software Requirement Specification (SRS) and User Requirement Document (URD).
• Developed Test Plan, Test Data and Test Approach Artifact with resource requirements and time estimates.
• Worked alongside key business stakeholders and development teams throughout the creation and refinement of Test cases for each piece of functionality.
• Performed Manual Testing and Automation testing of Web-based and Client-server enterprise applications and used ALM/Quality Center for test management.
• Loaded test cases into a centralized Web based Test Management tool, ALM/Quality Center while mapping each case to either a defect or a new piece of functionality to augment Traceability and Transparency.
• Created Traceability between Requirements and Test Cases.
• Executed detailed validation of applications functionality, reported Data integrity, and Real-time data integration.
• Performed comprehensive System testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Web Service Testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Performed Security testing of the high security levels in the client application security mechanism.
• Performed Production Deployment Testing to verify a successful deployment to production environment.
• Used SQL for Back-end testing and checking the output of various reports.
• Developed and executed SQL queries to validate data.
• Developed test automation scripts using UFT/Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Used Regular Expression in identifying objects with varying names and titles every time a test was ran.
• Enhanced the existing or default test scripts by adding some programming for custom testing and debugged the scripts.
• Used Synchronization points in the test script to capture the bitmap images of upload and download Status bars in the application.
• Provided testing status on daily scrum call, and created issue, tracked issue using JIRA.
• Prepared test summary report after every build release and submit it to the Mangers.
• Participate in QA team meetings and walkthroughs for weekly QA testing review.

Environment: ALM/Quality Center, SoapUI, UFT/QTP, Agile/Scrum, Oracle, SQL, Windows, .NET, Web logic, J2EE, UNIX, Clear case, clear quest. JAVA, VBScript, HTML, XML

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created and implemented Test Plan, Test Cases, and Test Scripts on different applications.
• Assessed new Business needs/initiatives and translated them into detailed business requirements specifications.
• Performed advanced planning of automation needs, defined business system project objectives and prepared project plan.
• Involved in Manual and Automated testing of the front-end application.
• Imported test cases into Quality Center while mapping each case to either a defect or a new piece of functionality to augment Traceability and Transparency.
• Responsible to perform Manual Testing of Web-based and Client-server enterprise applications and used Quality Center for test management.
• Performed Smoke Testing to ensure minimum expected system behavior.
• Performed comprehensive System testing, Functional testing, Regression testing and (UAT) User Acceptance testing.
• Used UFT/QTP Framework for automation, generated scripts by recording and enhanced the scripts using VBScript Programming.
• Created user defined functions and Reusable actions using UFT/Quick Test Pro.
• Maintained the Object Repository and modified the repository in UFT/QTP.
• Performed Data Driven Test using UFT/QTP.
• Involved in backend testing by writing and executing SQL queries in Oracle environment.
• Work closely with developers and interact with other departments such as, Product Management, Technical Support.

Environment: ALM/Quality Center, UFT/QTP, Iterative, MS SharePoint, Bugzilla, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle, DB2,

Confidential, New York, NY

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Clearly understanding our Clients' Quality goals in terms of productivity requirements and improvements.
• Provided ongoing gap analysis by analyzing current state and desired state.
• Created strategy to reach desired state and reiterate to promote continual improvement.
• Demonstrated cost savings in terms of shortened project duration with improved quality.
• Learned and followed the lean-Agile project methodology.
• Development of Test Harness by selecting of best of breed tools.
• Reviewed Functional Specifications , Development of Test Plan and Test Specifications , Developed and Automated tests.
• Developed user defined functions (UDF) and saved them in the function library file.
• Designed and created automation framework for various projects and wrote VBScripts to write descriptive programming.
• Used Quick Test Pro checkpoints to automatically capture and verify properties such as the number of links.
• Maintained automation scripts, object repositories, functional libraries in Quality Center.
• Executed QTP test scripts unattended in batch (using QC Test Lab or Driver script)
• Defect isolation and Bug Reporting , reports on test status , bug categorization and product readiness.
• Simulated and determined version, configuration that uncover bugs.
• Built patched version or special releases, abbreviated QA on feature specific build and release , Critical path for subsequent feature release.
• Bug Fix Verification and validation.
• Installed and configured the product and test tools.
• Responsible for creating weekly status reports regarding the progress of the testing process.
• Prepared and presented progress reports and attended all meetings as required

Environment: Java, C++, J2EE,C#, Microsoft Project, Microsoft office, Clear case, QTP, VBScript, SQL, DB2, Agile, Quality Center, .NET, HTML, XML