PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 6 years of experience in the field of web based IT with focus on QA and testing, Client - Server and data ware housing applications, effective use of QA and testing practice.
• Experience working in Health Care, Financial domain, Banking, Retail and Marketing.
• Strong knowledge of all phases of SDLC and STLC. Strong working knowledge of backend and frontend software testing.
• Expertise in smoke, functional, regression, integration and system testing.
• Tested Web Services, XML, and WSDL using SOAP UI tools. Modified end points when on different servers and different versions of Web Services.
• Tested Web Services, providing required input data to request XML and validated response XML.
• Good working knowledge of automation tools, Unified Functional Testing (UFT)/Quick Test Pro (UFT).
• Experience in SQL queries and joins (inner/outer etc) to validate data. Used TOAD to execute SQL queries.
• Utilized HP Quality Center and HP ALM for specific requirements, writing detailed test plans, updating test cases, maintaining test scripts, and observing traceability.
• Gained excellent knowledge of signing and implementing all QA test strategy plans manually and automated test solutions for client/server and web applications with HP's automated test suite.
• Experience in complete defect life cycle and requirement traceability matrix (RTM).
• Uploaded business requirements, test scenarios, test cases and defects from MSWord and Excel to HP Quality Center & ALM.
• Strongly used Agile and Waterfall Testing Methodologies.
• Able to work in fast paced, result oriented environment consistently delivering high quality of work.
• Received number of client appreciations for delivering high quality work and performance tuning of long running processes.
• Team player with good communication and written skills with exemplary analytical and problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL TOOLS:

Testing & Reporting Tools: Team foundation Server, MTM, Rally, HP Quality Center/ALM, HP QTP/UFT, SoapUI, Advanced Rest Client, Postman, Reg-Ex

Database Backend Tools: MS SQL Server 2014, Oracle, SQL plus, MySQL, Mongo

Languages: Vb Script, SQL, Pl/SQL, XML, JASON, HTML, CSS

Development Environment: Net, Visual Studio, Java, Python, Node JS

Development Process: SDLC, STLC, TDD, Agile, Iterative, Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hartford, CT

QA Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze trade workflow starting on the GUI and finish it on the backend systems.
• Analyze business requirements and develop test plans, test cases and generate test scripts for both positive and negative testing.
• Develop test plans to identify the test efforts of the project to ensure that product meet functional and design specifications.
• Perform smoke,GUI, end-to-end, functionality system and regression testing when market research enhancements are added to the application.
• Create test plans and test cases for various functional modules of the application enhancements.
• Use Quality Center to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process which includes planning and executing tests, logging and tracking defects.
• Execute test cases, work with developers and technical operations to isolate and solve defects.
• Perform testing of interactive web applications including functional and regression testing. This includes manual testing which focuses on end-to-end testing to checks application response and output, to ensure compliance with system requirements outlined in the requirements document.
• Complete back end testing to validate and retrieve data from the database and use Oracle to execute SQL Queries by using joins.
• Develop automated test scripts with UFT based on various use cases.
• Parameterize UFT scripts for use with varied, control test input values.
• Develop and maintain UFT scripts for functional, sanity and regression testing.
• Use Red Hat Linux to find errors and fatal in log files.
• Participate in daily scrum meetings, technical meetings with the software development team.

Confidential, Astoria, NY

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing system requirements and developing a test plan for the project based on SDLC.
• Writing and executing test cases and test scripts after reviewing the business requirements and technical specifications.
• Developed master start up scripts by using reusable actions and copy actions and did there regression testing for each release of the application by using Unified Functional Testing(UFT).
• Extensively worked on handling the application response for Positive and Negative sets of data for data driven using Unified Functional Testing (UFT).
• Conducted data driven testing by parameterize data using Quick Test Pro.
• Performed Black box testing, integration testing, System testing, data validation testing, end-to-end testing of the application.
• Interacted with Business Analysts, Developers and QA team members in different defect raising situations.
• Performing queries to the data base using 'SQL 'to checks successful transaction & to create particular test cases.
• Created detailed QA documentation including QA reports and actively participated in project status meetings.
• Extensively communicated with developers using bug Quality Center.
• Presentation of the QA Status report and the Defect Status reports in the weekly meeting.

Confidential, Bronx, NY

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in entire Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), in analyzing the business requirement document.
• (BRD) and functional specifications document (FSD), to understand the application.
• Participated in reviewing the functional specifications document (FSD), with the business analyst and
• Development team to discuss and collect business requirements.
• Created test plans and test cases by analyzing the business requirements and system requirements for the various functional modules in the application.
• Developed and maintained software test plans, test cases, and scenarios in accordance with current requirements and documented the test results in HP Quality Center.
• Performed smoke, GUI, end-to-end, functionality and regression testing for one or more systems.
• Conducted positive and negative testing and performed accessibility tests for different user types depending on their roles and privileges.
• Used HP Quality Center for tracking software bugs and indicate the progress of testing during weekly status updates.
• Managed the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) between requirements and test cases.
• Documented, found defects during the testing phase and reported them to the software developer in order to eliminate them.
• Wrote and executed basic SQL queries and UNIX commands to monitor log files.
• Attended walk through and daily scrum meetings with business analysts, project manager and developers.