SUMMARY:

• QA Analyst/ Software Test Engineer with over eight years of experience in software quality assurance and software testing in government solutions, financial and bio - pharmaceutical industries.
• Experienced in all aspect of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Policy, QA Principles, Software Test Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Test Methodology, Change Management, Configuration Management, Risk Analysis and GAP analysis. Seeking to pursue a consulting or permanent position to contribute the value of my diverse technical and professional experience in field of Software Quality Assurance, Software testing, ETL testing, System Analyst and System Verification and Validation (V&V).
• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), software development methodologies and Software Test Methodologies.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) on System Engineering Life Cycle (SELC) and Information Technology Life Cycle Management (ITLM).
• Excellent analytical skills for understanding the business requirements, and design of the application.
• Experience in working with V-Model, Agile/Scrum and Waterfall development methodologies.
• Expertise in defining and developing quality assurance test plans and test cases by analyzing business/technical requirements, system design documents and use case documents.
• Expertise in developing test scenarios, preparing test data, executing test scripts, linking requirements to test cases, creating bug documentation, and reporting test summary.
• Solid Experience in Manual Testing along with Automation Testing using WinRunner, Quick test pro, LoadRunner, Testdirector and Quality Center.
• Experience in database testing using SQL Plus, Oracle, Sybase and SQL Server.
• Capable of interpreting and transforming data models, business use case diagrams, environment and data needs into testing deliverables.
• Effective in using QA tools including bug/defect tracking systems.
• Experience in section 508 compliance testing using industry standard tools.
• Self-starter with strong work ethic and skills in time management, client relationship and ability to adapt and learn new things quickly.
• Effective time management skills and consistent ability to meet deadlines.
• Worked closely with applications team and quality assurance manager, attended requirements gathering sessions and team meetings as necessary.
• Organized, attention to detail, self-motivation, personable, multi-focused and ability to meet project milestones and deliverable dates.
• Ability to work independently or as a member of a team successfully.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software Testing tools: TestDirector, Quality Center, QuickTest Pro, WinRunner, LoadRunner, Rational ClearQuest, Rational Manual Tester, Rational Requisite Pro

Section 508 Compliance: Web Accessibility Tool, CommonLook, AccVerify, PDF Creator, JAWS

Scripting Languages: VB script, VuGen

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/ NT/2000/XP, Window 7 Pro, Unix

Programming Languages: C, C++, VB, SQL

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle,DB2, Sybase Web Technologies and HTML/DHTML, XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Quality Assurance /QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with development team, testing team, IT project managers, business system owners to ensure successful high quality release
• Involve in Quality Assurance (QA) reviews, identify gaps and provide recommendations to ensure that software/system comply with quality and standards.
• Facilitated and managed meeting sessions with business owners, business system owners, development team and testing team and processes control.
• Involve in testing customizations of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) Supervisory Information System (SIS) to the business need of the client.
• Apply strong organizational, time-management and planning skills to deliver the release on time despite intense pressure and aggressive timelines.
• Reporting of defects in Rational Manual Tester and representing defects in defect review meeting on daily basis.
• Involve in comprehensive Functional testing of systems.
• Involved with Enterprise Test Lab Testing(ETL)
• Analyze the Business Requirements of the Product/system. Worked with the development team to review project plans, requirements specification, design documents.
• Interact closely with the business leads of the requirements to avoid any overlap and duplication of efforts.
• Prioritize the testing of critical test cases over others based on feedback from the requirements gathering meetings.
• Involve in designing the Test Plan, Test Cases and manage them using Rational Manual Tester.
• Interact with developers and business analyst to analyze the business requirements and functional specifications.
• Perform functional decomposition of requirements for developing test cases.
• Perform System testing, Integration testing, and Regression testing.
• Analyze modules and designed test scenarios and test scripts in UNIX environment.
• Instrumental in reporting and Tracking defects/bugs to Development Team using Rational Manual Tester.
• Involve in backup and restore of the data by executing the Shell scripts.
• Write SQL queries to test data integration and performed Database testing for the Application.
• Generate test cases and traced them to the relevant use cases.
• Work with Users and Business Analysts to define and design test scenarios and test data.
• Use Rational Clear Quest for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Attend periodic meetings, teleconferences and led discussions on problem resolution.
• Participate in the development of User Manuals for customers.

Environment: Windows XP Pro, Windows 7 Pro, SQL Server, JAVA, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Manual Tester, Rational Requisite Pro and JAZZ suite

Confidential, McLean, VA

IV&V Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Review and analyze documents for Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Team for United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Including Project tailoring plan, Project Management Plans, Requirements, Requirement traceability matrix, Design, and Test Plans and report.
• Coordinate and Facilitate software life cycle milestone reviews for United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
• Involved in independent verification and validation (IV&V) support to USCIS for systems engineering.
• Facilitated and managed meeting sessions with business owners, development team, testing team, section 508 team, change management, release management and processes control branch.
• Provide guidance to project managers, business owners, development team and subject matter experts to resolve the outstanding issue and action items are taken in the review meeting.
• Worked closely with development team, testing team, 508 compliance team, IT project managers, business system owners to ensure successful high quality release.
• Prepared approval certification and summery report for every release based on meeting discussion.
• Upload, maintain and Update information technology documents to Information Technology Document Library (ITDL).
• Involved in section 508 testing, make sure Commercial of the self software (COTS) and GOTS products are meet with section 508 compliance.
• Involved in Section 508 Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) testing for USCIS.
• Participated in cross-functional design meetings with business units to ensure quality.
• Conduct requirements walkthrough with the Users, Development and Project Management and Testing Team.
• Participate in cross-functional design meetings with other business owners to ensure quality assurance standards are met in all phases of development lifecycle.
• Work closely with business owners, development team, testing team to perform redlines of documentation, accuracy of technical content and test verification of technical processes.
• Participate in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification requests.
• Use Rational RequisitePro to manage requirements and traceability matrix.
• Communicated with Application Developers, Project Managers and other Team Members on Application testing status on an on going basis when necessary.

Environment: HTML, XML, IE, MS office, Web Accessibility Tool, CommonLook, AccVerify, PDF Creator, JAWS

Confidential, Washington, DC

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and System Requirement Specification (SRS) and developed the detailed System test plan.
• Prepared Test cases for Manual Testing.
• Developed and maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Involved in create, maintain and upload Test Script into Quality Center.
• Executed test cases and verified actual results with expected results of the tests.
• Tested application on different web browsers and different platforms for compatibility.
• Conducted Smoke, GUI, Functional, Integration and Regression testing during the various phases of the Development.
• Create automated test scripts for functional testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Enhanced the test scripts through Check Points and Parameterization.
• Used Smart Identification feature of QTP to identify unique properties of objects.
• Created user defined functions, reusable actions to develop VB script for QTP.
• Involved in reviewing evaluating the Business Requirement documents, Test Plan documents, Design documents, RTM and Test scripts.
• Coordinating efforts across several development teams
• Performed data-driven tests by passing different sets of data and checked whether the information entered is updated into the database.
• Managed Defect Tracking process, which included prioritizing bugs, assigning bugs, and verifying “bug-fixes” using Mercury Interactive Quality Center.
• Managed the testing process, logged and tracked defects using Quality Center.
• Enhanced the test scripts through Check Points and Parameterization.
• Created user defined functions and reusable actions to develop VB script for QTP.
• Created and executed SQL queries to perform Data Integrity testing on an Oracle Database to validate and test data using TOAD.
• Reporting and verifying the bugs in Mercury Quality Center.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification requests.
• Communicated with Application Developers, Project Manager and other Team Members on Application testing status on an on going basis when necessary.

Environment: Mercury Quick Test Pro, Quality Center, LoadRunner, Oracle, Java, VBScript, HTML, Windows, IE, NS, Web Sphere, XML, TCP/IP

Confidential, PA

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and the Functional Specifications.
• Wrote and executed detailed test cases with step by step procedure and expected result.
• Tested application with different interfaces.
• Performed Regression testing during various phases of development.
• Wrote complex SQL queries to perform the backend testing against Oracle database.
• Interacted with development team for new functionality and reviewed defects.
• Attended review meetings and walkthroughs to discuss the status of the project.
• Used Test Director to write test cases and execute test cases.
• Created Test cases and automated them for the purpose of regression testing.
• Developed User Defined functions to support the automated scripts.
• Worked with users to develop user acceptance plan and test cases.
• Used data driven testing and database accessing techniques to support the scripts.
• Provided quality metrics using software quality assurance standard for determining software release readiness.
• Performed execution of test cases manually to verify the expected results.
• Extensively used Test Director for defects in Test director and written test cases in Test director.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using Test Director.
• Participated in team meetings on a regular basis and involved in active discussion in order to improve the testing quality.

Environment: HTML, XML,MS office, Visual Basic, Oracle, Microsoft Visio, Test Director, UML, Windows 98/NT