SUMMARY:

• Motivated and enthusiastic Software Test Engineer/ QA Test Analyst with five years of experience in software quality assurance and software testing in various industries including insurance, healthcare and government solutions industries.
• Strong experience in creating and executing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Strategy, Test Scenarios, Test Data, Bug documentation, and Test Summary Report.
• Expertise in writing Test Conditions and Test Cases from the Requirements specifications and Functional specifications.
• Expertise in problem solving and bug tracking reports using Bug Tracking tools JIRA, ALM, Quality Center.
• Solid experience in maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrices (RTM) to measure the testing progress.
• Experienced in automation testing using HP Quality Center, ALM, SOAP UI and Selenium.
• Strong knowledge of Relational Database Management System (RDBMS).
• Experience in writing SQL Queries, extracting data from MS SQL Server and Oracle.
• Expertise in implementing CMMI standard processes and procedures.
• Organized, detail - oriented and have the ability to meet project milestones and deliverable dates.
• Able to work independently as well as in a Team successfully.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software Testing Tools: HP ALM, JIRA, Selenium.

508 Compliance Testing Tools: JAWS and WAVE.

Programming Languages: SQL and JAVA.

RDBMS/Database: SQL Server, ORACLE, and MS Access.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involve in reviewing requirements, and develop test strategies/ test plan
• Responsible for creating scripts, generating various Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Test Execution.
• Collaborate with project team including development, business analyst, and end-users for gathering requirements.
• Analyze user stories documents, develop test cases and identify acceptance criteria for user stories.
• Assist in maintaining/updating Scrum backlogs.
• Collaborate with Product Manager, Scrum Product Owner, stakeholders, and development teams to define the Product Backlog, User Stories, and storyboards.
• Perform sprint demo to clients.
• Creation of new test cases and leveraging/updating existing test cases
• Coordinate and facilitate necessary interactions in order to obtain answers, and eliminate impediments during product development.
• Confirm product meets User Story and design intent as part of Scrum Sprint exit criteria
• Develop test cases from requirements, use-cases, design documents and other project related documents.
• Interacted with developers to report and track bugs using JIRA.
• Create the Regression Test cases and automated them for the purpose of regression testing.
• Responsible for Backend testing by writing and executing SQL statements.
• Involved in writing test cases depends on test scenarios.
• Assist in 508 compliance testing using JAWS and WAVE
• Develop automated test script using Selenium for regression testing.
• Report Test Summary Report to the clients and provided recommendation for performance improvements as needed.

Environment: HP ALM, SharePoint, SVN, JAWS, WAVE, XML, VSS, J2EE, UNIX, JIRA, Oracle, SQL, Selenium, SOAP UI.

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Software Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Verify requirement traceability from System Requirements through test cases and defects
• Work with the developers and business analyst to understand the technical requirement/design being built in a project
• Work with the business analyst to understand the business rules and requirements for the project
• Reviewed the application functional Specifications document and developed test cases and test protocol for functional testing.
• Create and maintain Test cases and Defects Tracking in ALM or Quality Centre
• Performed Regression testing on the application for testing validity of functionality in different versions of the application.
• Participated in Walk-through, Peer Reviews and Defect Report meetings periodically
• Performed End-to-End testing of full functionality.
• Extensively involved in running manual tests on the applications.
• Manually tested the GUI /Interface of the application.
• Investigated software bugs and interacted with developers to resolve technical issues using Defect Tracking system HP Quality Center.
• Extensively used SQL Queries to check the integrity of the data and to perform Back End Testing.
• Uncovered, reported, tracked, and followed-up on system defects to Project Manager, Developers, and other QA/Test Team members.
• Conducted end-to-end test of the application manually
• Interaction with business analysts and developers to resolve the technical issues so as to meet the client’s requirement for a better quality software product.
• Attended walkthrough meeting with the System Analysts, Project Managers and Developers.

Environment: Selenium, JAWS, WAVE, Java, SQL, UNIX, HTML, Oracle and SQL Developer

Confidential, Washington, DC

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering and analyzing requirements
• Developed manual test scripts for functional and regression testing.
• Planned and managed resources and budget successfully for various projects simultaneously.
• Involved in compatibility testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing.
• Interfaced with peers and management on test related topics including test plan creation and test setup/coordination and test execution.
• Wrote SQL queries to test Data Integrity, Referential Integrity to validate data in the backend.
• Created the Regression Test cases and automated them for the purpose of regression testing.
• Used Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Responsible for Backend testing by writing and executing SQL statements.
• Involved in writing Test cases depending on test scenarios.

Environment: JIRA, Java, XML, Quality Center, SQL Server, Windows