SUMMARY:

• 7 ± years of Manual/Automated Software Quality Assurance (Application Testing) Experience for Client/Server, Web/Mobile Applications & Web Services including Software Application Development experience using various tools and technologies.
• Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Reviewed and analyzed Functional and Design Specifications with BA/Managers/Developers to ensure full understanding of individual deliverables and developed/modified Test Plans.
• Prepared Test Scenarios, Test Cases to cover the Business and Functional Requirements for Testing and Executed Test Cases, Reported/Managed Defects, Generated/Prepared reports and worked with developers towards resolution of issues and supported product rollouts across multiple code releases.
• Performed Sanity, Smoke, System, Functional, Unit, White Box, Black Box, GUI, Cross - Browser, UAT, Integration, Regression and Re-Testing after changes/Bug fixes during application development.
• Experienced in Waterfall, V-Model and Agile Testing Methodology. Agile-Scrum Certified.
• Experienced in Back-end testing using SQL Queries SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE, TRUNCATE ETC.
• Generated and maintained Traceability Matrix showing the number of test cases executed, passed, failed and left to execute in daily/weekly meetings and provided status and estimates.
• Comprehensive knowledge using Quality Center/ALM/JIRA for Test Management activities.
• Comprehensive knowledge with Web Services using SOAP UL & REST.
• Performed System, Functional and Regression testing on different modules in latest builds using Selenium, Eclipse, WebDriver, TestNG and Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Executed QA Engineer duties including, but not limited to developing test strategies, developed and maintain test documentation, designed and executed test cases and analyzed data to identify problems.
• Created Virtual Machine, Monitored and Managed using MS VM or VMWare. Installed and Maintained Full Web, Application and Database Servers utilizing .net framework, IIS, services & registries.
• Created Test Environment and Imported Test Data for numerous releases for testers to perform tests.
• Installed, Monitored & Managed Oracle 10g DB, Upgraded Patches, Created Table Spaces, Databases, Users. Imported, Exported, Compared, Backed Up, Restored and Maintained Databases/Schemas.
• Installed, Configured, and Troubleshot Hardware and Software on different Servers and PCs as needed.
• Assisted manager in test planning, reporting and mentored other engineers in testing, bug tracking in difficult situation.
• Quick learner and excellent team player, good communication and interaction with developers, managers and team members and ability to meet tight deadlines and work under pressure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Types: Functional, Non-Functional, Integration, Re-Testing, Regression, System, Database, Unit & UAT

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, MySQL, VB 6.0, VBA, MS .net, C#, MS Access, C/C++, Java.

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, PL/SQL Server Pages (PSP), PHP.

Databases: Oracle 9i/10G, MySQL, MS Access.

Operating Systems: UNIX DG-UX/COMPAQ/HP, MS Windows, Windows Severs 2000/03/08, MS DOS, Mac.

Web Servers: IIS, Apache.

Testing Tools: Quality Center, Bugzilla, JIRA, QTest, QTP 11.0, Selenium 2.0, Eclipse, Firebug 1.9, SoupUI;

Methods: Waterfall, V-Model, Agile-Scrum.

Win. Applications: MS-Project, MS-Visio, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Word & Adobe Photoshop, MS-VSS;

Tools Used: Developer 2000, Oracle Form 5.0, 6i, 9i; SQR, Brio/Hyperion 6.0, 6.1.3; Oracle Reports 3.0 6i; AppWorx (Batch Job Scheduling); PL/SQL Developer; TOAD; StarTeam 4.2/5.0; TFS; SourceTree 2.0, AirWatch; Remedy, DeviceAnywhere; VMWare, MS Virtual Server, Oracle VirtualBox, Putty, WinSCP, Vbsedit, Ultra Edit

Interfaces: BRITS (Business Reengineering/Integrated Tax Systems), VDI, CITRIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Coppell, TX

QA Tester 

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement analysis, Designing of Test scenarios and Test cases, Test execution Involved in conducting
• Defect triage calls - Defect tracking through detection, follow up, until resolution.
• Coordinating with the various teams like design, development, process, network for detailed requirement analysis and resolving issues during testing. 
• Preparing daily status reports and discussing the test results with customers through daily calls to ensure that the requirements are met. 
• Preparing Test Cases for User Acceptance Testing, providing training and demo sessions to the UAT testers pre-UAT and during UAT, helping them resolve issues. Developed test scenario and test cases based on user stories followed the agile methodology for the entire SDLC.
• Created Selenium automation scripts from scratch using java on the eclipse. Wrote and executed automated test cases in Java using Selenium Web driver to automate manual testing solutions.
• Involved in Performance Testing - Scheduling and running tests in HP Performance Center.
• Coordinated schedules with the test team to perform end-to-end testing of the application for every build and reported all major errors and failures to the development lead for immediate resolution.
• Participated in the test case reviews for various test cases written by team members.
• Utilized ALM quality center for logging and tracking defects.
• Documented Test reports for various initiatives.
• Involved in conducting Peer Reviews for test cases, and procedures.
• Involved in Automation Infrastructure development using Selenium.

Environment: ALM Quality Center, Agile environment, Windows 7, Java, Oracle.

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business and Functional Specification review meetings, Design walkthroughs and Test Plan reviews. 
• Discussed Business scenarios with business analysts, wrote test cases and executed them. Used analytical and mathematical skills.
• Generated traceability matrices to ensure that all the requirements are covered by the test cases.
• Successfully performed Smoke testing, System testing and regression testing.
• Manually tested data from high level to detail level during verifications.
• Used HP ALM 11 for test documentation management and as defect-tracking tool to enter defects regarding the issues found during testing, maintaining the defect status for its life period.
• Wrote SQL queries for data validation.
• Executed automated test scripts for Regression testing using Quick Test Professional
• Enhanced QTP tests by creating checkpoints, parameters, output values.
• Analyzed, documented and maintained test results and test logs. 
• Interacted with the developers and other teams like Franchise for resolving the issues.
• Followed the internal processes and procedures.
• Effectively collaborated with other team members and mentored junior analysts.
• Responsible in providing regular test reports to the management.

Environment: HP ALM 11, QTP10, Windows XP, Web Services, HTML, XML, Java, Oracle and SQL.

Software Test Engineer

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Full Life Cycle of QA methodologies from Requirements Analyzing, Test Planning, Test Designing, Test Executing and Test Reporting.
• Examined BRD, SRS and Worked with Business Analysts, Programmers, and Business users through the life cycle of the project and Developed/Involved Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Executed Them.
• Executed complex application testing methods including unit, white/black box, functional, Integration, regression, negative and positive testing for Web-based and Moble applications.
• Created or Imported test data for numerous releases for testers to perform tests. Wrote, ran SQL scripts, tested and verified executed scripts in the database.
• Assisted and mentored other engineers in testing, bug tracking in difficult situation. Enhanced and maintained test scripts for different builds of the applications and changes in system requirements.
• Created and maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix and Test Matrix.
• Organized/Attended meetings with Manager, Lead, QA/Dev and DBA’s to discuss concerns, suggestions, statuses, updates and estimates, daily or weekly basis.

Software Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, Duluth, GA

Responsibilities:

• Performed full testing life cycle (STLC) of applications as a Quality Assurance Analyst for Client and Web based applications.
• Executed QA Engineer duties including, but not limited to developing test strategies, developed and maintain test documentation, designed and executed test cases and analyzed data to identify problems.
• Analyzed business requirements, software requirement specifications to create test plan and test cases for manual and automated testing. Supported product rollouts across multiple code releases.
• Created and maintained test data, record test results, tracked and worked with developers towards resolution of issues.
• Performed various types of testing on complex client/server and web-based applications including black box, functional, Integration, re-test, regression, GUI and cross-browser testing. Communicated software application and all Quality Assurance related issues to the necessary team members. Wrote, ran SQL scripts, tested and verified executed scripts in the database.
• Created Virtual Machine, Monitored and Managed using MS VM or VMWare. Installed and Maintained Full Web Servers, Application Servers and Database Servers utilizing .net framework, IIS, services and registries.
• Created Test environment and set up or imported test data for numerous releases for testers to perform tests.
• Installed Oracle 10g, Upgraded Patches, Created Table Spaces, Databases, Schemas/Users. Monitored & Managed Databases as needed. Imported, Exported, Compared, Backed Up, Restored and Maintained Databases/Schemas.
• Used JIRA for Requirements Management, Planning, Executing Tests and Tracking & Managing Defects.
• Enhanced and Developed Java scripts in Selenium for Automation Testing for keyword driven & hybrid framework.
• Installed, Configured, and Troubleshot Hardware and Software on different Servers and PCs as needed.
• Assisted manager in test planning, reporting and mentored other engineers in testing, bug tracking in difficult situation. Worked with end users to collect requirements and validated supplied applications as requirements.
• OnView ATM Deposit is designed to receive images and data from industry leading ATMs. ATM Deposit connects to image-enabled ATMs in distributed capture network to provide gateway functions for image-captured deposits. ATM Deposit integrates with back office applications to provide efficiencies that exist for all check capture channels. Features include: item correction, image exchange, duplicate detection, archival, and research.
• OnView Teller Deposit captures, corrects, validates, and balances teller line check transactions. Tellers drop checks into a small desktop scanner, where they are imaged and verified against the institution’s business rules. If the system finds additional input is needed to correct an amount or bring the transaction into balance, on-screen prompts make it easy to do with a keystroke or the press of a button.

Software Developer/ Tester

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Performed Application Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as a software developer and Application Testing Life Cycle (STLC) as a Quality Assurance Analyst for Client and Web based applications.
• Reviewed new project requests from users and provided estimates, defined scopes and limitations of project in the team meetings. Developed & Tested numerous Oracle Forms and Reports required by projects.
• Converted over 200 Oracle Forms from 4.5 to 6i to 9i. Developed & Tested Reports using PL/SQL Server Pages (PSP) to display Dynamic Web Reports.
• Developed numerous UNIX and Windows based SQR/Brio Reports. Also, converted more than 100 reports (UNIX and Windows based) from SQR 4.1.3 to Brio SQR 6.1.3 and later converted them to Hyperion SQR 8.3.
• Modified or wrote various PL/SQL Packages, Procedures, Functions and Triggers.
• Migrated over 100 batch jobs from Compaq UNIX to HP UNIX, and implemented them into AppWorx, a job scheduling system. Provided rotational on-call 24/7 support for production systems.
• Used HP QC/ALM/QTP/UFT for Requirements Management, Planning, Executing Tests and Tracking & Managing Defects. Enhanced and Developed automated scripts using keyword driven and hybrid framework.
• Two-Way Project: Developed, implemented an enhancement to the reservations room inventory system to make the properties full inventory available to all booking sources using Oracle Forms, PL/SQL Procedures, Functions, Triggers etc. This project increased customer satisfaction and provided an estimated revenue increase of 1.2 million dollars per year for the member properties.
• Rate Rounding Project: Enhanced reservation system that enables properties to ensure clients are presented rates that retain integrity and at the same time allow the properties to maximize yield. This project provided an estimated revenue increase of 1.5 million dollars per year for the member properties.