PROFEESIONAL SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated professional with over 9 years of experience in Software Testing and Quality Assurance.
• Strong experience in C lient/Server Application Testing & Web Application Testing.
• Extensive experience in testing applications for Telecom, Banking and Finance Domains.
• Extensive experience in quality assurance using Manual Testing, Automated Testing tools like Quick Test Pro, Win Runner, Q uality Center.
• Extensive practical experience in automation testing by using Quick Test Pro.
• Designed Hybrid Automation Framework for Automation projects in QTP.
• Proficient in writing SQL Scripts, Stored Procedures and Functions for database testing.
• Knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle and well acquainted with Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC),QA methodologies like Waterfall, Rational Unified Process(RUP),Agile, Prototype, Iterative, XP, GSDM.
• Expertise in Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing, Regression testing, Performance testing and Data driven testing.
• Expert in website testing from deployment to functional.
• Expert in writing Test Plans, defining Test Cases, developing and maintaining Test Scripts, Test Case Execution, Analyzing Bugs and interacting with team members in fixing the errors as per specifications and requirements.
• Having sound knowledge of GUI Testing, Load and Regression Testing of Window Based, Back - End/Database and Web Based Applications.
• Proficient in using Test case management tool Visual studio team test.
• Expertise in Defect Reporting and Tracking using TeamTrack, Test Director/ HP Quality Center, IBM Rational Clear Quest and Bug Life Cycle .
• Extensive experience in testing applications on Windows and UNIX (Solaris) environment.
• Experience in creating TEST Environment for C, C++, VC++, C#, Vb scripting, AJAX, VB6, .NET, JAVA, JavaScript, VB Scripting, Enterprise Java Beans, J2EE on Windows / UNIX/Linux based system.
• Proficient in Internet protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, SOAP, FIX, and SMTP.
• Good experience as SOAP Web Services Tester.
• Great expertise in testing web services via SOAP, using the open source testing tool SOAP UI.
• Experience in understanding Business Processes from the requirements.
• Extensive knowledge in all stages of Testing Life Cycle, beginning from initiation and definition to deployment and support.
• Expert in Database Testing, Data Manipulation and population using SQL queries, SQL and PL/SQL in Oracle, MS SQL Server and Solid and Extensively executed SQL queries in Oracle and SQL server in order to view successful transactions of data and to validate data at the back end
• Experience in using Defect Tracking and Defect Reporting tools such as Rational Clear Quest
• Fluent in Black Box and White Box Testing.
• A team player with excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills with strong aptitude towards learning new technologies.
• Experienced in formulating Quantitative and Qualitative Analytical Reports and Graphs for Management reviews.
• Dedicated, self-motivated achiever who is committed to succeed and adept at handling multiple tasks under high pressure.
• Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team as well as individually.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Functional & Regression Testing Tool: HP Quick Test Pro (QTP)

Test Management Tool: HP Quality Center.

Software Testing Tools: Quick Test Pro, Quality Center 10.0 (Test Director), Junit

Bug Tracking Tools: PVCS, Track web

Testing Standards: ISO, IEEE, and ANSI

Data Recovery and Backup Tool: Symantec Veritas Net Backup

Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000/XP/VISTA, UNIX (Sun Solaris)

Languages: C, C++, VB, Java, .Net, PL/SQL and TSL

Scripting languages: Java Script, VB Script, XML, HTML, CSS.

Configuration Tool: Clear Case, Win CVS, MS-Visio

Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, SOAP, SOA, WSDL

Databases: Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server and Solid.

Tools: Visual Source Safe, Workshop for web Logic, Eclipse, dim STAT, DB Visualizer

Web Server: Web Logic, Apache-Tomcat, IIS

MS Office Suite: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Analyst/ White box/ Automation

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintain all QTP Scripts for CPC and Multi Select.
• Responsible for understanding the business and create test cases and test scripts accordingly.
• Responsible for running QTP scripts for every newer version and enter the defects in DR Quest.
• Used functions, different actions, Regular expressions, data driven from excel and global sheets, and followed company standard framework.
• Developing desktop applications for POC in VB.Net.
• Responsible to write test plan and test approaches.
• Responsible to write test cases.
• Make sure CPC is good in development, pre-prod and production servers.
• Create QTP scripts for enhancements run standard test cases on daily basis.
• Reporting Bugs in DR Quest and assign them to appropriate person.
• Communicate with offshore and whole team on daily basis as part of agile.
• Responsible for getting story clarifications, give sprint demo to business people, communicating with other shore people
• Worked closely with developers and Business analysts to make sure everything is going in good direction.
• Participated in daily standup meetings, hands-off meeting, and sprint retrospectives.
• Written and executed complex SQL Queries.
• Tested many applications TASQ, MultiSelect and various smart Suite tools.
• Responsible to talk to clients and run Citrix performance test and make sure performance is good.
• Talk to clients and Citrix admin if necessary.
• Worked on Office upgrade for 13 applications at a time and written complex test cases and compared hundreds of excels and word documents.
• Mapped data between existing smartperf database to SSNG Model.
• Worked on Citrix Servers.

Environment: QTP 11.0, Citrix, SQL Server 2005, D-R Quest, TFS, C#, VB.Net, Microsoft EXCEL Macros, Agile.

Confidential

Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding and review Software Requirement Document.
• Responsible for creating test cases in quality center in such a way that all the business requirements cover.
• Responsible to create test data for each scenario and maintain data in required state.
• Write the descriptive test scripts in QTP and maintain them, run them for new builds. Analyze the results and keep them for records.
• Good knowledge on bug life cycle. Create and track defects in Quality Center.
• Run test cases in Quality center and make sure every failed test case have related defect to track.
• Participated in code review meetings and suggested code changes for some functionalities.
• Look into the code for more analysis of dfects.
• Login into the boxes and check logs for any errors.
• Worked with excel file rigorously to compare millions of addresses from different boxes.
• Good exposure in using of QTP integrated environment (Step Generator, Synchronization, Data Table, Actions, Recovery scenarios, methods etc.)
• Descriptive programming in scripting dynamic objects and reusable actions in defining scenario flows in Quick Test Professional 11.0.
• Access the third party (Pitney Bose) tools like management console to check whether the GUI defect or third party tool itself returning the defect.
• Used Putty to login into boxes and run regression test cases and logs.
• Written DTPS (Detail Test Plan Software) Document.
• Worked with DB Visulizer 8.0.6 to go to Harte Hanks Database.
• Written QTP test scripts to communicate with DB take values from DB and place those values in web applications.

Environment ­­­­­­HP Quality Center 9.0, QTP 11.0, Unix, DB Visualizer 8.0.6, Java, SOAP UI, Putty, WINSCP, Management Console.

Confidential

Sdet/ Onsite QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for manipulating the test data in required environment by communicating with software analysts and middleware developers.
• Participated in white box testing of flex and java codes. Worked closely with developers, DB people and Business analysts to make sure everything is going in good direction.
• Responsible to do sanity testing for each new build and make sure that there are as few defects as possible before code drops into QAT.
• Written DTPS (Detail Test Plan Software) Document.
• Participated in sprint retrospectives and have given suggestions to increase the productivity of sprint, as a result production rate has raised 50 percent more.
• Responsible for getting story clarifications, give sprint demo to business people, communicating with other shore people.
• Gathered L1/L2/L3 requirements and communicated with System analysts and Deloppers.
• Utilizing HP QuickTest Pro (QTP), Business Process Testing (BPT) and Quality Center (QC) to automate Point of Sale (POS), RFID and other retail customer facing and back office systems.
• Responsible for the backend testing of the server log using basic Unix commands
• Developed user-acceptance test scripts and assisted users in conducting UAT.
• Designed and developed User defined functions, Generic functions with well versed VB scripting, Descriptive programming in scripting dynamic objects and reusable actions in defining scenario flows in Quick Test Professional 10.0.
• Created Generic Functions in VB Script for both Windows and Web based applications.
• Created XML Repository (Descriptive programming) instead of TSR built-in TSR Repository.
• Created QTP Data Driven and Key Word driven models for POC.
• Created QTP regression automation scripts.( Release-Scenarios-Test cases)
• Reviewed the QTP Scripts developed by the team members.
• Used Modular framework extensively.
• ­­­Carried out extensive Performed testing with the estimated capacity virtual by using Load Runner.
• Performed Load, Performance and Stress testing by using Load Runner with HTTP/HTML.
• Performed service testing with SOAP UI 3.6, sanity testing, white box testing, black box testing, regression testing, system testing and integration testing and peer to peer testing.
• Involved in Back End testing for SQL Server as a part of Parallel Test and written SQL and PL/SQL queries to extract and validate the data.
• Written the Test plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Steps and created BPT components for all the modules and stored in Quality Center.
• Prioritized and reported defects using JIRA to present documents and reports in weekly team meetings.
• Conducted Daily scrum meetings for review and prioritize defects.
• Communicated more with developers and software analysts to make sure that application is working as expected.
• Utilized process-based test management system Quality Center for organizing test requirement's documents, test plans and test lab.
• Wrote reusable functions to handle application exceptions locally instead of passing control to main script.
• Had a very good knowledge of how to use ORACLE and SQL databases as back-end databases.
• Responsible to test the services and interact with middleware developers to make sure services are working fine

Environment: Agile Scrum, Adobe Flex 4.0, Java, ­­­­­­HP Quality Center 10.0, SOAP UI, Java, Junit, SQL Developer, Fiddler, JIRA.

Confidential, Lincoln, NE

QA Lead /White box /TDD

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for attending sprint planning, story grooming and reject the story if any confusion.
• Responsible for communicating with software analysts regarding the story and scrum master to understand the story and divided the story into subtasks.
• Communicated with Developers, usability engineers and technical support engineers to ensure the product is fully tested.
• Assisted in writing test cases for various parts of site including User Interface of Shopping Cart, Product Catalog, product customization and order tracking.
• Verified software upgrades based on yearly schedule by completing User Acceptance Tests (UAT) and submitted test reports to management
• Participated in all phases of Soft ware development and test development life cycle.
• Scheduling and allocating work amongst the team members, ensuring deliverables in time
• Developed and maintained test plans, test cases, white box testing, defect tracking and reporting, automation test suites, procedures documentation.
• Written DTPS (Detail Test Plan Software) Document.
• Senior QA Engineer Automation and White Box who wrote Test Plans, created and executed Test Scenarios / Test Cases and logged defects in Test Director using White Box techniques referencing the ASP code, SQL Stored Procedures / scripts, the Data Model and design documents for the Tools Group s applications as well as the Banana Republic Re-platform project.
• Perform detailed testing and write/execute test plans for black box, white box and regression testing in both Unix and Internet based environments
• Worked on RPC Encoded and document Literal of SOAP services.
• Created and executed test cases using IBM rational quality manager.
• Integrated IBM testing tools like rational functional tester and rational performance tester with IBM rational quality manager.
• Expertise in Acceptance Test-Driven Development ATDD development practices.
• Have good exposure to modern Agile methodologies such as SCRUM, TDD and XP.
• Extensively used selenium for web testing.
• Development of Unix-based test harnesses for automated regression testing Black Box and White Box to interface to embedded computer 19mm Digital Tape Recorders using the Small Computer System Interface SCSI standard. The platforms used in this development were SUN Work Stations using the Solaris version of Unix..
• Extensively used CTI system to communicate with the team members and offshore people and clients.
• Execution of test cases and logging defects in JUnit.
• Conducted Daily scrum meetings for review and prioritize defects.
• Verified reports generated as per FDA requirements.
• Identifying Test Cases to be run for Regression Testing and conducting Regression Testing as and when new builds were made.
• Performed Unit testing, Black Box, GUI, System, Smoke, Performance, Backend, Functional, Peer to Peer Testing, Integration Testing and Unit testing of the Application and various reports using JUnit 3.8.
• Created and maintained Load runner scripts.
• Performed Compatibility Testing with Multiple Browsers under Multiple Environments.
• Involved in Back End testing for SQL Server as a part of Parallel Test and written SQL and PL/SQL queries to extract and validate the data.
• Created SQL queries in SQL Query Analyzer for analyzing data in SQL Server Database for 3-point 4-point data
• Enabled basic support for Unit test that target in .net framework 3.5 using VSTS2010.
• Utilized LDA Protocol to write quarries and modify data.
• Utilized Analysis tool to analyze the response times of business transactions.
• Responsible for presenting metrics reports of daily open defects to the senior management and progress reporting against the test plans in order ensure business needs are met.
• Participating in project design meetings to understand the impact of the changes being developed.
• Initiated & carry out defect prevention activities and defect tracking using Rational Clear Quest tool.
• Participated & guided in customization of the rational quality manager tool as per the Organizations need as a part of missing QA processes implementation.
• Other duties included, training QA members, assisting documentation team to understand functionality of the system, coordinating efforts with the development team and reporting status to QA Project managers.
• Acted as liaison between the development team and the client for defect impact analysis and resolution.

Environment: Agile scrum, Quick Test Pro (QTP 9.2), .Java, Junit, HP Quality Center9.2, SOAP UI, Load runner and VB Script.

Confidential, Berwyn, PA

Sr. QA Engineer / White box / Automation

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business, functional requirements and use cases and developed test plans, test cases and test scripts for both positive and negative tests.
• Performed data driven testing using excel file in Quick Test Pro for E-911 Enhancement System.
• Written the Test plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts, and Test Steps for all the modules and stored in Quality Center.
• Prioritized and reported defects using Quality Center to present documents and reports in weekly team meetings.
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities.
• Tested functionality and performance of web services through SOAP UI.
• Participated in White box testing of a C++, Java and Power builder codes. Worked closely to DBA team and development Team. Also duties included building a test environment and a team of test engineers along with development all documentations necessary to ensure the proper functioning of a separate QA team.
• Repeatable Test Processes, Test Plans, Test Cases, White Box, Black Box Testing, Automated Testing.
• Generated a Hybrid Automation Framework using Quick Test Pro.
• Have tremendous experience in using GUI Junit.
• Tested the application which is built in C#.
• Proficient in using ADD, Run All, Writing code, Run all automated tests in TDD.
• Generated QTP Scripts for Functional and Regression Testing in E-911 Enhancement System.
• Enhanced and maintained QTP scripts, Configured Shared Object Repositories and Recovery Scenarios, and Developed Reusable Function Libraries using VBScript.
• Conducted weekly batch testing to incorporate changes in new Builds.
• Working on SOLID Database, writing SQL queries for E-911 Enhancement System.
• Utilized Load Runner Analysis tool to analyze the response times of business transactions.
• Performed data driven testing using excel file in Quick Test Pro for E-911 Enhancement System.
• Performed Exception Handling in application using functions and Recovery Manager in QTP.
• Created automation regression scripts using QTP for E-911 Enhancement System.
• Created various checkpoints and data driven to verify the GUI and functionality of the application using Quick Test Pro.
• Configured Object Repository for custom objects by using Quick Test Pro in E-911 Enhancement System.
• Utilized process-based test management system Quality Center (Test Director) for organizing test requirement's documents, test plans and test lab.
• Carried out extensive Performed testing with the estimated capacity virtual by using Load Runner.
• Used Load Runner to generate load and scenarios to test the behavior of the E-911 Enhancement System.
• Involved in doing User Acceptance (UAT), Integration and Regression testing of Release for E-911 Enhancement System.
• Utilized open source framework Junit for run and write repeatable tests.
• Involved in creating checkpoints, parameterize values using QTP for the AOC.
• Utilized process-based Test management system Quality Center for organizing test requirement's documents and test plans. Bugs reporting and Defect Tracking using Quality Center. Conducted Cross Browser Testing to check the compatibility of the Application with different Browsers (IE, AOL, Netscape).

Environment: Agile Scrum, Mercury Quality Center (MQC) 9.0, Quick Test Pro9.2/8.2 ( QTP ), Java, Junit, XML, Oracle, Load Runner9.0, SOAP UI, TDD, HTML, Linux, Quick Test Pro8.2, UNIX, IBM Rational Clear Quest and VB Script .

Confidential, Michigan

Quality Laed

Responsibilities:

• Performed manual testing of ActiveX components for Windows flavors (Windows 98/NT/2000/XP) in the technology of Digital life management system.
• Developed and executed automated Test Scripts in QTP using VBScript for Functional & Regression Testing using Quality Center.
• Developed test harness for Web Services by means of SOAP UI.
• Reviewed the Test Designs with QA team members and technical analysts for Confidential services.
• Interacting with project manager to understand the requirements of Confidential services.
• Developed Test cases and verified actual results with expected results for Confidential services.
• Development of Unix-based test harnesses for automated regression testing Black Box and White Box to interface to embedded computer 19mm Digital Tape Recorders using the Small Computer System Interface SCSI standard. The platforms used in this development were SUN WorkStations using the Solaris version of UNIX.
• Strong experience in evaluating business and software requirements, technical design documentation, and architecture and infrastructure design competence in the technology of digital life management system .
• Written the Test plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts, and Test Steps for all the modules and stored in Quality Center.
• Extensively used SQL Queries to validate data in the Oracle Database.
• Created automation regression scripts using QTP in Digital life Management System.
• Performed Functional, System, Regression, Performance and Integration testing as per requirements in the activation of broadband services.
• Working on flavors of UNIX like Sun Solaris 8 and 10.
• Involved in creating checkpoints, parameterize values using QTP for Broadband service providers.
• Generated Vuser scripts for various scenarios for load testing of the application in LoadRunner.
• Configuring VUGEN to add or remove number of users in Confidential services.
• Implementation of Data Mining in order to create Test Data for CCMS Application.
• Generated Scripts for Load and stress Testing using LoadRunner.
• Utilized LoadRunner for Performance, Volume, Load and Reliability Testing of the application.
• Performed Load, Performance and Stress testing by using Load Runner with HTTP/HTML.
• Utilized Putty Session for Interacting with Solaris Servers.
• Utilized Defect Reporting and Monitoring system Team Track.
• Created global re-usable actions using Quick Test Pro for automated scripts across projects.
• Prepared the test cases and executed them by Quick Test Pro.
• Created mappings for the Requirements in the Test lab from Iteration to Iteration.
• Involved through whole of Software Testing Life Cycle(V-Model)
• Involved in doing Integration and Regression testing of Release.
• Recognized for significant contributions/achievements for leading the data conversion, monitoring, troubleshooting and successful migration from PICK to AMISYS with immediate system efficiency.
• Conducted Cross Browser Testing to check the compatibility of the Application with different Browsers (IE, AOL, Netscape)
• Had a very good knowledge of how to use ORACLE and SQL databases as back-end databases.

Environment: Agile Scrum, Manual Testing, Amisys 3.5, Pick, Unit Testing of ActiveX Components, Java/J2EE, QTP, TCP/IP, Windows API Testing, UNIX (Solaris), HTTP, TCP/IP, HTML/DHTML, XML, SOAP UI.

Confidential

QA Engineer\Manual Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing test cases and executing them manually
• Performed manual testing the complete Savings module for Functionality and GUI testing.
• Checked the navigational functionality of the online Auto Loan application by creating Web verifications for HTML Link Objects.
• Performed through testing of services through SOAP UI before functional testing.
• Involved in the maintenance of the Bug Tracking and reporting system.
• Involved in validation and verification of the data.
• Involved in testing of data entry screens and transaction screens.
• Documented the test cases, test procedures, test scripts and test metrics.
• Responsible for the backend testing of the server log using basic Unix commands

Environment: Agile Scrum, Manual Testing, Java, Quick Test Pro 8.2, Quality Center, Oracle 9i, Unix, DHML, HTML, SOAP UI.