SUMMARY:

• Good Experience with Cucumber Feature Files, Selenium WebDriver and Continuous Integration tool Jenkins
• Familiar with Test management tools like HP ALM, HP Quality Center, Rational ClearQuest, SQuIDS, VersionOne, Rally & JIRA
• Extensive experience in GUI, Smoke, Functional, Regression and System testing
• Defect Triaging, Defect reporting, Status updating & reporting to clients on weekly & daily basis
• Years of cumulative experience in Software Quality Assurance methodologies with diversified skills in manual testing.
• Thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Expertise in Test strategy preparation, creation of test cases, developing and maintaining test scripts, well versed with documenting all phases of QA process, interacting with development team members in fixing Defects.
• Experienced in both agile development and waterfall model of SDLC.
• Thorough knowledge of Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Smoke Testing, End to End Testing, Regression Testing.
• Extensively experienced in creating, enhancing and maintaining high - end test scripts for various functional and regression testing using QTP/UFT and VBScript.
• Well versed at defect reporting based on Severity and defect tracking using test management tool HP ALM/Quality Center.
• Strong fundamental knowledge in SQL queries and also possess strong logical and analytical skills
• Experienced in Onshore, Offshore model
• Quick learner and excellent team player, ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Sr.UAT Tester

Responsibilities:

• Creation and review of Test Plans/Test Strategies with Development Lead and Project Manager.
• Test Estimation with QA Manager and discuss the scope with stakeholders and Business Analysts.
• Actively participates in all Scrum ceremonies and guide the test team members
• Writing Cucumber Feature Files and Cucumber step definitions. (Used SVN and GIT as version controls)
• Participated in developing automation scripts using Selenium Web driver
• Ensures all the possible test scenarios are covered under the frame of test coverage in Automation Tests
• On a daily basis, fixes daily Automation regression testing failure scenarios, if any.
• Practice of doing quick/smoke testing in localhost in order to finding defects at an earlier stage
• Contributed to the entire software development life cycle from initial business requirements to deployment & production support
• Conducted root cause analysis of identified defects, providing development/business partners with sufficient detail to understand, replicate and resolve.
• Involved in ETL testing, to verify data is transforming appropriately without any truncation and data loss.
• Ensured the data loads at expected time frame to improve scalability and performance.
• In terms of reporting, generates Jenkins test results of automated regression testing and share with all Stakeholders and Project Managers.

Cucumber BDD, Web Services, Java, J2EE, Gemfire and Windows 8.1

Tools: - SVN, Selenium 2.53.1, Jenkins, Rally, JIRA (Requirement Tracker), SharePoint

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in formulation of Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Procedures, Expected Results, and Test Data for System Testing of the application.
• Used both Manual and Automation Testing.
• Involved in Functional, Regression, System Integration (SIT), User Acceptance (UAT), and Browser Compatibility Testing.
• Developed and executed test suites and operations scenarios to find and report defects using HP ALM.
• Prepared Test Cases for each and every object based on Member portal, redesigned Functional Requirements, Test Specs and Test Frames in HP ALM.
• Wrote Test Cases for Functional, Integration and Acceptance Testing using HP ALM.
• Interacted with developers and business analysts to understand critical requirements.
• Enhanced and maintained Requirements Traceability Matrix which ensured all functional requirements were part of the test cases.
• Developed and executed SQL queries to verify the proper insertion, deletion and updates into the Oracle supporting tables and cubes.
• Automated test cases for Functional testing using HP UFT.
• Performed Black-Box Testing, System Testing and Regression Testing for Java Applications by using VBScript for HP UFT.
• Mapped custom objects to standard objects where necessary and inserted Bitmap and Text Checkpoints where needed to compare current behavior of the application being tested to its behavior in the earlier version using HP UFT.
• Involved in Sprint planning to task out the stories to test for each Sprint.
• Recorded, maintained & tracked defects, assigned type & severity levels.
• Contributed to continuous improvement of testing processes.
• Provided support to Business QA team during the Business Acceptance Testing (BAT) phase of the project.
• Attended daily stand-up meetings, Sprint Planning, Review and Retrospective meetings. Attended Bug-Triage meetings in order to address bug issues. Participated in Story Grooming meetings.

Environment: PHP, PowerPoint, MS Visio, C, C++, HP ALM, HP UFT, JIRA, SQL Developer, Java Script, VB Script, CSS, Windows, C#, MS Office, MS Excel, UNIX, Java, SQL, HTML, XML.

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Built and produced Test Plans and Test Cases for invoicing, billing and Score software program in accordance with business requirements.
• Involved in developing test cases based on user stories and business requirements.
• Conducted manual testing following test scripts from business documents and updated existing test conditions based on new releases.
• Involved in development of iterative and detailed project management plans and schedules.
• Involved in writing and executing Test Cases for Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, End to End Testing and UAT Testing.
• Used HP Quality Center to maintain test cases, execute test scenarios and log defects.
• Investigated defects and interacted with Business Analysts to update test cases in Quality Center and worked with Developers to resolve technical issues.
• Responsible for automating, monitoring and maintaining test cases using HP Quality Center which supports Microsoft .Net CF environment.
• Involved in generating scripts using VBScript for Quick Test Professional (QTP).
• Developed QTP scripts on expert view and enhanced it using function libraries (.vbs) files using VB Script according to the functionality.
• Responsible for performing regression testing for every new release using QTP.
• Worked on handling the application response for Positive and Negative set of data using Data Driven Testing using QTP.
• Developed both Data Driven and Keyword Driven Frameworks using QTP.
• Created and executed SQL queries for backend testing.
• Involved in Sprint planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings.

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Developed test strategy based on business requirements and detailed design documents.
• Worked with business analysts to develop test scenarios from functional requirement specifications.
• Created Test Plans and Test Cases from Requirements in Quality Center.
• Prepared and applied Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and System Testing.
• Utilized Quality Center for Bug tracking and reporting.
• Performed back-end testing procedures using SQL statements for some online customer interactions.
• Developed scripts using VBScript for Quick Test Professional.
• Actively involved in functional testing using Quick Test Pro Expert View.
• Developed test scripts for Data Driven tests using QTP.
• Coordinated User Acceptance Testing by guiding users during UAT.
• Performed data validation at integration points.
• Updated Traceability Matrix for new requirements.
• Sent status reports to the management.

Sr. Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analysed and Developed Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Expected Test Results and Test Procedure from functional requirement for different modules
• Involved in creating the Traceability matrix based on Functional requirement in each module.
• Worked with batch jobs, monitoring and scheduling jobs.
• Participated in status meetings to report issues. Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution using ALM.
• Stimulated several production cycles. Worked with data validation, constraints, record counts, and source to target, row counts, random sampling and error processing.
• Coordinate with team to achieve the customer’s requirement
• Analyse the issue and file bug
• Involve in reviewing the team automation code before moving code to Staging/Trunk.

Environment: Informatica Power Centre, Business Objects, Quality Centre 11.0, ALM, UNIX, SQL, Agile, Oracle 10G, TOAD 9.7, SQL Server 2008R2

DWH QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirement Documents and the Functional Specification.
• Interacted with senior peers or subject matter experts to learn more about the data.
• Validating the Workflows and running them using Workflow Manager.
• Prepared Test Cases and Test Plans for the mappings developed through the ETL Informatica tool.
• Tested different detail, summary reports and on demand reports. Extensively used Cognos for report generation.
• Experienced in writing complex SQL queries for extracting data from multiple tables and validating with target tables.
• Developed advanced SQL queries to extract, manipulate, and/or calculate information to full fill data and reporting requirements including identifying the tables and columns from which data is extracted.
• Validated target tables DDL, counts, data (Business rules), negative testing and regression testing.
• Involved in preparing Test Plan from the Business Requirements and Functional Specification, Design, Development and Implementation of RDM (Report Data Mart).
• Strong technical Knowledge of UNIX Utilities, Shell Script to automate process.
• Experience in creating UNIX scripts for file transfer and file manipulation.
• Involved extensively in doing back end testing of the data quality by writ-ing complex SQL.
• Ensured data integrity and verified all data modifications and calculations during database migration.
• Responsible to get Test data from Production source to QA Source
• Exported Manual Test Cases from MS Excel template directly to QC and executed the Test Cases in Test Director with Pass/Fail/Blocked status.
• Executed the developed Test Cases and Test Plans and responsible for creating Test Strategy for the Data Warehouse.
• Reported the Bugs/Defects using Quality Centre 10 defect management tool.
• Responsible for communicating Defect Status Reports to business in project meetings
• Worked with Production environment to resolve several data issues.
• Prepared Test status reports for each stage and logged any unresolved issues into Issues log.
• Performed Functional testing, System testing, Regression testing and Back end testing.
• Involved in Production Support related activities including resolving end user queries, investigation and resolving data related issues
• Provide flexible & high quality support to wider Testing strategies on key regular deliverables & Adhoc reporting issues Coordinated with the developers to resolve defects.
• Involved in documentation to maintain and run scripts for future enhancements.

Environment: Informatica Power Centre, Oracle, SQL, HP QC, Unix, Cognos.VBScript, PL/SQL, C, C++, C#, PHP, SOA TestingMS Excel, MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, MS OutlookClient/Server environment, TCP/IP, FTP, HTTP, LAN, WAN, CVSMSIE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Netscape NavigatorWindows, Mainframes, UNIXDB2, Oracle, MS Access, SQL DeveloperHP Quality Center, HP ALMHP Quick Test Professional, HP UFTHP QTP, HP UFT, Jira