SUMMARY:

• 10 years of experience in IT field with special interest in Software Quality Assurance and expertise in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and exposure to agile process and methodologies. Strong familiarity with best practices and methodologies for system testing and Software Quality assurance.
• QA Lead with expertise in creating Test Plan, Test Strategy and Release Documents. Experience creating Regression outline, maintaining traceability matrix and leading the team by conducting team meetings, walkthroughs and collaborating with team members throughout the development and implementation process.
• Senior Software QA Tester with expertise in writing Test cases and Test procedures based on Functional and Business requirements considering the different test case techniques like equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis and error - guessing. Also, made sure the application was 508 compliant.
• Hands-on technology professional with experience working in complex project based environments. Multifaceted experience in QA software testing including Database (Back-end) testing, UI (style rules) testing, +1 Web Services, Performance testing, Security Testing, Automation, Disaster recovery testing and Accessibility testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: SOASTA CLOUDTEST, SELENIUM, CUCUMBER, NTO, SORTSITE, WhiteHat, QTP 8.2/9.2 and Test Director 7.2, Quality center 9.0 (ALM), Bugzilla, Ontime 2009, TFS, VSTS, Team city, HP QTP/UFT, JIRA

Operating systems: Windows 7/ XP/2000/NT/9x, UNIX

Languages: Java, Java Script, Gherkin, Jscript, JSON, XML, HTML/CSS.

IDE: Selenium, PGADMIN, PL/SQL Developer, Toad, Oracle SQL Developer, SQL Server 2014, Firebug, XML Spy, Advanced REST client, Postman, SOAPUI.

Database: Oracle 8/9i/10g, SQL server 2014/ 2005/2008, Postgres, TOAD

Others: MS word, MS Excel, MS Visio, Filezilla, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, JBOSS, WebLogic 8.x/9.x, SharePoint, Agile, Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Extensively performed functional, regression, integration and Smoke testing (UAT and Production environments) on the application.
• Validated for the business rules and UI details with the back-end.
• Wrote SQL queries to test the application for data integrity and verified the contents of the data table.
• Extensively written SQL queries using joins, aggregate functions to validate the application/ report data.
• Monitored the import/queue process in the server logs and analyzed the results and errors.
• Validated the application for cross site scripting and SQL Injection.
• Executed performance testing by importing bulk data and monitored the progress and stability of the system.
• Ran ETL jobs and validated the data in the target tables met the functional requirements.
• Created and maintained the test cases, test data and test scenarios for each sprint cycle in TFS/ VSTS.
• Logged defects with detailed description, screenshots and log trace in TFS/ VSTS
• Monitored the build runs and ran custom builds for test environment in Team city.
• Actively involved in Agile SDLC. Participated in daily scrum calls, Sprint planning, Sprint review and monthly QA meetings.

Environment: TFS, VSTS, SQL Server 2014, Oracle, Team city, SharePoint, Filezilla, SSIS, IE, Firefox, Chrome, safari, MS Word, MS Excel, coded UI, JIRA.

Confidential

QA

Responsibilities:

• Prepared detailed Test Plan document by understanding the business logic and user requirements. Created Test Strategy document with project roadmaps to lead QA engineers to achieve project goals. Created and maintained Project plans, requirements traceability matrix, Defect Status reports, Regression Outline to efficiently manage the tasks and meet the deliverables for each sprint cycle.
• Mentored and Lead the team members during the different phases of SDLC. Conducted walkthroughs, Status meetings, Peer review meetings and Defect review meetings.
• Expertise in all phases of testing such as Black Box, Regression Testing, System test, Functional testing, Database (Back-end) testing, UI (style rules) testing, Performance testing, Security Testing, Accessibility testing, Browser Compatibility testing and Automation.
• Extensive experience in developing SQL scripts to validate the database tables and reports data for backend testing.
• Involved in extensive DATA validation using SQL queries and backend testing.
• Provided detailed description, steps to reproduce, the necessary screenshots and attachments of for identified bugs including the test case ID, Priority, severity, app version and browsers.

Environment: PGADMIN, POSTGRES, ORACLE, Sortsite, Cloudtest, NTO, POSTMAN, XML, Firebug, Selenium, Advanced REST Client, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, Balsamiq, UML, Adobe Acrobat, Ontime 2009, SharePoint, IE, Firefox, Chrome, safariConfidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepared new Test Scripts and modified existing ones to meet the new requirements and design changes.
• Created batch files with different possible scenarios to capture the audits (disappearing students, false drop-outs, simultaneous enrollment and false transfers)
• Executed the ETL Batch processing, uploaded files using FTP and validated the results in the database tables.
• Performed Black Box Testing, System testing, Functional testing, regression testing and Cross-Browser testing.
• Used Ontime and Bugzilla tool to enter/manage the bugs found while testing the application by providing detailed information.

Environment: SQL SERVER 2008, Ontime 2009, MS Word, MS Excel, Adobe Acrobat,, SharePoint, IE, Firefox, Chrome, safari

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepared new Test Scripts and modified existing ones to meet the new requirements and design changes.
• Documented and managed Manual Test scripts in the Perforce and Quality Center (ALM).
• Involved in creating and executing the test scripts for Regression and System testing. Worked with development team to create test data suite that covers all the business rule validations and 508 Compliance.
• Performed Black Box Testing, System testing, Functional testing, regression testing, Security Testing, Browser Compatibility testing and Disaster recovery testing by restarting the app servers like JBOSS and OAS ad ensured no loss of data.
• Performed Security testing manually to capture Cross-site Scripting (XSS) and SQL Injection vulnerabilities across the application.
• Experience in testing Web Services, AFP (Automatic File Processing) and SIF (Student Interoperability Framework).
• Extensively executed the ETL jobs by verifying the source file validations and validated the data in the target tables met the functional requirements. Verified if the data is populated correctly in the UI/reports.
• Performed web services testing using command prompt. Validated and verified the XML data generated in WSDL.
• Used Quality Center (ALM) tool to enter/manage the bugs found while testing the application. Provided detailed information, steps to reproduce, the necessary screenshots and attachments of for identified bugs.
• Extensively worked on writing and executing SQL queries and ORACLE queries to test the backend functionality of the application to verify the complex business logic computational rules.
• Participating in Functional, Design Reviews and weekly status meetings.

Environment: ORACLE, SQL DEVELOPER, PL/SQL Developer, TOAD, SQL server 2008, SQL Server 2005, Perforce 2008, SOAP Web services, XML, Hyperion, Quality Center 9.0 (ALM), MS Word, MS Excel, Adobe Acrobat, Oracle 9i, OAS, Windows 2000/XP, IE, Firefox, Chrome, safari

Confidential, White Plains, NY

Senior Software QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Created, executed and documented test cases for Regression and System testing in Quality Center (ALM).
• Extensively used Quality center (ALM) tool to enter/manage the bugs.
• Extensively worked on writing and executing SQL queries to test the backend functionality of the application to verify the complex business logic computational rules.
• Experience executing test scripts using QTP.
• Participating in Functional, Design Reviews and weekly status meetings.

Environment: QTP 9.0, Quality center 9.0 (ALM), Load Runner, IE 6.x, Adobe Acrobat, Oracle 9i, BEA Weblogic 8.x, Windows 2000/XP and PL/SQL Developer, TOAD, XML, UNIX.