PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Strategic and hands - on Software Quality Assurance with 6 years of experience in IT industry and leverages strong management, technical, interpersonal skills, flexibility and teamwork to achieve business objectives.
• Experienced in developing frame work like Data-Driven, Key-Word-Driven, and POM Frame Work from scratch.
• Ability to perform an independent preliminary analysis of User, Functional and Business requirements and develop effective solutions to satisfy user requirements.
• Excellent knowledge of identifying various test scenarios.
• Experienced in working with business analysts, development groups analyzing business specifications as well with other testers to resolve technical and end-user issues.
• Good in Maintaining of Test Scripts, Requirements in, HP ALM and Bugzilla.
• Extensively experienced in creating Data sources for data driven testing.
• Proficient in GUI, Functionality testing, Black box testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, System testing, batch testing, Compatibility testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Extensive Hands on experience in managing defect life cycle using HP ALM/ Quality Center.
• Proficient in overall Defect Management/Problem solving including tracking bugs and reporting using HP ALM/Quality Center/ Jira.
• Expert in writing both SQL and PL/SQL query for Back-end testing, with strong SQL Skills.
• Expert in Manual testing as well as Automation using HP Quick Test Pro (QTP)/Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Strong VBScript skills, Expert in writing automation test scripts inside or outside QTP/UFT Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
• Expert in using Checkpoints, Regular Expression, Recovery Scenario, Object Repository, Descriptive programming and Keyword Driven, Data Driven Test Scripts in QTP/UFT to perform functional and regression testing.
• Experienced in creating Architecture design and Automation Framework for automation suite, which involves Test Data, Reusable Function library and Core classes using UFT/QTP.
• Familiar with Web Services (SOAP & RESTFul Services) / SOA Testing, XML Schema, WSDL and Web Services Automation testing with Soap UI tool and QTP/UFT API testing module.
• Experienced creating framework using Page Object Model.
• Proficient in executing DDL and DML queries for database validation
• Ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, deadline driven environments.
• Excellent Team Member, Mentor with good communication and interpersonal involved in configuring LDAP, SSL, SSO (CA Siteminder) and Digital Signatures.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS: HP Quality Center, JIRA, TRACK, Bugzilla

TESTING TOOLS: HP UFT, HP Quick Test Pro, HP ALM, HP Quality Center

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: C, SQL, PL/SQL, Java, VB Script, HTML, C++, C#, Asp.Net, XML

DATABASES: SQL Server, Oracle

WEB TECHNOLOGIES: VB Script, web services, HTML

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows, UNIX/Linux, DOS

FRAMEWORKS/ OPEN SOURCE: JUnit, Test NG, MVC

MS TOOLS: MS Visio, MS Project, MS Excel, MS Office, PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

QA Automation Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involve in gathering user requirements, analyzing requirements and developing the Test Plan, Test Strategy and Test Cases.
• Involve mainly in testing the applications, comparing and verifying the requirements and writing test cases as well.
• Work with users and developers in building up the applications.
• Maintain a Requirement traceability matrix in order to keep the clients and all the teams up - to-date with the current progress of the project.
• Perform Ad-hoc, Smoke, Functional, Acceptance, System, Integration, Usability, and Regression testing etc. during different stages of the application development.
• Utilize the defect tracking system of HP ALM to describe the scenario, to compare the expected outcome and actual outcome and finally report the defects in a clear and precise manner.
• Conduct Regression Testing on various builds of the application and reported the defects to the developers using HP ALM.
• Work with the development members on bug reproduction and fixes; and updated management on testing results, activities and planning using HP ALM.
• Write SQL queries for getting right test data from the required testing environment to run UFT framework.
• Convert existing Test Complete scripts to HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Develop UFT automation framework from scratch for new application as well as for existing application.
• Streamline current test automation processes by creating Keyword Framework for AUT with Driver Script, Generic Function Library, test data library.
• Perform Functional, Integration, Regression and End-to-End testing of the application against user stories with UFT.
• Implement version control system and changed management system for UFT scripts.
• Integrate UFT scripts with ALM to manage the entire Automation testing process.
• Involve in creating custom automation scripts for major flows by using only VBScript and HTML Dom which can run on any windows machine, to help teams speed up their testing or related activity.
• Participate in user acceptance testing.
• Involve in researching software defects, reporting software bugs, and verifying fixes.
• Participate in evaluation testing techniques, methods, and third-party testing tools.
• Responsible for planning, strategy and schedules, progress and status reporting.
• Participate in weekly Software Development Team meetings.

Environment: MS Visio, PHP, Windows, HP ALM, UFT, JUnit, JIRA, Java Script, VB Script, Java, MS Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, SQL, HTML, MS Office, Outlook, XML, UNIX.

Confidential, Lewiston, ME

QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in testing the functionality of a Web - enabled portal offering a single sign-on platform.
• Prepared test data for data driven test cases and tested the entire application regarding the Requirement of system.
• Performed Automated and Manual validation of Key business flows in various Environments before Prod Release.
• Performed UI testing; worked with VB Scripting.
• Performed functional testing, regression testing, integration testing, smoke testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Performed regression testing for every modification in the application as well as for the new builds using QTP and Quality Center.
• Documented the modification requests and defects and their trailing history using Quality Center.
• Developed and maintained detail test cases and expected results. Also, traced the test cases to the requirements using Quality Center.
• Created SQL queries for validating the data in the database.
• Automated test scripts for the GUI, Functional, Data Driven and Regression testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Enhanced automation scripts to maximize test coverage and improve test efficiency in Data Driven Testing using QTP.
• Involved in performing end-to-end system testing.
• Carried out User Acceptance Testing to validate customer acceptance criteria.
• Involved in writing Business Process and Testing Manual Components.
• Participated in scrum meetings held by weekly to address the status of testing.
• Actively engaged in Walkthroughs and review meetings with BA s and Developers.

Environment: Clear Quest, Bugzilla, Jira, C/C++, C#, SQL Server, MS Excel, VB Script, MS Office, Windows, MS Visio, UNIX, QTP, HP Quality Center, Java, Java Script, Oracle.

Confidential, Boca Raton, FL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked as QC Administrator to maintain users, groups, domain, projects, and policies.
• Responsible for creating and filing bugs.
• Analyzed the Business Requirement Document (BRD) and developed detailed Test plans, prepared Test cases.
• Conducted sanity testing of the application based on user requirements.
• Generated Test data for positive and negative test scenarios.
• Interacted with Business Analyst and developers for bug review using Quality Center.
• Interacted with development Teams for timely closure of bugs reported & in meeting the requirement specification using Quality Center.
• Tracked, monitored and reported defects using Quality Center.
• Involved in writing SQL Queries to check Data integrity.
• Created Automation scripts by using Quick Test professional Web, Java, ActiveX and .Net Add - ins.
• Enhanced the QTP scripts by inserting VBScript functions and various checkpoints like standard, image, page, text and database Checkpoints.
• Performed Data-Driven Testing, Text Output values by using Global and Local spreadsheets in QTP for testing multiple data.
• Created Keyword Automation Framework for AUT by writing Driver Script, Generic Function Library.
• Performed Functional and Regression testing by developing and executing automated test scripts using QTP.
• Implemented version control system and change management system for QTP scripts.
• Tested the source to target mappings and verified the data.
• Monitored project plan execution and project metrics reporting.
• Documented the project sign off and other project closure activities.

Environment: C#, SQL, C/C++, MS Visio, MS Office, MS Excel, Web Services, QTP, Quality Center, HTML, Java, Oracle, Windows, Java Script, VB Script, UNIX.