SUMMARY:

• Over 5 years of experience in the IT industry as a Software QA/Automation Engineer with both Web based and Client/Server applications
• In depth understanding of SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) and STLC (Software Testing Lifecycle), Waterfall and Agile Development methodology.
• Expert in Test Automation testing tools like HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT/QTP), Quality Center, ALM, JIRA.
• Strong expertise in implementation of Automation Architecture - Frameworks like Date Driven, Keyword Driven Framework and Hybrid Framework.
• Expert in analyzing application defining the framework and design, develop Test Automation Framework from Scratch in UFT/QTP.
• Extensive experience in Manual Testing including writing Test Cases, Preparing Test Data, executing test cases in full Defect Lifecycle in HP QC, ALM and JIRA.
• Extensive experience in File System Object, Dictionary Object, Automation Object Model (AOM), Document Object Model (HTML DOM), HTML Report in UFT/QTP with VB Script.
• Involved in Client-server Applications Testing, Cross Browser Testing, Web Service Testing and Data Base Testing.
• Expertise in understanding and working with different Test Methodologies
• Developed custom functions and maintained in the function libraries in QTP/UFT for Keyword Driven Framework.
• Extensive experience in Error Handling by developing custom error handling functions with VB Script.
• Involved in Database Testing using Oracle and SQL Server.
• Extensive experience with Testing UI applications.
• Involved in preparation of Metrics, Experience with Effort Estimations, Task Allocation, Test Deliverables, Defect Reports, Traceability Matrix based on client requirement and project plan.
• Good experience in analyzing the business requirement documents and requirement specification to prepare test cases.
• Experienced in Agile Scrum Environment as Cross Functional Development Team member with strong coding and testing background.
• Easily adaptable to any new technologies and open to learn, improve technical and soft skills.
• Good team player and have the ability to work independently in a time sensitive environment and ability to get the job done with minimum supervision.
• Good organizational and communication skills, with the ability to express technical concepts verbally and in written.
• Able to get along with other project members and able to maximize the productivity with team collaboration.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, HP ALM, QTP, UFT

Operating systems: Windows,OS

Programming Language: VB.NET, Visual Basic, SQL, PL/SQL, VB Script

Database: Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, SoapUI,VBScript, JavaScript, Java

Applications: MS Office, Crystal Reports, MS Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Automation Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed business requirements and designed specifications to understand the application under test.
• Designed automated test based on Test Case and Wrote Test Case.
• Analyzed business requirements, functional requirements, use cases and provided feedback for clear understanding of each requirement.
• Introduced, developed, documented, and updated the QA Test Plan, process and Procedures Manual and Objectives.
• Worked as developer to develop automated scripts.
• Analyzed and identified the areas of a project for Test Automation.
• Created Automation scripts in such way that to results can be generated in Text file, Excel and HTML formats.
• Performed Regression testing Black-box testing and System testing for business needs.
• Performed Manual Testing for the Functionality and GUI of the application using ALM those cannot be automated.
• Ensured the actual results match expected results using ALM.
• Responsible for documenting application related errors in ALM.
• Documented the Bugs and generated status reports and Bug reports and presented them in weekly status meetings using ALM.
• Worked on Backend Testing by writing SQL Queries to verify the data.
• Executed Test scripts against Developed Software using UFT.
• Involved in developing scripts using descriptive programming in UFT.
• Used UFT client desktop, made Scripts library of data-driven testing scripts complete with Recovery Scenario and checkpoint application.
• Executed the test scripts for the GUI, Functional, and Regression testing using UFT.
• Tested functionality of the application by inserting various check points like standard check points, text check points, table check points, image check points, and database check points in UFT.
• Carried out Hybrid Frame Work by substituting the parameters using UFT.
• Involved in all the phases of Test Automation development life cycle.
• Worked with UAT (User Acceptance Testing).
• Generated problem and changed reports and ensured the Corrective action for these reports operate correctly.
• Participated in weekly status meeting with Team members, Team managers, Business Analysts & Technical Team participating in Project review meetings.

Environment: UFT, ALM, UNIX, Windows, MS Office, Oracle, SOAP UI, XML, SQL, Java, Java Script, VB Script, C/C++, Html.

Confidential, Mclean, VA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Generated Test Scripts as per system, architecture and data synchronization requirements.
• Prepared the Manual Test cases and reviewed the test cases.
• Involved in Test Script evaluation along with the Test Manger, Business Analyst, Client and the Development Team.
• Tested Graphical User Interface (GUI) Components.
• Performed UAT, Sanity, Functional, System, Regression, Smoke and Back-end testing.
• Created Test Cases in HP Quality Center, mapped Test Cases to Requirements using Requirements Coverage, and Maintained Test Cases, reports in Quality Center.
• Investigated software bugs and interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues using HP Quality Canter.
• Reported the bugs using Quality Canter and tracked the bugs till closed.
• Created SQL queries for backend testing and data integrity testing.
• Involved in Functional testing of the system using both manual testing and automation tool QTP.
• Performed Integration testing, system testing, Regression testing using QTP.
• Developed automated test scripts using VBScript in QTP to facilitate Regression testing on multiple releases.
• Modified the automated QTP Scripts for regular release screen changes and to support regular functional changes.
• Parameterized QTP scripts for using with varied, controlled test input values.
• Performed test case execution using a Keyword Driven Framework with QTP.
• Performed User acceptance testing for the entire application.
• Executed transactions manually and verified the back end functionalities and data exploitation.
• Generated Weekly Status Reports to the team manager.

Environment: Quality Center, QTP, Windows, SQL, Java, J2EE, VBScript, VB.Net, HTML, XML, Java Script, MS Office