SUMMARY:

• 6+ years of experience in IT field focusing on Quality Assurance of software.
• Extensive working knowledge of Manual and Automated testing in Windows, Client - Server and Web based applications.
• Experienced in Full life cycle of Software Engineering - Requirements Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Documentation.
• Extensive knowledge of Software Testing life cycle, methodologies, test cases, test processes and test plans.
• Extensive experience in Backend testing.
• Experienced in working with HP ALM/Quality Center and JIRA.
• Experienced in executing test cases in ALM/Quality Center.
• Experienced in running manual and automated test using ALM/Quality Center.
• Proficient in Bug tracking and reporting using the test management tools like ALM/Quality Center and BugZila.
• Extensive experience in SQL.
• Having knowledge in UNIX shell scripts.
• Experienced in working on QTP for automation.
• Experienced in collecting Test Data and Generating Test cases for Automation.
• Experienced in implementing Automation Framework.
• Good experience in analyzing, troubleshooting Batch Job failures from Backend.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test Automation Tool: UFT/QuickTest professional (QTP).

Test Management Tools: HP ALM, Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest (CQ)

Configuration Management Tools: Visual Source Safe (VSS), SVN, Rational Clearcase, SharePoint, Filenet P8

BI Reporting Tool: Cognos.

RDBMS: Oracle, MS-SQL Server, Sybase, MS Access, DB2.

Platform: Windows, Win 2k Server, UNIX, Linux, DOS.

Languages: PL/SQL, C++, Java, SQL.

Management Tools: MS-Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Microsoft Project, Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements and functional requirements to prepare test procedures, test cases and test scripts.
• Involve in creating Test Plan,Test cases and executed test cases in HP Sprinter and HP ALM.
• Executed complete manual testing using HP Sprinter and marked Test Cases with test status in HP ALM.
• Created Test Scripts, Test strategy and Test Execution matrix for Integration and Regression testing.
• Performed Functional, Integration, and Regression Testing using HP Sprinter and HP ALM.
• Followed Waterfall methodology for timely completion of the modules.
• Worked very actively with Business team and project team to resolve any requirement and design deficiency and provide requirement assessment to QA Manager.
• Involved in Reproducing, discussing and analyzing issues and logging appropriate defects in QC/ALM.
• Logged, Reported and traced complete project Defects in QC/ALM tickets.
• Coordinated with Business Analysts & Developers for defect analysis and performing Regression Testing.

Tools: and Technologies: HP ALM, HP Sprinter, Manual testing, SharePoint, Filenet P8

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for reviewing Business and System Requirements and Design Specification for project and determine adequacy of Requirements and guarantee that they are testable.
• Created Test Plan, Test cases and executed test cases in HP ALM.
• Assigned risk level to all test cases in HP ALM and created risk assessment for scope and limitation.
• Executed complete manual testing using ALM and marked Test Cases with test status.
• Performed extensive backend testing writing all kinds of DDL, DML using SQL queries.
• Developed and Implemented automation using descriptive programming.
• Script maintenance for Data driven frame work developed in QTP & VBScript for regression suite.
• Created Test Automation Scripts using QTP for Regression and Integration testing.
• Performed Functional, Integration, Regression, GUI and Data Driven Testing using QTP.
• Supported Batch jobs for all QA and development databases from DB.
• Created Test Scripts, Test strategy and Test Execution matrix for Integration and Regression testing.
• Followed AGILE methodology for timely completion of the modules.
• Worked very actively with Business team and project team to resolve any requirement and design deficiency and provide requirement assessment to QA Manager.
• Involved in Reproducing, discussing and analyzing issues and logging appropriate defects in QC/ALM.
• Logged, Reported and traced complete project Defects in QC/ALM tickets.
• Provided weekly focus reports to the QA Director
• Coordinated with Business Analysts & Developers for defect analysis and performing Regression Testing.

Tools: and Technologies: Quick Test professional (QTP), HP ALM, Manual testing, Oracle, SharePoint

Confidential, Richmond, VA

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business and System Requirements and Design Specification.
• Involved in creating the Test Plan from the requirements.
• Responsible for create and update test entrance and exit criteria checklists with QA and Business teams.
• Created Test cases and Test scripts based on functional requirements and design documents.
• Involved in different phases of testing basically the Business Functionality Testing, Integration Testing, Positive Testing, Negative Testing and UAT.
• Involved in manual testing using Quality Center to develop Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Developed Test Cases in Quality Center’s Test Lab based on screenshots.
• Tracked, and reviewed the defects using Quality Center.
• Complete Backend Testing was performed using SQL queries to verify the Integrity of the database.
• Worked on the VB scripting for QTP to test the functionality.
• Designed Keyword Driven Automation Framework using QTP from scratch.
• Scheduled, Interacted and evolved the QTP Scripts and Setup test requirements.
• Parameterized property values with Data Table parameters so that different values could be used indifferent iterations of the test.
• Actively participated in testing Web pages developed using HTML and Java Script.
• Used CMM practices to ensure compliance with project processes and quality of deliverables from the development team.
• Involved in User Acceptance test (UAT) with compliance with all end-to-end test specifications.

Tools: and Technologies: Quick Test professional (QTP), Quality Center (QC), Control Center, Data Stage, Oracle, Windows

Confidential, Boston, MA

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements and functional requirements to prepare test plans, test procedures, test cases and test scripts.
• Created test plans to detail the testing scope, requirements (high level), strategies and all needed required resources.
• Formulated detailed test plans, test cases and created test procedures by actively participating in project meetings and walkthroughs.
• Helped in the creation and implementation of a viable testing routine for both the New Business team and the Endorsement team.
• Extensively tested the Graphical User Interface components and conducted Functional and Regression testing for each build.
• Performed extensive Positive and Negative testing, so as to crack any defect that could exist.
• Developed use case model using MS Visio. Created a development plan for the overall project and prototypes.
• Tested the application on IE, Netscape, Safari browsers on Windows, UNIX and Linux operating systems.
• Created folders in Quality Center. Entered Requirements in and/or exported to those folders.
• Prepared MS Excel sheets for requirements and design steps to export to the Quality Center.
• Converted requirements to tests and created Templates in Quality Center for the common steps.
• Developed and used SQL Queries to perform back end testing.
• Planned QTP testing process by Analyzing the AUT and Automating Test Plan Generation.
• Did Settings and Configured QTP Tool.
• Enhanced Tests by Inserting Checkpoints, Output values, Adding Comments in QTP.
• Synchronized, Parameterized, Inserted Transaction Points, Regular Expressions.
• Created a single huge shared object repository for all the different modules by using the Object. Repository Manager in QTP.
• Involved in the tracking and updating of the Requirement Traceability Matrix, thereby linking the test cases with the business requirements as well as other associated test cases.
• Involved in Regression testing, and the tracking and updating of the corresponding Progress report charts.
• Assisted in UAT testing, helping logging and tracking of defects.

Tools: and Technologies: Quick Test professional (QTP), Quality Center (QC), SQL server and Oracle.