SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of diverse experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Quality Assurance. Expertise in Manual Testing of Web based and Client/Server applications and also using Automation Testing Tools like Selenium IDE and Mercury Interactive Test Suite (Quality Center and QTP ) and databases like Oracle 11g, MySQL and SQL Server 2008 possess excellent communication, inter - personal and documentation skills. I get quickly adapted to an existing work environment and like to work with team and independently based on business needs.
• Strong understanding of software development life cycle models and object oriented systems design and architecture
• Experience working on phased/waterfall and Agile SCRUM project team in a testing, development or analyst capacity.
• Expertise in Manual and Automation testing concepts, preparation of RTM, Test case designing, Testing, generating various types of reports and reporting to testing lead issues faced.
• Work closely with business and development teams (onshore/offshore) and users to understand their needs and the design of the software application
• Extensive experience in creating Test Plans and Test cases from functional specifications and business requirement documents
• Fully proficient in Manual testing and usage of Test Automation Tools like QTP using VBScript, Quality Center and Selenium IDE and RC.
• Extensive experience in Functional testing, Smoke testing, Integration testing, System testing, UAT testing, End-to-End testing, Performance testing, Regression testing, Database Testing, GUI testing, browser compatibility testing and smoke testing in Windows & Unix environments
• Report defects using Defect tracking tools like Quality Center, JIRA, Rally and TTP
• Expertise in writing and understanding SQL Queries for data validation and back-end testing purposes.
• Experience testing XML data feeds and validation of XML datasets using XML Parsers and XML Formatter utilities.
• Experience in SOAP validation using SOAP UI

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automation Tools: QTP, Selenium RC, and RFT(Rational Functional Tester)

Defect tracking tools: HP Testing Suite - Quality Center/Test Director, JIRA,Selenium IDE

Programming Languages: Basic Java, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, and basic Unix, Soap UI, Postman

Database Tools: SQL, Oracle, and SQL Server

Operating System: MS-DOS, Windows XP/2000/2003, Windows 7,Windows 10,UNIX

Familarities: VersionOne, Internet, MS Outlook

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Testing Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Involved in planning, implementation, reporting the day-to-day activities to the management and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Prepared Test plans, Functional Test scenarios, Test cases and executed the test cases in HP ALM 12.53
• Involved in testing of the Healthcare.gov web application and identified the different test cases for regression testing.
• Generated defect tracking reports from ALM and reviewed the open defects with the developers on daily basis in the Triage calls.
• Created and tracked defects in Jira.
• Interacted with developers, analyst and subject matter experts (SME) in creating meaningful test data.
• Developed and documented application test plans based on functional and technical specifications.
• Communicated with developers, product managers, and technical support specialists on critical issues.
• Worked on Web-services applications, using SOAP UI tool, to create a Web Service Test from SOAP request and validate the response against the database.
• Involved in testing of application in different browsers.
• Involved validation of XMl payloads which are sent State Medicaid Agency from FFM.
• Involved in validation of 834 files that are sent to Issuers.
• Involved in validating the X12 files that are processed through EDI.
• Executed automation test scripts in HP ALM using VB script
• Executed automation test scripts using selenium.
• Executed MarkLoic X queries for validation of Insurance Plan Policy and 834 XML.
• Used CALT to communicate and coordinate software bug fixes and system change requests amongst testers, developers, and managers.
• Closely worked with the client to develop UAT test scenarios and test cases
• Executed the UAT test cases and reported the UAT test results to get the client approval.
• Executed SQL queries for data verification and validation in the back-end database.
• Created and Maintained Requirement Traceably Matrix (RTM) after developing and updating Test Cases.
• Interact with developers to resolve application defects and suggested enhancements.
• Created Test cases to verify application comply with section 508 regulation.
• Wrote test cases based on information found in requirements and specifications, flow charts, and process diagrams.
• Well trained in the Peer Review, Technical Writer Review and Quality Management Office (QMO).
• Reviews to comply with the CMMI standards.

Environment: JIRA, HP Quality Center, HTML, XML, Windows 7, Windows 10, Mark Logic, SoapUI, Postman

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Testing Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Involved in planning, implementation, reporting the day-to-day activities to the management and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Prepared Test plans, Functional Test scenarios, Test cases and executed the test cases in HP ALM 12.53
• Involved in testing of the Healthcare.gov web application and identified the different test cases for regression testing.
• Generated defect tracking reports from ALM and reviewed the open defects with the developers on daily basis in the Triage calls.
• Created and tracked defects in Jira.
• Interacted with developers, analyst and subject matter experts (SME) in creating meaningful test data.
• Developed and documented application test plans based on functional and technical specifications.
• Communicated with developers, product managers, and technical support specialists on critical issues.
• Worked on Web-services applications, using SOAP UI tool, to create a Web Service Test from SOAP request and validate the response against the database.
• Involved in testing of application in different browsers.
• Involved validation of XMl payloads which are sent State Medicaid Agency from FFM.
• Involved in validation of 834 files that are sent to Issuers.
• Involved in validating the X12 files that are processed through EDI.
• Executed automation test scripts in HP ALM using VB script
• Executed automation test scripts using selenium.
• Executed MarkLoic X queries for validation of Insurance Plan Policy and 834 XML.
• Used CALT to communicate and coordinate software bug fixes and system change requests amongst testers, developers, and managers.
• Closely worked with the client to develop UAT test scenarios and test cases
• Executed the UAT test cases and reported the UAT test results to get the client approval.
• Executed SQL queries for data verification and validation in the back-end database.
• Created and Maintained Requirement Traceably Matrix (RTM) after developing and updating Test Cases.
• Interact with developers to resolve application defects and suggested enhancements.
• Created Test cases to verify application comply with section 508 regulation.
• Wrote test cases based on information found in requirements and specifications, flow charts, and process diagrams.
• Well trained in the Peer Review, Technical Writer Review and Quality Management Office (QMO).
• Reviews to comply with the CMMI standards.

Environment: JIRA, HP Quality Center, HTML, XML, Windows 7, Windows 10, Mark Logic, SoapUI

Confidential, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing and executing tests to ensure the compliance of all Web applications and services to the organizational standards, Business Analysts and end-user requirements.
• Tested/executed scenarios for e-commerce applications (Firefly.com, Hertz.com & IRAC).
• Reviewed BRD & FRD documents for Reservation Application.
• Performed GUI testing, functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, end-to-end testing, compatibility testing, and User Acceptance testing.
• Worked on scenario's - Rates shop, Modify, Cancel, Adding Extras & Travel Agent functionalities on various environments.
• Created test cases for Reservation project functionality.
• Used IMT Tester (SoapUI) for testing Web services/Consumer Services.
• Collaborated with developers, other test team members and business Subject Matter Experts to design test scenarios and test cases based on requirements and technical designs.
• Used JIRA, Green Hopper tool for bug tracking, reporting, and sprint & defect management.
• Interacted with developers to better understand and resolve bugs by tracking, monitoring, and prioritizing testing issues.
• Re-tested all the defects found with confirmation of development team during functional and regression testing and reporting them in JIRA and following up the bug life cycle.

Environment: JIRA, VersionOne, HP Quality Center, HP QTP, HTML, Oracle11g, XML, Windows 7, SoapUI, UNIX

Confidential, Southlake, TX

Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in reviewing SSW stories created in Rally and plan, design and execute test cases related to them in HP Quality Center.
• Used JIRA for defect tracking purposes.
• Participated in meetings and walkthroughs and provided testing updates.
• Involved in Web Service testing using SOAP UI and XML data validation using XML Formatter
• Validating airline reservations and configuration susing SNTE and STAN tools .
• Performed regression testing of the SSW application (V9 and V12) and coordinate activites with Krakow (Poland) development teams for bug identification and fixing.
• Work closely with automation testing team for scripting QTP scripts and associating them with HP Quality Center for automation regression testing.
• Deployed new builds for testing purposes in the Integration environment using Jenkins
• Peformed data validation using SQL queries on Oracle 11g database for the SSW application.
• Involved in Functional, GUI, Smoke, Regression, positive & negative, integration and CERT testing and checkouts. Used Test Driven Development (TDD) approach by working closely with the developers and testing teams during Agile SCRUM sprint cycles for maintaining application code quality standards .
• Liaising with Performance testing team to create load metrics definition and counter settings to perform load/stress testing of the applications.

Environment: JIRA, HP Quality Center, Selenium IDE, HTML, JavaScript, Java, SOAP UI, Oracle11g, XML, Windows 7, SQL, UNIX, SNTE.

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Integration, Functional, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Regression, Graphical User-Interface (GUI) and End-to-End testing
• Involved in all phases of the software testing life cycle.
• Involved in complete Testing life cycle including, writing Test Plan, Test Cases, collecting test data for various projects and documenting test results.
• Used the QTP Tool to Automated the UX test cases.
• Tested the application using Quality Center to find Defects and reported bugs to the concerned Dev Team and once the bugs were fixed, re-tested them.
• Analyzed business specifications, developed and executed test cases as per the requirements.
• Involved in developing test strategy and test plan.
• Testing web application in mobile device in iOS, Android and windows platform.
• As part of an Agile SCRUM team: estimating work and reporting daily progress in stand-up meetings.
• Updated all test documents as and when the requirements and/or the expected results changed
• Performed smoke, functionality, integration, end-to-end, system, regression and user acceptance testing and documented the test results.
• Cross browser testing on Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Chrome.
• Runs SQL query to retrieve data from SQL Server for checking the backend data.

Environment: Quality Center, UNIX, iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, QTP, Oracle 11g, SQL Developer, Toad, HTML, XML, Omniture